Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

This also made Ai Haibara feel somewhat miserable.

If the pain hasn't subsided after all this time, it's highly likely that there's a real injury.

But at this point, Ai Haibara was even more embarrassed to say it in front of everyone, so she could only wait until they got to the villa to talk about it.

So she could only vent her dissatisfaction by kicking the back of the warm water in front of her.

But her actions led to a misunderstanding with Wen Shui.

Wen Shui felt that Ai Haibara was complaining that he had been chatting with Ran and Sonoko and hadn't paid much attention to her, so he turned around and started talking to Ai Haibara about the scenery.

Ai Haibara felt even worse now.

She not only had to endure the pain of the vehicle's bumpy ride, but also had to keep everyone from noticing anything was wrong, and she also had to put up with the warm water and the gaze that Shu Na gave her every ten seconds.

Does this guy really like my legs that much?

Ai Haibara couldn't help but mutter to herself.

However, as time went on, Ai Haibara gradually noticed that the pain in her chest was weakening and turning into a tingling sensation.

Was it the chat that distracted her? Ai Haibara felt a surge of joy.

But before she could be happy for long, a tingling, electric-like sensation spread along her slender waist, all the way to her thighs and toes.

And it crashed against her brain like a tidal wave.

Although Ai Haibara could maintain a calm expression, her toes, tucked into her black leather shoes, were already curled up in a ball.

"Why is your face so red? Are you carsick?" Wen Shui asked curiously.

"It's nothing, you don't need to worry about it." Ai Haibara's expression was cold, but her voice sounded exceptionally soft and weak.

Even Conan and Ran couldn't help but look over after hearing this.

Hearing the conversation, the driver quietly rolled down the window closest to Ai Haibara.

The fresh scent of nature and earth from the forest filled the car, and Ai Haibara's condition improved slightly.

Fortunately, the mountain road was not long. After driving for about ten minutes, the car stopped on an open platform halfway up the mountain.

The driver turned around and said, "Miss, this is the best the car can go."

Sonoko Suzuki lowered the car window and looked around: "This should be the parking lot my sister mentioned. We'll walk the rest of the way ourselves."

The group got off the car one by one and then found several cars parked on an open space next to them.

It seems that the people who came to the party stopped here because their cars couldn't cross the bridge.

Sonoko Suzuki said to the driver, "You don't need to wait for us here, it's too much trouble. We can just take my sister's car when we go back to Beika."

The driver nodded, and the car turned around on the spot, the tires kicking up a cloud of dust as they rubbed against the dirt road on the mountain.

They quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Let's hurry up, I'm starving. I heard that my sister spent a lot of money to hire a very famous chef this time." Sonoko Suzuki took Ran's hand and walked along the mountain path.

With Wenshui and Ai Haibara with Conan, they looked a bit like a family of three.

After taking only two steps, Xiaolan suddenly pointed ahead and said, "Yuanzi, isn't that your sister's classmate too?"

Wen Shui's gaze passed over Xiao Lan and Yuan Zi, looking into the distance, where she saw a man shrouded in a long black robe walking slowly not far away.

His eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, "This must be the bandaged monster, right?"

Instead of feeling any fear, Wen Shui felt as if he were on a pilgrimage to a sacred place.

“Maybe so. My older sister said that a lot of her classmates from the film club in college will be coming this time,” Sonoko Suzuki said.

Conan: "But why would he dress like that for a party? Isn't he hot?"

Although it's in the mountains, the daytime temperature is still a bit high.

Just then, the man in the black robe suddenly turned around, revealing a terrifying face wrapped in bandages.

"Ah!" The timid Ran was startled and tripped over a stone, almost falling. Luckily, Sonoko Suzuki caught her in time.

"Damn it! How could they play such a prank!" Conan immediately gave chase.

When the bandaged man saw someone chasing him, he turned and disappeared into the nearby woods.

"Hey, you little rascal, don't wander off like that, you'll get lost!" Sonoko Suzuki shouted at Conan and quickly chased after him.

Since this was a vacation at her family's villa, Miss Suzuki showed more patience and a greater sense of responsibility than usual.

Then, Wen Shui and Xiao Lan also chased after the bandaged monster in the direction it had fled.

However, Wen Shui deliberately delayed the chase, and Ai Haibara's legs were a little weak, so they quickly got separated from Sonoko and Conan.

Wen Shui knew that the bandaged strange man was actually Ryoichi Takahashi, Ayako Suzuki's college classmate, in disguise.

The other party's goal was to deliberately create a terrifying legend about the bandaged monster in order to find a scapegoat for their plan to kill Chikako Ikeda later.

However, Wen Shui recalls that there weren't this many people attending the party in the original Conan manga, suggesting that his appearance might have disrupted the timeline to some extent.

Therefore, when Conan first saw the bandaged man in the original story, he didn't immediately chase after him.

Wen Shui was worried that Conan in this timeline might use the gadgets invented by Professor Agasa to capture the bandaged monster ahead of time.

How can he then gather material?

After all, the progress of the data collection system in Wen Shui's mind is not just about catching the murderer; experiencing the details of the case process is also very important.

Xiaolan looked at the lush green woods around her and felt uneasy: "What should we do? We can't find Yuanzi and the others."

Wen Shui comforted her, "Don't worry, they'll go back to the villa if they can't catch up. Let's go to the villa and wait for them."

"But..." Ran hesitated, "That bandaged weirdo doesn't look like a good person. What if he does something bad to Sonoko?"

Wen Shui: "It's not necessarily true. Maybe that person is Sonoko's classmate and is trying to play a prank on us. If you're worried, you can call Sonoko."

Xiaolan then remembered that there was such a thing as a telephone.

But when she took out her phone, she found that there was no signal.

Wen Shui couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement, thinking that they had only just begun to investigate the case, and they had already cut off all escape routes. Wasn't the phone line supposed to be cut off at night?

Ai Haibara suddenly interjected, "Oh, it's here! The classic locked-room mystery setting from detective novels."

Xiaolan's expression became even more uneasy.

Wen Shui couldn't help but complain to Ai Haibara, saying, "Honestly, she's timid to begin with, why did you scare her like that?"

Ai Haibara thought to herself, "Of course it's because of what happened in the car earlier. Nuwa-kun, women are very vengeful creatures."

However, when Ai Haibara realized that Ran was genuinely frightened by the joke, a strong sense of guilt welled up inside her.

Ai Haibara took Ran's hand and comforted her, "I was just kidding. How could there be monsters in this world? They're just made up by novelists."

"Really not?" Ran and Ai Haibara looked at each other, their delicate eyelashes trembling slightly.

Ai Haibara smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, even if there really is a bandaged monster or something, we can just throw the warm water guy to it to eat, and then take the opportunity to run away."

"Hey, who talks about using people as bait in front of others?" Wen Shui said, dissatisfied.

Xiaolan laughed too: "Wouldn't that be too much? Generally speaking, monsters prefer to eat young girls, right?"

Ai Haibara brushed a stray hair behind her ear and chuckled, "Then, Numizu-kun, are you confident you can protect two girls in front of a yokai?"

Wen Shui guessed that Ai Haibara was saying this on purpose to lighten the mood: "Sorry, I will only protect Ran, not bad women who want to use me as bait."

"That's so mean," Ai Haibara said deliberately, pouting. "I was thinking of giving you my stockings that I've been wearing all day as a pillow."

"Who would like that kind of thing, especially after wearing it all day?"

"So you like new things?"

Ai Haibara and Nukumizu joked around for a while, and the tense atmosphere that had been hanging over the forest dissipated considerably.

Xiao Lan's expression softened, and after a brief discussion, the group decided to go back to the villa first.

However, before they had gone very far, they heard a sound coming from the trees above, as if something was rapidly moving through the dense branches.

Xiaolan's face showed horror: "It's...the bandage monster?!"

Wen Shui frowned slightly. He didn't remember the bandaged monster in the original Conan manga being able to climb trees.

Just then, a figure descended from the sky, accompanied by a pile of scattered fallen leaves.

Wen Shui was about to pull the two girls aside to get out of the way.

He then discovered that Ran, who was terrified of monsters, and Ai, a scientist who wasn't afraid of monsters at all, each grabbed his left and right arms, trapping him firmly in the valley.

Chapter 33 Suzuki Ayako's Suspicion

The scents on Ran and Ai Haibara are completely opposite.

Ai Haibara is frequently exposed to medicines and chemicals, and she reads a lot of fashion magazines, so the perfume she uses is not a mainstream brand.

The scent of chemicals emanating from her body, once it entered the nasal cavity, gave one a sense of cool profundity.

Xiaolan, on the other hand, completely embraced the youthful and invincible route.

She uses mass-market brands of antiperspirant and shampoo, and perhaps that's why.

The soft fragrance mixed with sweat instantly conjures up an image of a beautiful girl in cool loungewear holding an ice-cold watermelon on the side of a park in the height of summer, with juice dripping from her lips onto her fair and delicate insteps.

Deep in the dense forest far from Tokyo, warm water and trees are surrounded by two completely different fragrances.

Adding to the warmth of the girl's body transmitted through her clothes, Wen Shui felt her brain was about to stop.

But he quickly came to his senses; after all, with a formidable enemy at hand, he didn't know whether the person falling from the sky was friend or foe.

Wen Shui quickly pulled the two women away from the opponent's attack range.

Then he looked up and saw that the person had not fallen directly to the ground, but was hanging two or three meters above the ground.

Wen Shui looked closely and saw that the other person was holding a climbing rope.

"You must be Ayako's classmates?" The man in the forest ranger uniform loosened his grip on the rope, his hiking boots leaving two shallow footprints on the ground.

He had a short, center-parted hairstyle, a rectangular face, and healthy-looking skin. Wen Shui judged that he was probably outdoors a lot.

"May I ask who you are?" Xiaolan asked warily.

"My name is Hiroki Kakutani, and I'm Ayako Suzuki's college classmate. I was trying to give you a surprise, but I'm sorry, I accidentally scared you." Hiroki Kakutani scratched his head and grinned sheepishly.