Chapter 40 Tanigawa: I have clues about Shirley
“The recording is finally finished.”

Tanigawa stretched and stretched his body.

"Why are you always grinning?" Tanigawa rubbed Ai's head hard, making her hair messy.

"I'm laughing at you, you big fool." Xiao Ai pushed away Tanigawa's hand.

"Hearing what you said, I doubt you even graduated from high school." Xiao Ai said sarcastically, showing the contempt of a top student towards Tanigawa.

"You don't even have an elementary school diploma, how dare you laugh at me!"

"Tanigawa!" Conan looked at Tanigawa in surprise and ran over.

Tanigawa cursed inwardly that it was bad luck that he ran into the Grim Reaper for the first time when he went out to work. And it wasn't just the Grim Reaper, but a trio of Grim Reapers.

He did remember that someone at the TV station would die, but he didn't know the exact day.

After all, those who understand time in Conan's world will understand it.

"Conan." Tanigawa greeted Conan perfunctorily.

Ai has become an autistic girl again and doesn't want to deal with Conan.

"Mr. Tanigawa, I didn't expect to meet you at the TV station, what a coincidence." Xiaolan said with a smile.

"It's really a coincidence. I'm working here temporarily." said Tanigawa.

"Well, my dad was invited to be a guest on a show, so we came along."

Conan has been trying to pull Tanigawa to discuss the matters of the winery. Tanigawa is very impatient, but when he thinks that he has not finished get off work yet and cannot leave, his mood suddenly becomes bad.

"Today is Mori Kogoro's famous match. Can't you just focus your attention on Mori Kogoro? You can talk about the organization's matters at any time." Tanigawa yawned.

"A battle to become famous?" Conan wondered.

"With the three of you reapers getting together, it will be hard for the TV station to end the case without killing a few people. Plus, with the TV station as a channel for communication, Maori Kogoro will definitely have a lot of fans once he solves the case."

"What! I'm not the God of Death." Conan said dissatisfiedly.

As a detective, it's normal for him to encounter more murder cases than ordinary people. And when he was with Tanigawa, not many people died, so the real god of death should be Uncle Mori, right?
Conan was looking at Kogoro Mouri on the stage, while Kogoro was still laughing as he was telling about his legendary experience of solving a case while sleeping.

After thinking about the next case, Tanigawa felt that he had nothing to do and prepared to ask Nagaso Fuji to leave to go home.

"Tanigawa, don't you want to finish watching Uncle Maori's show?"

"No, this is the 7135th anniversary of my birth. It's unlucky to see a dead person." Tanigawa waved his hand.

"What? How could someone die?" Conan curled his lips in disbelief.

The cases he had encountered before were just unexpected events. Metaphysics was not to be trusted. He was a staunch materialist fighter.

"Xiao Ai, let's go."

"Why don't you go and play with your friends for a while longer today?" Xiao Ai said.

"You are my little friend." Tanigawa said casually.

"hehe."

Xiaoai's face was wrapped tightly and no expression could be seen.

"Come on, let's go get some barbecue. I feel like I could eat a whole cow right now."

Tanigawa took Ai away, and Nagaso Fuji also saw the note left on his desk.

[My sister is sick, so I asked for leave to go home early - Tanigawa]

"What? Mr. Suwa is covered in blood? Got it, I'll go right away."

what?
Conan felt complicated when he heard the news. Could it be that, as Tanigawa said, I was some messed up god of death?
No, that can't be the case. There weren't so many murders before I became smaller.

So, this should all be Uncle Maori's fault, right?
……

It was late at night, and Tanigawa opened the door of Xiao Ai's bedroom and saw that Xiao Ai was already asleep, so he smiled strangely. Xiao Ai was already asleep, so...

You won’t know I sneaked out at night!
Tanigawa put on a black windbreaker, applied some makeup on his face and left home.

When I arrived at the bar where I often went out with Gin, I found that the bar was locked, and the lock was covered with dust, obviously no one had been there for a long time.

"Hello, hello." Tanigawa dialed Gin's number.

"What's the matter?" A cold voice came from the phone.

"Why is the bar organized by our organization closed? Did we move to a new location? Why didn't you tell me? Do you still consider me one of your own?" Tanigawa angrily accused Gin.

As the actual person in charge of the organization in the future, it is ridiculous that he cannot find the organization's base.

To Tanigawa's surprise, Gin on the other end of the phone was even more irritable than Tanigawa.

"The original base was reported by a stupid member of the organization. In order to prevent the organization from losing another base, I will not tell that idiot! Moreover, if this idiot continues to do stupid things, I will definitely shoot him dead!"

Saying so many words in a row was enough to show Gin's anger at the moment.

"I have a clue about Shirley."

And Tanigawa's words also extinguished Gin's anger.

"Where is she?"

"We just have clues, but we haven't found anyone." Tanigawa said calmly.

"What's the clue?"

"It's hard to explain over the phone, let's talk in person. Tell me where the organization's new base is. Don't worry, no one will report it this time."

After much persuasion, Tanigawa finally learned of the organization's new base.

Having almost been kicked out of the organization, Tanigawa decided to behave himself for a while.

Tanigawa rode his motorcycle to the new bar. The bar was located in a quiet area and there were not many customers inside. As soon as Tanigawa came in, he saw Gin and Vodka sitting together drinking.

"Give me a Coke, on the rocks, no sugar, put it on the vodka account."

Tanigawa was a little surprised that this bartender was the same one as before. He didn't expect that he would continue to work as a bartender after almost murdering Vodka.

I don’t know whether the organization is very humane or whether vodka is not important to the organization at all.

"What's the clue?" Gin asked.

"I know that Shirley has an older sister who used to be a clerk in a bank." Tanigawa took the Coke and drank it in big gulps.

Since Ai came into the house, Tanigawa hasn't drunk Coke for a long time.

Gin looked at him coldly with murderous eyes.

"Shirley's sister was an outer member of the organization and has been killed by us." Vodka said to Tanigawa.

Moreover, the pistol that killed Miyano Akemi was also taken away by that little brat Tanigawa.

"Really?" Tanigawa pretended to be surprised.

"Why didn't you tell me before? I wasted so much effort. So the responsibility lies with you, and it has nothing to do with me."

"Enough." Gin looked at Tanigawa impatiently.

"Any other clues?"

"That's all." Tanigawa spread his hands.

"I originally thought that since I knew that Shirley had a sister, I wanted to follow the clues to find out. I didn't expect that she had been killed by you. I'm not saying that you killed her sister, so it's not my fault that she wanted to escape."

Gin's face turned cold and the atmosphere became visibly tense.

(End of this chapter)