Chapter 617 - Searching for Jade

“!?” Heiji Hattori was already stupid by Kazuha's actions - how could this childhood friend of his usually make such a bold move, could it be that he was unscrupulous because he was in the dark?

The fact that Hattori didn't exclaim was due to the fact that his fingers didn't continue to do anything beyond Hattori's expectations, but he could clearly feel that something was stuffed under his half-buttoned hand - a bag made of silk from the touch.

[What's that?] Hattori subconsciously planned to touch what the bag was, but the action of grasping ended up pinching the hand that had just stuffed the bag into Hattori's palm, but had not yet had time to exit.

"Ahh The owner of the hand exclaimed, but the timbre made Hattori Heiji immediately realize that something was very troublesome.

In any case, the owner of the hand obviously will not be his childhood sweetheart, because his childhood sweetheart will obviously neither be this reaction nor this timbre.

"Ah, I'm sorry, are you?" Hattori Heiji hurriedly let go of his hand and asked the visitor in the dark.

"I'm Suzu Chiga, I'm sorry for trespassing!" Chiga Suzu was busy apologizing, but Heiji Hattori had already turned his attention to the silk bag - by the touch of his fingertips, he could vaguely discern the contents of the silk bag's surface ornamentation: it was supposed to be an amulet bag.

"What did you give me?" Heiji Hattori asked, holding the amulet bag in front of him, and at the same time pressing the nightlight at the head of the bed with his other hand—presumably someone who had plugged it into the power socket when he was visiting him, which came in handy at this time.

As a bleak sight slowly emerged from the darkness, the appearance of the amulet bag appeared in Hattori's eyes - as he had touched, it was a rather delicately crafted amulet bag.

"I'm just ......," Chiga Suzu whispered. Because you were injured yesterday, I'm a little worried about you. And you helped us teach the thief a lesson yesterday, so I made this for you as a gift. ”

"Did you do it?" Hattori stroked the lines on it. "No wonder it's so exquisite."

With that, he turned his head, intending to express his gratitude to Chiga Suzu. But at this moment, he suddenly paused, hesitated for a moment, and then asked a question. "Miss Suzu Chiga, are you a native of Kyoto?"

"Huh?" Suzu Chiga looked stunned, but then returned to normal. "Yes, I've been living in Kyoto since I was born 19 years ago."

"19?" A look of astonishment flashed across Hattori's face. "That...... Are you familiar with the roads of Kyoto? We have a treasure map here that may be related to geography......"

"Familiar with that, right?" Chiga Ling nodded, then hummed in a low voice. "まるたけえびすにおしおいけ-" But just as she was singing this, she saw that there was only a dull look on Hattori's face. "Mr. Hattori, is something wrong?"

"......" Hattori Heiji came back to his senses after Chiga Suzu called softly again. Ah, it's okay...... That's it...... Can I please help me see what is written on this picture—" As he spoke, he took out his copy of the treasure map from his bosom and handed it to Suzu Chiga.

"Hmm-" Chiga Suzu held the treasure map, narrowing her eyes slightly—the light was obviously a little too dim. Realizing that she couldn't see it clearly, she finally leaned down slightly, placed the paper on the top of the bedside table, and studied it with Heiji Hattori, who had already turned around and was also leaning in front of the treasure map.

"Any ideas?" Hattori Heiji looked at Suzu Chiga's face and asked.

"If it's a street, I think I might have some ideas......" Suzu Chiga tapped her finger on the treasure map. By the way, is this thing an acorn (どんぐり)? ”

She was referring to an acorn that had also been drawn on the treasure map, but had not attracted the attention of Hattori Heiji and the others—the reason why it didn't attract attention was because they thought it should be a decipherment clue or a reference to the treasure map, so they abandoned the clue early on, intending to let the locals of Kyoto guess what it meant.

"We think so, do you have anything in mind?" Hattori nodded.

"どんぐり (acorn), どんり, tong (street) (Author: The pronunciation of the first one is similar to that of Dongguli, while the last two are close to Dongli, and the second of them is what the first one looks like after cutting off a byte)." Suzu Chiga continued. "You see, if we look at it from the point of view of the street, these three rows of patterns are carved on the second, half, fourth, and fifth floors of the five-story tower—if you map these onto the roads of Kyoto, it's Gojo Street, Miike Street between the four streets and the two streets." (Note 1)

"Makes sense, especially considering that this ink dot is between the top two layers, if you flip this treasure map north and south, this is the word 'jade' that represents the treasure, but this is only confirmed on the horizontal level, ...... vertically" Hattori Heiji narrowed his eyes slightly, focusing his gaze on the two tengu heads in the middle of the row belonging to Miike Street and Gojo Street, respectively. What do these two tengu refer to? ”

"Karasuma Street," this time Chiga Suzu replied unusually quickly. "Those streets just now are all large-scale streets, and the largest north-south street in this area is Karasuma Street, and there is indeed a word like Karasuma Tengu, isn't it?" (Note 2)

"But where is the most critical point of this jade character?" Hattori Heiji frowned. (Note 3)

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1. The original sentence "Acorn Gollum" comes from the Japanese nursery rhyme "Acorn Gollum", this ballad has little to do with Miike Street, so I will set the plot to use homophony like above, because I can only think of this...... By the way, there is an alternative explanation that the Kyoto Zoo is just east of Miike Street, and then Acorn hints at the Kyoto Zoo, but considering that Hattori and Conan are not locals, I don't think their reasoning from this will be explicit in the theatrical version. If you know Japanese well and know the truth, ask for guidance Orz. Just for this stuff, I flipped through Baidu and Google Maps for two hours. Director, I'm going to add chicken legs!!

2. Raven Tengu. Karasuma Street is indeed the largest north-south section of Kyoto's Nakakyo Ward.

3. The most important thing in the original work is that the loach that deduced Shijo Street hints at Yanagawa Nabe, which represents Yanagibaba Street, but the problem Yanagawa Nabe is a Tokyo dish, and I don't think that an Osaka person would use something in Kyoto that is generally only familiar to Tokyoites to reason about a Kyoto person's puzzle (but this is indeed an idea that a person who lives in Tokyo should seem to have), so I chose to cut this part......