The unscrupulous detective in Conan

Chapter 1225 The Witch's Candy House
Vermouth collected his thoughts and edited a text message and sent it: "I'm looking for that hospital now, would you like to provide me with some information?"

Fujino's message soon came: "Are there any rewards?"

Vermouth shook her feet, looked at the masterpiece she had just completed, and after a little thought, she edited a text message and sent it out: "There will definitely be a reward, and it's a reward you never expected~"

"..."

Fujino looked at the newly sent text message and fell into silence.

So, what the hell is this seductive tone?

Old auntie, isn't it?
Are you still trying to seduce me?

Don't you see how old you are? Is that possible?
Fujino didn't care what the reward from the old lady was, and decisively refused and replied: "Whatever the reward is, forget it. I won't help you with the official business assigned to you by the organization. I'm not a member of the organization."

Looking at Fujino who disdained to be associated with the organization, Vermouth shook her head slightly: "Forget it, I was thinking of giving you some operation funds as a reward."

Fujino: "..."

Is it too late for me to say I regret it now?
Fujino shook his head slightly, then continued typing on his phone: "So, since you are in charge, then you should also plan how to act, right?"

"That's true."

Vermouth replied: "As for the plan, there is actually no plan. It's just to find Gil and then go in to rescue her. As for the details, I'm afraid I'll have to find her and then plan with the other people sent by the boss."

"Of course, I'll be the first to tell you once I have a plan."

"But... I've already given so much, why don't you give something back?"

Fujino looked at the text message on his phone and drooped his eyelids: "Why, I don't want a reward but now you want one?"

The other side sent a message: "It would be boring without some romance, wouldn't it?"

Fujino thought for a moment and replied, "Then what reward do you want?"

"How about going out for dinner and chatting?"

"No, if you poison me I will just send it."

"You actually rejected an invitation from a big star like me and are suspicious of me. What you said is really inhumane..."

"I'll choose the place."

"OK, wait for my good news..."

Vermouth turned off her cell phone, leaned against the pillow behind her, and moved her waist.

She took a long, deep breath, and finally, a charming and evil smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

…………

"So, why didn't I encounter the incident with Itagaki yesterday..."

"If I had known earlier, I would have gone to Snow King Ice City to have a strawberry milkshake."

Sonoko and Xiaolan came to the Snow King Ice Castle together. With Conan, they sat on the seat in the Snow King Ice Castle and found Fujino and Xiaoai. They began to complain regretfully: "I didn't even participate in catching the murderer who killed Itagaki."

"Also, Xiaolan, why did you hang up on me yesterday? I wanted to ask where you were and come look for you!"

"Ha ha……"

Xiaolan smiled awkwardly, with an embarrassed expression on her face. She looked at Yuanzi helplessly and explained: "The main reason is that I didn't know you were coming here..."

"Besides, the scene of the corpse dumping case is really not very good."

"I'm sorry, Sonoko!"

Yuanzi curled her lips and then said, "If you want me to forgive you, please buy me a cup of the new peach Sijichun!"

"Okay, okay, I'll treat you to a drink!"

Xiaolan responded helplessly. She was speechless that her best friend was a rich woman and yet she, a poor girl with little pocket money, wanted to treat her.

But think about it, I have a 20% discount card for Snow King Ice City, so it’s not a big problem.

What's more, Sister Mingmei would give them free meals every time.

Although she is a native Japanese and doesn't really like free meals for acquaintances, she can't resist the temptation of free meals.

"I kept you waiting!"

At this time, the familiar voice of Ooka Hongye was heard.

Hongye came out of the kitchen wearing a white apron and a custom-made dress of unknown cost underneath. Her plump figure made the apron so heavy that it seemed like it would burst at any time.

Yuanzi picked up the Snow King Bingcheng Sijichun on the table, looked at Hongye, and the corner of her mouth twitched. She said speechlessly, "So, why did you, a young lady, come here to help?"

"It's just something that comes in handy to help."

Hongye sat down and leaned towards Fujino. "The most important thing is that you can learn how to be a qualified wife. This is the most important thing."

"..." Sonoko was silent for a moment, then looked at Fujino next to Momiji. There was a hint of anticipation in her big eyes, as if she was asking: Senior, do you still need a part-time job at home?
I don't want money!

Fujino was quite helpless about this and shook his head slightly with a smile.

Now Snow King Ice City has the help of the Shimokasa sisters and Sister Mingmei to take charge of the situation, so there is no need for anyone to come and help.

The branch of Snow King Ice City is also on the right track. With a group of deceived... no, recruited and wholehearted students and widows, it is managed in an orderly manner. The turnover has even surpassed that of the main store of Snow King Ice City.

This is also to be expected.

After all, no matter how you look at it, those places have a large flow of customers.

Yuanzi still had dead eyes and complained: "So, your hometown should be in Kyoto, why do you always go to Tokyo?"

At this time, Huiyuan Ai said calmly: "She hasn't been back recently."

"???"

Sonoko was completely speechless. So, this guy is determined to stay by Fujino-senpai's side?
It's really abominable...

Fujino glanced at the little loli who was fanning the flames next to him, and felt that Ai was a little too eager to watch the fun and not care about the seriousness of the matter.

So, why do these people like me for some inexplicable reason?
Fujino was speechless. It was obvious that he had no intention of conquering her. The same went for Sonoko. He just saved her a few times, but she actually fell in love with him. It was quite reasonable if you thought about it.

Actually, she didn't have any idea about this silly kid, but the sci-fi movie about a rich woman paying for a man's life... who could resist that?

Now thinking about how to deal with the relationship gives me a headache.

Although Yuanzi was a little bit stupid, she was actually quite smart. Facing this situation, she knew that she couldn't continue discussing this topic, so she smiled and said with a cheerful look:
"Speaking of which, there's an event going on at the museum today!"

"At the Ekorichiu Cake Shop there, you only need to pay 500 yen to enter, and all cakes can be purchased at half price!"

"I was there yesterday. It was just like a scene from a Grimm fairy tale. Shall we go and take a look together?"

"...?"

Fujino listened to Sonoko's words and silently asked a question. Sonoko, this silly kid, is going to suggest going out to play again?
Fujino fell into deep thought, and a formula automatically emerged in his mind: Every time this silly child Sonoko mentioned going out to play, a case would occur, just like triggering a passive action. First the proposal was made, then they arrived at the scene, then someone was killed, and then Conan took out the anesthetic needle and shot Sonoko.

As for why I didn't shoot Xiaolan...

Fujino felt that Conan might be reluctant to shoot Xiaolan.

After all, anesthetic needles are something that force you to sleep, and once you do, you can sleep for most of the day. According to the plot in the previous life's Prisoner Fanze, in the later period, because Maori Kogoro's drug resistance became stronger and stronger, it has even reached the level that one needle can make ordinary people sleep for a whole day. Even if there is no such outrageous... or perhaps reasonable setting here, it seems that anesthetic needles still have side effects.

Conan sat next to her, looking at the excited Sonoko speechlessly, and complained: "So, Sonoko, you are already in high school, why do you still like fairy tales?"

"What do you know, you little brat with glasses!"

Sonoko crossed her arms and looked serious, as if she was saying something wise: "Girls, that's it. No matter how old you are, you will always look forward to fairy tales. When you think about living in a candy house with your prince charming, you will feel unable to stop!"

Conan: "So, Sonoko-sister, are you still a girl?"

Sonoko: “……?” “I am a serious 17-year-old girl, how can I not be a girl?”

Conan: "..."

If you didn't tell me, I would have thought you were a gossip.

Conan secretly complained in his mind, but for the sake of his own safety he chose not to say this out loud.

Xiaolan next to him thought for a moment: "I've heard of this dessert shop a long time ago, but I never had the time to go there..."

"Prince Charming..."

Hongye thought about it and felt that Yuanzi's suggestion was good: "I think it would be nice to go and take a look."

"well!"

Yuanzi immediately transformed into a colonel: "Then let's go together today. I can be your guide!"

"Hello..."

Conan looked at them and couldn't help being speechless for a moment.

So, who would like this kind of childish stuff?
…………

"Isn't it exactly the same as what we saw in the fairy tale book?!"

"Yeah, it looks like the candy house in the story of Hansel and Gretel!"

"It's just like a fairy tale..."

"Hehe, not only that, but I heard that the whole house is also built with biscuit boxes and candies or something like that!"

"Hey, is it that amazing?"

Yuanzi excitedly led the way in front, and Xiaolan, who followed behind, couldn't help but sigh as she looked at a small house that looked like a candy house standing not far ahead in the large exhibition hall.

Conan looked at the surprised Xiaolan in front of him and couldn't help but be speechless. He murmured: "So how could it be built with this kind of thing? If it was built with this kind of thing, it would have collapsed long ago..."

Fujino: "..."

What I mean is, you, a little god of death in the world of science, still talk about science?
The most scientific episode belongs to Yes!

"So this is what a girl feels like." Huihara Ai put her hands behind her back and heard Conan's complaints, "A reasoning geek like you, Edogawa, wouldn't understand this at all."

Conan gave a dead fish eye: "As if your personality should understand."

"Ah, I'm so sorry."

Huihara Ai shook her head helplessly, then looked around, the hair curtains beside her ears swaying slightly: "Before I became smaller, I was also a dignified 18-year-old girl. It is not an exaggeration to call me a girl."

Conan: "..."

So, she is similar to Sonoko, calling herself a girl.

With the look on your face, I really can't imagine how girly you can be.

Conan complained like this in his heart, but in order to avoid the same life-threatening danger as before when he complained about Sonoko, he did not say it out loud.

"Candy house?"

Fujino scratched his head, not quite understanding what everyone was talking about. "So what is the plot of Candy House?"

"Um?!"

Everyone around looked at Fujino with shocked eyes.

Fujino: "..."

So I'm really sorry. No one has ever told me this fairy tale, either in my previous life or in my memory of this world.

"It's probably a story about a pair of siblings who were starving and whose biological father and wicked stepmother couldn't afford to raise their child, so they threw the child into the woods to fend for himself."

"The story goes that the brother and sister got lost in the forest, and finally couldn't stand the hunger and ran to steal candy from the witch's candy house. As a result, they were caught by the witch and almost eaten... Then the brother and sister stole the witch's jewelry, and finally escaped on a duck. When they returned home, they found that their stepmother had died and lived a happy life with their father."

Ai Haibara said this lightly, and explained the summary version of the story of Grimm's Fairy Tales Candy House to Fujino.

Speaking of which, when she was little, her sister also told her Grimm's fairy tales, but she had never heard of the story of the candy house. It was not until she accidentally read the Grimm's fairy tales and saw the candy house that she roughly understood why her sister didn't tell her this story...

This time it’s my turn to tell others.

Fujino's eyebrows twitched involuntarily as he listened to the fairy tale.

He didn't know how to complain about this story.

Yuanzi seemed to have recalled something and touched her chin. "Come to think of it now, the story of the witch who wanted to eat the child is really a bit scary."

Xiaolan couldn't help but nod and agree: "It's really a bit scary when you think about it."

"After all, Grimm's Fairy Tales are dark fairy tales themselves."

Ai Huihara explained calmly, "The Grimm brothers lived in 19th century Europe. There were too many dark things at that time. People at the bottom of society could hardly get enough to eat. Although it was unlikely that children would be abandoned, it was very common to send them out to work as child laborers... As for cannibalism."

"It's possible that children were actually eaten in the story."

"...?"

Sonoko and Xiaolan both had question marks. Although there were descriptions of cannibalism in Japanese history textbooks, they had no idea of ​​the deeper reasons.

After all, cannibalism is something that no country will describe in too much detail in its textbooks.

Most of them describe people as starving to death everywhere and eating their own children.

The words don’t have much impact.

But when you truly understand the meaning behind those words, you will understand what true darkness is.

(End of this chapter)