Model worker and his little darling

After the three kids finished their lunchboxes, they saw Conan and Hirai sitting there in a daze. Professor Agasa had given them a mission: to help Conan return to normal.

"Heiji, Conan, what are you whispering about?" Ayumi ran over cutely, looking at the two of them with a curious expression.

"That's right, you guys didn't even eat your bento boxes."

"Conan only likes to play with people who are older than him."

Pingqing waved his hand, "Alright, you guys go play together."

The three kids happily pulled Conan away. They originally wanted to bring Ai Haibara along, but she remained aloof and said she didn't want to go, so there was nothing they could do.

Conan had no choice but to play with the three little ones.

Thinking of Amuro Tooru, Taira Kiyoshi felt a headache coming on. What if Amuro Tooru discovered something was wrong with this identity?

After pondering for a while, Pingqing suddenly remembered that he was still an FBI agent. If Amuro Tooru found anything amiss, he could reveal his identity to him and deceive both of them.

Thinking about this, I suddenly felt refreshed and invigorated.

At this time, Xiaolan and Yuanzi also arrived. The group played around for a while, basically running all over the neighborhood, before heading down the mountain as it got dark.

By the time we reached the temple, it was already dark. Several police cars were parked not far away, their warning lights flashing incessantly.

Seeing Conan following closely behind him, Hirai pulled Conan aside, and the two walked at the very back.

"Conan, something's obviously wrong here. You'd better behave yourself and not wander around. It'll be bad if he notices you."

“Brother Pingqing, actually Bourbon was also present when the murder occurred at Supernova Corporation last time. I think he should still remember me.”

"Just keep a low profile, or I won't be responsible if you get caught."

At that moment, Inspector Megure was questioning everyone about their alibis. When he saw that it was Hirakiyo, Inspector Megure greeted him warmly, "Hirakiyo, bro, so you're here too."

"Officer, we came here to go hiking today. It seems you have fully recovered."

Inspector Megure patted Hirakiyo on the shoulder. "You're almost fully recovered. I'll have to trouble you and Mori again today."

Taira no Kiyoshi: ...

Inspector Megure has developed a bad habit; instead of solving cases himself, he wants to rely on others.

"No trouble at all, Inspector Megure will treat us to a big meal later."

Looking at Inspector Megure, who moved with ease, Hirakiyo thought, "The main characters' regenerative abilities are all abnormal."

During this time, in addition to doing missions with Gin, I also managed to sneak away from work to visit Inspector Megure at the hospital several times with the older man.

But Conan was unaware of all this, making him feel like he hadn't appeared for a long time.

Amuro Tooru watched Taira no Kiyoshi and Inspector Megure chatting and laughing, and narrowed his eyes. Had their relationship become that good?

Pingqing looked at the crime scene. The victim's hat and vest were on the ground, and the murder weapon, a knife, was also lying to the side. It seemed to be the knife they used when filming.

Fortunately, this wasn't someone from their company; Touko was pushed out by him to collaborate with someone else this time.

Next to the deceased was a message of death, in which the deceased's blood was used as ink, and the strokes were strong and powerful. The fingers left three characters, "Stone Lion," stroke by stroke.

Uncle Mori stared at the death message for a while, then suddenly—

“Inspector Megure, I know what happened. First, the murder weapon was a prop used in filming, so the murderer is someone from the film crew. Second, the message left by the victim, ‘Stone Lion,’ refers to this temple. There is only one person in the temple who is related to the Stone Lion, and that is the abbot’s granddaughter, Ms. Taeko. I remember that Ms. Taeko was out for an hour during the afternoon banquet, right?”

Taeko readily admitted to the allegations, stating that she went home to get something, but unfortunately her grandfather wasn't there at the time, so she didn't have an alibi.

Hirai stared at the death message; the three characters looked strange, as if they hadn't been written all at once. However, he didn't know the order of the strokes, so he pulled Conan, who was standing obediently next to Ran, over.

"Conan, take a look. Is there anything wrong with how these three characters are written? I don't know the stroke order."

Conan's mind raced, and he quickly made a discovery: "Hey, these characters are weird. They're written incorrectly. In some places where the strokes of the katakana should be continuous, they're broken."

Upon hearing this, Uncle Mori immediately realized that two strokes had been added later, and after removing them, the two characters became "handsome man".

Uncle Mori ran over and grabbed a man. Pingqing glanced at him and thought he was just average, like a pretty boy, not worthy of the word "handsome man".

"Alright, the case is solved, we should go home now."

After saying that, Pingqing was about to leave with Conan when Conan suddenly grabbed him. "Pingqing-nii, no, we haven't completely deciphered the death message yet."

The handsome man next to him also spoke up to defend himself, "It wasn't me, it wasn't me. When I arrived, he was already dead. I saw 'handsome guy' written on the ground, and I was so scared that I added two strokes."

However, the handsome man was unable to refute her, and Inspector Megure only wanted to arrest him and get off work.

While Conan was intently studying the death message, Hirai glanced at the suspects, unable to recall what had happened in this episode.

Suddenly, Conan tugged at Heikiyo's clothes, "Heikiyo-nii, I know, the real death message is about Bean, referring to that Bean-gaki Taeko."

Hirai walked up to Inspector Megure and said, "Officer, the culprit isn't this handsome guy. The real death message is 'Bean,' which means the culprit is Ms. Beangaki Taeko. We've deciphered the death message. Now it's up to you and Uncle Mori to get the culprit to confess."

At that moment, a man standing nearby heard what Hiraki said and immediately stepped forward to say that he was the one who killed the person and that it had nothing to do with Taeko. He then asked Inspector Megure to take him away.

Ping Qing asked in confusion, "Why are there still people vying to be the murderer?"

Conan rolled his eyes. What kind of talk was that? "This is Miss Taeko's fiancé. He's probably trying to protect her."

Upon hearing this, Taeko immediately stepped forward and confessed to her crime.

“When I was in high school, my parents died in an accident. I was going through a rebellious phase at the time, and I didn’t go to school every day. I hung out with some bad friends. At that time, our shrine had a case where valuable ritual items were stolen. It was all my fault.”

“I accidentally revealed this information. At the time, Mr. Sugiyama, who was in charge of the warehouse, felt extremely guilty and committed suicide. I was really scared and didn’t know how to say it. Not long ago, I ran into that guy. He blackmailed me, saying that I was also an accomplice in that matter. I went to see him with a knife, but I really didn’t mean to kill him.”

After saying that, Miss Taeko knelt down and began to cry. Her fiancé, who was standing nearby, quickly comforted her.

Seeing that the matter was resolved, Heikichi dropped the kids off at Professor Agasa's house and then headed towards the base. He was going to find Gin.

Upon arriving at the base, they did not see Gin.

Pingqing was a little confused. Gin hadn't had any missions lately, so where else could he be going?

Looking at Gin's location on the system map, Ping Qing's lips twitched. That place seemed to be his home.

After speeding back, I saw Gin preparing to eat. "You're back."

"I went to the base to find you."

Gin:......

What a wonderful missed opportunity!