Chapter 555: Stop, Kudo Shinichi!
Chapter 555 Stop, Kudo Shinichi!
"…Why is it you? Where's Jack the Ripper? Never mind, he probably doesn't dare to come out anymore."
The Death Elementary School Student did not let go of the football. He placed his hand on the frame of his plain glasses and tapped it. Then the antenna that had been retracted on the frame rose again.
He glanced around, then bent down and turned off the amplification function of his sneakers.
"It seems that this time it was that elusive Lawyer Naruhodō who asked you to come again, right?"
Conan's words did not arouse the girl's hostility. On the contrary, the girl walked out of the shadows with a smile.
She was the young magician that Conan and Huihara Ai saw when they arrived at the cafe near 221B Baker Street.
Although Conan always felt that Lawyer Naruhodō did not look like a good person and wanted to test him with an anesthetic needle, he did not have any ill feelings towards the magician girl who followed Lawyer Naruhodō.
Perhaps it was because he felt that the magic doll that the magician girl had once taken out looked very familiar?
"That's right, my father asked me to help. Mr. Death, are you going to see the prosecutor next?"
"Well, you may not know this, right? The new prosecutor is different from the new chief judge you knocked out. He hasn't done anything out of line so far. So, Dad said we can wait and see before making a decision."
"... [Dad]? You two are father and daughter? But doesn't that seem right considering their ages?"
Conan stared at Naruhodō Mikuni's face for a while, and then made a tentative conclusion.
Even if they are father and daughter, they can't be biological father and daughter. It is likely that she is an adopted daughter?
Otherwise, the weathered-looking lawyer Naruhodō would not have been an adult before this magician was born.
The Shinigami student's attention shifted from the other person's interpersonal relationships to the "new prosecutor" mentioned by the other person. He immediately seized on this word and asked.
"It sounds like you know the new prosecutor. And you also know the new presiding judge?"
"I've wanted to ask from the beginning. You and your daughter don't look like locals at all. Both your accent and appearance are more like people from China... Who are you? What's your purpose?"
As soon as this question came out, Naruhodō Mikuni finally turned his head and seemed to be thinking about it.
Conan's eyes fell on the other person's face. Having studied a little criminal psychology in Hawaii, he was able to use cold reading to judge the other person's psychological changes from his micro-expressions.
However, the young girl magician in front of him didn't seem to have any extra psychological changes. She seemed to be just thinking about whether to say the answer to the question - that's all.
"Well, whether it's the new chief judge, the new prosecutor, or the new lawyer, my father and I know them all. Even Professor Moriarty is an acquaintance to us... I guess."
When Naruhodō Mikuni mentioned the last name, he thought for a moment before giving the answer.
This subtle pause made Conan's mind once again full of speculations.
What does "probably" mean? If you know someone, you know him. If you don't know someone, you don't know him. How can there be such a statement?
Could it be that Professor Moriarty is their acquaintance, yet not their acquaintance?
The magician girl didn't care about Conan's mood changes. She just raised her hat and said with a smile.
"We are not locals. Didn't you say the word 'Narbutang'? Dad is indeed Naruhodang lawyer, and his identity is the same as Naruhodang Ryunosuke-sama."
"As for my identity, according to the game, I am a functional plot character. Well... my purpose is to help you pass the game. Don't be too careful, Mr. Death."
"I still remember that you and that black detective chased dad for ten blocks in the rain!"...What the hell is this? How could I do such a thing?
Conan's eyes turned rude. He was very serious about his work, and the black-skinned detective's words...
Is it to persuade Hattori Heiji? Why is he acting together with Hattori Heiji? That guy has obviously returned to Osaka!
Having said that, Conan turned around and didn't intend to say any more words to Naruhodō Mitsuki.
All in all, these two may really be the plot characters arranged by Noah's Ark to help players pass.
And there is a high probability that he is a character who was suddenly added to the plot, so that even the background setting is not complete.
He has to hurry and deal with the new prosecutor [Hao], and has no time to waste here.
Tick, tick, tick.
The Grim Reaper Elementary School Student was about to leave, moving his legs which were somewhat numb from the electric shock from his sneakers.
But the magician girl still refreshed beside him, and she said in a mysterious way.
"I'll tell you a secret. This secret is only known to me and my dad..."
"Secret? What secret? Is it about Moriarty's true identity? I already know it."
Conan glanced at the magician girl next to him and said with certainty.
This answer was beyond Naruhodō's expectations. Even the legendary lawyer Naruhodō Ryuichi, who had just left Scotland Yard, might not be able to predict the progress of Conan's investigation.
Just before that, the game's main control room successfully broke through the firewall of Noah's Ark and formed a one-way communication channel with him in the Cocoon game. His father Yusaku Kudo told him all the plots of the internal test and the original script.
Therefore, whether it is the preset identity of Jack the Ripper in the script, or the difference between the old London during the public beta test and the old London during the internal beta test, Conan already knows it clearly.
It can even be said that with the help of this information, and by comparing it with the testimony about Asogi Yoshikazu conveyed by the Junior Detective League, he has even figured out the true identity of Professor Moriarty.
"Unless you can tell me where Professor Moriarty is hiding, or where Sherlock Holmes is, or where Jack the Ripper is hiding, or how to find Jack the Ripper—"
"Don't ask me anything else because I'm in a hurry now."
The Death God Elementary School Student walked in front, and the Magician Girl stood behind.
After he walked some distance further, he heard the words of the magician girl.
"Wait! Kudo Shinichi!"
Before a bizarre dance could occur, Conan turned around and interrupted the spell.
He saw the magician girl holding a newspaper in her hand. The headline of the newspaper was...
[The Reichenbach Building, the tallest building in old London, was completed today. ]
"...Reichenbach...building?"
Conan's pupils shrank slightly, and he turned his head to look at the new landmark building in the distance.
So... the so-called Reichenbach Falls actually appears in this form?
(End of this chapter)