Conan's organization will end sooner or later without me

When the few people went out, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly. However, halfway through the journey, dark clouds gathered from nowhere and pressed down directly over everyone's heads.

"...It should be a flat tire, and we are lost," Dr. Agasa looked at the engine and navigator that had completely stopped responding, as well as a small dirt road in front of him that led to nowhere, and always felt that his luck was damn weird.

"I told you to bring a map," Conan complained rudely, resignedly opened the door and got out of the car, "It seems that now we can only find another way out. I hope we can find a place to shelter before the rain starts."

"Maybe... we have found it." Haibara Ai turned around and looked at the Western castle hidden in the woods with complicated eyes.

. . . .

“It’s so spectacular, just like a real Western castle!”

Dr. Agasa stood in front of the villa, and Conan put his hands behind his head. "It must be a foreign castle that some rich man bought and then reassembled here."

“That’s great!”

Several children immediately cheered, and Yuantai even grabbed the railing with both hands.

"Genta, what are you doing?" Before Dr. Agasa could come back to his senses, Genta had already sat astride the iron gate that was half a meter taller than him, "It's dangerous, come down quickly!"

“No, this height is too high for me…” Yuantai was speaking when he suddenly slipped and fell down.

"Ah! Genta!" Ayumi and Mitsuhiko were in a panic.

Conan immediately touched the football launcher button in the middle of his belt, ready to provide support at any time, but at the critical moment, a worker in gardener clothes grabbed Genta by the back of his collar.

"Hey, where are you from, little brat? Who allowed you to come in without permission?!"

"Yes, I'm sorry!" Yuantai covered his little heart with his hands. Although the other party was very fierce, he also knew that the gardener saved his life. He made an apologetic expression with a miserable face.

"I'm sorry, we're not bad people." Dr. Agasa interrupted at the right time with an apologetic smile on his face, "Our car broke down, I wonder if it would be convenient for us to stay here for a while."

"That won't do!" Seeing that the others were in a good mood, the gardener put Yuan Tai on the ground with both hands without making any further fuss. However, when he heard the second half of Dr. Agasa's question, he immediately became alert and said, "We don't welcome outsiders here. You'd better leave now."

"But..." Dr. Agasa looked at the increasingly gloomy sky outside and still wanted to make some effort.

The gardener opened the door and pushed Yuan Tai out. "Okay, I don't care where you are from, just leave. The master is entertaining guests and has no time to entertain you."

"Is that so..." Dr. Agasa frowned. It would be extremely rude for them to let in since the other party was receiving other guests.

It seems that I can only sleep in the car for one night. Dr. Agasa lowered his head in despair.

Ayumi was very sensitive to Dr. Agasa's low mood. She pulled the old man's clothes and smiled encouragingly, "It's okay. It must be fun to sleep in the car in the rain."

"Yeah! Doctor, you can spend the night in the car with air conditioning and a radio. It's definitely more fun than setting up a tent."

The children tried to comfort him clumsily, and just when tears welled up in Dr. Agasa's eyes, a voice that sounded very familiar to everyone came from behind the door.

"So you prefer sleeping in the car. If I had known this, I wouldn't have asked Mr. Jian Kong to take you in." Yin Jiu came from the main road of the garden in a wheelchair pushed by Amuro Toru, followed by a middle-aged man.

"Brother Yin Jiu!" x3

"Brother Yin Jiu, you can sleep in the car anytime. It's also fun to sleep in the villa!" This is Conan's voice.

Dr. Agasa, who was abandoned by everyone in an instant, silently withdrew his tears: "......"

"Old... Master. And Young Master Yin Jiu!" The gardener's eyes widened, and then he looked around at the people, with a few drops of cold sweat on his head, "These people... These people are..."

"Oh, these are Yin Jiu's friends. Since everyone knows each other, why not stay together? I believe Yin Jiu's friends are smart people." Jian Kongman instructed the gardener, then turned to look at Yin Jiu, "Just as you said, let them stay for one night, but the condition is that they solve the puzzle."

"Don't worry, I already have a clue." Yin Jiu looked at the impatient son-in-law and smiled meaningfully, "Don't worry, all the answers will be revealed before tomorrow evening at the latest."

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Dr. Agasa and his team successfully entered the Western castle. Along the way, the gardener introduced them to the chess in the garden and the past events in the castle.

"Well, is this the Grace Ahara that Xiaojiu mentioned?"

When Conan saw Yin Jiu and Amuro Toru together, he subconsciously separated them. As a result, the little girl who was still quietly following Dr. Agasa immediately attracted Amuro Toru's attention.

"Well, she's more shy." Yin Jiu was pushed by Professor Agasa, and suddenly saw Huiyuan Ai wearing the hood of her sweater, so he pulled the hem of Amuro Toru's clothes, "If I'm not with her in the future, Brother Toru, remember to help me take care of her."

"I know. Xiaojiu's sister is also half my sister." Amuro Toru concealed the darkness in his eyes and agreed to the words that were almost like entrusting an orphan to someone else. Then he showed his usual sunny smile and leaned down. "Hello, your Japanese name is Huiyuan Ai, right? I'm Amuro Toru, your brother's agent."

However, Huihara Ai, who was usually quite lively in front of Yin Jiu, did not say anything this time. Instead, she tightened her hood and lowered her head silently.

Amuro Toru: “?”

The sunny smile that always won him a good victory met with a Waterloo at the hands of a seven-year-old child. The corners of Amuro Toru's mouth stiffened and he subconsciously touched his face.

Conan was very tactful and took the blame, "Amuro-san, why are you here?"

"Well." Amuro Toru was still immersed in slight self-doubt. When he heard the fake child's question, he looked at the other party with a bit of resentment in his eyes subconsciously. "It's a writer named Kudo. He said he helped Xiao Jiu find clues about his mother."

"..." Conan immediately thought of his father when he heard this surname.

So the villa I mentioned last time was here.

Conan looked around the entire garden. The lawn of the Western villa was neatly trimmed into the shape of a chessboard, with black and white chess pieces standing on it.

"This design was inherited from the will of the great master who passed away fifteen years ago," the servant who led the way saw that the children were very interested in the layout of the garden, so he deliberately took them around the garden to introduce it.

"The Master Man who let you in is actually Miss Jiankong's second son-in-law. Before the Madam passed away, he often trimmed roses with Master Man in this garden." The gardener pointed to the neatly trimmed grass in front. "Unfortunately, since the Madam passed away four years ago, the Master has never visited the garden again."

"Is that the master who just let us in?" Dr. Agasa looked around and indeed did not see the figure of the master Man who initially let a few people in.

"If the eldest daughter of the Jiankong family has passed away, then the clue about your mother, Brother Yin Jiu, is cut off again?" Conan was more concerned about the clue about Yin Jiu. He secretly guessed the relationship between Yin Shuli and this family, and silently concluded that Yin Jiu's mother probably knew the eldest daughter of this family.

Unexpectedly, Yin Jiu gave him an answer that surprised him.

"No," Yin Jiu took out a round jade pendant from his pocket and shook it in front of Conan, "Look, this is what my mother left here. In fact, Yin Shuli is not familiar with this Miss Jiankong."

"That...?"

Conan uttered a syllable with doubt in his heart.

"She is a close friend of the Madam of the Jiankong family, regardless of age difference."