Chapter 340 Meeting Kikue Tanaka Again

"Sand..." Ayumi thought for a moment after listening to Conan's introduction, "Each floor of the apartment building has a micro-landscape of dry mountains and rivers. There should be a lot of sand in it."

Every level, this makes Conan a little frustrated. They can't spend a lot of time investigating every floor of such a tall apartment building, right? ?

So Conan asked: "Have you ever seen this dog?"

Over there, Ayumi was already playing with Dahei. After hearing this, she said with certainty: "No, but in recent days, the residents on the 12th floor seem to like letting their pets loose. I have seen cats on the 12th floor several times. Cats and dogs.”

"Ayumi's house shouldn't be on the twelfth floor." Nobushige asked curiously, "Why did you go to the twelfth floor?"

"Because the set on the twelfth floor was damaged not long ago, I went to check it out when the staff came to repair it."

The sudden release of pets and the destroyed sets all point suspicious clues to the twelfth floor.

Without Conan and Kogoro Mouri doing anything, the two lost pet owners had already anxiously taken the elevator to the twelfth floor.

Conan also had to say: "Brother Asano, maybe you are right."

If many pets appear frequently in a short period of time, they have every reason to suspect that a resident on the twelfth floor did this deliberately, but what is his purpose?

If it was murder, he should be very low-key and careful.

Ayumi originally wanted to investigate with everyone, but Mouri Kogoro really didn't want to take care of another kid, so he sent Ayumi home.

Immediately afterwards, when Mouri Kogoro and Dahei were looking for clues from house to house on the twelfth floor, Dahei suddenly showed great resistance to one of the houses.

It tried its best to hide behind, but Mr. Yoshida couldn't pull it back.

The tacit understanding cultivated for a long time made Mouri Kogoro and Conan look at each other subconsciously, and then they stood solemnly at the door of this house.

"In order not to disturb the residents, I will knock on the door with Asano in a while, and you all will hide aside and keep quiet." Mouri Kogoro ordered, "Especially Xiaolan, you have to keep an eye on Conan and don't let him run away!"

Conan immediately wanted to accuse his uncle of unfair treatment, but the next second he was hugged by Mao Lilan.

Uh... It's not that he is not firm, it's just that Mao Lilan's embrace is too warm.

The other two owners who were eager to find their pets also knew not to alert the snake at this time, and even Mrs. Kato remained quiet.

Mouri Kogoro took a deep breath, reached out and rang the doorbell.

As the bell rang, a female voice soon came from inside: "Who is it?"

Nobuhiro felt that the voice was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.

"I'm the neighbor next door, and I'm here to bring you my wife's newly baked cake!" Kogoro Mouri told the lie without changing his face.

After a while, the closed door was opened from the inside. The person who opened the door was a young woman. Perhaps for safety, she did not open the chain inside the door, but only opened the door to a gap of about ten centimeters wide.

Nobuhiro was stunned the moment he saw her:

"Miss Tanaka?!"

The woman was also stunned. She looked at Nobushige in shock, and then laughed: "Oh, it's Mr. Asano. What a coincidence. Do you live here too?"

The woman in front of her was clearly Tanaka Kikue, who was taken away by the police not long ago for attempted murder. I didn't expect that she would be released from prison so soon.

Mouri Kogoro frowned and asked, "Asano, do you know this lady?"

"Well, I met her at a gathering of magic enthusiasts before. She..." Nobuhiro didn't know how to introduce her more appropriately.

However, Tanaka Kikue didn't care at all and said: "Hello, you are the famous detective Mr. Mouri Kogoro! I met Mr. Asano at a gathering of the Magic Lovers Alliance. At that time, I committed a crime for some reasons. I was guilty of murder, but it was Mr. Asano who stopped me so that my life would not be covered in darkness."

Mouri Kogoro's eyes widened: "Ah, killing someone?!"

"It was an attempt!" Conan quickly clarified, "Miss Tanaka later realized that killing people would not solve the problem, so she forgave the person who was disrespectful to her elders, right?"

Tanaka Kikue smiled: "It turns out that the Conan kids are here too. In fact, they are the ones who really choose to be tolerant. If they hadn't presented a letter of understanding in court, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to see you now."

Hearing Tanaka Kikue use "them" to describe Hamano Toshiya and Nishiyama Moshi, Nobushige asked with some confusion: "Ms. Tanaka, you and Mr. Hamano Toshiya..."

A touch of sadness flashed across Tanaka Kikue's clear eyes. She shook her head silently and did not answer Nobushige's question.

It seems that this pair of lovers, who were close with other purposes from the beginning, still failed to make it to the end.

After Tanaka Kikue calmed down, she opened the door apologetically and said to Nobushige and Mouri Kogoro: "I'm so sorry, please come in quickly!"

As a result, as soon as she opened the door, Tanaka Kikue saw other people standing in the corridor, and there was obvious surprise on her face.

Mouri Kogoro quickly explained: "Well, that's the case. Two of my clients' pets have been lost. According to the clues, they should be on your floor, so I wanted to come over and ask."

"That's it..." Tanaka Kikue said helplessly, "I just said you didn't bring the cake. It's okay. Please come in, everyone."

Tanaka Kikue warmly greeted everyone into the room, and then she went to work in the kitchen, serving tea and snacks.

Mr. Yoshida said goodbye to everyone very apologetically because Daikoku was unwilling to come in anyway, and then left the apartment building with Daikoku.

Nobushige has been observing the environment of this apartment since he entered the door. Tanaka Kikue's home is not very big, and should be the smallest apartment in the whole building. But even so, the decoration inside is very exquisite, and it can be seen from every detail that it is absolutely valuable.

As the granddaughter of escape magic master Harui Fuden, Tanaka Kikue is also an excellent magician herself, and she will definitely earn a lot of money from performing some magic performances after work. But these alone may not be enough to support the cost of this apartment.

So Nobushige wanted to see from the details whether she was living with a man, but whether it was the shoe cabinet, tableware or other places, everything proved to him that Tanaka Kikue was living alone.

This is a bit strange.

However, Nobuhiro himself is not a person who likes to gossip about other people's lives, so he just looked at it out of curiosity, but did not take it to heart.