Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

After seeing Mitsuhiko's location, Conan's initial urge to investigate disappeared, because as long as he followed the coordinates on the tracking glasses, he would definitely be able to find Mitsuhiko.

Things unrelated to deduction rarely excite Conan; at most, he'll chase after things out of concern for his friends.

However, once everyone entered the dense forest, Conan discovered that things were far more complicated than he had imagined.

It was nearly dusk when we entered the forest, and the many tall trees blocked out most of the sunlight.

Time seems to be two hours later inside the forest than outside.

What Conan didn't expect was that there was signal interference here, and his tracking glasses became unusable after entering the forest.

So everyone had no choice but to revert to the most primitive method: searching for Mitsuhiko's trail in the forest based on clues.

Conan's excitement returned, and he carefully observed his surroundings with his watch-shaped flashlight, trying to discern any traces of human presence.

Ayumi and Genta followed behind Conan with serious expressions.

However, the road here is really difficult to walk, and everyone has been searching since we came out in the morning, so we are all very tired.

After walking in the dark forest for a while, Ayumi and Genta accidentally tripped and fell, which led to another argument.

"I don't want to investigate with Genta. Genta is a big idiot."

"Hmph, I don't want to work with you anymore either."

The two actually started giving each other the silent treatment, and even when Ai Haibara and Conan tried to persuade them, it was no use.

Just as we were resting on a flat area, we suddenly heard footsteps coming from the bushes behind us.

Conan was the first to spot it. He immediately judged from the sound of the fallen leaves being crushed that the person was not a child and took precautions.

Everyone else looked over there curiously as well.

Ai Haibara's body trembled again.

The dense bushes were parted, and a man wearing hiking clothes and with short, dark blond hair appeared before everyone.

"Mr. Amuro?"

Everyone stared at Amuro Tooru in shock.

Amuro Tooru exclaimed in surprise, "Huh, Nuku-kun and Professor Agasa? I never expected to run into you here. What a coincidence!"

Actually, it wasn't a matter of fate.

Amuro Tooru had already spotted the warm water, but he didn't come over to say hello because of the mission.

The reason he is showing up now is because he has been tracking down Numabuchi Kiichiro all along, but when he arrived here, he suddenly lost all leads, and he didn't want to ask Masaru's subordinates for help with this.

After racking my brains for a while...

Amuro Tooru suddenly thought that Wen Shuiping was usually quite unlucky, always encountering strange cases.

He wondered if he could use Wen Shui's luck to help him find the escaped convict who had just come out of prison.

Dr. Agasa: "Mr. Amuro, what are you doing here?"

“I used to work at a nearby hot spring inn, and after I finished, I just wanted to come and see the mountains,” Amuro Tooru explained why he was there.

Ayumi: "Hey Amuro-nii, have you seen Mitsuhiko?"

"Misuhiko?"

Ayumi quickly explained the whole story of Mitsuhiko's disappearance to Amuro Tooru.

Amuro Toru's expression changed slightly.

"You mean bamboo leaf rice balls? I saw traces of people eating bamboo leaf rice balls in that area before."

"really?"

Everyone's fighting spirit was instantly ignited.

Amuro Tooru nodded, then his expression turned somewhat grim: "However, I also found bear footprints and traces of blood nearby."

The expressions on everyone's faces froze instantly.

Ai Haibara gripped Wen Shui's hand tightly, her pupils filled with fear and unease.

Chapter 156 Taking Ai to see the beautiful fireflies

Upon hearing this news, the air suddenly became oppressive.

Genta was the first to break the silence: "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go save Mitsuhiko!"

"Mitsuhiko...Mitsuhiko, could he have been eaten by a bear?" Ayumi's eyes welled up with tears.

Amuro Tooru: "Don't worry, I didn't see any obvious signs of a struggle nearby. Perhaps the bear just hunted other animals."

His words were mostly meant to comfort, because if a child that age really encountered a bear, they wouldn't have any chance to struggle, and naturally there wouldn't be any trace of a fight.

However, to Amuro Tooru's surprise, a child actually ran away from home.

Because he had only seen Wen Shui and the others from afar before, Amuro Tooru assumed that Wen Shui had brought these kids on a trip. However, the signal here was very poor, and it was too late to contact the outside world for reinforcements.

Let's go back and check if there are any footprints or anything like that.

Wen Shui picked up the backpack from the ground: "Then let's hurry over there. Do you remember where we were before? Do you need a compass?"

"No need." Amuro Tooru shook his head and confidently patted his chest. "I have an amazing sense of direction. I can find my way back even with my eyes closed."

With that, Amuro Tooru turned around and led everyone back in the direction he had come from.

Wen Shui and the others followed closely behind.

To protect themselves from a bear attack, Genta and Ayumi each took out pepper spray and a small self-defense baton. But given their size, they probably wouldn't even have any signs of a struggle before being carried off by the bear.

The group continued along the mountain path.

After walking for less than ten minutes, Amuro Tooru suddenly stopped and stared at the ground at his feet.

Wen Shui walked over and looked at the ground: "What's wrong? Did you find footprints?"

“No, there are discarded chocolate wrappers here,” Amuro Tooru said, pointing to the gold foil on the ground.

The others also gathered around.

Ayumi exclaimed, "This is the class reward that Ms. Kobayashi gave us last week. Did Mitsuhiko lose it?"

The group exchanged glances, their expressions somewhat serious.

However, Amuro Tooru seemed relieved: "But I didn't see this paper when I came here, which means that Mitsuhiko might not have been attacked by the bear."

"Really?" Ayumi was overjoyed to hear the news.

Conan also squatted down to examine the footprints nearby, then nodded: "Indeed, the footprints on the ground are very firm, and there is no blood dripping around, so they couldn't have been left by an injured person."

"That's great, Mitsuhiko is alright, that's really great." Ayumi excitedly grabbed Ai Haibara's hand.

Ai Haibara's forced smile made Wen Shui a little worried.

"Don't get too excited yet. We haven't found Mitsuhiko yet. Let's go check out the place where the bears are." Conan interrupted Ayumi's celebration.

Afterwards, everyone split up to search for the footprints around, but unfortunately, there were too many weeds, and the footprints disappeared after reaching a fork in the road where the weeds were dense.

Having lost their target, everyone followed Amuro Tooru towards the location where the bear had been spotted.

We walked for about ten more minutes.

Near the open space at the edge of the field of vision, a group of people appeared, gathered together.

Ayumi pointed ahead: "Brother Wenshui, look, there are so many people over there!"

"Could it be... they... they found Mitsuhiko's body?" Kojima Genta's face turned pale and he froze on the spot.

Before Wen Shui could even comfort the little devils, a large blue rat scurried past him.

"Wait a minute, you kid with glasses, don't run around like that!" Amuro Tooru shouted at Conan's retreating figure.

Everyone quickly followed in Conan's footsteps and chased after him.

Upon closer inspection, it became clear that...

Unexpectedly, the people in front of them were local detectives in Metropolitan Police Department uniforms. The man in the lead was a young man with a funny middle-part hairstyle and wearing a white shirt.

Conan stood there, stunned: "Eh? You're Officer Yamamura from the Gunma Prefectural Police Department?"

Yamamura Misao was stunned for a few seconds, his gaze sweeping over Wen Shui and the others in turn: "You are..."

"We are the Junior Detective League."

"It must be those mischievous kids following Detective Mori."

Yamamura Misao and the arriving Ayumi Tai's words overlapped.

Ayumi and Genta looked displeased: "Big brother, how can you say that about our Junior Detective Club? We've helped the police find crucial clues several times before!"

Conan stood in front of Ayumi with a serious expression: "Let's not talk about that now, Inspector Yamamura, did you discover something while you were gathered here?"

Yamamura Misao's expression also turned serious: "That's right, we have indeed discovered something extraordinary."

"No, this is terrible!" Empress Dowager Yuan took a step back.

Ayumi grabbed a tree beside her: "Could it be..."

Yamamura Misao deliberately drew out the word with a showy tone: "We just discovered in this forest..."

"Are those bear footprints?" Wen Shui's voice came from behind the detectives.

Everyone looked in the direction the sound came from and found Wen Shui squatting on the ground measuring the size of the bear's footprints with her fingers.

There was a few seconds of silence.

A dark-skinned detective standing guard nearby walked towards Wen Shui with a grim expression: "Damn it, when did this kid get there? Hey, this is a crime scene..."

"You bastard, how dare you talk to Detective Wen Shui like that?"

After seeing Wen Shui's face clearly, Yamamura immediately rushed over and punched one of his men.

The dark-skinned detective covered his head, looking aggrieved. Although this village police officer was a bit dim-witted and not very good at solving cases, he held a high position, so he dared not refute the other party's words.

However, he also looked at the young man who was squatting down to examine the bear footprints with some curiosity.

She looks very young.

"Could he be a detective as skilled as Shinichi Kudo?" the dark-skinned detective couldn't help but mutter to himself.