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**Chapter 1082: Knowing Nothing is Safest**
The next day, at Doctor Agasa's house.
Conan and Doctor Agasa went to the basement to retrieve Conan's Power-Enhancing Shoes. After putting them on and trying them out, Conan breathed a sigh of relief.
"I improved the battery inside a bit. This time it should last longer," Doctor Agasa said with a smile as he went upstairs. "You also don't have to worry about setting traps because you don't have your Power-Enhancing Shoes, only to be discovered by Mr. Mouri and get beaten up..."
"Please, Doctor, I told you about this so you wouldn't mock me." Conan followed, speechless. This time he was in the wrong, and even Ran didn't speak up for him after hearing about it. He was miserable enough.
"Then why didn't you ask Hassashi for help?" Doctor Agasa said. "If you had just asked him to help knock out Mr. Mouri, or take Mr. Mouri away from that forest first, wouldn't that have been fine?"
"When I discovered Mr. Inoue was leading Uncle Mori towards Beika Lake, they were already there," Conan explained. "Mr. Inoue also drove over right afterwards, so I could only hurry and follow. If I sent a UL Message to Brother Chi in the forest, I was worried he wouldn't see the message in time, and also worried that Mr. Inoue would get there first. It's always better to be prepared on my end, but if I had known Mr. Inoue intended to give up, I wouldn't have been so worried..."
"You said Hassashi was following Mr. Mouri for the past few days, didn't you?" Doctor Agasa sighed slightly. "It seems he's also very worried about Mr. Mouri."
In the living room outside, Haibara Ai quietly hid behind the door of the room.
Something happened again in the past two days, and it's related to Brother Hichiji?
When she went to find Brother Hichiji this morning, Brother Hichiji didn't even tell her...
"Yes, although with him around, everyone feels much safer, but Mr. Inoue initially didn't care at all whether or not he would injure unrelated people. Inspector Megure was also quite worried about him," Conan said as he reached the living room. He looked around. "Doctor, putting that aside, where is that fellow?"
"That fellow?" Doctor Agasa was confused for a moment, then realized. "You mean Ai? She said she was planning to take a bath and change clothes. She's going to see a friend later, and will probably call Hassashi too."
Conan immediately relaxed and opened the computer. "She seems to have made quite a few friends."
"I heard they are friends she met while playing outside. She chats with those friends using UL Messages whenever she has time," Doctor Agasa said with a smile. "Initially I was a bit worried, but actually they are all girls around twenty years old, not bad people. Ai is also around that age, so she probably feels she can chat better with those girls than with children. It's also a good thing for her to have friends."
Haibara Ai continued to eavesdrop, silently refuting in her heart.
No, she was just chatting on behalf of Brother Hichiji.
Moreover, she wasn't bored and eavesdropping now. She just felt that this Kudo fellow came over to find the Doctor, and yesterday he actually specifically told her the 'reason'. She suspected this fellow came over to discuss matters related to the Organization with the Doctor.
Kudo is not frank at all. He actually hid the clue from her and courted death by himself. She also needs to learn to secretly grasp the situation.
"That makes sense," Conan said, sitting at the computer, surfing the internet to check data, and grumbled. "It can also let her know what girls around twenty years old should be like, instead of always having a cold face."
Haibara Ai: "..."
Then sorry, this is how she is.
Doctor Agasa leaned over to the computer, looking at the data Conan was checking. "Tottori Prefecture's area code? Shinichi, what are you checking this for?"
"Didn't I tell you before?" Conan focused on flipping through the area code table. "That time in Okinawa, I noticed Mr. Motoyama's mobile phone key tone when he was making a phone call, which gave me a very weird feeling."
"He should have been calling a friend, right?" Doctor Agasa said.
"Yes, he should have been calling his friend in Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture. And afterwards, when we went to observe the stars and came back, Officer Yamamura called his grandmother, who lives in Yazu City, Tottori Prefecture. The common point between Kurayoshi and Yazu..." Conan curled his finger and tapped the computer screen, a smile also appearing at the corner of his mouth. "The area code is both 0858!"
"What's wrong with that?" Doctor Agasa didn't understand.
"I have a feeling of déjà vu," Conan said, staring at the numbers on the screen, his expression becoming serious. "It's Belmode, who shot herself in the foot and escaped after the car was filled with hypnotic gas! The key tone of the email she sent to her companion at that time was the same as this!"
Doctor Agasa was startled. "Ah?!"
"Moreover, Doctor, you also heard it, right? The woman's muttering when she replied to the email," Conan said self-absorbedly. "She said, 'Okay, Boss'..."
Doctor Agasa broke out in a cold sweat. "Could that number be..."
"Yes, if I didn't hear wrong, it's 0858!" Conan turned back to look at Doctor Agasa, his gaze serious. In his mind, the appearance of Gin, Vodka, Belmode, and a blonde man with half his face blocked by a sniper rifle appeared, as well as the pitch black figure behind the four. "This might be the road sign leading to the behind-the-scenes manipulator who commands those admirals, or even that person's email address!"
Doctor Agasa sweated. "Hey, hey, Shinichi..."
"That woman specially deleted the email she received and chose to manually input the email address. Maybe she received training to eliminate all clues immediately, but this just gave me a clue," Conan said, picking up the mobile phone on the table and pressing the '0858' button. "But this feeling of déjà vu is only for the first four digits, and there are also some subtle differences from '0858'..."
"Then how many digits are there in total?" Doctor Agasa asked.
"It's an 8-digit or 9-digit number," Conan rested his hand on his chin, staring at the phone screen, repeatedly pressing 0858. "The numbers before and after are connected."
"Then could it be letters?" Doctor Agasa speculated. "If it's an email address, it shouldn't just be numbers. There should also be letters. Could it be letters you usually use when sending emails, which is why you feel it's familiar?"
"I thought about that too. The text corresponding to 0858 is ',tjt'. I don't know what it means at all," Conan put down the mobile phone, holding his chin in a headache as he recalled. "Moreover, I still remember the woman's expression when she was inputting the email. It was a bit lonely, a bit nostalgic. I don't know why she would show that expression..."
"Then whether or not you want to go ask Hassashi?" Doctor Agasa said. "Ai said that Hassashi is very keen on piano key tones, so maybe he can also hear mobile phone key tones."
"No, I can't," Conan lowered his voice. "Haibara is also helping me hide it from Ran. Similarly, I won't casually tell Brother Chi. If Brother Chi hears it and is curious to try, he might get into trouble. Moreover... that woman might come back again. Brother Chi seemingly has a lot of good impression of that woman, and he even cared so much about the makeup artist she mentioned. I asked Ran to also hide the matter of 'having a connection with Kudo Shinichi' from Brother Chi, just because I was worried that woman might find out some news from him. Actually, for him, knowing nothing is safest. Otherwise, if that Organization notices him and discovers he knows some things, they might directly take action against him."
"That makes sense..." Doctor Agasa also started to get a headache.
"Don't worry, I will notify you as soon as I find the answer!" Conan said to Doctor Agasa. "Although Teacher Judy and that FBI Agent named Akai helped last time, we can't always rely on others to rescue us. We have to find a method to take the initiative to attack."
Behind the door, Haibara Ai listened in silence.
For the sake of Kudo's effort to help hide it, she did think about helping... But this email address is not okay.
This Kudo fellow is still too aggressive. He will fall if he's not careful. Before he can settle down, she doesn't dare to casually say any clues.
If the famous detective rushes over disregarding everything, he will die a miserable death...
Conan didn't stay long. After finishing communication with Doctor Agasa, he returned to the Detective Agency and sat on the sofa, constantly pressing the mobile phone buttons, like a kid playing with a mobile phone because he was bored.
Several times he almost couldn't help but want to ask Chi Feichei for help.
But firstly, he has been tied up with other matters recently, consuming his energy. Secondly, although Chi Feichei's personality is more stable than Hattori's, that fellow is sometimes stubborn as hell. If he wants to defuse a bomb, he will recklessly run to defuse it. Before, when he decided to follow Uncle, he couldn't shake him off...
How can anyone feel at ease with that!
"I'm back!" Mouri Ran opened the door and greeted.
"Ran, you're back." Conan greeted without turning his head, continuing to press 0858 on his mobile phone with a clatter.
Mouri Ran put down her schoolbag and leaned on the sofa backrest behind Conan. "Conan, are you sending an email?"
"Just playing with the mobile phone by pressing buttons," Mori Kogoro, who was sitting behind the desk reading the horse racing track newspaper and listening to the horse racing broadcast with one earphone, said speechlessly. "He's been like this since just now. It's so noisy!"
"Ran, you're good at music, right?" Conan turned his head to look at Mouri Ran and pressed 0858 on his mobile phone again. "Can you hear what this is?"
"What is this?" Mouri Ran was confused.
"It's a game that's popular at school recently," Conan found an excuse. "I was thinking, maybe this is some song."
"This is 'Fa Mi Lai Mi'," Mouri Ran recalled. "Is there such a song?"
"Ah?" Conan was doubtful. "Isn't it 'Mi La Suo La'? Although it doesn't sound quite like it."
Mouri Ran took out her own mobile phone, repeated the button presses, and listened carefully. "It's 'Fa Mi Lai Mi'. No, maybe it's 'Suo Fa Mi Fa'..."
Mori Kogoro: "..."
That's enough!
Conan corrected, "It's definitely 'Mi La Suo La'! This sounds the most similar!"
"What are you talking about," Mouri Ran bent down and leaned closer to Conan, staring with ill intention. "You're so confident, then sing 'Do Re Mi' for me to listen to!"
Conan opened his mouth and started singing, completely out of tune. "Do~ Re~ Mi~ Fa~"
Mori Kogoro's face instantly turned pitch black, and the fingers holding the newspaper tightened.
Endure! Endure! Endure!...
He's listening to the horse racing broadcast, yes, listening to the horse racing broadcast!
"Suo~" Conan's singing was out of tune all the way to the Pacific Ocean. "La~ Xi~"
Mouri Ran was so confused by the singing that she was at a loss for a moment before saying, "Listen to yourself! A kid who can't even sing the musical scale correctly shouldn't casually interrupt!"
A '#' symbol popped up above Mori Kogoro's head.
He couldn't even hear the horse racing broadcast clearly anymore...
"But I'm just singing out of tune," Conan said unwillingly.
Mouri Ran also got serious. "Really, refusing to admit defeat is exactly the same as Shinichi!"
"So noisy!" Mori Kogoro couldn't help but roar. "Why don't you go ask Hassashi? He's someone who can write melodies, surely he won't make a mistake?"
The author didn't update, take a break for two days... But I still humbly ask for Monthly Passes.
(End of Chapter)
The next day, at Doctor Agasa's house.
Conan and Doctor Agasa went to the basement to retrieve Conan's Power-Enhancing Shoes. After putting them on and trying them out, Conan breathed a sigh of relief.
"I improved the battery inside a bit. This time it should last longer," Doctor Agasa said with a smile as he went upstairs. "You also don't have to worry about setting traps because you don't have your Power-Enhancing Shoes, only to be discovered by Mr. Mouri and get beaten up..."
"Please, Doctor, I told you about this so you wouldn't mock me." Conan followed, speechless. This time he was in the wrong, and even Ran didn't speak up for him after hearing about it. He was miserable enough.
"Then why didn't you ask Hassashi for help?" Doctor Agasa said. "If you had just asked him to help knock out Mr. Mouri, or take Mr. Mouri away from that forest first, wouldn't that have been fine?"
"When I discovered Mr. Inoue was leading Uncle Mori towards Beika Lake, they were already there," Conan explained. "Mr. Inoue also drove over right afterwards, so I could only hurry and follow. If I sent a UL Message to Brother Chi in the forest, I was worried he wouldn't see the message in time, and also worried that Mr. Inoue would get there first. It's always better to be prepared on my end, but if I had known Mr. Inoue intended to give up, I wouldn't have been so worried..."
"You said Hassashi was following Mr. Mouri for the past few days, didn't you?" Doctor Agasa sighed slightly. "It seems he's also very worried about Mr. Mouri."
In the living room outside, Haibara Ai quietly hid behind the door of the room.
Something happened again in the past two days, and it's related to Brother Hichiji?
When she went to find Brother Hichiji this morning, Brother Hichiji didn't even tell her...
"Yes, although with him around, everyone feels much safer, but Mr. Inoue initially didn't care at all whether or not he would injure unrelated people. Inspector Megure was also quite worried about him," Conan said as he reached the living room. He looked around. "Doctor, putting that aside, where is that fellow?"
"That fellow?" Doctor Agasa was confused for a moment, then realized. "You mean Ai? She said she was planning to take a bath and change clothes. She's going to see a friend later, and will probably call Hassashi too."
Conan immediately relaxed and opened the computer. "She seems to have made quite a few friends."
"I heard they are friends she met while playing outside. She chats with those friends using UL Messages whenever she has time," Doctor Agasa said with a smile. "Initially I was a bit worried, but actually they are all girls around twenty years old, not bad people. Ai is also around that age, so she probably feels she can chat better with those girls than with children. It's also a good thing for her to have friends."
Haibara Ai continued to eavesdrop, silently refuting in her heart.
No, she was just chatting on behalf of Brother Hichiji.
Moreover, she wasn't bored and eavesdropping now. She just felt that this Kudo fellow came over to find the Doctor, and yesterday he actually specifically told her the 'reason'. She suspected this fellow came over to discuss matters related to the Organization with the Doctor.
Kudo is not frank at all. He actually hid the clue from her and courted death by himself. She also needs to learn to secretly grasp the situation.
"That makes sense," Conan said, sitting at the computer, surfing the internet to check data, and grumbled. "It can also let her know what girls around twenty years old should be like, instead of always having a cold face."
Haibara Ai: "..."
Then sorry, this is how she is.
Doctor Agasa leaned over to the computer, looking at the data Conan was checking. "Tottori Prefecture's area code? Shinichi, what are you checking this for?"
"Didn't I tell you before?" Conan focused on flipping through the area code table. "That time in Okinawa, I noticed Mr. Motoyama's mobile phone key tone when he was making a phone call, which gave me a very weird feeling."
"He should have been calling a friend, right?" Doctor Agasa said.
"Yes, he should have been calling his friend in Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture. And afterwards, when we went to observe the stars and came back, Officer Yamamura called his grandmother, who lives in Yazu City, Tottori Prefecture. The common point between Kurayoshi and Yazu..." Conan curled his finger and tapped the computer screen, a smile also appearing at the corner of his mouth. "The area code is both 0858!"
"What's wrong with that?" Doctor Agasa didn't understand.
"I have a feeling of déjà vu," Conan said, staring at the numbers on the screen, his expression becoming serious. "It's Belmode, who shot herself in the foot and escaped after the car was filled with hypnotic gas! The key tone of the email she sent to her companion at that time was the same as this!"
Doctor Agasa was startled. "Ah?!"
"Moreover, Doctor, you also heard it, right? The woman's muttering when she replied to the email," Conan said self-absorbedly. "She said, 'Okay, Boss'..."
Doctor Agasa broke out in a cold sweat. "Could that number be..."
"Yes, if I didn't hear wrong, it's 0858!" Conan turned back to look at Doctor Agasa, his gaze serious. In his mind, the appearance of Gin, Vodka, Belmode, and a blonde man with half his face blocked by a sniper rifle appeared, as well as the pitch black figure behind the four. "This might be the road sign leading to the behind-the-scenes manipulator who commands those admirals, or even that person's email address!"
Doctor Agasa sweated. "Hey, hey, Shinichi..."
"That woman specially deleted the email she received and chose to manually input the email address. Maybe she received training to eliminate all clues immediately, but this just gave me a clue," Conan said, picking up the mobile phone on the table and pressing the '0858' button. "But this feeling of déjà vu is only for the first four digits, and there are also some subtle differences from '0858'..."
"Then how many digits are there in total?" Doctor Agasa asked.
"It's an 8-digit or 9-digit number," Conan rested his hand on his chin, staring at the phone screen, repeatedly pressing 0858. "The numbers before and after are connected."
"Then could it be letters?" Doctor Agasa speculated. "If it's an email address, it shouldn't just be numbers. There should also be letters. Could it be letters you usually use when sending emails, which is why you feel it's familiar?"
"I thought about that too. The text corresponding to 0858 is ',tjt'. I don't know what it means at all," Conan put down the mobile phone, holding his chin in a headache as he recalled. "Moreover, I still remember the woman's expression when she was inputting the email. It was a bit lonely, a bit nostalgic. I don't know why she would show that expression..."
"Then whether or not you want to go ask Hassashi?" Doctor Agasa said. "Ai said that Hassashi is very keen on piano key tones, so maybe he can also hear mobile phone key tones."
"No, I can't," Conan lowered his voice. "Haibara is also helping me hide it from Ran. Similarly, I won't casually tell Brother Chi. If Brother Chi hears it and is curious to try, he might get into trouble. Moreover... that woman might come back again. Brother Chi seemingly has a lot of good impression of that woman, and he even cared so much about the makeup artist she mentioned. I asked Ran to also hide the matter of 'having a connection with Kudo Shinichi' from Brother Chi, just because I was worried that woman might find out some news from him. Actually, for him, knowing nothing is safest. Otherwise, if that Organization notices him and discovers he knows some things, they might directly take action against him."
"That makes sense..." Doctor Agasa also started to get a headache.
"Don't worry, I will notify you as soon as I find the answer!" Conan said to Doctor Agasa. "Although Teacher Judy and that FBI Agent named Akai helped last time, we can't always rely on others to rescue us. We have to find a method to take the initiative to attack."
Behind the door, Haibara Ai listened in silence.
For the sake of Kudo's effort to help hide it, she did think about helping... But this email address is not okay.
This Kudo fellow is still too aggressive. He will fall if he's not careful. Before he can settle down, she doesn't dare to casually say any clues.
If the famous detective rushes over disregarding everything, he will die a miserable death...
Conan didn't stay long. After finishing communication with Doctor Agasa, he returned to the Detective Agency and sat on the sofa, constantly pressing the mobile phone buttons, like a kid playing with a mobile phone because he was bored.
Several times he almost couldn't help but want to ask Chi Feichei for help.
But firstly, he has been tied up with other matters recently, consuming his energy. Secondly, although Chi Feichei's personality is more stable than Hattori's, that fellow is sometimes stubborn as hell. If he wants to defuse a bomb, he will recklessly run to defuse it. Before, when he decided to follow Uncle, he couldn't shake him off...
How can anyone feel at ease with that!
"I'm back!" Mouri Ran opened the door and greeted.
"Ran, you're back." Conan greeted without turning his head, continuing to press 0858 on his mobile phone with a clatter.
Mouri Ran put down her schoolbag and leaned on the sofa backrest behind Conan. "Conan, are you sending an email?"
"Just playing with the mobile phone by pressing buttons," Mori Kogoro, who was sitting behind the desk reading the horse racing track newspaper and listening to the horse racing broadcast with one earphone, said speechlessly. "He's been like this since just now. It's so noisy!"
"Ran, you're good at music, right?" Conan turned his head to look at Mouri Ran and pressed 0858 on his mobile phone again. "Can you hear what this is?"
"What is this?" Mouri Ran was confused.
"It's a game that's popular at school recently," Conan found an excuse. "I was thinking, maybe this is some song."
"This is 'Fa Mi Lai Mi'," Mouri Ran recalled. "Is there such a song?"
"Ah?" Conan was doubtful. "Isn't it 'Mi La Suo La'? Although it doesn't sound quite like it."
Mouri Ran took out her own mobile phone, repeated the button presses, and listened carefully. "It's 'Fa Mi Lai Mi'. No, maybe it's 'Suo Fa Mi Fa'..."
Mori Kogoro: "..."
That's enough!
Conan corrected, "It's definitely 'Mi La Suo La'! This sounds the most similar!"
"What are you talking about," Mouri Ran bent down and leaned closer to Conan, staring with ill intention. "You're so confident, then sing 'Do Re Mi' for me to listen to!"
Conan opened his mouth and started singing, completely out of tune. "Do~ Re~ Mi~ Fa~"
Mori Kogoro's face instantly turned pitch black, and the fingers holding the newspaper tightened.
Endure! Endure! Endure!...
He's listening to the horse racing broadcast, yes, listening to the horse racing broadcast!
"Suo~" Conan's singing was out of tune all the way to the Pacific Ocean. "La~ Xi~"
Mouri Ran was so confused by the singing that she was at a loss for a moment before saying, "Listen to yourself! A kid who can't even sing the musical scale correctly shouldn't casually interrupt!"
A '#' symbol popped up above Mori Kogoro's head.
He couldn't even hear the horse racing broadcast clearly anymore...
"But I'm just singing out of tune," Conan said unwillingly.
Mouri Ran also got serious. "Really, refusing to admit defeat is exactly the same as Shinichi!"
"So noisy!" Mori Kogoro couldn't help but roar. "Why don't you go ask Hassashi? He's someone who can write melodies, surely he won't make a mistake?"
The author didn't update, take a break for two days... But I still humbly ask for Monthly Passes.
(End of Chapter)
