The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

"Headache?"

Conan tilted his head, not quite understanding what Aragaki Yu meant.

Recalling the various times he had seen Aragaki Yu use "weapons" to hit people, he couldn't help but think that it should be those who were competing with him for the treasure who would have a headache.

"Of course it will give me a headache!"

Seemingly seeing through Conan's confusion, Aragaki Yu explained matter-of-factly, "After all, selling diamonds is indeed a very troublesome thing."

"Huh, sell it!?" Conan was taken aback. While standing there stunned, he blurted out his thought without hesitation, "Shouldn't such a treasure be handed over to the country?"

However, after he finished speaking, he found that not only Aragaki Yu, but also Haibara Ai, was staring at him as if he were an idiot.

Um, does that mean handing it over to the state...?

Is there something wrong with it?

At this moment, Conan couldn't help but fall into deep self-doubt.

……

"Wow, carp! There are so many carp!"

"There's even a river inside the building! It feels like a high-end restaurant!"

The juvenile detectives followed the sound of flowing water and discovered a river on one side of the hall.

"I wonder if there's a lake that leads to the outside world," Ai Haibara said, following Yu Aragaki to the children's side and looking at the river in front of them.

"Look! There's a bridge here!"

Meanwhile, Genta, who was wandering around with a watch-shaped flashlight, discovered a wooden bridge over the river.

Of course, having learned from his experience of being in danger on the stairs, this time he did not rush onto the wooden bridge, but instead carefully observed the situation ahead.

The next second, Genta indeed noticed something was wrong.

He shone the light from his watch-shaped flashlight onto the open space in front of the wooden bridge and said excitedly, "There really is a trap hole ahead!"

Following Genta's directions, everyone looked and indeed saw a very obvious mark on the floor ahead where a wooden board had been partially covered.

"I won't fall for it this time!" Yuan Tai said proudly as he saw everyone moving closer to him.

“No, how could Kichiemon leave such an obvious trap?” At this moment, Sudo Izumo, who was originally on the other side, also came over. He looked at the mechanism in front of him and laughed, “So what looks like a trap at first glance should actually be something else.”

Before he finished speaking, he had already stomped heavily on the mechanism.

With a muffled "click," the wooden planks on the ground slid open to the sides like outstretched wings, and four iron chains, carrying the smell of rust, burst through the wall, their iron rings at the ends precisely locking onto the protruding wooden planks on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, a lifting platform made of wooden planks and iron chains rose up with a bang, the platform still swaying slightly due to the vibration of the mechanism.

"what!?"

Genta, standing behind Sudo Izumo, was so shocked that his mouth was agape. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, unable to comprehend what he was seeing.

Although they didn't know what was going on with the elevator in front of them, when Conan and the others saw that Aragaki Yu and Sudo Izumo had stepped onto the elevator without hesitation, they also rushed onto the elevator before it started operating.

The next second, accompanied by the dull friction between the gears and the iron chains, the elevator platform carried everyone upwards.

"Bravo!"

Wow, it looks like an elevator!

Upon witnessing this scene, the children of the Junior Detective League couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

It turns out that elevators existed in ancient times using this method.

"finally reached!"

One minute later, the elevator finally stopped on the second floor of the building.

Mitsuhiko jumped off the elevator platform, and after thinking about the trap on the stairs and the elevator platform, he suddenly realized, "So if you want to go up, you go down, and if you go down, you go up, right?"

Genta completely forgot the danger he had encountered earlier, thinking, "It's really too easy, isn't it!"

However, just as he finished speaking, a throwing knife slashed through the darkness, grazing Genta's cheek.

With a loud "bang," the throwing knife struck the wall behind Yuan Tai.

"!!!"

Only when the throwing knife stuck in the wall stopped shaking did Yuan Tai, regaining his senses, stare wide-eyed in fear in the direction from which it had been thrown.

At the same time, Ayumi also let out a scream.

As for Conan and Ai Haibara, they rushed to the children's side without hesitation and protected them behind them.

However, Aragaki Yu did not react in any special way, but just looked over with interest.

The moment the opponent made their move, Aragaki Yu had already locked onto their location.

Since the opponent did not carry any murderous intent when they attacked, Aragaki Yu did not immediately intervene to stop them.

Besides, even if someone wanted to attack them, they wouldn't target these kids first.

It would be normal for a person to prioritize eliminating someone like Sudo Izumo who looks very threatening.

Of course, just to be on the safe side, Ice Maiden immediately floated behind Genta.

"..."

For some reason, someone from Sudo Izumo suddenly shivered, feeling a strange malice suddenly creeping over them.

"This idiot, if it were that simple, there would be no need to search so hard! Right, a treasure hunter with a burden."

As a woman's voice came from the darkness, a short-haired woman appeared in everyone's sight.

She glanced at the crowd sideways, and from the identical throwing knife she was holding, it was clear that the knife she had just thrown was the one she had thrown from the darkness.

Chapter 719 What a pitiful child

“These brats weren’t brought by me.” Sudo Izumo walked to the wall, pulled out the throwing knife stuck there, and said with a smile, “But, isn’t it a bit inappropriate to use a knife on brats?”

"Take a closer look at what's on the knife!"

The short-haired woman didn't take Sudo Izumo's words to heart.

"what?"

Sudo Izumo looked closely and then realized that the tip of the throwing knife that the opponent had just shot out was actually pierced by a poisonous spider.

He hadn't noticed it earlier because the spider was so small.

In other words, she threw the knife specifically to save that brat.

Although the other party meant well, her action made Sudo Izumo very alert.

Is it really possible for such a young woman to not only spot such a tiny spider from such a distance, but also throw a knife and hit it accurately?

This woman...

very dangerous!

Not only Sudo Izumo, but even Conan became more wary of this mysterious woman.

Ai Haibara instinctively shrank behind Yu Aragaki, watching the short-haired woman not far away warily.

Although she couldn't detect any connection to the organization from the other person, there was still a feeling that made Ai Haibara very uncomfortable.

She subtly tugged at Aragaki Yu's sleeve, only relaxing after noticing the reassuring look he gave her.

"If you want to go to the top floor, go this way!" The short-haired woman seemed oblivious to the strange looks on everyone's faces, turning her back to them with a seemingly unguarded air.

Soon, following the short-haired woman, the group arrived at the top floor of the building.

This appears to be the attic of the entire house.

However, this floor was completely empty and there was nothing special about it.

Thinking that the treasure was located in the place closest to the sun, Ayumi looked at her companion with some doubt, "So, the treasure should be on the roof?"

"If you want to get to the roof..."

Upon hearing Ayumi's words, Mitsuhiko quickly began to look around and soon found a ladder in a corner that he could climb.

"Found it, there's a ladder here!"

Conan, watching the children run excitedly toward the ladder, was somewhat puzzled as he carefully observed his surroundings.

Surprisingly, there were no pillars in the attic space, and according to the layout, the position of the ladder seemed to be exactly where the pillars of the two floors below were located.

Wait a minute, what if that big pillar is hollow...?

not good!

"Hehe, I want to be the first one up!"

"Stop! That's a trap!"

Conan was about to speak up to warn the children when he saw Genta's hand already gripping the ladder.

The next second, a "click" was heard.

The floor beneath the Junior Detective League children suddenly cracked.

"what……!?"