Conan’s World Stand-in

"Well, so, Mr. Ogawa, your commission is to investigate the origin of the gifts that will be sent to you every month, but the sender's signature and address are fake..."

The Mouri Detective Agency, who has just solved a few cases with Conan's blessing recently, has gained a little reputation and is about to revive his reputation as a famous detective. Mouri Kogoro is wearing his classic suit. Sitting with a serious face in the reception room on the second floor, looking at the various toys placed on the coffee table.

Plastic parrots, plush pandas, electronic pets, hand-held portable game consoles, and toys that pop out a clown's face or glove when the lid is opened, the gifts on the table can be said to be dazzling, what? There are all types. However, in general, it is still biased towards boys' gifts, and there are no Barbie dolls or pink bows.

"Yes, since about two years ago, people will send these things every month. At first I thought it was the wrong person. It turned out to be once a month, and I started to feel a little panic. …”

Mr. Ogawa, a middle-aged man with a slightly useless face, sat across from Kogoro Mouri and said uneasily.

"Also, in addition to the toy accident, there is also money sent along with it. Before, it was one million each time. In order to prevent someone from really remembering the wrong address, and indeed the wrong person, I always put the money first. I saved it. As a result, he sent 25 million directly today. I was frightened by this number, so I came to the detective to discuss what to do."

"Two, twenty-five million?!" Mouri Kogoro's voice was a little distorted. This number was almost the number he could earn by working for several years, or even more than ten years, without eating or drinking.

"Yes, because the amount is too large, I didn't take it with me because I was afraid of losing it or encountering an accident, but the remittance slip is here." Mr. Ogawa took out a neatly folded sheet from his pocket. paper and hand it to Kogoro Mori.

Maori Kogoro moved his **** twice on the sofa, as if to make himself sit more stable, and then opened the piece of paper. But when I saw the number representing the amount above, my hand still trembled.

"By the way, along with it, there is a letter in the money. It is a typed font with a few strange words." Dr. Ogawa took out another folded piece of paper and handed it to Maori Kogoro.

"Let me see... 'The money has been delivered, so I'll take what I want'. Is it to exchange something with you, or buy something from you?"

"No one has contacted me, and I'm not doing business..." Dr. Ogawa shook his head.

"Well... I don't care about the money for the time being. All the things sent are some children's toys. Do you have any children at home?" Kogoro Mori forced the piece of paper out of his sight as if he was fighting against some kind of magnetism. Take it away, and prepare to start investigating with those gifts.

"Yes, I have a five-year-old son, his name is Guitai." Mr. Ogawa nodded, "Although he likes these toys very much, I am afraid that he will accidentally break these toys or something, so I did not let him play. , they are all sealed up. However, there are also toys of the same style that were bought for him."

"So, how many people know you have a son and know your address? Is there any reason for them to do this?" Maori detectives seem to be relatively reliable when handling such seemingly uncomplicated cases. Raised a very reasonable question.

"Well...it should be quite a lot, because I am a surgeon, and these gifts are sent to the hospital. Because of work, I am sometimes too busy to go home for several days, and sometimes Gui Tai also He will be brought by his mother to the hospital to see me, so colleagues in the hospital, as well as some patients and their families, should all know about it, right?" Mr. Xiaochuan thought for a while and replied like this.

"In this case, is it possible that the patient you once treated sent these things to you in order to repay?" Kogoro Mouri asked as if to himself, and then shook his head again. "No no no, even if it's a repayment of gratitude, it's fine to send some gifts. It's not necessary to send more than 30 million yen together. Besides, people who can spend so much money don't seem to be squeamish. The character of this kind of thing."

"I also don't think it's possible. When I came to our hospital, few of the patients I've dealt with looked like they were very wealthy at home..." Dr. Xiaochuan rubbed his hands, "I don't know why, I always There is a vague sense of unease, and it was not the patients and their families who were thankful for the incident before, but I didn't feel that way at that time..."

"It seems like a feeling of being about to lose something, extremely sad and scared."

"I feel..." Mauri Kogoro, who heard these metaphysical speeches, did not express his position directly, but frowned, his eyes shifted on the toy on the table, a remittance slip, and a letter.

"Speaking of which, these toys are a bit old." Conan, who brought Dr. Ogawa over and stayed beside him, suddenly interjected, "Like this electronic pet, the fifth edition has already been released this year, but this is still the third edition. The second edition from years ago."

"Moreover, since Mr. Ogawa said that these toys have not been played by his own children, they should be in a brand new state in theory, but the games in this handheld game console are archived, and it is obvious that someone has played them."

Guan Dounan, who realized that there might be a case, also came over to join in the fun, fiddling with the handheld game console that he had never had the chance to play when he was a child, but found a file with partial progress in it.

"Hey, how can you move these things casually..." Because there was a third-year high school student in the same school as his daughter, Kogoro Mouri did not directly use his iron fist on the two, but complained very dissatisfiedly.

"The time of the archive, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is in 1995... Doctor Ogawa, are these things sent every 30 days, or are they sent on a fixed date every month?"

Guan Dounan checked the time in the archive, suddenly realized something, and turned to ask Dr. Ogawa.

"Yes, it will be sent every 30 days, so the date will be somewhat different. But when you say that, it seems to be a little worse... eh...?" Dr. Ogawa recalled and gave such an answer, but Suddenly I felt a little dizzy and I had to fall asleep on the spot.

"Okay, that's enough." Guan Dounan held him up and pinched his arm secretly to wake up Dr. Xiaochuan and divert his attention, "Doctor Xiaochuan, you can recall that two years ago What happened, with your son, or with the child?"

In Conan's vision, a black shadow suddenly appeared behind Guan Dounan, rushed towards him, and melted into his body.

The "one month" interval for sending gifts is not calculated in literal date numbers, but in actual days spent. Well, the sender is likely not affected by the time confusion.

That person may be a stand-in messenger of natural awakening.