Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen: The Secret of the Fayan Family

April 13th of that year happened to be Friday. Kosuke Kindaichi was not a person who cared much about the auspiciousness of the day, but when he walked into Hogan's house in Denenchofu at around three o'clock that afternoon, his heart was quite heavy. That day seemed to be colder than usual. Kosuke Kindaichi was wearing an old gray cardigan jacket as usual, holding a cane made of cherry trees in his hand, and still wearing the almost deformed claw leather hat on his head. Her hair is still as fluffy as a bird's nest. Not long after he pressed the bell, he heard a young woman's voice on the door intercom.

"Which one is it?" "I'm Kosuke Kindaichi. Because the old lady has something to ask for me, please inform me that I've arrived." "Oh, just a moment, please." The youngest maid, Riko, soon appeared in front of the gate and opened it for Kosuke Kindaichi. "This way please." The maid, Riko, brought Kindaichi Kosuke to a very spacious reception room.It was about ten pings in size. Kosuke Kaneda was sitting on the sofa, nonchalantly observing the interior of the reception room, but he didn’t see what he wanted to see—photographs of the three generations of the Fayan family.

Then he looked out of the window again, but unfortunately there was nothing he expected—wind chimes. (Could it be that since the "Human Head Wind Chime Murder Incident" occurred in Showa 28, wind chimes have become a taboo thing for their family?) Kosuke Kindaichi took out a pack of Hope brand cigarettes from the pocket under his sleeve, he picked up a cigarette, and lit it with the lighter on the table. At this moment, an older maid came in with a cup of tea. "Please wait a moment, our young lady is coming." "Okay, you are busy!" Kosuke Kindaichi smoked a cigarette while tasting the cup of fragrant tea in his hand.

After a while, Yu Shanli walked in slowly. She was wearing a black dress like a mourning dress, her face was very haggard, and her eyes were a little nervous.Still, her beauty is undeniable. As soon as Kosuke Kindaichi saw Yu Shanli walking in, he immediately put the cigarette in the ashtray and extinguished it, and stood up from the sofa. "Hello, I'm Fayan Yukari. It's a pleasure to have this opportunity to meet you." "You are too polite. If there is any trouble, please forgive me. It is said that you are a very capable woman. It is really good to see you today. You really have the beauty of the old lady back then."

Yukari smiled lightly, but the smile was quite forced and looked very unnatural. "Please sit down. I'm really sorry to have you here today. I just want to tell you something before you meet my grandma." "What's the matter?" Kosuke Kindaichi slowly sat back on the original sofa. "Well, it's about my grandma..." "Oh? What happened to Mrs. Yayoi?" Kindaichi Kosuke's caring tone made the other party feel very heartwarming. "Mr. Kindaichi, I heard that you once met my grandma?" "Yes, in Showa 28, I met Mrs. Yayoi twice."

"Grandma was young and beautiful at the time, wasn't she?" "That's right! You can't tell she's in her sixties at all! At that time, Mrs. Yayoi looked like a young woman in her forties." Hearing this, Yu Xiangli couldn't help sighing softly, and continued: "Alas! In the past two or three years, her health has been unsatisfactory, and her complexion has also been very bad. Grandma is a person who cares about her appearance, and she doesn't want others to see her old-fashioned appearance, so in the past few years, the family No one sees her, except her attending physician, me, and private nurse Endo."

Kindaichi Kosuke was a little disappointed and said: "So, I won't be able to see Mrs. Yayoi today?" "No, because grandma invited you here; so...it's just that my grandma hopes that she can see you, but she doesn't want you to see her. I know this way of meeting is really strange, please understand my grandma Sorry for the inconvenience." "So, how do I meet her?" "You're going to meet my grandma through the curtains, and I hope you don't look in. My apologies for the inhuman way we met..." This was indeed a rather strange request. Although Kosuke Kindaichi felt helpless, he didn't want to back off because of it.

"I understand. In fact, even if Mrs. Yayoi hadn't called me today, I would have taken the initiative to visit her." "Then, this way please." Yayoi's room was located at the back of the building and had to be reached through a narrow, cellar-like corridor without any windows.This corridor is about five meters long. At the end of the corridor, on the right side, there is a three-square-meter western-style room. In the window of the room, a woman in her forties is silently knitting a sweater. "This is Ms. Tatsuko Endo, my grandmother's personal nurse."

Endo Tatsuko stood up from the chair and greeted Kindaichi Kosuke, then sat down again and continued to wave the stick needle in her hand. It seems that this woman's job is not only to serve as Yayoi's personal caregiver, she is also responsible for preventing others from breaking into the place. There was a door at the end of the corridor. Kosuke Kindaichi followed Yukari into this door, and carefully looked at the room in front of him. This room is about ten square meters in size, and all the windows are double-layered. Because of a very gorgeous chandelier on the ceiling, the whole room looks very bright.

In one corner of the room was a rather luxurious bed, surrounded by trestles, from which were hung heavy velvet curtains.There is a bookshelf on the wall directly opposite the bed, and the books on it are neatly arranged, and it can be seen that the owner has arranged it deliberately. In addition, there was a large desk in the center of the room, which was immaculately made, and a telephone with a direct connection to the outside. But where is Yayoi? I saw a curtain post about two meters high standing behind the desk.The curtain post was one meter wide, and thick gauze curtains were hung on all four sides. Two round wheels were exposed under the curtain. It seemed that Yayoi was sitting in a wheelchair.

Yukari asked Kindaichi Kosuke to sit on the chair in front of the desk, and herself sat beside Kindaichi Kosuke. After everyone sat down, a woman's voice came from inside the curtain. "Mr. Kindaichi, long time no see, you don't seem to have changed at all!" "Where, where, I am no longer young, but my wife's jade body..." "Hey! I'm an unyielding person, but I can't make decisions about my health. So I don't see anyone recently. Even if there are guests that must be seen, I can only meet under such circumstances. If you are rude, please You forgive me." "However, listening to your voice is full of spirit!" "Hehehe, what you said really touched my heart, but let's skip these polite words and get straight to the point! Mr. Kindaichi, did you bring that thing?" "What are you talking about?" "Mr. Kindaichi, please don't pretend to be confused with me, please? I don't have any extra time to spend in my life. What I'm talking about is the iron box. Naokichi Mojo should have given the iron box to you beforehand. He hopes You can handle it properly for him." "Ma'am, how do you know about this? That matter is a secret between Naokichi Honjo and me!" "Oh, Naokichi Mojo didn't tell you, did he send me a letter?" "I haven't heard of such a thing. When will he send you a letter?" The people inside the curtain remained silent for a while, probably studying whether the expression on Kosuke Kindaichi's face was true or not, while Yuxiangli seemed a little restless and restless. "Yukari, Naokichi Honjo's letter is up to you!" "yes." Yu Shanli responded with a trembling voice. After she adjusted her sitting posture, she said with dull eyes and a low voice: "The thing is like this. Naoyoshi Honjo said that he originally planned to bring the iron box next month, but then he suddenly changed his mind and decided to hand over the iron box to a person named Kosuke Kindaichi for safekeeping. If something unfortunate happened to him, Kosuke Kindaichi would open the iron box and deal with it appropriately." "So, what do you do with that letter?" "I burned it." "I see...then I'm not sure if Naokichi Honjo really wrote that letter to you." "Mr. Kindaichi, have you opened that iron box?" Fayan Yayoi's tone was a little anxious. "Yes, I opened the iron box." "Did you see what's inside?" "certainly." After a while of silence, Yayoi's hoarse voice sounded again. "Mr. Kindaichi, do you know the meaning of that thing?" "I know, because there is a note inside." There was another suffocating silence. "Mr. Kindaichi, why didn't you bring the iron box? We have already prepared what we should prepare according to the agreement." "I want to do this, but that must be done after the matter of Naokichi Honjo is resolved." "Didn't Honjo Naokichi commit suicide? What's the matter with him?" "No, Mr. Naoyoshi seems to have been wounded in the back of the head by a murder weapon and temporarily lost consciousness before falling down from the roof. However, the details can only be determined after the police inspection report." Hearing this, Yuxiangli couldn't help trembling and said: "Mr. Kindaichi, I heard you were there at that time?" "Yes, your husband and son were also present at that time." "Mr. Kindaichi, why do you say that?" This time it was Fayan Yayoi's voice. "Ma'am, for the past month, Mr. Naoki's life has been under threat. He doesn't know who is trying to harm him, so he came to me to discuss this matter. And I also There is no way to find out who the murderer is, we can only tell him to be vigilant in everything." Last night, Kindaichi Kosuke urged the waiters to go back to the ninth floor, but they were out of luck, all the elevators were full of people, and even the elevator from the guard room to the sweet house on the ninth floor stopped on the ninth floor. No matter how they pressed the button, the elevator wouldn't come down, so the two had to wait on the fourth floor for about five minutes. Finally, the elevator controlled by the elevator lady came to the fourth floor. However, there were quite a lot of guests getting out of the elevator. In addition, there were people entering and leaving each floor, so the elevator had to stop on each floor.It took ten minutes for Kindaichi Kosuke and Waitori to reach the ninth floor. After Kōsuke Kindaichi rushed out of the elevator, he immediately pulled up the hem of his clothes and rushed towards the Sweet House; Waitori followed closely behind. As soon as the two arrived at the sweet house, Kosuke Kindaichi rushed in without even knocking on the door. Heitou Futaro, Tetsuya, and Tokuhiko were all inside, and even Hoganko, who had just attended the wedding, was there, but the most important Naokichi Honjo was nowhere to be seen. An ominous premonition immediately crawled up Kosuke Kindaichi's back. "Deyan, where's your father? What happened to your father?" "My father..." After Tokuhiko finished speaking, he looked at Tetsuya, and Tetsuya looked at Kosuke Kindaichi with some embarrassment. "He went to the bathroom next door." Bingtou Fangtaro replied in a dawdly manner. "Toilet?" When Kindaichi Kosuke was about to pull his power and rush out, Heitou Futaro stopped him aloud: "Ah! Mr. Kindaichi, wait a minute, if you run in now, that old man will be angry!" "How do you say that?" "Because he hates others seeing him lose his composure the most, so Tie Ye and Ade were scolded by him just now!" "What the hell is going on here? What is Mr. Honjo doing in the bathroom?" "Go and vomit! At this moment, he is probably vomiting all kinds of meat and vegetables! He is such a decent person, of course he doesn't want others to see his ugly appearance. If you need to find him, just wait here! " "By the way, Mr. Kindaichi, what happened to Mr. Honjo? Why does he need a private investigator like you?" Fayanzi stood on the tatami and asked curiously. "Well, this..." Kosuke Kindaichi was just about to speak, but there was a scream outside suddenly, followed by a black shadow falling from the glass window of Sweet House. Although this was only a momentary event, all six people in the room witnessed the whole process with their own eyes. "Ah! That...isn't that Dad?" Deyan screamed, and immediately rushed to the window, trying to open the aluminum window.When he knew that all the aluminum windows were firmly nailed, he immediately turned around and ran out the door. "Ad! Ade!" Iron also rushed out. Thanks to the quick actions of these two young men, Kindaichi Kosuke and Waitori regained their original combat effectiveness, and the two followed Tokuhiko and Tetsuya out of the sweet house. The Bingtou Fangtaro on the side also rushed out after him. At this time, his face was already pale, completely different from the foolish look just now. When all five people squeezed into the exclusive elevator of Sweet House, they found that the elevator was malfunctioning!Fortunately, after Deyan's urgent repair, the elevator quickly resumed normal operation. Just when the elevator door was about to close, Fayanzi ran out of the elevator door.He had spent some time putting on his shoes, but that didn't affect the speed of the elevator's descent. "The subsequent situation was just as reported in the newspapers. Honjo Naokichi fell out of the window of the 'Yayoi' room on the fourth floor of the Honjo Hall and died on the spot." Since the major media did not report this incident, neither Yayoi nor Yukari should know about the gathering of "angry pirates", so Kosuke Kindaichi deliberately did not mention it.But if Tie also said it, it would be a different matter. "So my husband and Tetsuya both witnessed the tragedy of Naoyoshi-san falling from the window of Sweet House?" "Yes. At that time, everyone heard the most miserable screams in the world, which means that Mr. Naoyoshi did not die when he fell. If this is a murder, the six of us present have sufficient dissatisfaction." Proof of presence." After a while of silence, Yayoi's voice came from behind the curtain again: "Mr. Kindaichi, so you suspect that I did this?" "No, I didn't mean that, and you are not a fool." "what do you mean……" "You and Mr. Zhikichi have reached an agreement. As long as he returns the iron box to you, you will unconditionally transfer half of the shares in this club to Mr. Zhikichi. Now that you have reached such an agreement, and the agreed date is coming soon Now, you have no reason to murder him. Besides, if something happened to Mr. Naoyoshi, things would be self-defeating, so you would never do such a dangerous thing." "Thank you for your compliment. Then why didn't you bring the iron box right away? I'm sure you wouldn't take that iron box for yourself, but I'm really disappointed to see you didn't bring it today .” "Ma'am, I think the reason why you are dissatisfied with my handling method is because we have a cognitive gap in this matter." "what do you mean……" "Mr. Naoyoshi, I had to hand over the iron box to you in front of Ms. Yu Shanli." "Isn't Yukari right here?" "No, this one is not Hogan Yukari, but Yamauchi Koyuki, the female lead singer of the jazz band 'Angry Pirates', the younger sister of Toshio Yamauchi who was brutally murdered on the hospital slope 20 years ago." The bomb that Kindaichi Kosuke dropped was quite powerful. At this moment, Yayoi behind the curtain and Yukari next to Kosuke Kindaichi wailed almost at the same time; the woman who claimed to be Yukari immediately stood up and ran to the inside of the door to take out a small pistol. Kosuke Kindaichi stared sharply at the woman standing in front of the door, shook his head and said: "Xiaoxue, put down the pistol! I know you are not a person who will kill casually." The woman's attitude seemed to be a little shaken, and her face was full of despair, and she slowly shifted her gaze from Kosuke Kindaichi to the empty distance. At this time, Yayoi's sharp voice came from inside the curtain. "Mr. Kindaichi! What are you talking about? If she wasn't Yukari, wouldn't I have been deceived by her for a long time?" "You can't say that. You are a smart person. A trick that can fool others may not fool you. According to my guess, it should be you who persuaded Xiaoxue to replace Yu Xiangli." "Hehe, I can't understand a word of what you are talking about!" Yayoi tried her best to act as if nothing had happened, but the bomb dropped by Kosuke Kindaichi was so powerful that she still couldn't help feeling a little hysterical. "Not just me, everyone around me thinks this child is Yukari. Mr. Kindaichi, do you think there is another person in this world who looks exactly like Yukari?" "Yes, ma'am, I met Miss Yukari before the murder in Showa 28, and I met Xiaoxue not long after. During these two encounters, neither of them saw me." There was a look of sadness in Kindaichi Kosuke's eyes. "Xiaoxue, you were still performing on the stage of the San Diego Tavern. At first, when you came out of the backstage, I thought it was Miss Shanli standing on the stage, but I didn't expect Miss Shanli to appear in the auditorium later. At that time Ms. Yushanli wears a turban around her head and a pair of big sunglasses on her face. In addition, the view from the auditorium is very dark. No one except me noticed this woman standing in the auditorium and the female lead singer on the stage. They look very much alike. "That day, Miss Yuxiangli was standing in the auditorium. She took off her headscarf and sunglasses, and stood opposite Xiaoxue. It was a very terrifying confrontation. I can almost understand the cry of the two women at that time. Hear it. Ms. Yukari must be screaming in her heart: "You are the woman who made me drink drugs, deprive me of my freedom, and let Toshio Yamauchi take the opportunity to smear my body in the hanging house on the slope of the hospital that day! Hmph! I am not a woman." A little girl who is played with by others and falls asleep when she is tired from crying, I will definitely seduce your husband and make him kneel in front of my knees." "As for Xiaoxue, you must have shouted in your heart at that time: 'No! No! I will never let your trick succeed. You'd better forget what happened that night and just pretend nothing happened. I will not give this man to you, absolutely not! Absolutely not!' Then you continued to sing with the encouragement of Amin's little trumpet. I still remember your singing, that song is 'It is only apaper moon' it!" Xiaoxue had put down her pistol at some point and returned to her seat, crying like a tearful person. A Yayoi-like sigh came from inside the curtain. "Mr. Kindaichi, you are indeed a very scary person. But..." In an instant, Yayoi's voice returned to its original fighting spirit. "How do you know that the person standing here is Xiaoxue?" "Madam, because I not only have her fingerprints, but also Miss Yuxiangli's fingerprints." Yayoi was surprised and said: "You said you have Yukari's fingerprints?" "Yes, I found that by chance." So Kindaichi Kosuke briefly told him about the metal piece of the wind chime he found in the mouse hole of the Hanging House on the slope of the hospital. "I think that on August 18th, Showa 28, after Miss Yuxiangli was kidnapped in Karuizawa, she was imprisoned in Gotanda's garage. And two days before Miss Yuxiangli was kidnapped, in the precinct of the Stele Valley Police Station There was also a case where handcuffs were stolen from the police station, the thief was very strange, he didn’t steal a pistol next to the handcuffs, but he only stole the pair of handcuffs.” Kosuke Kindaichi raised the issue of the handcuffs while quietly inquiring about Koyuki's expression.Xiaoxue, who had empty eyes, couldn't help but twitched two or three times, and sweat continued to break out on her forehead. "I suspect that the person who stole the handcuffs is Amin. He knows Miss Yukari is an arrogant and subjective person. If he wants to detain Yukari in Gotanda's garage, he must handcuff Miss Yukari's hands. And stuffed her mouth with a cloth strip. "I think, before the wedding, Ms. Yuxiangli should be imprisoned in the garage, during which you only allowed her to call her grandma once. At that time, Miss Yuxiangli probably said: 'Grandma, there is something very incredible Did you know I have an aunt?' By the way, before that..." Kindaichi Kosuke paused for a while, then continued: "Azi once mentioned that Miss Yuxiangli once said with a smile: 'What? I have an aunt? How can there be such a ridiculous thing?' I think the aunt mentioned by Miss Yuxiangli must be Xiaoxue. From here, we can see that Xiaoxue One of the kidnappers who kidnapped Yukari-san to Gotanda." After Kosuke Kindaichi said this, he looked at Koyuki tenderly. "After that kidnapping case, I was commissioned to investigate Amin and Xiaoxue in detail. According to the results I got, Amin had had sex with many women and had the habit of taking LSD. "But he is by no means a bad person, and he loves Xiaoxue very much. He can't accept that Xiaoxue has to live outside, but Miss Yuxiangli can enjoy everything so blessedly; plus there are many men who are playing with Xiaoxue, so Amin So he made up his mind to send Xiaoxue back to Fayan's family, he wanted Xiaoxue to be the heir of Fayan's family." After Kosuke Kindaichi said this, he secretly observed the reaction behind the curtain, but there was still no movement behind the curtain. Kindaichi Kosuke saw that there was no movement behind the curtain, so he could only continue talking. "At that time, Amin's combat strategy was wrong. He should have asked Xiaoxue to come directly to meet you, Madam. If Madam knew that Xiaoxue and Miss Yukari looked so similar, she would admit that Xiaoxue was Mr. Takuya's flesh and blood, and let Xiaoxue return to the Fayan family. Ma'am, do you know why Mr. Takuya doesn't let you meet Xiaoxue? Alas! In a way, Mr. Takuya is quite afraid of you, and he is worried that something bad will happen to Xiaoxue." "He misunderstood me, of course the reason is me... woo, woo... If I knew that Yukari and Xiaoxue were so similar... I... I would save her no matter what." "I see." Kosuke Kindaichi nodded sadly. "Let's talk about this issue later, let's bring the topic back to Amin for now! Amin should be afraid of you for the same reason, so he thought it would be easier to communicate through young people , So he asked Xiaoxue to call Karuizawa and call Miss Yukari to Lake Shiozawa. Xiaoxue, what happened?" Xiaoxue hesitated for a while before saying: "It doesn't work at all. But it can't be blamed on Yuxiangli... because I suddenly appeared in front of her when she didn't have any mental preparations." "It's the same situation as Yukari-san's mother Mariko rejecting your mother." "Perhaps! Yanze Lake was a pretty desolate place at the time. We talked for an hour or so on the island in the lake, and finally, she called me a big liar and slapped me hard..." "You look so similar to Ms. Yukari, but this makes her unhappy?" "Well, she thinks I'm just born to a concubine, how dare she be so arrogant." "So you brought Miss Yuxiangli back to Tokyo?" "Yu Xiangli beat someone. Minnan was very angry when he found out, so he took out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed Yu Xiangli's hands. He also took out a switchblade and forced her into the back seat, and then asked me to drive." "But on the way, didn't Miss Yuxiangli call back to the villa?" "No, I made the call. You have to go through Karuizawa Station from Lake Yanzawa to Ubing Ridge. There is a telephone in front of the station, so Minnan asked me to call back instead of Yuxiangli." "So that's how it is. Next, you took Miss Yuxiangli back to Gotanda's garage, and she called here the next day...By the way, were you the one who made the call?" "No, that call was made by Shanli herself. But at that time, Toshio held a knife against Yukari, so that she didn't dare to talk nonsense." "Xiaoxue, it's been about ten days since you kidnapped Miss Yuxiangli and held the wedding. Has Amin violated Miss Yuxiangli during this time?" "No, Minnan didn't violate her. If Yuxiangli had been more obedient at that time, Minnan would not have made such a bad move against her. Speaking of which, I must tell you first..." "whats the matter?" "Although I have always had a strong yearning for the surname Fayan, on the other hand, I respect and love Minnan very much. If I recognize my ancestors and return to the clan, I will no longer have any connection with Minnan. I have mentioned it to Minnan several times. With this level of concern, Minnan also thought later that it would be better to keep me by his side. But if Yukari were let go like this, he would feel unwilling..." "So Amin raped Yukari in that strange wedding, and you were an accomplice?" "Yes, I'm sorry..." "At that time, you didn't know how serious the consequences of that incident would be in the future, did you?" "Well, I'm so stupid." "So, when you took wedding photos..." "Of course it was to revenge the Fayan family, and we really sent the photo to Mrs. Fayan." Kindaichi Kosuke looked at Xiaoxue sadly and said: "You went to this photo studio to make an appointment, right? Why did you choose this photo studio? Do you know the relationship between this photo studio and the Fayan family?" "No, I didn't know anything at the time, and I still don't know it very well until now, but Min Nan may know! Because he was the one who told me to go to this photo studio." "That happened on August 28, Showa 28, did you bring Miss Yuxiangli to the hospital slope that day?" "yes." "Handcuffed?" "Well. Besides, she also had a cloth in her mouth, because she wanted to resist at any time." "But after arriving at the hospital slope, you uncuffed Ms. Yuxiangli, right?" "Maybe! Because after I go to this photo studio, the rest will be handled by Min Nan." Kosuke Kindaichi said to the direction of the curtain: "Ma'am, there is a wind chime in the wedding photo they sent you, right? Generally speaking, every wind chime will have metal pieces hanging on it, but the wind chime in the photo doesn't. That's because Miss Yuxiangli took it away, Xiaoxue, At that time, Miss Yuxiangli was very stubborn on the surface, but she was very scared in her heart, so she secretly tore off the piece of metal when no one was around, and wrote the words "Save me, Yuxiangli" on the metal piece with the lipstick she carried. typeface. "She wanted to throw the metal piece outside the fence, but when she was about to act, Amin came back, so she hurriedly folded the metal piece several times and stuffed it into the mouse hole. "This is where the problem lies. At that time, Miss Yuxiangli must have been very nervous. When she pulled out the red cover, her fingers must have trembled, so her left hand fingers were stained with lipstick. She pinched the metal piece with her left hand that was stained with lipstick. She writes with her right hand, so there are fingerprints of three fingers of her left hand on the metal sheet, which are the thumb, index finger and middle finger. However, Xiaoxue..." "yes." "When you attend a banquet, you are used to holding the wine glass with your left hand, so the fingerprints of your left thumb, index finger and middle finger will be left on the champagne glass. I am very confident in fingerprint identification. These two fingerprints are completely different." The room suddenly fell into an atmosphere of silence. After a while, Yayoi's hoarse voice came from behind the curtain: "Mr. Kindaichi, when did you know that this person does not belong to Yukari?" "About half a year after the murder, I asked a friend living in Los Angeles to help me collect Xiaoxue's fingerprints. At that time, I was sure that Xiaoxue would replace Miss Yuxiangli." "In that case, why have you kept silent?" "Ma'am, I have never understood what happened to Fayan's old house on the slope of the hospital on the night of September 18, 2008. I don't want to say more about uncertain things. Besides, I'm not a policeman, and I don't want to take This thing threatens you." "So, do you now understand the truth about the murder case in Showa 28?" "I understand. I only understood it after seeing the photos left by Mr. Tokubei." As Kosuke Kindaichi said, he took out a thick notebook from his pocket.However, at this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang earth-shatteringly.