Chapter 2683 Chapter 2695 [Akai Hell House]
After a moment of surprise, Conan vaguely guessed something. He looked back and saw Mrs. Jiujiu with a guilty look on her face, quietly gesturing to Jiang Xia and Amuro Toru to keep quiet.
The fake elementary school student immediately understood: Jiujiu Yuankang’s death was probably a secret that his family had kept from the child.
Conan: "..." Oh, this is troublesome. With this child here, they can't let go of the investigation. They have to find a way to get rid of him.
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Kujuku Bunno say to him in a very familiar voice: "Let the adults stay and talk, you go shopping with me - I have a lot of things to buy."
Conan: "?" Why do you classify me as a kid without authorization? I am an adult too, I want to investigate cases too!
Seeing this strong little girl reaching out to pull someone, he immediately became alert, and quickly retreated behind Jiang Xia, holding on to this sturdy thigh tightly to avoid being dragged away by the enthusiastic child.
"You don't want to go... Humph, well, it just so happens that you boys don't know how to pick clothes." Kujuku Fumino couldn't pull Conan and Jiang Xia, so she had to hug Mrs. Kujuku's arm instead, "Then mom, let's go."
"This..." Mrs. Jiujiu looked embarrassed: Although she always felt that her husband would not commit suicide easily, but in the face of so much evidence, this suspicion was not too serious.
The reason why she kept taking a detour to the detective agency that was closed all year round was just because she subconsciously wanted to try her luck - according to her original plan, she was indeed going to go shopping with her children today.
But who would have thought that after going to Jiang Xia's detective agency, she actually met Jiang Xia, and then... things just happened naturally to the current situation.
Now that the famous detective has been invited to my home, it would be bad to just leave him there.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Jiujiu was forced to make a pigeon sound: "Mom suddenly has something important to do today, how about you..."
"No!" Jiujiu Fumino interrupted her angrily, "You liar! We agreed to go shopping today... and dad, my birthday is coming soon, but he still has to go on a business trip abroad. You two just lie to me day after day. I, I hate you!"
Mrs. Jiujiu looked at her and sighed worriedly.
Seeing this, Sanhao Mazi leaned over and touched the child's head: "Don't cry, sister will accompany you, okay? - You have seen my performance, you should know that sister is very good at matching clothes, I will help you match a few of the most beautiful ones, okay?"
Jiujiu Fumino looked at this reliable and beautiful sister and stopped crying in a second: "Okay!"
Mrs. Jiujiu heaved a sigh of relief when she saw this. She looked at the thoughtful female apprentice and said, "Then I'll trouble you."
Miyoshi Mako smiled at her, took the little girl and left.
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As soon as the door closed, the figure of the senior sister disappeared at the door. Baidi Yushi immediately grumbled: "I just realized that the pigeon magic she performed was actually performed with my pigeons - taking other people's pigeons at random, it's too much! Doesn't she have her own pigeons?"
"Your pigeon lofts are very close to each other, so they must have been mixed up accidentally." Mrs. Jiujiu sighed helplessly, "It seems that the death of my husband has also had a big impact on Asako."
Amuro Toru glanced at Momochi Yuji and said, "Compared to your two fellow disciples, you don't look sad at all."
"Haha, after all, I just got started not long ago, and my master has been dead for more than a week. After such a long time, as an adult, I should have adjusted my emotions." Baidi Yushi smiled awkwardly, "You guys check first, I'll go make dinner."
He waved goodbye to everyone and went to the kitchen.
Conan poked his head out from behind Jiang Xia and felt a little strange: "Here, the male apprentices are responsible for cooking?"
Mrs. Jiujiu explained, "It has nothing to do with gender. In our family, we have always let the last disciple to join the family, that is, the younger apprentice brother or sister, do these chores."
Amuro Toru nodded, not surprised: apprentices from all walks of life would mostly help their teachers with odd jobs, such as him and Jiang Xia... Hmm? Speaking of which, Jiang Xia seemed to be getting more and more lazy to work.
However, asking the younger generation to do odd jobs is considered a traditional bad habit. If they don't want to do it, then don't do it. There isn't much work in a detective agency anyway.
He put away his thoughts and said to Mrs. Jiujiu: "Let's get back to the point. Take us to the place where your husband's body was found."
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Jiujiu Yuankang was well paid and wealthy, and he was obviously not a frugal person, as his mansion was as magnificent as a maze.
Led by Mrs. Jiujiu, the group turned several roads and finally saw a stone staircase leading downwards.
Walking down the stairs, a door appeared in front of them. Jiang Xia pushed the door open and turned on the light. An extremely spacious basement suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"This is my husband's special magic room." Mrs. Jiujiu looked at the dusty room with nostalgia. "He usually studies magic here and improves his skills. In addition to him, his apprentices would come here occasionally."
Jiang Xia looked up at the walls - on the upper half of the four walls, there was a portrait hung every 30 centimeters.
Some of the people in the photos are holding balls of light, some are holding rings, and some are floating in the air... Every one of them is a magician of some kind, and a rough glance shows that there are dozens of people.
Jiang Xia: "..." If Akai Shuichi saw this room, his life would be fulfilled. I don't know if he would miss Uzo who provided him with the job in the middle of the night when he was too busy working overtime, and generously emit a few wisps of colorless murderous aura - thinking about this, I should take a photo and share it with him.
...Unfortunately, that seems a bit deliberate. Let's just wait for the FBI who likes to follow clues to find this surprise house himself.
Next to him, Mrs. Jiujiu saw that his eyes were fixed on the photos and explained considerately, "These are all my husband's students."
Amuro Toru: “…?” So many? If we check them one by one…
Mrs. Jiujiu didn't notice his slightly blue face. She continued with a nostalgic look on her face, "Whether it was a successful start or a failed attempt, my husband took photos of all of them and put them here as a commemoration of his entire magic career."
Conan looked at the long row of neatly arranged photos on the wall and was also shocked at the magician's ability to recruit disciples.
Suddenly, his eyes intuitively stopped on a certain photo. Frowning and looking at it for a moment, Conan asked Mrs. Ninety-Nine: "Who is the magician wearing a black hat and holding a ball of fire in his hand?"
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