Conan: Detectives and Dogs Are Not Allowed

Since Ai Haibara offered to be the bait, Taro Jouno naturally had no reason to refuse.

After all, Mamiya Masuyo was not a member of the winery. She had nothing but a steel pipe and not even a knife. Moreover, there was Xiaobai by her side, so there was no need to worry about Ai Haibara's safety.

"Okay, that's it. Xiaoai will be the bait, and you three will follow me." Taro Jouno made a decisive decision, and then turned to comfort the three little ones who wanted to say something, "When the matter is settled, I will let you play enough, and then you can hug Xiaobai however you want."

After hearing what Taro Jouno said, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko and Genta calmed down and stopped making noise.

...

Under the guidance of Ai Haibara, the five of them came to the room where Conan Edogawa disappeared. According to Ai Haibara's instructions, Taro Jouno gently turned the clock on the wall, and a secret passage quietly appeared.

"Snap!" Taro Jouno snapped his fingers crisply, and in an instant, a cluster of flames ignited between his left thumb and index finger, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Wow!" Ayumi, who was following closely behind Taro Jouno, had a flash of surprise in her eyes. Just as she was about to shout, she suddenly remembered something and quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

"So handsome!" Mitsuhiko and Genta behind Ayumi stared at the flames on Taro Jouno's hand with admiration. They felt that Taro Jouno, who had a handsome mechanical doll Xiaobai and could perform such cool magic, was even better than Dr. Agasa, who could only make detective badges and flashlight watches.

"Shh~" Taro Jouno turned around and gently placed his still burning fingers on his lips, signaling the three to keep quiet. Mitsuhiko and Genta immediately understood, quickly covered their mouths with their hands, and nodded repeatedly.

Ai Huihara, who was walking at the end of the team, also noticed the flames in Taro Jouno's hand. She narrowed her eyes and thought to herself: "Is this the strange fire magic that Kudo Shinichi mentioned before? Did he hide a small lighter in his hand?" As a genius young scientist, she quickly thought of the magic of using a specific solution to perform hand-held flames, but the flame ignited by alcohol solution is usually blue, while the flame in Jiono Taro's hand is red...

The five people continued to move forward in the secret passage, and soon found the bloodstains left by Conan when he was attacked, the doctor's broken glasses, and the last words engraved by Masamiya Masuo: "That guy pretended to be me and wanted to seize the treasure of the castle..."

At the same time, Xiao Hei in the distance was secretly spying on their movements, his eyes full of cunning and calculation.

After a brief exchange, the five people confirmed the speculation that Conan was attacked again, and then they continued to explore in depth in the secret passage and soon found a hidden secret door.

"Ahem." Jiono Taro deliberately coughed twice. This was the code they agreed on in advance, which meant that they were about to start their "fishing plan". He quickly opened the secret door and found a long corridor outside. He led Ayumi and the other two out of the secret door, and deliberately left Ai Huihara holding Xiaobai inside the secret door, and then quickly closed the secret door.

Not far away, Mamiya Masuyo witnessed this scene, and was secretly happy, thinking that the opportunity had come. She carried a steel pipe and carefully approached the seemingly panicked Ai Huihara. However, her actions, which she thought were hidden, were as obvious as the sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps in Xiaobai's perception. Xiaobai whispered a warning: "Turn around!"

Hearing Xiaobai's warning, Ai Huihara's originally pretended panic expression instantly became calm. She turned around quickly and lifted Xiaobai high.

Mamiya Masuyo saw this and thought her whereabouts had been exposed, but when she saw that Ai Huihara was just holding up a Xiaobai doll wearing a detective costume, she couldn't help but sneer. In her opinion, this kind of toy would break if it was hit, and it was not a big deal. What's more, facing a little girl who was only seven or eight years old, she was confident that she could easily subdue her.

However, just as she was about to swing the steel pipe, a blue-white light suddenly shot out from Xiaobai. Two charged "darts" quickly hit Mamiya Masuo, and as the high-voltage current was transmitted to her body through the insulated copper wire, she suddenly felt a sharp pain, and the whole person collapsed to the ground, twitching constantly.

"Ah~" Mamiya Masuo screamed miserably, her heart full of confusion and fear. "What is going on? What happened?" She couldn't understand why a seemingly harmless doll could release such a strong current.

Huihara Ai glanced at the old woman who was still twitching in pain on the ground, and calmly opened the secret door again, letting Jyouno Taro and Ayumi, who was slightly panicked after hearing the screams, walk in.

At this time, Xiaobai had retracted the "darts" that had been fired into his body and returned to the appearance of an ordinary doll. And Mamiya Masuo's pretender——Mutsumi Nishikawa, unable to move temporarily due to the electric shock, could only be helplessly surrounded by five people.

Mutsumi Nishikawa's face was gloomy, with anger and fear flashing in her eyes. She asked: "You guys! What's going on? Why can you see through my disguise?"

Taro Jouno squatted down and grabbed Mutsumi Nishikawa's hair with his right hand, forcing her to look directly at him.

His eyes were full of coldness and determination, and he said in a low and powerful voice: "I will give you two choices now. The first choice is to honestly tell the whereabouts of the two people you attacked and stole; the second choice is to taste the power of my flame."

As he said, Taro Jouno's left hand ignited a cluster of flames again, and then slowly approached Mutsumi Nishikawa's face.

As the flames got closer and closer, Mutsumi Nishikawa could already smell the scorched smell of her hair, and her face showed an expression of fear and despair.

"I say! I say! Don't burn me!" Nishikawa Mutsumi finally couldn't bear the pressure and begged for mercy.

Taro Jouno stopped moving his left hand, but his tone was still stern: "Tell me where you hid them first!"

Looking at the approaching flames again, Nishikawa Mutsumi completely collapsed: "In... in the secret room in the secret door of my room."

After Taro Jouno put away the flames, he easily lifted up Nishikawa Mutsumi. This scene made the four children stunned and exclaimed.

"Wow, Brother Taro is so powerful, he can lift people with one hand!" Ayumi's eyes flashed with admiration.

"Yeah, if it were us, I wonder if we could lift two with one hand?" Mitsuhiko looked up, imagining the spectacular scene of Taro Jouno holding two children in one hand.

"I don't think so, I weigh twice as much as you." Yuantai laughed and interrupted.

The other three rolled their eyes speechlessly, thinking: This guy is really not modest at all.

Led by Mutsumi Nishikawa, Taro Jouno and his five companions quickly found Conan Edogawa and Dr. Agasa who were locked in the darkroom.

Conan had woken up long ago and was trying to break the rope tied to his hands by pupa on the ground.

When the door of the darkroom was opened, he was startled and thought that Masuo Mamiya had come back to finish him off, so he quickly closed his eyes and pretended to faint.

However, a familiar voice broke his fantasy: "Conan, are you okay?"

Conan opened his eyes and saw the four little ones and Taro Jouno holding a person standing in front of him. Looking more carefully, who else could be the one being held if not Masuo Mamiya!

"You? How did you find this place?" Conan asked in surprise.

He had imagined that he would be rescued at first, but after seeing Dr. Agasa tied in unconscious, he no longer had much hope.

"It was Xiaobai!" Ayumi explained with a smile, "Xiaobai analyzed that you were imprisoned by Granny Mamiya, and we defeated Granny Mamiya together."

"???" Conan was confused, he felt like he had missed something important again.

Wait, why did he feel that this feeling of "missing something again" was so familiar?