The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"Is there a ghost?"

"Forehead……"

Somewhat helplessly, Aragaki Yu pulled the Yuki-onna out of his pocket and held it up to his face.

He just couldn't understand why the Yuki-onna, a shikigami (spirit) of the demons, would be so afraid of demons.

Moreover, this problem has not gotten better to this day; on the contrary, it seems to be getting worse.

Moreover, it's not just Yuki Onna, but also Yoto Hime and Kotengu.

The only one that seems normal is the firefly grass.

But the thought of Yingcao hitting monsters with dandelions...

Okay, she's not quite normal either...

Looking at the teary-eyed Yuki-onna, Aragaki Yu couldn't help but sigh, "Yuki-onna, what exactly did you discover?"

Chapter 352 As expected of Grass Daddy

"I, I saw... there is, there is a skeleton monster with a full head of white hair lying on the table!" Yuki-onna explained to Aragaki Yu, shrinking back in fear.

White hair? A skeleton?

Yuu Aragaki paused for a moment, but quickly realized that the Yuki-onna was probably describing the guy who used to live here and left those coded messages.

However, perhaps for some reason, he died in this place one day, and eventually, with the passage of time, he turned into a skeleton.

"Don't be afraid, Yuki-onna!" Having figured this out, Aragaki Yu smiled and placed the Yuki-onna on his shoulder, patting her head to comfort her. "That's just an old woman who died, not some kind of ghost. Where did you see that skeleton?"

"I, I..." The snow woman was still a little scared, but she still stammered, "It's...it's on the ceiling of the room in the very center of the second floor! There's a really, really big room there!"

"Oh?!" Aragaki Yuu perked up upon hearing this. "Yuki-onna, so you've found a way to enter that room?"

"No, no..."

To Aragaki Yu's surprise, Yuki-onna shook her head, glanced at the direction of the secret room with lingering fear, and then explained to Aragaki Yu, "We found a crack in the ceiling when we were playing on the second floor."

"It was pitch black inside, and there was no sound at all, but Sister Yingcao said that there might be some treasure hidden inside, so she kept pestering me to go inside and take a look."

The more the Snow Woman spoke, the more aggrieved she felt, and her trembling voice sounded as if she was about to cry.

"As a result, when I flew up through the crack in the ceiling with her, I found a large empty room. It was dark and terrifying. I kept urging Yingcao to go back quickly, but she wouldn't listen."

At this point, Yuki-onna couldn't help but puff out her cheeks, clearly somewhat resentful of Hotaru's audacious actions.

"Finally, I...we found that skeleton...skull on the ceiling!"

"Where is Yingcao now?" After listening to the Snow Woman's description, or rather, her accusations against Yingcao, Aragaki Yu asked with some curiosity.

Yuki-onna stood up from Aragaki Yu's shoulder and looked at him angrily, saying, "Hotaru-gusa-chan, she's still up on the ceiling and refuses to come down! She says she's determined to find a way to open that secret room."

Aragaki Yu: "..."

Upon hearing this, Aragaki Yu thought to himself, "Wow!"

This... truly lives up to his reputation as Grass Daddy!

……

at the same time.

Conan, still sitting cross-legged on the ground, was staring intently at the code-breaking table in his hand, racking his brains over everything.

Just as he was scratching his head in frustration, he noticed that Ayumi, who was putting the coded items back in their original places, had been passing by him the whole time.

Just as he suddenly paused, seemingly trying to grasp the moment, Professor Agasa, who was not far away, suddenly complained to him, "Conan, can't you at least lend a hand! Besides, sitting there is blocking the way!"

However, Conan didn't have time to pay attention to that at the moment. Instead, he asked Professor Agasa with some curiosity, "By the way, Professor, I remember you once said that the playing cards and the model airplane in that room used to be placed in this room, right?"

“That’s right!” Professor Agasa nodded. “I saw that they were all in this villa, so I just took it and used it.”

Upon hearing Professor Agasa's words, Conan's eyes suddenly narrowed. "So, all the items with the coded markings were originally placed in this room!"

But what does this mean...?

Conan still couldn't figure it out.

But when he saw Ayumi carrying the puppet doll passing by him again, a sudden inspiration struck him.

"Wait, what if we connect these things in order!"

Conan looked at the coded items that Ayumi had placed back in their respective positions, and began to sketch out a plan in his mind: "Starting with the plate, the vase, the candlestick, the propeller, the painting, the record, the puppet, the glass, the playing cards, the French dictionary, the heater, and finally, the plate again..."

That's it!

Conan jumped up from the ground excitedly.

He was shocked to discover that connecting all the patterned items in a line according to the clues in the code was the key.

All the lines actually form an intersection point.

It is precisely because of this intersection that Ayumi kept passing by her when placing those items.

"But this doesn't make sense!" Conan, having figured it all out, hurriedly lay down and began to search the floor, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Ai Haibara, who had just re-hung the painting on the wall with Shizuka, happened to see Conan's actions as she passed by. Curious, she asked in a low voice, "What's wrong, our great detective? Have you discovered something again?"

Without time to explain to Ai Haibara, Conan hurriedly said to her, "Haibara, come with me and look around me. Is there anything strange, like a trap or something?"

"Oh?" Hearing Conan say that, Ai Haibara's eyes narrowed slightly.

She immediately realized that Kudo had probably already figured something out.

She glanced at Conan, who was anxiously groping on the ground but to no avail.

Since there was nothing on the floor, Ai Haibara looked up at the ceiling directly above Conan.

That spot was where a chandelier was installed.

After noticing Ai Haibara's actions, Conan subconsciously looked up at the chandelier and immediately noticed a groove at the base of the chandelier on the ceiling.

That looks like some kind of mechanism!

"Professor Agasa, quickly put me on your shoulders!"

"Ok?"

Just as Conan was calling out to Professor Agasa, wanting to step on the professor's shoulder to activate the mechanism.

A loud bang came from above everyone's heads, from the direction of the second floor of the villa.

It's like a heavy object being pulled away and then falling onto the second-floor floor.

"!!!"

Without time to think about any mechanisms, Conan immediately ran towards the second floor.

"Wait a minute! Conan!"

Seeing this, Professor Agasa and the others were worried that Conan's recklessness might lead to some accident, so they hurriedly chased after him.

When everyone arrived at the room where the loud noise had just occurred, they were all speechless and stunned by what they saw inside.

Chapter 353 It turns out the culprit was Conan!

Everyone took a closer look.

Inside the room, a wooden staircase suddenly appeared, leading straight to the ceiling.

At this moment, everyone suddenly recalled the spatial issues that Aragaki Yu had mentioned about this villa not long ago.

Sure enough, the secret room in the ceiling now appeared before everyone's eyes.

But the problem now is, where has Aragaki Yu gone again?

What puzzled Conan even more was that he had just discovered the traces of the mechanism and hadn't even had a chance to touch it yet.

Why would the entrance to the secret room suddenly appear in this place?

Dr. Agasa, the nephew of the villa's owner, was completely unaware that there was such a hidden secret room inside the villa.

Just as the group was wondering where Aragaki Yu had gone.

Footsteps could be heard coming from above the stairs that suddenly appeared in the room.

Everyone's nerves immediately tensed up.

"Who could it be!?"

Is it the old man who has been hiding in this villa all along?

Or... an accomplice of the man who was knocked unconscious!

Amidst everyone's wary gazes, the person who slowly descended the stairs surprised everyone.

"Yuu Aragaki (big brother)!"

"Yo, you've finally arrived." Yuu Aragaki greeted everyone with a smile as he walked down the stairs from the ceiling.

"You, how did you get down from up there?!" Conan asked incredulously, pointing at Aragaki Yu as he came down the stairs.

He couldn't accept it. He had just deciphered the meaning of those codes, but Aragaki Yu had already found the secret room hidden in the villa.