Conan: The Mechanic

Chiba and Conan walked silently in the corridor of the teaching building.

"The one on the sixth floor has returned to the stairwell," Qianyu said softly, looking at the signal light board and the stairwell next to her. "Just above us."

The sound of footsteps had already appeared in the ears of Conan and Qianyu who were listening intently - getting louder and louder.

"?" Qianyu looked at Conan suspiciously. "We won't be found out, will we?"

"I don't know." Conan mouthed.

After the tormented sound lasted for more than ten seconds, it finally disappeared.

"Huh—" Qianyu let out a long breath. "Finally—"

The second half of the sentence was eaten back into his stomach, because a bright red liquid appeared out of thin air on the handrail of the stairs in front of him.

"!!!" Qian Yu was so frightened that he almost fell down the stairs, but fortunately his right hand was still firmly on the stairs. "This..."

Qianyu watched in surprise the blood that flowed along the handrail and was split into two by her own hand. "Why is there blood here?"

"You..." Conan silently walked behind Qianyu and dipped some red liquid with his fingers. "Are you sick?"

"No," Qian Yu was stunned. "Ask me what to do with this?"

"Idiot! You don't have a cold, so you can smell it, right! Have you ever seen blood without the smell of blood?" "It's just paint..."

"..." Qianyu put her hand in front of her nose and smelled it. "Okay... It looks like the guy on the sixth floor found us?"

"Perhaps, the sound of closing the window we heard before was from him." Conan thought thoughtfully. "That's when he saw us."

"Then what should we do now?" Qian Yu frowned. "Go straight up?"

"What about the other one?" Conan squinted. "Go and see the place on the third floor first, and then go upstairs."

"Now he's in the infirmary," Qianyu glanced in the direction of the infirmary on the third floor. "Let's go?"

"It will change if you are late." Conan replied, and then immediately walked up the stairs.

"He entered the stairwell opposite. I don't know whether to go upstairs or downstairs." When he reached the second floor, Qian Yu looked at the signal light board in his hand and glanced at the corridor directly opposite.

"We're waiting here," Conan pointed to the opposite side. "The stairwell over there is facing us, and if he comes down, we can see directly who he is."

"Hmm..." Qianyu leaned on the handrail and looked at the stairwell opposite.

A figure appeared, but the sky had already started to get dark, and the two could only see the figure vaguely, but couldn't see who he was.

"Chase!" Conan immediately ran to the stairwell opposite, and Qianyu immediately followed.

but. . . If he runs when he hears our footsteps, we don't seem to be able to catch up with him. . . Qianyu suddenly remembered this question during the pursuit.

But then you have to chase it, you can't just watch him escape, right? Qianyu rolled her eyes and continued to follow behind Conan.

When they arrived at the stairwell opposite, Chiba took a step ahead of Conan and felt the entrance of the stairwell, and glanced inside.

"Ugh!" Qian Yu's scream almost made Conan's heart skip a beat.

"What's wrong?" Conan asked Qianyu as he also came to the entrance of the stairwell. When she looked into the stairwell, she was also startled.

A man with skin stripped all over his body was standing on the stairs, looking at them coldly.

"This is..." Qianyu unfolded the traceless umbrella in half and looked at the man in front of her in horror.

"Who is he..." Conan murmured.

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Conan saw a slightly smaller figure behind the man trying to hide himself in the shadow of the man.

"Don't panic," Conan actually laughed. "Qianyu, look carefully, this is the dummy in the health room!"

"A dummy?" Qian Yu was stunned for a moment, and after careful observation, she found out that it was just a dummy, and there was a woman they were very familiar with hiding behind the dummy!

"Mr. Kobayashi?" Qianyu and Conan were both dumbfounded.

"Edogawa-san and Tachibana-san?" Chiyu and Conan's head teacher, Sumiko Kobayashi, asked in surprise when the flashlight showed her true form. "You...why are you here?"

"Why are you here?" Qian Yu asked in surprise. "Why did you show up here with this dummy?"

"The teacher is preparing lessons..." Kobayashi Chengko said embarrassedly. "Teachers are used to putting a few dummies or avatars in the classroom when preparing lessons, so that there is more atmosphere~"

"Preparing for lessons..." Qian Yu's mouth twitched. "Use something so scary..."

"Tachibana-san," Kobayashi Chengko looked at Qianyu's almost bloodless face with interest. "Are you afraid of ghosts?"

When Conan heard this question, he also looked at Chiba with a playful look.

"Ugh..." Qianyu spread her hands and looked innocently at Qianyu and Kobayashi Chengko. "What if I'm afraid of ghosts... Don't make it so short?"

Suddenly ~www.NovelMTL.com~ Qianyu noticed that on the signal light board in her hand, a row of signal lights representing the first floor flashed in sequence - someone was running wildly on the first floor! Qianyu had been holding the signal board with both hands just now, so she didn't notice this abnormality at all!

After finding that there was no signal on the sixth floor, Chiba basically determined what happened.

The man who had been on the sixth floor just flew down the stairs and slipped off the first floor!

Qianyu was about to chase, but found that the signal light symbolizing the main entrance was on, and he could only shake his head mockingly.

The man on the sixth floor ran away.

. . .

When Chiyu and Conan opened the school gate with the help of Mr. Kobayashi and took Motobu Mimitoshihiko to leave Didan Elementary School, Chiyu took a chance and asked Conan a question.

"Conan," Qianyu asked curiously. "Do you know the highly corrupt corpse in the secret room?"

"That..." Conan hooked Qianyu's shoulder and led him away from the other three. "We should know each other... Although the body is already highly decomposed, I really can't think of a second person from Didan Elementary School who meets this condition."

"In Didan Elementary School, a teacher chose to resign on April 6 on the grounds of marriage after the start of the semester, so the new head teacher took over her class on April 11."

"How did you know so clearly?" Qian Yu asked in confusion.

"The name of the new head teacher is," Conan said in a low voice. "Songko Kobayashi."

"!!!" Qianyu looked at Conan in surprise.

"That's right," Conan nodded. "I suspect this corpse is our former head teacher, Toya-sensei!"

(Changed Mr. Toya to have long hair =, = Don't care about these details)