Outside the train, Feimo directed two crows to pick up the gloves and drop them far away. He also kept a flock of crows fluttering on the ground to destroy the drag marks left by the box.
On the train, Chi Feichi returned to the restroom. After calming his rapid breathing, he meticulously cleaned the dust from the ground off his shoes. Only when his breathing had steadied did he carry the still-sleeping Feichi out.
Everyone did their best in this operation. If nothing else, solely based on packaging speed, he believed his future Cheetah Delivery packaging speed would be no slower than professionals with years of experience...
Cough...
Therefore, he didn't want a small detail error to cause the challenge to fail.
By the time Darcy found Chi Feichi, he was already peacefully staying in his room.
Seeing Chi Feichi was fine, Darcy breathed a sigh of relief. "Young Master, you're already back."
"Yeah, I came back to check on Feichi," Chi Feichi said without changing his expression. "Just leave those matters to the police and detectives."
Darcy thought about it and agreed. "Would you like to sleep a bit more? I'll keep watch outside."
Chi Feichi felt it was a bit strange to sleep right after a murder occurred, but sitting idle was boring. He might as well lie down and check the situation with Feimo. "Alright."
Not long after dawn, there was a knock on the door.
When Darcy opened it, he had to look down to see Conan's small frame. "Little boy?"
"Is Brother Chi here?" Conan peered inside.
Darcy turned to look at the inner room. "Young Master is sleeping."
Conan was speechless. After failing to find evidence of the culprit's crime, he wanted to ask Chi Feichi. It turned out Chi Feichi wasn't around, and upon asking, he realized Chi Feichi hadn't been seen for a long time. So he came to check if Chi Feichi was in his room.
He originally thought Chi Feichi was investigating somewhere or contemplating the case in his room. He didn't expect Chi Feichi to actually come back to sleep...
In the inner room, Chi Feichi sent an email contacting the National Police Agency, then walked out unhurriedly. "Conan? Want to come in and sit?"
"Uh, no thanks. I wanted to ask you to come out for a bit," Conan noticed Chi Feichi's clothes were a bit wrinkled. "You really came back to sleep."
"Young Master took his medicine yesterday and needs rest," Darcy couldn't help speaking up for Chi Feichi.
Conan realized and felt apologetic. Although Chi Feichi usually seemed normal, he was still a patient who needed medication to stabilize his condition. Many psychiatric drugs had side effects. "Sorry, I forgot. Then I..."
"It's fine," Chi Feichi walked out. "Let's go. Didn't you look for me?"
Darcy frowned. "Young Master..."
"Watch Feichi for me in the room. Give him some water when he wakes up," Chi Feichi said without turning back.
Darcy didn't stop him further. "Yes, sir."
Conan followed Chi Feichi and asked softly, "Hey, is your body okay? Are there any side effects after taking the medicine?"
"No," Chi Feichi said. "I'm perfectly fine."
"Don't push yourself," Conan sighed with a mature tone. "I know those drugs have many side effects. Drowsiness, fatigue, dizziness, and vomiting are mild ones. There can be long-term effects too."
That's why he didn't want to take the medicine...
Chi Feichi interrupted Conan's lament. "Alright, didn't you have something to discuss with me?"
Conan felt Chi Feichi didn't want to bring this up, so he dropped it. "It's about this incident..."
Since Asama Anji was missing, the culprit couldn't kill him. Instead, he used Asama Anji's room to create the illusion that Asama Anji had escaped.
Because Asama Anji had previously robbed a jewelry store but was driven away by the owner empty-handed, leaving the remark "This is different from what we agreed," he had a motive to hold a grudge and kill the jewelry store owner. Moreover, since Asama Anji really couldn't be found, the police had concluded that Asama Anji killed the victim and fled, and had begun a dragnet search.
But clearly, this didn't fool Conan...
"The Asama Anji we saw later was just someone wearing the same coat, hat, and mask. We can't confirm it was actually Asama Anji."
"And when Uncle Mouri and I chased after him, the culprit shot at us. We hid beside the carriage and didn't actually see the culprit enter the room with our own eyes..."
As Conan spoke, he led Chi Feichi to Asama Anji's room. "The reason Uncle Mouri was sure the culprit entered the room was that the door closed afterwards. However, I found traces of fishing line on the door. The culprit likely prepared a mechanism on the door beforehand. After killing the victim, running over, shooting out the glass, and firing at us, he took advantage of the moment we hid and couldn't see him to hide on the stairs leading to the second floor on the other side. He then cut the fishing line, causing the door to close, making us think he ran into the room..."
Chi Feichi bent down to examine the door lock. There were indeed some abnormal marks on it. "Do you know who the culprit is?"
"It's the jewelry store manager, Mr. Kaetsu Toshinori!" Conan said with certainty. "Only he brought fishing gear and could use fishing line to complete this trick."
"Just bringing fishing gear can't be used as evidence," Chi Feichi said.
"Yeah. There are too many places to hide the gun and bloody clothes used in the crime. A search might not find them," Conan pondered. "And Asama Anji is really missing. He can't be found anywhere..."
This was also where he was confused.
After secretly communicating with his mom, he confirmed that his dad's novel didn't go like this originally.
Asama Anji should have been dead, his body discovered by the police, leading them to believe he died falling off the train while escaping.
But now, Asama Anji was neither alive nor dead; he had vanished into thin air.
"Could it be that Asama Anji never boarded the train in the first place?" Chi Feichi offered a 'reasonable' guess.
"You suspect Mr. Kaetsu was impersonating him from the start? Probably not. We met Asama Anji in the dining car earlier, and he took off his mask," Conan rubbed his face and continued, "His face shape is different from Kaetsu Toshinori's; they don't look like the same person. Plus, Mr. Kaetsu was with Manager Izumo in the dining car at the time, while Asama Anji returned to his room. The timing doesn't match."
"Hmm," Chi Feichi noticed the red mark on Conan's face. "What happened to your face?"
"N-Nothing!" Conan raised his hand to cover it. He couldn't say his own mom pinched his face red, could he?
Just because he said 'some women are unreasonable', she actually laid such a heavy hand on her own son. Women really are unreasonable!
If he had known, he wouldn't have eagerly run to expose his mom's disguise...
Chi Feichi felt he had missed something entertaining. "By the way, that strange woman..."
"Cough, she seems to be a detective. Although her personality is a bit weird and she seemed to have noticed something earlier, she has nothing to do with this case!" Conan covered for his mom and changed the subject. "The problem now is the lack of evidence..."
"I'm truly sorry," Kudo Yukiko walked over from the side wearing a hat and sunglasses, smiling faintly. "My personality is a bit weird."
Conan broke out in a cold sweat. Finished. Caught bad-mouthing her again...
Kudo Yukiko squatted down beside Conan and pinched his cheek with a smile. "But as a child, you shouldn't speak ill of others behind their backs~"
Conan looked up to see Chi Feichi staring thoughtfully at his face. Tears streamed down his heart as he stubbornly broke free from Kudo Yukiko's clutches and ran to Chi Feichi's side for temporary shelter.
Can't you give me some face in front of Chi Feichi...
Kudo Yukiko stood up, pretending not to know Conan, and spoke to Chi Feichi. "This child is smart, but also very mischievous. I just heard this child say you guys can't find evidence of the culprit's crime?"
"Yeah, Auntie... Sister, do you know where the evidence is?" Under Kudo Yukiko's threatening gaze, Conan changed his address in humiliation.
Kudo Yukiko said straightforwardly, "Sorry, I don't know either. After all, it's really hard to find!"
Conan gave her half-moon eyes. Don't know why you jumped out then. He gathered his thoughts and looked down in contemplation. "Then we can only lure him out..."
Chi Feichi realized he seemed to be here as bait. "I'll do it."
Regardless of whether Conan had shrunk, he currently had a child's body, and Kudo Yukiko was a woman. As a grown man in his prime, he couldn't shrink back and let these two risk their lives to lure the culprit.
Conan frowned silently. He remembered in the novel, the young man who discovered the truth tried to lure the culprit himself because of a lack of evidence and ended up killed...
"Let me do it," Kudo Yukiko said. "Discovering a crime but not reporting it is usually to extort money. A young master traveling with a bodyguard doesn't look like someone short of money, and it's hard to imagine him doing such a thing. If you do it, the culprit will be suspicious. It's more appropriate for someone like me, traveling alone!"
The three fell silent for a while, and finally decided to let Kudo Yukiko court death.
Chi Feichi brought a bodyguard, indeed not looking like someone who would blackmail others.
And Kudo Yukiko had been acting mysterious from the start, as if she knew something but wouldn't say. She was very suitable to be the bait.