Rebirth from Conan

Chapter 66 The end of the road?
6:30 pm.

The hot meal was served on the table.

When everyone sat down and prepared to eat, Takahashi Ryoichi walked in from the door dejectedly.

"What took you so long?" Hiroki Kadaya looked at him and said, "I thought you had an accident."

"Well... I'm okay, I just accidentally fell when I was coming down the ladder." Takahashi Ryoichi scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

In fact, it was because the rain was too heavy that he slipped on his way back.

"You are too careless." Hiroki Kakutani said.

Suzuki Ayako also expressed her concern, "Do you need me to go upstairs and get the medicine box down for you?"

"No need, I just fell, it's nothing. You know, I have a lot of flesh and am thick." Takahashi Ryoichi replied happily.

Suzuki Ayako then felt a little relieved and started to set the table.

However, as I was arranging the items, I suddenly remembered that Sonoko seemed to have said just now that she wanted to watch the movie "Blue Kingdom" with everyone while eating.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Suzuki Ayako standing there in a daze, Xiaolan looked at her and asked.

"I was wondering how I could get the table to where the TV is."

She thought, such a big table... I'm afraid it would be difficult for all the boys present to lift it together, right?
Otherwise, you might as well wait until after dinner to watch it.

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, Xia He squatted directly under the long table, then used his hands to easily stand up with the whole table, and then walked very steadily to the TV in the living room.

Except for Conan, Xiaolan, and Sonoko, who were already used to it, everyone else looked at Xia He with extremely astonished eyes.

(°-°〃)
[You gain fear from the bandaged monster +5]

Xia He: "?"

Seeing the prompt, he immediately glanced at Takahashi Ryoichi who was also staring at him.

Then... instead of putting the table down, he maintained his posture and suddenly started squatting.

Everyone: "???"

[You gain fear from the bandaged monster +10]

[Current negative emotion value: 50]

Tsk, the tasks issued by this system are really hilarious.

But I like it!
Xia He thought to himself.

……

dinner.

After eating for a while, Chikako Ikeda went back to her room on the second floor to rest, saying that she had no appetite.

However, the actual reason may be known to only Xia He and Takahashi Ryoji in the entire villa.

She simply didn't want to watch the movie.

Seeing this, Takahashi Ryoji quickly went upstairs on the pretext of losing weight and slipped a note into Ikeda Chikako's room through the crack of the door.

The content of the note was something like this: "Chikako, you don't want everyone to know that you plagiarized, right? Come to the grove near the villa at midnight. I'll be waiting for you there."

……

11:30pm.

While everyone had returned to their rooms to rest, Takahashi Ryoichi first secretly cut the telephone line in the villa, then put on a bandage monster suit, ran to the edge of the cliff and cut off the suspension bridge, and then appeared in the grove.

The wait was about three to five minutes.

When Chikako Ikeda appeared in his field of vision alone with a flashlight, Takahashi Ryoichi immediately approached her from behind and without saying a word, he swung his axe at the back of her neck.

In an instant, the human head was separated.

Blood was everywhere.

The completely unaware Chikako didn't even have time to scream before she turned into a headless corpse.

Feelings of joy and excitement instantly filled his mind. Takahashi Ryoichi suppressed his inner fear and quickly chopped Chikako's body into several pieces and threw the limbs everywhere.

Then, he took off his blood-stained suit, changed back into his original clothes, took out the cotton and sponge that he had used to disguise his beer belly, and stuffed Chikako's head in them.

"No one should be able to tell, right?" he muttered to himself.

I am indeed a genius...

……the other side.

villa.

After Chikako Ikeda left the room, Xia He crouched outside Xiaolan and Conan's room, waiting for Takahashi Ryoichi to arrive.

Because according to the plot in the original work - Takahashi Ryoichi will first pass through Ikeda Chikako's room, go to the connected balcony outside, use tools to cut open the window on the balcony, and attack the sleeping Xiaolan first.

Then, after the attack failed, he would run to the woods and kill Chikako Ikeda.

But Xia He forgot one thing.

That is... the "butterfly effect" caused by one's own intervention.

He squatted behind the flower bed outside the door for a whole hour, but didn't see even the shadow of a person.

Just when he looked at his watch and felt a little strange, he suddenly heard some noise coming from the first floor.

He quickly stood up, moved to the edge of the railing with his slightly numb legs, and looked down from the second floor through the gap.

I saw Takahashi Ryoichi sneaking in from the front door, then quietly climbing up the stairs and returning to his room.

"Could it be that……"

Seeing this, Xia He had a bad feeling in his heart.

As expected.

It was less than five minutes before Takahashi Ryoichi returned to the room.

"on fire!"

Accompanied by a cry.

The lights in the corridor came on, and Takahashi Ryoichi, with his superb acting skills, was the first to run out of the room, running downstairs with a panicked look on his face.

……

Wow!
Xia He carried a 15-kilogram bucket of water in one hand and put out the fire outside the first floor. The people standing behind him breathed a sigh of relief.

at the same time.

Conan moved closer to the fire, sniffed hard, and then frowned, "It seems someone has poured alcohol on the firewood."

"So, this fire was set intentionally?"

"Moving the firewood here and then pouring alcohol on it...it's hard to say it wasn't intentional." Xia He said.

"Who could have done this?" Ota Katsu spread his hands. "It couldn't have been one of our own."

Set yourself on fire?
Who is so bored as to do something like this?

"Could it be the bandaged weirdo we met when we first arrived today?" Xiaolan said at this time.

"Bandage weirdo? What bandage weirdo?" Everyone looked at her when they heard it.

Before Xiaolan could explain, Takahashi Ryoichi stepped forward and said, "When I saw the fire through the window, I saw a man in a black robe and a tulip hat running towards the grove."

"That's him!" Xiaolan nodded. "The weird guy that Conan, Xia He and I saw was also dressed like this, and his face was covered with bandages. He looked scary."

"But that person...why did he set fire to my villa?" Suzuki Ayako asked with some confusion.

"Why don't we call the police first?" someone suggested.

If you encounter such strange things, you must ask the police for help.

Unexpectedly, Yuanzi ran into the living room and dialed the number several times, only to find that the telephone line had been cut.

In addition, it was in the middle of nowhere and there was no cell phone signal, so the group of people suddenly became a little overwhelmed.

"What should I do now?"

"Hurry down the mountain." Hiroki Kadaya said with a serious expression: "That guy must have come prepared. We have to leave here before he makes another move."

Having said that, he didn't even want to pack his luggage. He picked up the flashlight and ran out of the villa.

Seeing this, everyone immediately followed.

However, when I ran to the cliff, I saw that the suspension bridge leading to the other side had also been cut off...

A feeling of fear began to spread among the crowd.

Takahashi Ryoichi, who was following behind the crowd with a human head hidden in his stomach, smiled evilly when he saw this.

(End of this chapter)