Conan's Exorcist Detective

Chapter 85 The Secret of Mamiya Noble

Suzuki Sonoko sat melancholy on the bed by the window in the classroom, looking out.

It was also raining in Tokyo, and the overcast sky was just like her current mood.

Suzuki Sonoko once again cast her gaze on the desk not far in front of her. That was where Kousaka Haruhiko sat. He hadn't come to school today.

Although it was the weekend, the school organized tutoring. Haruhiko had signed up before, and Suzuki Sonoko came along after hearing the news.

Otherwise, she would not be interested in this kind of tutoring.

but--

That guy actually took a leave of absence at the last minute.

She had to listen to boring math knowledge for the whole morning, which made her feel dizzy, and there were still several hours of torture waiting for her in the afternoon.

"Sonoko, you've looked at Haruhiko's seat more than twenty times this morning." Ran Mouri's voice suddenly came from behind.

It is lunch break and students are free to move around and talk.

"Ah? There are so many?" Sonoko turned around and saw Ran Mouri, who was wearing a suit and school uniform, walking over at some point.

"That's just what I noticed. I was taking notes and wasn't staring at you," said Mao Lilan.

"I think, why should we suffer here while he can go camping in the wild? It's really unfair." Sonoko explained.

Mao Lilan looked puzzled. "Didn't you ask to come to the tutoring class? To be honest, I was also surprised at the time. Didn't you always dislike studying?"

"I..." Sonoko hesitated, and when she couldn't explain herself clearly, she changed the subject, "Xiaolan, shall we go camping too?"

"Camping? But I still have classes in the afternoon."

"Of course not now. There's a holiday coming up in a few days, so why don't we take this opportunity to go out and have some fun?" Yuanzi clasped her hands to her chest with anticipation. "Before, my dad locked me up at home, and I was almost going crazy."

"That's fine, but where are you going?"

"In this season, of course we have to go to the beach! Sunshine, sand, surfing, and handsome guys with bronzed skin. Just thinking about it is exciting." Suzuki Sonoko said exaggeratedly, attracting the curious gazes of the students around her.

Mao Lilan motioned for Sonoko to lower her voice, then asked, "Are you still thinking about finding a handsome guy? I thought you had given up."

"How is that possible? This time I specially learned some special skills from one of my sister's friends." Sonoko looked mysterious.

Mao Lilan was indeed attracted and asked in a low voice: "What technique?"

Sonoko: "It's about how to capture a man's heart with tricks."

"Is there such a thing?" Mao Lilan felt a little unbelievable.

"Of course. My sister's friend used this to successfully win over the heir of a consortium and eventually married into a wealthy family," said Sonoko.

Mao Lilan was a little confused: "I thought that after you met Kosaka-kun, you wouldn't look for any more handsome guys."

Suzuki Sonoko thought to herself, "I worked so hard to learn from a master, wasn't it just for that guy?" But she said, "Who would like a guy like that? He doesn't give me a sense of security."

Mao Lilan looked at her best friend who said one thing but meant another and smiled slightly.

Suzuki Sonoko felt a little guilty after being looked at, so she quickly changed the subject: "Wait for me to test the effect. If it works, I'll teach you and let Shinichi have a taste of my power."

Mao Lilan's face turned red: "What nonsense are you talking about? We are just ordinary childhood sweethearts."

Suzuki Sonoko: "Huh? Really? Shinichi will be sad if he hears it."

"Of course...and I think, is it really okay to use that kind of technique?" Ran Mouri seemed to think that love was a very pure mutual attraction.

Suzuki Sonoko picked up the pencil with her slender fingers and scribbled on the notebook: "What does it matter? I'm not as attractive as you, Xiaolan. Just standing there will make men want to bury their faces in it."

"What nonsense are you talking about, Sonoko?" Mao Lilan reached out and pinched Sonoko's thigh. "How can you let a man... bury it in you?"

"Can't men be buried inside? Then can I?" Suzuki Sonoko smiled and moved her face closer to the chest muscles of Mouri Ran, which were covered by the school uniform.

Mao Lilan pressed her face, and her makeup-free face was delicate and touching: "Stop it, there are still many classmates here."

Suzuki Sonoko glanced around and found that several boys had pig-like faces and were looking forward to what would happen next.

She glared at these people coldly, scaring them so much that they immediately lowered their heads and pretended to do the questions.

Mao Lilan reminded her at this time: "Who are you planning to invite? It's better to contact them in advance."

"Well, then I'll call Haruhiko...-kun and ask him to help me carry my luggage when the time comes." Seeing the suspicious expression on Ran Mouri's face, Suzuki Sonoko immediately found a reason for her behavior.

Yuanzi picked up her cell phone, and the joy that could not be hidden on her face was just like that of an adolescent girl in love.

...

Kousaka Haruhiko hung up the phone with Sonoko.

Tabata on the opposite side covered his nose with his hands, and the umbrella he threw over fell to the ground, with the edge of the umbrella stuck in the rain-soaked soil.

He really didn't expect that the atmosphere had reached this point, but this guy could still keep his composure.

Normally, shouldn't a detective who suddenly appears when investigating a key clue have the intention to kill the other person?
Haruhiko originally wanted to use the other party's murderous intent to lure him into action, and then look for a flaw.

However, in the face of Haruhiko's humiliating attack, Tabata said with dissatisfaction, "The flowers here are very expensive. If you step on them, you have to pay compensation." After that, he called the maid in the castle to come and judge the matter.

Now I can't deal with Haruhiko anymore, so what are you doing with the knife?!
Gardener Tabata indeed gave a relatively reasonable explanation - repairing the roof.

He said that repairing the roof required using a knife to cut the waterproof material into small pieces, and then he showed Haruhiko the black sticky substance on the blade as if to show off.

Haruhiko was speechless. The sky was so gloomy and raindrops kept hitting his face, so he really didn't notice the details on the knife edge.

The attempt failed, so Haruhiko could only say that he wanted to come here to see if there were any clues about the castle's treasure.

However, the gardener Tabata said that this place was renovated after the fire and the entire land was dug up, so there could be no clues left by the old man.

Haruhiko had no choice but to pick up the umbrella on the ground and end the investigation.

As he was leaving, he looked at Tabata's bandaged hand and asked, "What happened to your hand?"

"I was injured while repairing the roof." Tabata said expressionlessly.

Well, you can always blame it on repairing the roof, right?
Although Haruhiko still felt that this guy was very suspicious, there was no reason to continue questioning him in this situation. He could only return to the castle first.

"Although you are Master Aman's guest, I still advise you not to wander around here. It would be bad if you get trapped. That's how the new servant disappeared two years ago." Tabata's seemingly kind reminder seemed to have other intentions.

Haruhiko ignored him and walked towards the castle gate with an umbrella.

After entering the castle, he first returned the umbrella, then went back to the room to wipe the rain off his body, and then came out of the room again.

It has to be said that this castle is really big. He walked here for half a day without seeing anyone. If it weren't for the spotless environment that was always maintained indoors, he would even think that this was an abandoned castle with no one living here.

Haruhiko thought about it and felt that it was time to rescue Conan. If he waited too long, he might starve to death.

In addition, he found that apart from Mutsumi Nishikawa, the other people here seemed a little abnormal.

In order to avoid unnecessary complications, let’s get down to business first and exorcise the evil spirits first.

Thinking of this, Haruhiko walked towards the rooms on the second floor where Conan disappeared yesterday.

He felt that there should be an entrance to the secret room there.

...

"It's all your fault, Genta. We suddenly fell into this place." Ayumi complained. She was a little scared looking at the dark environment around her.

Just now, when they were looking for clues in a room on the first floor, Yuantai suddenly touched a mechanism, causing them all to fall into this dark secret passage.

Genta, however, looked excited: "Isn't this perfect? ​​Aren't we supposed to be looking for Conan anyway? I guess he must be trapped here and can't get out."

"But... I'm a little scared." The darkness around her made Ayumi feel uneasy.

"Don't worry, we will definitely find Conan." Mitsuhiko stepped forward to comfort.

"You should also have the watch-shaped flashlight made by Dr. Dai, right?" Haibara Ai reminded, then turned on her own watch-shaped flashlight.

A beam of light shot out from the back of her hand and shone onto the wall. The wall was made of dark stone and covered with dust. The small spider that was originally lying on the wall was frightened by the sudden appearance of light and crawled into the cracks in the stone.

At this time, the other three people also turned on their watch-shaped flashlights. With the light source, Ayumi felt a little relieved.

"Let's go. Since we can't get out the original way, let's just look around here." Haibara Ai said as she walked forward. There was a stone staircase in front of her.

Halfway down the stairs, Haibara Ai suddenly saw a dark red object on the ground, so she squatted down and gently touched it with her fingers.

"What is that?" Other members of the detective team also came over, and the flashlight shone on Haibara Ai's white fingertips, where there was a dark red sticky substance.

"It's blood," she said. "Judging from its color and viscosity, it must have dripped here not long ago."

Ayumi was full of admiration: "Ai is so amazing, I feel like you are Conan."

"Now is not the time to be happy. This bloodstain is most likely Conan's blood, which means that he may not be simply trapped here and unable to get out." Haibara Ai stood up and made an inference.

Ayumi's face turned pale with fright after hearing this.

At this time, Guangyan also used the ability of the Junior Detective Team and found some words carved on the side of the stone steps next to him.

Everyone came over and shone the flashlight on it.

Mitsuhiko read out the words: "That person has now replaced my identity and wants to steal the castle's treasure..."

There is nothing more after that.

Ayumi: "Could it be that these words were carved by Conan?"

"That's not right." Huiyuan Ai frowned, "The content doesn't match, and these traces look like they've been there for a long time."

Everyone looked like that.

Huiyuan Ai continued, "Although I don't know who carved the words, but judging from the fact that the words were not finished, it seems that the person was unable to continue carving."

"Is there no way to carve it?" Ayumi's eyes widened, as if she had thought of a bad possibility. "Yes, maybe he died here." Haibara Ai shone the light of the watch around. "Conan must have discovered this man's body, and while he was examining the body, he was hit from behind. The blood on the ground must have dripped from that time."

"Isn't he in great danger now?" Ayumi suddenly became very nervous.

At this time, Yuan Tai took a step back and stepped on something, which made a crackling sound. "Hey, why is there a pair of glasses here? There's blood on them."

Mitsuhiko: "Isn't this the doctor's glasses?"

"What?!" The three of them exclaimed in unison, standing there at a loss as to what to do.

At this time, Haibara Ai also felt that things seemed to be getting a little beyond her expectations. The clues she suddenly discovered indicated that Conan and the doctor might be in life-threatening danger.

But does Haruhiko Kousaka know the situation here?
Looking at his nonchalant attitude, it seems that he just thinks that Conan and the doctor are trapped?
Haibara Ai felt that she had to tell him the news here, but after entering through that door just now, she couldn't get out, so she had to find another exit if she wanted to go out.

"Let's go, let's keep looking forward, it would be best if we can find a way out." Haibara Ai took the lead and walked forward.

After walking a little further down, Haibara Ai suddenly felt a weak air flow coming from the side.

She guessed there might be a door leading out, so she went over to check.

Ayumi and Mitsuhiko also approached the wall out of curiosity, but they didn't expect that the wall would be pushed open with just a slight push, and they fell into the corridor on the first floor.

"It hurts so much." Mitsuhiko covered his face.

Ayumi also got up from the ground and glanced around: "Where's Genta? Genta is still inside."

Haibara Ai quickly tried to open the door from the outside, but found that even if the three of them worked together, they couldn't open the mechanism.

"There's no other way. We have to go in through the entrance we just fell into and then find a way to find him." Haibara Ai suggested.

Ayumi and Mitsuhiko also agreed, and the three of them ran towards the room on the first floor where they had accidentally fallen into the secret passage.

They didn't notice that Mamiya Takato's figure appeared from behind them, and he followed quietly.

...

Haruhiko searched the room on the second floor for a long time.

Finally, I found the mechanism in a clock. As long as I turn the clock to a specific time, the bookcase will flip over and a secret passage will appear.

Haruhiko walked into the secret passage, which was a pitch-black corridor.

The air quality here was very poor. He turned on his flashlight, and a white beam shot out into the distance. Fine dust particles drifted within the beam, and at the end of the beam—

Mutsumi Nishikawa struggled forward, holding an iron rod in one hand and dragging Genta's fat body with the other.

She seemed a little shocked when she was suddenly illuminated by the light, and stood there in a daze for a long time.

But after all, he was a ruthless person who could kill so many people for the treasure and had the heart to have plastic surgery to look like an old lady.

Mutsumi Nishikawa decisively left Genta behind and ran towards Haruhiko with an iron rod, intending to get rid of this unlucky kid who had fallen into the secret passage.

Anyway, she has already arrested several people, so this one won't make any difference.

Haruhiko looked at Mutsumi Nishikawa who was running towards him with a strange cry, and he had to say that her appearance combined with the environment was really creepy.

So he picked up the flashlight and rushed forward, using his "street fighting" skills.

The result is--

He overestimated Mutsumi Nishikawa's fighting ability.

How much strength can a person who sits in a wheelchair all day and has no chance to exercise have?

This may be the reason why she chose to knock Yuantai and the others out one by one and take them away instead of capturing them all together.

Anyway, Mutsumi Nishikawa was knocked unconscious by Haruhiko's flashlight.

Maybe he hit her too hard, Haruhiko called her for a long time but failed to wake her up.

This is a bit of a difficult situation. He still wants the other party to lead him to find Conan.

Now I can only find it myself.

But what should Nishikawa Mutsumi do? Haruhiko doesn't want to carry her on his back to find Conan, but he can't let her run away either. After all, the evil spirit on her shoulder is still very tempting.

But then Haruhiko found a rope on her, which might have been intended to be used to tie up Genta.

He tied Mutsumi Nishikawa here with a rope to prevent her from escaping.

In this way, as soon as we find Conan, we can bring people back here, drag her out, and interrogate her in front of everyone.

This should make the evil spirit on her shoulder give up its obsession, right?
After tying up Mutsumi Nishikawa, he turned his attention to Genta who was standing beside him.

Although this guy was still breathing, he was knocked unconscious and couldn't be woken up.

Haruhiko didn't want to carry him to find Conan either, it was too heavy.

But he was also afraid that after Genta woke up, he would do something to Mutsumi Nishikawa without his permission and then be used.

After all, the Junior Detective Team in the later part of the original work did a lot of such things that were a drag on the team and were wasted.

So Haruhiko thought about it, tied up Genta with a rope and left him here.

Looking at the two people who were tied up like dumplings, Haruhiko felt satisfied.

I wonder if Yuantai will be scared when he wakes up?

Suddenly, he found himself tied up in a dark secret passage, and his attacker was also tied up nearby. Haruhiko thought this would be a good opening for a suspense film.

After doing all this, he picked up the flashlight on the ground and continued exploring.

Since Mutsumi Nishikawa dragged Genta past here, it means that the place where she imprisoned Conan should not be far from here.

Haruhiko walked forward a little further and suddenly noticed a draft coming from the side wall.

He walked to the wall, but before he could push it, the ground under his feet and the wall began to rotate, and he was thrown into a bright room.

Haruhiko struggled to get up, but unexpectedly he was sent out by the mechanism.

But this is also a good thing, because we already have Mutsumi Nishikawa and the evidence of her crimes in our hands. We can directly find Mitsuru Mamiya and ask him to gather people into the secret passage to search together, which will be much more efficient.

Haruhiko looked around the room. It wasn't very big, with black and white tiles covering the floor. The ceiling was very high, but the windows were very small. Looking out of the window, he could probably tell that he was in a room on the second floor.

The air here is filled with the smell of paint, and piles of fallen drawing paper can be seen everywhere, as well as plaster statues and oil paintings hanging on the walls, and a wooden easel is placed in front of the window.

Haruhiko frowned. If he guessed correctly, this should be the studio of Takato Mamiya. He didn't expect to be sent here.

He looked around and was about to push the door open to leave when his attention was drawn to a stack of photos scattered on the table.

He walked over and picked up the stack of developed photos, which were all of scantily clad girls posing in various ways for the camera.

The most important thing is that the people in the photos are about the same age as Ayumi.

There was a cold chill in Haruhiko's eyes. He finally understood why Takato Mamiya deliberately got close to Ayumi and Haibara Ai several times.

This guy is a true pervert.

I didn't expect to accidentally break into this room and discover Takato Mamiya's secret. Since that's the case, let your ugliness be exposed to everyone.

Although Haruhiko has some inexplicable affection for Haibara Ai, Haibara Ai is an adult after all.

She is a very mature adult mentally, and Haruhiko saw her shrink with his own eyes. Maybe one day when the antidote is developed, her body will become bigger.

But Ayumi is different. She is just a simple child. Anyone who has feelings for such a child should definitely be killed.

Haruhiko continued to search here, trying to find if there was any other evidence. Sure enough, he found a stack of portraits under the plaster statue.

It looks like it was painted by Takato Mamiya himself. There is no doubt that it is a little girl of the same age as Ayumi, and his brushstrokes have made her look charming.

The new work at the top was actually a portrait of Ayumi, but this painting only showed her head, and her body was outlined with simple lines.

But one can imagine what this painting will look like when it is completed.

The coldness in Haruhiko's eyes grew even stronger. He couldn't wait to expose all this and let that disgusting guy receive the punishment he deserved.

He suddenly thought that now Haibara Ai is leading the Junior Detective League to look for Conan, so she and Ayumi are likely to be found by Takato Mamiya and get close to each other.

No, we have to find them or find Takato Mamiya as soon as possible.

Now Mutsumi Nishikawa has been controlled by himself and will not cause any trouble for the time being, so the priority of saving Conan can be put aside for the time being.

Haruhiko made a decision in a short time and headed for the door.

Suddenly, he saw a corner of the drawing paper sticking out from the edge of the wooden easel in front of the window.

He had a bad feeling in his heart, but because the wooden easel was facing the window, Haruhiko could not see the content on the drawing board from where he stood.

He walked over and his eyes fell on the drawing paper.

It was a pure white piece of drawing paper, most of which was blank, with only a small area near the top where a rough shape was outlined in pencil.

Haruhiko could tell at a glance that it was a girl's hair. The slightly curly short hair made it clear who Takato Mamiya wanted to depict in this painting without having to guess.

His eyes suddenly turned cold, he tore off the drawing paper and put it in his pocket, then walked towards the door of the studio.

Haruhiko put his hand on the door handle of the studio. The metal handle felt cold. Just as he was about to turn it, he heard footsteps outside the studio door.

Haruhiko took a step back. He concluded that it must be Takato Mamiya who had returned. He grabbed the plaster statue on the table next to him and planned to beat him up to vent his anger.

But when the door of the studio was pushed open, the person standing at the door surprised Haruhiko.

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