Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 130: Kogoro Mouri: Shuichi, it’s my turn to hug you!

The purple-haired girl was taken away by ambulance, and Lin Xiuyi stayed to explain the situation to the police.

Inspector Megure was responsible for taking the statement, while Inspector Samezaki, who led the team, led the police officers into the haunted house to search for the three robbers.

"By the way, I have to give this to you first," Lin Xiuyi said, taking out a pistol and bullets and handing them over, "I got all this from that bandit leader."

"Uh..." Inspector Megure looked at the murder weapon in front of him with some fear, "Lin Jun, this incident is really dangerous. You shouldn't have gotten involved."

"If I hadn't intervened, the girl would most likely not have survived. Now, at least she's been taken away by ambulance for emergency treatment," Lin Xiu said with a smile. "Isn't this a great outcome?"

"You..." Inspector Megure shook his head helplessly, then picked up the pen, "Then let's start from when you discovered something was wrong."

"My friends and I were riding on the Ferris wheel, and Reiko was the first to notice..."

As soon as Lin Xiuyi said this, he heard someone calling his name not far away. Looking in the direction of the voice, it was Kisaki Eri and the others. The four of them were being stopped outside the cordon by police officers.

"Let them in," Inspector Megure waved.

"Shuichi!"

Hibiki Eri was the first to run to Lin Xiuyi's side. She checked him up and down, and after making sure he wasn't injured, the girl hugged her childhood sweetheart and said with red eyes, "I just saw the ambulance arrive and heard them say someone was shot. I was so scared!"

"Don't worry, it's not the one that's hurt..." Before Lin Xiu finished speaking, Fujimine Yukiko and Reiko also ran to his side and hugged him tightly.

"Onii-chan!" The little cousin's voice was still tearful.

"You idiot, you're just trying to show off!" Fujimine Yukiko cursed, wiping her tears. "Do you know how worried we were about you just now?"

Inspector Megure, standing next to him, looked at the scene with a complicated expression. Why weren't there so many beautiful girls who cared about me? Isn't my job dangerous too?

"Mr. Lin, I'll come back to take your statement later."

After saying that, with the idea that out of sight can bring peace of mind, Inspector Megure hurried into the haunted house to help others search for the robber.

The three girls cried for a long time until Lin Xiuyi's short-sleeved shirt was completely soaked, and then they let him go.

Just as Lin Xiuyi was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Maori Kogoro excitedly opened his arms: "Xiushi, it's my turn!"

"You'd better give up," Lin Xiuyi said, hiding away in disgust.

"You're such a jerk!" Maori Kogoro complained. "By the way, didn't they say someone got shot? Could it be that beautiful lady in shorts and black stockings?"

"You guessed right," Lin Xiu nodded. "She had a conflict with the robbers in the ice cream shop and was accidentally shot. Then she fled into the haunted house."

"Is she okay?" Fujimine Yukiko asked with concern, "Will she..."

"It's hard to say," Lin Xiuyi said in a deep voice, "When I found her, she was still conscious. She fell into a coma later, probably due to excessive blood loss. Now we can only wait for news from the hospital."

"Conflict?" Kisaki Eri guessed, "Did she find what the bandits were looking for?"

"Yes, a ruby as big as a pigeon egg," Lin Xiuyi gestured roughly, "It's the one that was lost in Jewelry Street a week ago."

"I remember this incident was reported in the newspaper," Fujimine Yukiko tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Oh, and the newspaper also said that it was done by that Phantom Thief Lady!"

"It seems these bandits must have impersonated the Phantom Thief Lady and stolen the ruby from the shopping district," said Hayashi Shuichi. "Afterwards, they had a quarrel, and someone hid the ruby in the Orikasa family's flower shop." "Orikasa is really lucky," Fujimine Yukiko said thankfully. "If she and her mother had stayed in the flower shop last night, it would have been terrible."

"Phantom Thief Lady?"

Kisaki Eri frowned, she remembered what Lin Xiuyi had said before: 'I can't say her identity, but in short, she can't be considered a good person, but she is definitely not a bad person either.'

The girl's heart suddenly moved: "Xiuyi, could she be..."

Lin Xiuyi quickly reached out and covered her mouth: "There are some things you can't say carelessly."

"Yeah," Feiying nodded in understanding.

"Onii-chan, what are you talking about?" Lingzi inserted herself between the two of them, looking dissatisfied. "What can't you say casually?"

"That's up to you to guess," Lin Xiuyi patted his cousin's cat-ear hat. "If Yingli can figure it out, you can definitely figure it out too."

Reiko was already dissatisfied with Kisaki Eri, and when she heard her brother's words, she stopped asking questions and started thinking for herself.

Seeing this, Fujimine Yukiko next to her had no choice but to give up the question that was already on her tiptoe and began to ponder.

"That's not difficult at all," Maori Kogoro laughed triumphantly, "I figured it out a long time ago."

"Tell me about it," Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.

"That purple-haired lady must be the plainclothes officer assigned by the police to search for the gems," Maori Kogoro said confidently. "The reason Shuichi didn't reveal her identity before was because he was worried that the robbers would hear her."

"Uh……"

Lin Xiuyi blinked speechlessly. This guy, Mouri Kogoro, always has such a clear mind as long as the matter is not related to the people around him.

"Idiot," Fujimine Yukiko said angrily, "If she really was in plain clothes, then why didn't Shuichi let the girl with glasses say it just now?"

"This..." Maori Kogoro was stunned for a moment before he noticed this. "Oh right, that lady must have a mission that she hasn't completed yet, so she still can't reveal her identity. What do you think, Xiuyi, am I right?"

"What a pity," Lin Xiuyi made a cross, "all wrong!"

"No way? I guessed wrong?" Maori Kogoro scratched his head in frustration. "But besides being in plain clothes, she has no other reason to fight with robbers for the gems? She can't be a thief too, right?"

As soon as he said the correct answer, he immediately denied it: "No, that's not right. How could such a beautiful girl be a thief!"

"Thief..." Lingzi's eyes lit up, and she leaned over to Lin Xiuyi's ear and whispered, "Onii-chan, that sister is the Phantom Thief Lady. She's looking for the gem to clear her name, right?"

"Yes, you're right," Lin Xiuyi smiled and picked up his little cousin and spun her around. "Lingzi is so smart. She will definitely become an excellent prosecutor like her uncle and aunt in the future."

"Hehe," Lingzi glanced at Kisaki Eri with pride, "Sister Eri, I will definitely defeat you in court in the future."

"Then we'll just have to wait and see," Hibiki Eri snorted disdainfully.

Next to her, Yukiko Fujimine looked at Eri Kisaki and then at Reiko. Although she was curious about the answer, the more she thought about it, the more her head hurt.

Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore. I’m not planning to be a lawyer or prosecutor!

(End of this chapter)