Chapter 1458 The Disappearing Envelope

Conan ran out of the library and headed straight for the breeding hut outside the teaching building.

Here, the three little ones plus Haibara Ai are still cleaning the rabbit cage. Mitsuhiko and Genta go in to sweep up the rabbit feces, while Haibara Ai and Ayumi are outside watching the rabbits to make sure they don't run around.

"Why are you back?"

Seeing Conan running back alone, Haibara Ai was a little surprised.

The black rabbit at her feet almost took the opportunity to slip away, but luckily Ayumi was quick enough to grab the rabbit.

Conan leaned on his knees and took two deep breaths, then stood up and walked straight to the rabbit cage.

"Mitsuhiko, Genta, did you find anything while cleaning?"

"thing?"

The two raised their heads and looked at Conan at the door in confusion, "What is this? There is only rabbit feces here..."

Conan frowned immediately, realizing that such a thing could not be on the ground, otherwise it would have been picked up by someone over the years.

So he looked up at the ceiling of the breeding hut.

At this time, Haibara Ai walked nervously to Conan and asked softly in his ear.

"Kudo, did you find it?"

"Um……"

Before Conan could finish his answer, his eyes were fixed on the corner of the ceiling of the breeding hut.

Because the breeding hut once leaked badly, the school installed a layer of ceiling under the original ceiling.

And in the gap between the double ceilings, you can see a protruding square box stuffed there.

"Yuanta, come and help!"

"Ah? Oh..."

Conan summoned the tool man Genta to the bottom of the square box, stepped on Genta's shoulders, and used the length of the broom to push the square box out of the gap.

Bang.

The box fell to the ground, making a sound of metal hitting the ground.

"Wow! What is this?"

Mitsuhiko bent down to pick up the box, but Haibara Ai rushed forward and hugged the box in her arms.

"Xiao Ai?"

Haibara Ai's abnormally positive attitude also surprised Ayumi, who had usually accepted her cold personality.

But Huibara Ai didn't care at all. She picked up the box in her arms and looked at it carefully.

Conan also climbed down from Genta at this time, put his hands in his pockets, and explained confidently: "This is the time capsule left by Miyano Akemi 13 years ago."

"Huh--!"

The three little ones spoke in unison and looked at the box in surprise.

On one side of the lid of the box, there was a piece of paper that said, "This is the time capsule of the 19th graduates. Please give it to the teacher if you find it."

Haibara Ai looked at the handwriting. Although it was still a little childish, she recognized it as her sister's handwriting at a glance.

Memories of death flooded into her mind, and Haibara Ai's hands trembled slightly, and her eyes couldn't stop feeling sore.

Seeing this, Conan smiled slightly and took the box into his hands.

He opened the lid and found a thick stack of envelopes inside.

With the baptism of time, the envelope has turned yellow, and the children's names are written in crooked handwriting on it.

In order to take out Miyano Akemi's time capsule before the adults come back, Conan divides the envelope inside into four parts and asks the three little ones to help him find it.

"All you have to do is help find Miyano Akemi's envelope..."

"Miyano Akemi?"

"No problem, I'll cover it!"

The three kids took their respective stacks of envelopes and began to look through them one by one.

Including Conan, each person only needs to check less than 10 emails.

And Haibara Ai stood there in a daze, her heart pounding.

Her mind was a little confused now, and she felt both excited and nervous.

What I look forward to is having a conversation across time and space with my sister who has passed away.

I was nervous because I didn't know what my sister would say to me when I was a child.

What if my sister has some expectations of me, and what I have done over the years does not meet her expectations?After all, my sister is such a kind person...

And he was just an executioner who studied deadly poisons.

Thinking of this, Huibara Ai couldn't help but lower her head, tightly grasping the hem of her tweed coat with both hands.

At this moment, Conan, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly spoke.

"it does not matter……"

"Don't be nervous, trust me, she won't blame you."

Haibara Ai was stunned and looked at Conan who was still checking the envelope.

The latter didn't even look at her, but casually revealed her inner struggle in one sentence.

But even though it was a casual comfort, it made Haibara Ai feel a warm current flowing into her heart.

The nervous little hands gradually loosened the hem of the clothes.

At this moment, Mitsuhiko, one of the three little ones, was the first to check the envelope that he had been assigned.

"I checked, and there's nothing..."

"Me too, I didn't see the envelope signed 'Miyano Akemi'."

"me too……"

The three of them looked at each other, then looked at Conan.

Conan also stared at them in surprise.

Because I had already checked the envelopes on my side, I checked them several times over for fear of missing anything.

As it turned out, there was no letter from Miyano Akemi inside.

"Did you really look carefully? Did you not miss anything?"

"Or a typo?"

Conan asked quickly.

The three little ones looked a little dissatisfied, "Of course, if you don't believe me, come and see."

Conan reached out and took the envelopes from the three people and started counting them again.

But even if he counted it himself, and with Haibara Ai watching beside him, he still didn't find the envelope signed by "Miyano Akemi".

Conan put the envelope aside and checked the box again, but there was nothing missing.

All the envelopes from that year are here.

But the only one missing is Miyano Akemi.

"how so……"

Conan stared at the box and envelope in shock.

Clearly from the verbal descriptions of the three graduates, Miyano Akemi must have left behind her own time capsule, as well as words for her younger sister Miyano Shiho.

But why...

Just then, several figures walked out from the main entrance of the teaching building. They were the three graduates and Kobayashi and Wakasa Rumi.

Conan immediately collected his thoughts, put the envelopes into the box, and then had it kept by Haibara Ai temporarily.

At this time, Haibara Ai's expression was a little dazed, and she took the box mechanically with both hands.

Conan also understood the loss and disappointment in her heart.

But that's why he has to rely on reasoning to make a quick decision and find Miyano Akemi's time capsule. "If we can't find the time capsule, how about we let everyone recall the contents?"

"Well, that's all we can do..."

"But I feel a little embarrassed, after all, I am saying the message I left when I was a kid in front of so many people."

The three graduates walked over to the breeding hut, chatting and laughing.

They came to thank the Young Detectives for their help.

"Children, even though we didn't find it, I still want to thank you for your help."

"Then you guys continue to work hard on the cleaning. We'll go back to hold the class reunion first."

Takumi Murata smiled and waved goodbye, then turned around and left with Yanagimachi Gaku and the female doctor.

But Conan put his hands in his pockets, raised the corners of his mouth, and stood there with a confident look on his face.

"Would you please just leave like this?"

"Even the time capsule that carries important memories is gone..."

As Conan finished his words, the three graduates froze in shock.

The three of them turned around at the same time and looked at Conan nervously, "Did you find the time capsule?!"

Conan smiled slightly and did not comment.

He turned his gaze to Yanagimiao Yue and asked, "First of all, I want to ask, Brother Yanagimiao Yue, why do you keep interfering with our search for the time capsule?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Tingyue's body trembled and his upper body leaned back subconsciously.

"Where, where is it?"

"How am I hindering you?"

Yanagimachi Yue's cheeks were covered with two drops of nervous sweat. He defended himself, "Didn't I decipher a lot of codes? How could that be a hindrance?"

However, Conan replied with a childlike expression: "You are obviously hindering everyone. After all, you have prepared so many wrong answers..."

As he spoke, he pulled out his cell phone from his pocket and showed the photos in the album to everyone.

"First, the third code is 'Don't go draw', because the school prohibits drawing on the rooftop, so you wrote ぐ on the door handle leading to the rooftop."

"But the same word is written on the bottom edge of the table in the art room."

"There was also a code for the health room. A student lied and said he was not feeling well and went to sleep in the health room, so we found it under the bed."

"But there is also a し on the back of the height measuring machine, because some students would secretly tiptoe during the physical examination and cheat on their height, right?"

"And the painting of the first secret code. I was the one who checked that painting before. There was nothing written on the wall behind the painting at that time."

"In other words, it was you, Yanagimachi Yue, who secretly left false answers in any place that could be associated with the code."

"During the first operation, you speculated that one of us would guess the answer in the next round of operations, so you secretly arranged everything."

"Am I right? Yanagimachi-chan?"

Although Conan calls him "Brother" all the time and sounds sweeter than anyone else, his sharp eyes seem to see through everything.

Yanagimachi Yue broke out in a cold sweat, and looking at the surprised looks of his two old classmates, he finally couldn't bear the pressure.

"Yes, it's me..."

"Yanagimachi? Why are you doing this?" the female doctor asked in disbelief.

Yanagimachi Gaku lowered his head and began to speak.

"I'm sorry, I was just too scared..."

"The fire in the music room 14 years ago was actually caused by me and the bad kids from the neighborhood sneaking into the school to play with fireworks."

"We were seen by Mingmei at the time, so I was afraid that Mingmei would tell this matter..."

Takumi Murata and the female doctor looked even more surprised.

The former stepped forward and asked, "Is this true, Yanagimachi?"

"Um……"

"On the day of the graduation ceremony, Mingmei found me alone and asked me to muster up my courage. I guess she wanted me to turn myself in to the police."

"I was so scared at the time that I didn't say anything."

"But I'm afraid Mingmei will write this in a time capsule and make it public."

"If a current firefighter was once an arsonist, it's not something that can be forgotten with a smile..."

As he spoke, Yanagimachi Gaku shed tears of regret.

The air was silent for a moment, and Takumi Murata walked to Yanagimachi Gaku and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"I understand you, and so do I."

"In fact, the painting in the principal's office that won the award was only because Mingmei did not submit her better painting for the competition."

"I'm also worried about her writing about this in a time capsule..."

The female doctor also stepped forward and said in a deep voice, "Me too."

"During the Chinese language test, I once copied Mingmei, who was sitting in the row in front of me. As a result, Mingmei was called to the teacher's office together with him."

"I'm afraid of her, too..."

Seeing that the three of them formed a victim alliance, as if Miyano Akemi was some kind of big devil who took advantage of her classmates' weaknesses, Conan suddenly interrupted the three of them.

"How could she possibly write this!"

"She's the most popular and well-liked person in the class, how could she write something negative like that in a comment?"

Conan turned his gaze to Haibara Ai beside him and motioned for her to take out the box.

As Haibara Ai brought the box hidden in her clothes in front of her, the three graduates were stunned.

They recognized it immediately; this was the box that contained the envelopes from everyone in the class.

"This is……!"

"Yes, this is your class's time capsule."

As Conan handed the box to the three people, he said, "In fact, the code on the code paper came from the keyboard that Miyano Akemi often encountered when she was a library committee member."

"As long as you rotate the computer keyboard 90 degrees clockwise and write down the key positions required to type each code, you can get the content of the code."

"There are five codes in total, and the final result is しいくこや, which means the breeding hut."

Conan didn't explain each sentence because the three of them were rummaging through the box and didn't care about how to solve the code at all.

Only Mr. Kobayashi pounded his fist excitedly beside him, "I see!"

"This code is so clever that even I, a member of the library committee, didn't think of it!"

At this time, the three of them thoroughly searched the envelopes in the box, but still couldn't find what they were looking for.

"Strange, there doesn't seem to be Mingmei's envelope in here?"

"yes……"

Seeing this, Conan quickly joined in the conversation. This was what he wanted to know most.

"Murata-san, did you really see Miyano Akemi put the envelope in there?"

Takumi Murata nodded and said, "Yes, everyone walked up to the podium and put their envelopes in one by one. There shouldn't be any missing ones."

The female doctor added: "But the teacher only gave Mingmei the task of hiding the time capsule."

Yanagimachi Gaku raised his head and asked, "Could it be that Mingmei took her envelope out of it at that time?"

Takumi Murata held the box in one hand and his chin in the other, muttering, "It's possible..."

Conan, who was standing in a shorter position, stared at the facial expressions of the three men seriously, but couldn't tell which one of them was lying.

If their guess is true, it is possible that it was Miyano Akemi who took away her envelope.

After all, Miyano Akemi is a member of the organization. In order not to implicate her elementary school classmates who she met by chance, she can only try her best to cut off contact with everyone.

Maybe he returned to school and took his own envelope from the box before deciding to leave the organization...

In Conan's mind, this was the only possibility he could think of.