Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 274 Flying on a broomstick, is this Ke Xue?
"You learn fast!" Lin Xiuyi chuckled. "You think I'd believe that?"

Before he could finish speaking, he heard a loud cough behind him.

Lin Xiuyi's body froze instantly.

He slowly turned his head and saw his homeroom teacher, Yui Murakami, standing with her arms crossed, looking at him expressionlessly.

"Lin Xiuyi," Mr. Murakami said coldly, his face dark, "I did tell you before that I wanted you to help the new student get acquainted with the school! But I never said I wanted you to take the opportunity to harass or bully her, did I?"

"Teacher, you've misunderstood!" Lin Xiuyi chuckled dryly, releasing his hand from Koizumi Akane's shoulder. "She started it."

"What's wrong with Koizumi-san?" Murakami-sensei snorted, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the two of them. "Tell me!"

She cursed me first.

Lin Xiuyi helplessly spread her hands, her voice growing softer and softer.

Sure enough, Murakami-sensei burst out laughing when he heard this.

"What era are we living in? You think you can fool me with this?" Murakami-sensei angrily clenched his fist. "If you ask me, it's obvious you're deliberately harassing Koizumi because she's pretty! If it weren't for the school's prohibition against beating students, I would have already..."

"I'm innocent, teacher!" Lin Xiuyi quickly protested. "She's only good-looking. What else does she have? Yukiko is much better looking and has a better figure than her. I've never harassed Yukiko, so how could I possibly have lustful thoughts towards her!"

“That seems to make sense,” Murakami-sensei nodded thoughtfully.

"What's wrong with my figure!" Akane Koizumi shouted defiantly, puffing out her flat chest. "Who's Yukiko! Let her out here, I'll compare myself to her!"

"Yukiko is Mount Fuji, and you're an airport," Lin Xiuyi said dismissively, "Are you even comparable?"

"You—" Akane Koizumi clenched her fists, her eyes practically spitting fire. "You jerk! Just you wait, I'll go back and keep cursing you. You'll be sneezing all day long!"

“Look, teacher, did you hear that?” Lin Xiuyi immediately turned to Murakami-sensei, “She admitted to cursing me!”

"Alright!" Murakami-sensei rubbed his temples, looking exasperated. "You two are high school students, can you please stop being so childish?"

"Forget it, I can't be bothered with your business anymore. These kids these days are really annoying!"

Murakami-sensei complained as he turned and walked toward his office.

After watching their teacher leave, Lin Xiuyi and Koizumi Akane turned to look at each other at the same time, then simultaneously snorted and turned their faces away, neither wanting to look at the other again.

"What did you just say? You even wanted to curse me?" Lin Xiuyi narrowed her eyes. "I think even if I do influence your fate in the future, it's most likely your own doing!"

"You're talking nonsense! What does that have to do with me?!" Akane Koizumi's cheeks turned red with anger, like a cat with its fur standing on end.

“The logic is very simple,” Lin Xiuyi began to analyze slowly, “I don’t even want to talk to you, but you still insist on cursing me. Isn’t that just you deliberately pestering me?”

"I didn't!" Akane Koizumi stomped her foot. "You're such a nuisance, I want to stay as far away from you as possible."

“Then it’s settled!” Lin Xiuyi suddenly said seriously, “You won’t curse me, and I won’t get close to you. As long as the two of us don’t make contact, your so-called Wheel of Fate should be able to turn back to its original position.”

"I think... I guess it should be okay," Akane Koizumi said uncertainly. "My mother never taught me this."

"Let's give it a try then," Lin Xiuyi shrugged. "Let's not bother each other, and see how it goes in a while, okay?"

At this point, Akane Koizumi had no other choice. To get home as soon as possible, she could only nod in agreement. After school that afternoon...

Having found the person who would influence her destiny, Akane Koizumi, a homebody, naturally couldn't wait to go home immediately after school.

But as soon as she stepped out of the school gate, she saw Hayashi Hideichi and Kisaki Eri, who were also heading back to the izakaya together.

Akane Koizumi stopped abruptly, her face full of wariness and annoyance: "Why are you following me!"

"Young Miss, I want to go home too!" Lin Xiuyi pointed helplessly to the road ahead. "I'm going this way, what about you?"

“I’m going this way too,” Akane Koizumi thought for a moment. “Let me go first. You can leave after I enter the alley ahead!”

"Okay!" Lin Xiuyi gestured for him to proceed.

When Akane Koizumi passed by him, she avoided him as if he were a plague demon, deliberately holding her schoolbag in front of her and carefully keeping her distance, afraid of having any contact with Hayashi Shuichi.

Watching Akane Koizumi's retreating figure, Eri Kisaki couldn't help but ask, "What's going on between you two?"

“You probably won’t believe it if I tell you,” Lin Xiuyi said, pulling a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket and handing it over.

"What is this?" Eri Kisaki looked at it in confusion. "Why did she write your name? It doesn't look like a love letter."

“This is a curse,” Lin Xiuyi said in a low voice. “My name is in the middle, and the symbols around it are magic circles!”

"Huh?" Eri Kisaki scoffed. "Shuichi, we're not elementary school kids anymore. You still believe this?"

“I don’t want to believe it either,” Lin Xiuyi said helplessly, scratching her hair. “But in math class this morning, she kept chanting spells over this piece of paper, and I kept sneezing until I snatched the paper away from her.”

“It’s just a coincidence,” Eri Kisaki said dismissively, crumpling the paper into a ball and throwing it into the nearby trash can. “When you sneeze, it’s either because you have a cold or you’re having some kind of allergy.”

"That's what I thought too, but..."

Lin Xiuyi's eyes suddenly widened halfway through her sentence.

Not far ahead, in the alley that Akane Koizumi had just entered, a figure riding a broom was slowly rising into the sky.

Uh... Even though this is the world of Detective Conan, it can't be completely devoid of science, right? What exactly is the principle behind flying on a broomstick?!

"Come on, you're not really going to wait for her to get home, are you?" Eri asked doubtfully, tugging at her childhood friend who was staring blankly into the distance.

“Over there,” Lin Xiuyi mechanically pointed to the sky, his voice trembling slightly, “Koizumi Akane flew out of that alley on a broomstick, didn’t you see her?”

"Shuichi, are you really sick with a cold?"

Eri Kisaki anxiously tiptoed and pressed their foreheads together.
"He doesn't have a fever, so why is he starting to talk nonsense?"

"You really didn't see it just now?" Lin Xiuyi asked again, unwilling to give up.

"Shuichi, stop messing around, okay!" Eri Kisaki rolled her eyes at him, annoyed. "Flying on a broomstick, do you really think Akane Koizumi is a witch?"

(End of this chapter)