Chapter 786 The disappearing text

Chapter 786 The disappearing text

Back at the Mori Office, Hattori Heiji told about what he was going to do in Tokyo this time.

Hattori Heiji's mother, Hattori Shizuka, has a friend named Wakamatsu Kohei, who is the president of a Tokyo design company. Hattori Heiji has met him once before.

This friend was murdered in his villa in Karuizawa last month.

That day happened to be Mrs. Wakamatsu's birthday. After investigation, the police believed that someone broke into the villa to steal money, but ran into Mr. Wakamatsu and killed him on the spot.

Ten days later, the murderer of Wakamatsu Kohei sent a letter to Hattori Heiji in the name of Wakamatsu Kohei.

The content of the letter is as follows:

Dear Mr. Hattori Heiji, because I really want to meet you, a high school detective, I want to confess to you the crimes I have committed.

However, even if we meet, I doubt whether you can see me clearly?

The reason I say this is because I am an abnormal existence that you humans have arbitrarily created, an illusion that you can never truly see.

If you ever want to see me again, I'll be waiting for you on the next full moon night at the home of the man I killed.

At the end of the letter, there was the address of Wakamatsu Kohei's hometown in Osaka, as well as a key to the house.

Yuya stroked his chin. The house was in Osaka, so why did he come all the way to Tokyo? So he asked, "So you've been to that house?"

Hattori Heiji shook his head: "I was originally planning to go there to uncover the identity of the murderer, but I suddenly caught a cold and couldn't get over it, and then..."

He glanced at Yuanshan Heye and said, "This guy took the key without permission."

Toyama Kazuha said dissatisfiedly: "I am going to replace you, Heiji, okay?"

Mao Lilan shouted in surprise: "What, Kazuha, you went to the haunted house alone?" Aren't non-existent phantoms just ghosts or something like that?

Yuanshan and Ye waved their hands again and again: "No, no, I brought three friends with me when I went there. They said it sounded a lot like a courage test, so they agreed very straightforwardly."

“Then, actually, that house doesn’t look like a haunted house at all. I think that house should be where the late President Wakamatsu lived when he occasionally came to Osaka.

Not only is it clean, but the furniture inside is also functional.”

Sera Masumi asked, "So someone is waiting for you in that house?"

Yuanshan Heye shook his head: "No, we rang the doorbell but no one answered, so we used the key to open the door and go in."

At this point, Yuanshan Heye was a little excited: "I didn't expect that the house was decorated very beautifully. It was originally a test of courage, but it turned out to be a visit to a mansion."

Yuya stroked his chin, "So you guys spent the whole night in that mansion?"

Yuanshan Heye shook his head vigorously, and his expression suddenly became scared: "We thought that such a luxurious villa must have a beautiful bathroom, so we went to take a look together..."

Yuya:...It seems that Japanese people have a special liking for bathing rooms.

"Then, I saw a scary-looking person with long hair sitting inside, leaning against the wall!"

Mao Lilan's face turned pale, she grabbed Conan's shoulders and hid behind him, poking her head out and asked in fear: "Eh? Is it, a ghost?"

Conan's face turned pale - it hurts, it hurts so much!

Youye was also startled, but he was relieved immediately. Since Yuanshan and Ye appeared here safely, there should be no unexpected situation at that time. But he still asked: "So, did you talk to that person?"

Yuanshan Heye said quickly: "Stop talking, as soon as we found that person, all the lights suddenly went out."

"My friend and I were discussing what to do, whether to call the police or something, when we suddenly heard a clicking sound, and then the lights suddenly came on again."

"Then, then!" Yuanshan Heye's face turned even paler, "The person who was there just now disappeared without a trace!"

When everyone was silent, Maori Kogoro snorted: "Humph, he must have used the remote control to cut off the power and then escaped, right?"

Hattori Heiji said solemnly: "If only that guy disappeared, there would be no need for me to come all the way to Tokyo."

"After the man disappeared, there was a note left in the bathroom with a typewriter saying, 'It was only my body that disappeared, not the words.'"

"Words?" Sera Masumi asked in confusion, "What does that mean?"

Hattori Heiji said, "The wall that guy was leaning against, near the tiles near his head, seemed to have words carved with a knife or something, right, Kazuha?"

Yuanshan Heye nodded and said with lingering fear: "Yes, there are three English letters engraved, especially big EYE..."

Yuya pinched his chin: "EYE? Eye, eyes?"

Yuanshan Heye added: "The words disappeared at the same time as the person disappeared, but the words written on the note did not disappear."

Maori Kogoro guessed: "Could it be that the tiles with words on them were exchanged with tiles from somewhere else?"

Yuanshan Heye denied it: "I thought so at the time. There were indeed many scratch marks on the tiles at the bottom of the wall.

But the color of the tiles in the bathroom gradually becomes lighter from top to bottom. If you really use the lower tiles to exchange the upper ones, the color difference will be obvious immediately!"

Yuya frowned slightly. The words on the wall disappeared along with the people?

"Yuanshan, do you remember how long the lights were out?"

Yuanshan Heye replied: "About 5 minutes?"

5 minutes? In just 5 minutes, a living person disappeared from the bathroom, and along with the words on the wall?

Thinking of what Toyama and Ye said, there were many scratches on the tiles below, Yuya's intuition told him that these scratches might have something to do with the words.

He looked at Hattori Heiji: "Hattori, have you been to the scene?"

Hattori Heiji sighed, his tone somewhat resentful: "I wanted to go, but the house was being rebuilt, so the construction workers kept a close watch on it and wouldn't let me in."

Maori Kogoro snorted disdainfully: "They must have prepared replacement tiles in advance and replaced them in the dark, right? Didn't you hear a crackling sound? It must be the sound made by the tiles."

Hattori Heiji said slowly: "You usually think this way, right? But what comes next is the key point."

"The scene where Mr. Wakamatsu was killed was exactly the same as what happened in the villa."

"No, it's better to say that what happened in the villa was a deliberate imitation of the crime scene."

After hearing what Hattori Heiji said, everyone looked surprised.

"What do you mean?"