Why do you insist on listening to them?
...
"Ding-dong," the doorbell rang.
Yuanzi shouted, "Coming, coming!" and ran to the door, then carelessly flung it open.
"Oh no!"
Be careful!
Several people in the hall spoke up to stop them almost simultaneously.
But it was too late.
Sonoko turned around, blinked at the group of people, and looked completely bewildered.
The person outside waved to them without any hesitation.
Hello everyone! I'm late!
Seeing that the newcomer was a young man in his early twenties, leading a child of about seven years old, everyone breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"Sonoko, you need to be careful too, just in case..."
Xiao Lan suddenly froze, halfway through her sentence.
Sonoko, who was holding the door, turned around slowly and exclaimed "Wow!"
"Yuan...Yuanshan! It's you!"
Outside the door, Yoruichi Toyama politely placed one hand on her chest and gave a smile.
"Everyone, I am 'Red Herring,' also known as Doi Takaki."
"Doi Tower?"
"Ah, Red Herring, it's you!"
The people in the hall greeted each other, and this time they were truly relieved.
Sonoko jumped up as if she had seen a ghost.
"What? You're Keshu? You must be kidding me!"
"What's going on? Sonoko, do you two know each other?" a young woman wearing glasses asked.
Besides her, there were four other strangers in the villa.
One was a middle-aged man in his forties, and the other three were all in their twenties, two men and one woman.
As for Ran and Sonoko, Kaito Kuroba, disguised as Yoruichi Toyama, had already met them on the Queen Celeste.
They just don't know it's them right now.
Assessing the situation, Kaito Kuroba secretly turned his gaze to the woman who was suspected of being the murderer and who was very likely to kill again.
Takahisa Tanaka, granddaughter of escape magic master Kazehisa Harui.
...However, if they stop her from killing, will the police still be able to find evidence to convict her?
Or should we lure her into taking action first? ...
While pondering, Kaito Kuroba also had a brief exchange with the others, figuring out their identities.
As he expected, the middle-aged man was the owner of the villa in the mountains, the taciturn ventriloquist "Araki Yoshinobu".
The girl younger than Tanaka Takahisa is "Phantom" Naoko Kuroda, and the boy is "Disappearing Pani" Toshiya Hamano.
The other young man was there to help out and didn't belong in their chat room.
As for "Red Herring" and "Doi Takaki," those are indeed the nicknames and names that Kaito Kuroba used in the chat room.
It's a pity that now it all benefits that detective Toyama.
Kaito Kuroba wasn't the only one who expressed regret about this; Sonoko did too.
She frequented chat rooms under the nickname "Disciple of the Magician," and although she claimed to be male, she flirted with "Red Herring" quite a bit in private, and they even exchanged real names.
It turned out that the person he was having an affair with was not only an acquaintance, but also Yoruichi Toyama, whom the Suzuki family valued highly and even considered a business partner.
Even if he didn't have a girlfriend, Sonoko didn't want to get involved in this kind of political marriage.
She's a romantic young lady who champions free love!
"Honestly!" Amidst the pleasantries of the others, only Sonoko Suzuki grumbled unhappily, "You detective, can't you be a little more professional? This pretentious act is so annoying!"
Ran, who was patting her shoulder to comfort her, suddenly remembered something and turned to Kaito Kuroba.
"By the way, Mr. Toyama, wasn't it said that the suspension bridge leading to the villa was burned down?"
"So... how did you get here?"
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