The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

Left with no other choice, Conan, who thought Aragaki Yu had returned to his room, had to run towards the second floor.

Meanwhile, Senma Kazuyo finally returned to the villa.

However, due to her advanced age and inability to keep up with Kogoro Mouri and his group, by the time she returned to the villa, she had already missed the detectives' secret plot.

Chima Kazuyo did not enter through the main gate or the back of the annex. To avoid being discovered by the group of sharp-eyed detectives, she painstakingly climbed over the wall and slipped inside.

Then, while everyone in the villa returned to their rooms to rest, they cautiously headed straight for the secret room that had been prepared in advance.

……

Soon, Senma Kōdai slipped into the secret room.

The secret room is not large compared to the other rooms, probably only about ten square meters.

However, the room, which was not extravagant to begin with, now contained a large number of monitors, which were monitoring the various rooms in the annex.

Clearly, this was a room specifically designed to monitor the situation in the annex, and Chima Kazuyo intended to use it to monitor the actions of the detectives inside after faking her death.

However, just as she was walking toward her seat in front of the monitor, she suddenly froze halfway there.

When I first entered, I couldn't see clearly because of the dim lighting in the secret room, but I can see it now that I'm closer.

At this moment, a young man was sitting in the seat. He suddenly turned his chair around and smiled at Chima Kazuyo, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Ms. Chima."

"!!!"

Looking at the boy named Aragaki Yu in front of her, Chima Kōyō was also extremely surprised.

However, facing a group of top Japanese detectives, she seemed to have anticipated this situation and quickly adjusted her mood.

"Hey kid, how did you find this place?"

Chima Kazuyo did not ask the other party why they knew she was the mastermind.

In fact, on her way back to the villa from the suspension bridge, she had already vaguely sensed her own weakness.

However, all she could do was hope that the detectives would be fooled by her faked death.

However, when she saw Yuu Aragaki appear there, she already knew that her hopes had been dashed.

The boy in front of me had clearly seen through everything.

"I just accidentally stumbled upon a mechanism here." Aragaki Yu smiled, without explaining further.

After all, he couldn't very well say that his shikigami accidentally discovered the secret room while stealing the gold.

Chima Kazuyo looked up at Aragaki Yu sitting in the chair. She didn't believe that this secret room could be discovered by "accident."

However, since the other party was unwilling to say more, she naturally wouldn't ask any further questions.

Having been discovered, Chima Kazuyo made no attempt to resist. After gesturing to her empty hands, she slowly took two steps forward, arriving at Aragaki Yu's side, and looked at the surveillance footage in the room.

Yuya Aragaki showed no concern whatsoever for Senma Kazuyo, who had come to his side.

After all, the snow woman left on her had already confirmed that Senma Kyoudai did not have any weapons on her.

Yuu Aragaki did not feel that an unarmed old woman posed any threat to him.

Moreover, the other party didn't seem to have any intention of resisting.

"So, now that you've discovered I'm the mastermind behind this case, what about the treasure? Have you found it?" Looking at the detectives appearing on the surveillance footage, Chima Kazuyo slowly spoke.

There was no trace of regret in her voice about being caught; instead, it was full of anticipation.

It was as if that treasure was incredibly important to her.

……

That's right, Senma Kazuyo is the mysterious "host" who, under the guise of Kaito Kid, convened a large number of detectives for a seemingly normal banquet.

Similarly, he was also the mastermind behind the murder of Da Shang Zhu Shan.

The reason why Senma Fuyuki did this was all related to her father.

The story she told everyone at the restaurant was actually a slightly modified version of the information she received from her father.

—Actually, forty years ago.

Senma Kōdai's father, Senma Kyōsuke, a renowned archaeologist, along with many other scholars, was invited by Karasuma Renya, a wealthy man who was nearly a hundred years old at the time, to this twilight villa.

The reason was that Karasuma Renya had discovered clues to a considerable treasure in the twilight villa that his mother had left him.

So, before he died, he wanted to ask talented people from all walks of life to help him find the treasure.

Because the job offered very generous compensation, Kyosuke Senma frequently sent letters home.

Therefore, Senma Kōdai and her mother were very happy at the time.

Unfortunately, the good times don't last long.

Who knew that six months later, Chima Kōdai would never receive any more news from her father.

The truth was only revealed when Senma Kazuyo placed the last letter her father, Senma Kyosuke, had sent home under the light—

The letter was riddled with holes by Senma Kyosuke, who had pierced it with fine needles. On the letter, he revealed the secret code for the treasure hunt and his encounters with the other scholars who had been invited to the villa.

It turns out that Karasuma Renya felt his death was imminent, and since the scholars he had invited had not yet found the treasure, he committed the atrocity of killing them one by one in the villa.

However, as his companions were killed one by one, Senma Kyosuke realized that even if they eventually found the treasure, they would still die.

If Senma Kazuyo had discovered the hidden information in the letter her father sent earlier, there might have been a chance to save some survivors.

Unfortunately, by the time Senma Kōdai deciphered the truth, more than twenty years had passed since that time.

Karasuma Renya was already dead, and the Twilight Villa had already changed hands several times.

Therefore, this matter could only become a thorn stuck in Senma Kōdai's heart.

However, two years ago, when Senma Kōdai inadvertently mentioned this matter to Ōgami Shozen.

Da Shang Zhu Shan immediately set his sights on this treasure.

Oyama Shuzen quickly located the location of the Twilight Villa from back then and launched a treasure hunt with great enthusiasm, but the code was never solved in the end.

However, he had borrowed a large sum of money to buy this villa from someone else.

When she was on the verge of being driven to desperation by loan repayments, not long ago, Oogami Kizuki also approached Chima Kazuyo and mentioned this plan to her—

Let the detectives decipher the code!

Chapter 429 Watching the Show (2-in-1)

As fellow detectives, Ogami Kisuke and Senma Kazuyo naturally knew exactly how to attract enough famous detectives to this Twilight Villa.

Therefore, Kaito Kid was burdened with the label of "the phantom child abandoned by God".

"So you're planning to kill that guy and keep all that treasure for yourself?" Aragaki Yu glanced at Senma Kōdai beside him.

Chima Kazuyo shook her head, her expression calm. "Although I didn't initially object to Oogami Shuzen's plan to kill you after using you to find the treasure, I later discovered that I was also on that guy's list of people to be silenced. That's why I used the method he devised to kill the maid to get rid of him first."

Early this morning, Senma Kōdai and Ōgami Shozen each drove a car to the Twilight Villa.

Then, they went back in the same car, leaving an extra car in the villa's courtyard that appeared to belong to the owner.

Afterwards, they pretended to take different routes and went up the mountain separately.

Then, Senma Kazuyo deliberately caused her car to break down halfway and then hitched a ride with Kogoro Mouri, in order to make Kogoro Mouri confirm that she had not arrived at the villa ahead of time.

What followed proceeded smoothly, just as planned by Ōgami Kizen and Senma Kōdai.

It wasn't until Senma Kōdai coated all the teacup handles with potassium cyanide that, while killing Ōgami Sōzen, everyone's thumbs were also poisoned.

The maid who was supposed to be killed in Oosugi's plan actually escaped because she was busy serving guests and didn't have time to drink tea.

In Chima Kazuyo's script, the next victim is herself.

……

Just then, several interesting scenes appeared on their surveillance footage—

Harufumi Mogi sneaked into a room and drugged Ran, who was trying to scream.

In Ikumi Gunda's room, she hid the pistol that was originally under her pillow in her bosom.

Kogoro Mouri also looked at the pistol in his hand and gave a cold smile.

……

"Aren't you going to do anything about them?" Senma Fuyuki, who found that everything was going according to plan, also looked at Aragaki Yu with a strange expression.

He sat calmly in his chair, watching the monitor, seemingly with no intention of stopping those people.

Is it possible...

"Is this young man also after the treasure?" Chima Kazuyo thought to herself.

"Humph~"

Yuu Aragaki chuckled lightly. Although he hadn't overheard the detectives' plot, he had already guessed what they were planning to do.

After all, even Akemi Miyano is currently in her room, excitedly brandishing a pistol.

"Do you really think they'll be tempted by this so-called treasure? Or do you think your flawed plan with Mr. Ogami will fool so many detectives?" Aragaki Yu reminded Chima Kazuyo with a smile.

"Um!?"