Takerai Oikawa looks about sixty years old, and under her meticulously combed gray hair, she has a somewhat old-fashioned and mean face.

He wore a dark green suit today, perhaps because of his home. Not only was the lining with a liner with a linear stripe printed on it not only did not have a tie, but he even had only one button.

However, this leisurely and calm attitude suddenly broke the promise after hearing the suggestion made by Ginzo Nakamori, and blurted out the words if he refused:

"What? Let the reporters come in and arrange the cameras? No, I don't agree!"

"Why? Mr. Oikawa, are there any difficulties?" Ginzo Nakamori asked in confusion.

At the same time, Ye Gengyi and several mobile team members also looked at Takerai Oikawa.

The painter's heart trembled and added:

"Ah... no, that... because there are many works in the house, I don't plan to make it public. If I were taken in by the camera rashly, it would bother me. And isn't you the police here? I believe that the thief Kid should not succeed..."

"So that's what it is..."

Nakamori Ginzo suddenly realized something, patted his chest and promised: "Don't worry, with me here, there will be no problem!"

After saying that, he turned around and left, as if he was going to speak to the mobile team members.

This is OK? When he saw the face of Kuaido's father-in-law showing a smug smile because of being trusted, Ye Gengyi knew that this guy had no hope.

I really don't understand how this person became the police department...

He let out a sigh of relief, and it was natural that he would continue to question the fake invitation letter on the surface.

As for Takerai Oikawa, he is undoubtedly the most suspected person so far.

After all, if you are really worried that your painting will be exposed by media cameras, how will the public exhibition of "Qinglan" originally scheduled tonight be carried out...

Move the painting directly into the yard of the villa?

It's fine if you usually do it.

You should know that it rained heavily all night last night in Otamo County. Although the weather is pretty good today, the humidity in the air must have exceeded the tolerance of calligraphy and painting works.

In addition, the other party's behavior of daring to find Kogoro Maori and Conan Edogawa is also quite strange.

Ready to frame the detective?

Or after he made a forged preview letter, he would definitely show up to ask for an explanation with the character of the monster thief Kid, so as to further make his paintings famous?

At this moment, the sound of the door opening suddenly sounded in his ears, which brought back his thoughts.

Looking back at the entrance, amid the flash lights and the reporter's questioning, Conan, Ran Maori and Kogoro Maori hid in a rather embarrassed manner.

"Mr. Maori, are you okay?" Takerai Oikawa showed concern and quickly met him.

"cough!"

Kogoro Mouri coughed lightly, using the movements of tidying up his clothes to relieve the embarrassment, and said, "Everyone is really enthusiastic, uh, may I ask you..."

"Look at me! I forgot to introduce myself," Takerai Oikawa enthusiastically held Kogoro Mori's hand, "I am Takerai Oikawa, and I call you, the famous detective painter."

"Oh! You are Mr. Oikawa, I'll be lucky..."

Kogoro Mori paused and embarrassedly gave up Conan and Ran Maori who were standing beside him, "Is it really okay? I brought my daughter and the little devil who lived at home together."

Can you please mention "Send" every time you introduce me...Conan Half Moon Eye.

"Sorry, I'm disturbing."

Ran Mori bowed slightly, "If it is inconvenient, I can take Conan to the car outside to wait."

"No, no, no, it doesn't matter, I believe in Detective Maori, and..."

Takerai Oikawa waved his hand and half-squatted down to touch Conan's big head, "This kid seems to be quite destined to be with the monster thief Kid."

After saying that, he stood up and continued:

"Mr. Maori. Next I will take you to the studio where "Qinglan" is placed for a visit. Come on, please go upstairs here..."

"You two go and help Nakamori police station. I'll go to the studio to take a look."

Ye Gengyi arranged for two mobile team members to leave.

Then, he followed Oikawa Takerai to the second floor without any burden.

Previously, when he was doing the investigation, he also went to the second floor once. Unfortunately, the studio had already been arranged by Ginzo Nakamori to be on duty. Because the door was locked, he could not enter in openly.

A group of people came to the corner of the stairs.

Heading towards me, I happened to meet an old man with a hunchback.

The other party did not mean to say hello to everyone, and directly said to Takerai Oikawa:

"You come on, I have something to say to you."

"Sorry, Dad, can you wait for a while before talking about anything? I'm going to take the guests to the studio now..."

Takerai Oikawa answered both straightforward and firmly. From the opening to the end, he did not even slow down and showed an attitude of explaining to the other party.

"Ah? Oh..."

The old man glanced at his son-in-law deeply, but he wanted to speak but stopped. In the end, he chose to remain silent.

Kamihara Haruhito is both the father-in-law of Takerae Oikawa and his painting teacher. He is 82 years old this year. However, this old man, who is famous for landscape painting, never took a brush to paint after being injured in a hand 10 years ago.

This information was asked by Ye Gengyi earlier from the two mobile team members.

The authenticity of the hand injury will not be determined for the time being.

I think a fairly well-known painter should not have to spend 10 years of his career, just to not be suspected of being so simple after imitating the invitation to Kidd that the monster steals Kidd.

But then again, there are already two suspects, and with the cheerleader hiding in the dark, are you planning to have a 3-choice 1 real monster thief Kid today?

He was freely radiating his thoughts.

On the side, Takerai Oikawa also introduced his father-in-law to Kogoro and others.

The famous painting master withdrew from the painting world due to a hand injury, which sounds very regretful.

Kogoro Maori and Ran Maori were both silent for a moment.

However, Takera Oikawa's face was calm. I don't know if he realized something was wrong with the atmosphere or the passing of time made him lose his sadness about this matter.

He took out the key, quickly walked to a door, greeted the mobile team on duty, casually skipped the previous topic, opened the door and walked in:

"Please come in, this is my studio."

Stepping past the old and heavy wooden door.

It is a room of about 60 square meters.

Since the two windows facing the south courtyard were closed, as soon as they arrived indoors, everyone smelled a pungent smell of oil.

Conan and Kogoro Mouri ran to the window to observe.

Ye Gengyi had no intention of getting over, and still stood there and looked around, confirming that the only way was to air conditioning vents on the ceiling except for another window and the door opposite that could also enter and exit the room.

As for bookcases embedded in walls on both sides of the room.

Through observation of the corridor area, the possibility of a secret passage behind can be basically ruled out.

Then Ye Geng's eyes fell on the easel covered with dust cloth in front of the white plaster statue.

After observing the view outside the window, Kogoro Mori came over and asked:

"Mr. Oikawa, is this painting the one that was originally scheduled to be exhibited tonight..."

"Yes, that's it." Takerai Oikawa nodded in agreement.

"Can I take a look first..."

Kogoro Mori said that he was going to lift the dust cloth, but he was stopped by Takerai Oikawa.

"No, Mr. Maori, I really don't like letting others see the work before it is finished."

“Um…”

Kogoro Mouri shrank his hand awkwardly, "But, isn't it just the last signature?"

"No, there are actually some places that need to be modified." Takerai Oikawa explained with a smile.
Chapter completed!