Humanoid self-propelled wishing machine

Chapter 77

"A girl who looks similar to Reo Tsushima?"

Edogawa Conan learned such a clue from Haibara Ai, but he didn't expect to be related to Tsushima Reo, he was a little dazed, and then he recovered and wanted to ask again.

But a screeching sound of brakes not far away interrupted their conversation.

Edogawa Conan turned his head subconsciously, and saw a silver-white van brake suddenly seven or eight meters away from them. The strong rubber tires rubbed against the rough asphalt ground and left a long brake mark. , and stopped after shaking violently.

The car door opened without delay, and only two men in black suits and uniforms got out from above.

They all wore some rustic black-rimmed glasses, walked towards Police Officer Mu Mu in a hurry and with a clear goal, and had a brief conversation with him.

Conan was keenly aware of something, and took a few steps closer to listen to his conversation, but only heard the last strange words that didn't make any sense.

"...I'll leave it to you guys from now on."

That's what Police Officer Mumu said. After he nodded to the two men, he pulled off the security belt and let them enter the crime scene.

Conan didn't have time to think about it, and just pretended to run past the two of them carelessly. When he bumped into the arm of one of them, he moved lightly and quickly and stuffed the pistol he was carrying with him into his pocket.

The man was knocked sideways by him, so he didn't notice the heavy feeling in his pocket. He only staggered a few steps, and just when he stood up straight, he heard Conan's apology.

"I'm sorry, uncle!" Conan said to the man pretending to be cute.

"Ah, it's okay."

It was just a child, and Hiroto Masuyama, a member of the [window] organization who came to investigate the accident, didn't care too much. After waving his hand, he followed in the footsteps of his companions and continued towards the cat cafe.

And Conan hid in a relatively hidden place, and Haibara Ai also trotted to his side and asked, "Do you think there is something wrong with those two people?"

"Officer Megure treated them suspiciously," Conan said. "He put them into the scene of the crime easily, and said something like 'I'll leave it to you,' which is like treating the former It’s the same as the foreign aid who came to help.”

He pointed to the backs of the two men and said to Hui Yuanai, "Look, they didn't carry any special tools with them, just paper and pens for recording."

"But more, the information is not enough, there is no way to fully judge, we can only pass this." Edogawa Conan squeezed the badge used to listen to the voice in his hand, "From their conversation, it should be more or less Get a little bit of information."

"Actually, I suggest you don't bother with this matter anymore." Hui Yuanai said lightly.

Conan said, "I have no choice but to ignore the case that happened in front of me. I must find out the truth."

Nourishes—

At this time, the bug that Conan put in Masuyama Hiroto's pocket started to work, making a slight current noise, and also transmitted some distorted conversations and dialogues.

Conan held his breath and focused on listening to the sound coming from the small instrument.

"...Why... Yes, can you see clearly the incompleteness of the spell?"

It was a bit stuttering and intermittent at the beginning, but after it started to work, after a while, the sound from the bug became normal and smooth.

"Well, it can be roughly seen that only the place where the deceased lay has human-like curse power, especially in the abdomen. This kind of magic power is concentrated in one place, restrained and not wasted. events caused by the spirit."

"If you say that, is it a curse master?"

"There is a high probability that it is. Have you read the information sent by the police before? Compare the shape of the deceased's body and the remaining curse power, and rule out which curse master did it."

"okay, I get it."

The sound of footsteps, clothes rubbing, mobile phone keys, paper flipping, pen tip falling on the paper and writing.

Fragile voices came from the bug, and after a moment of silence on the other side, someone started the topic again as if chatting.

"But it's meaningless to do so, at best, it can only add a crime to the wanted list of the cursed master."

"Because the number of curse masters is seriously insufficient, there is a shortage of manpower just to deal with the cases of curse spirits in various places. There is not so much free time to deal with those curse masters. Most of the arrest warrants are equivalent to issuing a curse master. ID card, just to confirm that they have been excluded from the group of conjurers."

"Conjurers don't have time to hunt down curse masters, and ordinary people have nothing to do with curse masters, so can't they do whatever they want?"

"Ah...that's about it, but if they make too much noise, the higher-ups won't sit idly by. All in all, we just need to do our jobs well."

"By the way, just now I found a curse master whose spell is similar to this case."

"Well, tell me."

"It's still a curse master from the Yusan family. His name is Kamo Face Leaf, and he has a spell called [Drowning]. Because he was born in a branch family, and he didn't inherit the Kamo family's red blood manipulation, his spell power is also very low. Therefore, he has never been taken seriously, and when he became an adult, he left the Kamo family, defected and became a curse master, a scum that only preys on ordinary people."

"sure?"

"Well, the filthy mantra has a reddish color, and there are small burr-like sharp shapes on the edge, which is basically the same as the characteristics of the mantra of the conjurer of Kamo's family. Kamo's face leaves are quite unique. It is rare among the curse masters to create such a corpse with very little spell power to activate the spell, so there is nothing wrong with it."

"However, if conditions permit, it's best to ask a conjurer who has been in contact with Kamo Mianba to come and confirm."

"The conjurer doesn't have so much time to come here specially for such a small role. Now that it's confirmed, remember to make two copies when writing the report, and send one to Kamo's house."

"Okay, I see."

"But why did Kamo Minha attack a little girl?"

"Aren't curse masters killing innocent people indiscriminately like this? Maybe it's just not pleasing to the eye."

The conversation ended here. Their work was simple, fast, and highly efficient. After a while, they walked out of the inside, handed a piece of white paper full of information to Police Officer Mumu, and spoke to the dead girl again. expressed condolences.

And Conan's head was a little confused from the beginning.

What spell?What filth?What spell?What conjurer?What curse master?What is the formula?

There were too many unfamiliar and incomprehensible words. He clearly heard every word clearly, but he couldn't understand it at all.

He could only understand the literal meaning a little bit with difficulty.

Cursed spirits, presumably cursed ghosts.

A conjurer, a person who uses conjuration, is probably a profession similar to that of an onmyoji?

Curse master, curse master, what is it? !

Conan was a little crazy. Rather, what he learned from those two people made him feel that his world view had been reshaped. After all, there had never been such a supernatural thing in his world before.

……Do not.

In Edogawa Conan's mind, the flashing ghostly image he saw on Tsushima Reo slowly emerged.

In fact, I have seen it.

It was because he couldn't accept it himself, so he refused to admit it like an evasion, and believed that it was an illusion or something, but in fact, he also understood in his heart that that scene was not an illusion, but reality, so he heard the two people. During the conversation, I immediately realized that this is a world I have never been in contact with, and it is not something like a code name.

No matter how unbelievable, after eliminating all the impossible, what remains is the truth!

Since it is the answer I have come up with after careful thinking and logical reasoning, it is a fact that I need to accept—there is such a group in this world that hides deeply and is usually unknown. The monsters described in the legend may also exist.

Although it was almost equivalent to refreshing the world view from scratch, Conan calmed down very quickly and continued to think along the clues he got from the bug.

He rearranged his thoughts, starting from the first two cases that happened in the cat cafe.

First of all, the first case was the abduction case. The prisoner was a member of the black organization. Judging from the current clues, his intention and purpose are very likely to be related to Tsushima Reo’s brother, who has now been killed by Tsushima Reo. , it's over.

The second case was a homicide case, and the culprit was Kamo Miyo, the curse master. Edogawa Conan can now confirm that the handprint they found on the cat before was left by Kamo Miyo.

From the very beginning, he wondered how the members of the black organization would have dirty hands and carelessly make the mistake of leaving their own fingerprints, and he had already observed carefully when he was following the kidnappers. The criminal's palms were not stained with obvious dust.

Now it can be explained. According to the description of those two people, Kamo Mianba is like a wanted criminal in their group. If you refer to the situation of the wanted criminal in reality, he will be dirty and has a hot temper. logical.

According to the analysis from the reports so far, Yuzu Jun, who is an ordinary person, has no communication with or enmity with Kamo Menha, who is a curse master, except for the possibility that Kamo Menha randomly killed people purely for his own pleasure. In addition to sex, it is more likely that he will come to Tsushima Reo.

Maybe Kamo face leaf recognized the wrong person because of Yuzujun's similar appearance to Tsushima Reyo, and then after finding out that he had found the wrong person, he killed someone in order not to expose himself, or purely out of anger, waiting for him After chasing after him one step later, it happened that the members of the black organization had already taken Reo Tsushima away at that time. Kamo Minha, who had lost Reo Tsushima's whereabouts, had no choice but to leave first.

But Conan, who knows nothing about the magic world, can't know what secrets Tsushima Reyo has that can attract the curse master.

Everything stops here.

Even the prisoners who already knew about the two cases could almost deduce the course and cause of the cases, but one prisoner died before being punished by law, and the other prisoner was not within the jurisdiction of ordinary people at all, even if he knew Names don't help either.

There is also that Reo Tsushima whose hands were stained with blood at a young age. The mystery entangled in him is complex and huge, shrouding Conan in a dark mist.

Obviously the two cases are almost solved, but Edogawa Conan's heart does not have the exhilarating feeling of reasoning to the heart, only the feeling of powerlessness and aggrieved feeling that he can't do anything, and The feeling of scratching one's lungs that one is obviously curious but cannot be explained is especially strong for a person with such a strong curiosity like him.

hateful!

I really want to know what a conjurer is?What secret is Tsushima Reo hiding?What is the identity of his brother?Why are you associated with the Black Organization?How on earth did Kamo Noodleha make Yutsujun look like that?

The doubts and confusion in his heart piled up, and he almost forgot that he asked police officer Mu Mu to find the kidnapper's body.

It just so happened that when the two of them were chatting with Police Officer Mu Mu, the police officer who was in charge of finding the corpse in the alley came back.

"...I didn't see any corpses or bloodstains, but I did detect blood residue and gunpowder smoke reaction at that location on the map, so it should have been cleaned up by someone."

It's the Black Organization!

Edogawa Conan frowned, this guess almost certainly emerged in his heart, and he couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

Estimated the time difference, almost shortly after he left, the black organization sent someone to clean up the mess.

However, this also overturned his previous guess about Osamu Dazai. From this point of view, he and the Black Organization did not seem to be in a hostile relationship. After all, if Dazai did not inform, even if the Black Organization was aware of the death of a member, It is also impossible to clean up even the blood in such a short period of time.

Hui Yuanai pushed him, "What are you thinking, you heard it too, this case is over, the next thing is beyond your control, we should go back."

She also did not expect that people from the magic world would rush to clean up the mess so soon, and her previous concealment from Conan was meaningless.

It was also at this time that Conan realized Haibara Ai's indifference to those conversations just now.

"Did you already know?"

Conan didn't say it clearly, but Haibara Ai already knew what he was asking.

"Well, but it's not much more than what you know." Hui Yuanai shrugged his shoulders without any fluctuations on his face, "I can only tell you that what you just heard is true."

"This world is very complicated, but it's not much more complicated than what you know. Don't think too much, just live as usual." She warned Edogawa Conan, "Don't listen, don't look, and don't pursue it. Restrain your excess curiosity, it is best to stay away from them, otherwise, only misfortune will greet you."