Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 237 I’m still a child. If you hit me again, the police will not let you go!

They were different from the bad girls wearing modified school uniforms under Orikasa Midori that Lin Xiuyi had seen before.

This time, the two of them were surrounded by a group of boys wearing strange clothes and with colorful hair.

They all dressed extravagantly, some wore leather jackets studded with rivets, some had their school pants cut into ripped styles, and some had their hair dyed in rainbow colors, shining with the dazzling luster unique to cheap hair dye in the sunset.

The one in the lead had red hair that was fixed into a spikey shape with hairspray, looking like a hedgehog with its fur frizzing.

He tilted his mouth and looked up and down at Lin Xiuyi with a provocative look. Suddenly, he grinned, revealing the silver studs inlaid on his canine teeth: "Hey, am I seeing right?"

The boy deliberately stretched out his voice and twirled the metal chain around his neck with his fingers.

"Our big sister Orikasa is actually in love? And she found such a weak and frail pretty boy?"

A trace of displeasure flashed across Orikasa Midori's face. He waved his hand impatiently and said in a cold tone, "Igawa, stop talking nonsense here. Get out of here. I don't want to see you!"

"Yo, you don't want to see me, but I want to see you, Orikasa,"

Hedgehog-headed Jingchuan sneered, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.
"Last year, I confessed my love to you, but you rejected me in public, embarrassing me in front of my brothers. Now that you've found a boyfriend, I want to see what he has in him to be able to charm you!"

After he finished speaking, the bad brothers under Hedgehog Head started to make noises and whistle, all with expressions that looked like they were enjoying the show.

"Jingchuan, Senior Lin is not my boyfriend! I asked him to come here for something serious."

Orikasa Midori was angry and her face turned red. She subconsciously got off the bicycle seat and wanted to teach Igawa a lesson.

But she forgot that her foot was injured. As soon as she landed on the ground, a sharp pain came from her ankle. She couldn't help but groan in pain and was about to fall to the ground.

Fortunately, Lin Xiu, who was standing by, was quick to respond and quickly reached out to support her: "Be careful, your ankle has just been sprained, don't try to be so stubborn!"

The hedgehog-headed Jingchuan, who was watching this scene nearby, immediately revealed an expression of envy and jealousy on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "Little white face, you dare to compete with me for a woman? I'll see if you have the ability to do it! Today I must teach you a lesson!"

As he said that, the red-haired hedgehog rushed over viciously, waving his fist and hitting Lin Xiuyi in the face!
Lin Xiuyi put his arm around Orikasa Midori with one hand, letting her lean on him, and quickly stretched out his other hand, grabbing the other's fist like a pair of pliers, then raised his foot and kicked the hedgehog-headed man hard in the stomach.

The hedgehog-headed guy who had looked arrogant just now suddenly turned pale, his facial features twisted in pain, he covered his stomach with his hands, and collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"Damn it! This guy dared to attack Brother Jingchuan! Brothers, attack!"

When the bad guys around saw their big brother being kicked down by Lin Xiuyi, they immediately became furious and rushed forward with their fists raised.

Lin Xiuyi narrowed his eyes slightly, with a hint of coldness in his eyes, and was about to take action to deal with this group of bad guys.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was another shrill bicycle bell.

He looked in the direction of the voice and saw the Thorn Rose Team, composed entirely of female delinquents under Orikasa Midori, whom he had seen before, rushing towards them.

More than twenty girls, riding on bicycles, waving wooden swords in their hands, rushed towards this side aggressively.

The leader was the yellow-haired girl named Meiyue who followed Orikasa Midori.

The younger brothers who had just wanted to avenge their eldest brother seemed to have been poured a bucket of cold water on their heads. They hurriedly stopped and became nervously alert.

"Jingchuan, Big Sister has already said that she doesn't like you, and you still dare to pester her! Today, I must teach you a lesson on behalf of Big Sister!"

The yellow-haired girl Meiyue parked her bicycle directly next to Lin Xiuyi, then raised the wooden sword in her hand and chopped fiercely at the red-haired man squatting on the ground.

Seeing that the wooden sword was about to chop down on the red-haired girl's head, Lin Xiuyi quickly took action and tightly grasped the yellow-haired girl's wrist holding the wooden sword: "What are you doing? How can you hit her directly on the head? What if something goes wrong!"

The yellow-haired girl said angrily: "Are you sick? I'm helping you!"

"I don't need your help." Lin Xiuyi snatched the wooden sword and glared at the red-haired man. "What are you looking at? Get out of here!"

"Hmph, today's business isn't over yet, just wait..."

The red-haired boy wanted to say a few harsh words, but before he could finish his words, Lin Xiuyi's wooden sword had already chopped over and knocked him to the ground again just as he had just stood up.

"You little brat in junior high school, you want to learn how to live like an adult!"

With every word, the wooden sword in Lin Xiuyi's hand hit a different part of Igawa's body, and the force was controlled just right - it hurt, but would not leave any permanent damage.

"This time, I'm fighting for your parents."

"This time, I'm beating you for your teacher."

"Instead of studying hard, you just do these things that bully the weak and fear the strong."

"What will you achieve in the future?"

……

This red-haired boy looked like a tough guy, but after being hit by Lin Xiuyi with a wooden sword for more than ten times, he curled up on the ground, trembling all over, and shouted in panic: "Stop hitting me, stop hitting me..."

The bad guys around were also frightened by Lin Xiuyi's cruelty.

To put it bluntly, these little devils envy the reckless behavior of the gangsters in society, so they learn to be brave and aggressive like them.

But in fact, they all have no real abilities except bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

If you do something serious, they will be scared so much that their faces turn pale and they dare not act rashly again.

"I, I'm still a child..."

Seeing that the other party was still attacking him even after he admitted his mistake and begged for mercy, the red-haired boy hurriedly shouted, "If you hit me again, the police will not let you go!"

"Idiot, you are a child, but I am not!"

Lin Xiuyi stepped on the red-haired boy's head with a smile on his face.

"If we fight, even if we go to the police station, it's just a fight between children! Don't use the police to scare me!"

"I was wrong, I really know I was wrong..." The red-haired boy sobbed and shed tears, his body shaking constantly.

"Do you really know you're wrong, or are you just pretending?" Lin Xiuyi tapped his face with his wooden sword, a hint of doubt in his eyes. "I really know I'm wrong," the red-haired boy assured him hastily. "It's my fault. I shouldn't have harassed Orikasa... Please let me go."

"Big sister, this guy is so fierce..." The yellow-haired girl Meiyue's mouth twitched, and she whispered to Orikasa Midori, "I thought he was just a useless pretty boy, but I didn't expect him to be so good at fighting!"

"Don't talk nonsense," Orikasa Midori glared at her best friend. "Didn't I tell you before that I was attacked by thugs once, and it was Senior Lin who helped me?"

"At the time, I thought you, Big Sister, were just saying that to save face for your boyfriend," the yellow-haired girl Meiyue laughed dryly, a hint of embarrassment on her face. "Who knew he was really that powerful?"

"If you know you're wrong, get out of here!" Lin Xiuyi kicked the red-haired boy, making him roll around. "If I see you again, I'll teach you a lesson. Don't think I'm just kidding!"

The red-haired boy didn't dare to say anything harsh like he did just now. After being helped up by his men, he rode away on his bicycle in shame.

"I'll give it back to you! Be careful in next fights, don't go for the head! If someone dies, your life will be ruined!"

Lin Xiuyi tossed the wooden sword back to the yellow-haired girl, then reached out to support Orikasa Midori, "We've wasted quite a bit of time. Let's hurry to Nagashima Ryuko's classroom. I have to go back to open the shop soon."

"Yes," Orikasa Midori nodded, "Senior, follow me."

When the yellow-haired girl Meiyue saw her limping, she immediately flew into a rage: "Big sister, was it Igawa who hurt you? I'm bringing people to avenge you right now!"

"How could he possibly hurt me with his limited skills?" Orikasa Midori said unhappily. "He accidentally fell while riding his bike earlier. Well, I asked Senior Lin to come here because of Nagashima Ryuko. You guys should just do what you need to do and stop worrying about it."

The yellow-haired girl Meiyue waved her hand and asked the female delinquents under her to leave.

She pushed Lin Xiuyi aside and rushed to help Orikasa Midori up. "Big sister, didn't Nagashima Ryuko run away from home? Why are you looking for him? The police can't even find him. What can he do as a high school student?"

"You!" Orikasa Midori shook his head helplessly. "Didn't I tell you before that Senior Lin is very capable? He's helped the police solve many cases. He even helped catch the robbers when my flower shop was smashed."

"What you said is so exaggerated. I thought it was all fake," the yellow-haired girl Meiyue smiled with a hint of disbelief on her face.

Lin Xiuyi ignored their conversation and frowned and asked, "Who first said that Nagashima Ruko ran away from home?"

"Everyone's talking about it," the yellow-haired girl Meiyue said nonchalantly. "Last week, after Nagashima Ruko didn't show up for class, some people said she ran away from home. How would I know who started it?"

……

Led by Orikasa Midori and the yellow-haired girl, Hayashi Shuichi came to the third grade class four classroom where Nagashima Ruko was.

The classroom was filled with a mixture of cheap perfume and sweat.

Although school was over, there were still many students in the classroom. They were either playing and joking, or boys and girls were dating each other. No one was studying seriously.

The appearance of Orikasa Midori made the classroom quiet instantly. When the girls saw her, they hurried over to greet her enthusiastically.

Lin Xiuyi noticed that the look in their eyes when they looked at Orikasa Midori was a mixture of awe and admiration.

"Where is Nagashima Ruko's seat?" asked Orikasa Midori.

"That's the second to last seat by the window over there," a girl wearing round-frame glasses timidly pointed in a direction.

Lin Xiuyi walked over and checked Nagashima Ryuko's desk and chair under the curious gaze of the students.

The tabletop was very clean, without even a graffiti on it. The hole in the table was empty. If someone hadn't said that this was Nagashima Ryuko's seat, Lin Xiuyi would have thought it was an empty seat.
"Did she pack her things herself, or did someone else take them away?"

The students looked at each other, and no one spoke.

"Didn't you hear what Senior Lin said?" Orikasa Midori frowned and said, "If you know the situation, please speak up quickly."

"I remember it was like this when we arrived last Tuesday morning," the girl with glasses, who sat next to Nagashima Ryuko, recalled. "We all thought something had happened at home and she wasn't going to school."

"Senior, is there any problem?" Orikasa Midori asked doubtfully.

Lin Xiuyi stood up and dusted off his hands: "She didn't run away from home."

"What makes you say that?" the yellow-haired girl Meiyue asked unconvincedly, "Do you have any evidence?"

Lin Xiuyi asked in return, "When you run away from home, will you take the books in the hole in the table with you?"

"This..." The yellow-haired girl Meiyue thought for a moment, a trace of embarrassment on her face, "Why bring those? I can't eat or drink them. I usually don't bring books home."

"That's the crux of the matter," Lin Xiuyi pondered. "All her things are gone. It's obvious someone packed them away to create the illusion that she'd left. But they did it so neatly that it left a flaw. Was there anything unusual about Nagashima Ryuko last Monday?"

"I remember that day, she was hunched over the table, lost in thought," said the girl with glasses. "When I got home after school that afternoon, she was still like that."

"Does Nagashima Ruko have any close friends at school?" asked Lin Xiuyi.

"Probably not," the girl with glasses thought for a moment, "She's a bit of a loner. She rarely talks to other people, and I haven't seen anyone from other classes come to see her. She always keeps to herself."

"By the way, if we talk about someone who is close to Nagashima Ruko, it would be Kitamura-sensei. He often talks to Nagashima Ruko."

"Mr. Kitamura? What does he teach?" Lin Xiuyi asked, "Why does he often talk to Nagashima Ruko?"

"Mr. Kitamura teaches physical education. I don't know why he wanted to talk to Nagashima Ryuko, but there are a lot of people at school saying..."

Before the girl with glasses finished her words, a man's voice suddenly rang out.

"Although Nagashima Ruko isn't good at studying, she's very good at sports. She wins many awards at the annual sports meet. I approached her because I wanted her to represent the school in competitions. This is also for the school's honor."

Lin Xiuyi raised his head and saw that the person who was speaking was a tall man with a whistle hanging around his neck. He was handsome, smiling, and looked very optimistic and cheerful.

"Student, you're not from our school, are you?" Teacher Kitamura said, looking at Lin Xiuyi and smiling. "Although our school doesn't prohibit students from other schools from entering, it's time to leave now. You should leave immediately and don't linger here."

"Teacher Kitamura, Senior Lin is..."

Just as Orikasa Midori was about to explain, Lin Xiuyi stood up and said with an apologetic look on his face,

"I'm sorry, teacher. I came to Sakuragaoka just to look for Orikasa. I heard that a girl was missing, so I asked a few questions."

(End of this chapter)