Chapter 531 The mastermind appears
The three of them hurried to Yulong Temple again.
Yuya was even more confused. Why hadn't the murderer called yet? Could he have been killed by Toyama Kazuha? That shouldn't be the case. Even Hattori Heiji couldn't defeat that man. With Toyama Kazuha's skills, he shouldn't be able to deal with him.
She won't be silenced, right?
No, Youya shook her head. The murderer wanted to use her to threaten Hattori Heiji to get the glass ball, so he wouldn't do it.
So, what happened in the middle? Did Yuanshan and Ye fail to find evidence, or did the two parties miss each other?
Before entering the temple, Yuya stopped the two.
"What's wrong? Hurry up and go in and find the Buddha statue!" Hattori Heiji said anxiously.
Youya waved his hand to signal him to be patient: "Don't worry, have you ever thought that since this is where the source cocoon hides the Buddha statue, will there be someone guarding it?"
Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and his expression suddenly became serious: "You are right, I was too anxious."
He looked around and found a fairly sturdy wooden stick on the side of the road. He waved it twice and said, "It's OK. It can be used as a wooden sword."
Then he turned to look at Yuya and Conan: "Do you need to prepare a weapon?"
Yuya shook his head: "No, my hands and feet are weapons."
Even if those members of the Source Cocoon were holding real swords, close combat would be a piece of cake for him as long as they were not foul weapons like Gatling guns.
He had never learned kendo, so he was restricted by the weapon that didn't suit him.
Conan also said: "I don't need it either."
His weapons are an anesthetic watch and leg-strengthening shoes, but they can only deal with one or two people at most. If a fight really comes to a head, he can just hide behind Yuya.
Conan felt that Yuya's strong martial arts skills were also beneficial. It would be better if he didn't rely on his martial arts skills to pit himself all the time...
After the three of them were ready, they walked into the Yulong Temple.
Hattori Heiji pretended to be a naughty boy, waving the wooden stick in his hand, occasionally making two chopping movements, and making chuckling sounds from his mouth.
The corners of Conan's mouth twitched slightly. He really wanted to persuade Bu to stop acting. His acting skills were even worse than his own.
At this time, there were no guests in Yulong Temple, and not even any monks were seen. What was even more puzzling was that the buildings here were very old and seemed to have been abandoned for some time?
Hattori Heiji stopped his performance, walked to the door of the hall and looked around with some confusion: "It's strange, why is there no one here?" Wouldn't it be a waste of his effort to act?
"Since there is no one here, let's go to the bell tower and find the Buddha statue." Conan urged in a low voice.
"Wait!" Youye stretched out his hand to stop the two of them.
Before they could ask anything, a loud noise suddenly came from behind them.
The three of them looked back and found that the door of the temple was closed. Two masked men holding samurai swords turned around and looked at them sinisterly.
"That mask!" Hattori Heiji was shocked, "It's the mask worn by the person who attacked me!"
"What?" Conan immediately realized something and quickly took a step back to protect Yuya in front of him.
You couldn't help but look at him. When did this kid get the true teachings from that guy?
"Heiji!" Suddenly, a girl's voice sounded around the corner.
"Is this voice Kazuha?" Hattori Heiji was surprised and turned around to see that Kazuha Toyama was being held at knifepoint by a man wearing a training suit and also an old man's mask.
Hattori Heiji tightened the wooden stick in his hand and dared not act rashly. He was forced by the other party to walk to the center of the yard.
Youya narrowed his eyes. As expected, Toyama and Ye were caught. It seemed that they solved the puzzle too quickly, so the other party didn't have time to call them to threaten them?
"You guy, you didn't do anything to Kazuha, right?" Hattori Heiji asked coldly.
The masked man said nothing, and Toyama Kazuha shouted, "Heiji, I'm fine!"
Hattori Heiji breathed a sigh of relief, took out the small purse from his pocket, and took out the crystal bead from it.
"Is this what you want?" Hattori Heiji said coldly.
The masked man, who had been motionless, suddenly shook forward, obviously wanting the crystal bead.
Hattori Heiji put the crystal bead back into his purse and said coldly, "You attacked me on the mountain yesterday in order to take back the crystal bead, but unfortunately the operation failed."
Toyama Kazuha was very puzzled: "Heiji, isn't that your first love's thing? Why..."
Yuya said: "That is not a keepsake. In fact, it is the white hair on the forehead of the Buddha statue that was stolen eight years ago. When the members of the Genshiki Cocoon stole the Buddha statue from Sannoji Temple, the white hair accidentally fell off. It was picked up by Hattori who appeared in Sannoji Temple the next day and mistakenly thought it was the lost item of his first love."
Hattori Heiji's mouth twitched slightly. Could you please stop calling me your first love? Hattori Heiji may be a bit dark, but he can also be shy, okay?
"And this guy," Yuya pointed at Hattori Heiji, who had a gloomy face, "in order to find his first love, he showed this crystal bead as a token of his love during an interview. In the end, he didn't find his first love, but instead attracted the members of the Minamoto Shiki."
"Enough, Kamiya!" Hattori Heiji was a little embarrassed and interrupted Yuya.
Yuya spread his hands and said, "Okay, Hattori looks a little feverish."
Hattori Heiji pretended to cough, looked at the masked man and said, "You killed Mr. Sakura Masazo in order to keep the treasure for yourself. As for how you disposed of the murder weapon, it's very simple. After killing him, you put the short knife and the transmitter into a bottle and threw it into the river. The bottle will flow away with the water, and the police will certainly not find it in the river near the wine house."
"You took back the dagger after leaving the wine shop, and then ambushed me on the road to take back the crystal beads again, but unfortunately I failed because of He Ye's obstruction. And the reason why you left the dagger behind was to make people think that the person who killed Mr. Sakura broke into the wine shop from the outside."
At this point, Hattori Heiji adjusted his hat and said coldly, "Am I right, Mr. Nishijo Taikawa?"
"Hehe, hahaha!" The masked man suddenly burst into laughter. He raised his hand and took off the mask, revealing the face of Nishijo Taiga.
Nishijo Taiga sneered, "As expected of a high school detective like Hattori Heiji, how did you know it was mine?"
Hattori Heiji: "I...we started to suspect you when we found out that you were deliberately hiding the fact that you could shoot arrows." He recounted the evidence about the half-foot support and the arrow pillow.
Nishijo Taiga didn't seem to want to defend himself, and sneered as he told the whole story.
He once practiced in the Yoshitsune-ryu sword dojo, and after achieving certain success, he left the dojo and regarded himself as the successor of Yoshitsune.
Saijo Taiga had always wanted to be like Minamoto no Yoshitsune, but after joining the Minamoto clan, Yoshitsune's title was taken away by the leader, and Saijo Taiga, whose status in the bandit group was second only to the leader, was given the title of Benkei.
The leader of the Minamoto clan was once the abbot of Gyokuryuji Temple, and after the temple was abandoned, it was handed over to him for management. Saijo Taiga had originally planned to build his own Yoshitsune-ryu dojo here, but the leader suddenly died three months ago, and the temple is about to be demolished.
Saijo Taiga wanted to keep the Buddha statue for himself and use the money to buy the temple, so he planned this series of cases.
He specially sent the coded letter to Sannoji Temple, and then suggested that the monk Ryugen entrust Maori Kogoro, hoping to use the hands of the famous detective to crack the code and find the Buddha statue.