The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"This one……"

The maid hesitated for a moment, unsure how to answer Aragaki Yu's question.

To be honest, even the maid herself didn't know why the owner of this Twilight Villa would invite these detectives. "I don't know either, but there are actually seven detectives invited this time!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was clearly a little surprised.

"Come on, there were two other people besides us?" Mogi Harufumi shrugged and muttered with a strange expression.

“Yes, they are a young lady and a young boy,” the maid nodded in response.

"Hey, I'm talking to Aragaki-kun."

At this moment, Akemi Miyano, who had been standing next to Yu Aragaki, couldn't help but tug at his sleeve and whispered, "You mean that boy, could he be Shinichi Kudo?"

"!!!"

"???"

Akemi Miyano spoke softly, but her voice still reached the ears of the people around her.

Harufumi Mogi and Furuyo Senma didn't react much.

But Ran, who had initially been intimidated by the atmosphere in the hall, immediately perked up, as if a flame had ignited around her, shouting, "Shinichi!!!"

Kogoro Mouri glanced at Ran and Conan almost unconsciously.

"Maybe, who knows?" Aragaki Yu glanced at the uneasy Conan and replied with a smile.

"No...that's impossible!" Conan replied anxiously, "I think it must be Heiji-nii!"

"No." Hearing the names mentioned by the guests, the maid shook her head, interrupting their speculation, "Although these two names were indeed on the guest list that Master gave me."

“But…” she recalled the situation and explained to everyone, “We were unable to contact Mr. Kudo, and Mr. Hattori is about to take his midterm exams, so his mother personally called to decline the invitation.”

Midterm exams?

Upon hearing this, Aragaki Yu was clearly stunned.

How come he hadn't heard of this at all?

He subconsciously glanced at Xiaolan beside him, only to find that she showed no surprise whatsoever.

So the midterm exam thing is true?

"So it wasn't Shinichi after all..." Ran's face darkened, and she looked somewhat disappointed.

Meanwhile, Mogi Harufumi, who was standing to the side, was clearly not interested in the topic of "midterm exams," so he continued to ask the maid, "Where is your master, who likes detectives, right now?"

"This..." The maid seemed quite troubled about this matter. "Actually, I haven't even seen him yet."

Everyone was somewhat surprised by the maid's answer.

"Huh? Didn't he give you that list?" Kogoro Mouri looked at the maid in surprise.

The maid also felt that the gathering was a bit strange, and her expression was odd. "I did get the list when I was interviewed as a maid, but that interview was really weird."

From her words, everyone understood that this maid was not a long-term servant of this villa, but a temporary worker who was hired to be in charge of this banquet.

"Strange?" Aragaki Yu felt a little curious about the maid's description of the interview. "Maid, was there anything wrong with that interview?"

“Yes.” The maid nodded and explained, “Because the job pays very well, there were a lot of people applying. But when I went into the room where I was interviewed, I found only a computer, a banquet instruction manual, and a guest list. There was no one else in the room.”

At this point, the maid's voice became somewhat confused, "There was nothing I could do but follow the instructions on the computer and look through those documents. Suddenly, a line of text popped up on the computer screen saying that I had been accepted."

"So, you don't know why you were accepted back then either?" Conan, who had appeared out of nowhere, suddenly interjected.

"Yes." The maid nodded.

"Ouch!"

Conan seemed to want to say something more, but Kogoro Mouri behind him punched him on the head.

Just as Conan was wailing and clutching his head from the sudden attack, Kogoro Mouri grabbed him and pulled him to Ran's side, saying, "Don't interrupt, you brat!"

After giving Conan a stern warning, Kogoro Mouri then turned to the maid, "Then you should at least have heard something, right? I remember in your text message you mentioned that your master agreed to my request to bring my family along, didn't you?"

“Yes.” The maid nodded at first, but quickly shook her head and said, “To be honest, for such detailed matters, the host of this banquet and I communicated via email on our cell phones.”

Kogoro Mouri: "Uh..."

Seeing the pained expressions on everyone's faces, Aragaki Yu patted Miyano Akemi, whose expression was starting to look worried, before speaking to the group: "It seems the host of this banquet doesn't want us to see his face. But doesn't that make the banquet even more interesting?"

“Yes.” Chima Kazuyo narrowed her eyes and spoke with equal eagerness, “Things are indeed getting interesting.”

"Hmph~"

Mogi Harufumi suddenly chuckled, glanced at everyone, and said, "Actually, I was already incredibly excited after seeing that weird handle on the door!"

"Hmm?" Upon hearing this, Xiaolan subconsciously moved closer to the doorknob, examining the stains on it while muttering, "This doorknob is indeed a bit strange. How did they even get it up there?"

I noticed that Xiaolan seemed to be reaching out to touch the stains.

Fearing that Xiaolan might unconsciously smash the door with a punch, Aragaki Yu quickly grabbed her arm to stop her.

Chapter 417 The Eerie Atmosphere from Akemi Miyano (2-in-1)

"Huh? What's wrong, Aragaki?" Ran, who had almost been pulled off her feet, turned around and looked at Aragaki Yu in confusion.

"Be careful, miss. I think you should listen to this young man and not touch it."

At this moment, Harufumi Mogi also reminded Ran, "I think that's probably blood!"

"Ah, Wh...what!?" As expected, Ran was startled by Mogi Harufumi's words and immediately shrank back.

Even Akemi Miyano's expression changed slightly.

"Blood, bloodstains! Heh... You must be joking, Mr. Mogi?" Ran couldn't quite believe what Mogi Harufumi was saying.

“No, it’s true!” Aragaki Yu then let go of Ran’s arm and nodded, saying, “And it’s probably blood that’s been there for some years.”

"..."

Conan, whose expression had turned serious, was about to say something when a sudden voice interrupted Aragaki Yu's words from beside the stairs in the hall.

"According to my analysis, these are droplets of blood that adhered to the door at a 45-degree angle of incidence. In addition to the bloodstains on the door, there are also bloodstains on the walls and dripping bloodstains on the floor. Although they were wiped clean at the time, almost every part of this house has traces of bloodstains."

Somewhat surprised, everyone turned around and saw a young and beautiful woman who had appeared by the stairs in the hall at some point.

She was about the same age as Akemi Miyano, wearing a white trench coat over a low-cut red inner layer. Her burgundy wavy hair and delicate features made her exceptionally eye-catching.

Everyone looked at her. She was spraying sand mist into the stair railing with a small spray bottle while continuing to explain, "It seems that the owners of these bloodstains are not just one or two people."

"That analysis is absolutely brilliant!"

Just as everyone was curious about the identity of this suddenly appearing woman.

A boy's voice suddenly came from the second floor.

Everyone couldn't help but look up at the second floor.

Kogoro Mouri then saw a familiar face slowly walking down the stairs.

Upon seeing the boy, Kogoro Mouri's brow furrowed slightly, almost unconsciously.

After all, this is his, or more accurately, it's Kaito Kid's mortal enemy!

Of course, it was also his classmate, a high school detective named "Hakuba Saguru".

“LUOMINOL.” Hakuba Saguru smiled slightly as he looked at the small spray bottle in the woman’s hand. “Once sprayed on bloodstains, it will produce a special bluish-purple fluorescence based on the active oxidizing enzymes in the blood. I didn’t expect you to bring this thing, former prosecutor, Ms. Ikumi Gunda.”

"I didn't expect you to praise me like that!" The woman called Yagami Ikumi wasn't surprised by Hakuba Saguru's words at all. Instead, she glanced at him and smiled, addressing him as "Young Master!"

"My name is Hakuba Saguru, nice to meet you." Hakuba Saguru then looked at the group of people standing in the hall and introduced himself.

"Haku, Hakuba Saguru!?"

Although he was absolutely certain of the guy's identity, in order to play the role of Kogoro Mouri well, Kaito Kid could only look at Hakuba Saguru with some shock and say, "So, you're the Hakuba Police Chief..."

It's not surprising that Kogoro Mouri, as a former detective, would know about this.

“Yes, you’re right!” Hakuba Saguru did not deny Kogoro Mouri’s guess, but instead readily admitted it. “Chief Inspector Hakuba is indeed my father, Mr. Mouri.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Hakuba Saguru walked up to the crowd and nodded slightly to those standing there.

However, when his gaze fell on Aragaki Yu's face, he paused for a moment and smiled at him.

Clearly, Hakuba Saguru seems to be more interested in detectives of his own age.

Hakuba Saguru had naturally heard of this boy named Aragaki Yu.

It should be said that he had heard the name Yuu Aragaki from his father more than once.

Speaking of which, Hakuba Saguru suddenly remembered that Aragaki Yu had a particularly interesting nickname among the police—the police's bounty hunter.

While he was lost in thought, he suddenly whistled upwards.

The next second, a large bird suddenly flapped its wings and flew out, landing obediently on his arm.

"A... an eagle!?" Xiaolan was startled by the sudden appearance of the large bird.

"Miss, I'm so sorry to have startled you." Hakuba Saguru explained to Ran with a slight apology, "Its name is Walterson. I don't know if it's because it always works with me in England, but it's particularly sensitive to the smell of blood."

"Ah, Walterson?" Xiaolan was clearly curious about the name, as if she had made a connection to something.

Conan, who also seemed to have made a connection to something, couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly as he looked at the eagle perched on Hakuba Saguru's arm, its head circling around.