Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

Chapter 409 Strange Focus

When the five of them went upstairs, they introduced themselves to each other.

The short old lady is named Senma Kazuyo, and the one who treats the car like a wife is named Mogi Harufumi. Both of them are well-known detectives.

During a brief pause in the greetings, Kazuma Kudo asked curiously, "Mr. Mogi, if I may be so bold, you brought your own umbrella up here, leaving your wife to stand outside in the rain. Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Senma Kazuyo and Mogi Harufumi were speechless.

Gin and Kid, disguised as Kogoro Mouri, seemed completely unfazed, a reaction that left the other two speechless.

The maid ushered them inside again.

Just as the group entered, they heard someone ask if anyone was home.

The maid apologized and went to attend to the man.

The group took one look and saw a kind-hearted, plump man with a small mustache wearing a white suit.

It turns out he was the so-called gourmet detective, Ogami Shuzen.

"What? You're saying the chef suddenly fell seriously ill and can't come to cook?" Da Shang Zhu Shan looked displeased. "That's not what you said! I came all this way just for this dinner."

"I'm so sorry, I've already bought all the ingredients I need, but the host suddenly said that the chef I booked is sick."

Da Shang Zhu Shan sighed: "Alright, you don't need to say anything more. Leave the kitchen to me, I'll cook. After all, only delicious food and murder cases are priceless treasures that can keep my brain cells running at full speed."

"Goodness, so the only things that matter are good food and murder, right?" Kudo Kazuma muttered to Conan. "Everyone who came this time is a genius, and everyone is a grim reaper."

Conan was speechless.

Can we please not mention the Grim Reaper?

It was Senma Kazuyo who spoke up: "What does your master mean by inviting the five of us detectives here? He must have something to ask of us, right?"

"No, it can't be counted as five detectives. This Miss Mori has learned a lot from Mr. Mori, so she can be considered a detective herself."

The maid nodded: "Yes, but besides you all, there are two detectives as well, one a woman and one a boy."

Conan's eyes lit up when he heard "boy": "Is that Hattori Heiji from Osaka?"

The maid shook her head: "No, Mr. Hattori was indeed on the invitation list, but his mother called him personally to say that he has midterms coming up, so he declined the invitation."

Upon hearing this, Kudo Kazuma couldn't help but glance at Ran, who had already joined them: "What, don't you Teitan students have midterms?"

Incidentally, his gaze also lingered on the person Kid was impersonating, Kogoro Mouri: "Or... is it only schools in Osaka that require midterm exams?"

Kidd's heart skipped a beat. He knew that his cousin, who refused to take his medicine, probably guessed his identity, otherwise he wouldn't have used such words to test him.

Xiaolan didn't think much of it: "I was already reviewing before I came, so I'll just continue reviewing when I get back. As for Hattori... it's probably because Aunt Shizuka is too strict with him."

As they chatted, Harufumi Mogi asked, "So, where is your master?"

"Well... actually, I haven't met him yet."

Kid, disguised as Kogoro Mouri, asked in confusion, "Didn't you get a list of invitees from him?"

The maid looked terrified: "I got that list when I was interviewed as a maid, but that interview was really weird."

Her words drew the attention of everyone present.

It turns out that because of the high salary and benefits, many people came for the interview, but she was the only one selected.

What's even stranger is the way she was selected.

When she entered the interview room, the spacious room contained only a computer, a banquet instruction manual, and a list of guests.

Following the instructions on the computer, she read through the list and the manual, and then a message appeared on the screen indicating that she had been accepted.

All her arrangements at this villa were made according to the computer's instructions, while specific details were communicated via email.

So in the end, this maid never actually met the so-called master.

The old lady, Chima Kazuyo, suddenly laughed: "Now that you mention it, I'm suddenly a little eager to try it out."

Harufumi Mogi said with an excited smile, "Actually, I was already excited when I saw the marks on the door."

Xiao Lan looked over curiously upon hearing this, and saw that the door was completely dark.

Having witnessed many crime scenes alongside Conan and her father, Ran has developed some analytical skills: "Strange, the shape looks like it was splashed... Could it be that someone accidentally spilled it while trying to leave? What kind of mark is this?"

Gin, who had been silent until now, sneered: "It's bloodstains, bloodstains left a long time ago."

Ran's eyes widened suddenly: "Mr. Kurosawa, are you kidding me?"

“You’re wrong, he’s telling the truth.” A long-haired woman in a white lab coat and white gloves sprayed a little luminol reagent she carried with her on the stair railing. “According to my analysis, this is droplet blood that adhered to this spot at a 45-degree angle of incidence.”

"Besides the bloodstains on the door, there were also bloodstains on the walls and dripping bloodstains on the floor. Although they had been wiped clean at the time, almost every part of this villa had traces of blood. It seems that the owner of these bloodstains is not just one or two people."

Just then, a clear, youthful voice rang out from upstairs: "Excellent analysis, former prosecutor, Ms. Gunda Ikumi."

The group looked in the direction of the sound and saw the blond boy upstairs.

"My name is Hakuba Saguru. Nice to meet you all."

Kazuma Kudo leaned closer to Gin and whispered, "Big brother, do you think he looks like Sherry?"

Gin: "..."

They do look somewhat alike, but...

He narrowed his eyes and looked at Kudo Kazuma: "I think you're sick."

Conan then mentally compared Hakuba Saguru with Ai Haibara.

You know what, it actually does look a bit like it.

He immediately developed crescent-shaped eyes.

What strange things is it about my own brother that he's so interested in?

At that moment, Hakuba Saguru put his finger in his mouth and whistled, and then an eagle flew in from outside.

"Its name is Watson. I don't know if it's because it always travels with me in England, so it's more sensitive to the smell of blood."

“However, this trip back to China was not in vain.” Bai Ma came downstairs and said with some emotion, “Being able to come to the scene of this tragedy that has been deliberately covered up for many years and that I could only hear about in rumors in the past means that the secret of the past 40 years is about to be revealed.”

As he spoke, even his tone was slightly excited: "Just thinking about these things is enough to arouse my rational excitement."

Ran and Conan exchanged a glance, then asked in unison, "Tragedy? What tragedy?"