Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 319 Please, kind and lovely Koizumi-san!
Thinking of this, the witch's face flushed even more. Reluctantly, she stood up with Lin Xiuyi's help and then reached out her hand, saying, "Give me the thing."

"What is that?" Lin Xiuyi didn't understand.

"I'm just a witch, not a fortune teller!" Akane Koizumi said irritably, hands on her hips. "To divine the whereabouts of a stranger, you need something related to the person."

“…I don’t have any on me. I’ll go ask now,” Lin Xiuyi said, and quickly walked to the stairwell.

Just as Akane Koizumi was about to ask if she needed to use magic to lower the floating stairs, Lin Xiuyi suddenly jumped down, plunging from the second floor to the first floor.

"Tch, barbarian," the witch curled her lip, her hand unconsciously touching the spot where she had been hit, where it still throbbed faintly.

Taking advantage of Lin Xiuyi's absence, Koizumi Akane hurriedly returned to the study to change into the school uniform of the Godan School—for her, a witch, being with Lin Xiuyi was too dangerous, and Koizumi Akane dared not wear any other clothes made with magic anymore.

"Master, do you need me to keep an eye on that intruder?" the magic mirror asked cautiously, its face full of flattery.

Akane Koizumi took off Hideaki Hayashi's short-sleeved shirt, tossed it aside with disdain, and nodded as she put on her own school uniform. The surface of the magic mirror immediately lit up, and the scene of the mansion's courtyard quickly became clear.

"Senior, what's going on..." Midori Orikasa looked at Lin Xiuyi in surprise. Wasn't he supposed to be inside looking for someone to tell his fortune? Why did he come out shirtless? The girl's gaze unconsciously swept over his muscular upper body, and her cheeks flushed slightly.

"...I've run into some trouble," Lin Xiuyi wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. "By the way, the divination requires something related to that blond guy. Do you have it with you?"

"It's related to Mezuki..." Midori Orikasa thought for a moment, then took a crescent-shaped doll from the keychain hanging on her waist. "This is a birthday present Mezuki gave me this year. I wonder if I can use it?"

"I'll take it and try it out first," Lin Xiuyi said, taking the doll and heading inside.

"Senior, shall I go in too?" Midori Orikasa pushed the iron gate.

“…Never mind, you can wait outside,” Lin Xiuyi shook his head. As a homebody, Koizumi Akane clearly had a strong sense of her own territory. Bringing Orikasa Midori in without her permission would only cause her a rash disturbance.

Is the fortune teller in the movie scary?

Watching Lin Xiuyi's retreating figure, Orisaka Midori couldn't help but speculate.

Could it be that the senior got into a fight with the fortune teller, tearing his upper body clothes to shreds, and then forced the fortune teller to agree to help with the divination?

On the second floor of the villa, in the study, seeing that Lin Xiuyi hadn't brought the girl with the high ponytail into the yard, Koizumi Akane, who had already changed her clothes, nodded in satisfaction: "You're smart." The corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and she seemed to be in a better mood.

"Master," the Magic Mirror asked cautiously, "do you need me to save the footage of your battle just now?"

"What do you think?" Akane Koizumi retorted with a dark expression. Seeing Lin Xiuyi walk back downstairs, she quickly picked up the crystal ball from the table and went downstairs.

After the witch left, the magic mirror muttered to itself, "Since the master has let me decide, let's save it. It would be a shame to delete such a valuable record."

On the first floor of the mansion, Lin Xiuyi stared at the floating staircase, looking utterly exasperated. Just as he was about to find something to stand on to climb up, the staircase slowly descended, returning to its original position. Koizumi Akane, dressed in her Teitan High School uniform and carrying a crystal ball, walked down unhurriedly. "A gift from the missing girl, is it alright?" Lin Xiuyi handed her the crescent-shaped doll.

“Let’s give it a try,” Akane Koizumi nodded. After placing the crystal ball on the coffee table in the living room, she reached out and took the crescent moon doll, touched it a couple of times, and then hovered her hands above the crystal ball, moving them back and forth.

"You...are you playing mahjong?" Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but laugh.

"Shut up!" Akane Koizumi glared at him angrily. As the one asking for help, Hideaki Hayashi quickly made a gesture of pulling his mouth shut.

A moment later, the crystal ball on the coffee table emitted a faint white light. Lin Xiuyi couldn't see anything, but in Koizumi Akane's eyes, the crystal ball was displaying images. The witch's pupils dilated slightly as she stared intently at the crystal ball, her lips moving silently as if chanting some kind of spell.

"The person who recently came into contact with that crescent moon doll is at my front door..." Akane Koizumi's voice was like a dream, carrying a strange echo.

“It wasn’t her, the missing person was a blond guy…” Lin Xiuyi quickly said.

“I know!” Akane Koizumi rolled her eyes at him impatiently and continued looking at the crystal ball. “The one who came into contact with the crescent moon doll before her was a girl with dyed yellow hair, about fifteen or sixteen years old. She is now tied up and locked in a dimly lit room, with several women guarding her with whips and sticks.”

"Can you see the location clearly..." Lin Xiuyi had just opened his mouth when the witch glared at him angrily, and he quickly made an apologetic gesture.

Akane Koizumi looked closely at the crystal ball, her eyes almost touching its surface: "The room was very dark, so I couldn't see anything, but if I looked out the window, I could see a large chimney."

"...That's all?" Lin Xiuyi waited a few seconds, and when the girl didn't say anything else, he said disappointedly, "You spent so much time divining, and all you saw was a big chimney?"

“Fortune telling isn’t a magic bullet,” Akane Koizumi glared. “I’m already pretty good at seeing her surroundings, okay?”

"A big chimney... could it be around the factory?" Lin Xiu rubbed his temples, feeling a headache coming on. "But I'm not familiar with Beihu either."

"Hmph, you can ask me to help you find someone," Akane Koizumi said confidently, raising her head proudly. "With this crescent moon doll, I can pinpoint the direction of that blond girl. As long as I keep searching, I'm sure I'll find her."

"Why didn't you say that earlier?" Lin Xiuyi looked at her speechlessly, several black lines appearing on her forehead.

“You didn’t ask,” Akane Koizumi retorted confidently. “You insisted on having your fortune told, and you didn’t tell me to use any other magic.”

"...Fine, it's all my fault!" Lin Xiuyi was too lazy to argue with her. "Let's go, let's go rescue them."

The witch sat motionless on the sofa, seemingly not hearing what he said.

"Please, kind and lovely Koizumi-san!" Lin Xiuyi raised his hands in surrender. "Don't waste any more time!"

"...Hmph, I won't hold it against you this time," Akane Koizumi waved her hand, and a broom flew out from the house next door, hovering in front of her.

(End of this chapter)