A little girl was crying on the side of the road.
After school, Conan Edogawa was the first to notice it.
She was crying so loudly that Mauliland noticed it almost immediately.
They walked up to the little girl.
Mauliland bent down and asked her in a very gentle voice.
Did she hurt anywhere?
This was Mauliland's first reaction.
However, the little girl was only crying loudly. She couldn't hear her at all.
This made this ordinary high school girl a little distressed.
She could only start to think of other ways to coax her to stop crying.
Mauliland, Enoko Suzuki, Masumi Sera, and Shinichi Kudo.
The four of them were all out of ideas.
The second daughter of the Suzuki family glanced at a certain high school detective. He looked similar to him, but Heiyu was better at this kind of thing than him.
If he was here, she would have stopped crying long ago.
Hey, hey!
This guy.
A certain high school detective pursed his lips.
However, he still admitted it in his heart.
Before this, he had seen it a few times.
In the end, it was Conan Edogawa who used his' age 'advantage. He asked her very innocently if she couldn't find her parents.
The little girl finally raised her head. Her face was full of tears.
And it was still flowing out of her eyes.
It took her a long time to say, 'Of course not!'
Then, it was intermittent. She finally said that a very good uncle didn't come.
Uncle would come here to play with her every day.
But today, she had waited for a long time.
Uncle didn't come.
This made her very sad and anxious.
She liked that uncle very much.
She was afraid that he would never appear again.
As she said this, the little girl started crying again.
She cried even harder.
As long as they knew the reason, this matter would be easily solved.
Conan Edogawa originally wanted to say that he was a detective himself. He could help her find that uncle.
But when he realized that Lan was beside them, he forced himself to change into another version of himself.
After Conan Edogawa said this, he looked at 'Shinichi Kudo'. Not long ago, 'Shinichi Kudo' almost disappeared in front of them.
Therefore, every time on the way home from school, they would deliberately not waste too much time.
In case another accident happened.
They had already encountered it.
Of course, they had to settle this matter properly.
A certain high school detective gave him such a look naturally.
They were the same person. He should know what he was thinking.
They should immediately help that child....
This matter wouldn't take too long at all.
What was that uncle's name?
What did he look like?
Shinichi Kudo and he started asking the little girl to ask more basic information about that person.
But the little girl didn't seem to know anything.
She didn't know how to describe it.
She had never asked him about the rest of the things.
Was it true that she couldn't find that uncle?
The little girl started to look very sad again.
Seeing that she was about to cry again, 'Shinichi Kudo' quickly stopped her.
He asked her if they had met anyone else when they went out to play with their uncle.
Anyone was fine.
The little girl looked a little lost.
Then, at this moment, a middle-aged woman walked in front of them.
The little girl immediately pointed at her.
That's right.
It was that auntie.
Last time, the auntie had chatted with her and the uncle for a long time.
It was a very useful clue.
'Shinichi Kudo's' face showed such an expression.
Then, Conan Edogawa was a step faster than him. He had already run to the woman's side.
He looked a little anxious.
He said he wanted her to help him.
The little girl couldn't find the uncle.
They didn't know what he looked like.
So, Conan Edogawa pointed at the little girl.
Could she tell them some clues about the uncle?
The woman was stunned for a moment before a smile appeared on her face.
She knew that man.
The woman's answer was beyond their imagination.
'Shinichi Kudo', who came a little later, didn't react to this.
His house was not too far ahead.
She could take them there.
The expressions of Conan and the others immediately became very happy.
That person's house was indeed not too far ahead.
They had only taken a few steps.
The middle-aged woman told them that it was here.
She wanted to help them knock on the door.
But then something unexpected happened.
She pressed the doorbell for a long time, but there was no response.
Maybe there was no one there?!
Should they wait for him to come back and find him?
Anyway, you already know his home.
This was the middle-aged woman's suggestion.
Then, she left first.
However, the little girl refused to leave.
She wanted to see the uncle.
So she had to wait here.
Conan Edogawa looked at 'Shinichi Kudo'. He still wanted to wait with her.
They couldn't just leave a little girl here.
But gradually, they began to realize that something was wrong.
Because the old lady sitting in front of them asked them why they didn't go in.
Wasn't the owner of the house inside?
She saw him go in with her own eyes.
Ah!
It was probably noon today.
Then, he never came out.
She had been sitting here basking in the sun, so she saw all of this.
But!
The sun was about to set. It was time for her to go home.
Conan Edogawa climbed over the courtyard wall again.
Then, he saw a man's body lying in the room inside the house.
He killed himself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
That was what it looked like.
Next to his hand was an empty box of sleeping pills.
On the bedside table, there was a receipt for a pharmacy.
These were the sleeping pills that were bought this morning.
The police arrived not long after Mauliland called the police.
They went once to the drugstore shown on the ticket.
Before they could confirm this, they had to confirm one thing.
The sleeping pills were indeed bought by the deceased.
Not only did the pharmacy say this, but there was also the surveillance video to prove it.
In this way, there seemed to be no other possibility.
It was suicide.
And the little girl had been tugging at the man's clothes during the process.
The uncle was a very, very good person.
He was her favorite person.
The little girl didn't know what to say. She could only repeat her thoughts many times.
She wanted the uncle to stand up.
So he could play with her again.
You can definitely make him stand up, right?
You can, right?
After she said this, the atmosphere in the place suddenly became terrifyingly quiet.
He couldn't appear alive again.
This was something that everyone here knew.
However, they had no way to expose this cruel truth.
There was no way to lie to the little girl about this.
Just when the people here didn't know what to do with the little girl, another person appeared in this place.
It was the little girl's mother.
Her expression showed that she was very anxious.
When she saw that the little girl was safe, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
That's great.
It was good that she was safe.
Her husband committed suicide not long ago.
She only had this child left.
Therefore, she was really worried that something would happen to her.
Every day, the child would go out to play at a certain time, and she had no time to care about her.
Until today, she had left home alone for such a long time.
When she realized this problem, the woman was a little anxious.
She immediately ran out and looked for the place where the little girl usually went.
She didn't really care about her going out to play, but the child was very obedient, so she would tell her where she went.
This made her quickly find her.
It was the place where the little girl and Conan Edogawa met.
Fortunately, when they left together, there were some other passersby here.
They saw the direction the little girl left in. Just like that, she asked around and found her way here.
Everything went very smoothly.
"Mom." The little girl looked at her with a very aggrieved voice.
She wanted her uncle to stand up.
But her mother didn't know this uncle at all.
What on earth was going on?
Was she often with this man?
This made her very worried.
She said that she couldn't be with strangers …
"Uncle is not a stranger." This was a young but firm voice.
Ever since … when no one wanted her, it was this uncle who had been comforting her by her side.
Although each time was very short, less than ten minutes, he was much better than her mother.
He won't ignore me.
It was a very simple sentence, but the mother was stunned at once.
She didn't ignore her.
She wanted to say so very much.
However, even she couldn't believe what she had just said.
She was too sad.
Her husband's death and the pressure of her future life made her very stressed.