Another Mastermind Again!
"Something's not right..."
Hattori Heiji twitched his chin, feeling that something was off.
First, I had some experience, then I realized I wasn't good at using secret codes.
Isn't this a contradiction?
Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could it be that Fujino has already figured out the meaning behind these codes?
That would be terrifying...
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Hattori Heiji muttered to himself, scratching his head and making his hair look like a honeycomb, trying to shake off the terrible thought.
My already messed-up mind is now even more messed up!
"Heiji... what's wrong?"
Kazuha looked at Hattori Heiji's disheveled Hattori Heiji and couldn't help but ask in confusion.
"Well, maybe it's just competitiveness."
Conan, with his hands in his pockets, explained, "I think Hattori- nii is in such a hurry because he wants to find the truth about the code before Brother Fujino."
"What...?"
Kazuha pouted. "You have to fight for first or second place in this kind of thing. You're just like a little kid."
"Yes."
Conan nodded silently and echoed his agreement.
Conan had long since given up any illusions about defeating Fujino or anything like that.
He couldn't Hattori got the guts to dare challenge Fujino, that overpowered guy.
Now look what happened, you must be completely devastated, right?
We sped quickly through the forest.
After those people left, Fujino used Hawkeye to mark them.
After leaving the beach, he followed Eagle Eye's mark into the depths of the forest.
Because as a great prophet, he knew that Kanahiko Daito's revenge plan was about to begin.
"Looks like I'm going to be the mastermind again..."
Fujino glanced at the approaching red dot and murmured to himself. Then, he grabbed a nearby tree and silently leaped to the top of a branch.
Looking in the direction of the red dot, I immediately spotted Ie Taira searching for something, along with Kanahiko Daito following behind.
The reason he didn't dwell on the codes was that those codes weren't meant for outsiders, but for his fellow bandits. No matter how much he studied them, he wouldn't be able to figure them out.
The person who left this code was one of the bandits' accomplices back then.
After the bandits stole the screen from the mayor's house, they brought it to this island and hid it in the sea by towing a small boat with an anchor.
However, due to the strong currents and storms at sea, the small boat used to hide the screen was blown ashore a year ago.
Just then, a member of the bandit gang who happened to be checking the screen discovered this. However, after he hid the screen, he unfortunately encountered a typhoon and was stranded on the island.
Before he died, the bandits hid the screen on the island and left a secret signal for their comrades.
That is, the texts that Hattori Heiji is currently researching.
The Urashima Taro that Kanahiko Daito mentioned earlier was actually a ploy to seduce the members of the old bandit gang.
However, Kanahiko Daito obviously did not expect that the first one to take the bait would be the young lady he had served for many years who had changed her identity.
"So it was hidden here..."
Ie Taira, wearing a purple sleeveless top and beige shorts, squatted down.
She lifted the canvas of a small boat beside the forest path, examined the box inside, and her tone revealed a hint of delight.
Just as she was about to stand up.
Kanahiko Daito, who had been hiding behind a large tree nearby, quietly emerged.
Before she could even turn around in confusion, Kanahiko Daito tightened the rope around her wheat-colored neck.
"Mmm..."
Ie Taira struggled desperately, clutching the rope around her neck.
"Heh, just as I expected!"
Kanahiko Daito, his face grim, tightened the rope and sneered, "After hearing about Urashima Taro, you bandits came running, drawn by the scent!"
"Cough... wait a minute, cough..."
Ie Taira coughed as she was being strangled, trying to say something, but Kanahiko Daito's face darkened, and he tightened the rope in his hand. "Wait a minute?! When you killed Yoshiko back then, did you wait a minute?!"
"You... you are...?"
"That's right, I was the butler of the Mayor Kinjo who robbed and murdered you back then."
Kanahiko Daito said sternly, "If you have anything to say, go down there and talk to Yoshiko... But I think you despicable bandits don't even deserve to go to hell!"
Upon hearing this, Ie Taira suddenly paused, and her struggling movements slowed down.
She seemed to have accepted her fate of being strangled, closing her eyes and whispering, "I'm sorry... Chiyo-ge..."
"What...?"
Upon hearing this, Kanahiko Daito was suddenly taken aback.
Before he could even catch his breath, a dark figure suddenly rushed towards him from the side.
Fujino flashed his Wooden Sword, first quickly cutting the rope, then kicking Kanahiko Daito away.
"Bang!"
With a muffled thud, Kanahiko Daito punched the ground twice before awkwardly crashing into a tree and coming to a stop.
"Miss... Koto?!"
Struggling to his feet, Kanahiko Daito didn't immediately notice who had kicked him.
He quickly crawled to the side of Ie Taira was lying motionless on the ground, and shook her shoulders, shouting, "How could this happen, Koto... wake up!"
"Tsk, weren't you just trying to kill someone?"
Fujino clicked his tongue, looked at the bewildered Kanahiko Daito, and teased, "Why are you concerned about the person you were just about to kill?"
"It's you?!"
Da Dong looked up and saw a figure in a black suit standing in front of him, looking down at him.
He recognized the other person at a glance; it was the detective who had come to the island with him.
Startled for a moment, he instinctively asked, "How did you get here?"
"She just fainted due to lack of oxygen."
Fujino didn't reply. He crouched down, touched Ie Taira's neck to check her pulse, then stood up. "She's not dead yet, no need to wail like that."
"Call..."
Upon hearing this, Kanahiko Daito breathed a sigh of relief, and his complexion improved considerably.
You haven't answered my question yet, have you?
Fujino asked Kanahiko Daito, "So what's going on with you?"
"I never expected her to be Koto..."
Kanahiko Daito Fujino his eyes and explained the whole story to Fujino.
Similar to what Fujino remembered, the reason this guy killed people was to avenge the bandits on behalf of the maid of the Kinjo Family, his fiancée, a woman Matsumoto Yoshiko.
He came along this time because he realized that the captain who killed Matsumoto Yoshiko was involved in the program, so he suspected that the other members of the bandit gang might also be there.
The reason he's taking action against Ie Taira now is because she's clever enough to have fallen for his trick of uttering the code phrase "Urashima Taro."
Because Urashima Taro returned to land from the sea, only the members of the bandit gang could connect this code and figure out the clues.
As for the name Koto, it was the name of Ie Taira before, Kinjo Koto.