The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

That's right, it's the little girl that Aragaki Yu once fished out of the Thames River in England.

She is Sera Mary, the mother of Shuichi Akai, Hideyoshi Haneda, and Masumi Sera, and an MI6 agent.

Judging from their personalities, Sera Mary is probably hiding in a hotel room nearby right now.

As for why they came to Japan at this time...

Thinking of this, Aragaki Yu paused in his eating, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

Chapter 712 A Seven-Year-Old Child

After finishing his ramen, feeling completely satisfied, Aragaki Yu stood up from his chair and stretched comfortably.

Of course, since Sera Masumi had arrived at the shop much earlier than him, she had already left the ramen shop more than ten minutes earlier.

Before leaving, he even took the excuse of not being full and somewhat embarrassedly packed another serving of Yama Daioh Ramen to take home.

Perhaps because Sera Masumi really liked eating at this ramen shop, the ramen shop owner didn't doubt her statement.

After all, there are people who can eat two fewer bowls of ramen, even if they are women. Although there are few, there are still some.

The ramen shop owner had even heard of an urban legend—

A girl named Hinata Hyuga once set a record of eating forty-six bowls of ramen by herself at a ramen stall.

……

"Achoo~"

On the weekend, in a tent in a clearing in the woods, Conan rubbed his sore nose in a daze.

"Hmm? Conan, are you sick?" Professor Agasa asked Conan with concern as he walked out of the trunk of the car carrying luggage.

If you catch a cold on the first day of camping, that would be a real problem.

"No la!"

Conan put down his hand that was rubbing his nose, but couldn't help wondering who was complaining about him in their heart.

Ha ha……

Could it be Xiaolan?

Professor Agasa, of course, had no idea what Conan was thinking. After Conan put down what he was carrying, he suddenly remembered the topic from earlier. "By the way, what did you ask me again?"

"..."

Upon hearing Professor Agasa's words, Conan rolled his eyes and sighed silently.

I never expected that Professor Agasa's memory would get worse and worse.

I really shouldn't have asked that...

However, before Conan could repeat his question, Professor Agasa quickly recalled the previous topic, "Oh, right, I remember now, it was a song!"

"A seven-year-old child? You're asking a seven-year-old child, aren't you?!" Professor Agasa said, glancing at Conan while recalling the lyrics of the song.

"Hmm." Conan nodded somewhat helplessly.

He realized that instead of asking Professor Agasa, it would be faster to search online himself.

"Crow, why are you cawing~" Professor Agasa sang the lyrics in a strange tone, "Is this the song I'm looking for!"

"Yeah, that's right."

Although Professor Agasa is indeed a bit off-key, Conan, who is tone-deaf by nature, can't really say much about it.

"I used to sing this song all the time on my way home from school!" Professor Agasa said as he tidied up his things, reminiscing about the past.

Finally, Professor Agasa asked Conan with great interest why he mentioned the song, "Is it for music class assignment?"

"No, it's not that." Conan shook his head, but didn't hide anything from Professor Agasa. "It's the 0858 I mentioned to you last time. If you press the keys on your phone according to the rhythm, doesn't it sound like the melody at the beginning of this song?"

After saying that, Conan held up his phone and demonstrated it to Professor Agasa.

"0858, a crow... Hmm, that's right, it does look a bit like one!" Dr. Agasa murmured.

"It took me a lot of effort to make that connection!" Conan said with considerable pride. "That's right. When I saw Vermouth sending an email to the boss, I suddenly had a very lonely yet familiar feeling. It wasn't because of her expression, but because of the tone of the email address key!"

Although he was indeed tone-deaf, he possessed perfect pitch and remembered the keystrokes made when Vermouth sent an email during the incident when she kidnapped him.

"Huh...!? What, wait a minute!"

Professor Agasa, who had been looking confused, was now shocked. "You mean their boss's email address is that of a seven-year-old? But... how is that possible!"

“That’s right!” Conan nodded, his expression serious and earnest. “If they memorize it by tone of voice, then they don’t need to save the email address in their phone’s contacts. Wouldn’t that be safer?”

Professor Agasa was still somewhat incredulous. He took the phone from Conan and began muttering to himself while looking at the buttons, "So if the crow looks a lot like 0858, why would it caw... I can't seem to press the button!"

"It's not that accurate, but if we can tolerate a little bit of off-key singing..."

Conan took the phone back from Professor Agasa and demonstrated it to him, "So, put together, it sounds like this..."

"This is the email address of their dark organization's leader!"

"Huh? What are you talking about?!" Professor Agasa stared wide-eyed at the email address on Conan's phone screen, startled.

"I think it's probably right!" Conan was very certain about this.

"Wait a minute, you haven't already sent the email, have you?!" Professor Agasa suddenly panicked.

"Idiot, why would I reveal my identity?!" Conan rolled his eyes at Professor Agasa in exasperation.

"Hehe...that's true..."

Hearing this, Professor Agasa breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but laugh awkwardly.

"Even if we're going to send it out, we should wait until we've notified Inspector Megure and the others before we do!" Conan said with a smile.

At the same time, I couldn't help but fantasize about how, with the cooperation of the police, I could destroy the dark organization and turn myself back into a high school student.

However, before he could finish his fantasy, a cold voice suddenly pulled him back to reality.

"You'll get killed!"

Conan and Professor Agasa looked at the entrance of the tent with surprise and doubt.

But then they saw Ai Haibara with her arms crossed, leaning against the entrance of the tent, staring coldly at the two of them.

“If he wants to find out who that person is, they will definitely take action,” Ai Haibara warned again. “Then, their target will turn to Shinichi Kudo, who provided Officer Takagi with this email address.”

Upon hearing Ai Haibara's words, Conan and Professor Agasa's expressions changed.

Immediately, as if he had noticed something in Ai Haibara's completely unsurprised expression, Conan rushed up to her and questioned her, "Wait a minute, did you already know? You knew this email address and its owner!"

"Hmm." Ai Haibara simply hummed in response, then gave Conan a strange look. "What do you think?"

Conan's expression faltered slightly.

It was only then that he realized that, no matter what, Ai Haibara was a member of the organization with a code name at the time, and it was impossible for her to have no way of contacting the organization's leader.

Chapter 713 Pandora’s Box

"It's such a pity, really. We finally found out the email address that might be the Black Organization's boss, but we can't just make a move!" Professor Agasa picked up Conan's phone, which he had accidentally dropped in his excitement, and sighed as he looked at the email address on it.

"Alright, just forget about it now and don't overthink it." Ai Haibara, however, wore a matter-of-fact expression, squinting at Conan and Professor Agasa as she warned again, "This email address must never be made public; it's like Pandora's box..."

"what!?"

Just as Conan and Professor Agasa's expressions changed drastically because of Ai Haibara's words, the Junior Detective League's exclamations suddenly came from outside the tent.

Startled, the three turned around in a panic, only to see Genta peering at them excitedly and asking, "What is this Pandora's Box you were talking about, Conan? Tell me quickly, what kind of treasure is it?!"

Ayumi, equally curious, stood to the side and asked, "Is it some kind of box that a panda will jump out of when you open it?!"

Ai Haibara and Conan: ∑(O_O；)

Did it escape from the panda's box?

What is that?

“You’ve misunderstood, Ayumi!” Mitsuhiko, as always, had a lot of knowledge about this kind of extracurricular knowledge. “This is a Greek myth. The gods put all the sins and disasters together and gave them to a woman named Pandora, telling her that she must never open the box.”

After listening to Mitsuhiko finish speaking, Ayumi showed an expression that seemed to understand but not quite.

As for Genta, although it's unclear whether he understood Mitsuhiko's story, he voiced the sentiments of many: "However... the more something is forbidden to open, the more people want to open it!"

"Really..." Mitsuhiko glanced at Genta helplessly.

This time, however, Ai Haibara surprisingly agreed with Genta's words, "You're right. Pandora also disobeyed the gods' instructions and opened it, which resulted in all the evil and disasters descending upon the human world. Isn't that right?"

After saying that, she glanced meaningfully at Conan Edogawa, clearly reminding him of something.

To this, Conan could only roll his dead fish eyes in exasperation, unable to refute him in any way.

"Speaking of boxes, we also saw a really strange stone box when we were gathering firewood!" At this moment, Genta suddenly remembered what he had found while gathering firewood and said excitedly.

"That's right!"

Mitsuhiko and Ayumi nodded.

"Stone box?"

"What kind of stone box is it?"