I Am a Heroic Spirit

"Um, Principal Hinata, where is the toilet? I want to go to the toilet." Conan shouted to Principal Hinata, intending to avoid the limelight first.

"The toilet is at the very edge of each floor of the teaching building." Principal Hyuga, who was commercially flattering Kogoro Mouri together with Aso Tsuru, heard Conan's words, pointed in the direction of the teaching building, and spoke.

"By the way, you can go home now."

Principal Hinata then spoke to the group of naughty kids, but this was not because they were completely convinced by Conan's reasoning. After all, Conan was just an elementary school student, and it was very likely that there would be mistakes in his reasoning. However, the situation that needed to be understood had been understood, and there was no point in letting these naughty kids stay here.

"Great!"

When the naughty kids heard what Principal Hinata said, they cheered and then dispersed. They were already impatient to stay there, as cartoons were still waiting for them at home.

Only student D and student A stayed behind, preparing to go to the bathroom with Conan.

In the toilet on the second floor of the teaching building, a junior high school student was washing his face in the sink with his head down. Conan, student A and student D came in and did not disturb the junior high school student.

As soon as the three entered the toilet, they each chose a cubicle and squatted in. It seemed that they all wanted to squat, but Conan was obviously just going through the motions, because he didn't even take off his pants, but just sat on the toilet lid, lost in thought.

"Hey, have you heard?"

Just when Conan was thinking about how to find Zhang Luo's weakness, a mysterious voice came from the compartment next to him.

"what?"

There was also a sound from the other compartment.

"That's it."

"What is that?"

"That one, the one in the bathroom."

"Oh! I see. I've heard of it."

"That's amazing! Even Hanako knows about it."

"It's not such a strange story."

Conan rolled his eyes. He had thought they were talking nonsense and was talking about something else, but it turned out to be another ghost story. Hadn't they learned their lesson yet?

Conan, who had no interest in ghost stories, fell into deep thought again.

I don't know when, Conan put away his thoughts, but suddenly found something wrong, and his face became alert.

Chapter 147 Ghost Doll Hanako

"Pah, pah, pah..."

Suddenly, footsteps were heard.

Conan listened carefully and found that the sound was gradually approaching from outside the toilet, and seemed to be stepping on water. However, Conan was sure that although the floor of this toilet was not very clean and there was not much water, under normal circumstances, it was impossible to make such a sound of stepping on water.

Conan sniffed his nose and smelled a strange smell. Conan could tell that the smell was not a bad smell, but a bloody smell.

The sound of "pa pa pa" footsteps was getting closer and closer, and Conan's face was becoming more and more serious.

"Are you in there? Come out and play with us."

The footsteps suddenly stopped and there was a knock on the door, accompanied by a cold female voice that chilled one's heart and lungs. The female voice was very childish, probably around ten years old. It should be Hanako's voice.

Fortunately, when the footsteps stopped, they were still some distance away from the compartment where Conan was, and the door that was knocked was not the door of the compartment where Conan was.

The "pa pa pa" sound rang out again, and then soon stopped.

"Are you in there? Come out and play with us." Hanako knocked on the door of another cubicle.

Conan's mind raced. He knew that even though Hanako hadn't been the first to find him, that didn't mean she didn't know he was there. It was just the way ghosts behaved, following the same steps they'd taken before dying. If he couldn't come up with a solution, he'd be caught soon.

Just like in all horror movies, once a supernatural event occurs, the lights will also cooperate. This is exactly the case at this time. The incandescent lights on the ceiling dimmed and flickered, making the horror atmosphere even more terrifying.

Gradually, Hanako walked to the compartment next to Conan. Conan could see sticky blood flowing slowly through the gap under the door wall. It couldn't be a prop or something like that. Conan concluded in his heart that only real blood could have such a smell and color.

"Are you in there? Come out and play with us."

The knock on the door and the girl's voice sounded at the same time, and the frequency of the flashing of the light bulb on the ceiling began to accelerate. Conan subconsciously slowed down his breathing and intentionally slowed down the frequency of his heartbeat.

Naturally, there was no response from the next cubicle, so Hanako continued to move. This time, the place where Hanako stopped was just outside the cubicle where Conan was.

Then, there was no sound and the bathroom suddenly became quiet, as if Hanako had left.

However, Conan knew that Hanako was outside because he had seen her.

Through the gap in the door, Conan could see two shoes stained with dirty water and blood, and a small part of the leg. The leg was covered in blood and flesh, with termites crawling all over it, and even the black bones could be seen.

A mixture of blood and sewage flowed down Hanako's body, forming a puddle on the ground. The bloody puddle reflected a black shadow and Conan's blurry figure.

Seeing that Hanako didn't say anything, Conan didn't make any sound either. He calmed down, slowly bent down, and reached out to touch the shoe on his right foot.

“Bang bang bang!!!”

At this time, the door of the compartment was knocked, and the force applied was so great that the door creaked and the dust on the door was shaken off, covering Conan's head and body.

Conan stopped moving, his eyes fixed nervously on the door in front of him, and he didn't move anymore.

"I—found—you—"

The knocking stopped and a voice spoke word by word. The strange sound made Conan's scalp tingle and his heart beat violently. He couldn't remain calm no matter what.

"I'm not a bad person." Conan said calmly. He couldn't do anything rash until the last moment.

"Hehehe, but I am."

Hanako's indistinct laughter made Conan curse in his heart.

"Are you Hanako?" Conan asked.

"I don't know" The ghost who is suspected to be Hanako answered uncertainly, which made Conan suspicious.

"Can you let me go? I have no grudge against you." Conan suppressed his doubts and spoke again.

"No, open the door."

Just as he finished speaking, the door was knocked again, and the force used became stronger and stronger. The door shook violently and looked like it would collapse at any time.

Conan took a deep breath and maintained his original posture, with his hand less than a centimeter away from his shoes, ready to fight to the death as soon as the door was broken open.

In an instant, the movement outside stopped, the door stopped moving, and no sound was heard, but this did not mean it was safe. Conan knew that this was just a prelude to the climax, because the flashing frequency of the light bulb on the ceiling had reached its limit, and there was a "sizzling" sound of electric arc.

...Then, a voice came from above: "Found you!"...

Suddenly, the story he had heard before echoed in his mind. Conan's pupils shrank suddenly. Without hesitation, he immediately rubbed the disc of his right shoe with his fingers. The crackling sound of the electrodes echoed in the empty toilet, and a blue light flashed under Conan's feet.

"what!"

Conan shouted and did a roundhouse kick at the wall behind him. After the doctor's high-intensity modification, the shoes that reached the level of superman equipment played the strongest role. Even the cement wall that was one decimeter thick was kicked open by Conan, leaving a hole half the size of a person.

"Ah! Stop! Don't move!"

At this moment, a shrill scream sounded, and Conan clearly saw through the corner of his glasses that a little girl in tattered clothes, soaked in sewage and blood, appeared on the door and pounced towards him with a ferocious face.

Conan didn't hesitate, he immediately curled up into a ball, jumped through the hole in the wall, and then fell from the second floor to the first floor.

However, Conan had learned parkour and high jump skills in Hawaii in his early years, and he adjusted his posture in time before landing to avoid breaking both legs.

After landing, Conan rolled over on the spot to relieve the force of the landing, and then stood up.

Conan did not leave immediately, but turned his head and saw the ghost that looked like Hanako coming out of the hole in the toilet on the second floor and slowly floating down towards him.

Conan's face changed drastically and he ran away. He didn't think he could fight the ghost, even if the ghost was just an elementary school student. You have to know that he is also an elementary school student now.

On the other side, after some negotiations, Zhang Luo, Maori Kogoro, Principal Hyuga, and Aso Tsuru prepared to go to the abandoned school building behind the school to take a look, but because Conan had not returned yet, the four of them were still waiting at the wall.

"What a troublesome kid. I shouldn't have brought him out." Kogoro Mouri complained dissatisfiedly.

Where has Kudo gone off to? He hasn't come back yet. Could he be haunted by a female ghost?

Kogoro Maori thought maliciously.

"Detective Maori, don't be impatient. They are just children. We should be more patient with them." Principal Hinata laughed it off calmly. Although she was a little dissatisfied, as the principal, she would not let her emotions show.

Zhang Luo looked towards the teaching building in confusion. Why did he have a bad feeling? What did Conan do?

"Help! There really is a ghost!"

Suddenly, Conan's terrified cry came from behind the crowd. Everyone turned around and saw that Conan had somehow run towards them from behind the teaching building.

"Ghost? What's this little ghost up to?"

Maori Kogoro subconsciously thought that Conan was acting again and did not think of ghosts. After all, this kind of thing has happened before, and Conan has done it many times by pretending to lure the murderer into his trap.

However, the next moment, Hanako's figure came around from behind the teaching building and appeared in everyone's sight, greatly shocking everyone.

"What? You're really being haunted by a female ghost."

Kogoro Mouri twitched his lips, but was not moved by the appearance of ghosts. To him, the existence of ghosts was no secret.

"There really is a ghost! Mr. Qin Luo, please take action quickly!" Principal Hyuga and Aso Tsuru were not as calm as Maori Kogoro. It was their first time encountering a ghost and they were so scared that their faces turned pale. Their legs were trembling and they couldn't stand up straight. They hurriedly asked Zhang Luo for help.

"Don't worry, leave it to me."

Zhang Luo was speechless at this time. He had wanted to make some noise, but he didn't expect that there really was a ghost in this school. It was just that compared with the big monster that appeared before, it was too weak, so weak that Zhang Luo didn't notice it.

"It symbolizes the black color of water, clearing a path with its violence!"

The moisture in the air was extracted and, under the guidance of the power of the Black Tortoise, turned into a water ball with a diameter of one meter and was launched out.

Before Conan could be surprised that Zhang Luo 943 really knew magic, he subconsciously fell to the ground. The water ball brushed past Conan's hair and hit Hanako's body, smashing her into pieces with one blow.

It seems that this Hanako is weaker than I thought.

A hint of confusion flashed in Zhang Luo's eyes.

"dark……"

An inaudible sound came out of Kogoro Mouri's mouth and his expression became serious, but it returned to normal in just a moment.

"What on earth have you been doing, little ghost? Where did you attract a female ghost from?"

While Principal Hyuga and Aso Tsuru surrounded Zhang Luo to thank and compliment him, Maori Kogoro strode towards Conan. His first step was to slap Conan on the head, and then he asked in a bad mood.

"It's not my fault. I just went to the toilet. Who knew I would meet Hanako in the toilet." Conan felt very wronged. When he went to the toilet, he was first chased by a ghost and then beaten by Mouri Kogoro. Which famous detective is as aggrieved as him.

"Hanako in the toilet? That urban legend?" Kogoro Mouri was stunned. He had also heard of this urban legend, but it actually did not exist. He could guarantee with the credibility of the FBI that no such case had ever happened in Japan.

"Hanako in the toilet? Little boy, did you guess it yourself?" Principal Hinata also heard Conan's words and asked Conan with a frown.

"No, I heard it with my own ears, but Hanako's identity needs to be confirmed," Conan denied, and then told his own experience, "Before, I was in the bathroom and heard student A and student D discussing Hanako's ghost story. Later, a thing that I didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost told Hanako's story and said that Hanako was a student of this school ten years ago. But after Hanako appeared, I asked her if it was Hanako, but she said she didn't know."

After saying that, Conan was stunned and forgot to close his mouth, as if he suddenly remembered something.

"...I think Student A and Student D are probably dead by now, if they were the ones who went to the bathroom with me."

Immediately, Principal Hyuga and Aso Tsuru's expressions changed. If Student A and Student B were really dead, then...

Chapter 148 A connection with fire

Ten minutes later, Inspector Megure brought a team of police officers to the school and met up with Kogoro Mouri and others downstairs of the teaching building.

"Mouri, Conan, why are you here again? This is the third time this week." Inspector Megure noticed Mouri Kogoro and Conan as soon as he arrived and said helplessly.

"Hahahaha, a famous detective is someone who is surrounded by cases, right?" Kogoro Mouri defended with a dry laugh.

"What's the specific situation?" Inspector Megure sighed helplessly and asked.

Maori Kogoro's expression turned serious, and he whispered, "It was a supernatural incident. Two students encountered the ghost doll Hanako in the toilet."

"What? Brother Maori, are you kidding?" Inspector Megure asked in astonishment. Although he knew that Maori Kogoro was unreliable, he did not expect Maori Kogoro to say such a thing. It was probably someone pretending to be a ghost and killing people to trick Maori Kogoro into it.

"It's true, officer, there really is a ghost, we all saw it." Aso Tsuru saw that Officer Megure didn't believe him and immediately spoke up.

"Officer, perhaps you won't believe it, but this is the fact." Principal Hinata said with a grim expression. The death of two students was bound to have a huge impact on the school, especially since those two students stayed in school until so late because of her decision.

"It's like this, Officer Megure," Zhang Luo also stood up and said to Officer Megure, "Last night, a ghost incident occurred in the school. Detective Maori and I came here to investigate it... Then Conan and the two students who participated in the Hundred Monogatari game went to the bathroom, and in the end, only Conan came out from behind the teaching building."

Seeing that everyone said it was a supernatural event, Inspector Megure was not sure of his own opinion.

"Officer Megure, we can go to the scene first to see the situation, and then go to the monitoring room to find out. There should be surveillance cameras in the school, right?" Conan said to Officer Megure, but the last sentence was said to Principal Hinata.

"Yes, there are surveillance cameras everywhere in the school, including at the entrance of the toilet. If someone commits a crime, we can only find out by looking at the surveillance camera." Principal Hinata said.

"Okay then, let's go to the crime scene first." Inspector Megure nodded, feeling a little uneasy. Could there really be a ghost?

A group of people went upstairs and rushed into the bathroom one after another. They saw that the bathroom looked no different from usual. The blood that Conan mentioned did not appear. It just felt a little cold.

Inspector Megure sniffed and his face became serious. This was the first time he had encountered such a strong smell of blood in all his years as a policeman.

The door of the toilet cubicle was open. Inspector Megure went inside and took a look, and immediately vomited. The police officers who followed him, as well as Kogoro Mouri, Conan, Principal Hyuga, and Tsuru Aso, also began to vomit. Zhang Luo's face also turned pale.