"You called me all the way over here. Don't tell me it was for some, uh, 'Detective Koshien' variety show... What's even the point of a program like that?"
Tell me about it.
Conan curled his lip, but remembering that he had already more or less agreed to join the show, he wisely kept his mouth shut to avoid having his words come back to bite him. Instead, he took out the photograph he had found.
"This. The person I asked you to look into before."
Heiji Hattori accepted the photo from him. The image quality was not especially clear, and it was obviously a rephotographed copy of some kind. After studying its contents for a while, his brow furrowed.
"That's clearly the Nichitv host, isn't it? No matter how I look at it, her face and hairstyle haven't changed much. So this was why you asked me to investigate instead of going to other police officers?"
"Yeah. The case where I met her last time gave me the idea. Rena Mizunashi is a popular beauty, after all, so she has fan sites and personal pages. I saw a photo posted by a fan on one of those pages. They said that more than ten years ago, while traveling, they happened to photograph a woman who looked a lot like Rena Mizunashi. They were thrilled when they noticed it while sorting through their photos, so they shared it with other fans..." Conan's mouth twitched twice. "Hard to understand, huh?"
It was not the strange coincidence spanning all those years that he wanted to complain about. He was mainly unhappily reminded of Akechi Goro.
Out of curiosity, he had also checked Akechi Goro's fan site. The less said about the result, the better. In any case, Conan decided it was best