Conan's Exorcist Detective

Chapter 147 Xiao Ai was captured by a bad woman

Suzuki Sonoko was dreaming of singing in a KTV with Xiaolan.

Conan was also in the dream. The kid sang terribly and held the microphone tightly.

This resulted in Sonoko having to compete with Xiaolan for another microphone. Sonoko used her hands and feet, and even bit and gnawed the microphone, and finally snatched it from Ran Mouri.

But the microphone in this KTV is a bit weird. It feels soft and hard when you pinch it. I guess it’s made of rubber?

But why is it still a little hot?

In the dream, Suzuki Sonoko didn't think much about it. She ordered a song that she was good at. Just as she put the microphone to her lips, she was awakened by a shrill scream in reality.

She opened her eyes drowsily.

I found Haruhiko lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, his face looked hollow, his eyes staring at the ceiling in the corner.

"Eh? What was that sound just now?" Yuanzi got up, wiped his saliva and asked.

Haruhiko said nothing.

At this time, there were messy running and noisy sounds coming from the corridor outside, which seemed to be from Hattori Heiji and that kid Conan.

Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the door, followed by Hattori Heiji's urgent voice: "Kousaka, get up! Something happened!"

Haruhiko was still lying on the ground, daydreaming.

Seeing that Haruhiko didn't say anything, Sonoko subconsciously wanted to answer, but when she was about to speak, she suddenly realized that she was in a state of sneaking into Haruhiko's room, and it would be troublesome if she was discovered.

Yuanzi swallowed her words again, she crawled over and pinched his thigh hard.

Haruhiko finally came to his senses and shouted outside, "Ah... I know. I'll get up right away."

Hattori Heiji seemed eager to solve the case, so he left after giving a notification.

Haruhiko and Sonoko breathed a sigh of relief at the same time as they heard the footsteps gradually fading away in the corridor.

"What's wrong with you? Are you sleeping with your eyes open?" Yuanzi yawned, her voice still lazily from just waking up.

Haruhiko thought, if you hadn't moved around, would I have been like that?
But he could only complain in his mind; speaking it out loud would only make things awkward for both of them. Haruhiko changed the subject and said, "Go back and change your clothes. I'll clean up too."

Sonoko asked doubtfully, "Well, are you really okay?"

Haruhiko pushed her shoulder and said, "Go quickly. Their attention should be focused over there right now. No one will see you. We'll meet at the scene later."

Yuanzi wrinkled her delicate nose. "It's like having an affair."

Haruhiko chuckled and scratched her cute nose: "Okay, go now."

Yuanzi stood up, carefully opened the wooden sliding door, stuck his little head out to look around, and after finding that there was no one there, he tiptoed back to the house.

Haruhiko also cleaned up the mess and took a shower before rushing to the scene.

...

The incident occurred in a warehouse where pottery was stored, a rectangular building with a high ceiling.

In fact, it was in this warehouse yesterday that they witnessed Mrs. Tsuchiya accidentally breaking the Feng Shui pill. Unexpectedly, they witnessed Mrs. Tsuchiya committing suicide in this warehouse today.

This makes it easy to imagine that Mrs. Tsuchiya committed suicide because she felt guilty about breaking the Feng Shui pill.

From a distance, Haruhiko saw Xiaolan calling the police at the door to confirm her location.

He nodded to Xiaolan and walked into the warehouse.

The warehouse was made entirely of wood, with hundreds of pottery pieces displayed on shelves reaching the ceiling. Mrs. Tsuchiya's body lay on the wooden floor next to the shelves.

As soon as I entered the warehouse, a strong smell of blood hit me in the face.

Conan and Hattori Heiji were standing a little further away, talking in low voices. They had probably finished investigating the scene and started to deduce the case.

The gray-haired Master Kikuemon stood in front of his daughter-in-law's body with his hands behind his back, his face expressionless, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Beside Kikuemon, his apprentice Seto Ryuichi murmured to himself: "Mrs. Tsuchiya must have accidentally broken the Feng Shui number and committed suicide out of guilt, but..."

Haruhiko looked at Seto Ryuichi's expression and thought that this guy had pretty good acting skills.

The regretful and pityful expression on the other person's face was just right, completely in line with his identity as Kikuemon's apprentice, but it didn't give people the feeling of being too extreme.

Haruhiko glanced at Conan and began to "inspect the scene".

He said he was checking the scene, but in fact he was just pretending to do it for others. Although he usually seemed to solve cases based on intuition, he still had to have basic logic, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.

Haruhiko quickly checked the scene. In fact, he had already reconfirmed the plot in his mind several times last night.

At this time, Conan and Hattori Heiji walked over.

"How is it, Kousaka? Did you find anything?" asked Hattori Heiji.

Haruhiko nodded: "Yeah, I found something interesting."

Hattori Heiji was the first to speak out his own reasoning: "I think the scars on Mrs. Tsuchiya's legs are a bit strange..."

Heiji pointed out what he found suspicious.

After finishing his reasoning, Hattori Heiji looked at Haruhiko and Conan with a smug look on his face.

Haruhiko nodded in approval.

Conan, however, remained relatively calm, as he had experienced the painful experience of confidently stating his reasoning in front of Haruhiko many times and then being slapped in the face by him.

However, at Hattori Heiji's suggestion, Conan still expressed his opinion: "I think Mrs. Tsuchiya's feet are too clean. If she committed suicide, it is impossible for her feet to be clean when she walked in..."

After listening to Conan's reasoning, Haruhiko nodded in agreement.

"What do you think, Kousaka?" asked Hattori Heiji.

Haruhiko: "The murderer is Seto Ryuichi."

Hattori Heiji: "Is that so... I think, eh? What did you say, the murderer is Seto Ryuichi?!"

Hattori Heiji didn't expect that Haruhiko had already found the murderer. He was so shocked that his voice was subconsciously raised a lot.

This warehouse is actually not very big, and Hattori Heiji's voice can easily reach the ears of everyone present.

Seto Ryuichi, who was standing next to the corpse, was startled when he heard someone mention his name.

He subconsciously looked over and found Haruhiko smiling at him.

Somehow, when Seto Ryuichi saw Haruhiko's sunny smile, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Haruhiko's sharp eyes hidden behind his warm smile gave people the feeling that he had seen through everything.

No way?
Could it be that these little guys who call themselves detectives have already determined that he is the murderer?
Seto Takashi instinctively didn't believe it. He had planned this method for a long time and practiced it countless times with plastic dummies before he finalized it into a foolproof murder plan.

How could it be so easily seen through by a few high school kids and an elementary school student?

These little brats must have been making random guesses.

Seto Ryuichi comforted himself in his heart that without evidence, even the police would not be able to do anything to him.

Just as he was thinking about it, Haruhiko and the other two had already walked up to him.

"The murderer is you, Mr. Seto!" Haruhiko didn't waste any words and went straight to the reasoning part.

Seto Ryuichi was startled. He didn't expect Haruhiko to be so direct, but he instinctively retorted, "Please don't make such jokes. Even if you are a guest brought by Ms. Suzuki, you can't play detective games at a time like this."

Haruhiko chuckled and said, "I'm not playing games. I've seen through your murder method. You moved the drunk Mrs. Tsuchiya here in the middle of the night, so her feet were not stained with mud. As for the scars on her legs, they were scratched by the nails on the wooden frame..."

Haruhiko recounted the other party's criminal methods.

After hearing Haruhiko's reasoning, Seto Ryuichi felt the blood in his body freeze. He never expected that Haruhiko would repeat his murder method word for word.

However, he suppressed his shock and argued, "Although your speculation seems reasonable, it doesn't prove that I am the murderer. According to your reasoning, anyone could have committed this murder, right?"

Haruhiko shook his head: "If you want evidence, just take off your clothes. The evidence is on you."

Seto Ryuichi stood there for a long time without moving.

Although he remembered that he did not leave any evidence on his body during the crime, Haruhiko's attitude was too firm, which made him hesitate.

At this time, Hattori Heiji, who was acting as an assistant, walked over and semi-forced Seto Ryuichi to take off his clothes. As a result, he saw a lipstick mark on the clothes inside his coat.

"Lipstick?" Everyone present exclaimed.

Haruhiko explained to everyone, "Yes, that was Mrs. Tsuchiya's lipstick. Mr. Seto accidentally rubbed it against it when he was moving the body. Because the location was quite hidden, he didn't notice this detail.

How about it? Mr. Seto, do you have anything else to say? "

Seto Ryuichi took off his inner clothes in disbelief, looked at the lipstick marks on them, and was speechless for a long time.

He never expected that his carefully designed plan could be so easily seen through by a high school kid.

Moreover, he had rehearsed the attack many times, but he still left behind irrefutable evidence.

Seto Takaichi glanced at the lipstick marks on his clothes, then looked at Kousaka Haruhiko in front of him, and fell to his knees with a plop: "It's all because of that woman Tsuchiya Mashiko who was too greedy..."

Seto Ryuichi knelt on the ground and began to confess.

Just as Seto was confessing, Hattori Heiji set his sights on Haruhiko who was chanting a mantra for salvation around the warehouse.

This can be regarded as his first head-on confrontation with Haruhiko Kousaka.

The two of them were exposed to the case at the same time, with no information gap. He even arrived at the scene a while earlier than Kosaka Haruhiko. But unexpectedly, he was the one who solved the case at lightning speed.

This was a little difficult for Hattori Heiji to accept. He felt a strong sense of frustration in his heart, but at the same time he had a new understanding of Kudo Shinichi's words.

Conan, who was standing by, looked at Hattori Heiji's deflated expression and for some reason felt secretly happy, thinking that finally someone was there to accompany him through this desperate moment.

Haruhiko was concentrating on exorcising the evil spirits and didn't pay attention to the two people's psychological activities.

Not long after, Officer Yokomizo also arrived at the scene with his men. After learning that the case had been solved, he naturally flattered and praised Haruhiko.

Since the criminal has confessed, the investigation process can be simplified.

After a simple evidence collection, Officer Yokomizo had Seto Ryuichi taken to the car and even came over to say goodbye to Haruhiko.

The ingratiating expression on his face was similar to that of Inspector Megure.

But it's no wonder that he looks at Haruhiko differently. Yokomizo Sango was excluded from the investigation headquarters of the "Comic Trailer Bomb Case" due to his injury, but he didn't expect that with the help of Haruhiko, he solved the serial killer case of Michiwaki Masahiko and several minor cases one after another.

Compared to the investigation headquarters on the bomb case, there has not been much progress.

This contrast gave Yokomizo a vague sense of superiority and secret satisfaction.

But of course he knew that he was just lucky to meet Haruhiko, and it didn't actually play a big role.

However, because Haruhiko was not from the Metropolitan Police Department, the Metropolitan Police Department system's final judgment was still based on Yokomizo Sango's "performance", which means that he got the opportunity to get promoted and make money without doing anything.

Therefore, Yokomizo Sango's attitude towards Haruhiko was particularly affectionate, even a little humble.

After Officer Yokomizo left, the atmosphere at the scene became somewhat depressing.

The daughter-in-law of the pottery master Kikuemon died, and the murderer was his beloved apprentice.

Anyone who experiences such a blow repeatedly would probably be depressed for a while.

However, Kikuemon still managed to cheer himself up and personally handed the set of pottery that he had promised to the Suzuki Group to Sonoko, and wrote a blessing on it.

Then he declined the invitation to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Suzuki Building.

Suzuki Sonoko expressed her understanding and comforted Master Kikuemon by asking him to take care of his health.

After handing over the pottery, Kikuemon returned to his room to rest.

The previous apprentice, Yoshihiko Arita, led everyone to the kiln to pick up the pottery fired yesterday.

After taking out the fired pottery, Haruhiko discovered that there were patterns on Sonoko's pair of mugs.

Because after helping Yuanzi complete the clay embryo yesterday, he left to go back and make his own Chinese teapot, so he didn't see the part where Yuanzi finally painted the pattern on the cup.

Of course, Haruhiko chose to leave too early because he was worried that if he continued to be rubbed by Suzuki Sonoko's elastic peach buttocks, a strange side story would occur.

"This is for you. Consider it a reward for accompanying me this time." Yuanzi handed over one of the cups.

Haruhiko took it and looked at it. He could vaguely make out the pattern of two small figures, a man and a woman.

The man seemed to be wearing clothes similar to those of an exorcist, with talismans and other things floating around his body, and there was a phantom of a monster behind him.

The woman opposite the man was wearing a beautiful skirt, had very long legs, and was wearing high heels.

The posture between the two was frozen at the moment when the man knelt on one knee, picked up the woman's feet and kissed them gently.

After seeing it, Haruhiko's face was filled with annoyance. He asked Sonoko, "Why this pattern? I feel like you're hinting at something."

Yuanzi smiled and said: "No, you think too much~"

Haruhiko looked doubtful, but after all, it was a kind gesture from Sonoko, so he carefully put it away.

However, he always felt that if he drank water with this thing, it would remind him of the smell of Suzuki Sonoko's white little feet, which always felt weird.

Haruhiko decided to just go back and put it up as a decoration.

Just as everyone was walking towards the room to pack up and leave, Hattori Heiji accidentally dropped the freshly made pottery and broke it on the ground.

Everyone froze in place.

Toyama Kazuha ran to Taoqi, sat on the ground and said aggrievedly: "Heiji is a big idiot!!"

Hattori Heiji knew he was in the wrong and did not dare to refute, but just kept apologizing.

He apologized profusely and agreed to several "unequal treaties" with Ye before he managed to coax her into submission.

But on the way back, Kazuha still held the broken porcelain pieces and complained, "Really, Heiji, when will you change your carelessness? Don't you know how much trouble you've caused me with this carelessness?"

Hattori Heiji retorted, "It's not like that many times. I just accidentally didn't catch it this time."

Kazuha stopped and began to scold Hattori Heiji: "On the first day we came here, you forgot your room card in the room, right?
After that, you made an appointment with me to meet at the entrance of the amusement park. Is it true that you forgot about me because you found the clue?
And before, when you went to find Conan and the others, you actually let a child drink white wine. I really don’t know what was going on in your head!

Hattori Heiji explained in a logical and reasonable manner: "First of all, I forgot the room card because I was helping you find the lip gloss that fell under the bed and the hairband that you didn't know where to put it.

Secondly, I clearly left you a secret code at the amusement park that day, but you just didn’t decipher it.

Again, who knew that kid really dared to drink white wine?!"

Kazuha was not willing to be outdone and launched a new round of rebuttal to Hattori Heiji's words, and the two of them started arguing in the corridor.

The others tried to persuade him but couldn't find a chance to interrupt.

However, when Haruhiko heard what Kazuha said, he remembered something.

Drink white wine?
He set his eyes on Conan. He remembered that in the original work, Hattori Heiji asked Conan to drink Lao Baigan when they first met, causing Conan to briefly turn back into Kudo Shinichi.

Could it be that in this world, although the timeline has changed, the incident of drinking Lao Baigan still happened?

Did Conan grow bigger in the past few days?
"Drink white wine? Did you let Conan drink white wine?" Haruhiko asked while looking at Conan, but found that Conan was looking at him with a puzzled expression.

Kazuha explained: "It's not Conan, it's the little girl with brown hair, what's her name..."

"Haibara Ai," Hattori Heiji said, "She seems like a very strange little girl. She's always so cold and aloof, like a cool cat. I didn't expect her to have such a high fever that she would actually drink the liquor directly."

Haruhiko's eyes widened instantly.

It’s not Conan, it’s Haibara Ai? !
After hearing the news, what he was most worried about was that Haibara Ai didn't know that drinking white wine would make her grow bigger. If the process of growing bigger was seen by others, it would be troublesome.

Not only will it attract the attention of the Black Organization, I believe that national agencies will also be very interested in the strange phenomena happening to her.

But then I thought, it should have happened the day before yesterday, so it should be fine, right?
If there was something wrong, he would have been notified long ago.

Despite this, Haruhiko was still worried about her, so he secretly followed her on the way back and called Haibara Ai.

The busy tone on Didi continued until it automatically hung up, and Haibara Ai did not answer the call.

Haruhiko's heart sank, and he had a bad feeling.

He quickly called the doctor again.

"Looking for Ai?" The doctor on the other end of the line was visibly taken aback. "Didn't Ai go with you to attend the pottery course taught by master potter Kikuemon?"

Haruhiko: "What? That's what she told you?"

Haruhiko only understood after the doctor explained.

It turned out that the next morning after Haibara Ai drank the white liquor, she disappeared. She only called the doctor and said that she went to see Haruhiko and visit the pottery master's house with them.

The doctor didn't care because he knew that she and Haruhiko had a special relationship, and perhaps the two of them wanted some private space.

Plus, he had to take care of the young detectives who were always getting into trouble, so naturally he didn't take it seriously.

Unexpectedly, due to some strange coincidence, Haruhiko only found out the news two days later.

After hanging up the phone, Haruhiko was confused. Why did she lie to the doctor and say she came to see him?
Could it be that he suddenly realized that he had grown bigger and wanted to leave quietly without implicating everyone?

But then I thought it didn't make sense. Haibara Ai had been trying to figure out how to restore her and Conan's bodies to adult form.

She had plans to restore her adult body on her own initiative. Haruhiko even knew that she had prepared several disguises for herself in order to hide her enlarged body from being discovered by the winery.

You shouldn't have run away secretly.

Just as I was thinking about it, Haruhiko's phone rang.

Haruhiko looked at the note "The Lonely Girl in Black·Ai" displayed on his phone screen, his pupils widened instantly, and he quickly pressed the call button.

By the way, this note was changed by Haibara Ai herself after she saw the note "Super Cute Miss Sonoko" on Sonoko's phone.

At first, Haruhiko thought this note was a bit too dull, so he changed her note to [Sheryl Meow].

After being discovered by Haibara Ai, she bit and attacked with her feet, threatening Haruhiko and changing the note back.

"Hello? Where have you been?" Haruhiko asked anxiously.

There was silence for a moment.

A sexy woman’s voice came from the other end of the phone: “The Cortesia Hotel next to Izu subway station, if you’re too late, you can collect her body.

Don't even think about calling the police, little brother Haruhiko. You know the organization has spies inside the Metropolitan Police Department, right? "

Haruhiko's heart sank to the bottom. The situation he least wanted to see had finally happened.

"Who are you?" Haruhiko asked in a deep voice.

The woman said in a lazy voice: "A secret makes a woman woman."
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