Early in the morning a few days later, on the way to school, Conan met Teacher Judy waiting not far from the school gate.
"Here, I'll give you the phone back. This is the phone I borrowed from you last time..."
Conan took the phone and asked casually: "Huh? Teacher, don't you use it anymore?"
Judy nodded. Because the mobile phone was temporarily kept by the police as evidence in the Metropolitan Police Department, Officer Takagi specially handed over an identical mobile phone to Teacher Judy.
After returning the phone to Conan, Judy, who looked a little haggard, was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Conan.
"Teacher Judy...you have to work hard!"
In his haste, he didn't think of any words of comfort and could only simply cheer her up.
He naturally understood how heavy a blow Akai Shuichi's "death" would bring to the teacher, but in the plan, the fewer people knew about this matter, the better.
If possible, Akai Shuichi did not want to reveal it to even James at all.
He had just opened the phone and looked at it, and the phone number had changed, which meant that the phone in his hand was no longer the one that Teacher Judy had borrowed.
"Although separation is painful, meeting again after separation is more touching, isn't it?"
A plain voice sounded from behind, seemingly with some emotion.
Conan turned around and saw Yuan Huaiyu standing behind him, quietly looking at Judy Stelling's back.
Conan's heart tightened. Before he could carefully comprehend the meaning of Teacher Yuan's words, he heard him say again:
"This sentence should also apply to him. It's just that there may be no chance of meeting him in a short time."
"Huh?" Conan just felt confused. Teacher Yuan seemed to have something to say, but it was still confusing.
Yuan Huaiyu patted his head: "Okay, let's go. If you don't go to school quickly, you'll be late."
…
A few days later, after school, Conan hurried to Yuanhuaiyu's office.
"Teacher Yuan!"
He soon saw Yuan Huaiyu, who was immersed in Yuan Huaiyu, and Haihara Ai, who had moved a chair to sit next to him and read a book, both raised their heads and looked at him.
Conan was already used to this kind of scene between the two of them. Usually after school, Yuan Huaiyu would go home one by one with several members of his youth detective team, and then go back to the villa with Haihara Ai. But sometimes,
Yuanhuaiyu would have some matters temporarily, and at this time Haiyuan Ai would move a chair to sit next to him in the office and read quietly.
"What's wrong, Edogawa-san?" Yuanhuaiyu looked at him.
Conan walked to Yuan Huaiyu's desk, looked around, and found that no one else was paying attention to him. He immediately moved closer and lowered his voice and said, "Just now, Teacher Judy called me and said that she had received a call from Shui Wu Reina.
A subpoena, saying that a new member of the organization has started taking action, and the other party is a spy who is extremely good at collecting intelligence and has extraordinary insight, codenamed Bourbon!"
Conan glanced at Haibara Ai. What he didn't say was that Teacher Judy pointed out on the phone that the other party's target was probably Haibara Ai, who used to be codenamed Shirley in the organization.
The originally calm brown-haired girl's eyes narrowed.
Before Conan could elaborate, the three little boys walked in noisily, dragging a little boy with them.
"Teacher Yuan, Conan, Xiao Ai, something happened!" Ayumi jumped up to the three of them.
Yuan Huaiyu and Hui Yuan Ai looked at each other, stood up and started packing their things.
"Let's talk as we walk."
This sentence is not only an answer to Ayumi, but also to Conan.
…
"Kaito Sugiura, a classmate from Class 1 A...my father-in-law is the landlord of a small apartment with three tenants in total..."
Yuan Huaiyu summarized what the young client said as he walked.
"One of the tenants is acting suspicious every night, so you want the Junior Detective Team to help find out what he's up to, right?"
"Yes!" Sugiura Kaito nodded heavily and looked at Yuan Huaiyu with admiring eyes. Originally, he just wanted to invite the young detective team who were also students, but he didn't expect that the most popular teacher Yuan in the school also came with him.
Yuantai said enthusiastically: "Then let's go to his house to spend the night tonight, and let's work together to monitor the suspicious tenant!"
Ayumi also agreed: "What a good idea! Anyway, tomorrow is Saturday, so there is no need to go to school."
"Not today!" Sugiura Kaito immediately objected, "I want to play Reversi with dad tonight..."
"I see, that's why you just interrupted and waited until we left after school before putting the letter of entrustment in the shoe cabinet? Because if everyone goes to your house today, you won't be able to play chess with your father..." Haiyuan
Ai nodded.
"Um……"
"But if we don't see it, we have to wait until next Monday to see your commission letter." Mitsuhiko frowned.
"Then what? What suspicious thing did that tenant do?" The person present who was most concerned about the incident was Detective Brain Conan.
"About this, I think it would be better to confirm it with your own eyes when you come to my house tomorrow! Kuro... Edogawa-kun!" Sugiura Kaito said to him excitedly.
"Oh, okay..." Conan was startled by his eager attitude.
"Then see you tomorrow! My apartment is located in the 2-chome 23 area of Mihua Town, called Mimaso. You can come over early tomorrow!"
After saying that, Sugiura Kaito waved at them and ran away in the other direction.
"Don't run on the side of the road! Watch the road!" Yuan Huaiyu shouted loudly.
After saying that, he lowered his head and looked at Conan who was deep in thought beside him.
"An apartment named Mima Village at 2-chome 23 of Mihua Town..." Conan muttered softly.
"Oh, do you know that apartment?" Haihara Ai asked casually after seeing his reaction.
"Uh, no, it's just that this apartment seems to be near the doctor's house..." Conan said quickly.
Haibara Ai also had an impression of this place: "That's right. When I used to go home from school, I would often pass by that apartment on the way. Although it was old and small, it was a very nice apartment... But recently
I haven’t passed there anymore, so I don’t know what happened.”
Of course... you live in Teacher Yuan's house every day, and when you want to go back to Dr. Yuan's house, Teacher Yuan will drive you there from the other side...
Conan resisted the desire to complain and looked up to see Yuan Huaiyu's expression was a little serious.
"Eh? Teacher Yuan, what's wrong?" Conan's heart skipped a beat.
He doesn’t think it’s a good thing for Mr. Yuan, who is connected to the organization, to pay attention to that place...
Yuan Huaiyu shook his head slightly and said softly: "I wonder if you have ever heard of an idiom, which is to say, it is not too late..."
If he remembered correctly, a fire would engulf this old apartment tonight.
In this case, he can't just sit back and ignore it.