"Okay, Miss Nurse, I'm not interested at all in the village chief election here." Seeing Aso Minori talking nonstop, Mouri Kogoro quickly interrupted him.
"By the way, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Asai Makoto, I am the doctor here, and I also have a formal medical license~"
"Oh! So you are a doctor!"
"If you go to the public hall, you should meet the three people I just mentioned. Because there will be a memorial service there tonight for the former village chief Mr. Kameyama who passed away three years ago.
"
"Okay, we understand. We're really sorry to trouble you."
After finishing speaking, Mouri Kogoro quickly left with Suzuki Seimei and the others.
Not sure if it was his own misunderstanding, Mouri Kogoro always felt that something was not right with this doctor.
Logically speaking, when seeing a beauty of this level, Mouri Kogoro should be very happy to chat with her, but just now he didn't feel as excited as he usually does when seeing a beautiful woman.
And he was clearly just asking for directions, so why did he involve so many topics? Could this doctor be a talkative person?
Looking at the backs of Mouri Kogoro and the others, Aso Minoru flashed an inexplicable color in his eyes, and clenched his fists hard: "Detective Mouri Kogoro, can you really stop me?"
…
“The current village chief is not allowed to be tyrannical!”
"We're going to knock down privilege!"
"Give us back our farmland and don't pollute the fishing grounds..."
A group of villagers holding signs gathered outside the public hall, shouting excitedly.
Seeing this, Kogoro Maori couldn't help but complain: "The village chief here is really unpopular. There are so many villagers protesting. No wonder the village chief needs to be re-elected!"
"Dad, it's so noisy here, let's go in and talk."
Mao Lilan was worried that Suzuki Seimei and Conan would be frightened, so she held the hands of the two little ones and walked quickly into the public hall.
"Excuse me, is anyone there?"
As soon as Mouri Kogoro finished speaking, a middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a square face walked out of the room and asked with some confusion: "Who are you?"
Moon Shadow Island is just a small island, with only a few hundred residents in total. The residents here all know each other, so visitors can tell at a glance that Suzuki Seimei and the others are outsiders.
"Hello, I am Kogoro Mouri, this is my business card!"
"Mori Detective Agency? You are a detective!"
After seeing the content on the business card clearly, the middle-aged man's pupils suddenly shrank.
Mouri Kogoro said proudly: "Yes! I am a famous detective from Tokyo. I have something to ask your village chief. I wonder if he is free now?"
"My name is Hirata Kazaki, and I am the secretary to the mayor of Black Rock Village. Please wait here for a moment. I will ask the village chief to come over." Hirata Kazaki squeezed out a smile on his face and pretended to be calm as he went to find Black Rock Village.
Longer.
Because Hirata Kazaki is also a member of the Ai Trafficking Group, he inevitably feels a little guilty when he sees Mouri Kogoro, a famous detective who suddenly appears.
Soon Hirata Kazaki came out of the room with a short, fat, bald man in a black suit, and this man was the current village chief Kuroiwa Tatsuji.
When Tatsuji Kuroiwa learned from Kogoro Mori that someone had actually asked him to come to Tsukikage Island to investigate the incident in the name of Keiji Aso, he felt panicked.
However, Kuroiwa Tatsuji has been the village chief for so many years. Even though he was panicking, he didn't show any big flaws on the surface. Instead, he calmly used what Mori Kogoro said.
When Kuroiwa Tatsuji learned that Mouri Kogoro had just arrived at Tsukikage Island not long ago and had little knowledge about the suicide case of Aso Keiji, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, Aso Keiji has been dead for twelve years. Even if Kuroiwa Tatsuji and the others accidentally left any evidence behind, it would have been gone for so many years.
Therefore, as long as Kuroiwa Tatsuji and the others do not reveal their flaws, no matter how powerful the famous detective Mori Kogoro is, he will not be able to find evidence of their crime.
In order to avoid arousing the suspicion of Kogoro Mori, Kuroiwa Tatsuji did not force them to leave, but rather enthusiastically allowed them to stay temporarily on Tsukikage Island.
Moreover, Kuroiwa Tatsuji specially arranged a tour guide for Suzuki Seimei and others, and asked the tour guide to take them around the island.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when Kuroiwa Tatsuji was talking to Mori Kogoro, Suzuki Seimei pretended to be playing around with Conan and accidentally touched him with his hand.
"Ding! Congratulations on successfully signing in to Kuroiwa Chenji. You will be rewarded with 1 point of physical strength. The host can receive it at any time."
Listening to the system prompts in his mind, Suzuki Seimei couldn't help but secretly cursed "garbage".
However, in the original plot, Kuroiwa Tatsuji was just a minor character, and Suzuki Seimei didn't expect anything good to come out of him.
After the tour guide left with Mouri Kogoro and the others, the smile on Kuroiwa Tatsuji's face disappeared instantly. He turned to Hirata and ordered Kazaki: "Hirata, the trading for the past few days has been temporarily stopped. Wait until the troublesome detective leaves Tsukikage.
Continue on the island.”
"yes!"
…
Night falls slowly
The ritual ceremony held for the former village chief was about to begin. The senior figures in the village all put on black suits and dresses and gathered in the lobby of the public hall.
Kneeling in front of the portrait of the former village chief, Kuroiwa Tatsuji whispered to the man next to him: "Kawashima, you found that Mouri Kogoro, right? There is no need to hire a detective for the competition between us, right?
"
"How is it possible? Why would I want to find such a troublesome person here? If he accidentally discovers something, I will have a headache."
Upon hearing this, Hideo Kawashima, who had a mustache, glared at Tatsuji Kuroiwa as if he were an idiot.
"Only the four of us know the truth about what happened back then. The head of Guishan Village has been dead for three years."
Kuroiwa Tatsuji did not believe Kawashima Hideo's words, but said aggressively: "If it's not you, is it that guy Nishimoto Ken? He doesn't dare to go against me."
"Whatever you think!"
Kawashima Hideo didn't bother to argue with Kuroiwa Tatsuji, so he stood up and opened the door. Anyway, with their current competitive relationship, Kuroiwa Tatsuji wouldn't believe anything he said.
"Where are you going? Could it be that I guessed it? Do you feel guilty and want to escape?"
"I'm going to the bathroom!"
Hideo Kawashima left angrily, closed the door, and walked towards the toilet.
"Da da da……"
At the same time, Aso, who was hiding in the men's toilet cubicle, nervously clenched the anesthetic spray can in his hand as he listened to the footsteps getting closer.