Kudo Residence!
"What?! What did you say, Professor Agasa?!"
"Heiji... he's dead?!"
Professor Agasa, who also knew Conan's true identity, had immediately called to inform him when he learned that the high school detective as famous as Shinichi had been unexpectedly shot to death!
"Yes, Shinichi! An old friend of mine in Osaka told me!"
"Not just Hattori Heiji—even his childhood sweetheart, Toyama Kazuha, his parents, and Toyama Kazuha's parents were all assassinated by an unknown killer. The methods were extraordinarily brutal!"
"I heard Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha's bodies were found in an abandoned warehouse in Osaka. Both of them died from gunshots to the head!"
"Before Toyama Kazuha died, it seems she was kidnapped, and one of her fingers was cut off!"
"As for Hattori Heiji's father, he was killed by a bomb secretly planted in his car. His mother, meanwhile, was shot dead at home. I heard the bullet struck her right eye!"
"The police over there are investigating with all their might, but they still haven't found a single useful clue!"
"Shinichi, do you think those people did it?!"
The moment Conan heard Professor Agasa's words over the phone, an indescribable, bone-piercing chill shot straight from his tailbone to the crown of his head!
His body immediately began to tremble faintly of its own accord!
Utter terror slowly surged through his heart like a raging tide!
But the clever Conan immediately caught one particularly significant detail from what Professor Agasa had just told him!
Heiji's mother had been shot in the right eye!
The right eye?!
At that thought, the image of a woman instantly surfaced in Conan's mind!
Scorpion!
A woman he had encountered before, whose hands were drenched in the blood of others!
She had an especially peculiar habit—or rather, when killing someone, she