Just as Kogoro Mouri was about to smile, he suddenly felt that this female college student looked a little familiar.

"Hey, isn't this Miss Jun Hui?"

Mao Lilan walked forward with some surprise, "It's been a long time since we last met. Why are you here?"

Seeing her father's confused expression, Mao Lilan poked Mao Li Kogoro's arm with her elbow and reminded him, "It's Kimie, the shrine maiden of the Mermaid Island Shrine!"

Jun Hui held the umbrella in one hand and waved happily with the other hand, "What a coincidence, the Maori detective, Miss Maori, Little Conan, and this beautiful little sister I haven't seen before~"

Suzuki Sonoko opened her eyes wide.

She looked around and pointed at herself uncertainly, "Pretty little sister? Me?"

"Of course."

Jun Hui was in a good mood and gave her a wink, and continued to answer Mao Lilan's question, "Since we parted on Mermaid Island last time, I have made up my mind to visit and learn about various shrines in Japan. When I walked here today, it suddenly started to rain heavily. I was worried about where to go, and I happened to meet Mr. Akashi who said that he could let me stay at his house for a night."

...Although after meeting Conan and the others, she didn't know whether her decision was correct.

Would it be better to continue walking towards the shrine in the rain?

She really didn't want to come across a dead body. After she met Conan and his friends on the Mermaid Island and they died inexplicably in a storm at sea, she really felt Conan's lethality firsthand.

That being said, only those who have walked in the rain and muddy forests know the pain. She would walk with them even if she encountered corpses!

However, the Maori family did not go with them after all. They came here to play by car and went home after play. While it was still early, they carried their fishing rods and went to the river to fish. Kimie followed Mr. Akashi back to his home.

Mr. Akashi's home is located in a deep forest. It takes more than ten minutes to walk from the tennis court into the depths of the forest to reach the destination.

"Is it because you like to live in seclusion? But it must be very inconvenient to live like this."

Mr. Akashi froze slightly. "Ah, um... it's like this. To buy something, you have to leave the forest and go down the mountain to the supermarket in the nearby town. It takes more than two hours to go back and forth. If my father didn't particularly like quietness and didn't want to live where there were people, I would also want to live in the town."

"Mr. Akashi is really filial."

Kimie admired Akashi's ability to live with his father in the deep mountains and forests, which she certainly could not do.

However, she did not quite agree with Mr. Akashi's father's behavior of letting a child in his prime live with him in such a remote place.

As soon as Mr. Akashi opened the door, a teacup flew towards the door and hit the ground at the door.

Fragments flew everywhere, leaving a faint bloody mark on Jun Hui's ankle.

It didn't hurt, not a drop of blood came out. In terms of lethality, it was not as good as getting a vaccination in the hospital. It just scared Jun Hui and she subconsciously took a step back. The wooden carved card hanging around her waist swayed, and under the sunlight, a scorching halo appeared.

A fierce-looking old man with age spots all over his face was leaning on a cane and questioned Mr. Akashi in a bad tone, "Why did you take so long... Where's my omelette?"

Mr. Akashi had a calm expression, as if he was used to being treated like this by his father. "It suddenly started to rain heavily, and the shop selling omelette was temporarily closed, so I couldn't buy any. Let's have curry tonight."

Mr. Akashi's father looked at Jun Hui gloomily and pointed at Jun Hui's nose, "Who is she?"

Jun Hui showed a friendly and comfortable smile, "For travelers who are passing by and want to stay for a night, you can just call me Jun Hui."

Mr. Akashi's father looked as if he really wanted to kick Kimie out, but he couldn't beat the determined Mr. Akashi, so he threw his sleeves and returned to his room on crutches.

"Sorry for making you laugh."

Mr. Akashi let out a light breath, with a gentle smile still on his face like a mask.

Jun Hui took off her sneakers and sorted out her words, "Has your father...always been like this?"

"Yeah, I'm used to it."

"Even if you're used to it, it's not the normal way to treat your own children."

Jun Hui frowned slightly. Facing the kind-hearted person who let her stay, she still wanted to give some advice. "Sometimes it's not good to blindly obey the elderly. It will only make them more willful. Even if he is unhappy, he can't live alone in the mountains. Your father is old, and he still needs basic medical care."

Mr. Akashi opened his eyes wide, and the mask of gentleness and calmness on his face trembled a little, "...what you said makes my heart beat."

He laughed and said, "If only I had met you earlier, I would have heard you say this earlier."

"Did anything happen?" Although she was slow, Jun Hui also noticed that something was wrong with his condition.

Mr. Akashi spread his hands and said, "Ahahaha, all my savings have been spent on this house. I don't have any money left to buy a house in town."

“…That’s true.”

This reason is so realistic!

Jun Hui didn't know what to say to comfort him, so she could only scratch her face and put her hands together sincerely, "I hope that one day you can leave this environment and live a more free life."

Go down. "

"Thank you for your good words."

Mr. Akashi lowered his eyes and smiled, "For dinner, is it okay to just have a simple spicy curry?"

"——I'm already grateful for being able to eat and drink for free!"

Chapter 329: Ke Xue Takes the Blame

When it was getting dark, there was a sudden knock on the door. Conan and the others, whom I had seen at the tennis court in the afternoon, were standing at the door, all wet.

"Why are you so embarrassed..."

Jun Hui opened her eyes wide, "Aren't we going fishing?"

"Ahaha," Suzuki Sonoko touched her head awkwardly, "I fell on our car that was washed into the river. When Jiaoli tried to pull the car ashore, he was pulled into the water instead..."

"Using a fishing rod to catch a car?"

Jun Hui tilted her head in confusion, feeling that this plot seemed familiar.

Is this the plot from the original novel? In other words, is there really going to be a murder here?

But there were only Mr. Akashi and his father in this house. Could it be that a treasure hunter who was looking for treasure came to take shelter from the rain and was killed?

There were so many cases that she couldn't remember them all.

Mr. Akashi brought a towel to dry them off, and listened to Suzuki Sonoko complaining about her recent brain twitch with great energy, "No matter how hard you think, there's no way you can use a fishing line to fish a car out of such a turbulent river!"

Mr. Akashi's father stood on the second-floor windowsill with a cane, listening to the laughter on the first floor with a distorted expression.

Smile and be happy.

Once they leave, he will take back all this happiness and send him back to hell!

It seems that the previous lessons are not enough.

He adopted this toy just to order it around, so how could he just abandon his owner and have fun on his own?

He grinned and laughed silently, then turned around and tried to go back into the house.

A strange gust of wind blew, and he tilted backwards suddenly and fell down.

"Ahhhh-"

Conan was sitting in front of Mouri Ran with his head down, asking her to help wipe the water off his head. Suddenly, he heard a terrified scream from outside. He jumped up and rushed to the door. Kogoro Mouri and Ran Mouri followed him.

Jun Hui also went out to check the situation. As soon as she went out, she bumped into Mao Lilan's back, "Why are you blocking the door... What happened?"

Mao Lilan looked up at the sky in a daze, her eyes wide open, her voice trembling, "Going...to the sky?"

Ok?

Jun Hui looked up at the sky.

In the vast forest, the strong wind rolled up the dark clouds. Between the dark clouds and the forest, Akashi's father was flying in the tornado like black lightning.

Sometimes it was thrown to the outside of the tornado and came into close contact with the branches, and sometimes it rushed straight towards the dark clouds like an arrow, shouting - and in this brave shouting, the dark clouds heard joy.

Then the tornado spun more wildly and more freely.

Maori Kogoro looked up at the sky and said, "How could there be a tornado? There's no news about typhoons in the recent weather forecast, right?"

This is a natural disaster.

A natural disaster that cannot be stopped by human power.

They could only stand at the door, helplessly watching Akashi's father spinning in circles in the sky, as if they could already see the cruel scene of him falling from the sky after the wind stopped.

Having just received Mr. Akashi's warm hospitality, such a thing happened in his family. Mao Lilan looked at Mr. Akashi uneasily, not knowing how to comfort him. When she turned around, she saw Mr. Akashi smiling.

"hahahahahahahaha!"

He laughed wildly, and he was out of breath. He laughed so hard that he covered his stomach and fell to the ground, sitting in the mud.

The raindrops hit his face even harder as the tornado struck, dripping down the curve of his cheeks.

"Mr....Akashi?"

"Actually, today is the anniversary of my late wife's death, and it's also a rainy day like this."

Mr. Akashi looked up with satisfaction at his adoptive father being thrown up and down in the tornado. "In the dead of night, my wife collapsed in this forest. She died from exhaustion due to being exposed to the rain."

Maori Kogoro, who used to be a policeman, has seen this kind of situation many times. "He fell down. His legs got stuck in the mud and he couldn't get them out?"

"It's half and half. I went to the stadium in Tokyo for work that day, and my father suddenly asked my wife, who was bedridden with a cold, to go out and buy something because he said, "I want to eat mushroom fried rice today."

At this point, Akashi punched the ground. "She could have refused this unreasonable request, but she still staggered to the supermarket three kilometers away. Finally, she collapsed on the way back and never got up again."

Suzuki Sonoko, who was always very talkative, didn't know what to say. She had never met someone like Akashi's father.

"In fact, I never resented my father, because he was just that kind of person. I always felt that the unreasonable demands he made that gave me trouble were evidence that he treated me like his own son."

Junhui thought about it from Akashi's perspective, and indeed, people would generally think this way.

"I think my wife and I said to my father that we were very grateful to him for adopting me and raising me, and we tried to satisfy him if he asked us to. So, I hated myself more than my father. It was not until the day after my wife's funeral that I saw my father sitting in front of my mother's altar. I was careful not to disturb him, but I heard him say this.

. "

[My dear, I finally broke it... Next time I want to find a toy that can be used for a longer time, like Akashi, which is as durable as this one.]

"how so……"

Ran Mouri felt creepy just thinking about it, and her good empathy allowed her to immediately put herself into Mr. Akashi's emotions.

The father whom he had trusted, appreciated and depended on since childhood, actually had impure intentions when he adopted him. He treated him like a toy, tormented him at will, and laughed secretly when he saw him admiringly treating him as his own father. His beloved wife died because of this.

The overwhelming feeling of despair almost suffocated her.

Conan understood instantly, "So even though it was raining, Miss Junhui was able to meet you at the tennis court because you wanted to come to the tennis court to find a witness who could prove your alibi."

"Alibi?"

Maori Kogoro finally reacted and looked at Akashi, who smiled with relief. "Yes, but whether or not I can find a witness, I have made up my mind to kill him tonight. I didn't expect that he would be taken away by a tornado."

The clouds cleared and the rain stopped, and the figure that had been motionless for a long time fell from the sky and landed straight into the forest.

Junhui believed that Akashi made the decision to kill someone only after he knew clearly the consequences of the murder. Now that his damn father was dead, he would never do such a thing again.

By the way...the dead people who were swept up into the sky by the tornado?

Jun Hui tilted her head in confusion.

...Is there such a plot in Conan? Isn't it a bit too much?

The wooden sculpture of Kami around the waist hangs in the air, well-behaved and quiet.

Chapter 330 The Dragon Slayer Becomes the Evil Dragon

After the rain, the sky cleared up. Junhui waved goodbye and continued walking on the muddy mountain road towards the shrine in the deep mountains. Conan and the others accompanied Akashi and paid a search team to find his father's body and put it away, then bid farewell to this place.

"I hope Mr. Akashi can come out of this soon."

After the storm, it seemed that even his luck had improved. Kogoro Mouri received a commission with a fee of 1000 million yen. He went to bet on horses while drinking beer and singing. As a result, he lost all his money and became drunk. He had to ask Eri Kisaki to help solve the case. While handling the case, he met Yukiko. Before leaving, he made an appointment to take the children of the Junior Detective League to play together. Thank them for their care for Conan.

"What do you mean by taking care of me...I'm the one who's always taking care of them, okay?"

Conan sat bored in the passenger seat, rubbing his ears as he listened to the noise of the children in the back seat.

Especially since Haibara Ai didn’t come along today, she said she wanted to go out and play with the idol she has a good relationship with.

Damn it! He was left alone with four kids!

After Ayumi heard that food, lodging, and entertainment were provided, the hired member Hoshino Kitado was excitedly dragged over, and the back seat was just filled.

This kid is really easy to get involved in incidents.

Yukiko took them to see the first preview tape of the children's favorite Masked Swordsman, which was held at the Toudou Phenomenon Institute.

A middle-aged man in work clothes came over and said, "Ms. Yukiko, long time no see. You are still the same and very beautiful."

【First grader[10]: That’s a really appropriate greeting for someone your age.

Color Modification[31]: It’s the script… well, it’s the lines in the script that have already been decided to be discarded.

First grader [10]: No way... Were you guys kidding me the other day?

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