Chapter 21 A group of guys who do whatever they want

"He..." Chi Feichi was thinking about whether he should help Kaito Kuroba with a cover story, when he noticed Conan's expression change slightly and then look up. Conan beat him to it and exposed Kaito Kuroba, "He's Kaito Kid. If you rearrange the name 'Toshi Takagi' using katakana, you get Kaito Kid."

Conan, who was about to say the same thing: "..."

Kaito Kuroba, who had been listening to the deduction with a sigh, was also stunned when he heard this.

"Damn, to distance yourself, do you have to expose me personally?"

"Even if you have to expose me, you should give me a mental preparation."

However, Kaito Kuroba's reaction speed was top-notch. While his mind was in a daze, he threw the smoke bomb in his hand at his feet, completing a quick change of clothes. He transformed from the round, chubby guy into the white-clad Kaito Kid familiar to everyone, and said politely, "I also think Mr. Haruichi Kazuma is a very cute old man, but this gathering isn't so cute. Now that the matter has been resolved, I'll take my leave. Goodbye everyone."

Conan ran over, but the smoke around Kaito Kuroba didn't dissipate, it became even thicker, quickly filling the entire living room.

Chi Feichi sat on the sofa, yawning. This Kaito Kuroba guy wasn't worried about the culprit escaping, taking advantage of the situation.

However, the only drawbridge that could get down had been burnt down. Even if Tanaka Takakuhe had the mood to run, running out of the house wouldn't get him out of this snowy mountaintop.

It was a pity that Tanaka Takakuhe wasn't yet on the wanted list, so there was no bounty, catching him wouldn't earn any money.

He had trained too late last night and got up early this morning, and now in the middle of the night, he was actually a little sleepy.

On the second-floor balcony, Conan had caught up to Kaito Kuroba, "Wait."

"What's wrong, little detective?" Kaito Kuroba stood on the windowsill, his cloak billowing in the wind. He teased, "Do you still want to catch me?"

"No, I just want to ask you one question this time," Conan said seriously. "Do you know who that guy is? The one called Chi Feichi?"

Kaito Kuroba almost thought that Conan had seen through his and Chi Feichi's disguise, but his expression remained calm, "Isn't he a member of your detective team? That deduction was really interesting. I also wanted to ask you if you know where this guy came from."

"You don't know either?" Conan pondered, "Red herring and straw man are both famous logical fallacies. Red herring refers to a distraction, while straw man is a misrepresentation to error. The two are very similar. Many people can't tell the difference between the two. I thought you would know him."

"Who knows what that straw man refers to. This guy joined the chat room not long ago, I only chatted with him casually." Kaito Kuroba was a little relieved by Chi Feichi's initial caution.

This Conan was too perceptive.

However, the chatroom name was still Chi Feichi's fault for being lazy, and he had to take responsibility for that.

Conan nodded thoughtfully. Straw man indeed had many meanings, it didn't necessarily refer to a logical fallacy.

Kaito Kuroba was also curious about Chi Feichi. Apart from knowing that Chi Feichi came out of a mental hospital, he didn't know anything else, and he took the initiative to gossip, "Why are you so interested in him? Does he have any secrets?"

Conan was eight or nine tenths convinced that they didn't know each other, and said seriously, "I don't know either. I just met him today."

"Is it just because of the unwillingness of being a detective but losing to someone else? You detectives are really strange." Kaito Kuroba immediately lost interest and spread his wings and flew away.

"Hey," Conan went forward, but could only watch a white silhouette leave behind a sentence as he flew away.

"We will meet again when the bell of the end of the century rings."

"What?"

Conan had a half-moon eye, what did he mean by they were strange detectives?

He was a little unwilling, but he still admired that guy's reasoning ability.

He also thought that Chi Feichi solved cases quickly, perhaps because he was in that chatroom himself, and had some clues that he didn't know, and also knew the people in the chatroom.

But the speed at which Chi Feichi discovered the method of the crime, the insight to discover that the bathroom and the second-floor window were connected, the attentiveness to discover that Tanaka Takakuhe had disappeared, plus his investigative and reasoning abilities...

These were enough to prove that the guy's reasoning ability was not to be underestimated.

Although he didn't seem like a dangerous person who would take action, he would definitely not take him lightly.

There might not be only bad people in that organization, conversely, people who weren't that bad might not necessarily not be part of the organization, and they might even be disguised infiltrators.

A group of people were unable to contact the outside world. They didn't know about Conan leaving and returning midway, and Kogoro Mouri didn't notice the crisis here. He drove home and slept soundly, and only realized that the drawbridge was burnt down when he came to pick up his daughter.

Fortunately, Kaito Kuroba helped report it to the police when he went back.

By the time Kogoro Mouri arrived, Officer Megure had already arrived on the mountain with his team by helicopter, and was about to try if the method of committing the crime was feasible.

Conan also acted cute and begged, "Ran-nee, let's stay and see too. I'm curious how Mr. Himano's body was moved there."

"Ah," Ran Mouri hesitated, "But you have a cold, it's better to go back early."

"It's okay, I feel much better now," Conan hurriedly said.

"Let's all stay and watch. It would be a pity to leave like this," Sonoko Suzuki said, leaning close to Ran Mouri, "Also, I think Mr. Chi is very good, maybe even better than your house's reasoning maniac."

Ran Mouri was speechless, "Didn't you say you came to see Mr. Toshi Takagi this time?"

"He's already gone," Sonoko Suzuki, who wasn't knocked out by Conan's anesthetic needle, had seen Kaito Kid, and was satisfied. She happily said, "But I really didn't expect him to be Kaito Kid. I can see my White Horse Prince and a handsome guy with super reasoning ability, this time I really came to the right place."

Ran Mouri could only dryly laugh. Who was the one who saw Toshi Takagi's chubby appearance and was disappointed?

"Ugh, it's so hard to choose," Sonoko Suzuki was lost in her own world, and looked at Chi Feichi for a while, her eyes suddenly became doubtful, she recalled, "Hmm...why do I suddenly feel like I've seen Mr. Chi somewhere before?"

Ran Mouri just assumed that Sonoko Suzuki was overthinking it. She was sweating again.

"Where was it?" Conan hurriedly asked in a serious tone.

"K-Conan," Ran Mouri was startled by Conan's serious expression.

On the other side, Megure Jûzô, who was communicating with the people in the chatroom, turned his head in confusion.

Chi Feichi followed his gaze and saw Conan putting on a naive smile again. His intuition told him there was something he could record, so he took out his phone, turned on the recording function, put it in his pocket, and exposed the camera to point at Conan.

"Speaking of where, I know," Conan forced out an explanation, then sang a children's rhyme in a cute childish voice, "The red dragonfly in the twilight, where are you, I met you in my childhood, what day was that, when I brought a small basket to the mountain, the mulberry tree was as green as shade, I picked mulberries and put them in the small basket."

Seeing Conan suddenly start singing a children's rhyme, Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri were confused.

They really couldn't understand a child's way of thinking.

Chi Feichi, who had been expressionless all along, couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth. Since the detective became a child, his days had been really happy.

But...

Listening to a tone-deaf person sing, even a simple children's rhyme, but that off-key tune, accompanied by the wind on the snowy mountain, made people feel a drop in temperature.

Officer Megure shuddered and coughed into his fist, "Cough."

Ran Mouri came back to her senses and quickly covered Conan's mouth, "Okay, Conan, don't distract the officers from their work."

Conan was once again listless, he was even more determined not to let Ran know that he was Shinichi Kudo.

Moreover, he saw it again...

Chi Feichi had pulled his phone out of his pocket a little, the camera was pointed directly at him.

This guy was definitely investigating him.

But the direction of the investigation seemed a bit off.

Chi Feichi ignored Conan's thoughts and pulled his phone out to check, confirming that the recording was successful before putting it back in his pocket.

"Detective, we've found the rope." A police officer ran over with a bag.

"Very good," Megure Jûzô nodded seriously, looking at Chi Feichi. He had heard from others about Chi Feichi's solving of the case, and it seemed no worse than Shinichi Kudo's detective skills, "Chi-san, you can personally demonstrate Tanaka-san's method of committing the crime."

"This is a step-by-step diagram." Chi Feichi handed Megure Jûzô the drawing he had prepared last night.

Megure Jûzô subconsciously took it, looked down at the drawing, feeling something was wrong.

Usually, shouldn't Chi Feichi take the rope from the police and then start explaining and demonstrating? What was he doing just giving him a drawing?

But it had to be said, this drawing was very detailed, showing every step of how the rope was threaded, where the crossbow arrow was shot, everything was clearly marked.

It gave him a feeling like looking at furniture assembly instructions.

"The demonstration will be done by the officers." Chi Feichi added.

Megure Jûzô thought that Chi Feichi felt a little restrained, and couldn't help but feel a sense of emotion. There were not many detectives with such a reserved personality. In the past, that kid, Shinichi Kudo, always ran around and did whatever he wanted at the crime scene.

"It's okay, you can demonstrate too. We just want to confirm if the method is feasible, it's easier to close the case."

"The demonstration is very troublesome, I want to go back first." Chi Feichi said.

Megure Jûzô looked at Chi Feichi's calm expression and his lack of embarrassment, he was speechless.

He was too naive, detectives were really a bunch of self-righteous people.

There was no way, Chi Feichi wouldn't demonstrate, and Megure Jûzô couldn't force him to. He had a police officer look at the diagram, and left Chi Feichi's contact information, arranging for him to take the helicopter down the mountain first.

Conan was anxious in his heart. He wanted to get in touch with Chi Feichi more, to see if he could find something, "That, Ran-nee..."

"What's wrong, Conan?" Ran Mouri was puzzled.

Conan acted cute and suggested, "I suddenly feel a bit cold, why don't we go down the mountain first?"

"Little ghost, you've been causing trouble lately," Sonoko Suzuki complained.

Conan: "..."

What could he do? The guy didn't play by the rules, he even came up with a method of drawing step-by-step diagrams.

But the other party was eager to leave, there must be an important reason.