The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

Acting impulsively can easily plunge both him and himself into the organization's abyss of destruction.

However, now that her sister is still alive, Ai Haibara has made up her mind.

If things get out of control, she will definitely take her sister and flee this place to a place beyond the reach of the organization.

For example, participating in a country's witness protection program.

Perhaps at that time, we could also bring that guy, Yuu Aragaki, along...

"Wait!" Ai Haibara suddenly paused, her face flushing slightly.

Why did I even think about that guy? He's such a despicable bastard!

Although she was thinking this, Ai Haibara couldn't help but glance in the direction where Yuu Aragaki was standing.

"Huh?" Ai Haibara exclaimed softly, surprised to find that Yuu Aragaki, who had been standing there just moments before, had somehow disappeared.

"Where...where is he?" Ai Haibara was a little confused and couldn't help but turn her head to look around for Yu Aragaki's figure, only to find that he was indeed no longer in the room.

……

Professor Agasa was equally speechless at Shinichi's curiosity, thinking, "Is your detective blood boiling again?"

While marveling at the sight, Professor Agasa couldn't help but pick up the candlestick and glance at the pattern on the bottom, only to suddenly realize that it all seemed somewhat familiar.

So, even Professor Agasa couldn't help but mutter, "Strange, I feel like I've seen this pattern somewhere before!"

"What? Really, Professor!" Conan exclaimed excitedly upon hearing this. "Where? Where have you seen it before!"

"Hey, don't rush me!" Professor Agasa said helplessly, looking at the impatient Conan. "The more you rush me, the less I can remember!"

"..."

"Conan!"

Just then, Mitsuhiko's angry voice suddenly came over.

Conan turned his head and saw Mitsuhiko standing with his hands on his hips, looking unhappy and somewhat resentful. "Conan, come and think about the code on the floor with me! How can you just stand there chatting?"

Meanwhile, Yuan Tai, with his arms crossed, nodded and said, "That's right! You're the only one in our group who didn't do a proper treasure hunt!"

Ayumi, standing nearby, couldn't help but complain as well: "That's right, Conan, you've been standing here the whole time and haven't done anything!"

"..."

Surrounded by several children, Conan sighed, "Fine!"

Left with no other choice, he walked over to the code left on the floor and explained to the three of them, “mo za ri sa wa so de ru, just like that, I really don’t know what it means, but I think this code is probably made up of dropping one letter from each of the fifty sounds of Japanese from beginning to end.”

This kind of code didn't really interest him, so he simply put his hands in his pockets and casually continued, "So, if we follow this principle and move each letter one position to the next, the code becomes, ya zi ru si yo ta do re..."

"Follow the arrow!" ×3

The three children were very excited after they learned the meaning of the code.

"Okay, let's follow the arrow!"

"Hurry up!"

But where is the arrow?!

The three children excitedly ran around the room, searching for the arrow in the code.

"Stop right there!" Conan quickly stopped the Junior Detective League, who were moving around like headless flies. "Didn't we see a very conspicuous arrow as soon as we entered this house?"

"Arrow? There's no arrow. Where is it?" Genta and the others looked around the room in confusion, but couldn't find the arrow Conan had mentioned.

"Of course there is!" Conan pointed to the clock on the wall and continued, "Isn't that the clock?"

"A clock?" Following Conan's pointing finger, Genta and the others looked at the clock, but still couldn't find anything wrong with it. "Is there something wrong with that clock?"

"You should know that on a clock, the hour and minute hands can't overlap from 6:30!" Conan explained to the children. "So on this clock, the hour and minute hands are both at their lowest points. Obviously, someone did this on purpose, and it's very likely the person who hid the treasure."

While speaking, Conan didn't forget to glance at Professor Agasa behind him.

"I see!" After Conan's explanation, Mitsuhiko finally understood what was wrong with the clock. "In other words, the hour hand of that clock represents the starting point of the arrow!"

"That's right!"

"So all we need to do is look at the bottom of the clock, right?"

As Conan nodded in agreement with Mitsuhiko's statement, the children hurriedly ran to the bottom of the clock and finally found a pile of scattered playing cards on the cabinet below the clock.

Chapter 348 The Man Who Was Knocked Out

"There's an Ace of Spades right in the middle, right? That's the only card that's held in place by a thumbtack."

The three children examined the playing cards and found that they were exactly as Conan had described.

"Oh right!" Ayumi exclaimed, looking at the playing cards. "The spade suit can also be used as an arrow!"

Following the direction indicated by the suit on the Ace of Spades, the group found the chess pieces placed on a table not far away.

This time, before Conan could even remind him, Mitsuhiko noticed that the chess pieces on the chessboard were also arranged in the shape of an arrow.

The arrow was pointing directly at the room that Aragaki Yu and Conan had just entered.

Guided by the arrows formed by the chess pieces, the group entered the room.

However, this time, after Mitsuhiko and the others looked around the entire room, they found nothing that resembled an arrow.

"Strange, there aren't any arrows here at all?"

Just as the children were wondering, Conan suddenly walked to the table and pointed out to them, "This is the most clichéd part of the person who hid the treasure."

As Conan said this, he glanced at Professor Agasa, who had followed them into the room, earning him a glare from the professor.

“Look closely, there are three small patches of dust on the table in front of the door, which proves that there used to be something here.”

"Something?" Ayumi was puzzled after hearing the prompt, but she quickly noticed the plane that had fallen to the ground.

"Could this be the plane that fell to the ground?"

Next, following Conan's instructions, Ayumi placed the airplane on a dust-free spot on the table.

The nose of the airplane, shaped like an arrow, pointed towards the bed in the room.

"Oh, it's the bed!" Genta and Mitsuhiko exclaimed with sudden realization. "As expected, under the bed must be the best place to hide things!"

Although everything Conan said made perfect sense, Professor Agasa was puzzled as he looked at the airplane that had been placed back on the table.

Because he remembered that he had clearly placed the airplane neatly on the table and had not designed the kind of puzzle Conan mentioned.

At the same time, the three children happily ran towards their beds.

Then, without hesitation, Genta crawled under the bed.

Sure enough, just a few seconds later, Genta, who was searching for treasure under the bed, exclaimed, "Oh, there seems to be something under the bed!"

"That must be the treasure chest!" Ayumi couldn't help but cheer.

After Genta pulled the box out from under the bed, the three children excitedly opened the lid of the box.

"what?!"

However, just as they were looking expectantly at the treasure in the box, they suddenly let out a gasp.

The others, who had been startled by the children, also looked at the "treasure chest" they had found, and their eyes widened at what was inside.

The box was filled with all sorts of toys.

The problem is that the toys have been damaged by someone, and one of the dolls even had a knife stuck in it.

Various Kamen Rider figures, model airplanes, and other items were dismantled and beyond repair.

"What a pity..." Ayumi picked up a toy bear with a hint of heartache. "It's all stabbed and torn to shreds by the knife."

"Yes!" Genta's voice sounded somewhat regretful.

Even Ai Haibara and Akemi Miyano, who were standing at the very back, showed displeasure upon seeing this scene.

"I think the people who hid these things must be trying to scare us!" Mitsuhiko said angrily, picking up a tattered toy airplane.

"No, you're wrong." However, Conan decisively interrupted Mitsuhiko, "The professor would never do that."

"Doctor?" Ayumi seemed a little puzzled.

Mitsuhiko was the first to react, looking at Conan and Professor Agasa in surprise and saying, "So, you mean all these toys were hidden by the professor?"

"Yes." Conan nodded and explained, "The professor did this specifically so that we could play a treasure hunt game here."

"Then... does that mean that after the doctor made the arrangements, someone else has come here in the meantime?" Genta finally realized.

“That’s right.” Conan analyzed confidently, “I think he found the treasure chest in the bedroom after seeing the code left by the professor. He didn’t like the contents of the chest, so he destroyed them.”

Conan then remembered what the professor had been muttering earlier, and explained again, "And that airplane that the professor had put on the table, I think that guy must have taken it down too!"

"But why would that person come here?" Mitsuhiko asked, expressing his doubts.

"I don't know. Maybe he just happened to walk by and came in out of curiosity, or maybe he was actually looking for something in this villa."

Although Conan shook his head, the thought of another code in the villa involuntarily flashed through his mind.

Creak~~~

Just as everyone in the room fell silent.