Isn't it very scientific to use the Death Note to kill people?

"you--?"

"Hmph, these two girls are in my hands now. You two will come to Gyokuryu-ji Temple on Mount Kurama in an hour, bringing that white trinket. If you dare to call the police or lose that trinket, they're dead! (Heiji! Don't come!! You'll be killed!)"

After the male voice on the phone ended, Yuanshan and Ye's anxious shouts came from a little further away.

Hattori Heiji's face immediately turned ugly and stiffened.

The first thing the other party asked about on the phone was the white jade pendant, the subtext being whether it had been delivered to the police station...

In other words, the murderer was indeed one of the three people who were in the teahouse at the time.

However, he never expected that the murderer would be so audacious as to kidnap Kazuha and Ran to threaten them!

"asshole!"

After hearing the murderer hang up the phone, Heiji Hattori tried to call back but was told that the other party's phone was switched off.

He immediately gritted his teeth.

"what happened?"

Because Heiji Hattori didn't turn on speakerphone, Yoshiki Hayashi and Conan didn't hear the voice on the other end.

Thinking that Ran would also suffer along with him, Hattori Heiji found it difficult to speak when he looked at the two people in front of him.

"Kazuha...and Ran, they were captured by the murderer."

"What!?"

"He demanded that we bring Baihao to Yulong Temple in an hour, and that we not call the police, or he would kill them both immediately."

"……asshole!"

Conan's expression changed instantly, and Hayashi Yoshiki's face also darkened.

The chapter was uploaded incorrectly last night; it wasn't an incomplete chapter!

Because I needed to catch the high-speed train early this morning, I went straight to sleep after uploading. I didn't expect that when I copied it over, a section would be inexplicably missing.

I woke up to find the sky had collapsed, but now it's been patched up. How ridiculous!

I'm extremely sorry!!!

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Chapter 300: The Ruthless Lin Jiashu (Part 2)

"Let me go by myself! Trust me, I will definitely bring them both back!"

At the entrance of Foguang Temple, Hattori Heiji solemnly assured the two of them.

It was all because he took out the white coin and claimed he would hand it over to the police that the murderer chose to kidnap the two girls to coerce him... At this moment, Hattori Heiji's heart was filled with self-blame.

"idiot."

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Hattori Heiji was somewhat taken aback by Hayashi Yoshiki's offhand remark.

"They're asking all three of us to go together, right? If the three of us don't show up at the same time, do you think they'll let us go?"

"I will use this white coin to negotiate with him—"

"However, his goal was to kill all three of us directly."

Lin Jiashu's eyes were somewhat gloomy.

When his eyes met his, Hattori Heiji felt even more guilty and repressed.

Conan also noticed the change in Hayashi Yoshiki's expression.

Was it because he heard that Xiaolan was in danger?

As for his claim that the murderer wanted to kill the three of them, Conan and Heiji Hattori were well aware of this.

—Because the other party had just called and immediately asked for a piece of white tea, it was almost certain that the other party was one of the three people in the teahouse at the time.

If he didn't kill Lin Jiashu and the others, his crime would be exposed, and he might even kill the two friends who stayed at the teahouse with him after the incident.

“We should face danger together, and besides, this isn’t just your problem, Hattori,” Conan said.

"..."

"...I'm sorry, I just lost control of my emotions."

Lin Jiashu raised her hand to smooth her hair up a bit, but without hairspray, the ends fell down again: "Let's go. Since we're going to rescue people, we should make some preparations."

"it is good."

Heiji Hattori didn't say much, but nodded seriously.

Xiao Lan was also arrested as a hostage, which was an unexpected turn of events for Lin Jiashu.

The original plot was that Kazuha Toyama overheard Heiji Hattori talking about evidence and clues related to the murderer. She recalled that when she went to rescue Heiji Hattori the previous night, she smashed the murderer's mask with a stone and the fragments fell off. So, when she went to the forest that night to look for the mask fragments, she was ambushed and captured by the murderer.

So, was it because Hattori Heiji provoked him with the white hairpin this time?

This is the complete opposite of the situation when Xiaolan lost her memory.

Despite attempting to intervene, they were unable to prevent the plot from continuing on its original trajectory.

This time, without making any unnecessary moves, an unexpected turn of events occurred.

As Lin Jiashu led the way, heading in a certain direction, he gradually narrowed his eyes.

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An hour later, the sun had already set.

Tonight is a full moon.

The bright moonlight filled half of Ma'anshan Mountain. As you climb the moss-covered steps, you can see a temple bearing the marks of time nestled on the mountainside.

Rows of bonfires were lit in the temple courtyard.

The murderer, wearing an old man's mask, stood in the middle of the courtyard, while Xiaolan and Heye were tied up with their hands bound and unable to break free.

"It's so slow."

A deep voice came from beneath the killer's mask.

Upon hearing this, Toyama Kazuha stopped struggling and glared at the murderer, shouting angrily, "Idiot! Knowing it's a trap, how could you fall for it so easily!?"

"Really? I think you're scared."

The murderer gave a cold laugh.

With her hands bound, Xiaolan silently observed her surroundings.

Although she couldn't move her hands, she could still use her kicking skills. However, the murderer was carrying a knife and was very skilled in martial arts... If she acted rashly and angered him, the situation could become very bad.

We need to look for other opportunities.

She chose to remain silent in response to the murderer's taunts.

Because she knew that given Jia Shu's personality, he definitely wouldn't not come...

Although she secretly hoped he would realize the danger here and choose not to come, Xiaolan knew very well that that was probably impossible.

I have to think of a way...

The killer is currently less wary of them because their hands are tied and they are girls. If they can seize the opportunity to kick away his knife—

As Xiaolan was thinking about these things, three figures finally walked out of the mountain gate ahead.

The murderer, wearing an old man's mask, let out a "whoosh".

"Yoshiki-san! Conan!"

"Heiji!!"

"You bastard, you didn't hurt them, did you!?"

"Give me that white hair, and I will let them go."

The murderer responded loudly to Hattori Heiji's words.

However, that is impossible.

He had decided to kill them all, including the two girls, to ensure his actions would remain completely undetected.

"Bring those two over, and we'll give you the white hair."

Lin Jiashu began, looking at him calmly, and said, "Mr. Saijo Taiga."

"...How did you find out my identity?"

The murderer was somewhat surprised when his name was called out.

But at this point, there was no point in pretending to be stupid, so he directly took off the mask he was wearing.

The face that was revealed was the same one that Saijo Taiga, the owner of the used bookstore, had seen earlier in the teahouse—but unlike the tall, thin, and somewhat refined man with glasses in the teahouse, Saijo Taiga's hair was now as wild as a hedgehog's, and his expression was full of ferocity.

Next comes the reasoning section.

The main reason why Saijo Taiga was exposed was that he pretended that he did not know how to use a bow and arrow during the afternoon questioning, but when he sat down in the teahouse, he subconsciously used the "half-leg dragging" sitting habit commonly used in archery.

After being exposed, he chose to confess.

"Hehe, Long Yuan and I used to train in the same kendo dojo."

"However, one day I learned that there was an ancient swordsmanship school in Kyoto called Yoshitsune-ryu, so I began to study Yoshitsune-ryu on my own, and two years ago I left the kendo dojo to become the successor of Yoshitsune-ryu."

The Yoshitsune school is said to be a swordsmanship passed down by Musashibo Benkei, a retainer of Yoshitsune in the novel *Minamoto no Yoshitsune*.

As a fan of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Saijo Taiga was already quite lucky to have learned this swordsmanship, yet he was still not satisfied.

"Because I want to be Yoshitsune more than Benkei! Do you know how much I want to be Yoshitsune!?"

"But Yoshitsune's position was taken by our leader, 'Genji Hotaru,' so I, the strongest fighter in the bandit group, was given the name Benkei."

"After the leader passed away, I killed the other members of the thief group. It's true that I wanted to take the Buddha statue for myself for money, but my goal was to build a Yoshitsune-ryu dojo in Kyoto!"

"The former leader was the abbot of this 'Gyokuryu-ji Temple,' and he continued to manage it even after it fell into disrepair. That's why I asked him to give it to me as a training ground for the Yoshitsune school... But three months ago, the leader passed away, and the temple is to be demolished; it can no longer be used as a training ground!"

When he got excited, Saijo Taiga even shouted until his face turned red and his neck bulged.

However, the three people opposite him couldn't understand his thoughts at all.

Lin Jiashu even commented, seemingly speechless:

"In short, you like playing super realistic pretend play games, right?"

"What did you say!?"

Enraged by such mockery, Saijo Taiga nearly drew his sword, but Hayashi Yoshiki's next words stopped him: "We will give you the location of the Buddha statue and the white hair stick, but before that, return those two girls to us."

"Have you found the location of the Buddha statue?"

"Yes."

"...It seems that hiring a detective to solve the mystery was indeed the right choice."

Once Saijo Taiga calmed down, he didn't doubt Hayashi Yoshiki's statement. On the contrary, he readily gave the two girls a push, signaling them to go over directly.

"Kazuha!"

"Sister Xiaolan!"

Hattori Heiji and Conan breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.

However, as Kazuha and Ran walked towards them, Saijo Taiga, who was standing behind them, quietly drew his sword from his waist.

—He never intended for these people to return alive.

Saijo Taiga quietly tightened his grip on his sword and rushed forward in the next second. Hattori Heiji, who noticed his movement, was startled and immediately drew his sword to meet him.

With a clang, the two gleaming silver swords clashed together.

In less than three rounds of fighting, Hattori Heiji was clearly struggling to wield the sword with both hands due to the knife wound on his left shoulder. Before long, he was overpowered by Saijo Taiga and kicked away.

At the same time, several guys dressed in kendo uniforms and wearing Hannya masks swarmed out from behind the mountain gate where the group had come from, and each of them had a sharpened real sword at their waist.

“They are my beloved students, you cannot escape.”

Saijo Taiga smiled sinisterly and said to the men who looked like they were facing a formidable enemy, "Come on, give me what I want, and I can let you die without pain."

"So I said I needed to make some preparations."