fish.
A lively fish.
When Hayashi Yoshiki found a pair of heat-insulating gloves to fish out such a fish from the kitchen sink, he walked behind Doi Takeshu who was chatting and laughing with everyone in the living room on the first floor.
"Mr. Doi, please hold it for me."
"Oh, okay?"
Doi Takeshu, who was speaking, was completely off guard and reached out subconsciously.
So the fish fell into his hands, and even went directly to the crook of his arms and fell into his arms.
The fish felt slippery and cold, and the moment Kuroba Kaito saw its flapping body and strange, lifeless eyes—
"Alas!!!!!!!"
He immediately opened his hands and reacted like a little girl dancing like a laser dance when she saw a cockroach.
"Hello?"
"What's wrong?"
"Doi Tower?"
Several people in the villa's living room looked at him in surprise.
Kuroba Kaito, who was disguised as a fat man, looked at Lin Yoshiki with a happy expression and realized that he must have guessed his identity.
really,
"Excuse me, is it Ekoda Takashi--"
"etc!"
Kuroba Kaito hurriedly covered Hayashi Yoshiki's mouth.
But because he had just caught a fish, Hayashi Yoshiki, who had anticipated this, took a step back, but did not say anything else.
Yuanzi looked back and forth between the two of them in surprise.
"Brother Jiashu... do you know Doita?"
"Ahaha! Yes, Mr. Lin and I know each other."
Kuroba Kaito, who was afraid that his identity would be exposed here, pushed Hayashi Yoshiki out of the living room with an awkward smile.
Xiaolan and Sonoko looked on with confusion, while Haibara Ai was a little suspicious.
In the corridor, Doi Takeshu directly lifted the mask on his face, revealing his own face.
"How did you find out?
"Isn't this your own fault?"
"ha?"
"Doi Tucker Tree, どいとうかっき, if you rearrange these kana, it becomes かいとうきっど, which is Kaitou Kid."
Hayashi Yoshiki smiled gently, "Isn't it obvious? Sometimes I can't understand why you Phantom Thieves always leave loopholes for yourselves for the sake of romanticism."
"...You are a detective and mystery novelist, right?"
"It is precisely because you are a mystery novelist that I associate your pseudonym arrangement with your online name."
The online name used by Kuroba Kaito this time is Red Herring.
In the creation of detective novels, there is a technique called red herring fallacy, which is a deliberate irrelevance of the topic, that is, throwing out topics that are irrelevant to the original topic to divert the focus. Readers who are slightly interested in detective novels are more sensitive to this term. It's like shouting for everyone to pay attention to themselves.
Kuroba Kaito was indeed convinced.
Hayashi Yoshiki is different from other detectives. His reasoning is so irrational that he is just like an animal...
"What are you going to do here?"
"That's it…"
Kuroba Kaito began to explain.
First of all, this is an online chat room where magic enthusiasts gather.
Most of the people in this chat room are amateurs, but there is actually a professional magician named Harui Fuden who has sneaked in.
When people chat in daily life, they will inevitably comment on some magicians.
Chun Jing Fu Chuan, who was mixed in with them, was too old to perform the more dangerous escape magic at that time. Therefore, he was always mentioned by some people in the chat room with contempt or ridicule...So Chun Jing Fu Chuan decided to perform one more escape show, and then reveal his identity to everyone in the chat room after successfully completing it.
However, Harui Fuden was ultimately unable to complete the performance and died on the stage.
But his account "Cheating Boy" suddenly became active again...Kaito Kuroba was curious about this so he thought of taking a look.
"It sounds like it fits the cause of the murder case."
"Hey, isn't it?"
"Yes or no, who can tell?"
"...I'll keep an eye on it."
Kuroba Kaito put the slightly bloated face back on his head.
He returned to the living room with a simple smile on his face.
Hayashi Yoshiki was a little slower. He walked to the sofa with a smile and sat down.
"Brother Jiashu?"
"Yes, they are indeed friends, and in fact you have also met Sonoko and Xiaolan." Hayashi Yoshiki, who knew what they wanted to ask, answered.
"ah?"
"But I don't have any impression."
Instead, they became even more confused.
His riddle-like appearance made the overthinking Haibara Ai think of something. She glanced at Doi Takeshu belatedly and continued to remain silent.
Not long after, the garden suddenly moved closer.
"Brother Jiashu, do you want to go outside and play in the snow?"
"Yeah, okay."
"ah.....".
"What's wrong?"
"I didn't expect that Jiashu-nii would agree so easily."
Thinking about the handsome guys I chased in the past, it seemed that each of them was a bit arrogant.
She was suddenly touched by how easy it was for Jiashu to talk to her.
"Come with me, Ai."
".....Um."
Huibara Ai followed obediently.
Three adults and one child walked into the villa yard.
While Xiaolan and Sonoko were enjoying the outdoor scenery, Haibara Ai noticed that Hayashi Yoshiki was holding another phone that was not his usual phone and seemed to be sending some messages.
Hayashi Yoshiki picked out a photo he had just taken that was from a side angle but was a bit blurry and looked most like Miyano Shiho and sent it to Vodka.
Vodka is currently hiding in a safe house, watching a popular idol's concert video on a videotape.
He was shocked when he suddenly received a message from Cointreau. He opened it and found that it was a photo of Shirley.
He therefore looked towards the room where his eldest brother was resting.
Under normal circumstances, Vodka would definitely take this photo to inform his eldest brother immediately.
But two or three hours ago, the eldest brother said that Cointreau had found Shirley's trail and was eager to go to her house, but later for some reason he went back to the safe house with a gloomy face and went to sleep.
Is there any reason behind this?
Vodka, who was unaware of the situation, fell into deep thought and decided to send a text message to ask.
Vodka: "Shall I go and inform Big Brother now?"
Cointreau: "You ask me what I do?"
"..."
Cointreau's question made Vodka shrink his head.
This guy is much scarier than the eldest brother, and he is also mentally ill...
Vodka didn't send any more messages. After much hesitation, he finally decided to talk to his eldest brother about this matter - some things can only be avoided even if you make mistakes.
He knocked on the door of Gin's room.
It was at that moment that Gin suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the footsteps.
"What's up?"
"Brother, look at this photo."
Vodka carefully moved the phone in front of Gin.
Gin glanced over and when he saw that the sender was Cointreau, his expression became even gloomier:
"Get out."