“Tall?” Winnett was not very confident, “Maybe I am not suitable for being too tall.” She thought that Ai was quite satisfied with her height – taller than her.

Sonoko happily affirmed that she thought Winnet didn’t care much about dressing up, but now she was sure that Winnet had the same troubles as ordinary young girls. In Sonoko’s opinion, cuteness is the king, and this dress highlights her height and cuteness at the same time; this greatly satisfies her fashion desire. She gave Winnet a thumbs up without hesitation:

“Even when you’re not confident, you’re still super cute!”

“Garden…”

“Well, at times like this you should accept compliments openly; and don’t worry about not being serious enough, you can make your skirt longer and act like a clergyman, just like in classic TV dramas.”

“Thank you, Sonoko.”

In fact, Winnet just wanted Sonoko to stop praising her, but in the end it turned into a thank you for her encouragement. Sonoko thought Winnet was very shy – to be noticed – she rummaged in her handbag and took out a pair of non-prescription glasses that looked a bit like ski goggles and put them on Winnet.

“I can’t recognize her now! She looks like a celebrity going on an incognito tour.”

After that, Yuanzi held her hand and walked in front. Winnie didn’t say anything; in order to prevent others’ kindness from being in vain, she followed quietly behind, like a real blind person. She thought to herself: I’d better change this shoe later.

Lack of control.

They walked along the aisle in front of the mall. The macaroni restaurant was near the underground parking lot, so it was very close. Once they entered the restaurant, they could find Conan and the others right away without even having to walk around.

This is certainly not because of how conspicuous they are, but because of their numbers.

Including Conan, five people squeezed into one table.

Sato, Takagi, and Megure, these three cobblers gathered together, plus the two plague gods, it would be pure self-deception to say that nothing happened.

Winette lifted the package slightly. She was also thinking about delivering it to Ai before the evening; of course, she also wanted to show off this tasteful dress a little bit.

Miss Winnet still has great confidence in the master Sonoko’s masterpiece. However, Sonoko herself seems a little slow. In Winnet’s opinion, she looks cuter with her hair down. But it is very presumptuous to suddenly change her style. Winnet thinks it is more appropriate for Xiaolan to tell the story.

By the way, did someone die in the mall or on the street?

This scene was even more luxurious than when Asakura died.

When they got closer, Kogoro was observing a few photos and concluded that the photos were of girls of foreign descent. Winette didn’t know the situation yet, but she saw Sonoko snatch the photos from his hands and commented:

“it’s so cute!”

……

536 Seeking Death

Winette, who was behind Sonoko, also saw the photo, which was a type she could not understand at all.

“All three of them are painted so black! The one in the middle is even painted brown.”

At this time, Sato, who was sitting next to Kogoro, explained that the style of these girls was called 101 Gal, which was currently popular; Sonoko was shocked by Kogoro’s ignorance, but Kogoro pretended to know and put on an “I knew it a long time ago” look. Winette was at the same level as Kogoro, and Gal could still be understood, but the deeper level was a complete novice.

“Miss Winnet, you know that too, right?”

“Ah… um.”

Winnet learned how to fool around from Kogoro and nodded slightly. The surrounding police officers showed surprise. They thought she was someone Sonoko knew, but they didn’t expect it to be Winnet. They showed a mixture of surprise and appreciation.

Conan, who was listening in, still had an embarrassed look on his face. He could see that Winnet was obviously lying, and this outfit showed no trace of her originality except for her silver hair. However, he still admitted that this outfit was very coordinated and beautiful. As for being fashionable, forget it. In his eyes, it was more like a popular Renaissance.

It wasn’t popular when his mom was young.

However, fashion and history have something in common, which is easier for him to accept.

He mainly felt that Winette was being led by Sonoko to absorb all those messy things, which might make Haibara angry. He asked on behalf of Kogoro:

“By the way, where’s Sister Xiaolan?”

“She said she needed to go to the bathroom and asked us to come to this noodle shop to find you first.”

Winette saw that the girls in the photo were all injured, and combined with the news on TV, it was clear what case the police were investigating. But she was a little surprised how they got together, and Sonoko had the same curiosity. Conan whispered to her that Kogoro was caught as a criminal because he followed Officer Sato who had changed his clothes, but later found out that it was the wrong person. Sonoko said he deserved it. Conan told her not to tell Xiaolan, otherwise he would be affected when he returned.

The most obvious thing is the decline in food quality.

——Conan, who has started his newlywed life early, does not know how to appreciate the blessings he has.

Takagi, who was standing by, was analyzing the case. Taking the hot girls as the premise, if the criminals committed crimes indiscriminately just by looking at their outfits, it would be extremely difficult to search for them.

“Yeah, nothing like this has ever happened before,” Sato said troubled.

“You’re wrong. I only remember it happening once,” Kogoro raised his head and touched his chin, and began to recall, “I remember that time a female high school student was hit by a car and the car fled. It’s disgusting to think about it.” He said that the incident happened before he became a criminal policeman.

Before he finished speaking, Megure, who was sitting diagonally opposite him, could no longer sit still. He stood up with his hands on the table and told the two police officers to go back and investigate, with a very unnatural attitude. As soon as he finished speaking, Sato was about to continue to put on makeup to look like that hot girl. Megure interrupted her, saying that there was no need to do so, and asked them to investigate the common points of the three victims; after he walked a distance away, he suddenly seemed to remember and said goodbye to Kogoro.

Sato and Takagi left, leaving Kogoro and Conan looking at each other in bewilderment.

Then, Sonoko received a call from Xiaolan.

“You said you couldn’t find the exit… Then where are you now? What! An underground parking lot? I’m really defeated by you, the number one directionless person.”

While she was on the phone, Conan asked her where her rings, bracelets, and necklaces came from, as if he had found a breakthrough in the case. Those accessories were cheap imitations, gold, with some carved patterns. Winnett saw that she was on the phone, so she answered for her:

“It’s a giveaway from the Beihu Department Store. They’re doing a millennium promotion.”

The banner at the mall said so. Winnet was originally confused. It was already the year 000 when two years had not passed. Considering that Ai did not go to school, she thought that the actual time had not passed that long. However, it should be just her who was confused, because no one else had any doubts about this matter.

With an optimistic attitude, Winnett sees this as a way to delay aging. It doesn’t matter how time changes, as long as people don’t change, as long as the current life doesn’t change.

“The accessories that Sister Sonoko wears are the same as the sisters in those photos!” Conan exclaimed.

Yuanzi added more details:

“Show your uniform invoice at the exit and you can choose a gift worth 10,000 yen. I also chose Miss Winnet’s glasses. They suit her very well, right?”

Before she could get an answer to her question, Megure, who was at the checkout counter, came hurriedly, grabbed Sonoko’s arm, and asked Takagi, who was holding the photos behind him, to confirm the accessories. The answer was exactly the same, the girls in the photos were wearing the same accessories as Sonoko, so a new common point was found – they were all customers of this department store.

The police officer’s sudden action delayed the conversation between Sonoko and Xiaolan.

Winnet heard Xiaolan calling Sonoko through the phone. At first, she was going to remind Sonoko, but suddenly Xiaolan screamed through the phone.

“what!”

The sound was extremely tragic.

Kogoro, who had just heard about the hot girl attack, rushed over worriedly, snatched Sonoko’s phone, and asked what happened to Xiaolan.

“Hurry up and tell me, Xiaolan!” Kogoro shouted.

“dad……”

“What? You said there was a girl lying in the parking lot with blood all over her head?”

His shout was so loud that everyone heard it.

As soon as their eyes met, they immediately ran to the parking lot where the crime occurred. While running, Mao Li reminded Xiaolan to be careful and they would rush over immediately.

Megure also informed the class while he was on his way.

When they arrived, Xiaolan was fine, just surprised. The police officer and Kogoro checked the victim’s condition and found that the victim was already beyond saving. The cause of death was a blunt force trauma to the head. When the police arrived, they began to check the victim’s identity card and take photos for evidence.

The victim had similar makeup to the previous three.

“The victim’s name is Aizawa Tae, she is 20 years old and used to work as a clerk in this department store. She was fired a year ago and is currently unemployed.”

“He killed someone the fourth time…”

Megure felt very awkward about this and tried to suppress his anger. There was someone behind him making a loud noise and ignoring the obstruction. He asked and learned that the person was the boyfriend of the victim Aizawa, Shirakawa Noriyuki. The two agreed to meet at the restaurant today, and he was the son of the owner of the department store. There was also a woman comforting him, named Konno Yuri, who was his college classmate and a waitress in the restaurant where he worked as a chef. The two often discussed problems together.

The question was about Aizawa Tae, and Takagi explained that Shirakawa’s father had always strongly opposed his relationship with Aizawa.

“Xiaolan, before you found the body, did you see any suspicious people nearby?” Kogoro asked.

“No, only a security guard passed by me.”

“Guards?”

“Well, I just saw a security guard who was about forty years old at the entrance of this parking lot.”

Behind her, a big-nosed man wearing a hat stood up and said:

“I think she was talking about me. I had just left work and was going to relieve myself. The criminal must have taken advantage of that time to commit the crime.”

“I think you are the one who committed this crime!”

Another middle-aged man stood up. He was wearing glasses and a green suit. The moment he saw him, Shirakawa Noriyuki called out “Dad”. Shirakawa Haruyoshi snorted coldly and continued:

“As far as I know, you were working as a security guard at a department store that we compete with six months ago, right? You didn’t come here to destroy our reputation at their request, did you?”

“I don’t!”

Shirakawa Haruyoshi completely ignored his defense and turned to make sarcastic remarks on the other side:

“But Ji Zhi now knows how powerful he is, and will find another woman to date in the future. This time you have to find me a good girl with no bad record.”

“dad……”

The affectionate man cried even harder, and Konno came over to comfort him.

Shirakawa Haruyoshi mentioned “bad record” which caught Kogoro’s attention and he asked what it meant. Ms. Konno gave the answer that a year ago there was a car accident in this parking lot. At that time, Aizawa Tae hit a very young boy with her car, which was why she was fired by the company.

Sato added:

“I once heard Yumi from the traffic class mention this accident. The boy was waiting for his mother in the parking lot, but a car suddenly drove out from the dark and hit him. It was in the parking lot at the time, and the driver was not driving very fast, but the car hit the vital part, and the boy died. I remember that boy’s name seemed to be Akira Sakurai.”

Then, Kogoro asked about Shirakawa Haruyoshi’s height.

Shirakawa Noriyuki answered 150 cm. He himself was 173 cm, while Ms. Konno next to him was 144 cm, and the guard at the end was 163 cm.

Kogoro whispered to Megure:

“That makes the president very suspicious.”

Since the previous victims mentioned that the attacker was about the same height as them, and their heights were all around 150 cm, the police inferred that the criminal was 150 cm tall. Among this group of people, only Shirakawa Haruyoshi met the criteria, and Shirakawa Noriyuki and Aizawa had agreed to meet at the restaurant, so he was also able to know about this in advance.

Megure continued to ask Shirakawa Noriyuki:

“Excuse me, did your father go to the restaurant where you agreed to meet today?”

“No, he hasn’t shown up yet after the agreed time. That’s why I asked her to come to the parking lot to see if my dad has shown up.”

“I see.”

“Are you suspecting my father of murder?” Shirakawa Noriyuki was extremely excited.

Megure threw up his hands in denial, accidentally revealing the serial attacker’s information – the murderer was about 150 cm tall. Shirakawa realized that the murderer was the serial attacker, and was furious, thinking that the police did nothing even though they knew the suspect’s height, which was tantamount to letting the murderer continue to commit crimes. He cursed:

“You policemen are just a bunch of idiots!”

Megure covered the brim of his hat, looking very uncomfortable, and then knelt on the ground, seemingly suffering from some blood pressure or blood sugar problem. Konno apologized on his behalf, and Megure was very generous, saying that it was indeed their negligence. For the sake of the excited man, Miss Konno offered to take him to rest and calm down, and the annoyed Shirakawa also realized that he had said too much in the heat of the moment, and let it swing without saying a word. As they left, the guard also said that he would return to his post for duty.

All the relevant people dispersed at once.

Then, Conan asked them about their height.

Because he had shown extraordinary reasoning ability in the previous few times, Sato and Takagi subconsciously answered for him; of the three victims in the photo, the first and third said that the criminal was about the same height as them, and the second one in the middle was attacked from behind and fell into a coma, and did not see the criminal. The two girls who provided testimony were 151 cm and 153 cm tall respectively.

Conan held the photo and fell into deep thought.

Kogoro wanted to continue to find some breakthroughs from Xiaolan, so he asked the previous question again.

Xiaolan replied that she didn’t see anyone else. She stared at the victim, thinking:

“But don’t you think something is wrong?”

“What’s wrong?”

Xiaolan pointed her finger at the victim and said, “I mean this lady.”

“You think so too?” Sonoko agreed.

“You feel it too, it’s a little weird, right? You don’t know what’s weird, right?”

Winnett stood behind them and observed them. Suddenly, she remembered what Sonoko had said about thick-soled shoes. Her thick-soled shoes were not exaggerated. Real gals all wore thick-soled shoes that were more than ten centimeters high, as if they were walking on mini stilts. Although the victim was dressed as a gal, she was wearing a pair of pink mid-heeled shoes like Reina Mizunashi’s.

shoe.

This is probably where the inconsistency lies.

However, she was not entirely sure. Not to mention that she knew almost nothing about hot girls, Ai had already talked about her dressing style countless times, and in the end, she seemed to let it go, and on the contrary, she should just stay the way she is now, so as not to attract any more men.

However, before she could open her mouth, a big shot from the police force barged in. Kogoro, who was no longer a criminal policeman, was cheered up. The man was the current Metropolitan Police Department Chief Matsumoto Kiyonaga, who was very concerned about the case because of its social impact.

Winnett had a lot to complain about.

He remembered that there was a Japanese mystery writer named Matsumoto Seicho, but there was no such person in this world. Instead, there was this fierce-looking man with a square head and a scar on his face.

He came over to give some advice to Megure, acting like a leader.

Megure believed that the murderer was nearby and asked the police to send more patrols. At this time, Matsumoto left an intriguing sentence to Megure: