Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

Soon, the flashlight beam shone on them, and then a little girl wearing a headband appeared in front of them.

"Ayumi?" Ai Haibara exclaimed instinctively.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Unable to find the two people in the niche in the passageway, Ayumi Yoshida was so frightened that she fell to the ground and burst into tears.

Wen Shui and Ai Haibara exchanged a glance, then went out of the alcove and helped Ayumi up.

It took Ai Haibara a lot of effort to calm Ayumi down. Ayumi looked at the two of them, sobbing, and said, "You, what are you doing here?"

Ai Haibara said with a stern face, "Isn't this all because you guys ran around? Didn't I tell you to wait for me in the hallway?"

Ayumi initially looked guilty, but when Ai Haibara mentioned the corridor, she immediately perked up: "Genta said he saw a sneaky figure, so we chased after it."

"A sneaky figure?"

Ayumi: "Yeah, it was a person carrying a wooden stick. He was wearing black clothes. He ran around a few times and then into the secret passage, so we followed him."

Warm Water: "And then? You caught him?"

"Then, then we saw a skeleton, and then, Genta and the others disappeared one by one..." Ayumi was about to cry, and Ai Haibara quickly grabbed her hand to comfort her.

After a long pause, Ayumi finally managed to explain herself.

After they chased the body into the castle's secret passage, they soon found a corpse that had decomposed into a skeleton.

They were all stunned and immediately wanted to tell Ai Haibara and Nukumizu the news.

However, communication devices are unusable in the secret passage, and since the entrances and exits are all one-way, finding the exit is purely a matter of luck.

They were searching for a way out.

First it was Genta, then Mitsuhiko; they all suddenly disappeared from Ayumi's side.

Ayumi was terrified and ran all the way here, but she was too exhausted to run anymore and was starting to despair.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Wenshui and Ai Haibara here.

After listening, Wen Shui's eyes lit up: "Can you still lead us to that skeleton you mentioned?"

Ayumi hesitated for a moment, then nodded gently: "It should be fine, I remember that direction."

Led by Ayumi, the group then headed toward the corpse. Wen Shui felt that Nishikawa Mutsumi's goal was definitely to tie everyone up and starve them to death in the castle, just like the First Madam's corpse.

Now that Ayumi is too scared to break free from her control, the other party may choose to move the body to avoid the truth of the first wife's death being discovered.

On the way to the body, Wen Shui vaguely heard the voices of two little girls behind her.

Ayumi: "Ai, why are your hands so hot?"

Ai Haibara: "Maybe it's just too stuffy here."

"Oh, why did you and Wen Shui hug each other and hide in the wall just now?" Ayumi asked, holding Ai Haibara's little hand with a curious expression.

“That space between the walls is called a ‘niche,’” Ai Haibara couldn’t help but correct. “And we weren’t hugging each other; we just hid because we thought you were a bad guy.”

Ayumi: "Oh, I see. But your face was really red back then, kind of like Mitsuhiko's face after being confessed to by a girl from the next class."

Ai Haibara: "..."

"Ahem, you guys went too far this time, actually chasing after criminals on your own. What if something had happened?" Ai Haibara forcefully changed the subject. "When you get back, each of you will write a 100-word self-criticism."

Upon hearing the letter of apology, Ayumi immediately suppressed her gossipy nature and grabbed Ai Haibara's arm affectionately:

"I'm sorry, Ai, we won't do it again next time."

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After walking along the passage for about ten minutes, Wen Shui indeed saw the First Madam's skeletal corpse.

It seems that Mutsumi Nishikawa did not move it.

It's also possible that they got caught up in other things.

Wen Shui squatted down and examined the body carefully. She speculated, "No, this body must have been moved here by someone. I guess it might be Conan."

"Conan?" Ayumi's eyes lit up. "So, Conan-kun wasn't kidnapped by the bad guys?"

"Not necessarily. Maybe they were discovered when the body was being moved," Ai Haibara added.

Ayumi looked at the two of them with teary eyes.

Wenshui asked Ai Haibara and Ayumi to help with the lighting with flashlights, and then took a picture of the first wife's body with his phone: "Although we don't know whose body this is, it is a dead person after all. We should try to get out of here now, and then tell Mitsuru Mamiya that there is a body here, and ask him to take the maids and gardeners to search for it."

They are, after all, people from the castle; they must know the secret passages better than we do.

Ai Haibara and Ayumi nodded obediently.

However, a problem arises: the secret passage has a complex and intricate mechanism, making it difficult to find the exit.

Whether it was good luck or bad luck, while they were searching for the mechanism separately, either Ayumi or Ai Haibara accidentally triggered it.

The warm water has been delivered.

When the two women heard Wen Shui's exclamation and ran over, the person had already disappeared.

The two were unaware that they had triggered the mechanism. They spent a long time tapping and fiddling around the area where the warm water had disappeared, but still couldn't find the exit.

"What should we do? Brother Wen Shui went out alone." Ayumi's expression was grim.

Ai Haibara: "It's okay, he can go out on his own. We just need to wait patiently."

"But I don't want to stay here anymore. I'm so afraid that the skeleton will stand up." Ayumi grabbed Ai Haibara's hand anxiously.

Haibara sighed, "Alright, let's keep looking for an exit then."

The two continued searching for an exit along the passageway.

Before she had walked more than a few steps, Ai Haibara found Professor Agasa's glasses on the ground. The lenses were broken and stained with congealed blood.

Ayumi's voice trembled: "It's the Doctor's, the Doctor wouldn't..."

Ai Haibara shook her head: "It's not certain yet. Just a pair of glasses doesn't prove anything. We need to tell Nuku this as soon as possible."

Ayumi: "But..."

"It's alright, little sister, don't worry so much." A gloomy and cold voice came from behind.

Ayumi and Ai Haibara turned around and saw that the First Lady, who was not in a wheelchair, was walking towards them. Her legs and feet seemed a little unsteady, but she was approaching them quite quickly.

"Grandma, why are you here all alone?" Ayumi walked towards Mutsumi Nishikawa.

"Ayumi, run!"

Ai Haibara grabbed Ayumi and ran forward.

Ayumi still didn't understand what was happening, but instinctively she chose to believe Ai Haibara and couldn't help but ask, "Ai, why are we running away? That old lady..."

Ai Haibara spoke rapidly: "Didn't you notice? She wasn't in a wheelchair, and she was holding a weapon. Judging from the clues on the body we just found, this person might be the murderer who killed the first wife and then impersonated her."

"Pretend?"

Sure enough, the words had barely left his mouth when...

Nishikawa Mutsumi then quickly chased after the two of them, carrying an iron bar.

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As Mutsumi Nishikawa watched the two kids approaching, her anxiety finally eased considerably.

I originally thought that the body would be exposed because of these guys.

She was even prepared to repeat the same method as the fire four years ago, intending to burn all those who knew about it to death.

She had just left briefly to prepare for the fire scene, but she never expected to run into these two brats.

Since that's the case, we can just tie them up here and let them starve to death in this secret passage, just like the first wife before.

Just as I was thinking this, the two little devils in front of me suddenly stopped.

Nishikawa Mutsumi initially thought the two girls had given up, but she never expected that the two brats would discover the secret passage leading to the castle hall.

Because of her long-term use of a wheelchair, Mutsumi Nishikawa's leg muscles have degenerated, making it difficult for her to run and thus limiting her speed.

In the end, the two little devils still ran into the castle hall, but she followed closely behind.

Since that's the case, the only way to cover up the truth is by setting a fire, but it's unknown how many people will die this time.

Upon arriving in the hall, Mutsumi Nishikawa, carrying an iron bar, gradually approached Ai Haibara and Ayumi.

at this time

Sonoko Suzuki, who had an upset stomach because she ate a lot of frozen crab and shrimp from the freezer for dinner, went unnoticed by everyone. She happened to be passing by in her slippers and pajamas.

"Hey, what are you two little devils doing at night instead of sleeping? Playing hide-and-seek?"

Ai Haibara shouted, "Sonoko-neechan, this person is the murderer who killed the First Madam! Go find Nuku-sui-nii!"

"The murderer who killed the first wife?" Sonoko Suzuki was clearly still in a half-asleep state.

However, Mutsumi Nishikawa clearly had no intention of holding back and planned to go on a killing spree, swinging her iron bar at Ai Haibara's head.

Sonoko Suzuki suddenly woke up, then rushed over and hugged Ai Haibara, using her back to block Mutsumi Nishikawa's iron rod.

But after she hugged Ai Haibara, she waited for a long time but the iron rod never came down.

Instead, they heard Mutsumi Nishikawa scream and the sound of an iron rod falling to the ground.

Sonoko Suzuki released Ai Haibara, turned around, and saw that Awami was standing panting on the stairs on the second floor of the castle, holding a large vase in her hand.

"Finally arrived." Wen Shui breathed a sigh of relief, then threw the vase in her hand from a height, hitting Nishikawa Mutsumi.

A scream echoed throughout the entire castle.

He rushed down the stairs with warm water and hugged Sonoko Suzuki and Ai Haibara, who were "mother and daughter," into his arms.

Chapter 145: Helping Sonoko apply medicated oil, but Ai bursts through the door.

In the castle hall, Mutsumi Nishikawa collapsed beside the stairs, struggling in pain, but she looked like she would soon regain her fighting strength.

Wen Shui glanced at it briefly.

He then focused all his attention on the two Sherrys, gently stroking Sonoko Suzuki and Ai Haibara's hair to comfort them.

If they were alone together, Ai Haibara and Sonoko Suzuki might not have put up much resistance.