The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"So, you're the only one who saw the murderer escape?" After glaring at Akemi Miyano to remind her to be mindful of the situation, the police officer in charge walked up to Kogoro Mouri and asked.

"No, there are three people in total!" Kogoro Mouri scratched his head, looked behind him, and continued, "It's me, my daughter Ran, and the other one is this kid... sigh!?"

Upon suddenly realizing that Conan was missing, Kogoro Mouri and Ran couldn't help but start searching around: "Strange, where did that brat Conan go?"

"He was just here!" Ran bent down and, after confirming that Conan wasn't hiding under the table, she also became puzzled.

"Honestly, where has that brat run off to again!"

Seeing this scene, Aragaki Yu couldn't help but squint his eyes.

Today, when he and Akemi Miyano boarded the Hokutosei No. 3 train, he was still somewhat puzzled, feeling that the name of the train had an unusually familiar feel to it.

At first, he thought it was because the Beidou Star No. 3 train had been frequently appearing in various newspapers and news reports recently.

Now it seems that it wasn't like that at all; it was simply because this train appeared in the storyline of a previous life.

The policeman was absolutely right. He truly is the Grim Reaper, bringing crime wherever he goes.

The only possible oversight is that the cursed ones who came this time were not just Kogoro Mouri alone, but a total of three.

……

Meanwhile, Conan was hiding in a deserted corner of a train carriage, making a phone call to someone.

He listened to the dial tone coming from the phone, his expression extremely solemn.

"They're exactly the same!"

Aside from the robber's strange words and actions, and the shooting incident that occurred on the train later, everything was exactly the same as that story.

It was exactly the same as the novel written by Yusaku Kudo that he read when he was young, which has never been published.

What troubles Conan even more is that he watched those stories when he was very young, so he can't recall the specific details at all now.

Just as Conan realized that no one was answering the phone and turned around with a furrowed brow, he discovered that the woman named Fumiyo Akechi, who had appeared in the food truck earlier but left immediately, suddenly appeared behind him.

She stood silently behind him, staring intently at his back. Her eyes, though hidden behind sunglasses, seemed to see right through him.

"Aunt……!?"

Upon seeing this mysterious woman, Conan's expression instantly changed.

Just as he was about to say something in surprise and uncertainty, Xiaolan rushed into the carriage in a panic.

Ran only breathed a sigh of relief after spotting Conan hiding in the corner. She reached out and grabbed Conan's arm, pulling him away while scolding him, "Conan, how could you run around like that! The police are looking for us!"

As Ran passed by Ms. Akemi, afraid that Conan might disturb her, she bowed apologetically and said, "I'm so sorry, this child has caused you trouble!"

However, Fumiyo Akechi simply shook his head and said nothing.

Even after Ran and Conan had walked far away, she remained standing in the same spot, looking in the direction where Ran and Conan had disappeared from the train, without making any move.

Chapter 264 Should We Move to Hokkaido?

Inside the carriage where Kogoro Mouri and his companions were staying in their private compartment.

"The murderer ran over just like I am now, opened his private room door, fired a few shots inside, shattered the window, and then fired two more shots in my direction."

Kogoro Mouri recounted the events he had witnessed as he described the actions of the criminals to the police.

"Then, I took advantage of that time to escape to the outside of the carriage window."

"So, you didn't see the murderer escape outside with your own eyes, right?" The police officer in charge asked Kogoro Mouri as he walked into the private room where the criminal had escaped, his hands in his pockets.

"No...that's right." Kogoro Mouri nodded hesitantly.

"Generally speaking, would a prisoner leave his pistol in the room and escape?"

The officer in charge put on gloves, squatted down, picked up the pistol the prisoner had left behind from the floor of the compartment, shook it a couple of times, and continued, "The prisoner fired a total of six shots on the train, and I think there should still be bullets in it."

After handing the pistol to the forensic personnel nearby, the officer in charge looked at Kogoro Mouri with a scrutinizing gaze: "He might have run to another private room while you were scared by the gunshot and hid. Who knows!"

"How is that possible!" Sensing the officer's skepticism about his testimony, Kogoro Mouri's tone became somewhat agitated. "The culprit closed the car door just a second before I ran into this compartment!"

"Hmph!" The officer in charge snorted and slowly stood up to continue, "Perhaps it just looks that way. The lights in the corridor were so dim at the time, and you were quite agitated after being shot by the prisoner, so it's understandable that you might have made a mistake."

"What are you saying, officer!" Kogoro Mouri's face showed a hint of displeasure at his statement.

On the contrary, Yuu Aragaki, who had been following the police officer with Akemi Miyano, Ran, and Conan, had a surprised expression on his face.

Yuu Aragaki was truly astonished to have met such a logical police officer in Japan.

He almost thought that most of the police force in Japan consisted of people like Inspector Megure who needed to rely on their underlings to solve cases.

Conan, who had been pulled back by Ran, secretly ran to the door of the private room to observe the situation inside while everyone was not paying attention, his face still bearing an extremely solemn expression.

Hearing the officer's analysis, Conan also began to have doubts: "That's right, the door to the private room was indeed closed in front of us, but what the officer said makes a lot of sense."

Conan rested his chin on his hand, carefully recalling the scene: "Looking back now, we definitely didn't see the criminal escape through that window. If the criminal wanted to escape, why did they leave the pistol here?"

"And there's something else that's also strange." Aragaki Yu, who had been staying at the back, walked up to Conan's side, patted Conan's head in Conan's surprised gaze, and asked the police officer and Kogoro Mouri inside about his doubts.

"According to what you just said, Mr. Mori, you quickly chased after the murderer after he closed the door and opened it. But normally, since the murderer made a point of closing the door after escaping into the private room, why didn't he lock the door as well?"

Under the watchful eyes of the people in the private room, Aragaki Yu reached out a hand and tried to turn the mechanical lock on the door of the private room.

After confirming that the door lock was not damaged, Aragaki Yuya continued, "If a door lock like this is locked, it could buy him a lot more time to escape."

Conan angrily brushed the other hand that Aragaki Yuu was still holding on his head away.

Conan was somewhat annoyed that Aragaki Yuu had suddenly rushed up and snatched the question he wanted to ask.

However, Conan didn't dwell on this for long, because at this moment, the biggest problem for Conan was that he still didn't understand why this case was so similar to the novel written by his father.

“In that case, it’s quite possible that the murderer escaped to one of the other compartments!” The officer in charge nodded to Aragaki Yu, indicating his agreement with the question. “It seems we also need to conduct a search of the other compartments.”

"In that case, let's start the search from the private rooms next door," suggested a police officer.

"Okay." The officer in charge nodded.

……

dong dong dong~

dong dong dong~

The police knocked on the door of the private room for a long time, but no one responded.

"Strange, is the person in this private room not here?"

Just as the police officer knocking on the door looked puzzled, the door was suddenly and rudely pulled open.

A middle-aged woman stood in the doorway, her face contorted with anger, and lashed out at the group, demanding, "Are you going to make a scene?! Do you even know what time it is?!"

The police officer at the door was clearly startled and stood there speechless.

Seeing this, the officer in charge quickly pulled aside his subordinate who was blocking the doorway, took out his police ID, and explained to the woman: "I'm sorry, I'm Officer Nishimura from the Hokkaido Prefectural Police. There was a case that happened on this train just now, so we need to conduct a routine investigation."

Police officer Nishimura.

Aragaki Yu silently looked up at the police officer who had walked to the door of the private room, and finally learned the name of this officer who seemed much more reliable than Inspector Megure.

At the same time, he couldn't help but start thinking about whether he should move from Beika Town to Hokkaido.

"case?"

The middle-aged woman looked bewildered; clearly, she had no idea what was happening outside.

"Didn't you notice anything?" Kogoro Mouri seemed suspicious that the woman hadn't noticed the commotion outside. "The culprit fired several shots right next to you!"

The middle-aged woman glanced at Kogoro Mouri with disdain and said matter-of-factly, "It's so late already, I was sleeping so soundly inside, how could I possibly hear anything!"

After rubbing her sleepy eyes, she looked at Officer Nishimura beside her and asked in confusion, "Officer, what kind of case is this?"

At the same time, the door to the other private room was suddenly opened, and Jia Yueli poked his head out of the room, asking in surprise, "Why is it so noisy outside? Did something happen?"

Chapter 265 I am a policeman

"Someone on the train was just shot and killed."

Kogoro Mouri recognized the man peeking out of the compartment as Toshiyuki Kagoshi, whom he had met briefly in the dining car. With a serious expression, Kogoro explained, "The person who was shot was Keitaro Izumo, the owner of your jewelry store, who was in the train's dining car!"

"Ah...!? How is this possible!" Upon hearing the information about the deceased, both of them stared wide-eyed in horror at the same time.

The middle-aged woman's face no longer showed a trace of dissatisfaction.

She grabbed Kogoro Mouri by the chest, her voice filled with panic as she demanded, "Why, why is it my husband?!"

"You...your husband!?" Kogoro Mouri was also somewhat surprised after noticing the woman's reaction.

Officer Nishimura, however, interrupted the middle-aged woman's question and squeezed past her into the private room.

"Excuse me, we need to check this private room now."

After looking around her private room, Officer Nishimura noticed a black briefcase in the corner.

"Mrs. Izumo, may I open this briefcase?" Officer Nishimura immediately brought the briefcase to Mrs. Izumo and asked.

"Yes, of course."

Mrs. Izumo seemed to still be reeling from the news of her husband's death, so she hesitated for a moment before agreeing to Officer Nishimura's request.

"Officer, who killed my husband?" Mrs. Izumo looked somewhat nervous.