A Sorcerer in the Detective World

Inside the room.

Conan, Hattori, and Nanatsuki Koshimizu exchanged their thoughts with each other and quickly summarized the case.

Immediately afterwards, Conan, Hattori, and Koshimizu Nanatsuki turned to look at Takagi Wataru. Hattori asked: "...Officer Takagi, are we right? Also, your police must have updated the deceased. A detailed investigation? Are there any other connections between them? "

"Uh..." Takagi Wataru stretched out his hand to scratch his head, with a big bead of sweat hanging on his forehead, "...what you said is correct. In fact, our police's investigation ideas are indeed the same as yours. As for more details, investigation……"

"...Every victim does have something in common. First of all, they are all related to Mihua University. Except for Chunliu Hanru and Donglong Shangping, two professors of Mihua University, the first victim Jia Xiu Caoyanagi is a past graduate of Mihua University, and the third victim, Mr. Feng Yue Zhizheng, used to be a school janitor at Mihua University..."

"... In addition, they are also members of a pilgrim group at Zhengming Temple near Mihua University..."

"Shengmeiji Temple? Pilgrim group?" Conan was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Koshizu Nanatsuki and said:

"...Sister Yuesui, are the people you came to Mihua University to investigate today also members of this pilgrim group? They are the Professor Miura, Associate Professor Ishida, and Director Shimaki you mentioned before..."

"Ah? That..." Koshimizu Nanatsuki scratched his head and said, "...I don't know either. In fact, I only learned about this serial murder case from a certain channel, and I happened to know that the police had questioned Professor Miura and the others. , so I just came to investigate by myself..."

"...That's it..." Hattori Heiji frowned, "...then you said before that you thought this case was a bit weird, so you came to investigate... What exactly do you mean by 'weird'?"

Nanatsuki Koshizui was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, Conan had already said with a smile: "...Well... I think the 'weird' sister Koshizui said was because this was a bizarre serial murder case, right? Sister Yuesui probably suspects that this series of bizarre serial murders may have been planned by the murder planner in Hokkaido, so she wants to see if she can find any clues...right?"

"Uh..." Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at Conan in surprise, "...You brat, from a mental point of view, you are really a qualified detective. Yes, I came here precisely because I had suspicions. Investigate it..."

"So that's it!" Hattori Heiji nodded clearly, then turned to look at Takagi and said:

"...Officer Takagi,

Who are the Professor Miura, Associate Professor Ishida, and Director Shimaki that Detective Koshizui just mentioned? Could they all be members of that pilgrim group? "

"This..." Takagi Wataru hesitated for a moment, then said truthfully, "...the real names of the three of them are Miura Jinko, Ishida Tonori, and Shimaki Matsutaro. Just as you think, they are all He is a member of a pilgrim group called Zhengmingshe, and is also one of the suspects in this case..."

"Are they all suspects?" Uncle Maoli asked.

Takagi nodded and said: "Yes. Our police also suspect that this series of serial murders is probably caused by someone within Zhengming Temple or Zhengming Society. After the incident, all members of Zhengming Temple and Zhengming Society were targeted. An investigation was conducted, and in the end, when the first three murders occurred, there were only nine people who had no clear alibi."

"...They are respectively the abbot of Shomeiji Temple, Tomoyo, monk Huineng, and monk Huishan; Shomeisha's Miura Jinko, Tonori Ishida, Shimaki Matsutaro, Yamagyuki Tsukishu, Hatano Emi, Shimizu Nagao..."

As soon as Officer Takagi finished speaking, Hattori Heiji narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "...Have the police identified the suspects? That's good, it saves us a lot of time. Next, wait After the on-site investigation is over, let’s go visit them together..."

"Uh...hehehe..." Takagi's mouth twitched and he laughed twice——

By the way, what does Hattori Heiji mean by what he said?

Heze, the police have conducted so many investigations just to save you detectives trouble?

This is so rude, no matter what! !

…

The investigation of the murder scene is still continuing.

In a blink of an eye, it was early four o'clock in the afternoon, and all investigations on the scene were completed. Officer Megure and other uncles planned to go to Shomeiji Temple for investigation and questioning. Conan, Hattori, Uncle Mori, and Koshimizu Nanatsuki also followed one by one.

Officer Megure said the destination, then pressed the hat on his head and said: "...This afternoon, the suspected Miura Jinko, Ishida Tonori, Yamagyuki Tsukishu and others happened to be in Shomeiji Temple today. We But there is still some twists and turns left..."

Uncle Maori immediately asked curiously: "...Those suspects are all at Zhengming Temple? Isn't this a coincidence?"

"This is not a coincidence." Miwako Sato looked at a group of detectives and introduced, "According to tradition, people from Shomeisha go to Shomei Temple every Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to burn incense and worship Buddha, and they will probably continue until early four o'clock. This habit has already It lasted for fifteen years..."

"...We worship Buddha together every Sunday? That's really pious~" Hattori Heiji sighed with emotion, then turned to look at Conan and said, "...By the way, kid. Do you still remember? In the notice letter written by the prisoner, the first The sentence is 'I am a literati who has traveled through thousands of years.' It seems that Buddhism was introduced to Japan from China a thousand years ago. Do you think this case has any symbolic meaning within Buddhism?"

"It shouldn't be possible, right?" Conan pinched his chin and shook his head, "Buddhism was indeed introduced to Japan thousands of years ago. However, if what the prisoner really wants to express is the symbolic meaning of Buddhism, in the first sentence How to explain 'literary poet'? I always feel that this 'literary poet' should mean something else..."

"...In addition, there are twenty-eight stars. Although Buddhism also has this saying, strictly speaking, it is a Taoist concept. If the prisoner wants to use the Buddhist 'twenty-eight', use 'twenty-eight days' Isn’t it better than Twenty-Eight Constellations?”

"Well, that's right..."

Hattori Heiji nodded, and Xiaolan asked in surprise: "...Conan, how do you know this?"

"Huh?" Conan's eyes suddenly turned into beetles, then he scratched his head and said, "...I actually heard this...from brother Yunwen!~"

"Classmate Yunwen?"

Xiaolan was still a little suspicious, while Conan scratched his head and pretended to be innocent, looked around, and then froze: "...Strange, where did brother Yunwen go?"

"...Yunwen-san suddenly said that he had something important, so he left." Sato Miwako explained.

"Is it important?" Conan blinked - by the way, now they have encountered a serial murder case, okay? What could be more important than solving a crime?

Conan complained in his heart, and Hattori Heiji said: "Okay! Leave that guy alone! Since he is not interested in this case, let us do it! Let's solve the case as soon as possible and let him see our sharp!"

Conan nodded "hmm", and Koshizu Nanatsuki twitched the corner of his mouth twice——

By the way, what exactly is Shu Yunwen’s so-called “important thing”?

Is that guy using his messy abilities to solve crimes again?

That feeling of working so hard on a lot of reasoning, only to find it useless in the end, is so frustrating...