At the same time, in the park where Hattori Heiji and Musashibo Benkei confronted before.

"Hmm......" Yuanshan Kazuha looked around at the scenery with an uncertain expression. Where the hell is it......"

If her memory was correct, she should have broken the attacker's mask with a stocking filled with stones, and the fragments of the mask should have landed nearby. If this fragment can be found, it may also provide the police with more clues to find the murderer......

So if she wants more clues and helps the police catch the murderer who hurt Heiji as much as possible, she must find these mask fragments.

But where are the fragments?

Just as she was searching for shards in the grass, she suddenly felt the sound of sharp blades breaking through the air behind her.

“！？” He Ye was taken aback, and subconsciously planned to turn back, but realized that it must be too late for this action now, so she immediately adjusted the concept of action to counterattack mode, and subconsciously let go of the sharp blade that slashed at the left side of her body.

As she sideways the blade, a sharp blade appeared on the left side of her body.

[Metal sword? Kazuha looked at the light of the blade and probably judged the weapon used by the other party. [At this angle, the opponent should poke forward at most anyway, and it is impossible to make a quick downward chop. 】

Then, there is no need to make any movement in the legs, just wait for him to continue to send the sword forward due to the lack of strength, and finally drag him down when the hilt and wrist of the sword are sent over - in fact, this is also the essence of Aikido, see the technical defensive martial arts of the move.

After about half a second, the hilt and wrist of the sword had already appeared at the edge of Kazuha's field of vision.

[Let it out!] And then it's just that-]

With a sudden sound, restless sound like a swarm of bees, Kazuha's expression was locked on his face.

On the shirt behind her, an electric rod was still there, as if mocking Kazuha's defenselessness.

"I didn't even think about attacking and defending clearly, and I thought about counterattacking?" A muffled voice from the attacker rang out in Kazuha's remaining consciousness. "If you hesitate to this extent, you will have to lose."

……

Meanwhile, on the Kurama Line train, Chiba, Conan, and Fujiwara are sitting on the tram - Heiji Hattori has returned to the hospital due to a recurrence of his injuries. And Fujiwara's appearance here was not at the invitation of Chiba, but because they happened to bump into Fujiwara and Hotaru who came to visit when they were sending Hattori Heiji back to the hospital, so they could only accept the fact that Fujiwara also acted with them.

This time, their purpose was to verify a strange place that had been confirmed before - Musashibo Benkei, who assassinated Heiji Hattori in Kurama Mountain, did not evacuate with a bow and arrow, so they should be able to search there to find weapons and other traces left behind.

However, before they could look for clues over there, Qian Yu seemed to have discovered something.

"Jade?" Conan was stunned.

What Chiba showed Conan was a sketch of a replica he had made from a previous copy he had drawn from Uncle Mori as a clue to the location of the stolen Buddha statue — there were three rows of patterns, and between the right half of the first two rows of juxtaposed patterns was a dot with a sinuous outline.

"yes," Chiba nodded. "The pattern on this clue map seems to be able to be connected into jade characters. As for why it is connected into Chinese characters, because if you look at this ink dot, is it not like the ink dots that are naturally splashed under normal circumstances, but very similar to the dots in the Chinese characters written with a brush? This kind of point is definitely not accidentally pointed out, but deliberately written with something as troublesome as a brush, which means that the message "This is a kanji dot written with a brush" is also what this treasure map wants to express. And if that's the case, we can also deduce from this information and put together these patterns on it - and if we put it together, it will form a jade character. You see, the three patterns in the third row are wider than the first row, and the first row is wider than the second row, which is the same as the structure of the Chinese character '玉'. ”

"Maybe, but if it's just a 'jade' word, we won't get any information, right?" Conan leaned over and said, and Fujiwara glanced at the sketch that Chiba had drawn here. "Wait a minute, if that's the case, maybe the patterns themselves contain some geographic coordinate information?"

"But I can't think of the meaning of this information," Thousand Feathers shook her head.

"I don't know," Conan shook his head. "These things are probably better reserved for people who are more familiar with Kyoto – professionals who are absolutely well-versed in Kyoto's culture."

"Huh?" At this moment, Fujiwara suddenly made a strange sound - he was looking out the window, and from the focus of his gaze, he seemed to be looking at some moving target.

"What's wrong?" Chiba also cast her eyes on the opposite road, but found that she was too short to see anything.

"It's okay......" Fujiwara shook his head with an expression of disrelief. Maybe I'm wrong. ”

In Fujiwara's somewhat confused eyes, a car that was obviously a beat faster than the others disappeared in front of it.

Just now...... Did you read it wrong?

Right in the driver's seat of the car, a man wearing the mask of a young man in the Noh theater was driving the car. And right next to him was a young woman wearing a seat belt and an eye patch, who seemed to be sleeping.

……

Hospital, Hattori flat dim ward.

The door was softly unscrewed, and then a crisp, slightly nervous breathing sound appeared in the room.

At the first moment the door was unscrewed, Hattori Heiji had already woken up suddenly, but then the sound of breathing made him realize who it was.

Such a crisp wheezing sound, combined with the people who appeared here at this time, it was obviously Yuan Shan and Ye who came.

This guy ...... Finally back, what did she do before, why did she waste so much time?

The sound of crisp footsteps sounded - it was similar to the sound of Ha's hard leather boots.

Well, now it's even more certain that it's Kazuha...... But why didn't she say a word?

Thinking like this, Hattori Heiji realized that the visitor had come in front of him - judging by her calm and unhurried willingness to identify herself, she probably didn't realize that she was not asleep.

What are you going to do, and leaves?

Thinking like this, Hattori Heiji saw a blurry figure standing quietly in front of his bed.

Then, the touch of thin, cold fingers touched Hattori's wrist, which was exposed outside the quilt.