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When Kunikida and Atsushi came to the villa, Sakura had already returned to the guest room with a full stomach, and when the two packed their luggage, they found Sakura, who was lying on the desk in the room and studying hard.

Lying chaotically on the comic book beside her, Sakurako was so engrossed in her own affairs that she didn't even notice Kunikida and Atsushi's knocking on the door and their movement into the room.

"Miss Haruhi?"

After not getting a response for a long time, Dun leaned over curiously and glanced at the paper under Yingzi. It was written in densely packed characters: I swear that I will never mention Barbie's dream mansion again.

...?

"Miss Haruhi?"

"Ah what?"

Yingzi finally got out of the state of concentrating, she blinked back, and then realized that there were two more people in the room suddenly.

"Mr. Kunikida! Mr. Shima!"

Kunikida frowned slightly, as if expressing concern and dissatisfaction with Sakurako's extremely low vigilance, "No matter what you do, you must maintain sufficient vigilance, if a dangerous person comes in at this time, your safety will not be guaranteed gone."

"Mr. Kunikida said yes! I know!"

Ah, a well-behaved child like Dun-kun.

Kunikida expressed his relief.

"How's the investigation going?"

Yingzi invited the two to sit down on the chairs for guests, poured water for them one by one, and then sat on the opposite side of the table.

Kunikida shed tears of emotion.

"The rooms and corners of the villa have been checked, and there are no bugs or pinhole cameras. The facilities in the playground outside the villa are also good, and no dangerous objects were found in the grass."

Yingzi paused, and continued, "But Mr. Ranpo found traces of people coming in the forest behind the villa. It should be more than five adult men. The purpose of coming here is to inquire about the situation here."

"Whether the other party is a supernatural person or whether he has colluded with the internal staff on the mountain has not yet been determined."

"And these people don't know about our coming here. Their target should be the young maid in the villa."

Kunikida pushed his glasses with a serious face, and put the file bag that Kami had been holding on the table.

"Mr. Ranpo, this is the information on the latest disappearance case we got from the local military and police."

Yingzi took out the information in the file bag and placed them on the table one by one, jumped on the table in a random step and bent over to check the information.

On January 28, the first case of disappearance occurred in Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture. Since then, a girl has disappeared every other week.The last missing case occurred on April 24, and it has been four days since then.

Then, the next time the evil will move within the sky, which is what Ranpo predicted... the early morning of tomorrow.

Each of the missing persons is a handsome, slender and unmarried young woman, and the time of losing contact is between nine o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning the next day.

"Chichibu County... is there anything special?"

"Probably to the west, in the east of the basin, on the terrace of the Arakawa River and there are many mountains nearby."

"You seem to know this place well."

"Ah, because I was sent to support there when I was part-time job before, so I took a special look at the situation there."

"Anything impressive?"

"Are you impressed..."

Sakura raised her face and recalled carefully, "Probably the place called Higashi Chichibu Village."

"East Chichibu Village?"

"Well, it's the only village in Chichibu County, and it's surrounded by mountains, with few people."

Luanbu's movements paused, "No wonder all the young and handsome girls were chosen..."

"what?"

Ranpo grunted a few times, then turned his gaze to Kunikida and Atsushi who were opposite.

"I already know the time when the other party will play, so let's quickly formulate a plan to deal with it."

"Huh? So why did you choose a pretty girl?"

'Button'

A crisp knock on the door suddenly sounded, interrupting Yingzi's question.

"Miss Kasuga, another detective invited by Mr. Housekeeper has also arrived at the villa. Would you like to go down to meet them now?"

Sakurako blinked, turned her head and looked at Kunikida, and after receiving the other party's affirmation, she slightly raised her voice and replied towards the door, "Okay, we will go down immediately."

All the invited detectives were present, and all the personnel had a big meeting in the living room on the first floor.

Although more than a dozen people were seated, the living room still looked very spacious. Yingzi couldn't help but sigh the power of money.

"Classmate Haruhi?"

A familiar voice came from the door, and Sakura paused as she walked towards the sofa.

"Student Maori?"

Ah, the detective in Tokyo is Mr. Kogoro Mori.

In addition to Mori Kogoro and Xiao Ran, they also came with the elementary school student named Conan they saw in the mall that day.

Mori Kogoro was obviously dissatisfied with the fact that Sakurako could be compared with him, he looked at Sakurako, "The very famous detective in Yokohama that Mr. Butler mentioned must be you, the brat, right?"

"father!"

"It's not me. Mr. Butler actually invited my teacher, Mr. Edogawa Ranpo, but... But Mr. Ranpo couldn't come because of personal reasons, so he sent me here."

"I said kid, don't hold me back when the time comes!"

"Dad! Wasn't Kasuga-san the one who solved the case in the mall that day?"

"Sir, we, the Armed Detective Society, did our best to fulfill the commission."

Xiao Ran and Kunikida's voices sounded together, Mori Kogoro scratched his head embarrassingly, "Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore!"

"This child is..."

Dun was the first to notice Conan beside Xiaolan.

"Hello big brother! I'm Edogawa Conan!"

"Hey...? Edogawa?" Atsushi's eyes widened in surprise, and Conan froze.

Shouldn't...

"It's the same surname as Mr. Ranpo!"

call.

Conan breathed a sigh of relief, a false alarm.

Yingzi looked at Atsushi with empathy, "Right, right! When I first saw this child, I had the same reaction as you!"

Kunikida: ...

"Let's make a plan first."

Kunikida couldn't help but tighten his fingers on [Ideal], he took a deep breath and brought back the topic.

Under Kunikida's unkind gaze, everyone sat down on the sofa, Sakurako first briefly recounted the incident and Ranpo's reasoning, and then turned her gaze to Mori Kogoro opposite.

"What's Mr. Morley's opinion?"

"Ah? Me? Well... Now that we know when the evil will strike, we can just lay in ambush and catch them all!"

"..."

Conan couldn't help but twitched his mouth, "Uncle, don't act rashly without knowing the opponent's number and strength..."

"Tsk, what do you know, little brat!"

"This kid is right." Kunikida pushed his glasses, "Rashly moving will only bring unnecessary losses. Our first consideration should be how to ensure the safety of all the women in this villa."

Kunikida's finger slid across the notebook, "According to Mr. Steward's calculation, there are nine maids in the villa, four of whom are between fifteen and twenty-five years old, plus Sakurako and the other maids. Miss Maori, we have a total of six key protection objects."

"We don't know the details of the other party's murder, so the older Mr. Housekeeper and the younger Mr. Conan are also included in the key protection targets, a total of eight."

"There are a total of fourteen security personnel on the mountain, plus me, Dunjun and Mr. Maori, a total of ten."

"Well." Renzu pushed his glasses, "I think the nine of us can also join the team of security personnel."

"That's right!"

"……Um."

"We're not flowers in a greenhouse, eh? Birchfields?"

"Yes."

Kunikida paused for a while, as if thinking, he wrote something down in his notebook and then raised his head again.

"A total of 19 people, 28 women and [-] men, including an elderly man and a child."

"Then we will be divided into two groups to take turns patrolling. One group will be in charge of Mr. Mori and I, and the other group will be in charge of Atsushi and Sakura."

After hearing Kunikida's assignment, the housekeeper couldn't help but look at Kunikida with some concern.

"Mr. Kunikida, Mr. Shima and Ms. Kasuga, are you..."

The two children are divided into one group, won't it be too... It doesn't seem to have much deterrent effect.

"Don't worry, Mr. Steward, I, we have a lot of experience in this kind of patrol!"

Kunikida had ordered in advance not to disclose the matter of the ability to the outside world, and Atsushi could only try to find some more convincing arguments.

"Mr. Kunikida, why don't you let Mr. Mori go to another group?"

"Do not."

Both Atsushi and Sakurako are children who are easy to obey others, and that Mr. Mori...

In that group, Mr. Ranpo is enough.

"You don't have to worry about them, I will keep in touch with them at any time."

"Okay, then follow your assignment."

Kunikida nodded, Mori Kogoro obviously had no objection to this distribution, but Conan looked eager to say something.

"Big brother!"

"what happened?"

Kunikida has always had little resistance to children. Facing Conan who is deliberately acting cute, Kunikida's serious expression on his face also restrained a bit.

"Can I join the patrol too?"

"No."

Kunikida refused without hesitation.

Conan didn't seem to expect that the other party would refuse so simply, the cute expression on his face froze, and then he blinked a few times, trying to make himself look innocent and harmless.

"I won't make trouble! I will also listen to what you say, big brother! Can you let me..."

"No."

"..."

Kunikida's heart was as hard as a rock, no matter how much Conan acted like a baby, all he got was a rejection from the other party.

"Hey."

Luanbu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said, "Let him join."

Yingzi tilted her head in doubt, "Why? Isn't it dangerous for children to participate in this kind of activity?"

"Ha, he's not some simple kid."

"Hey?"

"Anyway, just listen to the detective and tell Kunikida to let that kid join their team!"

"Ah, okay."

Sakurako relayed Ranpo's words to Kunikida verbatim, and the other party was slightly taken aback, obviously not understanding why Ranpo said that.

But despite his doubts, Kunikida subconsciously believed in Ranpo's judgment.

"...Cough." Kunikida pushed his glasses, "You can join, but the action process cannot leave my sight..."

Before Kunikida finished speaking, Sakurako interrupted, "You can act alone, but you must keep in touch."

"Okay! Thank you, big brother! Thank you, Sister Yingzi!"

Kunikida: ...?