Conan nodded, with no objections. To him, investigating cases was indeed more interesting than sightseeing at attractions he had already visited several times.
Besides, he had another suspicion. "Come to think of it, if Mr. Norizuki was bold enough, or followed the principle that 'the most dangerous place is the safest place,' then the cane he was holding just now might have been the murder weapon."
Jiang Xia had no objections either. The attractions he liked were mobile—wherever the people beside him were, that was the scenery he preferred to admire.
Of the six high school students, half planned to search the area for the murder weapon. The other three had no particularly strong desire to sightsee. The three girls exchanged glances for a moment, then silently joined them.
They searched around the places nearby where the murder weapon might have been hidden, but found very little.
Just as they were discussing whether to examine the old man's cane.
Hattori Heiji's phone suddenly rang.
He looked down at the caller ID, and his eyes lit up. "It's Noda. Looks like he found a lead!" Noda was the young police officer from earlier.
Hattori Heiji answered the call and was about to turn on the Speakerphone. Then he suddenly remembered something, slowly turning to look at Jiang Xia beside him.
Hattori Heiji: "..." To be honest, he really did not want to turn it on.
...What if I found some earphones, shared one with Kudo, and the two of us listened before secretly settling this head-to-head? No cheating with that overpowered bastard involved?
As he was thinking, a hand suddenly reached over from beside him.
Toyama Kazuha had followed the three Detectives around for so long that she had become somewhat interested in the case herself. Hearing that there was