Second floor studio.

Chiba gently brushed off the powder from the helmet with a soft-bristled brush, and only a part of the powder stuck to the helmet.

Fingerprints have a low degree of adhesion, so powders that stick to fingerprints will be less likely to be scraped off by a soft-bristled brush than powder that doesn't.

Chiba glanced at the powder of the fingerprints that had been stuck to the helmet and carefully rubbed them down with duct tape.

As long as you compare these fingerprints with Conan's fingerprints that you extracted earlier, you can solve this problem that has plagued you for nearly a month.

Chiba was about to use the scanner to enter her fingerprints into her computer, but she heard the doorbell ringing.

Who is it? It's about seven o'clock in the evening, and there should be no guests at this time...

Chiba opened the window of the studio and looked at the doorway - even though it was already dark, there was a ceiling light outside Chiba's doorway.

Qian Yu immediately showed a stunned look, and then immediately ran out of the door, ran downstairs, and opened the door.

"Tachibana-san~~~" Mr. Kobayashi looked at Chiba with a smile.

"Thousand Feathers~~~" Yuan Tai and the others cheered and looked at Thousand Feathers.

"Why are you here?" Thousand Feathers were surprised.

"Didn't Gray Hara-san tell you?" Mr. Kobayashi had a surprised expression.

"Huh?" Qianyu looked confused.

Upstairs, the door of Gray Plains opened.

"You weren't there at the time, so I wrote it down on a sticky note and put it on your door," Gray Plains said leisurely, leaning against the guardrail. "Didn't you go back to your room?"

"Uhhh Qian Yu sighed. "I didn't reply... That one... What are you here for? ”

"Because the school is being renovated, there will be an indefinite holiday for the time being, so I'll leave my homework~~~" Mr. Kobayashi said with a smile.

"Uhhh The corners of Chiha's mouth twitched. "Okay...

When Ash Yuan also walked down, Mr. Kobayashi showed them a piece of paper.

The first is a certain amount of assignments.

The second is to visit the attraction as a group at least once a week and keep a journal.

"Group visit?" Chiba raised an eyebrow. "So, let's go visit the attractions together?"

"That's right~" Mr. Kobayashi smiled. "That's why I've called you here, and I'm going to convey this mission to you in one sentence."

“。。。” Conan took the piece of paper and shrugged. "Understood."

"That..." Mr. Kobayashi suddenly remembered something. "If I remember correctly, you should have formed an organization called the 'Junior Detectives', right?"

"Teacher, do you know about our detective group?" Yuan Tai said in surprise.

"You've solved a lot of cases together before, haven't you?" Mr. Kobayashi said with a smile. "You defeated the gangsters in the department store; Unearthing the dean's criminal deeds; Two sinister treasure hunters were also caught! The teacher has always paid attention to you~"

"Then I, I have another purpose today, which is to ask you to complete a commission!"

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned.

"Ding Dong—" The doorbell rang again.

When Qianyu opened the door, a handsome white-haired man of seventeen or eighteen years old stood at the door, looking at Qianyu.

"Fujiwara, come in~" Mr. Kobayashi glanced at the white-haired young man at the door and said with a smile.

"Teacher, are you talking about them?" After the white-haired young man saw Mr. Kobayashi, his face calmed down slightly. "That efficient detective group?"

"Yes!" Mitsuhiko and the others cheered, while Chiba, Conan, and Ashbara just looked at Fujiwara calmly.

"My father was an elementary school teacher in Fujiwara," Mr. Kobayashi explained. "Fujiwara came to visit my father the other day, and while chatting with him, I asked him if he had any good detectives among his students - I remembered that although you were just children, you were very good at solving crimes, so I recommended you to him."

“。。。” Fujiwara looked at Chiba and the others thoughtfully. "Little ones, would you mind going out and eating something with me?"

。。。

"First of all, this is a deposit," Fujiwara said, placing a thousand yen on the table. "It's to show my sincerity."

“。。。” Chiba and Conan looked at each other in surprise - a thousand yen for a deposit? So generous to a group of children?

When they looked at Fujiwara again, they found that Fujiwara was also looking at the two of them - and the gray hara on the other side.

"Little fat man, freckles, and little red-haired girl, you go get some drinks first, I'll pay." Fujiwara immediately glanced at Motota, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi, and handed them a sheet of Natsume Soseki (1,000 yen) before saying.

When the three of them left, Fujiwara looked at Chiba, Conan, and Ashbara.

"It looks like the three of you are the cornerstone of this team," Fujiwara said, placing a brand new 10,000 yen bill on the table and handing it to the trio. "This is the real deposit, a deposit for the three of you."

"What do you want us to do?" Conan asked with a frown.

"Help me investigate two people." As he spoke, Fujiwara placed two photos on the table.

It was a picture of two girls, one with long black hair and the other with long pink hair.

"What are you going to do?" Gray Yuan Wai's eyes showed a flash of disgust, and he asked.

"Actually, before I came here, I went to the house of your friend, Dr. Asasa, and he happened to be answering a phone call from a hot spring hotel asking him to fix the automaton he had made, and he said he would be there tomorrow."

"It just so happened that a few of my friends, including these two, and I would be going there tomorrow to soak in the hot springs, so I came up with this plan."

"Here's what I commissioned you: we'll go to the hot springs around nine o'clock in the evening, and you—the girl should be enough—hide in the shadows and watch what they're doing."

"What?" Gray Yuan Wai frowned and asked. "You're going to let us peep?"

"I don't need you to tell me about their bodies or anything like that," Fujiwara glanced at Ash Hara with a slightly disgusted expression. "I just wish you could tell me if they did anything weird."

"Strange things?" Gray Plains raised his eyebrows.

"I don't need to say what it is," Fujiwara crossed his hands over his chest. "You'll understand. If you find anything like that, be sure to let me know, because the final completion bonus is—"

The eyes of the three widened for a moment, and there was an incredible look in their eyes.

It was a beautifully crafted diamond necklace, and the size of the diamonds on it was absolutely rare!