"What? It's just a trap!"
Yu Quanyuanxin opened his eyes wide in astonishment and stuttered, "Then, what should we do now?"
"Now, we are all trapped in a jar. In the end, only one person can survive." Qichuan Yuan thought for a while, and then looked at Yuquan Yuanxin steadily: "The best way now is to find the Hecate card and try to escape, or we can only wait. I hope you can cooperate."
"If you'd like to say it."
Yu Quanyuanxin was stunned. He lowered his head, his hands moving uncontrollably, his expression complicated, and his heart seemed to be pulling madly.
After a long while, he nodded: "Okay, I'll tell you everything."
Matsuda Jinpei sighed and moved his shoulders. "Wouldn't it have been better if it had been like this earlier?"
"Okay, what's your card?"
"I am not Hecate either," Yu Quanyuanxin took out a card from his pocket. "Like Jiang Zi, I am also Aglaia, the goddess of light."
"It's not Hecate either."
Conan couldn't help but show his dead fish eyes: "What's wrong with you guys? You are not Hecate, so why don't you just show your card face? Isn't it more dangerous to hide like this?"
Yu Quanyuan coughed awkwardly a few times, "If it's not Hecate, it would be dangerous, wouldn't it? If they knew it wasn't Hecate, what if they..."
"You're overthinking it," said Sugawa Gen coldly, "Since he left us time to play the game, he shouldn't break the contract. Why do you think they would do such a thing?"
Matsuda Jinpei narrowed his eyes, "Then the only unknown cards left are those four people."
Eto Hara, Hashiki Yu, Bell, and that guy who gave him a strange feeling.
But Vermode should not be Hecate. If she were, she would definitely declare it to everyone. Although she always says "Asecre akesawomanwoman", but...
This person loves to watch the excitement, and definitely hopes that it is as chaotic as possible.
Sugawa Gen inexplicably thought of Gin who had been pissed off by Belmode many times:
So, it's impossible, that woman would not be so content.
Now only Bourbon, Eto Hara and Hashiki Yu are likely to wait!
"Wait a moment!"
Conan raised his head suddenly, and the two of them spoke at the same time.
"I will take you to heaven and hell. There is only one Hecate. Is there a possibility..."
Matsuda Jinpei immediately followed up, "We don't have Hecate at all."
"He gave us hope, but it was just a facade. In the final analysis, he just wanted to see us struggle hard in the end. No, he wanted to see us kill each other. It's really despicable."
He pressed his forehead with a headache, "So are we just going to sit here and wait for death?"
"Of course not. Conan and Sugawa Gen looked at each other and said, "Maybe Hecate's card is still in this villa."
Matsuda Jinpei was stunned, and suddenly thought of something, and said uncertainly: "You mean..."
"Yes! This must be it, the only remaining, unique Hecate that has appeared before!"
If I guessed correctly, if the maid hadn't taken it away, then the card must be there, must be there - "It is indeed! It is right here, Hecate!"
Using visual illusion to deceive people, it seems that the card has been put into the pocket. But in fact, it is just casually placed on the silver tableware. Because everyone's attention is on their own cards, no one will notice that the silver card is placed aside.
Matsuda Jinpei sighed silently: "Really, how brave."
If no one noticed this card, even if they were punished at the end of the game, they probably wouldn't understand why.
Is the most dangerous place the safest place?
They sat at the table with complicated expressions. The silver cards were spread out in the center of the table, flashing a little.
Finally, Qichuan Yuan couldn't help but yawn: "Really, I'm so sleepy. Now that we have found it, we should go to rest."
But just as he finished speaking, a strange piano sound rang out in the room again. This time the music was not as chaotic as the previous ones. It sounded a little familiar. Qichuan Yuan frowned and murmured, "Seven children?"
"Congratulations everyone, the game has been successfully completed."
It was the voice of the brown-haired waitress, slowly echoing in the empty room. Matsuda Jinpei knocked on the table, a little impatient: "Okay, stop playing tricks, and explain everything quickly."
"Congratulations to the goddess of night and the goddess of dawn for finally getting Hecate. As a reward, Hecate will present you with the most beautiful music. Please enjoy the most moving dance and the craziest painting."
They looked at the screaming Yu Quanyuanxin in astonishment. Suddenly, several mechanical arms appeared at his location and firmly held down his limbs. At the same time, a knife flashing with cold light was controlled to stab his legs. By the time Matsuda Jinping had fully reacted and rushed over to organize, everything was over. The mechanical arms retracted into the ground.
The protrusions on the mechanism made a slight pop, and then the notches immediately merged together seamlessly.
Yu Quanyuanxin fell to the ground in pain, his legs twitching. The knife had directly severed his tendons, and his ligaments were also cut off over a large area.
Qichuan Gen subconsciously covered the eyes of the two children and had difficulty making out the words on his leg: "Another sin..."
"Oops!"
Conan's face changed. He pulled the hand away from his eyes, turned around and rushed to the second floor. "The person whose card is not Night and Dawn is in danger!"
Unfortunately, when the people downstairs felt that everything seemed to be over when they returned upstairs, the piano piece of "Seven Children" also ended with the last note, and in the empty corridor, only the intermittent screams echoed.
Maori Kogoro yawned sleepily: "Come on, what's wrong? Do you still want to sleep?"
Conan gritted his teeth and rushed over, "Why are you sleeping? Someone is in trouble!"
He pushed open the doors one by one until suddenly a door opened automatically, revealing a pair of slender legs in front of him. He raised his head and faced the smiling younger brother of the pair. Conan's heart sank. This person was fine!
Then, the black-haired, blue-eyed sister came out with an angry expression: "I'm very upset. What's going on?"
She's fine too!
What they heard was definitely not just one person's scream, it was Eto Hara and Hashiki Yu!
"Sure enough, Sugawa Gen pushed open the remaining doors and finally found two artists with bloodshot eyes in two adjacent rooms.
The painter and the pianist, their delicate exteriors completely shattered, fell to their knees on the ground, staring at their bloody hands, their most important parts.
The sleepiness in Maori Kogoro's mind disappeared instantly, and he hurried over with a serious expression: "What's going on?"
"The game is over. Just now, we found the only Hecate in the living room, and then it became like this."
Gen Sugawa and Jinpei Matsuda quickly helped the two men stop their bleeding and comforted the two artists who were shaking wildly.
Maori Kogoro raised his voice in surprise: "The game is over?"
"Yes, distinguished guests."
Everyone was stunned, watching the brown-haired lady who appeared on the second floor at some point, smiling and clapping her hands. Then a group of black-haired waitresses walked up to the two artists with white medical kits in their hands, with their heads bowed, to treat their wounds.
The brown-haired lady bowed slightly to the group and said, "Please move to the living room. I will explain everything to you."
Jinpei Matsuda suppressed his nausea and disgust: "So this isn't a game, it's just a reason to punish?
Madam, what you said is a little too ridiculous."
"What qualifications do you have to punish them at will? Even if they really did something wrong, the police should punish them. Your behavior is illegal, do you know?"
Sugawa Gen grabbed the corner of Matsuda Jinpei's clothes and held him back. He said calmly, "So what you mean is that even if no one finds Hecate in the end, we won't be punished, right?"
"No, someone will find it."
The brown-haired lady denied it with a smile.
"The master has taken your professions into consideration when inviting you. He has placed the curious detective and the responsible police officer in different teams of innocent people. As long as someone finds out, the game will end."
"Even if you haven't found it, we will guide you to find it."
"'Detectives and police officers are not so useless that they cannot solve simple puzzles like this', that's what the master said, so no matter what, we will not harm innocent people."
The lines between Matsuda Jinpei's eyebrows deepened. He said solemnly, "Don't try to find excuses for yourself. It is an indisputable fact that you killed Kobayakawa Eko. And you have caused personal injury to innocent citizens."
"No, Mr. Matsuda, you are wrong," the brown-haired lady smiled and tilted her head. "We did not kill Ms. Kobayakawa. We just punished her according to the rules. It was only during her struggle that she triggered the self-protection mechanism of the agency, which caused the knife to pierce her throat."
"Moreover, these gentlemen and ladies are not innocent. In addition, before the game started, everyone had signed a life and death contract with us. Therefore, if any accident occurs during the game, it is protected by law and we will not be punished."
"What life and death contract?"
"You may not know this, but this is a contract we prepared specifically for these five evil gentlemen and ladies, and they had already signed it in previous transactions. That's why they dared not say anything when they were punished."
Qichuan Yuanmin frowned sharply, deal?
"The one they are talking about is your master, right?"
The brown-haired waitress blinked slowly, like a machine, and nodded: "Yes, because these five sinful gentlemen and ladies have already touched the master's reverse scale, so the master wants us to punish them."
“Can I ask why they were punished like this?”
The brown-haired maid paused, the smile on her face slowly disappeared, and the strange light in her eyes suddenly disappeared, as if the power was suddenly cut off, and she stared at Qichuan Yuan expressionlessly.
Youyou said: "My child, you have the most precious and beautiful blue eyes like the starry sky, and the most adorable black curly hair. Hurting such people is like hurting my child. I can't let these evil people go."
She suddenly laughed again, "These are the words of the master."