Chapter 3435 3447 [Devil Card] Ask for monthly ticket ヽ(〃〃)~
Under the gaze of Jiang Xia and Maori Kogoro, the curtain slowly opened on the stage opposite the bar.
In the center of the curtain, with a sinister low laugh, a middle-aged man wearing a sailor hat emerged from the beam of light.
"Wandering on the road to Hades, hesitant demons and monsters..." He suddenly looked up, revealing a skull-like face with a mustache. "Welcome to my 'Sea Ghost'! - I am the captain of this ship, God!"
Bang bang bang!
There was applause from the audience.
Amidst the flood of responses, the Ghost Captain continued with satisfaction, "There's still an hour until the dinner begins. During this time, please find a partner whose fate is connected to yours—find six other partners who share the same mark as you!"
"Same engraving?" Kogoro Mouri was confused when he heard this mysterious statement.
Since there was no one around, he didn't need to worry about his detective image. He simply scratched his head and, like his former boss, Inspector Megure, turned to the side and asked, "What does this mean?"
Jiang Xia raised his hand, revealing the long, narrow card in his hand. "When we boarded the ship just now, didn't the staff give us a tarot card like this? 'Same Engraving', so it should mean the cards have the same face."
"This." Kogoro Mouri didn't pay any attention to the card. He thought it was a small promotional card given by the organizer. If he hadn't come across a trash can along the way, he would probably have thrown the card away.
And now…
Kogoro Mouri searched his pockets and finally found it.
When I pulled it out and looked at it, I saw a picture of a black goat on it. It had a pair of large curved horns on its head and a blood-red five-pointed star in the center of its forehead. It was smiling coldly with its head down in a very human way.
Above and below the portrait of the black goat are written the letters "XV" and "THE DEVIL" respectively.
Maori Kogoro glanced at "DEVIL" and thought each letter looked familiar, but the combination was completely unfamiliar. However, he quickly understood the meaning of the word by looking at the picture: "This means goat, right? So, we are members of the goat team and will team up with other goat team members to play games?"
Vodka, who was eavesdropping from a distance, couldn't help but laugh when he heard this:
"Hey, he doesn't even recognize a word like 'devil' that often appears in serial murder case files. Is this guy a serious detective?
"Furthermore, Ms. Yoko used 'DEVIL' as the theme for her concert last September. This guy with a mustache doesn't even know that, and he still has the nerve to call himself a fan of Ms. Yoko... He's really embarrassing our fan group!"
As he was laughing, Vodka suddenly realized something and his smile froze on his face.
"'We are members of the Goat Team'... Why did Maori Kogoro say 'we'?"
Vodka looked at Kogoro Mouri, then looked at Jiang Xia who was holding a deck of cards opposite him. Finally, he lowered his head and looked at the cards in his hand in disbelief.
In the narrow frame, the black goat's strange eyes stared straight at him, as if giving him a vicious smile.
The Ghost Captain's words just now began to echo in my mind:
Find someone with the same mark.
Become partners.
Vodka: “…”
Vodka: “!!!”
…
Kogoro Mouri didn't know that in the corner of the ghost ship, someone had just laughed at him.
He was holding the card and was about to complain to Jiang Xia about the ghost captain's naming skills when a female voice came from the side.
"Medusa," with her snake-like hair stretching out in all directions, chuckled softly under Kogoro Maori's stiff gaze, "That word isn't 'goat'—XV is actually the Roman numeral 15, and as for 'THE DEVIL' below, it's actually 'devil'."
"Ah, yes!" Kogoro Mouri agreed awkwardly: his admiration for beauty made him want to get close to Ms. Medusa and spend a wonderful party with her, but his fear of the poisonous snakes on her head made him firmly maintain a sufficient social distance.
Medusa on the opposite side smiled, not minding the closeness at all. She came to the other side of Jiang Xia, pulled out a chair naturally, and sat down.
Snapping her fingers and ordering a drink, Medusa leaned lazily against the bar and continued, "Also, the organizers deliberately divided the groups not just for games—you may not know that tonight's party is actually a movie casting meeting."
Maori Kogoro looked at her venomous hair that was bouncing around, as if it would pass over Jiang Xia and touch his face in the next second: "..." Why are you sitting so close! ...Can you take off those scary hair of yours first!
...Luckily, there's Jiang Xia in between. Anyway, why would such a beautiful woman need such scary makeup? Isn't it nice to dress up as a witch or something?
Kogoro Mouri, who was a little afraid of snakes, was screaming in his heart, but he refused to show it on his face.
For the sake of his manliness, he could only take a deep breath and chat casually: "Casting meeting?"
"That's right." Medusa smiled, "Every summer, a famous movie is released, namely the Voyage of the Dead Captain series."
"Oh, I think I've seen a few of them." Maori Kogoro actually had some impression of them. "Is it the horror movie where every time a villain does something bad, a ghost ship full of monsters comes to find him and scares him to death?"
Medusa nodded gracefully. "That is to say, tonight, if a guest plays a monster well enough, then he or she has a chance to be chosen by the captain to appear in this summer's movie."
As she spoke, she looked at Jiang Xia and smiled, "Are you interested in this movie? - Speaking of which, what role do you play, the Skeleton Wizard?"
"..." It sounded more stylish than the "Rainy Night Killer" that Maori Kogoro had guessed, so Jiang Xia tactfully corrected him, "You could say that. It could also be another character, the 'God of Death'."
As he said this, he snapped his fingers and summoned the "soul he had just harvested", hoping to get good luck.
"Wow!" Medusa's eyes lit up. She took the bouncy white ball, pinched its cheek, and then patted it curiously. "How did you make it? It's so big. Where did you hide it just now?"
Jiang Xia smiled but said nothing.
Next to him, the bandaged man who boarded the boat with Medusa: "..."
Kudo! Your mom jumped on Jiang Xia's face as soon as she got on the boat. How long do you think you can keep this secret?
The only thing to be thankful for is that the ship has already left, and even if Jiang Xia wants to go to the other side, it is too late.
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