The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

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Meanwhile, Yuu Aragaki, who had been resting in his room, heard hurried footsteps coming from the stairs.

Without much hesitation, Yuu Aragaki opened his door, intending to check on Sonoko Suzuki, fearing that his presence might cause too much of a change in the subsequent plot.

After all, the other party is a murderer with a knife. If they accidentally send Sonoko away...

That would truly be a tremendous tragedy...

As Yuuka Aragaki stepped out of her room, she bumped into Sonoko, who was running towards her own room.

"Huh... Ah?!" Sonoko was startled by Aragaki Yu suddenly walking out of the room. She hurriedly tried to brake, but because she was going too fast, she accidentally fell forward.

Fortunately, Aragaki Yu reacted quickly and grabbed Sonoko's arm just before she fell to the ground, pulling her back.

"Hey Sonoko, are you alright? Why were you running so fast!"

Sonoko was still a little shaken from almost falling to the ground, so she stammered, "N-no... I'm sorry, ah... no, thank you so much, Aragaki!"

Only after these words were spoken did Sonoko slowly come back to her senses from her daze.

Chapter 312 Attack (1)

"what……!?"

With a gasp, Sonoko realized that she was leaning against Aragaki Yu's chest, with his strong arms protecting her.

Feeling the warmth emanating from Aragaki Yu, Sonoko blushed and hurriedly pulled away from his embrace: "I'm so sorry, I... I forgot my wallet, so I... I accidentally...!"

Although she didn't have any particular feelings for Aragaki Yu, Sonoko was still so shy that she couldn't contain herself, just like a pot of boiling water emitting billowing steam.

Not knowing what to say for a moment, Sonoko instinctively chose to run away.

Although she had completely forgotten about finding her wallet, Sonoko still ran frantically towards her room.

All she wanted to do at that moment was retreat to her room and calm down.

Just then, Dokyo Masahiko quietly climbed through the window into Sonoko and Ran's room, and was using a knife to cut open Sonoko's bag, rummaging through its contents in the dark.

Sonoko Suzuki ran to her room, opened the door, covered her face shyly, and ran inside.

She had just breathed a sigh of relief, put her hand down, and looked up when she noticed a dark figure in the corner where her luggage was, seemingly searching for something.

Sonoko froze for a moment. Before she could even scream, a figure pounced on her and covered her mouth, holding her firmly in place.

"Ugh~" Before she could react, Sonoko managed to bite the other person while struggling in the dim light, but was then grabbed by the neck and pressed to the ground.

The next second, the dark figure also raised the sharp knife in its hand high, the blade reflecting a chilling light under the dim moonlight.

In Sonoko's panicked gaze, the tip of the knife was slowly approaching her.

She tried to shout for help, but because her neck was being held down, she couldn't make a sound no matter what she did.

At that critical moment, the door to the room was suddenly opened.

Hearing the door being pulled open, the dark figure gripping Sonoko, namely Dokyo Masahiko, panicked instantly.

"who!"

With a loud shout, Dokyo Masahiko had no time to do anything else and had to abandon his plan to assassinate Sonoko. He immediately ran to the window and jumped out.

Sonoko, who was lying on the floor of the room, was also clutching her neck and breathing heavily. Her eyes were filled with tears because of suffocation and shock.

She turned her head towards the doorway, and vaguely saw that Aragaki Yu turned on the room light, and after seeing her lying on the floor, he rushed towards her anxiously.

Meanwhile, Ran and Conan, having waited a long time without seeing Sonoko return, also returned to the hotel in confusion to look for her.

Just as they reached the second floor, they heard Aragaki Yu's voice coming from Sonoko's room.

Realizing the situation was dire, the two immediately ran towards the direction from which the sound came.

When the two arrived at the door, they saw Sonoko leaning against the wall, clutching her neck and breathing heavily, her face full of lingering fear.

Seeing that Sonoko Suzuki wasn't behaving well, Ran Mouri quickly ran over, knelt down, and held Sonoko's shoulder, asking, "Sonoko, what's wrong?"

Sonoko, who had finally met Ran, was also crying as she pointed towards the window and said painfully, "Just now in the room, a suspicious man suddenly attacked me, but he was discovered by Aragaki Yu and escaped through the window!"

Ran and Conan looked in the direction Sonoko was pointing and found that Yuu Aragaki was standing on the balcony outside the window, seemingly looking out at something.

Conan immediately ran to the window, came to Aragaki Yu's side, stood on tiptoe and leaned on the balcony railing to look outside, while asking Aragaki Yu, "Aragaki-nii, did you see what that person looked like?"

Outside the window, visibility was poor due to the rain, so Conan didn't notice anything suspicious.

Yuu Aragaki shook his head: "No, I only vaguely saw the figure of that person, but because the lights in the room were not turned on in time when he ran away, I couldn't see who he was."

When Aragaki Yu and Conan returned to the room.

"Ran, I'm so scared!" Sonoko was hugging Ran and crying her heart out.

Ran was also shaken by what Sonoko had gone through, but something she didn't understand was, "But, Sonoko, why did he want to find you?"

"How would I know!" Sonoko was still not completely calm. She explained in a flustered manner, "As soon as I opened the door to this room and walked in, I found him rummaging through our luggage. He grabbed me just as I was about to scream!"

Conan frowned upon hearing Sonoko's description. "Going through our luggage?"

"I think he must be a thief who came to steal underwear, what a jerk!" Sonoko complained, wiping away tears from the corners of her eyes.

Ran took a handkerchief out of her pocket and handed it to Sonoko: "What else? What does he look like? Did you see him?"

"I had no such intention. The room was so dark, and I was so scared my legs went weak!"

"But Sonoko, you just said he's a man." Ran looked puzzled. "How did you know?"

"Because I bit his arm while I was struggling, and his arm had a lot of hair on it!" Sonoko explained.

"Huh!? You're not bad either... Sonoko..." Ran was a little confused when she heard Sonoko's words and didn't know what to say.

Yuu Aragaki led Conan to Ran and Sonoko, confirming Sonoko's statement: "That's right, I can also confirm that. That guy's back view definitely doesn't look like a woman's!"

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Sonoko and Ran were clearly still reeling from the attack and turned their heads away in a panic.

But they found that it was the hotel's young owner, Kyogoku Makoto, standing at the door, looking at the people in the room with a puzzled expression.

"What happened here?"

"Huh!?" Just as Makoto Kyogoku lowered his arm from knocking on the door, everyone suddenly noticed the bandage wrapped around his arm.

Their hearts skipped a beat.

Could this person be the one who just attacked Sonoko?

Ran's expression hardened, and she nervously stepped forward to stand in front of Makoto Kyogoku, pointing at his arm and asking, "How did you hurt your upper arm?"

Chapter 313 Attack (2)

"Oh? This!"

Hearing Ran's somewhat aggressive question, Makoto Kyogoku was also taken aback.

Although he didn't know what had happened, he still explained to everyone, "This was bitten by a drunk customer a few days ago."

"A bite!?" Xiaolan's expression involuntarily became wary when she heard those two words.

She stared intently at Makoto Kyogoku and pressed further, "When did that happen? Please be more specific!"

"..."

Before Kyogoku Makoto could explain, Sonoko suddenly tugged at Ran's sleeve gently, "Ran, I think it shouldn't be him."

"Huh?" Xiaolan turned her head and looked at the garden behind her, puzzled.

She didn't quite understand why Sonoko was speaking up for this person.

"Because the person who attacked me had very long hair..." Sonoko explained weakly.

"Oh, is that so?" Ran murmured softly, but her eyes still held a hint of wariness as she looked at Kyogoku Makoto.

Clearly, she hasn't completely let go of her feelings for Makoto Kyogoku.

Looking at Ran, who was tense all over, Aragaki Yu smiled and reminded her, "And also, the bandage on this young boss's arm was already wrapped around his arm when we saw him at the beach during the day."

"That makes sense." After carefully recalling the scene, Xiaolan did indeed have a vague impression of the bandage on Kyogoku Makoto's arm.

"What's wrong?"

Just as the group was talking, Dokyo Masahiko, who was soaking wet, suddenly walked in from outside the door.

He looked at the group of people gathered in the room, a look of utter confusion on his face: "I arrived at the hotel, but I found that you weren't waiting for me at the door. I just came into the hotel to look for you, but I noticed the commotion here, so I came up to see what happened."

When Aragaki Yu saw Dokyo Masahiko walk in from outside, he subconsciously took out his phone from his pocket to check the time.

Conan, who had been observing everyone from the side, naturally noticed Aragaki Yu's actions.

Conan noticed that Yuu Aragaki simply turned on his phone screen, glanced at it, and then put it away without doing anything else.

If that's the case, he's either checking if anyone has sent him a message or he's checking the time.

Given his current situation, Yuu Aragaki obviously wouldn't bother to check if he had received any text messages.

In other words, Aragaki Yu was just confirming the current time.

"But why does he need to check the time?" Conan pondered, glancing at the time on his own watch.