The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

She had no choice but to turn her back to her sister and, taking advantage of the opportunity when her sister couldn't see her expression, glared at Aragaki Yu with her eyes, signaling him to tone it down.

But when Aragaki Yu noticed her gaze, he just smiled and became even more brazen.

"Oh, damn it!"

Feeling Yuu Aragaki petting her head like a cat, Ai Haibara, who was suppressing her anger in front of her sister, was so angry that she almost ground her teeth to powder.

"A joke?" Miyano Akemi, on the other hand, suddenly became interested in the joke that Aragaki Yu had mentioned. "Is the professor also good at telling jokes?"

Unexpectedly, Aragaki Yu shook his head. "That's not it. It's just that most of Professor Agasa's jokes are pretty lame. If you hear them in this season, you can save a lot on air conditioning bills."

(Snow Girl: "Come with us?")

"Forehead……"

"..."

Upon hearing Yu Aragaki's bizarre remarks, Akemi Miyano and Ai Haibara were suddenly stunned, standing there and blinking their eyes a few times, somewhat at a loss.

And the other side.

Conan, standing in front of Professor Agasa, stroked his chin and said with some doubt, "On another note, what I find rather strange is another mystery left in this villa."

"Huh? Another mystery?" Professor Agasa was a little confused, not knowing what Conan was talking about.

He didn't recall preparing anything else in the villa.

“Yes.” Conan nodded, and at the same time took a coin out of his pocket and handed it to Professor Agasa. “Professor, look what this is.”

"Ah...oh, let me take a look." The professor took the coin from Conan's hand, examined it carefully but didn't find anything strange about it. "It's just an ordinary coin!"

"This was found by Aragaki-nii next to the bed!" Conan explained the origin of the coin.

"Huh? Then this is probably what I dropped." Professor Agasa didn't think it was a big deal. "I guess it fell out of my pocket when I was hiding the box under the bed."

“No, that shouldn’t be it.” Conan shook his head and continued, “This coin is covered in dust, and there are no traces of it rolling on the dusty floor around it, so it couldn’t have fallen here in the last couple of days.”

"Is that so?" Professor Agasa paused for a moment, then hesitated before saying, "Then maybe it's something my uncle or aunt accidentally left on the floor back then?"

"No, of course that's impossible, Professor Agasa!"

Before Conan could answer, Yuu Aragaki, who had been chased away by Ai Haibara from her and Akemi Miyano, suddenly walked over.

He stopped beside Professor Agasa and continued to explain, "The original one-dollar coin was first issued in 1955, more than forty years ago. Before your uncle passed away, there shouldn't have been any one-dollar coins like this."

"This, this..." Upon hearing Aragaki Yu's words, Professor Agasa was completely puzzled.

Since this coin didn't fall on its own, nor did it belong to my uncle and aunt years ago...

So where did it come from?

"This coin will get covered in dust in the villa, which means..." Aragaki Yu hadn't finished speaking.

Dr. Agasa finally realized, "This, this... does this mean that someone has been here during the years when this villa has been uninhabited?!"

Chapter 346 Clues to the Treasure

“No.” Yuu Aragaki shook his head, then walked to a stack of books in the corner of the room, blew off the dust, and showed them to Professor Agasa. “I think that person not only came in, but also lived here for a while.”

Upon hearing this, Professor Agasa looked at the book that Aragaki Yu was holding, which clearly contained some silver-white hair. "No... that's right, it does look like there was a rather old person reading here."

"And, that must be a very skillful old man," Conan suddenly added, looking at the coin that Aragaki Yuna was playing with in her left hand.

"An old man with skillful hands? Conan, how did you know that?" Professor Agasa squinted, completely baffled by Conan's speculation.

"Then why don't you take out the one-yuan coin that Aragaki-nii-san has and compare it with any one-yuan coin you have on you!" Conan said with a smile.

"what?"

Somewhat confused, Professor Agasa accepted the coin handed to him by Yuu Aragaki, and then pulled out another coin from his pocket.

"Ah!" Professor Agasa exclaimed in surprise when he placed the two coins together. "This one is indeed a little thinner and smaller than mine!"

“That’s right. I think this one-dollar coin was probably re-engraved from an original coin and scaled down. You can tell from this coin that the craftsmanship was very meticulous.” Conan glanced at Professor Agasa and Yuu Aragaki and then offered his analysis.

“That’s right, and I just noticed that the character for ‘country’ on this coin is still in the old font.” Yuu Aragaki pointed to the coin and added, “Although I don’t know if this person did it on purpose or by accident, anyone who uses this font must be quite old.”

“But that doesn’t mean the coin was made by someone who lives here!” Professor Agasa scratched his head and raised his doubts.

“No, Professor Agasa, I think he must have made this coin here.” Yuu Aragaki casually flipped through a few pages of the book in his hand and found the metal fragments left inside. “And he must have carved it while reading the book, because there are still some aluminum metal fragments left between the pages. These must have been left by that person when he was carving the coin.”

"Oh, that makes sense!" Professor Agasa agreed with Aragaki Yu and Conan's idea, but he was still curious about why that person carved the coin. "Why would he carve such a coin?"

"I haven't figured that out yet either." Conan shook his head, looking somewhat troubled.

Because this was the very question he was pondering with his head down when he came out of the room.

Having some recollection of the events from his previous life, Aragaki Yu didn't offer much comment.

He just shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Maybe that person is just bored and using it to kill time!"

"Perhaps, that's possible," Conan said somewhat uncertainly. "I wonder if he's the only old man here."

"I think we should have another child!"

Just as Conan was deep in thought, Mitsuhiko appeared beside them without them noticing.

"what?"

Conan looked up in confusion at Mitsuhiko, who had walked up to him. Mitsuhiko was carrying a vase, which he couldn't tell where he had gotten it from.

“This is what I just found. It proves that a child lived here. Conan, you can tell by looking under this vase.” Mitsuhiko said, handing the vase to Conan.

"under?"

Conan took the vase, but after glancing at the bottom, his expression suddenly turned to surprise. "What's this?"

The bottom of the vase features a series of patterns composed of moons, suns, and hexagons of varying shapes.

"See? You're right, this must have been drawn by a child!"

Just then, Genta, who was standing by the fireplace watching Ayumi play on the sofa, spoke up, "That pattern, I noticed it too!"

"Me too!" Even Ayumi said that, which surprised everyone.

"What!?" Conan's expression suddenly became quite interesting.

Even Ai Haibara and Akemi Miyano, who had been chatting in the corner, were drawn over by the commotion.

Only Aragaki Yu kept glancing out the window; sure enough, there was someone watching their movements.

Aragaki Yu knew in his heart that this guy was probably the one who had been watching them from the bushes in the woods.

Perhaps this person came here specifically to see the old man who had been living here and had carved that coin.

Not long after, Genta picked up a candlestick from the fireplace, while Ayumi took a plate from the cupboard and came to Conan's side.

Conan frowned even more as he looked at the patterns drawn on the bottom of these items.

He didn't think these patterns were just random doodles by children.

On the contrary, the unusually regular pattern on it made Conan think that this was...

"Password!" Ai Haibara, standing next to Akemi Miyano, saw Conan carefully examining the patterns and gave him the answer. "I think these patterns don't look like children's scribbles. They might be some kind of code."

"Hmm." Conan nodded in affirmation of Ai Haibara's statement. He always felt that this pattern was very similar to something he had seen before.

Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko, who discovered all of this, did not have such thoughts.

Their minds are still focused on the treasure that Professor Agasa mentioned.

Therefore, after handing these things over to Conan, he excitedly ran to the side to deal with the clue left on the floor first.

"That's strange, my uncle doesn't have any children!" Dr. Agasa also denied that there would be any children here.

"Dancing Doll".

"Huh? What did you say, Ai?" Professor Agasa looked at Ai Haibara with some surprise, who had suddenly uttered a strange word.

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Ai Haibara was originally going to wait for Kudo to explain, but when she noticed the interested look in her sister's eyes, she couldn't help but continue to speak.

"That's right, it's the strange pattern mentioned in Sherlock Holmes's novels, which is a group of dolls lined up and dancing."

Chapter 347 The Disappearance of Aragaki Yu

“That’s right.” Dr. Agasa then recalled a scene from Sherlock Holmes. “I remember he deliberately made people think it was a child’s doodle as a code… Wait, could this be one of them!?”

“Yes, that’s absolutely right!” Conan looked at the items with various patterns drawn on their bases. “After comparing the arrangement of the three patterns on the vase, candlestick, and plate, you can see that the patterns on the right three rows of each arrangement are the same.”

"In other words..." Conan couldn't help but laugh at this point, "This is indeed a code with some kind of rule, yes, it is some kind of code, hahaha..."

I originally thought it was just a boring treasure hunt game arranged by Professor Agasa.

But these mysterious patterns and codes aroused Conan's great interest.

"What's wrong? You seem pretty happy." Professor Agasa felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing Conan's strange laughter. "Have you already successfully cracked the code?"

"No, I'm still completely baffled." A glint of light shone on Conan's glasses as he shook his head, but made no attempt to hide the smile on his face. "The old man and the coin are still a mystery, but, Professor, I'm just so excited!"

Conan's smile widened even more. "The more I don't know what's going on, the more my uncontrollable curiosity beats within me."

"Idiot..." Ai Haibara, who was not far away, rolled her eyes and muttered a muttered comment after hearing Conan's chuunibyou (delusional) remarks.

She shrugged helplessly. It was because of Kudo's personality that she always felt he was very unreliable.