NO MATCH FOUND, that's what the programme on my laptop showed me. I knew it. When I heard that the organisation member Kir had killed the FBI agent Shuichi Akai, I immediately had doubts. But I wasn't the only one who had the same doubts about his death. Bourbon also believed that Akai was still alive. After I had obtained the file on the investigation of the body through a quick hack into the system of the Japanese police, I immediately noticed things that, in my opinion, simply did not fit. According to the file, the fingerprints on the body matched the fingerprints on a mobile phone belonging to a boy named Conan Edogawa. That boy again, I thought to myself. But I will deal with him later, after all, Bourbon had asked me if I could get him some information about this boy.
To get the original fingerprints of Akai I would have to hack into the FBI system. Well, let's get to work, I thought. If anyone could do it without being discovered, it would be me. Japan's best hacker - White Fox. Surprisingly, it didn't take me as long as I thought to get the file I wanted. Somehow I thought it would be harder to get this information. Was the FBI that weakly protected or was I just too good? I had to smile. Now that I had everything necessary, I entered both the file with the original fingerprints and the file with those of the corpse into a programme. Now I had to wait and see. When my laptop finally showed me the result, it didn't really surprise me. It said NO MATCH FOUND. So there were no matches. That meant Akai was alive, just as Bourbon and I thought. I had to tell him this, but not over the phone or by email.
No, I only could and wanted to tell him this information in person. But before I could arrange a meeting with him, I should first take care of getting the information he had asked me for. He had sent me a photo and the information he already knew about this primary school boy, Conan Edogawa. At first I wondered why he wanted information about a primary school boy, but when he told me that Vermouth, the favourite of Anokata, the boss of the organisation, was protecting this boy, my interest in said boy was also triggered. Therefore, I hacked into various authorities and databases to gather information about this boy.
In the process, I noticed that he appeared in the investigation files of many cases. In all cases solved by the so-called Sleeping Kogoro Mori, in cases in which the student detective Heiji Hattori was involved, in cases involving the Kaito Kid as well as cases in which he alone helped the police. These cases were spread over various prefectures. But that wasn't the data I was supposed to be looking for. Bourbon didn't need my help to get that data. He wanted to get information about his parents, he thought it was strange that parents would just leave their little boy with other people to whom the boy was not even related. He also thought that the boy did not behave like a normal child of his age and seemed more mature and far more intelligent than he pretended to be.
But I just couldn't get any further. I couldn't find a birth certificate for him in any database. There was no record of where and when the boy was born or who his parents were. This little boy did not exist. I actually wanted to stop searching for more information and postpone it until the next day, until I stumbled across a small but decisive point in the many files in front of me. I felt a chill run down my spine. Could that be possible at all?