Humanoid self-propelled wishing machine

Reyo Tsushima listened to his brother very much. He obediently sat in his seat, sipping dessert, looking at the bright yellow camera in front of his eyes, and guessing aimlessly that his brother might be watching through the camera now. Therefore, from time to time, he raised his head towards the camera and showed an innocent smile, talking to his brother some small things to himself.

This weird appearance is not very conspicuous in the cat cafe, because of the coupons distributed in the nearby elementary school, the most indispensable thing here is the children running around, screaming and laughing, full of innocent fantasy, It's not uncommon to talk to friends who don't exist.

But Edogawa Conan noticed Osamu Dazai's departure, pushed forward in the direction he left, and carefully observed the children in the cat cafe without adults around him, made a list in his mind and excluded them one by one, and speculated Leo Tsushima was the child brought by that weird boy in a long trench coat and a bowler hat.

Conan Edogawa's intuition as a detective made him pay attention to Reo Tsushima involuntarily.

He has been watching Reo Tsushima for a while, and noticed that after eating dessert, he didn't run around like ordinary children, but just sat peacefully in his seat, resting his head on the The strange behavior of talking to the toy camera on the table alone from time to time.

"Hui Yuan." He called Hui Yuan sadly.

"What's the matter?" Hui Yuanai, who also squatted down to pet two cats out of boredom, asked coldly without raising his head.

"Look over there, that kid has been talking to himself to the toy camera." Edogawa Conan said, "It's the kid left behind by the person who left the cafe before." He frowned and said, "His movements Kind of weird, don't you think?"

"If he was just talking to himself, or fantasizing about a certain object being alive, he shouldn't be so focused and continuously talking only to the same object."

When Osamu Dazai was mentioned, Haibara Ai's sensitive nerves were touched. She raised her head and looked at the toy camera placed on Tsushima Reo's table and Conan's mouth from a distance.

She squinted her eyes, stood up again, changed an angle, looked a little closer, and saw something was wrong.

"Stupid, that's not a toy." The brown-haired girl glanced at Edogawa Conan, "It's a surveillance camera that can transmit pictures through wireless signals. It's bright yellow, so it looks like a toy camera."

"However, the signal transmission distance and range of this kind of monitoring camera are very limited. It is only a semi-finished test product in the laboratory. It is not available in the market. If it can be used as a toy for children, it should be there. What special channel."

"The distance is limited, which means that the person just left is not far away, and if this kind of surveillance camera can be obtained through special channels, it means that the person is likely to be related to the research institute, or has a certain power. The windbreaker is trying to obscure the body shape, and the bowler hat he is wearing is pressed down too much, as if he is covering his facial features... There must be nothing wrong, he is trying to avoid someone, so he made a simple disguise to hide his identity .” Edogawa Conan habitually squeezed his chin again and began to analyze.

"Then this child was taken to the cat cafe because he was unattended..."

Hui Yuanai interrupted him, "That's just a stranger passing by, what's the use of analyzing him?" She paused, and said sarcastically, "Is it possible that the great detective has an occupational disease attack?" ?”

"But that person is suspicious no matter how you look at it." Edogawa Conan argued vigorously.

Hui Yuanai rolled her eyes, "You are really suspicious. In the eyes of the great detective, everyone is probably very suspicious." She pointed casually, "Even the one who was touched and meowed over there Is there something wrong with cats?"

"Hahaha." Edogawa Conan smiled awkwardly, scratched the hair on the back of his head, and looked in the direction of Haibara Ai's finger, "How is it possible..."

The smile on his face slowly disappeared, his voice stopped abruptly, and his expression became serious.

Hui Yuanai sensed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Look." Conan Edogawa spoke a little faster, "Is there a faint handprint on that cat?"

Hui Yuanai also turned his head to look carefully at the cat he was pointing at casually, "...it seems to be a little dirty."

But at most it's like a gray mark where the cat ran and rubbed dirt.

She hadn't had time to say that yet.

Edogawa Conan himself trotted up to the puppet cat with snow-white long hair, and pushed away the children who were surrounded by the puppet cat, causing them to shout dissatisfiedly.

But he ignored their yelling, and brushed away the long fur on the side of the puppet cat, making the outline of the almost invisible handprint a little more obvious.

Hui Yuanai and other children from the Boy Detective Team came over together, observed carefully, and found that Conan was not lying, it was indeed a handprint, because five fingers were buried in the cat's fur, leaving only the roots. Five shallow circular marks, the long and thick cat fur can barely see the traces once covered, only half of the irregular gray palm prints are left on the surface, so it looks like the cat ran somewhere by itself Like dirty.

"Conan, what happened to the cat?" Ayumi asked with concern.

Yuan Tai asked excitedly, "Did any other cases happen?" He actively squeezed to the front row, and took the initiative to observe the marks on the cat, "But what's wrong with this mark?"

And Hui Yuanai already realized that something was wrong.

"Cat cafes are different from other ordinary cafes." Seeing that the little detective was still frowning in thought, Haibara sighed and took on the job of explaining, "In order to prevent customers from touching cats The bacteria infect the fragile cats and cause the cats to suffer from diseases. All customers must use hand sanitizer to wash off the dust and bacteria on their hands at the sink at the entrance of the store before they can get the permission of the staff to enter the cat cafe. .”

"So, it should be impossible for such dirty handprints to appear on cats."

"That's right!" Genta, Ayumi and Mitsuhiko all showed a look of sudden realization.

"It should, but it's not impossible." Conan raised his head and looked around the busy cat cafe, "Under normal circumstances, there should be at least one staff member standing by the door at all times to ensure Health work is."

"But now most of the customers in the store are children who need to be looked after and don't know how to measure. The staff with a reasonable division of labor and a sufficient number of staff have to allocate part of them to take care of the children, so as to prevent the cats from hurting the children and prevent the children from hurting the cats. "

"In addition, the seats in the cafe are already full, and generally speaking, there will be no customers coming in again, so the staff who were responsible for ensuring hygiene at the door went to the store to help."

"Oh—" the three primary school students sighed in unison.

Mitsuhiko pointed out, "Although this is very unqualified... But if this is the case, it is possible that some customers slipped in because the staff was not paying attention and did not wash their hands because they were lazy. What's wrong with this handprint?"

"No." Hui Yuanai shook her head, "The problem lies in this handprint." She opened her hand, forming a somewhat sharp claw shape, and showed the three children, "This handprint can only be pushed with this posture. Only stay when it's a cat."

She kept that gesture and pressed on the cat's body.

The beautiful and docile puppet cat, which was lazy and closed its eyes, immediately jumped away, arched its back, and bared its teeth at Hui Yuanai, showing obvious hostility, but because it was the working cat in the cat cafe That's why, after seeing that Hui Yuan Ai didn't make any further movements, the highly adaptable cat walked around twice, then slowly calmed down, and lay back on the plush carpet a little far away from them.

"People who like cats don't come in without washing their hands, let alone push cats with such rude gestures. If this person didn't enter the cat cafe for cats, then he must have some other purpose."

"That's right," Edogawa Conan nodded, affirming Haibara Ai's reasoning, "Besides, he must be very eager and low-key, hoping for a quick victory, and no one will notice him."

"The cat must have stopped in front of him by chance to be pushed, but whether it is to hug the cat away or use a toy to lure the cat away is better than just pushing the cat away so rudely, since he has chosen this best The quick way must be that he is restless and doesn't want the cat to stay by his side for too long, because cats are the focus of children in cafes, and if a cat stays in front of him for too long, it will definitely attract attention. "

He looked around the cat cafe again, trying to find the suspicious person, but he noticed Reo Tsushima, a figure in a bowler hat and a long trench coat seemed to be talking to Reo Tsushima, and then put He picked it up and walked out of the cafe.

——and Tsushima Reo didn't resist.

Did that person come back so soon?

Conan was a little surprised.

He subconsciously looked at the pair of brothers and noticed a little weirdness.

wrong.

If you look closely, the height and body shape of that person are slightly different from that of Osamu Dazai who left before. Although the style and color of the bowler hat and trench coat are very similar, they are also different in details.

And compared with Dazai Osamu's casual and perfunctory disguise, this person wears gloves on his hands, and has sunglasses on the upper half of his face covered by his broken hair and bowler hat, so that he can see from the bottom up Obviously, but Conan clearly remembered that Osamu Dazai was not wearing sunglasses before leaving.

more importantly.

The aisle where Conan is standing is the only way to go to the door of the store.

When Reo Tsushima was being carried past him, Conan saw it.

Reo Tsushima's body was weak, his knuckles were stiff, and the arm on that person kept slipping off, and his face was pressed against his neck by the person who gently pressed the back of his head, and he was wearing a baseball on his head. I can't see clearly with the hat hidden, and I can't see the expression clearly.

There is no way to determine the unconscious suspicion of Reo Tsushima born in Conan's heart.

The mysterious person walked past them quickly like a gust of wind.

However, as long as there is a one in ten thousand possibility——

Conan gritted his teeth, without hesitation, when he decided to catch up.

Suddenly, there was a sharp and frightened scream from inside the store.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"