The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1162 Don’t underestimate magic!

The first time Koizumi Akako went out shopping with Fujino, she saw real rice flower.

Looking at the city of sin with a high crime rate...

She didn't understand why it was so outrageous.

She was shocked!
Even as a witch, she felt that this was outrageous, as if someone had cast a curse.

Fujino had already gotten used to this.

Our rice flower is like this.

Those of you who often hang out in Jianggutian have no idea what the phrase "escape from rice flower" means.

…………

"Sister Mingmei, two glasses of lemonade."

"okay!"

"Hey, who is this...?"

"Koizumi Hongzi."

"Oh...I know. The last time I came here, I went to make lemonade."

Miyano Akemi looked curiously at Koizumi Akemi who was sitting opposite Fujino. Fujino took over the conversation and introduced her to her. She immediately gave him a look that said 'I understand your situation, brother. I will definitely keep it a secret between you and Hongye'. Then she left quickly without saying anything else to avoid being a third wheel.

Koizumi Hongzi looked at Mingmei's back as she left, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she said in a low voice: "She is not a human."

"?"

Fujino silently typed a question mark, then looked at the evil witch who called his sister a non-human with a dissatisfied look on his face and whispered: "Why do you curse at others as soon as you see them?"

"What's the curse?"

Koizumi Hongzi showed a puzzled expression at first, then thought about what she said and realized that there was indeed a misunderstanding. She explained: "I mean, she is different from ordinary people. I noticed it the last time I came here, but I can't tell exactly why. At least her soul and body don't fit together..."

"That's normal. This is my elder sister who was resurrected after I rebuilt her body."

"?"

This time it was Koizumi Akiko's turn to raise a question mark.

In the stairwell next to Snow King Ice Castle; Haibara Ai came down from upstairs and just turned the corner, she saw the red-haired Koizumi Anko and Fujino.

Her eyes narrowed, she paused, then she stopped and took two steps back to hide her small body.

Why did this woman come back with Fujino?

Are the two of them going on a date?

Haibara Ai frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

Start observing secretly.

…………

Fujino didn't intend to talk more about this topic with Koizumi Akako.

He changed the subject and said, "By the way, the lemonade just now is 200 yen off."

"Ha, you still ask me for money?"

Koizumi Hongzi showed an expression of disbelief and blinked her eyes: "Logically speaking, shouldn't you have invited me here?"

"Why do you want me to pay?"

"Why don't you pay?" Fujino said calmly, "Of course our lemonade costs money, otherwise we'll give one for free. Isn't my store free?"

"Raw materials also cost money, right?"

"Besides, this is not the era of more than a decade ago when boys had to pay for everything they did to lick girls' asses. Now it's all about AA, and everyone spends their own money."

"Besides, haven't you heard that nowadays it's already a blessing to find a boy who does housework properly, doesn't commit domestic violence, and doesn't have any bad habits."

"Ms. Mingmei, Miss Mingmei!"

"Is Fujino home?!"

"Mr. Fujino, I'm glad you're here!"

Just as Koizumi Hongzi looked at the unscrupulous businessman in front of her with dead eyes and brainwashed her by telling her how difficult it was to open a store.

Azusa Enomoto suddenly pushed open the door of Snow King Ice City with a cell phone, first greeted Miyano Akemi, and then after discovering Fujino, she hurried over.

Fujino looked at the flustered Azusa Enomoto who was still wearing an apron, and asked in confusion: "Sister Enomoto, what is it that you are looking for me so urgently?"

“It’s a text message!”

Azusa Enomoto took out his cell phone and showed the screen to Fujino.

When Fujino looked at it, he saw a text message in the mailbox that read, "Will I die like the fish caught in the net?"

Afterwards, Azusa Enomoto explained to Fujino the whole story.

Miyamoto Akemi came back from making lemonade and saw this message. She was surprised and said, "Dead...dead?"

"What's going on……"

"I don't know either, that's why I came here."

Azusa Enomoto was a little panicked: "This kid actually said that he was dead or something. Didn't he go fishing with his father? How could he say such a thing..."

Fujino looked at the text messages and thought: "The first text message was sent at nine o'clock in the morning, the second at ten o'clock, the third at eleven o'clock almost twelve o'clock, and this one is three o'clock in the afternoon."

"The first message was sent when I was leaving the house, the second message was probably sent on the way, and the third message was probably sent when I arrived at the fishing ground..."

“That’s very strange.”

"What's so strange?"

Azusa Enomoto asked curiously, and Fujino asked again thoughtfully: "When will a child feel scared because of being stared at by a stranger?"

"If you're scared..."

Azusa Enomoto pondered: "Being alone at home, or being lost alone..."

As she spoke, she suddenly realized something and said in surprise: "Wait, Fujino-kun, you don't mean that he is not with his father now?!"

"I think so."

Fujino nodded and expressed his thoughts: "But when he went out, he went out with his father. Logically, his father should have taken him with him when he went fishing, but now he is not with him..."

Azusa Enomoto couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "Could it be that his father also had an accident?"

"If that's the case, then the child will be miserable..."

Miyano Akemi took over the conversation: "Mom just did it not long ago, and now it's Dad's turn again."

"..."

Koizumi Hongzi, who was sitting aside, was silent for a while, not knowing how to interrupt.

She couldn't help but complain in her heart:
"So, how come this case popped up again?"

"I predicted today that everything would go well!"

At this time, Haibara Ai, who had been eavesdropping here without anyone knowing when, suddenly showed up.

She had been eavesdropping and had gained a lot of information. She asked, "Is the child in the car now?" "In the car?"

Akemi and Enomoto looked at Haibara Ai with some confusion in their eyes.

Huiyuan Ai crossed her arms over her chest and said calmly, "The first two text messages were describing things from a lower perspective. For example, the billboard, the sister in blue clothes, and the uncle wearing black glasses were all looking up."

"Normally, if you don't look up, you can't see these. And for a child, the most likely time to look up is when he's sitting in a car. I think he was in the car when he was texting."

"It seems like this is really the case!"

"Thank goodness Xiao Ai noticed it!"

"..."

When Haibara Ai heard herself being praised, she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

After all, she only discovered this kind of thing after she became a child.

My neck feels so tired when I look up at the world... (sad)
Seeing that she had a chance to get a word in, Koizumi Hongzi immediately interrupted, "It's summer now, and the kid has been alone in the car for hours, right?"

"If this continues, won't you get a heat stroke from the high temperature?"

"Yes!"

Miyano Akemi reacted at this time: "If the child's father couldn't go back for some reason and left him alone in the car, he would definitely get heatstroke after such a long time, right?"

Her face turned grim. "The child's boots were full of sweat before, which was a problem. I also saw a news report this morning about a careless parent who locked his child in a car and forgot to open the window, causing the child to die of heat shock!"

Huiyuan Ai nodded and thought: "In order to prevent something from happening to children who are alone in the car, parents sometimes do close the windows, but that is mostly in spring, autumn and winter. In the summer, sometimes the air conditioner is turned on and the children are left in the car, and they will forget to open the windows..."

As she spoke, she stroked her chin in thought: "The child's father must have just temporarily put him in the car. If the air conditioner is turned off after the engine is turned off, it will be troublesome."

"What should we do now?"

Azusa Enomoto said nervously, "We have to find that child quickly..."

As soon as she said this, everyone turned their eyes to Fujino.

Fujino: "..."

So what are you looking at me for?

How would I know where they would go?
Do you really think I can predict the future?!
Fujino felt helpless. Although he remembered the case, he did not remember the place name.

It should be said that the place name is as fictitious as rice flower.

But speaking of predicting the future...

Isn’t there a ready-made witch right next to me?
Fujino suddenly reacted and glanced at the witch Koizumi Hongzi who was present.

It's decided to be you, Miss Witch!
Use divination to predict the future!

Koizumi Hongzi: “……?”

Why are you looking at me again?

Fujino did not give her time to wonder, and said directly: "Hongzi, you can tell fortunes, tell me where the child is now."

"..."

Koizumi Hongzi was silent for a while after hearing this, and then sighed: "I can't tell fortunes..."

"what?"

Fujino was a little bit unconvinced and asked suspiciously: "You can't even predict this?"

Normally speaking, shouldn't witches be extremely powerful and start out with a magic circle?
How come I can’t even tell my fortune?
You, the witch, are a bit lame...

Koizumi Hongzi felt as if she was being looked down upon by the other party and immediately became unhappy.

As the head of the Red Magic Society, who would dare to look down on her in magic?

(After all, she is the only one left in the Red Magic Society, so it is impossible for anyone to look down on her in terms of magic)
She immediately complained, "Even fortune tellers need the date of birth, so I must need something similar for divination. I haven't even seen him, so of course I can't tell the exact location. At the very least, I need something that has his touch and has his scent left on it."

Fujino: "..."

You witch, why are you still talking about metaphysics and science?

Koizumi Akako: Even magic requires the study of magic, okay? Don't underestimate magic, you guy!
Everyone watched as Fujino went directly to ask Koizumi Hongzi and even talked about divination, and there was a moment of silence.

I feel that Fujino's action is a bit outrageous...

Since when did the detective start to believe in something as unreliable as divination?

Haibara Ai, a girl who studied materialistic science at a young age and went abroad to study, couldn't help but ask: "Is fortune-telling reliable?"

Don’t let the divination be wrong, otherwise the child will die of heatstroke.

"Of course it's reliable."

Fujino crossed his arms and nodded: "I tell you, Koizumi Hongzi's divination skills are amazing. It's not an exaggeration to call it magic."

It should be said that it is magic; Fujino added in his mind.

At this time, Azusa Enomoto seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "Speaking of the remaining things, is it okay to just look through them, Miss Hongzi?"

"That's fine."

Koizumi Hongzi nodded when she heard this: "As long as it's something he's touched, it'll be fine. Even if I haven't met him, I can still tell something from his divination."

"I'll get it right now!"

Of course, Azusa Enomoto didn't really believe in fortune-telling.

But we have to give it our all, there is no other way now.

Then, she ran back and directly took the travel brochure she mentioned before: "This is it. The last time they came to our store, they were looking at this magazine. One of the pages was folded."

Upon hearing this, Huiyuan Ai said, "If that's the case, then they are probably deciding where to go fishing this time... If I think about it this way, as long as I look at which page has a fishing-related page that has been folded, I can find where they are going fishing, right?"

"That's what I mean..."

Azusa Enomoto helplessly flipped open the magazine and said, "But several pages of the content related to fishing are folded at the bottom. It's impossible to tell which page they folded."

"If that's the case, then I'll do some divination."

When Koizumi Hongzi spoke at this time, she seemed quite proactive and eager to prove her strength.

She really wants to show her magic in front of outsiders.

After all, she is a witch with unique special abilities.

Normally, due to the rules of Red Magic, she had to hide her identity and she had no chance to use magic at all.

Now that I can use it openly, shouldn’t I show off?
She is so depressed now!
She took the magazine, hooked her finger, and was about to use magic to summon a circle to teleport her crystal ball over, but when she considered that the people at the scene might be scared, she gave up the idea.

I recalled the smaller divination methods I knew.

She opened the magazine, rubbed it with her fingers, and a faint red light burst out, followed by a faintly invisible hexagram that did not shine.

Immediately, the book flipped rapidly as if blown by the wind.

Finally, it stopped at a page with a corner folded.

Koizumi Hongzi scanned the pages, put the magazine on the table, pointed at the place name on the page and said:

"That's it, Kikomae, they should be going to the fishing spot here."

(End of this chapter)