Conan's other self

"To me, the sound of your breathing..." Fengyuan turned around, "is as obvious as the oncoming high beam."

What came into view was a tall and thin woman wearing a long black dress with long hair reaching her waist. Her hair covered half of her face, and her expression couldn't be seen. If her face wasn't old and wrinkled, she would look like a female ghost in a horror movie.

The other party did not expect this scene. He was holding a dirty rag in one hand and trying to block the light from Maplehara's flashlight with the other hand.

She looked a little overwhelmed.

Feng Yuan glanced at the rag in the other person's hand, "Is it coated with poison? Can't you get a cleaner towel?"

"...Damn you brat..." The woman's body trembled slightly.

"Wow…"

"Get...out of this house!"

The old woman dressed in black had obviously broken the jar and had been discovered after all. She shook off the rag in her hand, took out a sharp dagger from her arms, and rushed over, her fierce eyes looming in her loose hair.

He was saying "get out", but he was obviously murderous.

"Is this... considered self-defense?"

Fengyuan said to himself, the mineral water bottle in his hand slipped, and then he took a step back——

Volley.

The mineral water bottle hit the old woman's face like a cannonball. She didn't even realize what happened before she felt herself flying backwards under the force of the impact, and then very "unknowingly" Fainted.

Nice, hit the bullseye.

Feng Yuan retracted his foot, and then his eyelids twitched. Another mineral water bottle flew towards him at a faster speed than before - luckily he was a child now and didn't have to hide, so the mineral water bottle flew over his head and hit the wall hard. .

"..."

"..."

"...Are you too slow?"

"Sorry, sorry, my fault!" Conan was wearing only a sock on his left foot, holding the shoe in his hand, and ran over quickly, "I have to put on the foot strength-enhancing shoes first, and then I have to adjust the gear-"

Feng Yuan narrowed his eyes.

"Sorry...I was too slow." Conan sighed and chose to continue to admit his mistake. He took off his shoes and followed behind the old woman. He didn't dare to turn on the flashlight, so when he realized that the old woman was about to take action, he hurriedly put on the foot-strengthening shoes, but it was too late.

Fortunately, nothing went wrong.

"Is there anyone else?" Conan asked, walking towards the fainted old woman.

"There should be no more."

"That's good."

Conan breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them shined their flashlights on the old woman on the ground.

Feng Yuan noticed that the other party's physical condition was quite stable, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a loud noise in the distance. Ayumi and others ran towards this side while calling Conan and Fengyuan. Conan looked at the old woman's appearance.

"Strange...I seem to have seen it somewhere..."

"...Oh, right!" Conan thought for a while, "It's a photo of the family I saw before! Although many years have passed - it must be right, this is the mistress of this family!"

"Really?" Fengyuan became alert. If this guy is the hostess, is his legitimate defense still valid?

"Look at the features, look at the cheekbones -" Conan stopped and looked at Fengyuan suspiciously, "Aren't you another me? Why don't you know this?"

"I'm too lazy to think about it," Feng Yuan replied.

Conan rolled his eyes, suspending his disbelief. He also had some impression after looking at the photos of this family for a while. But... what is the mistress of this house doing hiding in the house like this?

"Ke, Conan, Maplehara!"

Kojima Genta ran to the two of them panting, followed closely by Mitsuhiko and Ayumi, "What happened -"

Then the three of them saw an old woman lying unconscious on the ground with disheveled hair and dressed in black.

"ah--!"

Ayumi's scream!

"You, you caught a female ghost!?" Mitsuhiko looked surprised, feeling that his scientific worldview was beginning to collapse.

"It's us! We were together, so of course we caught him!" Yuantai said dissatisfied.

Hey, hey... why are you still taking the credit... Conan couldn't help but hold his forehead.

The trio from Didan Elementary School made a fuss for a while, and then decided to control the female ghost first. Mitsuhiko volunteered that there was a rolled rope in the room just now and ran back to get it.

So in Conan's speechless eyes, the three of them tied the old woman up tightly and blocked her mouth with a dirty rag on the ground.

…It looks like he won’t be able to wake up for a while.

"That's how it was shot in the movie!" Mitsuhiko tied a knot in the rope and said with satisfaction, but then hesitated, "I don't know if it's my imagination, but I feel like this female ghost is alive..."

"Because she is a living person." Conan said.

"……Why!?"

Conan explained, Ayumi and Genta accepted the reality with some disappointment, while Mitsuhiko welcomed the reality with some cheer.

"Then, Conan, what should we do next?"

"...You guys just keep an eye on her first," Conan hesitated, "I'll call the police."

He said he called the police, but actually he wanted to discuss it with Fengyuan first. Conan walked a little further and waited for Kaedehara to come over.

"Surrender?" Fengyuan followed.

"What surrender?" Conan was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Hey, hey -"

"Okay, I understand..." Fengyuan sighed, "So, we sneaked into someone else's house, knocked out the hostess, and then called the police to arrest the hostess?"

…Don’t make us look like heinous criminals!

It’s not us who commit the murder with knives!

Conan complained in his mind and glanced back at the tied hostess, "Anyway...she obviously has a secret that she doesn't want others to find out. I suspect it is related to the murder five years ago," Conan said, "Besides, it can't be done now. Wake her up, return the knife to her, and apologize to her?"

In that case, the haunted house adventure will turn into a bungalow battle royale.

For the safety of Ayumi and others, Conan had no choice but to suppress his curiosity, and Maplehara had no choice but to suppress his inner guilt, unanimously agreed to call the police, and at the same time, he was mentally prepared to be scolded.

The police arrived soon, led by Megure Police Department, a man who often called Kudo Shinichi "brother". He had a fat belly, but looked majestic.

Ayumi and the other three were both positive and reluctant to lead the two police officers up to find the old woman holding the knife who was still unconscious.

…

This is how the primary school students' first adventure ended.

It wasn't until the next day that Conan used the bow-tie voice changer invented by Dr. Agasa to call the Megure Police Department in Kudo Shinichi's voice that they knew the full story.

"After the hostess woke up, she shouted that she wanted to bring food to her son," Conan said with a complex expression. "When the Mumu Police Department rushed back again, they found the son in the basement. He was so hungry that he had no energy left."

Five years ago, the son of this family killed his father by mistake in a fit of rage. His mother, the old woman, wanted to delay the case beyond the retroactive period for the sake of her son's future, and even ignored her son's desire to surrender. , locked his son in the basement for five years.

It was obviously for the sake of his son's future...but he did such a thing.

This is undoubtedly a sad story, one that stems from "for your own good". But anyway, the truth of the matter makes this haunted house adventure not so sinful.

Maplehara comforted himself and walked on the way to school with Conan, when he saw Ayumi and others waving in this direction from a distance.

"Conan, Maplehara! Let's go ghost hunting today!" Ayumi ran over happily, "Genta found another haunted house!"

…

Even if I jump from here, there is no way I can go there!

Maple is serious.