Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 322 Who is the Gangster?

In just a few moments, the once noisy apartment was in complete disarray.

In the dim light, the arrogant men and women who had been so domineering just moments before were now lying sprawled on the ground.

Some clutched their stomachs and curled up like shrimp, while others hugged their injured arms and groaned in pain.

The air was filled with a faint smell of blood and sweat.

"Meizuki!" Midori Orikasa rushed to her friend's side, carefully pulling off the rag covering her mouth, her face full of guilt and self-reproach. "I'm sorry, I'm late."

"...I'm fine, boss." The blond-haired girl grinned.

When that man tried to take advantage of her, Ya Yue was indeed terrified. However, when she saw Lin Xiuyi and Orikasa Midori rush into the apartment and witnessed them quickly and easily defeat the thugs who had bullied her, her fear vanished instantly. At that moment, she wished she could be free immediately and rush up to beat those who had wronged her to a pulp to vent her anger.

"Looks like you haven't learned your lesson yet," Lin Xiu said expressionlessly, looking at the blond-haired girl. "Tell me, why did they kidnap you?"

“This wasn’t my fault in the first place,” Meiyue retorted loudly, almost instinctively. Seeing Lin Xiuyi glare at her, she shrank back slightly towards Orikasa Midori, her voice becoming softer, “This morning…”

"Start by explaining why your two groups arranged to fight yesterday!" Lin Xiuyi said impatiently.

The blond-haired girl pouted, a hint of reluctance on her face, but she dared not object. She could only take a deep breath and continue speaking.
“Yesterday I went out with a few people from my team and ran into them on the road. I don’t know which side bumped into the other first, and then we started arguing.”

"Then the police came and chased us away. The woman and I agreed to meet somewhere to fight."

"Who knew that in the afternoon, when we all arrived at the place, the gang leader suddenly showed up, and because of her intervention, the fight didn't break out."

"This morning, I left for school as usual, but I was attacked from behind not far from home and then passed out. When I woke up, I was already here."

As she spoke, the blonde-haired girl, Ya Yue, raised her hand and gently rubbed the back of her head, where it still seemed to be throbbing slightly, causing her brows to furrow involuntarily.

"That's all?" Lin Xiuyi was somewhat skeptical.

"Oh, right, that stinky woman just said that I called her ugly yesterday and that no man would like her," the blond-haired girl said angrily through gritted teeth. "And then she said she wanted to sell me off so she could find more men to 'like' me!"

“What you said is true, she really isn’t good-looking,” Lin Xiuyi said, gently poking the heavily made-up face of the woman with the lip piercing with the wooden stick in her hand. “You actually dared to kidnap her for such a small matter? And you were even planning to traffic her?”

"...I was wrong, I was wrong."

The woman with the lip piercing trembled, her body shaking uncontrollably, her face filled with fear.

She pointed at the man who had tried to assault the blond-haired girl, her voice trembling with tears, and said, "It wasn't me who wanted to sell her, it was him! He said he knew some members of the Muddy Association and wanted to use this girl until she was finished, then sell her to the Muddy Association!"

"You fart!"

The man, also lying on the ground with a bruised and swollen face, turned ashen with rage upon hearing this. He struggled to sit up, but the pain from his injuries made it difficult.
"You were the one who asked me to come here, saying you wanted to sell this girl, and now you're pushing all the blame onto me..."

"I don't know anyone from the Muddy Association, so even if someone were to be sold, it would definitely be you!" the woman with the lip piercing retorted loudly.

"...I'll kill you, you bitch!"

Enraged, the man struggled to his feet and lunged at the woman with the lip piercing.

Seeing their infighting, Lin Xiuyi and Orikasa Midori did not intervene, but simply stood aside and watched coldly.

Unexpectedly, after the man ran to the woman with the lip piercing, he did not fight with her, but instead took the opportunity to run towards the apartment door.

Lin Xiuyi hadn't expected him to pull this stunt. Just as he was about to give chase, the woman with the lip piercing suddenly raised her hand and grabbed the man's leg. "If you're going to run, we'll run together. You're not getting away alone!"

"Let go! You bitch, let go!" The man struggled desperately, trying to break free from the woman's restraints.

Seeing that she wouldn't let go, and with Lin Xiuyi and Zhe Li Lü watching him intently, the man panicked and quickly kicked the woman with his other leg, each kick carrying great force.

Just then, Akane Koizumi, who was floating in mid-air on a broomstick, suddenly flew to the apartment window: "Hey, the police are here! Run!"

"Run my ass!" Lin Xiuyi glared at her irritably.

Akane Koizumi paused for a moment, then remembered that according to rumors at Teitan High School, Hideichi Hayashi seemed to have close ties with the police.

That bastard, he beat me so badly just now that I completely forgot about him. I thought he was a gangster!

The witch angrily swung her fist.

A few minutes later, two officers from different shifts arrived on bicycles.

Looking at the chaotic scene with bloodstains everywhere, the two police officers felt a chill run down their spines and hesitated to go inside.

"Officer, help! He's trying to kill us!"

When the woman with the lip piercing saw the police arrive, she immediately started to act pitiful.

She covered her face with her hands, her body trembling uncontrollably, as if she had been extremely frightened: "I just wanted to play a joke on their friends, and they beat us up like this."

"Yes, yes." The male gang leader, who was trying to escape, quickly nodded.

"You two, don't move! Come back with us..."

Before the police officer could finish speaking, Lin Xiuyi had already taken out his consultant's badge and handed it to them.
“These people kidnapped my friend and were planning to sell her to a gang. I just came to rescue her. Please notify the Metropolitan Police Department; you can’t handle this case.”

“…Yes, yes.” After verifying the authenticity of the identification, a police officer quickly nodded.

"...Even so, you went too far,"

Another officer looked at the several delinquents lying motionless on the ground and couldn't help but feel worried.

"I'm going to call an ambulance. Please don't let anyone die."

"Don't worry, I'm very careful," Lin Xiuyi said, stepping on the hand of a woman lying next to him.

The next moment, the woman who had been pretending to be dead screamed in pain and sprang up as if she had been electrocuted.

"Look, isn't it lively and energetic?"

After Lin Xiuyi finished speaking, she went to step on other people's hands.

Seeing this, the remaining thugs scrambled away, showing no signs of being "seriously injured."

"We're fine, we're fine, there's no need to call an ambulance..."

(End of this chapter)