One Saturday night, while Aizen was shopping in Ginza with Sayuri Matsumoto and Sonoko Suzuki, they suddenly received a call from Ran Mouri.
On the phone, Ran Mouri said that something very important had happened and that she couldn't explain it clearly over the phone, so she asked him to go to a publishing house called Daigakukan and tell him the details when he got there.
When Aizen learned that he was going to Daigakukan, he knew what it was about, and immediately informed Sayuri Matsumoto and Sonoko Suzuki. When he learned that they were going there too, he took the two girls to Daigakukan.
The code hidden in the novel Half Peak has been discovered by someone, and Aizen doesn't know who discovered it yet, but since Ran Mouri is at Daigakukan, it seems that Kogoro Mouri and Conan Mouri should also be there.
As for why this code is still going on despite Aizen already solved, it is naturally because of the bad taste of the new name Nintaro Shinmei. He wants more detectives to find him through this code, so this code has not been removed yet.
Twenty minutes later, Aizen and his two companions came to the 18th University Museum and the publishing house.
In the publishing house, in addition to Mouri Ran, Mouri Kogoro and Conan, there were also Megure Jusan and Takagi Wataru. In addition, there were the staff of the publishing house.
"Brother Aizen, you are here!"
Seeing Aizen coming, Megure Jusan was very happy, because he knew that Aizen's reasoning ability was very strong.
Aizen asked, "What happened?"
"Brother Aizen, come here, I will tell you what happened."
Megure Jusan called Aizen to the table, where there were a pile of manuscripts, and Megure Jusan told him about the code. The code they have solved so far is the first code, which is the code for help from the new name Rentaro.
Megure Jusan said: "Speaking of this, I have to thank Brother Hattori in Osaka. It was after he read the novel that he discovered the code and called me to tell me."
"I see."
Aizen nodded and said in understanding: "Officer Megure, you want me to help you think about why the following lines cannot be interpreted using the half-vertex method, right?"
Megure Jusan nodded and said: "Brother Aizen, your reasoning ability has always been excellent, so I'm sorry to bother you this time."
Aizen said politely: "I will do my best."
After thinking about it, Aizen asked: "Officer Megure, have you contacted Mr. Shinmei's family?"
Megure Jusan said: "In fact, more than a month ago, Mr. Kaori's daughter, Miss Kaori Shinmei, went to the Metropolitan Police Department to report the case, but because there were no clues at the time, the case could not be established at all. Before you came over, Brother Aizen, we had already contacted Miss Kaori Shinmei, and I think she should be here soon."
"It would be better to ask Mr. Shinmei's family about some things."
Aizen nodded, and then walked towards the three women who were chatting.
Seeing Aizen coming, Matsumoto Sayuri, who had already learned about the incident from Ran, said: "Aizen, the three of us can just chat on the side, you don't have to worry about us."
Aizen heard the words and said: "Then you wait here, I will try to find the secret code as soon as possible."
"Aizen, good luck!"
Suzuki Sonoko made a cheering gesture.
Aizen smiled and walked to the side.
"Inspector, Miss Kaori Shinmei is here!"
A few minutes later, Takagi Wataru called in, followed by Kaori Shinmei.
Kaori Shinmei looked at the people in the room and followed behind Takagi Wataru. Although she saw Aizen, and although Aizen told his real name to Kaori Shinmei, he did not use his real appearance at the time, so it was normal that Kaori Shinmei did not recognize him.
"Hello, Miss Kaori."
Megure Jusan said to Kaori Shinmei, "For the case of your parents' disappearance, our police have already got a clue. We have learned that Mr. and Mrs. Shinmei should have been kidnapped. We would like to ask, did you find anything unusual before Mr. and Mrs. Shinmei disappeared?"
Kaori Shinmei said, "My father and his family disappeared suddenly, so I didn't find anything unusual."
Megure Jusan nodded, and then said, "Miss Kaori, please rest assured that our police will do our best to find Mr. and Mrs. Shinmei. And this time our police also invited Mouri Kogoro, he is a famous detective, he will definitely be able to decipher the code."
"Miss Kaori, this matter will be left to me, the famous detective Mouri Kogoro!"
Mouri Kogoro patted his chest and said, after seeing the beautiful woman Kaori Shinmei, his eyes almost popped out, and now he was just talking nonsense, without even thinking about whether he could do it.
"Thank you, Mr. Inspector and Mr. Mouri."
Kaori Shinmei thanked him and then walked aside.
"No! This reaction is so wrong!"
Conan, who was standing by, cried out in his heart that something was wrong. He found that Kaori Shinmei was too calm. This should not be the reaction of someone whose parents were kidnapped. Kaori Shinmei should be very anxious at this moment, but Kaori Shinmei was not. She seemed very calm. This was too abnormal.
"There must be something I don't know about this."
Conan secretly kept it in mind but didn't say it out loud, because it was useless to say it out loud.
After a while, Kaori Shinmei said to Megure Jusan: "Officer, can I talk to you alone?"
"Of course!"
Megure Jusan agreed without thinking, he just said Kaori Shinmei wanted to talk to him about the clues of the case.
At that moment, Megure Jusan and Kaori Shinmei walked aside, and there was no one else around.
Aizen smiled slightly when he saw this. Although he didn't go over, he knew what Kaori Shinmei was going to say to Megure Jusan, because he asked Kaori Shinmei to say it.
In fact, it was nothing, she just took the initiative to tell Megure Jusan that this incident was her father's willfulness, so as not to let the police be held accountable afterwards, after all, Kaori Shinmei was also an insider. Once the police investigate, it will not be a trivial matter.
Of course, Aizen and Kaori Shinmei said that they only needed to tell Megure Jusan, and asked Megure Jusan not to expose it, so that the code would continue to exist, so that Nintaro Shinmei's idea could continue, killing two birds with one stone.