People in Conan, childhood sweetheart Yukiko

As for Hattori Heiji, he stayed in Tokyo on the grounds that he wanted to ask Mori Kogoro more advice.

But looking at the absent-minded looks of him and Conan, it is also clear that this guy probably didn't clarify the matter of the sect coordinator and vowed not to give up.

Haneda Xiuxuan didn't bother to tell the truth to the two of them.

From the beginning to the end, he and Conan had no intention of coming to ask for help, which shows that their arrogant characters still need to be tempered.

Having them frustrated is no shortage of good things.

Therefore, Haneda Xiuxuan deliberately asked the Fukui prefectural police not to disclose the details of the case.

three days later.

The modified sports car drove through the trails surrounded by dead branches and crows, and stopped outside the newly modernized castle.

Outside, purple-red evening clouds covered the sky.

Haneda Hideken closed the car door, and couldn't help but wonder: "It's broad daylight outside, but why did the atmosphere change instantly when we got near your house? Could it be some strange magic weapon?"

If it was at dusk, even if it was a little weird, it could barely be accepted, but the problem is, it is clearly noon now, how could the phenomenon of burning clouds appear at this time?

Koizumi Hongzi was in a good mood, raised her head and said, "Of course, if anyone could break in, wouldn't the witch's secret be discovered long ago?"

She walked in front: "Remember to follow me and don't wander around. The traps in the castle don't recognize people. Without my breath, they will attack intruders."

Walking into the castle, the dazzling lights suddenly turned on.

A strange-looking short man dressed in butler clothes appeared in front of the two of them and bowed deeply: "Miss Hongzi, welcome back."

He bowed again to Haneda Xiuxuan: "Hello, guest, welcome to the castle of the Red Witch."

Koizumi Hongzi hummed and waved her hand: "Go and prepare the food, and use the recipe I bought last time to process the ingredients."

"As you order, Miss Hongzi."

The butler bowed his head slightly, then walked away.

Seeing that Haneda Hidegen seemed a little curious, Koizumi Hongzi explained: "This is a magic tool left by the ancestors of the red magician. It is the most loyal servant and housekeeper of the magician. It can obtain some basic things by absorbing other people's memories. Survival skills."

Haneda Xiuxuan looked at the butler's back and nodded slightly: "It sounds a bit powerful..."

"Not great at all!"

Koizumi Hongzi corrected: "There is a limit to what he can learn. Once he exceeds this limit, it will take a lot of effort to erase the memories in his head. It is very troublesome. It is a waste of my time for him to learn how to cook."

Haneda Hidegen thought to himself that it seemed a bit like artificial intelligence, but compared to artificial intelligence, this magic item seemed to be unable to be strengthened.

"Okay, I'm going to open the restriction on the cemetery, you can stay here for a while."

Koizumi Hongko and Haneda Hidegen never knew what it means to be polite, so they planned to leave immediately.

But Haneda Xiuxuan was called to stop her: "Wait, take me to see other places, it's too boring to stay in the living room."

Koizumi Hongzi thought for a while, and felt a little neglected, so she said: "Then tell me, where you want to go, it's definitely not okay to let you just wander around, but if you just move around in one room, it's not a big problem."

Haneda Xiuxuan had planned for a long time, and said with a smile: "You should have a place to store some classics, right? I still have a lot of questions about the cultivation of Shikigami."

Chapter 232 Three Stages of Shikigami

"You mean the library?"

Koizumi Hongzi looked at the little shikigami, and gradually nodded: "It was useless for you to go in without practicing magic, but now you have a shikigami by your side, she can use magic when she becomes stronger in the future, maybe you can help ..."

She nodded: "Then you come with me, the library is on the third floor, you need to go up from the other side."

After speaking, she walked ahead and led the way.

Haneda Hidegen took two steps, and suddenly stopped and coughed.

The little Shikigami who stood there observing the situation came back to his senses as if he had received a signal, and hurriedly followed.

The castle of the Red Mage is a bit like a maze. Before you push the next door, you never know whether what you are about to see is a branch road leading to a trap or a staircase to go upstairs.

On the way, Haneda Xiuxuan saw the two-meter-high Western Dragon sculpture, which was lifelike.

The little shikigami was taken aback by it.

I also saw a parrot with green lights shining in its eye sockets, but Koizumi Hongzi snapped his fingers, and the green lights disappeared immediately.

"Okay, here it is."

Koizumi Hongzi stopped in front of a wooden door, turned her head and said with a smile: "You are lucky, the library is one of the few places without traps, as long as you don't go out, you won't trigger the defense of the castle."

Haneda Hidegen had no intention of causing trouble for her: "I see."

If he had just known each other during that time, perhaps he would have explored the castle well with his powerful force, but now, it is no longer necessary.

Hongzi Koizumi nodded and knocked lightly on the wooden door.

The next moment, the wooden door opened slowly, finally revealing a passage that allowed three people to pass through in parallel.

The library in the Red Mage Castle is not big.

There are only three side-by-side bookshelves, two chairs and a table in the room, which already looks very compact.

Koizumi Hongzi sighed and said with emotion: "When I was young, because I was restricted by my mother's magic, I couldn't leave this castle until I completed the inheritance of magic."

She paused: "Although the magic items used to protect the castle won't hurt me, most of them look scary...so I spend most of my time here learning magic..."

Haneda Hidegen was silent for a moment, took Koizumi Hongko's hand, and said slowly: "If you think this place is too lonely, I can help you find a new place..."

Just as he was talking, Koizumi Hongzi suddenly burst into laughter: "Hahahaha, have you been fooled by me? I am the youngest one in the history of the red magician who completed the magic inheritance. How could I be trapped by a small magic?" In the castle..."

Haneda Hidegen pursed his lips, but fortunately, after staying with her for a long time, he was more or less prepared in his heart.

He added: "Then you will never bring Yuanzi Xiaolan and the others to this magician's castle as guests in the future, right? They will most likely be scared and faint in this castle."

Koizumi Hongzi's smile slowly disappeared, and she began to think carefully about this proposal: "What you said seems to have some truth... But this castle is the base camp of the Red Mage. If I am not here, what should I do if I am attacked..."

Really unable to think of a way, she simply waved her hand and gave up thinking: "Forget it, let's talk about it later, Xiaolan will definitely not want to come to my house for no reason."

She looked at Haneda Xiuxuan dissatisfiedly: "Also, that man-in-law and I are not friends, don't forget."

Haneda Hidexuan saw that he couldn't speak, so he didn't expose her.

In fact, Koizumi Hongzi spends most of her time at school and only returns to this place at night, and most of the weekends she goes out with Xiaolan and the others.

This is actually no different from moving house.

It's just that the little witch herself doesn't want to admit it.

"Cough, cough, I, I'm leaving..."

Koizumi Hongzi suddenly blushed: "If you don't hurry to see mom, the school lunch break will be over..."

Haneda Xiuxuan let go of his hand quietly, and said with a cheeky smile: "Sorry, I forgot it accidentally."

Koizumi Hongzi glanced at him, and ran away as if fleeing.

When the witch's back completely disappeared in the corridor, Haneda Hidegen shook his head, and walked into the slightly crude library.

There are not many books inside, but most of them are privately edited classics, and there may not be a second one outside.

Haneda Hidegen searched for a few minutes, and finally found a book related to Shikigami on the bookshelf.

""Cultivation and Advancement of Shikigami"."

Haneda Hidegen whispered: "The name is really straightforward, and the paper used is also similar to

Others are different, it seems that when the author wrote this book, the time should be very close to the present..."

Just about to open the cover, the little Shikigami took off his trouser legs, pretending to be pitiful and said: "Master, I also want to read it together..."

Seeing her like this, Haneda Hidegen couldn't help laughing: "Okay, let's watch together."

The comprehension ability of small shikigami is far better than that of ordinary humans.

Whether it is language or writing, it is very easy to learn.

After just reading magazines with Haibara for a few days, she was able to understand most of the Japanese.

Haneda Hidegen found a chair by the table and sat down, then put the book on his lap, and slowly opened the cover of the book.

On the title page is the author's name.

Koizumi is so beautiful.

Haneda Hidegen memorized the name and continued flipping through it.

The next page is about the birth of Shikigami.

Koshikigami rested his hands on Haneda Hidegen's thighs with a serious expression.

It's just that when she saw the densely packed text on it, she immediately opened her small mouth in a daze, in surprise.

It was the first time she saw a book that didn't contain both pictures and text.

"Oops~"

Koshiki lay down on Haneda Hidegen's lap, looked at Haneda Hidegen with a tired face, "Master, I'm so tired..."

Haneda Hidegen smiled, stroked her red hair with one hand, and continued to turn the page with the other.

The next page is about the birth of Shikigami.

"...Most shikigami are subdued ghosts with not too bad nature, but there are exceptions..."

Haneda Hidegen glanced at the ten lines, scanned the less critical content, and quickly found the content he was interested in.

The cultivation of the human form of God.

"...The growth of a human form god, I divide it into three stages, namely the infancy stage, the growth stage and the full stage. If we use age to distinguish, they are 0 to 10 years old, 10 to 20 years old, and 20 years old In the future... when it comes to the growth period, the growth rate will slow down significantly, and some people with outstanding talents can even start to learn magic..."

Haneda Hidegen couldn't help but stop reading, and looked at Shikigami, she was already asleep.

Recently, following Mori Kogoro, the little shikigami has absorbed several souls. Judging from her height, she should have entered the growth stage.

Haneda Xiuxuan nodded slightly: "Since it is possible to learn magic, let Hongzi teach her to try it later..."

Shikigami moved his mouth, as if he had encountered something delicious, completely unaware that he was about to be assigned a class.

"But ghosts have to go to school too, how weird does that sound..."

Haneda Hidegen muttered, shook his head and continued reading.

"...But limited by the upper limit of their own spiritual power, even if a human-form god in the growth stage learns magic, the effect will not be too great. Therefore, the greatest advantage of the human-form god in the growth stage should be the initial ability to act autonomously. ability.

In the initial stage, once the human form god leaves the master within a certain range, it will start to consume a lot of spiritual power, and in the growth stage, the range in which the human form god can leave the master will gradually expand as it grows..."

It was only then that Haneda Hidegen realized that Xiao Shikigami was not because he was clingy, but because he couldn't leave him too far.

"...At the full stage, the human form god already has the ability to assist the master in battle. Since the upper limit of spiritual power storage is greatly increased, it can even achieve the effect of operating without the master. Therefore, in the absence of human beings Before the god of form stays in his grasp, it is recommended not to let him complete the evolution to the third stage for the time being.

In the first and second stages, the human form god's dependence on the master is innate, and it is almost impossible to resist the master's order.But the third stage is a watershed, the human form god will have the ability of autonomy, even if he leaves the master for a long time, he will not suffer loss.

If we compare the human form gods in the first and second stages to children, and the third stage is an adult with independent thinking..."

Haneda Hidegen did not continue to turn the page, but stopped and began to think:

"The human form god can leave the master to act in the third stage, so the top priority now should be to train the little shikigami to the full stage, so that she can become a good help..."

He wasn't worried that the little Shikigami would leave him.

Because from the beginning, he did not treat Shikigami with the relationship between master and servant, but father and daughter...

A slave will abandon his master, but a family will not abandon his family.

At this time, the little Shikigami seemed to sense something, rubbed his cheek against Haneda Hidegen's hand, and said softly, "Mom..."

Haneda Hidegen was stunned for a second, then suddenly smiled in relief

Laughing, I thought that whether it is father or mother, it is just a title, as long as the little shikigami likes it.

He was about to continue looking down, but the little Shikigami's arm moved a bit, and the book fell to the ground with a snap.

At the same time, a photo falls from the book.

"Is it a photo of the author of this book?"

Haneda Xiuxuan picked up the photo, saw the woman holding a sickle on it, and was stunned for two seconds: "It looks pretty good, and... why does it look a bit like Hongzi..."

Before he could take a closer look, he heard the sound of walking outside the door.

It's Hongzi Koizumi.

"Hey, you should have seen enough, right?"