The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"Huh?!" Ran was stunned for a moment as she watched Sonoko and Mr. Dosaku suddenly run into the woods without saying a word. Then, after Conan, who was the first to come to his senses, reminded her, the two of them immediately followed Sonoko and Mr. Dosaku into the woods.

The chubby middle-aged man who had been following behind them noticed a change in his expression as he watched the group run into the woods, as if he wanted to say something.

But when he noticed that the people in front of him were about to disappear into the woods, he gritted his teeth and followed.

"Coming into this kind of forest is actually more dangerous!" Xiaolan reminded Yuanzi and Mr. Daoxie as they followed in the footsteps of the complex grove.

"No, this is what makes it thrilling, right, Sonoko!" Dokyo Masahiko, who was pulling Sonoko along as they ran, said to her with a smile.

"Yeah!" To Ran and Conan's dismay, even Sonoko herself hadn't realized her dangerous situation, "instead, she was still harboring a sense of adventure."

Noticing the middle-aged man relentlessly pursuing them, Daoxie Masahiko suddenly said to Xiaolan, "How about this, we'll split into two groups and surround him!"

Then, before Ran and Conan could react, he had already pulled Sonoko into a side path.

"But..." Ran looked at Mr. Dokyo and Sonoko, who had suddenly run off on their own, opened her mouth but didn't have time to say anything. In the end, she could only sigh and continue running forward with Conan.

Conan frowned as he watched Dokyo Masahiko's retreating figure, sensing that something was amiss. However, his attention was entirely focused on the middle-aged man chasing him, leaving him no time to think about anything else.

After running wildly through the woods with Conan for a while, Ran suddenly slowed down, feeling a little confused.

She suddenly realized a very serious problem: "Wait, why am I running...!?"

……

"Huff, huff..." The middle-aged man leaned against a big tree, panting heavily as he looked at the empty surroundings.

"Strange... Phew... Where are they!" He reached up and wiped the sweat from his face, saying somewhat exasperatedly, "Damn it, we lost them!"

"This is really troublesome!" The middle-aged man looked around, feeling a surge of anxiety.

Just then, he suddenly noticed a "whooshing" sound coming from above. The middle-aged man looked up in surprise and found a figure suddenly darting out from the treetops above him.

Suddenly, one of the girls who had been following him appeared out of nowhere and landed in front of him, glaring at him fiercely and warning, "Have you had enough? If you think we'll keep running away, you're sorely mistaken!"

At the same time, Conan also emerged from behind the big tree, staring warily at the man in front of him.

Seeing Xiao Lan's aggressive demeanor, the middle-aged man was clearly startled. He retreated hastily, waving his hands and explaining, "Ah, no, no, you've misunderstood!"

He instinctively turned to run away, but suddenly found a boy standing behind him, blocking his way.

"What the hell! You, are you a human or a ghost!?" The middle-aged man was so frightened by the sudden appearance of Aragaki Yu that he reflexively took a half step back, but accidentally stepped on a sharp stone on the ground. With a pain in his foot, he also sat down on the ground with a thud.

"Aragaki (big brother Aragaki!)"

Ran and Conan were both surprised to see the boy suddenly appear.

"What are you doing here?" Ran asked Aragaki Yu curiously. "Didn't Conan say you weren't feeling well and wanted to rest at a hotel?"

"Ahem." After coughing lightly twice, Aragaki Yu secretly winked at Conan and then explained to Ran with a smile, "I felt much better after resting for a while. When I thought of going outside for a walk, I suddenly noticed that this guy was acting suspiciously as if he was following someone. After observing him for a while, I found out that he was following you guys, Ran, so I followed him out of concern."

"Oh, I see!" Xiaolan exclaimed with a look of sudden realization.

She finally noticed the middle-aged man who was sitting on the ground groaning and clutching his leg. Xiaolan couldn't help but put her hands on her hips and say to him, "Who told you to run into the woods wearing slippers!"

"And you too!" Ran suddenly walked up to the middle-aged man, pointed at him, and said, "You're the one who attacked Sonoko in the hotel yesterday and just now caused the car to plunge off the cliff, right?"

Seeing Xiaolan's imposing manner, the middle-aged man was clearly intimidated. His eyes widened in fear, and he stammered, "Wait, wait a minute, don't misunderstand! Actually, I'm..."

"No matter how you explain, it's no use, because the long hair on your arms is proof!" Xiaolan said with a confident expression.

Chapter 319 Misunderstanding

“That’s right, I’m going to take a good look now,” Xiaolan explained, as she grabbed the arm of the man lying on the ground. “The teeth marks Sonoko left on your arm last night!”

"Huh...!?"

Xiaolan lifted the man's sleeve, only to find to her surprise that there were no bite marks on his arm.

"How is this possible?" Xiaolan blinked blankly, then quickly perked up and grabbed his other arm. "That's right, it must be on this arm...!?"

"..."

Looking at her arm, which had no teeth marks or even any fresh wounds, Xiaolan realized she had misunderstood something and her eyes widened into tiny dots. "How could this be? Who are you?"

"That's exactly what I was waiting for you to say!" The middle-aged man looked somewhat embarrassed as he pulled out his notebook from his pocket and showed it to Xiaolan, explaining, "I'm a detective from the Chiba Prefectural Police Department!"

"Hmph, don't think you can get away with this fake ID!"

Xiaolan was unwilling to believe that the man in front of her, who looked suspicious and didn't seem like a good person, was actually a police officer.

“Let me tell you!” Xiaolan proudly declared, tilting her head back. “My father used to be a policeman, so I know very well! If it’s necessary to show your police ID, you must turn to the first page of the permanent document, not the cover. That’s the correct way to do it!”

Just as Xiaolan was about to give this audacious man who had impersonated a police officer a lesson in basic knowledge, Aragaki Yu gently tugged at his clothes.

"Xiao Lan, his ID looks real!"

"So what if it's real? It doesn't prove he is... Wait, you said the ID is real!?" Xiaolan lowered her head in shock, looking at the police ID in the middle-aged man's hand.

It was only then that Xiaolan realized that the middle-aged man lying on the ground had shown her the first page of his police ID.

And the photo on the police ID is indeed him.

"My name is Terahashi Shoji."

"Huh?" Xiaolan looked at the stamp on the ID card, blinked her beady eyes in confusion, and said, "It seems to be real..."

Seeing that the little girl in front of him had finally withdrawn her intimidating aura, Terahina Seiji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

As he stuffed his ID back into his pocket, he explained to Xiaolan why he was there: "Actually, I'm tracking down a suspect in a case!"

"Suspect!?" Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, clearly not yet realizing who Terahina Seiji was referring to as the suspect.

"Are you talking about Mr. Daoxie?" Aragaki Yu suddenly blurted out a name that surprised Ran.

“That’s right.” Terahashi Shoji glanced at Aragaki Yu with some surprise, but still nodded in response. “Actually, our police have always suspected Dokyo Masahiko, because just before the incident, there were eyewitnesses who saw the deceased appear to have been in contact with Dokyo Masahiko.”

"Hehe, how is this possible..." Xiaolan still looked incredulous.

She clearly couldn't believe that such an enthusiastic Taoist priest was actually a suspect in the case.

"But there are no teeth marks left by Sonoko on her arm! So how could he be the culprit?" After hesitating for a moment, Ran still raised her doubts.

"Arm..." At this moment, Yuu Aragaki, who was deep in thought and just one step away from finding the answer, reminded him, "On another note, it was so dark that night, how did Sonoko know that she bit the thug's arm?"

"If it wasn't her arm, where else could Sonoko bite?" Ran looked at Aragaki Yu with a matter-of-fact expression.

"An arm...!?" Conan, who was deep in thought, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, as if he had grasped something very important.

"If it's not an arm, what else could it be?" Just as Conan was racking his brains, he suddenly saw Officer Terahayashi Shoji, who hadn't gotten up from the ground yet.

It seems that he fell in the woods precisely because he was wearing flip-flops.

Come to think of it, there are really a lot of people wearing slippers out these days.

Mr. Dao Xie also seems to be wearing slippers today.

"and many more!"

Conan suddenly froze, a sense of foreboding washing over him.

To confirm his suspicions, he hurriedly asked Xiaolan, "Sister Xiaolan! Usually, when you wear slippers, you don't wear socks, right?"

"Huh? Yeah, that's right!" Although she didn't know why Conan would ask such a question, Ran still nodded in response.

"Oh no! Ran-neechan, Aragaki-nii-san!" Conan's face instantly turned grim upon receiving confirmation. "Sonoko-neechan is in danger! We have to go find her!"

"Huh? What, what do you mean! Wait for me, Conan!" Seeing Conan take off running, Ran didn't understand what was going on, but she immediately chased after him.

Aragaki Yu and Terabayashi Shoji, who had just gotten up from the ground, exchanged a glance and then followed in their footsteps.

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the other side.

"Phew, I stepped on a branch!"

Daoxie Masahiko, leaning against a large tree and panting, said to Sonoko, "Looks like running into the woods in slippers was really a mistake, huh?"

"Are you alright?" Sonoko, who was also struggling to run, wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at Mr. Dokyo beside her with some concern.

"There shouldn't be any problem." After looking around, Dokyo Masahiko shook his head and said to Sonoko, "It's just that he might have twisted his ankle a little from stepping on a tree branch."

"Huh? Let me see!" Seeing Mr. Dokyo's slightly pained expression, Sonoko immediately squatted down.

He pulled down Mr. Daoxie's socks to check his ankles.

Sonoko is very skilled at dealing with sprains because her best friend Ran often gets injured while training in karate.

However, just as she took off Mr. Daoxie's socks and looked at his calves, her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Teeth, teeth marks...!?"

When she noticed the obvious teeth marks on Mr. Dosaku's hairy calves, Sonoko's expression immediately turned horrified.

She couldn't help but stand up shakily, looking incredulously at Mr. Daoxie, who was still smiling and staring at her, and took a few steps back.

Chapter 320 Hero saves beauty

"Sonoko, what's wrong?"

When Dokyo Masahiko saw Sonoko suddenly tense up, he was slightly taken aback. But when he looked down and noticed the exposed teeth marks on his calf, he suddenly realized what was going on.

It seems Sonoko has already discovered it.