Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

Chapter 146: Mao Lilan's struggle is useless

While Conan Edogawa was checking all the surveillance footage in the UK on his two mobile phones at the same time, around Whitechapel in East London, Masumi Sera, who had just finished his cram school, was jogging on the pedestrian walkway beside the street.

Even though her mother has become a child, she still has to continue going to school and take remedial classes.

Probably because of her eldest brother's rebelliousness and her second brother being adopted into another family, her mother was very strict in educating her since she was a child.

Especially when it comes to studying.

I enrolled her in several tutoring classes.

Even though her body had become that of a child, she was not allowed to skip tuition classes under the excuse of 'taking care of mom'.

As she was running, Sera Masumi suddenly noticed a light mist appearing around her, and the originally bustling street suddenly became quiet.

Masumi Sera, who had been trained by her mother since childhood, immediately became alert and scanned the surroundings, trying to find anything abnormal.

Well, as far as the process is concerned, there are abnormalities everywhere.

The people disappeared and the sounds disappeared too.

Moreover, the mist also exudes a choking smell that makes people frown and cover their noses.

"Hmm - sulfur and soot?" After taking a few sniffs of the mist, Sera Masumi immediately covered his nose and slowed down his breathing.

"Ah! Don't come over here! Help! Someone is killing someone!" A panicked cry for help in a London accent came from inside Whitechapel.

Without any hesitation, Masumi Sera turned around and ran towards the direction where the sound came from.

In just a few seconds, the fog around him became so thick that Sera Masumi could only vaguely see the scenery within a range of three meters.

"It hurts! I'm sorry! I don't know how I have offended you! But please spare my life! It hurts so much! Am I going to die? Is my life going to be lost here?" The voice of begging for mercy and apology came from not far away.

Masumi Sera immediately adjusted his direction, then narrowed his eyes and gave a flying kick towards the man standing among the two blurry shadows.

"Give it to me, stay away from her!"

The flash of red at the tip of the knife made Sera Masumi's heart skip a beat.

But the opponent's quick reaction speed and counterattack made Sera Masumi immediately realize the truth.

I met a master!

There was a cut on the sole of the shoe.

Fortunately, she was always training herself, so she dodged the knife when necessary.

Otherwise, I might have lost more than just one shoe.

"Help me! Help me! I've been stabbed!" The female victim who was lying on the ground immediately grabbed Sera Masumi's trouser leg and shouted loudly.

"I will save you! But don't hinder my actions now." Sera Masumi warned, "Otherwise you will cause both of us to lose our lives."

The victim hesitated for a moment after hearing this before loosening Sera Masumi's trouser legs.

Although she was extremely panicked now, after thinking it over, the desire to survive defeated her will to collapse, and she instinctively loosened her hands.

During this process, the man holding the dagger just stood there stupidly, motionless.

Although he didn't know what the other party was thinking, Sera Masumi just felt that he was lucky at this moment.

Otherwise, if the other party had swung a dagger at her during the time when the victim was grabbing her trouser leg, she would have had no way to avoid it.

"What on earth were you thinking about? Killing someone next to a church?" Glancing at the shadowy figure lying on the ground behind him, covering his wound, and the blood gradually spreading on the ground, Sera Masamune swallowed his saliva, then asked harshly to the murderer whose face could not be seen clearly in the thick fog.

"You, girl..." There was a solemnity in the cold tone, and it was somewhat like the sound of friction when gears were not in sync.

However, the youthfulness of that voice made Sera Masumi feel a chill in his heart.

"Japanese? Are you Japanese?" Sera Masumi frowned, "Yujo is... a prostitute?"

Whitechapel, short sword, prostitute...

These three words combined don't necessarily mean anything good will happen.

"Do you think you are Jack the Ripper?"

A mentally ill master of cold weapons!

This is Masumi Sera's initial impression of the murderer.

“Um—no, no…” A slightly weak and struggling voice came out of the other person’s mouth, and then he staggered back a few steps, turned around and ran away.

"..." Sera Masumi really wanted to chase after him, but there was a stabbed woman behind him waiting for rescue, so Sera Masumi could only stand where he was, silently watching the other person's receding back, and then took out his cell phone.

An ambulance and Scotland Yard both had to be called.

By the time the white car arrived, the thick fog around the White Church had already dissipated.

And Mr. Masatsugu Sera has used the emergency treatment methods his mother taught him to stop the victim's bleeding.

Next, she has to go to Scotland Yard to cooperate with the investigation.

……

"Ugh! Gulp!" Clinging to the wall, Mao Lilan couldn't help but vomited directly in the dead corner of the alley.

"I don't want to...I shouldn't..."

"Jack the Ripper... should not have been soft."

"No, it can't hurt others... Mission, this is Jack the Ripper's mission!"

Mao Lilan only felt that there were two voices in her head fighting against each other.

However, the voice that wanted to commit the crime was more powerful.

"You girls, all must die!"

The last thing that came out of the girl's mouth was a cold, murderous whisper.

……

"That's it, Officer." At Scotland Yard, Masumi Sera told the officer from Scotland Yard about his experience in detail.

The other party showed an expression that was difficult to understand.

"Your statement is almost the same as the victim's." The police officer scratched his head and looked at Sera Masumi with some embarrassment, "But we have interviewed pedestrians who were around the White Church at that time. There was no fog at that time, and no one heard the cry for help."

"How could it be! That person was shouting quite loudly. I could hear it clearly from dozens of meters away." Sera Masumi looked at the police officer in confusion, "And the murderer is very likely a Jack the Ripper copycat!"

When they heard that name, the expressions on the faces of several police officers around froze.

Scotland Yard has many shames, but the one that almost everyone knows about is the Jack the Ripper case that has not been solved for hundreds of years.

Although people nowadays mostly hear about this incident from the Sherlock Holmes collection.

But this incident really happened in this world hundreds of years ago.

Even the bloodline has continued to the modern day.

It was Thomas Sindorah who was arrested in Japan not long ago.

His arrest almost brought shame to the entire Scotland Yard.

As a result, another copycat criminal who claimed to be Jack the Ripper came today.

Let’s look back at those children who came with their guardians to report the case after receiving the note.

Today is another day that Officer wants to resign.

Chapter 147: Only difficult cases can bring detectives back to their senses

"No..." Around the White Church, Edogawa Conan walked on the sidewalk with a confused look on his face.

At a certain time, the surveillance around the church suddenly failed.

There were no abnormalities in surveillance in other areas.

So Conan Edogawa immediately focused on what extraordinary events had occurred here.

There is a possibility that Xiaolan's whereabouts may be hidden.

He immediately called Taiyi, hailed a taxi and rushed over.

But after walking around Whitechapel several times, he found no trace of anything.

I did see a few British police officers communicating with some tourists and taking notes.

"Don't always look for it in the monitored areas. Look for blind spots." Taiyi's voice came from not far away.

Edogawa Conan turned his head and found Taichi squatting beside a low wall behind the white church and waving at him.

Jogging over, Edogawa Conan saw the bloodstain on the ground at a glance.

And the white isolation tape surrounding the bloodstains.

There were just no police officers standing guard.

"It looks fresh, so it must have leaked out not long ago." Edogawa Conan was pulled by Taichi's collar, squatting outside the isolation zone to observe for a while and then gave a conclusion, "It should have been during the period when the surveillance failed."

"No way!" Edogawa Conan's pupils shrank suddenly, and he was about to struggle free from Taichi's restraints and rush into the isolation zone.

"You are now Edogawa Conan, not Kudo Shinichi." Taichi reminded, "If you are caught by the officers of Scotland Yard, you will be finished."

"There's no Takagi Chiba or the others here to cover for you."

"Also, that's not Xiaolan's blood." Taichi understood why Edogawa Conan was so frightened, because he was worried that it was the blood that flowed from Xiaolan after she was injured.

With such a large amount of bleeding, the injured person's life is probably in danger.

"Why are you so sure that it's not Xiaolan's?" Edogawa Conan looked at Taichi with hope in his eyes.

"Because I have a special testing method." Taiyi replied with a roll of his eyes.

Well, the answer is that Axe was able to test the blood on the ground.

The blood type detected does not match Mao Lilan's.

"Also, don't lose your mind because of panic." Taiyi patted Edogawa Conan's head and pointed to the bloodstain, "Observe the footprints over there and see which one can match your sister Xiaolan."

Overall, Taichi is quite sympathetic towards Conan Edogawa.

After all, according to the timeline, this should be the London chapter, the one where Edogawa Conan turns back into Kudo Shinichi and confesses his love to Mouri Ran.

But it got off to a bad start, and Mao Lilan disappeared... Oh, it was my own fault.

Blame it on Shadow Mage!

After Edogawa Conan regained his composure, he carefully walked to the other side of the isolation zone and lay on the ground to carefully observe the two shoe prints of different styles.

But soon, the expression on his face froze.

"How could it be... Impossible... Why would Xiaolan..."

Judging from the location of the footprints and the direction of the bloodstains, Conan Edogawa's brain quickly gave him a shocking guess.

The murderer's shoe prints are exactly the same as Xiaolan's.

After noticing something unusual about Conan Edogawa, Taichi also glanced at the location of the shoe prints and came to the same conclusion.

Are angels going to fall from sin?

Shadow Mage has done so many evil things!

The shoe prints suddenly disappeared somewhere.

I don’t know whether the Shadow Mage used his ability to move through space again, or whether it was because the floor tiles here could not leave clear shoe prints.

Good news: Xiaolan’s life is confirmed to be safe.

Bad news: She might be being manipulated by the Shadow Mage.

Edogawa Conan knelt beside the shoe prints in a daze, looking as if he was bored with the world.

"Let's go to Scotland Yard." Taichi walked over, picked up Edogawa Conan without saying a word, and walked towards the main road.

"Let's go find the brave man and ask him about the situation."

"Maybe it's just a coincidence that the shoe prints are the same."

Taiyi's words of comfort obviously had no effect.

When they arrived at the gate of Scotland Yard, Edogawa Conan still looked as dead as before.

Using the universal excuse of "detective", Taiyi successfully asked the police officer in the reception room about the room where the brave man was currently located.