Ding Dong!Ding Dong!

While Asakawa Hayao and Miyano Akemi were wandering around, Mouri Kogoro brought Conan and Ran to the Motokyo house, where they were standing at the door ringing the doorbell.

Ding-dong!

After pressing the buttons a few more times without any response, Mori started to get impatient. "Damn it, he's not home again!"

"Hey! What are you doing here?"

Looking back, they saw Fukuyama Rokuro standing right behind them.

"Oh no, we need to talk to Mr. Men Xie about something. Do you know where he is right now?"

Upon recognizing the person, Mori began to inquire.

“I haven’t seen him since I started keeping vigil last night.”

"This is really a headache. If only we could go and check out Saori's room where she's been missing." Mori looked troubled.

"If you just want to get to her room, look under the potted plants; the key is there."

"Hmm?" After hearing what Fukuyama Rokuro said, Mori picked up the two potted plants placed by the door and, after searching for a while, found the key underneath.

"Really? Let's go in then." With that, he inserted the key into the door.

"But it's not right for us to just go in like this." Kind-hearted Xiaolan thought it was wrong to trespass on private property.

"Oh, it's not like I'll lose a piece of meat just by looking at it." But he was met with a glare from Mori.

On the other side, Conan turned his gaze to Fukuyama Rokuro, "Uncle, did Saori do anything strange before she disappeared?"

"She gets terrified whenever she sees a big wave, fearing that the mermaid will come looking for revenge." Although he didn't understand why Conan asked that question, Fukuyama Rokuro still answered him.

"revenge?"

…………

Click!

The door to the room was opened, and Mori and his group went inside.

"This is Saori's room."

After entering, the three began their investigation.

It was at this moment that Conan noticed a blue bag placed on the bed.

"What's this bag for? What's inside?" Conan quickly walked to the bedside, took the bag to the table, and opened it.

Seeing Conan casually touching other people's things, Ran immediately scolded him, "What are you doing, Conan!"

But Conan didn't pay attention to Ran; instead, he continued to look through the contents on his own.

"There's a pack of headache medicine and a toothbrush."

“That bag contains Saori’s running errand gear, but she almost always goes to Kimie’s house when she runs away from home, so it seems that Kimie’s house has a change of clothes and a spare pair of glasses,” Fukuyama Rokuro explained as he stepped forward.

"Then, the clothes that Junhui was wearing when she was burned to death in the warehouse might have been put on by herself," Conan began to speculate.

"Come on, why would she wear other people's clothes for no reason?" Mori said, expressing his incomprehension.

"That way we can lure out the murderer... That's just my guess."

Conan's words drew laughter from Mori, who chuckled, "Heh, stop being so stupid..."

“However, if Miss Junhui also thinks that the murderer might be a threat to Saori, she would assume that if a suspicious person is found near her home, the murderer can be caught. Conan is right.” Ran also agreed with Conan’s guess.

"What are you saying? When the fire happened last night, didn't you see a figure in the yard that looked a lot like Saori?"

"Uncle, are there any photos of Saori-neechan in this room?" To verify whether his guess was correct, Conan decided to take out the photos for comparison.

"I think we should be able to find the photo album."

After searching for a while, Mori and his friends actually found a photo album.

"Xiao Lan, is this the woman you saw in the yard?" Mao Li asked Xiao Lan, holding up the photo album.

"It was so dark back then, how could I see clearly?" Xiaolan said, explaining that it was too dark to see clearly at the time.

"Are the photos in this album taken during the filming of the movie 'The Tale of the Bhikkhuni'?" Conan asked.

"correct."

"Let me see." After saying that, Mori looked at the photo album with great interest. "Wow, it's so realistic."

Upon seeing the photos, Xiaolan and Maoli were both immediately impressed and deeply moved by the lifelike images.

"Yes, that movie was also filmed by Saori as cinematographer and Kimie as special makeup artist. It won the gold medal in the competition, but the following year a storm really broke out at sea. No one expected that my parents, Kimie's parents, and Saori's mother would disappear at sea. It's really a cruel twist of fate."

When Fukuyama Rokuro recounted this story, a sorrowful expression appeared on his face.

As Fukuyama Rokuro recounted his past, Conan sensed something was amiss, as if something was missing.

"Wait a minute, this is my bankbook, debit card, driver's license, and passport. Everything's ready, so why is that one missing? That can't be right." Conan rummaged through his bag, but couldn't find what he was looking for.

Wait, could it be!

In that instant, Conan thought of a possibility, a method that even frightened him somewhat...

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Jingle Bell!

While Hattori was investigating on the other side, his phone rang in his pocket. "Hello, this is Hattori. Oh, Kudo, ah! No, no, old man, what a coincidence! I was just about to call you guys."

Then, Hattori began to recount the information he had discovered at the ship owner's house, but just as Hattori was about to reveal who the culprit was, Conan's voice also began to speak.

"Hattori, I'm going to explain my reasoning now, please listen to me."

"Hmm? Okay, go ahead." After hearing Conan say that, Hattori stopped talking and began to listen attentively to Conan's reasoning.

But the more Hattori listened, the more his body trembled, and his complexion became increasingly pale. Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer.

"Please, how could such a thing be possible! I absolutely refuse to believe it!" Hattori began to loudly refute.

But Conan remained frighteningly calm: "Hattori, I've eliminated all the impossible people. As for the remaining ones, even if you don't believe they could commit the crime, you have no choice but to accept it."

"What did you say?!" Just as Hattori was about to say something, the police had a new lead.

"No matter what, I'll be there as soon as I catch Mr. Menxie. Wait for me." With that, he hung up the phone and ran into the forest.

Seeing this, Kazuha quickly followed.

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