Detective Conan: Birth of the Demon Child

o(∩_∩)o Haha~

Professor Agasa grinned smugly, pulled a metal card from his pocket, and casually handed it to Conan. "Actually, this is the money I earned."

"This is..."

Conan instinctively took the metal card, and looking at the somewhat familiar giant image on the front, he exclaimed in surprise, "Ultraman Tiga!"

"Ultraman Tiga Voice Changer Card!"

A somewhat rough voice suddenly rang out behind Conan, startling him.

"This is the latest Tiga voice changer card on the market. As long as you record what you say, you can simulate the voice of any member of the GUTS team," the three little ones explained with smiles after their prank succeeded.

"Because Ultraman Tiga has become incredibly popular recently, almost comparable to Kamen Rider, and has become one of the most popular tokusatsu shows right now, many toy companies have received orders for Ultraman Tiga toys."

Dr. Agasa said with considerable pride, "I happen to know a few friends who own toy companies, so I made this Ultraman Tiga voice changer for them and received a generous reward in return."

Upon hearing this, Conan touched his voice-changing bow tie and thought to himself, "Isn't that just a low-end version of a voice changer?"

"New... Conan, you always say my inventions are just junk, but my newly developed Ultraman Tiga voice changer card is already all over the country! Hahaha..."

Seeing Professor Agasa's smug expression, Conan shook his head with amusement.

More than an hour later, the Beetle and the van stopped in front of a two-story villa.

Unfortunately, this luxurious villa has been abandoned for a long time and is now covered with vines, making it look somewhat dilapidated.

Wow, what a big house!

"Is this Professor Agasa's private villa?"

Professor Agasa smiled and nodded, saying, "That's right! My uncle's name was Agasa Kurisuke, and he was a very wealthy man in the area when he was alive!"

"But is there really treasure inside?"

Looking at the villa that had been abandoned for some time, Ayumi and the other two couldn't help but show some doubt.

"Of course there's treasure! It's said that my uncle hid a huge treasure in this villa fifty years ago, and then passed away not long after."

Professor Agasa said in a tone as if coaxing a child, "To be honest, the reason I invited you here is to use the power of your Junior Detective League to find the treasure that has been buried here for many years."

"So there really is treasure here!"

"Great! If these treasures weren't prepared in advance by the Doctor, then the search will be even more exciting."

“Genta, Mitsuhiko, didn’t I just tell you in the car that the professor wouldn’t do something like lying to a child?”

Ayumi turned to Professor Agasa halfway through her sentence and said, "Professor, am I right?"

"Of course..."

Looking into Ayumi's innocent eyes, Professor Agasa suddenly felt a pang of conscience and gave an awkward smile.

Seeing Professor Agasa's embarrassed expression, Ai Haibara couldn't help but remark, "He looks like he's guilty, doesn't he?"

"It's alright~ Doctor meant well, just think of it as a way to relax."

Suzuki Seimei and Haibara Ai are not ordinary children, so of course they wouldn't believe Professor Agasa's lies meant for children.

However, seeing the three little ones' expectant looks, Suzuki Seimei and the others didn't intend to expose the matter; they simply treated it as accompanying them on a trip.

"Alright! Let's hurry and go find the treasure!"

Genta and his friends cheered and rushed into the dusty villa to begin their treasure hunt.

Compared to the energetic trio who were rummaging through drawers and cabinets everywhere, Suzuki Seimei and Haibara Ai seemed remarkably calm, leisurely strolling around the villa, searching for clues left by Professor Agasa.

It's quite obvious that the so-called 'treasure' was something that Professor Agasa had prepared in advance.

In that case, Professor Agasa must have left some conspicuous clues in the villa; otherwise, relying solely on luck to find them wouldn't be very meaningful.

Conan, who already knew the true nature of the treasure, completely lost interest in the treasure hunt. Instead, he became somewhat interested in the other things in the villa.

Conan pointed to the oil painting hanging on the wall and said, "Doctor, the man in that painting must be your uncle, right?"

The man in the suit in the oil painting has a very noticeable big nose and looks a lot like Professor Agasa, so it's easy to guess their relationship.

“That’s right, that’s what my uncle looked like when he was young.”

"Who is that woman in the painting? Is she his wife?"

Professor Agasa shook his head and said, "You're mistaken. That's my uncle's sister. Her name is Agasa Teiko."

Looking at the old oil painting, Dr. Agasa said with some emotion, "Back then, my uncle was in poor health because of illness, and Aunt Teiko came specifically to take care of him."

Ever since my uncle fell ill, he has hated seeing outsiders, so Aunt Dingzi was in charge of taking care of him during that time.

I heard that Aunt Dingzi was teaching at a nearby primary school. After my uncle passed away due to illness, Aunt Dingzi moved back to her hometown.

For the next fifty years, no one lived in that villa.

"But speaking of which, your uncle left behind quite a lot of things!"

Conan glanced at the cabinets that Ayumi and the others had opened and said with some surprise, "I didn't expect him to leave behind so many books and tableware."

"That's because my uncle left a will before he passed away, hoping that this villa would remain as it is for fifty years after his death."

Professor Agasa stroked his beard, looked at the three little ones rummaging through the villa, and said in a somewhat indulgent tone, "Now that the fifty-year period has come to an end, this villa will be demolished next month, so I wanted to have them play a treasure hunt here before it's torn down."

"Doctor, since you like children so much, I suggest you find a wife soon!" Conan joked with a smile.

"You're always joking with me."

After Professor Agasa finished speaking, he vigorously ruffled Conan's hair.

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Chapter 226 Two Tons of Acid-Free Paper (Third Update, Please Vote)

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Just as Suzuki Seimei and the others were playing a treasure hunt game inside the villa, Inoue Ryuichi, who was waiting outside, suddenly noticed a flash of light out of the corner of his eye and turned his head sharply to look at the woods not far away.

"Mr. Long Yi, what happened?"

Kurosaki Tamaka noticed Inoue Ryuichi's unusual behavior, put down the plush toy she was one-third finished with, and asked curiously.

Inoue Ryuichi frowned slightly and said, "It seems like someone is hiding in that grove of trees."

If Ryuichi Inoue is not mistaken, the light he just saw was the light reflected from the telescope.

In other words, someone is hiding in the nearby woods, secretly observing the situation with binoculars.

Kurosaki Tamaka said, "Is someone hiding in that grove? Could it just be a resident passing by?"

“That’s possible, but just to be on the safe side, I’d better go and check.” With that, Inoue Ryuichi opened the car door and walked towards the woods not far away.

Meanwhile, guided by Seimei Suzuki and Ai Haibara, Ayumi and the others also found the clues left by Professor Agasa.

However, when Ayumi and her friends followed these clues and excitedly found the box that Professor Agasa had hidden under the bed, they discovered that all the toys inside had been violently destroyed.

The plush teddy bear on top even had a dagger stuck in it, which startled Ayumi and the others.

Why would anyone hide these broken toys as if they were treasures?

"I think the person who hid the treasure was playing a prank, deliberately leaving these broken toys to scare us!"

"wrong!"

Looking at the tattered toys, Conan's expression changed slightly, and he shook his head, saying, "You're wrong. The professor would never do that."

"PhD?"

"Could it be that the doctor put all these toys here?"

Upon hearing Conan's words, Ayumi and the others instinctively glanced at Professor Agasa, whose face was filled with embarrassment.

Conan said with a serious expression, "The professor specially prepared these toys so that we could play a treasure hunt game here, so he would never destroy them."

"Since these toys were prepared by the Doctor, it means that other people must have been here between the time the Doctor left and the time we arrived here," Suzuki Seimei muttered to himself, stroking his chin.

Hearing this, Ai Haibara asked with some doubt, "But why would this person destroy these toys? What benefit would it bring him to destroy them?"

"I think it was probably to vent his anger!"

Conan pushed up his glasses with his finger and analyzed logically, "I think this person probably wants to come into this villa to look for something hidden here."

After discovering the clues left by the doctor, he followed the directions to find the treasure hidden under the bedroom bed.

But when he discovered that the box contained a pile of toys, not what he was looking for, he probably became enraged and destroyed them all!

Professor Agasa couldn't help but ask, "So what exactly is this person who destroyed the toy looking for?"

After all, Professor Agasa meant well by bringing the children here to play a treasure hunt game, but it turned out like this.

Damn that husky!

"I don't yet know what that person is looking for, but I'm certain there's something hidden inside this villa—maybe some priceless treasure!"

"There really is a treasure!"

Upon hearing Conan's words, the three kids' reckless spirits were reignited, and they began rummaging through drawers and cabinets in search of treasure.

"boom!!!"

With a thud as something heavy hit the ground, a middle-aged man, bound hand and foot, rolled out of the door and into front of the crowd.

Before everyone could figure out what was going on, Ryuichi Inoue followed closely behind and walked in from outside the door.

"Uncle Longyi, what happened?"

Upon seeing this, Suzuki Haruaki was slightly taken aback and asked with some confusion, "Who is this person?"

“Young Master, this man was acting suspiciously, loitering in the woods near the villa, so I arrested him and interrogated him.”

Inoue Ryuichi glanced at the middle-aged man who had already fainted and replied without changing his expression: "This man is named Okuda Ryūmei, and he is a counterfeiter."

He came to the vicinity of this villa because the artist from their counterfeit money organization had created a tamper-evident plate for a twenty-dollar bill, which was hidden inside this villa.

"Counterfeit money dealers?"

Seeing Okuda Ryomei's bruised and swollen face, so badly beaten that even his own mother wouldn't recognize him, Suzuki Haruaki could imagine the kind of interrogation he had just endured, and with a touch of sympathy, he kicked his arm.

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully checking in with Okuda Ryūmei. Reward: two tons of acid-free paper."