The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

Ayumi and Genta tried swallowing, but their symptoms did not improve at all.

"Or you could try pinching your nose and snorting out..."

As Ai picked up a magazine from the plane, she reminded them, "But don't use too much force, or you'll get dizzy."

……

"Conan, look ahead!" Just as Ayumi was about to pinch her nose and exhale, she glanced at Conan, who had turned around, and reminded him.

"Ah? Okay..."

Although he didn't understand why, Conan turned around and sat up straight.

Just as he was wondering, Ai Haibara glanced at Yuu Aragaki, who was sitting in his seat and had already consciously put his gaze on the window, and explained quietly, "That's how girls are, because the way they exhale while pinching their noses is really not pretty."

……

Above, the sky was a deep blue, and the clouds seemed almost within reach.

Conan, seated at his desk, focused intently on each passenger who got up and passed by Ms. Maki.

He believed that Kaito Kid must also be on this plane.

(Kaito Kid, who was on a date with Aoko, suddenly sneezed and rubbed his nose innocently.)

Everyone here deserves to be suspected, especially Aunt Eri, who was the last to board the plane.

Thinking of this, he was about to remind Aragaki Yu to pay attention to the situation in the cabin, but he found that Aragaki Yu had already fallen asleep with his head tilted to the side in his seat.

"Damn it, how can this guy be so relaxed like Uncle Mori!"

Conan watched as Aragaki Yu narrowed his eyes, feeling quite emotional.

Even though he was the one who reminded everyone that Kaito Kid could also sneak onto the plane, he was so preoccupied with Kaito Kid that he couldn't concentrate on the celebration party and ended up falling fast asleep.

Ugh, that wretched Aragaki… (crossed out)

That despicable Phantom Thief Kid! I, Conan, will remember this grudge!

Especially when Conan noticed that Aunt Eri Kisaki might have felt uncomfortable with Yuu Aragaki's sleeping posture with his head tilted against the window, she deliberately shifted her shoulder to let Yuu lean down slowly, which made Conan even more suspicious of Aunt Eri Kisaki's identity.

Although Aunt Eri Kisaki and Uncle Kogoro Mouri are currently separated, Conan knows that their relationship is not bad.

Even though they bicker and argue every time they meet, how could Aunt Eri Kisaki do that in front of Uncle Mori...

As Conan turned to look at Kogoro Mouri while thinking this, he instantly overturned all his previous doubts.

That's right...

From Eri Kisaki's perspective, one could see Kogoro Mouri solicitously fawning over Ms. Maki.

“(ノ'д｀) Sigh, there’s no hope for him…”

……

As for Aragaki Yu, he naturally had no worries about Kaito Kid.

After all, on this journey, isn't Kaito Kid just like himself?

Why would anyone bother to go to such lengths to catch you?

Instead of thinking about these things, it would be better to take a good rest before taking action. Just thinking about how Kuroba Kaito had pushed the work onto him and then ran off to have fun made Aragaki Yuu lose his motivation.

I wonder if I'll get any achievements or blue ticket rewards for being a thief for the first time.

However, it's unlikely that such a good thing will happen. After all, when I did something similar before, such as impersonating Shinichi Kudo, all I managed to get was some material.

At the same time, Kaito Kuroba, who was on a date, suddenly felt an itch in his nose and turned his head away to sneeze again.

Aoko Nakamori, who had been happy that Kaito Kuroba had accepted her invitation, immediately stopped picking out keychains, her almond-shaped eyes filled with worry. "Kaito, are you alright? Did you catch a cold?"

At the same time, she reached out and touched Kaito's forehead, the jasmine scent from her hair wafting to Kaito's nose with the movement.

"I'm fine!"

Kaito Kuroba laughed and leaned back to avoid the fall, but accidentally knocked over a lucky cat figurine on the stall. The porcelain cat spun around on the counter twice before Kaito Kuroba caught it with quick reflexes.

"I probably didn't sleep well last night because I spent too much time thinking about the magic show I'll be performing at the next school event, so I'm feeling a bit unwell!"

Upon hearing this, Nakamori Aoko couldn't help but scoff, her face flushing slightly. She had initially thought that Kuroba Kaito was acting this way because he was too excited about going on a date with her.

As for Kaito Kuroba, he looked up at the sky with a hint of unease, wondering how Yuu Aragaki was doing.

Will we encounter any trouble?

……

Just as Kaito Kuroba had feared, a small accident did indeed occur on Yuu Aragaki's side.

In the cabin on the second floor of the plane, someone suddenly clutched their neck in pain and collapsed in the aisle. After struggling and howling a few times, they stopped breathing completely.

And this person is none other than the owner of the gem that Aragaki Yu is trying to steal—

Ms. Maki Shuri.

Upon hearing the commotion, Kogoro Mouri was the first to rush to Ms. Maki's side and reach out to check on her condition.

However, a few seconds later, he regretfully raised his head and shook his head at everyone.

"What? No way!"

The crowd, who had surrounded him but were blocked by Aragaki Yu and Kisaki Eri and unable to get any closer, all wore expressions of disbelief when they saw Kogoro Mouri's actions.

As for Conan, he leaned closer to Maki's head and sniffed it before looking at Kogoro Mouri and reminding him, "Uncle, it smells like almonds."

"Hmm." Kogoro Mouri nodded, stood up, and analyzed, "This should be cyanide poisoning."

The assistant director standing nearby was the first to exclaim, "The chocolate must have been poisoned!"

"chocolate?"

Upon hearing this, Kogoro Mouri was stunned for a moment, then his expression immediately turned tense and frightened. "Ah!?"

Clearly, he suddenly remembered that he had just eaten the same chocolate as Ms. Maki.

Fortunately, before Kogoro Mouri could instinctively rush to the toilet to induce vomiting, Yu Aragaki spoke up to remind him, "Don't worry, because I just ate the same chocolate. If it were poisonous, we should both be showing symptoms by now."

Hearing this, Kogoro Mouri, who had come to his senses, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chapter 754 Poisoning on the Flight

"The captain asked me to tell you that in order not to alarm the other passengers, we hope to keep this matter a secret for the time being."

Ten minutes later, a flight attendant with long hair tied in a neat bun and a tall, graceful figure walked out of the cockpit. After closing the cockpit door behind her, she carefully approached Kogoro Mouri and relayed the captain's message.

Because the cockpit and first-class cabins are both on the second floor of the plane, the incident that occurred here has not yet alerted the ordinary passengers in economy class.

"I understand this."

Kogoro Mouri nodded, naturally understanding the necessity of doing so.

After taking photos of the scene for future reference, Kogoro Mouri and Yu Aragaki moved Ms. Maki's body to a seat.

To prevent anyone from uncovering the crime scene, everyone who had been surrounding the body gathered in the back seats, some distance away from the corpse, under the supervision of Eri and Conan.

"However, how exactly did the murderer poison her?"

After confirming that everyone was seated, Eri Kisaki, who had returned to Kogoro Mouri and Yuu Aragaki's side, looked at the corpse of Ms. Maki Juri on the seat, rested her chin on her hand, and frowned.

"In my opinion, it must be chocolate!" Perhaps in order to quickly distance herself from this matter, the assistant director remained adamant about linking everything to chocolate, "because she collapsed in pain right after eating chocolate."

However, he wasn't wrong to say that.

After all, Maki Juri did develop symptoms of poisoning after eating chocolate.

Given the toxicity and onset time of cyanide, this is indeed related to Ms. Maki's recent consumption of chocolate.

Therefore, after turning his head and making eye contact with Eri Kisaki, Kogoro Mouri confirmed this statement, saying, "I think so too."

"What!?"

However, this caused Masayo Yaguchi, the assistant who had just handed the whole box of chocolates to Ms. Maki, to panic. "This has nothing to do with me. I bought this box of chocolates at my usual store in Ginza this afternoon, and I just opened it!"

To prove her innocence, she hurriedly turned to Sakai Natsuki beside her and asked, "Natsuki, right?"

However, Sakai Natsuki's expression showed some hesitation. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't see it just now."

At this moment, Eri Kisaki also raised her doubts, "But you and Aragaki ate chocolate just now and nothing happened to you, which means that only a part of the chocolate was poisoned. How did the murderer manage to get Ms. Maki Juri to choose the poisoned chocolate?"

However, Kogoro Mouri seemed unconcerned, saying, "It's not surprising that Ms. Masayo Yaguchi, as her manager, would know which chocolates Ms. Maki Juri usually takes!"

Seeing that Kogoro Mouri seemed genuinely suspicious of her, Masayo Yaguchi grew increasingly anxious. "I really didn't kill her. Besides, the order in which she chose the chocolates was always different!"

“That’s right.” This time, before Kogoro Mouri could object, Yuu Aragaki affirmed Masayo Yaguchi’s statement, “I noticed that Ms. Maki Juri did hesitate when choosing the chocolate, and I don’t think the murderer would place the stakes on something so easy to make a mistake.”

What Aragaki Yu is certain of is that when he took the chocolates out of the box, none of the remaining chocolates had any problems.

Furthermore, when she and Kogoro Mouri took the chocolates out of the box, Masayo Yaguchi's expression did not show any unusual reaction.

Hearing what Aragaki Yu said, Mouri Kogoro had no choice but to give up on asking this question further.

However, just to be on the safe side, he kept the box of chocolates that Masayo Yaguchi was carrying as evidence, waiting to hand it over to the police for further analysis after landing.

"The rest will probably have to be handed over to the police after landing."

……