Chapter 503 Osaka Black Impermanence (two in one)

Chapter 503 Osaka Black Impermanence (two in one)

The ship soon docked at the pier.

Lin Xinyi and Belmod led Caesar out of the boat and looked at the two familiar figures in front of them:

Sure enough, those two people were really their old acquaintances, the nominal disciples of Lin Shinichi, the Osaka branch agent of the Japanese Death God, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha.

"It's really them."

Lin Xinyi was a little surprised and a little emotional:

Although these two are theoretically his apprentices, his mentor is busy working on projects in Tokyo every day and has no time to take care of these two foreign students.

Hattori Heiji basically studied on his own by reading textbooks.

Not only paying tuition for free, but also having to work as a teaching assistant for the tutor, responsible for teaching Yuan Shan and Ye, a school girl, step by step.

As a teacher in name only, Lin Xinyi still felt a little guilty about this.

He had been preparing for the day when Conan's Tedan Elementary School would no longer have sudden holidays, Dr. Agasa would no longer organize children's camping trips, and Mouri Kogoro would no longer travel on a whim, so he would take the time to leave Tokyo and go there again. Osaka looks at how these two students are doing.

But I never thought that before I waited for this opportunity, I unexpectedly met the two of them here today.

why is this happening

How did they come to this island?

Lin Xinyi was quite concerned.

However, Belmode's focus was always different from his.

She carefully looked at the backs of Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, and couldn't help but smile slightly:

"Boy, these two students of yours."

"It seems to be developing well."

"Huh?" Lin Xinyi quickly noticed:

Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha were both wearing green striped T-shirts of the same style.

It seems to be a couple outfit.

Hmm. Could it be that their relationship has been officially established?

This is not surprising.

These two people were originally childhood sweethearts. It was normal for them to fall in love and fall in love naturally.

During the last trip to Osaka, with the indirect help of Mao Lilan and others, the two of them had vaguely crossed the vague boundary of friends, and there was a little hint of love.

Not to mention that later, Hattori Heiji, Toyama and Hahaha became Lin Shinichi's students.

They were usually in the same class in high school, and they also studied criminal science and technology together after school. They had more opportunities to get along with each other than before, and their relationship became closer. As time goes by, some ambiguity will eventually arise as the two sides rub each other's hands.

The right time, right place and right people are indispensable.

If giant pandas had such a love environment, they wouldn't be so rare now.

The combination of all these positive factors makes it impossible to imagine how the two of them could not establish a relationship until now.

"It seems they are really together."

Lin Xinyi thought this in his heart, and at the same time quietly quickened his pace, and hurriedly caught up with this "loving young couple":

"Heiji! Miss Kazuye! Wait!"

Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha were slightly startled for a moment, then turned around:

"Mr. Lin, Miss Chris?"

"Why are you here too?"

"I still want to ask you." Belmod returned a polite smile.

This smile soon gained a kind of good-natured playfulness:

"Long time no see."

"The dressing styles of you two have changed a lot."

Belmod jokingly looked at the couple costumes worn by Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha.

Logically speaking, facing the teasing of her, the old Si Ji, these two young people should be so shy that one of them would turn red in the face, and the other would turn red in the white face.

But the reality is.

"Humph!" Toyama and Ye Qing hummed and turned their heads, as if they wanted to clear their relationship with Hattori Heiji in front of their master and mistress.

Hattori Heiji looked down at his own green striped T-shirt of the same style as Ye, and said carelessly:

"Miss Chris, do you think this dress looks good too?"

"Haha. This was given to me by He Ye. I quite like it."

"The two of them were walking on the street dressed like a pair of good buddies."

Lin Xinyi, Belmode: "."

As soon as they heard the words "good buddies", they knew that they had completely misjudged the relationship status of these two students before.

The rice has been put into the pot and the firewood has been prepared, but no one has lit the fire.

Raw rice is still not cooked.

Moreover, look at Yuan Shan and Ye's expressions of quarrel with others.

Since their last farewell in Osaka, her relationship with Hattori Heiji has not only not progressed further, but has actually become a little more distant.

"What's going on, Kazuya?"

Belmode really took on the role of the master's wife and asked softly in the tone of an elder:

"That boy Heiji bullied you!"

"Yes!" Yuan Shan and Ye turned back angrily.

She seemed to have finally found someone to whom she could confide her feelings. She held Belmode's hand with an aggrieved look on her face and accused Hattori Heiji of all kinds of bad behavior:

"Miss Chris, Mr. Lin doesn't have time to teach me forensic science knowledge, so he just asked me to study on my own with Heiji."

"Huh?" Belmod smiled and gestured for the other party to continue.

Lin Xinyi also pricked up his ears curiously:

Letting Hattori Heiji be the acting teacher for Toyama and Ye, shouldn't this be a good thing for the development of their relationship?

If you look at the various scandals that break out in colleges and universities every year, you will know how many men who are called beasts and old men teach and teach female students to be of the same generation as themselves.

Didn't Hattori Heiji seize this opportunity and develop a good relationship with his childhood sweetheart?

How can you teach him to lower his favorability level in turn?

I heard Yuan Shan and Ye complaining very aggrievedly:

"Heiji thinks I'm stupid."

"And they always say that I'm not as good as Miss Maori."

"If it were Miss Mori, she would definitely not learn so slowly."

"This" Lin Xinyi was speechless:

No wonder Hattori Heiji can teach his girlfriend away.

I talk about "other people's children" in front of students every day, but what I talk about is Mao Lilan who is perfect in every aspect. How can this not make people angry?

With Lin Xinyi's emotional intelligence, he knew that this kind of education method was wrong:

"Hattori, this is your fault."

"Yeah!" Yuanshan and Ye looked over gratefully, waiting for the teacher to support them.

"Since Ms. He and Ms. Ye have a bad brain, they learn slowly."

"You always compare yourself to those good students in front of her and strengthen her rebellious psychology. Then does she still have the motivation to continue studying?"

Lin Xinyi taught earnestly:

"Forensic science is a subject that requires profound professional accumulation."

"We have to be a little more patient with students who are more mentally retarded."

"Yes." Hattori Heiji admitted his mistake with a look of shame on his face: "I'm sorry, teacher."

"I will directly criticize her for being stupid from now on, and will not compare Miss Maori with her."

Toyama Kazuye: "."

She was so choked by the master and disciple that she could not speak, and her expression became even more aggrieved.

It wasn't until Belmode glanced at Lin Xinyi with some complaints, and gently held her arm to give her comfort, that Ms. He finally regained some energy.

"OK OK."

"We won't talk about this anymore."

Belmod reluctantly brought up this emotional topic:

"Tell me, how did you two come to this American island?"

The conversation suddenly returned to business, and Hattori Heiji's expression quickly became serious:

"I came here because I received a strange commission."

"What the commission says is"

Before he could finish his words, Lin Xinyi tried to answer: "'Please save me, I will be killed by the mermaid'?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Mr. Lin, since you also know the content of this letter, that means..."

Hattori Heiji's eyes instantly became sharper:

"As expected, you also received this letter of entrustment?"

"Sure enough?" Lin Xinyi heard some overtones: "Have you guessed in advance that I might also receive this letter of entrustment?"

"Yes." Hattori Heiji nodded and took out a piece of letter paper from his arms:

"Because in the commission letter that Ms. Saori sent me, the title of the letter was..."

"'Mr. Hayashi Shinichi's disciple, Mr. Hattori Heiji'."

The client wrote this on his title, which was obviously for Lin Xinyi's name.

It seems that Miss Kadowaki Saori must have believed in Lin Shinichi's ability as a "detective", so she sent him and his two students all letters of commission.

"Since she would send a letter of entrustment to me, a 'student', because of your reputation, Mr. Lin."

"Then there's no reason why she wouldn't invite the 'teacher' herself."

Hattori Heiji explained unhurriedly:

"But I think the content of this letter is rather strange. Teacher, you are an official police officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, so you should not be interested in this kind of 'mysterious' detective commission."

"So I didn't contact you and brought He Ye over to investigate."

"I see."

Lin Xinyi figured out the whole story.

Then he asked curiously: "Well, Heiji, have you and Miss Heye found any clues through investigation now?"

"No." Hattori Heiji shook his head: "We have just arrived on this island and haven't officially started investigating yet."

"Before I came here, I also tried to call the phone number left by Miss Kadowaki Saori in the entrustment letter."

"But no one answered the phone."

"After calling it a few times, I just turned it off completely."

"Yes." Toyama and Ye also forgot about their quarrel with their childhood sweethearts, and echoed with fear on their faces: "That Kadowaki Saori clearly wrote a letter asking for help, but didn't answer our calls."

"Maybe she has been killed by the 'mermaid'."

"There is no such thing as a mermaid in the world." Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes helplessly.

Compared to his childhood sweetheart, he is not so nervous:

"If the phone can't be connected, it doesn't necessarily mean he was killed."

"In fact, this is more like an elaborate prank, designed by some boring guys to entertain us."

The commission letter was sent, but the phone call could not be reached. The content written on it was still the unbelievable strange legend of "mermaid".

This does look like a prank.

If it weren't for the long vacation and the busy schedule, Hattori Heiji wouldn't have accepted such a strange commission.

If you can find something strange when you come here, it will be an unexpected gain.

If it turns out to be a silly prank, consider it a two-day trip to the island and not a wasted trip.

This is Hattori Heiji's thoughts and guesses.

It is also the best inference result that can be drawn based on the existing clues.

But Lin Shinichi looked at Hattori Heiji, whose face looked exactly like Kudo Shinichi's.

He never felt relaxed:

"Is it a prank?"

"I hope so!"

After Lin Shinichi, Belmode, Hattori Heiji, Toyama and Ye met at the dock, the investigation finally officially began.

The first step in the investigation is naturally to find Kadowaki Saori, the client who sent the letter asking for help.

And the number left in the letter couldn't be reached.

The only way is to find someone to ask Kadowaki Saori's whereabouts.

Fortunately, this American island is not that big. If Kadowaki Saori was a native of the American island, many people on the island would know her.

Although the idea is simple, it has encountered a little trouble in implementation.

Because today is the day when the island holds its annual mermaid festival.

The pier was crowded with tourists who came from out of town to pray to God and worship Buddha. For a while, it was difficult to tell who was a local who knew the situation on the island and who was a newcomer who had just arrived.

"Longevity mother-in-law, longevity"

"The appeal of these two words is really great."

Belmode looked at the tourists with enthusiasm written on their faces and sighed softly in a way that was difficult for others to understand.

But this emotion quickly disappeared, and she came back to her senses immediately and made suggestions for everyone:

"Let's go to the gift shop in front."

“The clerks in the gift shop must all be locals who know the local situation.”

This is a good idea.

Lin Xinyi and others quickly followed the surging flow of people and squeezed into the popular gift shop.

Like this "Mermaid Island", the products in this gift shop also contain mermaid elements everywhere.

Mermaid dolls, mermaid pillows, mermaid biscuits, mermaid steamed buns.

Of course, the best-selling item among tourists is the "longevity charm" that is said to have been personally consecrated by the longevity mother-in-law.

"Ha." A sneer full of disgust appeared on the corner of Belmod's mouth.

People's fanatical pursuit of longevity seems to make the air here a little nauseating.

But she quickly concealed her disgust, grabbed a passing female clerk, and asked for Lin Xinyi and others:

"Hello."

Belmode looked at the name written on the female clerk's badge:

"Miss Kuroe Naoko."

"Can I ask you a question?"

The short-haired female clerk named Kuroe Naoko was slightly startled, and then asked in a very concise and capable tone: "Tell me."

"Kadowaki Saori, is there this person on the island?"

"Saori?"

Kuroe Naoko opened her mouth in surprise:

"Are you Saori's friends?"

"Oh?" Everyone realized something: "Miss Kuroe, do you know Miss Kadowaki Saori?"

"Yes." Kuroe Naoko nodded: "Saori is a good friend who grew up with me. Of course I know her."

"Why, do you have anything to do with her?"

Saying that, without waiting for Belmode to answer, she continued:

"By the way, no matter what you want to do with her, now is the wrong time."

"Because Saori has been missing for three days and we can't contact her."

"What?" Everyone was shocked.

Lin Xinyi and Hattori Heiji immediately realized that something was wrong:

This Miss Kuroe Naoko claims to be a good friend of the client, Kadowaki Saori.

Kadowaki Saori has been missing for three days. When she talked about it, why didn't she worry about her friend at all?

"Because it's normal."

"This isn't the first time this has happened."

Kuroe Naoko introduced in a relaxed tone:

It turns out that Kadowaki Saori's father is an old alcoholic who likes domestic violence. Every time he gets drunk, he will run home and go crazy with his daughter.

Kadowaki Saori has been tortured by her alcoholic father since she was a child. She often ran away from home in anger and would disappear for ten and a half months each time before reappearing in front of everyone.

"Saori must have left the American island."

"When she's had enough of being alone outside, she'll come back."

Naoko Kuroe is not worried about her friend's situation at all.

And she further explained:

"Besides, Saori's recent mental state has not been good to begin with."

"Ever since she accidentally lost the 'Mermaid Arrow' she got at the festival a year ago, she has become very suspicious - she hides at home all day long and often asks us to say something. She might be a mermaid. Your Majesty takes revenge.”

The so-called Mermaid Arrow is actually the limited edition festival peripheral created by the longevity mother-in-law.

Only three "mermaid arrows" are awarded at the festival every year, and each arrow is tied with hair that has been "blessed" by the longevity mother-in-law.

Legend has it that the arrow contains the power of the mermaid, and as long as it is carefully collected, it can prolong life.

And if you accidentally lose or break it, you will be blaspheming the legendary mermaid and will bring terrible misfortune to yourself.

Kadowaki Saori drew the Mermaid Arrow at the festival a year ago, but accidentally lost it.

Therefore, she believed deeply in the mermaid legend. Since then, she has been worried that she will be retaliated by the mermaid, and her whole person has become more and more abnormal.

"That's the way it is."

"She is probably afraid that she will be retaliated by the mermaid if she continues to stay on the island, so she quietly left the American island."

Kuroe Naoko introduced her friend's situation calmly.

"This" Hattori Heiji couldn't help curling his lips:

"Our client, Ms. Saori Kadowaki, seems to be a little abnormal in her mind."

Because I lost the souvenir I got at the festival, I started to worry about being retaliated by the so-called mermaid.

He even believed such a ridiculous legend and frightened himself for a whole year.

Miss Kadowaki Saori was young and already in the late stage of this hopeless and severe superstition.

This kind of person is so trusting that he loses his mind, so can the letter for help she sent be a serious letter for help?

"Mr. Lin, we may have come in vain." Hattori Heiji shrugged helplessly: "Those so-called letters for help were probably written by Miss Saori when she was mentally disturbed."

"That's why she sent the letter of entrustment but didn't answer the phone at all, and even played tricks on us about disappearing from the world."

That Kadowaki Saori looks like a madman no matter how you look at it.

The "mermaid" mentioned in the letter seemed to come from her unrealistic fantasy, and was not a code word with a special meaning as everyone initially suspected.

Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji suddenly lost a lot of interest in this case——

The letter asking for help shouldn't have been sent to him, it should have been sent to a mental hospital.

"Don't let your guard down!"

But Lin Xinyi's attitude was still extremely serious:

"I'm sure-"

"The disappearance of Miss Saori was not because she ran away from home."

"She must have encountered some danger!"

"This" Looking at Lin Xinyi's extremely solemn expression, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but become nervous.

But he still couldn't suppress the doubt in his heart: "Why do you say that?"

"Mr. Lin, have you already grasped any important clues?"

Lin Xinyi did not answer.

He looked at the Osaka Black Impermanence in front of him with a subtle expression.

Then I thought of Tokyo Bai Wuchang who was almost coming:

"Well, there may be a clue."

"after all."

That Miss Saori's life is so hard.

How can I hold you two at the same time?