Conan froze, failing to connect the dots. "Dragon-Tiger Stone? What's that?"
Toyama Kazuha caught that immediately and happily leaned over. "See? I told you it was worth visiting the sights! It's over by Sakura Gate. They say there are two stone walls guarding the Tenshukaku. Most of the time, they look completely ordinary, but whenever it rains, patterns of crouching tigers and coiling dragons appear on them."
Hearing that, the two detectives suddenly thought of a possibility.
The next moment, Hattori Heiji snatched the scroll from Inspector Otaki's hand and stepped into the rain.
Inspector Otaki froze. "That's important evidence! You can't let it get wet!"
He hurried after him, but happened to crash into Jiang Xia, who was passing by. He had barely risen before bouncing back down again. Jiang Xia looked at him in apparent surprise. "Are you okay?"
Then he kindly pulled the Osaka Police officer to his feet.
"..." Inspector Otaki somehow felt that he had deliberately blocked his way, but there seemed to be no evidence.
Looking more closely, Jiang Xia's expression was perfectly normal, with no sign that he had done it on purpose.
Inspector Otaki: "..." Had he been overthinking it?
...It really was narrow here, and people were milling about. Jiang Xia had heard the commotion and come over to look at the scroll, only to be bumped into by him. That sounded perfectly reasonable.
...No, this was not the time to think about that!
He suddenly snapped back to attention and remembered the unfortunate evidence.
But when he rushed over, Inspector Otaki froze again.
After being soaked by the rain, new content truly began to emerge on the previously blank scroll.
The edges of the scroll had been burned ragged. On the tattered paper, the faint outline of a gourd could