Detective Conan: Birth of the Demon Child

Hearing Genta and the others complain, Conan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Actually, if you take a closer look at the pine trees around you, you can easily find clues about the matsutake mushrooms."

Matsutake mushrooms typically like to attach themselves to the roots of pine trees to absorb nutrients, so pine trees that are attached to matsutake mushrooms often look somewhat listless.

For example, some of the pine needles on that pine tree over there have turned yellowish-green; it's highly likely that matsutake mushrooms are growing at its base.

After Conan finished speaking, he led Suzuki Seimei and the others toward the pine tree with yellowish needles.

"It really is a matsutake mushroom!"

"This matsutake mushroom is so beautiful!"

"Conan, you're amazing!"

Looking at the thriving matsutake mushroom under the pine tree, Ayumi reached out her merciless iron hand, picked it, and happily put it in her basket.

"Great! We've finally found the first matsutake mushroom!"

"Look, the needles on that pine tree are turning yellow too, there must be matsutake mushrooms there."

"Then I must pick the biggest and best matsutake mushroom!"

Following Conan's method, Suzuki Seimei and his friends quickly found other matsutake mushrooms.

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Kurosaki Tamaka, who was following closely behind the group, couldn't help but smile happily when she saw Suzuki Seimei's enthusiastic expression.

For Suzuki Seimei, matsutake mushrooms weren't exactly a high-end ingredient.

However, the process of searching for matsutake mushrooms is itself a very interesting thing, and finding matsutake mushrooms is also a very fulfilling thing.

Just like those who enjoy fishing, most anglers don't go fishing to eat fish; they go fishing more to enjoy the process.

"Swish..."

Just as Ai Haibara was focused on finding matsutake mushrooms, a faint sound came from the bushes not far away, followed by a dark figure running out from them.

"……Bear!"

After seeing the shadowy figure clearly, Ai Haibara was slightly taken aback.

What appeared before her was a small black bear, less than half a meter tall and looking very young, with a crescent-shaped white fur pattern on its chest.

"Whoa, whoa..."

The little black bear stared at Ai Haibara for a while, then raised its nose and sniffed her, making a strange noise.

Upon seeing the little black bear, Mitsuhiko asked nervously, "How come there's a bear here? Didn't that uncle just say there definitely wouldn't be any bears around here?"

"I think this little guy must have crawled in from over there, right?"

Conan looked around and pointed to the barbed wire fence with a small hole in it not far away.

"Little one, are you lost?"

Looking at the somewhat silly and cute little black bear, Ai Haibara couldn't help but reach out her little hand and pat its fluffy head.

"I think it must be hungry!"

Seeing that the little black bear kept rubbing against Ai Haibara's pants, Suzuki Seimei took out a milk bottle full of milk from his pocket and handed it to the bear.

Because Ai Haibara has been frequently dragging Seimei Suzuki along to the kennel to feed the German Shepherd puppies lately, Seimei Suzuki also put some milk into his storage ring.

"Cuckoo..."

Upon smelling the aroma of milk, the little black bear instinctively grabbed the bottle and began to suckle vigorously.

While the little black bear was focused on drinking its milk, Ayumi and the others boldly reached out their little hands and stroked its furry chest and back a few times.

"It's so cute!"

"Yeah! It looks kind of silly and cute, not scary at all."

Ai Haibara patted the little black bear's head and suddenly couldn't help but suggest, "Seimei, why don't we take it home and raise it?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Suzuki Seimei stroked his chin and pondered for a moment. He glanced at the adorable little black bear in front of him and finally nodded, saying, "If you really want to keep this little guy, then we'll take him back with us."

"Really... is it really possible?"

Hearing that Suzuki Haruaki had actually agreed to her request, Ai Haibara showed a somewhat incredulous expression.

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Chapter 270 Bear Summons the Doll (First Update, Please Vote)

"Of course it's true. When have I ever lied to you?"

Haruaki Suzuki said with a smile, "Anyway, this little guy is still small, so there's no need to worry about him hurting anyone."

If we can successfully tame it, then we can keep it as a pet from now on.

If I can't tame it, I'll just buy a zoo later and send it there.

o(≧▽≦)o

Hearing Suzuki Seimei say that, Haibara Ai nodded happily, patted the little black bear's head and said, "Little guy, you'll be with me from now on!"

Seeing this, Kurosaki Tamaka and Inoue Ryuichi did not intend to stop it.

For a scion of a wealthy family like Suzuki Seimei, it's quite normal to want to keep lions and tigers, so his desire to keep a little black bear isn't a big deal.

"I'm saying, isn't it a bit inappropriate for the two of you to make this decision on your own?"

Conan couldn't help but complain, "This little black bear is obviously not weaned yet. If you just take it away like this, its mother will definitely be very worried."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Ai Haibara hesitated.

Although Ai Haibara really loves this little black bear, forcibly separating it from its mother seems a bit too cruel.

"No! Conan, you're wrong!"

Suzuki Seimei suddenly spoke up in rebuttal, shaking his head and saying, "If it were in those remote, untouched mountains and forests, I might agree with you and not let this little guy leave its mother."

But where we are now, the hunting area is right across the barbed wire fence.

If this little guy were to return to the hunting area, it might accidentally run into a hunter and become his prey.

Moreover, under normal circumstances, young bear cubs will stay close to their mothers.

This little guy has wandered over here alone, and there's no sign of its mother. Its mother might have already been shot by hunters.

"No...no way!"

Upon hearing Suzuki Harumi's words, Ayumi and the others immediately showed expressions of pity, their eyes filled with sympathy and compassion as they looked at the little black bear.

Upon learning that the little black bear might become an orphan, Ai Haibara felt a sense of sympathy for it and completely dispelled her hesitation, deciding to take it with her.

Just as Suzuki Haruaki said, sending the little black bear back to the hunting area would actually put its life in danger.

"Alright, let's quickly pick some more matsutake mushrooms and then leave this place!"

Because there was a limit to the number of matsutake mushrooms each person could pick, Suzuki Seimei and his companions quickly gathered enough matsutake mushrooms and left the forest with the little black bear.

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Watching Suzuki Harumi and the others depart, a dark figure hidden behind a large tree in the hunting area couldn't help but curse under his breath: "Damn it!"

The little black bear that Suzuki Seimei and his group took away was a cub born to a black bear named Jubei.

Jubei was much larger than an ordinary black bear and was a well-known ferocious beast in the nearby mountains and forests.

Therefore, many hunters who come to the hunting area do so because they hope to hunt ferocious beasts like Jubei.

This hunter, hiding in the shadows, was quite lucky; he discovered Jubei's trail shortly after entering the hunting area.

However, Jubei was too large, and even if the hunter had a hunting rifle, he was not confident that he could kill him.

In order to successfully hunt down the beast Jubei, the hunters set their sights on the two cubs that accompanied it.

With the hunter's careful planning, he successfully lured a black bear cub to a place far away from Jubei.

If the hunter can capture the black bear cub alive, he can use the cub as bait to calmly set up various traps and easily hunt down Jubei.

However, the hunter did not expect that a small hole would be torn in the barbed wire, allowing the little black bear to escape into a non-hunting area.

If it weren't for the fact that Suzuki Seimei was wealthy enough to keep a black bear as a pet, he would definitely have followed Conan's suggestion and sent the little black bear back to the hunting area, in which case the little black bear would have been in grave danger.

The hunter, hiding in the shadows, watched helplessly as Suzuki Seimei and his group took the little black bear away. He was very unwilling, but there was nothing he could do.

After all, the black bear cub had already wandered into a non-hunting area, and shooting and killing animals in a non-hunting area is a criminal act.

Of course!

What the hunter didn't know was that Suzuki Seimei and his companions' act of taking the little black bear away inadvertently saved his life.

If the original plot had unfolded as it should, the hunter would have successfully captured the little black bear and severely injured it, causing it to scream in pain to lure Jubei into a deadly trap.

Just as the hunter was about to successfully kill Jubei, he was shot and killed by another hunter who wanted to protect Jubei, and ultimately perished in the forest.

Meanwhile, Suzuki Seimei and his group brought the little black bear back to the inn, which inevitably caused a commotion when the other guests saw it.

Fortunately, Suzuki Seimei had already come up with an excuse, which Inoue Ryuichi and his team announced to the public that they would send the little black bear to a zoo under the Suzuki Group, thus dissuading the guests from calling the police.

Perhaps because the black bear cub was so adorable, most of the guests, after their initial surprise, actually grew to love the silly and cute little black bear.

Some of the bolder guests even went up to Suzuki Seimei and his companions and touched the little black bear a few times.

What surprised Suzuki Seimei the most was that among the guests who came to pet the bear, there was one guest whose head had the words "Check-in Available" floating above his head.

The guest was an elderly man with gray hair named Zaga Matsusaburo, who was sixty-seven years old and a well-known old hunter in the area.

While Zaga Matsusaburo was engrossed in petting the bear, Suzuki Seimei secretly touched his back.

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully signing in, Zaga Yuzaburo. You are rewarded with one [Bear Summoning Doll], which you can claim at any time."

Equipment Name: Bear Summoning Doll

Type: Jewelry

Quality: Rare