Chapter 184

Sure enough, a small shell casing was found on the road!

Suzuki Modern Art Museum, inside the exhibition hall.

The power had been restored.

Akaso Kaze, Suzuki Shiro, Detective Mouri, and others were sitting on the sofa waiting for the police report.

Nakamori Ginzo walked over quickly and said to Suzuki Shiro:

"Mr. Suzuki, the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters just received news. The child brought by Mr. Mouri and that high school detective from Osaka said that Kaitou Kid was just shot and likely fell into the river."

Hearing Nakamori Ginzo's words, Suzuki Shiro looked surprised.

"Inspector Nakamori, what did you say? Kid was shot?"

Nakamori Ginzo nodded and said: "That's right. According to the two boys at the scene, they found the monocle Kid wore on his right eye had been pierced by a bullet, and there were some bloodstains."

"However, the real Egg of Memories was not at the scene. According to the child and the high school detective from Osaka, it should be that the Onmyoji-sama replaced the real Egg of Memories in advance."

"May I ask Akaso-sama, is that so?"

Nakamori Ginzo was still a bit nervous.

After all, if the real Egg of Memories were lost, he would definitely be held responsible.

"You're right!" Akaso Kaze nodded and took the box containing the Egg of Memories out of the bag beside him.

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"Inspector Nakamori and his team only had three people, and I was worried they would give Kid an opportunity, so I secretly swapped the Egg of Memories."

He didn't care about the police's thoughts at all.

You were played around by Kaitou Kid, and you dare to blame me for preparing in advance?

"Really? That's great!" Nakamori Ginzo breathed a sigh of relief. "As expected of Onmyoji-sama, you predicted everything clearly."

The inspector secretly flattered him.

"Since Kaitou Kid has already run away, this Egg of Memories can be considered safe. The 'Egg of Memories' will be exhibited tomorrow, so I'll trouble you police to put it in the display case."

Akaso Kaze handed over the Egg of Memories.

With the Eye of Space watching, he wasn't afraid of anyone coming to steal it again.

"By the way, I wonder what Akaso-sama thinks about Kaitou Kid being sniped?"

Nakamori Ginzo asked respectfully.

The inspector had a headache now; not only was Kaitou Kid not caught, but a sniper had also popped up.

They weren't local police, and solving such a case was very difficult.

Akaso Kaze thought for a moment and said: "This sniper being able to accurately snipe Kaitou Kid's right eye in the night sky shows two points."

"First, the sniper's sniping skills are superb; it's definitely not their first time committing a crime."

"Second, the sniper specifically chose to snipe the smaller, harder-to-hit right eye; either they are extremely confident in their skills, or this action has some special significance."

"So, if you look for a killer with a large number of murder records who is good at sniping the right eye, you might find something."

As an inspector for intelligent crime investigation, Inspector Nakamori didn't know much about killers.

So he hurriedly asked his subordinates to search the database at the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters to see if there was such a killer as Akaso Kaze described.

Before long, a uniformed officer brought various materials.

"No bloodstains or fingerprints were detected on Kid's monocle."

"In addition, according to the identification by weapons experts, the bullet casing found at the scene is a Russian 9mm special subsonic rifle bullet, which is the latest modified SSP sniper-specific model."

"The gun equipped with this bullet is generally the Russian VSS silenced short-range sniper rifle."

"Currently, it is mainly used by Russian special forces..."

As soon as this conclusion was stated, Inspector Nakamori and Detective Mouri at the scene widened their eyes in surprise.

Because there was a Russian in the chairman's office at the Suzuki Museum today.

That Russian embassy secretary, Sergei, had a tall and burly figure, and one could tell at a glance that he had experience carrying a gun.

Coupled with his special background, getting such a gun was absolutely easy.

"Could it be..."

The matter was of great importance, and Inspector Nakamori didn't dare to draw a conclusion easily.

"Yesterday, that Russian said he wanted to take the 'Egg of Memories' back for free, but Akaso-san didn't reply."

A voice sounded at the door; Heiji Hattori and Conan had returned at some point.

"Could it be that he learned of Kid's theft plan tonight and waited specifically to snipe Kaitou Kid?"

"If Kid succeeded in the theft and was then shot down by a sniper rifle, wouldn't the Egg of Memories just fall into his hands?"

Although Inspector Nakamori didn't respond, he inwardly agreed with Heiji Hattori's deduction.

However, the officer who came to report stated another situation that confused everyone.

"In the ICPO criminal database, we found a killer who specializes in sniping the right eye."

"He is called 'Scorpion,' and his gender and age are unknown."

This piece of information once again confused the police and detectives.

If Sergei could make an exception to snipe Kaitou Kid for the "Egg of Memories," he couldn't be a professional killer, could he?

At this time, Heiji Hattori gave his deduction again.

"Could it be that the Russian also knew Scorpion's sniping habits, so he imitated Scorpion's crime, wanting to frame the case on Scorpion?"

"Maybe he is even Scorpion himself."

Heiji Hattori's sentence structure was an interrogative sentence, but there was no interrogative tone at all.

And once this deduction was made, everything seemed to fall into place.

The logically sound deduction left no flaws, and Conan, Mouri Kogoro, and others all fell into silence.

And Akaso Kaze, looking at the confident Heiji Hattori, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

If I didn't know Scorpion's true identity, I would have been fooled by your rich imagination.

"Does Akaso-san have a different view?"

Feeling that Akaso Kaze's expression was wrong, Heiji Hattori asked unconvinced.

Akaso Kaze curled his lips slightly.

"If you ask me, that sniper should be a woman, a very beautiful woman."

He looked at the half-hidden pretty face at the door and smiled.

"A woman?"

Heiji Hattori and Conan both had black lines on their foreheads.

This Onmyoji-sama's imagination is too rich...

Outside the door, Pisco quickly shrank back.

Her heart was beating violently, and her chest was heaving.

Could he be talking about me?

I have been very careful and have almost never appeared in front of him.

Even when observing, I was hiding a hundred meters away, using binoculars.

He shouldn't suspect me, right?

Pisco was about to leave when a girl and an old man came out of the elevator.

Her eyes flashed, and she hid in the safety passage.

"Everyone, sorry to bother you. I am Kousaka Natsumi, and this is my butler."

Kousaka Natsumi blinked her big eyes and looked at Akaso Kaze pitifully.

"Akaso-san, could I trouble you to let me see the Egg of Memories?"

Akaso Kaze certainly wouldn't refuse such a pitiful little beauty.

It just so happened that the Egg of Memories hadn't been taken away by the police yet.

He opened the box and placed the Egg of Memories on the table.

Looking at the Egg of Memories, tears welled up in Kousaka Natsumi's eyes.

"My great-grandfather's name was Kiichi. He worked as a craftsman at Fabergé's workshop and married a Russian woman there,"

Kousaka Natsumi's voice was very gentle.