Cosplay Extra Chapter for Alliance Leader [Sun Moon Gourd]

With Officer Sato there to receive him, Jiang Xia quickly entered the courtyard.

Conan had slipped inside before that, taking advantage of how exceptionally low his presence could be at times.

Haibara Ai did not go in with him. She looked around, then finally ducked past the police tape behind Jiang Xia and blended into the scene.

Without the courtyard wall blocking the view, the scene inside became much clearer.

It was a fairly typical Japanese courtyard, dotted with rocks and low trees. In one corner stood a small yet exquisite pond.

After entering the courtyard and looking around, all three instinctively turned toward the pond.

—That was where the most police officers had gathered.

As they drew closer, with no busy officers obstructing their view, they could see a stiff corpse floating face-up in the pond.

The corpse's upper body was stained with a large amount of blood, darkest around the chest, as though he had been stabbed in the heart. And judging from the parts untouched by blood, his shirt was surprisingly yellow-and-pink plaid.

Yellow and pink...

"..." Haibara Ai froze, immediately thinking of the dead cat they had found earlier. If she remembered correctly, the fibers caught on the cat's claws had been exactly those two colors.

Clothes in that color scheme were uncommon... If the dead man in front of them had been among the people the cat encountered before it died, did that mean the cat-beating incident was somehow connected to the Murder Case?

The coincidence surprised Haibara Ai.

But when she looked up at the Detective beside her, she suddenly felt that it seemed perfectly reasonable...

Haibara Ai stroked her chin. As she observed the body, her mind quietly wandered, recalling the locations of several famous Shrines, as well as Temples she rarely visited