The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

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“That’s right, little sister, you’re absolutely right. That’s exactly why I came to this castle.”

Masahiro Mamiya's aged and sinister voice came from the tunnel.

"Unexpectedly, my purpose was seen through by that damned old woman, which is why I decided to kill her and switch places with her. As for my voice, it already sounds a lot like hers."

Ai Haibara kicked her ankle, which was being held, and struggled to break free from Masaki Mamiya's grasp.

The next moment, Masaki Mamiya slowly crawled out of the tunnel. Her old and daunting face stared at Ai Haibara and Ayumi with a sinister look: "Hehehe, don't worry, I won't let you be trapped in that basement like that old woman."

Ai Haibara and Ayumi were exhausted from running for so long that they collapsed on the ground, unable to muster any strength to get up and continue running. They could only look at the old woman in front of them in fear.

Masahiro Mamiya glared at Ai Haibara and Ayumi, saying, "When you're dead, I'll make you and your friends line up in the woods. Who told you to be so clever as to pursue this matter! Hahahaha!"

For them, it was absolutely crucial to prevent those who discovered her secret from escaping this place.

As soon as she finished speaking, Masahiro Mamiya raised the iron rod in her hand and smashed it towards Ai Haibara and Ayumi.

"what!"

Upon seeing this situation, Ayumi closed her eyes and screamed in terror. Ai Haibara immediately threw herself on top of Ayumi, shielding her tightly beneath her.

"..."

After several breaths.

Ai Haibara was puzzled to find that the expected pain did not come to her, and she did not appear to have been attacked in any way.

She didn't believe that it was Masaki Mamiya who had a change of heart and let her and Ayumi go.

So, amidst her surprise and uncertainty, she slowly turned her head and looked behind her.

∑(O_O;)

As Masaki Masuyo raised the iron bar, her wrist was firmly grabbed by Yuu Aragaki, who appeared behind her at some unknown time.

Masaki Masaki also turned around in surprise, staring blankly at Aragaki Yu behind her, and fell into silence.

Yuya Aragaki just stood there, glancing at Masaki Masuyo and then at Ai Haibara, who was clinging tightly to Ayumi. His gaze was strange, but he showed no intention of speaking.

"..."

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

"Uh..." Just as Ai Haibara released Ayumi Yoshida from her arms and was about to explain something, Conan ran in from outside the door, panting.

After catching his breath, Conan looked around the room and then at Masaki Masuyo, who was already under Aragaki Yu's control, hesitated for a moment before finally saying the words he had been holding back: "Stop it! Making a child go on a diet is really perverted!"

"..."

The room remained silent, unbroken by Conan's words.

After thinking about it, Yuu Aragaki also decided to lend a hand and break the current strange atmosphere.

"That's right, and speaking of Ai's figure, it's already very good now."

Masaki Masaki: "..."

Conan: "!!!"

Haibara Ai:"???"

Only Ayumi, still in shock, hadn't reacted yet.

After Aragaki Yu's words, the atmosphere seemed to become even more awkward.

Ai Haibara, who had gotten up from the ground, couldn't help but tighten her clothes, which were a little disheveled from her escape.

He just stared at Aragaki Yuu with a strange look in his eyes, as if to say, "So this is the kind of person you are..."

If Kaito Kuroba were here right now, he would definitely look at Yuu Aragaki with utter disdain and mutter something like, "Heh, you really are a damn lolicon!"

It took about ten seconds for Ayumi, who was lying on the ground, to finally come to her senses. She looked at Aragaki Yu and Conan, who had suddenly appeared in the room, and exclaimed in surprise, "Big brother Aragaki, and Conan! I'm so glad you're all alright!"

"It's really you!"

At this moment, Masaki Mamiya finally snapped out of her daze.

After failing to pull the iron bar from Aragaki Yu's hand, she decisively gave up the weapon, took several steps back, and fled from Aragaki Yu's side.

Seeing Aragaki Yu and Conan suddenly appear in the room, she gritted her teeth in resentment.

She knew it must have been Yuu Aragaki who rescued the little boy.

She had originally planned to deal with the two girls first, and then go back into the tunnel to deal with the two guys.

Unexpectedly, these two guys managed to escape from the tunnel.

She glared fiercely at Aragaki Yu in front of her, her mind racing as she analyzed the current situation.

Seeing the iron bar already in Aragaki Yu's hands, she quickly realized that she was no match for him.

"Damn it, this is absolutely outrageous!"

Chapter 223 Pshaw, lolicon!

"escape!"

In an instant, the thought appeared in Masaki Mamiya's mind.

"Wait a minute." Professor Agasa suddenly appeared on the other side of Masaki Mamiya, blocking her way. "Don't even think about escaping, you former housekeeper, Mutsumi Nishikawa, who has gone missing."

"!!!"

Mamiya Masakiyo...

No, it should be said that Mutsumi Nishikawa, who had undergone plastic surgery to resemble Masaki Masaki for several years, stared in shock at Professor Agasa, who had called out her real name.

"After contacting a good friend who works in the plastic surgery industry, I learned your true identity after asking around." Seeing Mutsumi Nishikawa's shocked expression, Professor Agasa confidently explained, "Because he said that there was a very strange customer who asked him to turn him into an old woman, right?"

"Hmph, so you guys saw the corpse too, right!" Mutsumi Nishikawa snorted coldly as she looked at the guys surrounding her.

“No, even if we hadn’t found that body, we would still know you’re an imposter,” Conan said as he walked from the doorway to Aragaki Yu’s side.

Then, to Aragaki Yu's astonishment, Conan silently pulled the iron bar from Aragaki Yu's hand and hid it behind his back.

"Whoo~"

After glancing at the hunched-over culprit, Mutsumi Nishikawa, and then at Yuu Aragaki, who was now unarmed, Conan finally felt relieved.

After letting out a sigh of relief, he regained his previous confidence and continued to explain amidst the bewildered looks of the crowd: "After all, the First Madam has been living in this castle for the past ten years and has never even stepped out of the door once. It would be absolutely impossible for her to have noticed that the Immigration Bureau changed the size of the passport six years ago."

"Tch!" Nishikawa Mutsumi, who thought her disguise was flawless, couldn't help but curl her lip when she saw the brat in front of her expose her.

Conan shrugged at Mutsumi Nishikawa: "But there's nothing we can do about it. After all, you need to go abroad frequently for expensive treatments to maintain this face you've had plastic surgery on!"

"Heh, you're quite something to see through my plan." Nishikawa Mutsumi noticed the little brat quietly approaching her. She wasn't going to sit idly by and wait for her doom. After a cold laugh, she finally gave up pretending to be Mamiya Masaki's hunched figure and quickly ran to a wall, pulling the candlestick on it.

The next moment, a hidden door slowly opened beside her.

As Mutsumi Nishikawa darted into the hidden door, she taunted the people outside, "Too bad, I know this underground passage like the back of my hand. You have no chance of catching me!"

Aragaki Yu didn't seem anxious at all. After all, with Hotaru's presence, he was very confident that he could catch this guy in the dark underground passage.

When Conan saw Mutsumi Nishikawa trying to escape, he wasn't anxious at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "What's wrong? You're trying to run away? What a pity. I was planning to tell you a secret about the treasure that you've wanted to know all these years!"

"What...!?" Nishikawa Mutsumi, who had already stuck half her body into the hidden door, immediately retreated after hearing Conan's words.

At this moment, the expression on her face was a mixture of shock and madness.

Mutsumi Nishikawa stared intently at Conan and asked, "Have you already deciphered all the codes represented by those chess pieces in the yard?"

“Yes!” Conan put on his signature smile and began his explanation. “The positions on the chessboard are usually represented by the letters A to H and the numbers 1 to 8. And looking at the entire chessboard from the direction the knight is facing, that is the most correct position.”

When Conan got to this point, he paused slightly to ease his slightly dry and uncomfortable throat.

But Nishikawa Mutsumi didn't want her son to wait a second longer, and impatiently urged Conan, "Kid, hurry up and tell me, so where exactly is the treasure!"

"Ahem." Conan coughed twice and continued, "From this vantage point, if you read the white pieces on the chessboard in the garden in order, it's E, G, G, H, E, A, D..."

"Egg Head"

The next moment, before Conan could continue, Aragaki Yu, who had been stared at intently by Haibara Ai, couldn't help but shift his body to avoid her strange gaze, and then spoke up to continue Conan's words: "This refers to those intellectuals who only spout nonsense. That's right, the answer is the old man who came up with this code himself."

Yuu Aragaki placed his hand on the portrait of the lord of the castle beside him: "Next, if we just rotate it to the right according to the black piece's markings..."

Click...

As the portrait on the wall rotates, a passage leading upwards is revealed behind the enormous image.

Having waited for this moment for who knows how long, Nishikawa Mutsumi, upon realizing that she was only one step away from the treasure, no longer cared whether she could escape from here and eagerly climbed up the secret passage behind the portrait.

"Hahaha, I've finally found the treasure I've been looking for! I'm not going to give it to anyone!"

Mutsumi Nishikawa's voice had become incredibly deranged at this moment.

"Treasure, the treasure must be behind that glowing door!" As Nishikawa Mutsumi climbed out of the ascending passage, she immediately spotted a hidden door gleaming through a crack.

However, just as she rushed forward and eagerly pushed open the door, she froze on the spot.

"This, this is impossible... Treasure, where is my treasure?!"

As the hidden door was pushed open, it was revealed that this was the roof of the castle.

Looking out through the hidden door.

On the horizon not far away, the sun was slowly rising, and the clouds floating in the sky were dyed orange-red, reflecting a magnificent red across the entire sky.