Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"The person who just came down from the mountain is the man wearing a ghost mask that you met in the hospital earlier."

In the tent camp set up by the police at the foot of the mountain, Maori Kogoro turned his head to look at Axie Takuzo. At that time, he was knocked unconscious by Kaito Kid in the toilet, so he didn't know anything.

When some people were going down the mountain, everyone noticed the men in black following closely behind the two ghost masks. They also found that among them was the face that had appeared in the Hakodate Police Station in the past two days. It didn't matter that they were from Tokyo, but the local police in Hakodate were a little unhappy.

"Inspector, after all, Hakodate is our place. Even if Tokuizumi is the confidant of the Police Chief, he can't just keep us in the dark."

Several Hakodate police officers gathered around Officer Nishimura.

"That's right, even you..."

"I know the inside story." Nishimura glared at them, then waved at a black jeep behind him, watched the car leave, and then looked back at the mountain where thick smoke was coming out.

"This is going to be troublesome."

"Ok?"

After criticizing his son-in-law who disguised himself as his daughter, Nakamori Ginzo walked back from the back of the camp and reminded Kaito and Hattori Heiji to pay attention to the situation of the old lady at the shrine. After all, these two brats carried the old lady down the mountain like this, and she might be uncomfortable.

"Those two ghost masks also have star-edged knives in their hands, right?"

Although Officer Nishimura didn't know that Onimushi and Kudo Yuji had snatched all the knives from Kaito Kid, Takuzo Axe gave the last knife to Onimushi in front of them.

"I originally thought that Fu Jiang Takuzo was just here to pay his respects and didn't know the ghost masks, but the two ghost masks had obviously been waiting on the mountain for a long time." Nishimura whispered, "Sure enough, your suspicions were right. Fu Jiang Takuzo was probably pretending not to know him when he was in the hospital."

In Nishimura's opinion, even though the police asked to protect Takuzo Axie, this man still ran to the shrine, perhaps to convey some secret code.

"Perhaps if he comes to the shrine, the other party will know something." Nishimura sighed: "The trouble is, there may be something more dangerous in Hakodate than the terrorists fighting in the hospital."

In short, the two police inspectors reached a consensus that they would lock Takuzo Axie in a room and provide him with complete "protection" after returning to the police station.

On the mountain, Yuuji, after changing into a fire suit, glanced at Gojo and used the short-range radio to comfort Nana Komachi, whose equipment had been stolen.

"That's too much. I'm the one who's supposed to go with you."

Nana Komachi stared at Gojo with some resentment, until the two people who could not help themselves at the entrance of the passage went down one after another. Then she used the wired monitoring device installed on the front of the fire suit and her mobile phone to observe the situation at the torii of the mountain gate.

"From my first detection results, it seems that there are drugs that cause hallucinations or paralysis of mental illness inside the mountain after passing through the mountain gate, and Conan and the girl in the shrine were infected in this way."

Yuuji shared the situation with Gojo and denied that there might be some special pictures that caused spiritual pollution.

Walking down from behind the wooden door with a flashlight, Yuuji first complained about Gojo, thinking that Gojo watched too many weird novels and watched too much TV. Then he walked down the slope twice and then watched him quietly circle around the torii gate and bump into the faded wood.

"What kind of hallucinatory dream is he having?"

Yuuji looked at Washi Komiya Touko, who seemed to be dancing hip-hop, but whose every move seemed as if she was avoiding something. Then he swaggered through the torii gate and looked directly at the small shrine at the innermost part.

Wu Cheng hesitated for a while about whether to knock Conan out. With the help of the flashlight, he saw a rotating steel base with a mirror installed on the ground. He shone the flashlight directly on the mirror and observed the path of light reflected by the mirror.

"Gojo, what are you doing?"

In front of him, Yuuji Kudo saw that Gojo hadn't caught up, but the mechanism he used to illuminate the ground reflected a beam of light. He looked up and followed the end of the beam, then walked to the steel-bottomed bronze mirror and squatted down. "This base can rotate."

The two people looked at each other through the transparent fire cover, and after nodding in unison, Yuji began to change the direction of the refraction of the light little by little with his hands, until the light hit another base on the ground and stopped when the second ray appeared.

"Kaka."

The first base immediately made a sound of mechanical clicking, which made the two men more certain that the mechanism on the ground was the way to break into the cave.

"It's a good thing you didn't open the door of the shrine directly, otherwise there might be some self-destruct device."

In order to ensure continuous light, Gojo had to stand still and leave the adjustment of the mirror angle to Yuuji, and also told him to pay attention to his feet.

"I see that there doesn't seem to be any dangerous traps here except for the aroma that confuses people's minds."

Yuuji pointed at Conan and Washi Komiya Touko and said, "If they can't get out, the old man from this shrine will probably come down and take them away."

As for why he didn't tell Washi Komiya about the secret under the Orange Shrine, Yuji couldn't figure it out.

With the help of Gojo's remote observation, Yuuji slowly adjusted all the mirrors, and only breathed a sigh of relief when all the bases made a clicking sound, paying attention to the final direction the light was pointing.

"Not this little shrine, but the wall?"

He frowned and looked down, thinking that he had turned the wrong way, but after walking to the bronze mirror and fiddling with it to confirm that it was indeed locked, his eyes narrowed and he walked straight to the end of the light.

This is not a man-made space. The surrounding mountain walls are all made of hard rocks. Yuji tapped at other places with his hands, and then tapped twice at the place where the light shone.

“It’s empty here!”

He waved his hand to signal Wucheng to come over, and after the power of the flashlight ran out, all the bases made a coughing sound, and the friction sound of gears and hinges could be heard faintly.

The spot on the mountain wall that was misaligned due to the bullet was about two meters long, but only half a meter high. After making sure that the material was not hard, Wucheng directly broke the wall with his bare fists and shone the flashlight inside.

"An... empty knife rack."

There is also a small red stone behind the knife holder. It is the stone that emits the strange fragrance that fills the mountain. Seeing this, Yuuji touched the stone and took out a thick sealed bag from his fire suit and threw it in.

"It seems that the knife that was originally here is the direct clue to find Keisaburo Afue's treasure, and Afue Tadayuki also lamented that the second line was blocked after seeing the loss of the knife."

Yuuji touched the knife rack and said, "I don't know where this knife has gone. Has anyone got here before Axue Tadayuki?"

"Do not……"

The sudden cold voice behind them made Yuji and Gojo shiver. They turned around and found that a woman dressed as a shrine maiden had appeared next to the shrine, and she was sitting on the steps in front of the shrine.

"Are you the...lady from that day?"

Yuji recalled Orange's description of her mother, but his eyes fell on the hands of the woman who was resting Conan and Orange on her knees and rubbing their foreheads with a green stone.

(End of this chapter)