Chapter 444 Hidden in the warehouse information (Ch 444)

“Who is that Carlos? Is he your relative too?” Kogoro was curious about Carlos’ identity.

Guangmei shook her head, “No, he seems to be Uncle Yoshifusa’s friend in Brazil.”

Stepmother Machiko said: “It doesn’t matter who Carlos is. What matters is how to prove that Yoshifusa is a fake.”

These words clearly revealed Machiko’s greed for money. Even before the investigation, she was already hoping that Yoshifusa Tarouchi was an impostor, because if there was one more person to inherit the estate, she would get less.

Mochizuki suggested, “I see your house is quite old, so it should have preserved a lot of things from the past, right? Is there anything that can prove Mr. Yoshifusa’s identity?”

Guangmei’s younger brother Yixing immediately said, “All our old things are stored in the warehouse. Why don’t we look there?”

…

There are two buildings in the courtyard. One is the main building where the people of the Yanai family live and work. The other building is in the corner, which is the warehouse that Yixing mentioned. It is worthy of being a landlord’s house. The warehouse is almost as big as a villa.

There were a lot of debris piled up here, covered with a layer of dust, and it was obvious that it had not been cleaned for many years. While looking for clues, Mochizuki found that Machiko took out her mobile phone and looked at it, then quietly walked out of the warehouse.

Out of curiosity, Mochizuki decided to observe and activated the Eye of Death.

This time he didn’t close his eyes, because as his lifespan increased (actually a complaint from readers), his abilities also evolved, and he no longer needed to close his eyes. As long as he activated the Eye of Death, an eye would open at the designated spatial coordinates, as if some demon from another dimension was spying on the human world, much more elegant than before.

Machiko stood outside the warehouse, unaware that there was a strange eye tearing through space and staring at her.

She picked up the phone and said to someone, “We are still not sure whether the old man is Yoshifusa Tadaochi. Our plan remains unchanged. Let’s start tomorrow.” After saying this, Machiko hung up the phone.

Wangyue saw this scene and heard what she said, and wondered what it meant.

In the original novel, Machiko didn’t want Yoshifusa Tarouchi to get the inheritance, so she sneaked into the bathhouse with a knife to assassinate Yoshifusa while he was taking a bath. However, she miscalculated one thing – the old man was not a weak man, but a master of Brazilian martial arts, and was the bodyguard escorting Yoshifusa’s son Carlos.

So Machiko (bfde) was easily killed by Yoshifusa…

Mochizuki guessed that Machiko was talking about the assassination of Yoshifusa Yuuchi.

She was talking to someone, which meant she had found a helper? This was not in the original novel. Wang Yue glanced at the people in the warehouse, and no one was making a phone call. It seemed that this helper was not from the Yanai family.

…

After Machiko finished her phone call, she returned to the warehouse and continued to look for clues with everyone. No one except Mochizuki knew that she was plotting a conspiracy. A few minutes later, Conan suddenly found a photo.

“Mom… old thing, is that you in the photo?” Conan almost called Yukiko “Mom” again.

Guangmei was stunned for a moment. What’s wrong with this kid? Why did he start cursing?

“You’re courting death, you little brat!” Yukiko grabbed Conan’s head and used her fist to “spin and punch holes” on it. Conan let out a heart-wrenching scream, “Ahhh! I won’t dare to do it again! I won’t dare to do it again!”

Xiaolan also warned Conan earnestly, “Conan, don’t be so rude!”

“Well, I was wrong. I will pay attention…” Conan admitted his mistake with tears in his eyes.

Yukiko took the photo from Conan. It was a group photo taken after a baseball game. Several adults were wearing baseball uniforms, and two little girls were standing with the baseball players.

Guangmei came over to take a look at the photo, with a look of surprise on her face, “This is a long time ago when Yukiko and I went to watch Uncle Yoshifusa’s baseball game!”

“Yeah, it really makes me miss it.” Yukiko also sighed.

Kogoro praised from the side, “Yuki-chan, you were so cute when you were a kid.”

“Hate it~ Do you mean that I’m not cute now?” Yukiko pretended to be displeased.

“Hahaha, how could that be, Yuki-chan is getting cuter and cuter now~” Kogoro’s tone also became extremely cheesy. (To read the exciting novels, go to Faloo Novel Network!)

Ran Mochizuki and Conan both looked very upset. One is a married woman and the other is a married man. Are they really suitable for each other? Conan had the illusion that his mother would find him a new father.

“Cough cough!” Xiaolan coughed twice loudly, and only then did Kogoro realize his mistake and regained his composure.

“You just said you were going to watch Mr. Yoshifusa’s baseball game, which means he is also in the picture?” Kogoro asked.

Guangmei pointed at a person in the photo and said, “Yes, this person is Uncle Yifang.”

“Hmm… she’s still very young, there’s no way she can be used as a reference.” Kogoro couldn’t help but frown.

Yukiko nodded, “After all, these are photos from thirty years ago.”

Hiromi and Yukiko were discussing a baseball game that happened thirty years ago, and they both recalled a detail – Yoshifusa was injured in the game and had a scar on his foot.

“Oh? This is an important clue!” Kogoro was immediately delighted, “We just need to check his feet to know whether he is a fake!” This idea was supported by everyone.

…

After discussion, everyone decided to let Guangmei bring tea to Yifang, and then pretend to accidentally spill the tea on Yifang’s feet, and take the opportunity to check the scar while wiping it dry for him. At this moment, Yifang was in the Japanese-style room, so Guangmei took the tea to the room and quietly hid at the door of the room.

Wangyue knew that this kind of temptation was meaningless. Instead, he was more concerned about another thing, so he said to Xiaolan, “I have something to do and I need to leave for a while. You should stay with your father and the others first.”

“Okay.” Xiaolan didn’t ask Wangyue what he was going to do.

Mochizuki left the Japanese-style room and went back to the warehouse. He remembered that there was a secret compartment somewhere in the warehouse, which contained letters between Guangmei’s father and Yoshifusa. Finding those letters would prove Carlos’ identity.

In the original novel, it was Yusaku Kudo who sneaked into the warehouse and found the letter, but Yusaku hasn’t come yet, so Mochizuki decided to find the thing himself first.

Although the warehouse was large, there were not many places to hide things. Mochizuki used the Death Eye to search through the model and found the letter within a minute. “It turns out that this board on the wall can be pushed open. There is no gap at all from the outside.”

There were ten letters hidden in the secret compartment, all of which had been opened. Wangyue took the letters out of the envelopes and checked them.

As Mochizuki knew, Yoshifusa Yabuuchi said earlier that he had run a farm in Brazil in partnership with a Japanese man named Hickson Tanaka, and later that he had married a Brazilian woman and had a child named Carlos.
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