【Quick New】In the Name of Love · In the Name of Love- XXIV

Of course, Kudo Shinichi cannot sit still.

He just stood in front of the closed door of Heiyu House in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.A few minutes later, he took out his mobile phone and started typing, edited for a long time, deleted and changed, changed and deleted, finally sighed in frustration, saved the unsent text message into the draft box, and locked the phone .

If he is really the person that Kuroba Kaito will give up after a few words, he is not Kudo Shinichi.He really regretted what he said at the time, but the situation has developed into this, and it is impossible for him to let go.What's more, he...he has to admit that he still likes Kaito Kuroba.The fact that he's Kaitou Kid doesn't even change that fact one iota.he just...

He needs time to accept, acknowledge and forgive it all.

The other party also needs time... maybe more.

While unconsciously chewing on the bento he bought on the way back, he stared at the dark wall behind the study where there were densely packed materials and relationship diagrams, and his thoughts returned to the organization-related matters.Kudo touched his chin involuntarily, his eyes stayed on the area densely surrounded by red markers, and there were a few fragmentary photos cut from the monitor, and an idea gradually took shape in his mind.

——All the clues eventually point to Isumi County, Chiba Prefecture.

He turned his pen around and made a decision.

...Maybe he needs to go out again.

Kuroba Kaito didn't stop thinking for a second after Kudo Shinichi left.

——Maybe there is, but even if he stops thinking about it, his mind is full of the influence of Kudo Shinichi.

He looked terrible, his lips were bloodless, and he must have not eaten properly again.

Maybe I shouldn't be so decisive at the time, I should let him in.

What would Shinichi want to tell him?

He said he found a clue, what did he find?

Will the big detective really stop?No, of course not, he knew Shinichi too well.They are soul mates for a reason.

Damn soul mate.Why did fate play such an exaggerated joke on them.

Should I be angry that he didn't stop doing such a very Kudo Shinichi thing, or should I be angry that he didn't care about my feelings at all?Maybe you should be angry.

...he waited all afternoon.It really sucks.I should at least do something.

After all, it's all Kudo Shinichi's fault.He didn't hesitate to say such hurtful words, and then ran over to disturb his thinking when he finally figured it out, and ran to his door to find himself self-righteously, as if he wanted to reconcile, but he didn't Say anything to forgive yourself.But he was simply helpless, and he should be able to understand why he couldn't accept it this time.

But he also lied.undeniable fact.

... It's annoying.

I'm bored, I'm bored, I'm bored——

Kuroba Kaito let himself fall on his bed as if venting his anger, and hammered his soft mattress vigorously.

What should he do?

Kudo Shinichi went to Isumi County in Chiba Prefecture lightly packed the next day.

Yisumi County is very small. There are only a few small stations and main areas in the whole city, and there are countless mountains and hills.The places where people related to the organization have been witnessed, or are more or less related, are located in the coastal area, that is to say...

Kudo glanced at the map and sighed with some headache.

Otherwise, go to the places where they have appeared.

Thinking of this, he followed the Outer House Line and arrived at the southernmost town in Yisumi County.

Kuroba Kaito felt that he couldn't sit still.

He woke up early the next morning, entered the secret room and began to rearrange the materials.

During the process of sorting, a piece of paper that was already somewhat yellowed in the folder fell off and landed lightly on the ground.Kuroba frowned in confusion, bent down to pick it up, and quickly scanned it.

Ah... the riddle.

He thought of the shock and joy he felt when he first found the riddle his father had found and left behind. He naively thought that he could solve something, but in the end he returned without success and found nothing.He knew it was hinting at the address of the Organization's stronghold, but there was nothing he could do.

Holding the piece of paper, he hesitated for a moment, but put down all the materials, took this thin paper and sat down at the desk, took out his notebook and pen and began to paint and draw, thinking again.

Just because the previous self couldn't solve this riddle doesn't mean the current him can't.

"It's [-] yen in total, thank you."

The cashier was a young-looking guy with clean, well-styled hair and a smile, but the dark circles under his eyes were a little serious.His age was not much different from his own, Kudo thought.Kudo also smiled and nodded, took out the wallet from his pocket, and asked nonchalantly while looking for change: "Hey, I'm looking for someone, I wonder if you saw him?"

"Huh?" The little brother blinked a little confused.Kudo found the photo of the person who questioned him at that time from his pocket - thanks to the powerful public security system - and handed it to the other party.

"Ah... I have a little impression. He came here a few days ago. His expression was not very good. He looked fierce, like a gangster with a bad temper. He waited for me to pay the bill with a stinky face. I was so frightened that my legs went limp." The younger brother recalled, and couldn't help shivering, "Fortunately, he left without doing anything. I thought he would hit someone if I was too slow at paying the bill."

Kudo Shinichi nodded thoughtfully, and asked, "Then do you know where they went?"

"I don't know about that." The little brother shook his head, trying to think back. "Eh, wait a minute, it seems to me that they said, 'We're going to that shitty place again, why didn't we choose a more convenient location' then... I don't really remember, sir You can ask other people. I'm really sorry!" The younger brother bowed apologetically, and Kudo hurriedly bowed too, waved his hands again and again, and then took some snacks and water he bought at random, Said: "I'm the one who troubles you. I'm the one who should feel embarrassed after delaying you a lot of time. Then I'll go first."

"We don't have much business here, I wish someone could talk to me." The little brother couldn't help laughing, and waved to Kudo who walked out, "Good luck, sir."

Kudo turned around and waved to him, thanked him and walked out of this convenience store in Ozawa District.

...A place where birds don't shit?

That's probably the mountains.

One clue is better than none, so go ask the others.

Kaito Kuroba stared at the first line of riddles.

・Miss Awazo／Riding the waves／Looking at the ocean

Didn't he say, what the hell is going on with this riddle?Does it also have a ventilation symbol?Well, well, he probably knows what these wonderful "breathing symbols" represent, but the other sentences are not fluent at all?

What kind of strange name or surname is Awazo, he really can't think of it, and he has searched the entire Internet and has no clue at all.

I can understand a little bit about riding a wave, most of which are vehicles or something like that, but what is more like a wave?Trains—they all make regular noises?Still referring to airplanes, since their primary color is white.But this conjecture is too casual, and Kuroba's answer tends to be the train.

Looking out over the ocean - is that what it says on the surface, or does it mean something else?

You can see the ocean from anywhere in Japan, but there is the vast Pacific Ocean on one side and the Sea of ​​Japan on the other.However, it can be basically determined that it is a coastal city.Combined with the train...doesn't it make any sense at all?Japan's JR lines cover almost all places, not to mention coastal cities that drive economic development.

He stroked his hair and moved his gaze to the next line.

Splash Station...

Kudo didn't take a few steps until he arrived at the station he had just passed by by car. He opened the phone map and began to think.

The convenience store is not far from Naniwa Station, and there are other sporadic places nearby that are suspected to be haunted by people from within the organization, but the most recent one is that the person who wanted to die with them at that time appeared in that convenience store However, other people's words have been a long time ago, and no one may remember...

Try your luck?he thinks.

……

It failed.

He sat down on a chair by the side of the road in frustration, bought sandwich bread at a convenience store very presciently, took it out, wiped it out, and unscrewed a cup of coffee that was not very cold anymore. Drank it all.Feeling his energy regained, he turned on his phone again.

Start with that sentence.he thinks.

A place that is rather barren and inconvenient to enter... He looked at the map carefully, circled the location of the convenience store just now, and scratched his hair unconsciously.

Then it can only be in the mountains.

His eyes fell on the three connected mountains, and beyond that was the area of ​​the vast ocean, and he felt a sense of helplessness in his heart.

If Kaito...

Forget it.

He stood up.

The second line is even more inexplicable——

· Met / Own / Reflection · Mr. Iwafune

...He really didn't understand anything except those breath symbols.

Although the surname Yanchuan is not common, it is not uncommon, so which Yanchuan is it?Could it be the last name of the founder of this organization?He actually thought before that Ms. Awazo should be a code name, and Mr. Iwafune is also a code name. It probably refers to the first and second leaders in the organization. They are in charge of different things, but they are reflections of each other, and they cannot leave each other... ...This should be the most reasonable explanation, right?

After thinking about it, the code names of this organization are all animals, why are these two people so special... Tsk, I always feel that something is wrong.

He rubbed the space between his brows and began to tap unconsciously on the table.

Kudo carefully looked at the terrain, and felt that the most likely place was the junction of the two mountains located in the Iwafune area and the Ozawa[1] area.The road in this place is almost pitifully narrow, and there are towering mountains on both sides, full of green vegetation, layer upon layer as if there is no end in sight.There are only a few families living in one place on the road... It also looks suspicious.

Then go here first.

After deciding on the order, Kudo stood up vigorously, as if he had endless strength all over his body.

he will find it.

Heiyu looked at the riddle with a sad face, feeling like he was about to lose several strands of hair.

If the great detective...

Bah, bah, bah, you can solve it without a great detective, you are the master of riddles, can't he solve these little tricks?Now that you have more experience, the chances of being able to crack it must be much higher.

While cheering himself up, he couldn't help but think of Kudo's confident, diamond-like smile every time he solved the riddle, and his heart was soft at first, and then overwhelmingly sad.

... Can't go back?

He shook his head quickly, expelled these thoughts, and then looked at the third line.

·They/Visited ·Y Name/God

This sentence is the best solution, but it is also the most general and meaningless.

The god with the surname Y, isn’t this the obvious mountain god[2]?

But there are thousands of mountain gods in Japan, who knows which mountain it is...

Hei Yu propped his chin, rolling his eyes inwardly.

Can members of the organization figure out the riddle?Is it really an organizational riddle?Is there really no problem with being so difficult?

He complained in his heart, but his eyes moved to the last line.

Kudo passed by those connected houses. It happened that there were children playing in the garden. Fathers and mothers from different families sat and chatted. The lush trees surrounded this quiet corner, and their laughter was as clear as The mountain spring in summer caused ripples in Kudo's heart.

……very nice.

Still, you have to ask them questions.

"...No need to apologize at all! Oh, we rarely see outsiders coming to this road, because basically there is nothing to see, just a dilapidated mountain shrine, which has been abandoned for a long time, and there is no People are interested. Ah, but there will still be some people racing on this road every two or three days. They may find it very exciting. I really don’t understand the young people of today...Ah! I forgot to answer your question. What are you talking about? ?”

Someone racing in two days?

here?

Shinichi Kudo suddenly felt something was going on, and quickly asked: "Those racers—where do they like to drive?"

"Let's drive to the sea, where else can it be?" A father shrugged, "From the mountains to the sea, the scenery is special, right?"

"So that's it, thank you! I'm really sorry to bother you!"

"Oh, it's all right, be careful on the road."

Kudo nodded with a smile and waved goodbye to them.

The last line took a little bit of brain cells, but Kuroba still figured it out,

·Meeting at the stage of fate/upper

At first glance, it is full of Buddhist atmosphere, and it really fits the feeling of a shrine, but since it is located at the entrance, it must not be a casual sentence.There must be some meaning to the order of fate.

As for the ladder...

That is to do with numbers.

The step of fate...

Fate of...

edge?

——Ah, so it is!

Black Feather whistled briskly and triumphantly, taking a little pride in his intelligence.

If he hadn't been dragged by that guy Aoko to go to the shrine frequently and have to invest money, he wouldn't have thought of it so quickly.Well, but it's useless to solve this, he has to find this seaside town, find this place with a mountain god, and then he can find the entrance through the last line of secret words and these wonderful "sentence punctuation methods"...

Thinking of the shrine, he couldn't help but think of the wish he made with Kudo Shinichi not long ago at the shrine, as well as everything about Hakone. A flood of memories flooded him, and he unpreparedly shot him a little bit fiercely. Some mood changes.He thought of the way the big detective stood waiting for him at his door, watched him wait from the high sun until the sunset was dark, saw him anxious but didn't dare to be too aggressive, lowered his head and sighed in frustration .

Since the other party has been involved in this war, we should continue to cooperate well instead of losing our temper here.How is it possible to protect the other party like this?

Perhaps it was because of thinking about the riddle again, he suddenly felt a little tired, so he let himself fall backwards and leaned on the back of the chair.Then he sighed involuntarily, and opened his eyes to look at the dimly colored roof.

...Sorry, big detective.

I'm sorry about all of this.

Kudo stopped in front of this small and dilapidated mountain shrine, feeling a little dazed for a while, even though this small and crude shrine that was in disrepair was very different from the shrine they visited together at that time.

Ah, the shrine.

His thoughts couldn't help but return to Hakone, that beautiful place that is unforgettable but painful.If everything can go back to that time... He lowered his eyelids and pressed the corners of his mouth.

What did he wish for?

——I hope he can live a life free from worries, safe and healthy, and get what he wants.Ah, it would be even better if I could like myself.However, if the former is more important, it must be implemented.

Thinking of this, wisps of pain spread out from a hard corner of Kudo's heart, tightly wrapped around his steady and powerful beating heart, and finally made him a little out of breath.

The irony is that the second half of the sentence has come true inconceivably, but the first half of the sentence has gone far—carefree, safe and healthy, and getting what you want.It seems that Kuroba Kaito has not achieved it.

It's really too difficult.Kudo thought.It is too difficult for Kaito Kidd and the 17-year-old Kuroba Kaito.After calming down for a while, I thought about it again. I overreacted to this matter. He was the one who forced Kaito Kidd to give him clues. He was also the one who investigated the organization without hesitation. He was also the one who broke the relationship.What did Kuroba do wrong?He was just discreetly telling a lie, an untrue lie.Besides, knowing that the other party has experienced so much suffering, it is more appropriate to be by the other party's side.

But he didn't know how to explain all this to Hei Yu.

... He admitted that he was afraid.He didn't know what kind of mood he should face Hei Yu, especially the attitude of the other party two days ago, which made it difficult for him to guess and hesitate, wondering if he still had the courage to break the deadlock.

What a terrible person, Kudo Shinichi.What about your reasoning skills?

He closed his eyes, and the scorching sun fell from the sky and shattered.

Vaguely, he heard an inaudible sigh coming from a distant place.

Kudo slowly opened his eyes, there was no one around, only the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.

"...I'm sorry." He said softly.

Could the mistakes I made... be irreparable?

He took one last look at the shrine hidden among the trees, turned and left.

Things have developed like this, and I can only grit my teeth and go on.The imperative now is to figure out where the organizations are and what their real purpose is.

... He always felt that things were not as simple as simply wanting to find the elixir of life.

While walking, Kudo unconsciously rubbed the back of his phone with his index finger.After a while, he stopped, as if he had made some decision, pursed his lips, unlocked the phone, clicked into the text message draft box, and his eyes fell on the line of text that he had not sent.He moved his fingertips, then sighed inaudibly, and pressed the send button.

At the same time, Kaito Kuroba's cell phone rang a crisp text message notification.

Note:

[1] Ozawa, the Roman pronunciation is Ozawa.

[2] Yama, the meaning of "mountain" in Japanese.