The Treasure Is in the Grave?!
In any case, no matter what happens, it seems that it can be attributed to another personality.
Takuzo Axe River thought to himself.
However, he was still thinking about the treasure, so he kept reminding his other personality that it was best not to come out now, and that it would be better to wait until after he got the treasure.
Conan was also looking at these charts and pondering.
He could sense Takuzo Axe River's underlying meaning; this chart must also contain key information.
But now four figures have been discovered.
What do the five-pointed star, the circle, and the two semicircles represent?
"Could it be the moon?"
Just then, a voice suddenly appeared at the doorway again.
The people in the room immediately turned their gaze toward the doorway.
"Ah Sheng?" Takuzo Axe River was taken aback.
Wasn't the plan to have him wait for Jiang Hang outside? Why is he suddenly coming in now?
Could it be that he has already taken care of things in Jiang Hang?
This is certainly good news.
That wouldn't be so good now.
Because Sonoko Suzuki is still here.
This was definitely something that couldn't be done in front of Sonoko Suzuki, so he quickly gave Hijiri Fukujo a wink, signaling the other party not to say anything out of line.
So much so that he didn't even notice that the man in front of him, Hijiri Fukujo, didn't seem to be carrying the two swords he had brought with him, and that he had changed his clothes at some point.
However, Takuzo Axe River would naturally not notice such a thing.
However, Sonoko Suzuki's eyes gleamed as she looked at Hijiri Fukujo.
This morning, she met this handsome guy at her home in Fucheng, who was exactly her type.
The other party's cool and aloof demeanor is indeed quite attractive to a fangirl like Sonoko Suzuki.
Hijiri Fukujo nodded to the people in the room, then said to the Takuzo Axe River, "Young Master Fu Jiang, I have completed the task you gave me."
Takuzo Axe River heard that Hijiri Fukujo hadn't mentioned Jiang Hang, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then, fearing that Sonoko Suzuki and the others might ask too many questions, he quickly changed the subject and awkwardly introduced Sei Hijiri Fukujo's identity to Sonoko Suzuki again.
"Ah, this is Hijiri Fukujo. You should have met him before. The Fukie family and the Fukushiro family are old friends. This kid is quite outstanding. Besides being a winner of the kendo tournament, he also often interns and helps out at my company."
"Ah Sheng," he said with a smile, walking over and patting the other man on the shoulder, "What's the story with the moon you were talking about? What are your thoughts? Tell us about it."
Hijiri Fukujo shrugged.
"It just suddenly occurred to me. Could those two semicircles, one on the left and one on the right, be seen as the waxing and waning crescent moons of the moon?"
"The circle represents the full moon, while the two Star Prism Blade without eyelets represent the new moon."
Kogoro Mouri then pointed to the five-pointed star that had not yet been mentioned by the other party and raised a question.
"And this one, this star has nothing to do with the moon, right?"
Hijiri Fukujo laughed and scratched his head, saying that he had just thought of it suddenly, and perhaps his guess was wrong?
As he said this, he winked at Conan, who had been staring at him the whole time.
This is definitely not a move that Jiang Hang could make.
But if it were Kaito Kid, it wouldn't be surprising if the other party made such a move.
So, is the Hijiri Fukujo in front of us a disguised Kaito Kid?
What about the real Hijiri Fukujo?
Conan was thinking about what Takuzo Axe River had just said.
Could it be that the Takuzo Axe River assigned to Hijiri Fukujo was to deal with Jiang Hang?
Well, now there's another person to mourn.
Hopefully, the real Hijiri Fukujo won't be too badly hurt by Jiang Hang.
No, the real Hijiri Fukujo has probably already been dealt with by Jiang Hang.
Otherwise, given Kaito Kid's personality, he probably wouldn't have used the other person's identity to sneak in.
Perhaps Jiang Hang has made arrangements in this matter?
Conan thought to himself, and at the same time picked up where Kogoro Mouri left off.
"Perhaps this five-pointed star symbolizes the Goryokaku."
"Furthermore, since it's an ancient 48-kana chart, could the treasure actually be related to Toshizo Hijikata in some way?"
Chapter 568: The Secret Treasure is in the Tomb?!
Toshizo Hijikata is a name that cannot be avoided when discussing Goryokaku.
The Star Prism Blade was specially crafted by a merchant for Toshizo Hijikata.
Saburo Axe River was also a huge fan of Toshizo Hijikata. He spent his whole life collecting items related to Toshizo Hijikata, and even hid a supposedly amazing treasure using the Star Prism Blade as a puzzle.
For many years, Tadayuki Axe River and Yoshie Fukujo have been searching for relics related to earthen mounds, but they have never found anything useful.
Even so, when Conan mentioned the secret hidden in the Star Prism Blade, which might be related to Toshizo Hijikata, no one present voiced any objection, which was considered an acceptance of Conan's statement.
Everyone knows about Toshizo Hijikata, but figuring out where to start the investigation is a real headache.
After all, Toshizo Hijikata was a modern figure, and there are relatively detailed documents about his life.
Finding useful information here, while not as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack, is still an extremely large undertaking.
To be honest, the person who knows Toshizo Hijikata best in this place is probably this seemingly uneducated Takuzo Axe River.
After all, their family has a lot of things related to Toshizo Hijikata. Even though they've sold a lot, they still have quite a few that haven't been sold yet.
However, as everyone's gazes were fixed on the Takuzo Axe River, he had no idea about these things, so he quickly waved his hand to indicate that he really didn't know.
At this moment, Hijiri Fukujo seemed to have "remembered" something and suddenly brought up a collection of writings by Toshizo Hijikata.
"If it's Toshizo Hijikata and the moon, I think I know of a collection of writings that Toshizo Hijikata wrote, but I'm not sure if it's related."
"It should be Hijikata Toshizo's Toyotamahatsu Collection Toshizo Hijikata. It's a very short collection of poems, I think it only has a few dozen short sentences, but Toshizo Hijikata mentioned the moon several times in it."
Although Takuzo Axe River was not familiar with the content, he had heard of the book's title.
"I think I have this collection of books at home. I'll take it over and have a look now."
As he said this, he quickly made a phone call and asked his bodyguard to accompany him to the study to find the book.
As Takuzo Axe River left the house once again, Conan quietly approached "Hijiri Fukujo" and asked him in a low voice.
"So why did you sneak in looking like this?"
Kaito Kid, disguised as "Hijiri Fukujo," shrugged at Conan.
"There's nothing I can do. Jiang Hang asked me to come and help you guys speed things up a bit. Otherwise, he'll be close to finding the treasure soon, and you guys will still be wondering what these patterns mean. By the time you find the treasure, Jiang Hang will probably have already taken it."
Conan was immediately displeased upon hearing this.
"Jiang Hang is obviously just playing along with us with the answers. I'm just here playing with Sonoko and Uncle Mori."
After a pause, he continued speaking to Kaito Kid.
"I think you're the one who's most eager to find the secret treasure, besides that Takuzo Axe River."
"Otherwise, how could you know so much about things related to Toshizo Hijikata? You can just talk about a collection of writings that ordinary people would never come into contact with?"
Toshizo Hijikata was very famous, but he was not a literary figure. Apart from his Toshizo Hijikata -hard fans, who would bother to study his collected works?
To Conan's slight embarrassment, Kaito Kid pointed to his ear.
"Here are earplugs. Jiang Hang overheard our conversation outside and found them for me. I'm just repeating what Jiang Hang said."
Oh, so it's also in Jiang Hang.
That's alright then.
Although Jiang Hang is definitely not a fan of Toshizo Hijikata, he has the skills.
What would take an average person several days or even months to read, a smart AI in Jiang Hang can compile a detailed document in just a few seconds, making its search efficiency virtually unparalleled.
Moreover, Jiang Hang recently shared this AI software with the Miyano Sisters and the two girls from his agency.
Even Professor Agasa has a copy and praises the technology highly.
But he kept Conan in suspense, as if he would only give it to him if Conan had to ask him for it.
Conan felt he really needed to go to Jiang Hang after this trip to Hokkaido to get the software to help him.
After all, his knowledge is quite broad among his peers, but compared to the knowledge available on the entire internet, it is still somewhat lacking.
Regarding Toshizo Hijikata's collection of writings, he had only just raised a question when Jiang Hang gave an answer in less than ten seconds. Who wouldn't be impressed by such efficiency?
Conan snapped out of his thoughts and continued to ask Kaito Kid about Jiang Hang: "So what exactly is Jiang Hang up to now? He's almost driving Takuzo Axe River crazy with fear."
"I know. I was watching from the side when he sent people to harass Jiang Hang. I was thinking about whether I should go and help, but then Jiang Hang jumped out of the hot air balloon and beat those thugs to a pulp."
"As for him now, he's probably planning to replace the items in that treasure with something else, and then give Takuzo Axe River a surprise when you get there."
The actual process wasn't that simple. For example, when he saw Jiang Hang bringing the hot air balloon from afar, he had already guessed the possible location of the treasure. But just as he was about to go there first, Jiang Hang took him into custody with a single phone call.
According to Jiang Hang, now that the location of the treasure is known, they can go there anytime, but he is going to help make arrangements for the Takuzo Axe River.
Since Jiang Hang has caught him, what can he say? After all, he's a thief with integrity, so he'll do Jiang Hang another favor this time.
Later, including after Jiang Hang defeated Hijiri Fukujo, he disguised himself as Hijiri Fukujo and came to the Fukie residence, which was also part of Jiang Hang's efforts to deal with the Takuzo Axe River.
As soon as Kaito Kid finished speaking, Conan heard a key word in his words.
Hot air balloon?
When did Jiang Hang manage to build a hot air balloon?
What do they want to do with the hot air balloon?
Thinking about the pile of materials he sent to Jiang Hang that morning, there did seem to be a photo of the Saburo Axe River riding a hot air balloon back then. Could it be that the key to finding the treasure is actually on the hot air balloon?
After thinking for a moment, Conan shook his head again.
Since Kaito Kid has said so, then forget about the treasure; Jiang Hang has already arranged everything.
He wasn't worried about what Jiang Hang would do with the treasure; the Pioneer Foundation's reputation was relatively reliable.
Even if that thing is really a big killer related to the pattern of the world, it is indeed more appropriate to leave it to the Forerunner Foundation than to let them handle it.
After all, his father had secretly indicated that the Pioneer Foundation was trustworthy and there was no need to worry about Jiang Hang's motives.
Although Conan didn't know where his father got the information from, he knew his father never spoke carelessly, so he must have had some basis for his confidence in saying so.
Anyway, I can just ask Jiang Hang what that treasure is when the time comes. Jiang Hang shouldn't hide it from me, right?
Let's continue according to the script Jiang Hang gave us.
After finishing their conversation, he quietly left Kaito Kid's side and returned to Ran's side.
About ten minutes later, Takuzo Axe River, covered in sweat, finally came over with an excited look on his face, carrying the old collection of texts.
It seems that even if this collection of essays is not a handwritten version by Toshizo Hijikata, it must be the first edition of the collection when it was first published.
He brought the collection of essays to the crowd, then opened it and searched for the sentences in the collection that mentioned the moon.
"In the fifth line, the phrase 'moonlit night' appears; in the 19th line, the phrase 'crescent moon' appears; and in the 20th, 22nd, 35th, and 36th lines, the phrase 'spring moon' appears. In the entire collection of 41 haiku, the moon appears in six different sentences. Is there some secret hidden in these sentences?"
Even after meticulously searching through the text, Takuzo Axe River still had no clue whatsoever.
It's fair to say that even Kogoro Mouri could see it.
"Next, let's match these sentences one by one in order and see if we can form a meaningful sentence."
There are ten digits from 0 to 9 in the horizontal row, and six digits from 0 to 5 in the vertical row. So, the horizontal row should be the single digits and the vertical row should be the tens digits.
With Kogoro Mouri's simple and straightforward response, the six haiku lines were quickly pieced together in order to form the phrase "ho ku to u oni".
Hokutou means northeast, and Oni should be ghost, so when you read it, it means there is a ghost in the northeast direction.
"The 'ghosts' here probably refer to the fact that when Goryokaku was first built, some feng shui masters discovered that the northeast of Goryokaku was a 'ghost gate,' so a shrine was built there to suppress ghosts," Kaito Kid continued, receiving the reminder from Jiang Hang, and spoke it out in the living room.