Detective Conan: Birth of the Demon Child

Faced with the children's speechless looks, Tsuburaya Asami pointed to the staircase leading to the second floor: "How about I take you to see Mitsuhiko's room? He usually leaves a note when he goes out alone."

"Then I'll have to bother you!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity to go up to the second floor, Suzuki Seimei secretly nudged Tsuburaya Asami's thigh with his elbow.

"Ding! Congratulations on successfully signing in to Tsuburaya Asami. You are rewarded with 2 points of mental energy, which you can claim at any time."

Hearing the system notification in his ear, Suzuki Seimei smiled calmly and followed Conan and the others into Mitsuhiko's bedroom.

"what?"

Asami Tsuburaya expertly rummaged through the drawer, then couldn't help but ask in confusion, "That's strange. Why didn't Mitsuhiko leave a note this time? And he even took his wallet."

Conan stroked his chin and said, "He brought food and a wallet. Does that mean he's going somewhere far away?"

Upon hearing this, Ai Haibara glanced at Conan and said, "You mean he might have run away from home?"

"Run away from home?!"

Genta and Ayumi couldn't help but show worried expressions when they heard this.

"really?"

Asami Tsuburaya exclaimed excitedly, "It's often shown in TV dramas too!"

???

Seeing Tsuburaya Asami's excited expression, Suzuki Seimei blinked in bewilderment.

Hey lady, what's got you so excited about?

It's confirmed she's his older sister!

“Even if he didn’t run away from home, I think he must have planned it all along.”

After Conan finished speaking, he opened Mitsuhiko's gymnastics attendance card and pointed to the attendance pattern on it, saying, "Look, this is the attendance card for the National Fitness Exercises. He is almost always absent on Sundays."

"that is true!"

"Does Mitsuhiko have some activities planned for Sunday?"

Do you think he might be dating someone?

"Probably not~"

Hearing the five kids' discussion, Asami Tsuburaya suddenly pictured a girl with pigtails in her mind and couldn't help but laugh, "Maybe they really are going on a date! I remember Mitsuhiko once told me that every Sunday, a third-grade girl helps out at her family's flower shop, and he said she's really amazing!"

"Really!"

Upon hearing this, Ayumi and Ai Haibara couldn't help but show expressions of wanting to gossip.

"If I'm not mistaken, Mitsuhiko has probably made plans with that girl to go to the beach together."

Asami Tsuburaya couldn't help but laugh halfway through her sentence, "That brat Mitsuhiko, he's got some skills!"

ヽ(ー_ー)ノ

Seeing Tsuburaya Asami's happy and proud expression, Suzuki Seimei shook his head helplessly, but he could understand Tsuburaya Asami's thoughts.

When Suzuki Seimei brought Ai Haibara home, Suzuki Tomoko and Suzuki Ayako had the same expression.

It's roughly like saying, "Our own little wild boar has finally learned how to root up cabbages."

Conan asked curiously, "Asami-neechan, why do you think Mitsuhiko went to the beach?"

Asami Tsuburaya said, "Because he wanted to lend me the sunscreen I bought yesterday, which was a foreign product that I ordered by mail order!"

"Mitsuhiko went on a date at the beach with a third-year girl?"

"You even brought sunscreen?"

"You also have bamboo leaf rice balls?"

Seeing Tsuburaya Asami's confident expression, Ayumi and the others were also successfully swayed, and the image of Mitsuhiko and that third-year girl on a date at the beach unconsciously appeared in their minds.

"Chao Mei! If you don't get ready to leave soon, you'll miss your piano lesson!"

"Okay, Mom, I'll go get ready right away."

Hearing her mother's urging, Tsuburaya Asami quickly responded, then turned to Suzuki Haruaki and the others and said, "If you get any interesting information, remember to call me!"

After all, Mitsuhiko is dating, so as his older sister, I have to keep an eye on things!

After finishing her sentence, Asami Tsuburaya winked at Haruaki Suzuki and the others, then left Mitsuhiko's bedroom with a smile.

Watching Asami Tsuburaya's departing figure, Ai Haibara couldn't help but complain, "She's quite at ease knowing her own little brother has run off somewhere without telling the adults."

Ai Haibara subconsciously thought of Akemi Miyano. If it were Akemi Miyano, she would definitely be very worried right now!

"Actually, I can understand it to some extent."

Seimei Suzuki shrugged helplessly. Asami Tsuburaya gave him a similar feeling to Sonoko Suzuki; both of them were rather oblivious.

Ayumi asked, "Conan, what should we do next?"

"How about we go check out that flower shop that Sister Chaomei mentioned earlier?"

Conan thought for a moment and said, "If that third-year girl isn't here either, then Mitsuhiko must have gone on a date with her. We can go play soccer in the park then."

"Let's do it this way!"

Because there was only one flower shop near Mitsuhiko's house, Suzuki Seimei and the others quickly found it and met the girl with twin tails.

"Oh~ So you're Mitsuhiko's friends!"

Upon learning that Suzuki Harumi and the others were looking for Mitsuhiko, the girl with twin tails shook her head and said, "But Mitsuhiko isn't here today~"

Conan asked, "What about around 6:30 in the morning?"

“Our shop opens at seven o’clock in the morning. At six-thirty, I was at the National Health Exercise class, so I didn’t know.”

"That's true."

"But now that you mention it, something comes to mind."

The girl with pigtails recalled, "Last Sunday, when I was getting ready to go to school to do the national health exercises, I saw him near the bus stop. It seemed like two middle-aged men were cursing at him."

"Mitsuhiko got insulted?"

Upon hearing this, Suzuki Haruaki and the others' expressions changed simultaneously, and they quickly asked, "Did you hear what they were saying?"

"It was something like saying we can't tell him, or that we can't go and get it from him."

The girl with pigtails frowned slightly, thought carefully, and said, "Right! They also seemed to mention the names of ancient military generals. I remember it was Uesugi and Takeda, no, it seems to be Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu."

"Tokugawa Ieyasu?!"

Upon hearing this, Genta and Ayumi's eyes lit up, and they said excitedly, "Could it be that Mitsuhiko discovered the whereabouts of Tokugawa Ieyasu's treasure and went to search for it by himself?"

"Please, these two guys are at it again!"

Seeing Genta and the others suddenly become excited, Conan covered his forehead in pain and put on his pain mask.

Every time Conan takes Genta and the others on a treasure hunt, they encounter all sorts of troubles, which even give Conan a headache.

These kids are such a nuisance!

Chapter 455 You're Surrounded by the Police

The girl with twin tails stared at Genta and the others for a while, then turned to Ai Haibara and asked, "Did Mitsuhiko leave any notes about his whereabouts this time?"

Ai Haibara shook her head and said, "No, we came to you to ask about the situation because we were worried that he would run away from home."

"If that's the case, then the person I saw this morning, could it be Mitsuhiko's younger brother?"

The girl with pigtails said with some concern, "This morning I saw someone near the bus stop who looked a lot like Mitsuhiko, but he was wearing a hat and carrying a backpack, and he had a strange smell. I can't be sure if he was Mitsuhiko."

I called out to him, but he ignored me and got on the bus. I thought I had mistaken him for someone else!

Conan asked, "You said Mitsuhiko has a strange smell about him, what do you mean by that?"

"Actually, it's not that strange! The smell he gave off was like lemon."

"The taste of lemon?"

Upon hearing this, Suzuki Haruaki looked thoughtful and then asked, "Do you remember which bus number Mitsuhiko took?"

"Hmm...it seems to be bus number 3."

"Thank you for the clue. We'll take our leave now."

After learning that Mitsuhiko had taken the No. 3 bus, Suzuki Haruaki and the others rushed to the station without stopping.

Because Mitsuhiko was riding the bus alone and smelled of lemons, the bus driver had a pretty good impression of him.

From the bus driver, Suzuki Haruaki and the others learned that Mitsuhiko took the bus and eventually headed to the train station.

Although the train station has surveillance cameras, the station staff would never allow Suzuki Harumi and his friends to view those videos at will.

Therefore, Suzuki Seimei had no choice but to have Kurosaki Tamaka and Inoue Ryuichi take them to the train station's monitoring room to view the surveillance video related to Mitsuhiko.

The surveillance video from the train station clearly shows that Mitsuhiko purchased a train ticket to Gunma Prefecture.

To ensure Suzuki Seimei's safety, Inoue Ryuichi also abandoned his plan to drive to Gunma Prefecture and accompanied the five children to Gunma Prefecture by train.

After the group arrived at the station in Gunma Prefecture, they quickly located Mitsuhiko by reviewing the station's surveillance footage.

"That's right! The child you're talking about did come here."

When Suzuki Haruaki and his companions arrived at a small station on the outskirts of Gunma Prefecture by train, they finally learned a new clue about Mitsuhiko from the ticket inspector.

"really?"

"That's wonderful!"

"We've finally found him."

Hearing the ticket inspector's words, the five little ones, who had been searching for a long time and were almost starving, couldn't help but show excited smiles.

The ticket inspector nodded affirmatively and said, "Because our station is in a rather remote area..."

Unlike the city center, where they've all switched to automated ticket gates, and since that child was alone, I remember him quite well.