At four o'clock in the afternoon, the residence of the painter Kamou Gozo in Aomori Prefecture.

"Um...have we met?" Kindaichi suddenly felt at a loss.

"It's me! Izumi Sakura!" The girl laughed like a silver bell.

The appearance of the beautiful black-haired girl in front of her gradually overlapped with that of Izumi Sakura, who wore gray-rimmed glasses and looked rustic.

"Ah? Are you really Izumi-san?" Kaneda half covered his mouth in disbelief.

"I didn't expect that my senior is actually the daughter of a Kamao painter!" Saoki, who was wearing a blue and white sweatshirt, looked up and down, and was quite impressed by this girl whom he had met once on the rooftop.

"Everything was found out thanks to this painting!"

"Thanks to the painting?" Nanase Miyuki asked in confusion.

The short middle-aged man was holding a transparent wine glass filled with whiskey, his face was rosy and slightly drunk, and his tone was low, "You are not necessarily Pu Sheng's daughter!"

"Who is that man?" the middle-aged police officer with a crew cut asked Komiyayama.

"Oh...he is the painter Kanjiro Kira. Although he was once called the master's enemy, he has stopped painting recently and has been drinking all day long."

"I also have doubts about Miss Sakura!" ******, astronomer Wakada Haruhiko, who was wearing a green formal suit, looked at Izumi Sakura with his shrewd eyes, "This is the first time I heard that there is no conclusion.

The remarried Uncle Pu Sheng has a daughter! There are many people trying to get close to the uncle's property."

"Even Mr. Kazuda, you..."

"They are envious of you!" Rimi Umezu, who was round and dressed maturely, walked over and said with her hands behind her hands.

"Teacher Umezu..." Izumi Sakura looked at her gratefully.

"Just take your friends for a walk in the yard to change your mood!" suggested a woman in her thirties.

Izumi Sakura took Kindaichi and Sagi to the courtyard behind the house to watch.

In the spacious courtyard, neat greening, decorations imitating Roman pillars, water pavilions, fountains, artificial waterfalls, etc., even Saaki couldn't help exclaiming: "It's so luxurious! The Kamao painter is really rich!"

"It's said that this yard took two years to complete?"

"What is that?" Saaki pointed to a cluster of bushes that were moving strangely.

"Paul, come here!" Izumi Sakura half-knelt on the grass, shouting over there with such intimacy.

A beige-skinned puppy jumped out of the bushes with a long tongue and jumped into her arms.

"Wow, so cute!" Nanase Miyuki knelt down and rubbed the soft back of the puppy with her palms, "That's great, Sakura-san looks quite happy!"

"Yeah!" Kindaichi agreed with his pocket in his pocket.

"Um...are there any buildings there?" Sagi looked over the stone wall of the artificial waterfall and the tree shade behind it, and looked at a house with a red roof in the distance.

"That's Lavender Villa!"

"Lavender... Villa..." Saoki, who was wearing a blue and white sweatshirt and gray and white trousers, was holding a black parasol and asked with interest, "Are there large swaths of lavender in the front and back of the house?"

"Well, do you want to visit dad's studio?" Izumi Sakura looked at Kindaichi.

"Is it okay?" Nanase Miyuki was looking forward to it.

"no problem!"

Inside a specially-made stretch limousine.

Butler Xiao Gongshan drove the four of them to Lavender Villa.

"Although it is a painting studio, since the owner stopped making new paintings, it has become a gallery for guests to view paintings." He turned the steering wheel and explained the current situation of Lavender Villa to the guests in the back seat.

"But then again, there is a TV, a phone, and a refrigerator in the car?" Sagi looked at the decorations in the car, his words were full of envy, and he cursed in his heart, "After all, a painting can sell for hundreds of millions of yuan.

What a great painter!”

"It really cost a lot of money!" Kindaichi also lamented.

"Master, he hates crowded places and means of transportation. Not to mention planes, he doesn't even ride on ships. When traveling by car, he only rides in this specially made luxury car."

"However, it seems to me that Gozo Kamagata is not that indifferent to external things!" Saoki, who pursed his lips, recalled his slightly arrogant face and said softly, "And he doesn't seem to have that kind of introverted personality."

"Master is usually low-key, but when there are guests, he becomes different." Xiaomiyashan responded calmly. In fact, he was a little resentful of others judging the master so casually.

"I don't mean anything else!" Saoki waved his hands with an awkward look on his face, and then changed the subject, "Senpai Sakura, is this the only way to go around from the main house to Lavender Villa?"

"That's right, not only do you have to go around a long circle, but you also have to cross a bridge to get there!"

"How long will it take if we walk?"

"About ten minutes or so!"

Three minutes later, when the black limousine just passed the wooden plank bridge.

The puppy "Paul" lying on the yellow blanket sniffed with his black nose, and suddenly started barking "woof... woof..." and jumped onto Zuo Mu's lap.

"What's wrong with this teddy dog?" The boy with a pot-top hair style resisted, "Is it in heat?"

The car slowly stopped.

"I smelled the smell of lavender outside. Paul seems to be very sensitive to this smell!" Izumi Sakura explained as she opened the door and got out of the car.

Paul immediately jumped off his knees and ran out of the car as if on the run. When Sagi got out of the car, he was gone.

"Wow, that's amazing. Are these all lavender?" Nanase Miyuki looked at a large area in front of her that was surrounded by red, green and white villas. The purple-red lavender fields complemented the blue sky, and there was only one path in the middle that led directly to the lavender villa.

There are two police officers guarding the stone pavement at the entrance, on both sides of the main entrance.

"Odosan likes lavender the most!"

Led by the housekeeper Xiao Gongshan, several people walked to the main entrance, opened the door and took a look.

"ah?"

"What exactly is this..."

Of the two floor-to-ceiling windows facing the main entrance, the one on the left is wide open. The white semi-permeable gauze curtains "whir" with the wind blowing into the house. From the window opening to the wall with the paintings, there are traces on the wooden floor.

Clear wet footprints.

Sakura Izumi saw the blank painting on the gray wall and couldn't help but step in, "Odosan's painting!"

"Don't go in yet!"

"Can't go in!"

Sagi and Kindaichi both stopped her, "There are police officers outside the door, so let's leave it to the police."

"...is gone, Odosan's self-portrait is missing..."

Forty minutes later, the Okouchi Zenju Police Department of Aomori Prefecture arrived at the main house.

"Oh! What on earth is going on?" Okawachi, who had his hair slicked back, poked his forehead with the black pencil in his hand, "It's really nerve-wracking. The police officer from the Metropolitan Police Department is right next to you, and this kind of thing actually happened.

thing!"

"Damn it, damn Gentleman Phantom Thief!" Kenchi Yong clenched his fists.

"What's the matter with entrusting a high school detective to assist in the investigation?" Ohuchi said helplessly.
Chapter completed!