Chapter 3: Unknown Ritual
At Professor Endo's villa, six days later, everyone who had been there finally reunited.
Anto Yayoi was the last one to arrive. When he arrived, he saw everyone standing in the garden. Several people introduced themselves to him briefly.
Seeing everyone gathered, Mrs. Endo was the first to speak: "Detective Mori, the three of us were standing in the garden and chatting."
Mrs. Endo, Kasako Koshimizu, and Masakazu Yamada were standing in the pavilion in the garden. The garden was not far from the main body of the villa, but there was a one-meter-high flower wall maze in the middle, so the entrance of the villa could not be seen directly.
"Auntie, were you three always together? No one ever left?" A little boy named Edogawa Conan suddenly asked. He and his sister were brought here by Detective Maori.
It was strange to have a child speak in this situation, but the others seemed not to notice at all and instead looked at Mrs. Endo, waiting for her answer.
Mrs. Endo pondered for a moment and shook her head. "Koshimizu came at 3pm, and Yamada came at 3:30pm. Koshimizu and I went to pick them up together, and then the three of us stayed together. They went to the bathroom a few times during the trip, but the time was no more than ten minutes."
"Is the bathroom so close from here?" Conan looked at the villa and felt that it would take at least a minute to get there. Adding the time to go to the bathroom, use the bathroom, and come back, he would have to run for ten minutes.
"There is a simple toilet next to the gardener's room in the garden for the gardener's use. Generally, guests visiting the garden will also choose to use the toilet there." Mrs. Endo pointed to the gardener's room not far away.
It was a small wooden cabin made of half logs, with a small portable box-shaped toilet next to it. It was painted green to match the garden. The lush shrubs blocked the view from the garden viewing area to the gardener's room, so no one saw it just now.
"Mrs. Endo, can we go and take a look?" This time it was Kogoro Mouri who asked the question.
Mrs. Endo nodded and led them to the cabin. The policeman beside them sighed helplessly. They searched the whole villa, not to mention the toilet, and found nothing. But they didn't say anything, because Mrs. Endo said that if they still couldn't find the missing Professor Endo, she would not come to the police station to report the case again, asking them to go out for the seventh time.
"Big brother, why aren't you worried about Teacher Endo at all?" Conan's voice suddenly sounded beside Yayoi Ando, and he lowered his eyes to look at Conan.
Thanatos was shocked when he saw Conan for the first time. He saw his own authority in this child. This child would be attracted to dying people and appear in various cases.
He was not sure whether it was surprise or shock. Authority could be combined with humans, but would humans combined with authority still be humans? He pondered this question all the way and even thought about killing the child in front of him to see if authority would return to him.
But this child was not a dying person, He could see that his lifeline was connected to the worldline. It was not that He could not force people to become dying people, but it was not His authority to reweave the lifeline. It would be fine if He cut off one or two, but if He cut off the thread of the previous child, He had to consider whether He had the ability to make up for the world.
"Do you... have a phone call?" Thanatos didn't hear clearly what Conan said, or it could be said that there was no concept of "worry" and "Endo" in his mind at all.
Conan: ...?
Yayoi Andong took out her cell phone and said, "What's your number? Add me as a friend." Conan's authority only allowed him to be attracted to dying people, but he could not deal with the souls of dead people. In other words, if Thanatos, who was not attracted to dying people and whose meals depended on luck, followed Conan, he would be able to live a good life with food every day.
Conan, puzzled, took out his cell phone hesitantly and the two exchanged contact information.
"Brother, why do you want my contact information?" Conan saw that the topic was about to be diverted, and quickly pulled it back, "And aren't you a fan of Endo teacher? Why aren't you worried at all now?"
Yayoi Ando was not a student of Shinzo Endo, but because of personal interest, she strongly requested to help Shinzo Endo and was an avid fan of religious studies.
Yayoi Andong put away his phone and looked at Detective Maori who were discussing the case seriously. He thought for a moment and said seriously, "Because he has returned to where he should be."
The souls harvested by Thanatos would return to the underworld, and Endo Shinzo's soul should also return to the underworld. But there is no underworld in this world, at least Thanatos cannot establish a connection with it, so Thanatos can only eat them all.
Now Endo Shinzo's soul has returned to the most basic energy state, which is also the original state of everything in the world.
Hearing the hidden meaning of this sentence, Conan's pupils shrank. Return to where you should go? What does it mean, is he dead?
However, he remained calm on the surface, pretending to be a curious baby and asked, "Brother, what do you mean by this?"
Yayoi Andong looked at Conan and tilted his head in confusion. The owner of power should have a natural attraction to the dead. The other party should be able to sense that someone has died as soon as he stepped into this villa. Is he pretending to be stupid now? Or is he really stupid?
Yayoi Ando suddenly remembered a method he had seen on the Internet before, so he squatted down and approached Conan, staring at Conan without blinking. The necklace on his neck slipped out with this action, and a flash of light flashed in the air for a moment. He said word by word: "You are doubting me, I killed Endo."
Hearing the self-destructive words, Conan's pupils shrank uncontrollably, and his breathing stagnated for a moment. At the same time, he also sensitively noticed the word that Yayoi Andong used - Endo. Not Endo-sensei, but Endo. A contemptuous name that was completely different from the fan image that Yayoi Andong showed.
Conan's intuition told him that the man in front of him was the murderer, but why? How did he do it?
"Brother, what are you talking about? I'm just curious." Conan scratched the back of his head, pretending to know nothing.
Yayoi Andong's observation ability is comparable to that of a high-precision machine. He retorted without hesitation: "You are blinking 7 times per minute faster than before, your face color changed from ral3015 to ral3017, and your breathing is 9 times per minute faster than before. Judging from the human body's instinctive reaction when lying, you are lying now."
Conan was dizzy from the series of data. He forced a smile and said, "Brother, what are you talking about? I don't quite understand, but I'm not lying~"
Yayoi Andong looked at Conan in confusion. Is the principle of lie detection fake? Humans shouldn't react like this? Was he deceived by the information on the Internet again?
Of course, in Conan's eyes, Anton Yayoi looked at him puzzledly and said: What are you still pretending?
Just as they were about to speak, Maori and others who were chatting in the distance suddenly interrupted the conversation between Yayoi Andong and Conan, "We have finished looking here, let's go to the ceremony room. Mr. Andong, please tell me about what happened that day."
Yayoi Andong looked up at them, without saying anything, just nodded silently.
Seeing that Anton Yayoi did not continue the topic, Conan simply pretended that nothing had happened. What kind of humanoid self-propelled lie detector is this? It's so scary that Conan couldn't help but shudder.
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