Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 266 The Magical Girl Who Used the Wrong Magic

Lin Xiuyi, his face dark, strode forward and vigorously rubbed his younger sister's chubby cheeks with both hands: "Are you awake now?"

"You're awake. Onii-chan can't possibly be worth that much money," Reiko mumbled.

Seeing that Lin Xiuyi was about to raise her hand to scold her again, the little cousin quickly and obediently changed her words.

"I was wrong. Miss Ikebab couldn't possibly have that much money."

"It's good that you know," Lin Xiuyi ruffled her sister's soft hair. "Go to sleep now. I'm putting this money away and I need to sleep too. I have school tomorrow."

"Onii-chan, where did all this money come from?" Reiko tugged at Hayashi Shuichi's sleeve, relentlessly pressing for an answer. "If you don't explain it clearly, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight."

“Given by the gang,” Lin Xiuyi replied casually, neatly stacking the money on the table. “By the way, Takikawa is dead, so we don’t have to worry about him causing trouble at the shop anymore.”

"Dead?" Reiko's eyes widened suddenly, her mouth agape. "Onii-chan, you killed him?"

"You really are my good sister!" Lin Xiuyi sighed, rubbing her forehead in exasperation. "Can't you think of me in a positive light?"

Lingzi lowered her head, her two index fingers nervously poking each other: "But I really can't figure it out. I only went out for a few hours at night, and I could earn so much money."

"Previously, Inspector Samezaki and the others..." Lin Xiuyi briefly explained what had happened, "Now you understand, right? This money was all legal income."

"Can gangster money be considered legal?" the little cousin muttered. But no matter what, since Lin Xiuyi didn't get the money through fraud or prostitution, she was relieved.

"Onii-chan," the little girl yawned widely and rubbed her eyes with her little hands, "I'm going back to sleep now."

As she spoke, Reiko casually moved toward her brother's bedroom.

Lin Xiuyi immediately saw through her little scheme, grabbed Lingzi's collar, and lifted her up like a kitten.

"Go to sleep properly, don't be such a little devil," Lin Xiuyi said, gently tossing her younger sister back to her own bedroom.

the next day,
Lin Xiuyi and Mouri Kogoro went downstairs together to find Kisaki Eri to meet.

Lin Xiuyi had dark circles under her eyes and kept yawning, looking like she hadn't woken up properly.

Kogoro Mouri leaned closer with a lewd grin and asked, winking, "Hey, you look so listless. You didn't actually go on a date with Ms. Ikenami last night, did you?"

"Don't talk nonsense," Lin Xiuyi rolled his eyes at Maoli, "Ikebono and I are just ordinary friends."

"Tsk tsk, just ordinary friends," Kogoro Mouri curled his lip, deliberately drawing out his words, "Keep being stubborn. Last night, when Ms. Ikenami left, the look in your eyes was practically drooling."

“Alright, Eri is right ahead,” Lin Xiuyi nudged his friend with his elbow and warned in a low voice, “If she hears this, I’m not having a good day.”

“Eri is great in every way, except she’s too jealous,” Kogoro Mouri said gleefully. “You’ll be in for a world of hurt when you two get married.”

"What marriage?" Eri Kisaki stepped forward. "Who's getting married?"

"Who else could it be?" Kogoro Mouri said with a wicked grin. "Of course it's you and Shuichi."

As he spoke, he deliberately made an exaggerated heart-shaped gesture.

"...Who, who's going to marry him!" Eri Kisaki blushed slightly and immediately retorted.

"If you don't marry him, there are plenty of girls who want to marry Shuichi," Kogoro Mouri teased deliberately. "You'll regret it later."

"I won't regret it," Eri Kisaki snorted, but her eyes involuntarily drifted toward Hideaki Hayashi.

"Really? Then when I get home tonight, I'll tell Reiko, Yukiko, Midori, and that guy from last night what you said."

Kogoro Mouri counted on his fingers, observing Eri Kisaki's expression as he said each name.

Eri bit her lower lip, clearly annoyed and embarrassed: "If you dare to say anything out of line, I'll make Ruri break up with you right now."

"Alright," Lin Xiuyi interrupted the two of them impatiently, rubbing her temples. "At our age, it's still a long way from getting married."

“Who says it’s too early?” Kogoro Mouri looked at his friend with a puzzled expression. “Eri is sixteen years old this year and is old enough to get married. We two will have to wait two more years.”

Oh, how could I forget that? The marriage age in Japan is much lower.
Lin Xiuyi was speechless for a moment.

Seeing that both Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki were looking at him with suspicion,

Lin Xiuyi could only make up an excuse in a serious tone to cover it up: "Getting married too early is bad for a girl's health. I remember reading a research report before that said the best age for women to have children is after the age of twenty."

"Weren't we talking about marriage?" Kogoro Mouri deliberately raised his voice. "Shuichi, you're already thinking about having a baby with Eri?"

These words made Eri Kisaki's face instantly turn as red as a ripe apple.

She and Lin Xiuyi had already done what they were supposed to do; if they hadn't taken proper precautions one time, there was a real possibility of her getting pregnant.
If you get pregnant and have a baby while still in school, you'll most likely have to drop out, and then your future studies will be...

Thinking of this, Eri Kisaki glared at Lin Xiuyi with shame and anger. It was all this bastard's fault.

Lin Xiuyi scratched his head, puzzled. What did I say wrong?
Just then, two gang members dressed in black and covered in tattoos passed by.

When Kogoro Mouri saw them, he immediately tensed up, his body involuntarily stiffening.

He only breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead after the two gangsters and the three men had passed each other.

"By the way, Shuichi, should we arrange for someone to keep watch at the izakaya from now on?" Kogoro Mouri asked in a low voice, "Just in case that Takikawa sends someone to cause trouble."

“Don’t worry about Takikawa anymore,” Lin Xiuyi smiled. “He’s already dead.”

"died?"

Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki exclaimed in unison, attracting the attention of passersby.

"What's going on?" Eri asked in a low voice. "Isn't he the one who just became the head of the yakuza?"

"That's an idiot. No wonder Ito Ichiro didn't promote him before,"

Lin Xiuyi shook her head and recounted everything that had happened last night.
“Takikawa was just a tool of that Kiryu group leader from the very beginning. Once he was used up, it was time for him to die.”

"The yakuza are really terrifying," Kogoro Mouri shuddered involuntarily. "Someone who was so arrogant last night, suddenly..."

"Are you sure your ten million won is alright?" Eri Kisaki asked worriedly, grabbing Hideichi Hayashi's sleeve. "Will that Kiryu Group Leader hold a grudge against you?"

“I might have been worried before, but after meeting him last night, I’m not afraid anymore,” Lin Xiuyi said with a smile. “This Kiryu team leader is obviously a smart man. He knows what he should and shouldn’t do.”

"On the contrary, Takikawa, who is brainless and acts on impulse, is more troublesome."

"Ten million, you won't have to worry about your university tuition anymore," Kogoro Mouri said with envy. "I wish I had that much money." "What good is that little bit of money?" Hideichi Hayashi retorted. "You probably won't even be able to buy a toilet in Tokyo in the future."

If you calculate the timeline, the Plaza Accord should be signed in a few years, at which point Tokyo's housing prices will experience a rapid increase.

In prime locations in Tokyo, such as Ginza, the price per tsubo (approximately 3.3 square meters) of land can exceed 100 million yen.

At that time, Japan was said to have land prices in Tokyo that could buy the entire United States.

Even ordinary residential apartments can be ridiculously expensive.

Sigh, in my past life I was worried about not being able to afford a house, and now that I've transmigrated, I still have to worry about housing?
Lin Xiuyi sighed unconsciously.

"House prices aren't too expensive these days, are they?" Kogoro Mouri scratched his head.

“Yes,” Eri Kisaki said softly, her face slightly flushed, as if she had just thought of something. “It would be much easier if the two of us bought them together.”

“I wasn’t talking about an apartment,” Lin Xiuyi quickly changed the subject. “Yesterday morning, Lingzi and I went to help an inventor we know move. Next to his house, I saw a very nice two-story villa.”

“A mansion, that would cost at least hundreds of millions of yen,” Kogoro Mori’s eyes widened, his jaw almost dropping to the ground. “You really dare to dream. We might only earn that much money in our entire lives after we start working.”

“Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean that Shuichi and I can’t,” Eri Kisaki said confidently. “As long as we get into good universities, I’ll become a top lawyer and Shuichi will become a high-ranking official in the Metropolitan Police Department. We’ll be able to easily earn the money for the mansion.”

The three chatted casually and soon arrived at the gate of Teitan High School.

Unlike in the past when the academic affairs director would check students' appearance and order with a bamboo knife, today there were quite a few students gathered around something in a chaotic manner at the school gate.

"Aren't we not allowed to gather at the school gate?" Kogoro Mouri craned his neck to look around in confusion. "Doesn't that annoying dean of students care?"

"Isn't the dean of academic affairs over there?" Eri Kisaki pointed to the crowd.

Lin Xiuyi and Mouri Kogoro looked in the direction she pointed and sure enough, they saw the Dean of Studies in the crowd.

The academic affairs director, who usually had a stern face and treated students harshly, was all smiles today, looking at the center of the crowd with a kind expression.

"What on earth happened?" Kogoro Mouri's curiosity was completely piqued. "I'll go see!"

After saying that, he plunged into the crowd.

Lin Xiuyi and Fei Yingli wanted to wait for him to come out and tell them what was going on inside, but unexpectedly, Kogoro Mouri never returned.

Lin Xiuyi was also a little curious. After handing his schoolbag to Fei Yingli, he squeezed into the crowd.

After much effort, Lin Xiuyi finally squeezed his way to the middle, where he saw a delicate and beautiful face that seemed vaguely familiar.

At the same time, the girl surrounded by the crowd also noticed Lin Xiuyi's face.

"Little liar!"

"What a nuisance!"

After shouting in unison, they each curled their lips in disgust, then asked in unison,

"You're actually a student of Teitan University?"

This tacit exchange clearly surprised everyone around them.

"I've never seen you at school before?" Lin Xiu looked the girl up and down.

"I'm a transfer student, I just arrived at Teitan today," the girl said with her arms crossed and a huff, her words full of disdain. "If I had known you were at Teitan, I would have changed schools."

"Now that you mention it, I regret it too. I should have told the school that night, so that the students there wouldn't have been scammed by you."

After Lin Xiuyi retorted, he immediately grabbed Kogoro Mouri, who had a wolfish look on his face and was staring intently at the girl, and forcibly dragged him out of the crowd.

What exactly is going on inside?

Upon seeing Lin Xiuyi emerge, Eri's eyes held a mixture of curiosity and a barely perceptible wariness.

"Why do I hear a girl's voice? Is it someone you know?"

“A fortune teller who sets up a stall,” Lin Xiuyi took the schoolbag from Fei Yingli’s hand. “Last Saturday night, I ran into Yukiko at the exit of the Second Destination on my way back.”

Eri glanced at Kogoro Mouri, who was still gazing longingly at the crowd, and said with a hint of sourness in her voice, "That girl was very pretty?"

"It's alright," Lin Xiuyi replied casually, but immediately felt the dangerous gaze from Fei Yingli, and quickly added sincerely, "I'm still a bit worse than you."

"...You have good taste!" Eri said coquettishly, the corners of her mouth unconsciously turning up slightly.

Seeing that Lin Xiuyi didn't linger among the girls in the crowd, she felt relieved and took Lin Xiuyi's arm as they walked towards the teaching building.

At the same time, the girl in the crowd was also staring intently at Lin Xiuyi's back.
"Strange, why is the charm magic having no effect on him at all?"

The girl muttered something under her breath, then shook her head.
"Forget it, I should hurry up and find the person who turned the wheel of my fate around."

The girl's gaze swept across the crowd.

"This isn't it, this isn't it either, and this one isn't right either."

Seeing that the person she was looking for wasn't in the crowd, and that she was stuck in the middle and couldn't get out, the girl could only stomp her foot in frustration.
What bad luck! Why did I use the wrong magic this morning?!
Originally, I just wanted to increase my charm to make it easier to get along with my classmates, and then find someone else.

I never expected that a mispronounced spell would turn into a seduction spell!

Before class started, the students who had already arrived either gathered in twos and threes to discuss the transfer students who were coming today, or they pressed their faces against the windows and peered toward the school gate.

An inexplicable atmosphere of excitement filled the classroom.

"How strange," Eri Kisaki said, looking around in bewilderment and somewhat indignantly, "Just how beautiful does that girl have to be to make everyone look like this?"

“Something is definitely not right,” Lin Xiuyi frowned, shaking Kogoro Mouri, who was still in a daze. “What’s so pretty about that girl?”

"I can't really explain it," Kogoro Mouri said, his eyes glazed over, still seemingly lost in the stunning beauty he had just witnessed. "I just think she's so beautiful. I've never seen such a beautiful girl in my entire life!"

"Hmph, that's because you're ignorant!" Eri bit her lip indignantly.

"Could that girl be some kind of celebrity?" Lin Xiuyi wondered, looking out the window. "Is that why everyone's so excited?"

(End of this chapter)