Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 330 Entangled Again

"Do you think that's normal?" Lin Xiuyi raised an eyebrow.

"This"

A hint of confusion flashed in Akane Koizumi's ruby-red eyes.

After a moment of stunned silence, she gently shook her head.

"No wonder she always looked reluctant when I pestered her to teach me magic as a child."

The girl's voice gradually faded.
"Now that I think about it, maybe she didn't want me to inherit the legacy of red magic."

“The restrictions imposed by witches are too great,” Lin Xiuyi sighed. “Your mother probably wanted you to live a normal life, instead of being bound by magic and not even allowed to be sad or cry.”

"But why did she send me to Tokyo?"

Akane Koizumi kicked the papers at her feet sullenly.
"She told me to find the person who changed my fate, but she didn't tell me anything about how to deal with them after I found them."

“Perhaps that wasn’t her main purpose,” Lin Xiuyi thought for a moment. “Maybe your mother just wanted you to experience the life of an ordinary person before inheriting the Red Magic, to laugh and cry like a normal girl.”

"A normal girl?"

A hint of confusion flashed in Akane Koizumi's red eyes. Realizing what she had just realized, she clenched her fists and glared angrily at Hideaki Lin.

"Hey, what's wrong with me?"

“No normal girl would curse her classmate to have a stomachache,” Lin Xiuyi couldn’t help but chuckle, her shoulders trembling slightly. “Your revenge is at the level of an elementary school student.”

"What else can I do? I can't exactly kill them with magic, can I?" Akane Koizumi pouted, turned away in a huff, her voice tinged with grievance. "School life is so boring. I'd rather go home and learn magic from my mom."

"That's because you're too much of a homebody!" Lin Xiuyi spread her hands helplessly. "Since you enrolled, have you made any friends in your class? Apart from people asking you to do fortune telling, have you talked to anyone else?"

"Hmph, I don't need friends," Akane Koizumi said stubbornly, raising her chin.

"Are you sure you don't need to?" Lin Xiuyi said casually. "This weekend, we're going to the beach, and everyone from the izakaya is going too."

At the beach... a hint of envy flashed clearly in the witch's eyes. Every day when she returned home, besides studying magic, she would talk and answer questions with the magic mirror.

"Why don't you come too?" Lin Xiuyi invited.

"Me? No, I don't want to."

Before Akane Koizumi could refuse, Hideaki Hayashi spoke up first.

“If you don’t go, then I’m not going to fulfill the two things I owe you.”

"Hey, you, you're cheating!" Akane Koizumi stomped her feet in anger.

"So what if I cheat?" Lin Xiuyi laughed loudly. "You're going to get revenge on me with magic? Oh, I forgot, your magic doesn't work on me!"

"Lin Xiuyi, you're a bastard!"

Akane Koizumi angrily raised her foot to kick him, but Hideichi Hayashi had already run downstairs first.

The witch hurriedly chased after her, and in the midst of their playful banter, the troubles she had just experienced were unknowingly forgotten by Akane Koizumi.

School in the afternoon.

Because of a stomachache at noon, although it inexplicably subsided after a while, Eri Kisaki lost her desire to go to the library to study. She and Hideaki Hayashi walked out of the teaching building side by side, and in the distance, they saw Akane Koizumi standing at the school gate with her head down, seemingly waiting for something.

"Is she waiting for you?" Eri glanced at her childhood friend. "Didn't you say you wouldn't mess with her?"

I'm not messing with her; you're all still in the bathroom right now.
Lin Xiuyi silently complained in his heart, but on the surface he just shook his head: "Maybe she has something else to talk to me about."

"Heh, you don't deny at all that she's waiting for you?" Eri Kisaki snorted coldly and quickened her pace to walk ahead.

"Could you please stop using those legal word games on me?" Lin Xiuyi reached out to grab the girl, but she skillfully avoided him.

Seeing Lin Xiuyi and his companion approach, Koizumi Akane immediately looked up and quickly stepped forward to greet them: "Why are you so slow!"

"What is this?" Lin Xiuyi asked.

“Let’s go eat at your izakaya,” Akane Koizumi said matter-of-factly. “The curry rice yesterday was just so-so, but it was still a little bit better than other restaurants.”

Eri Kisaki snorted coldly and quickened her pace without turning her head.

“Eri.” Lin Xiuyi looked helplessly at the back of his childhood friend.

"What's wrong with her?" Akane Koizumi asked in surprise. "Hime-san seems to get angry a lot. I often see her puffing up in a huff."

“…Never mind,” Lin Xiuyi, who was still a little angry, lost his temper after hearing her words.

"What, you're not welcoming me?" A hint of disappointment flashed across Koizumi Akane's face, the light in her red eyes dimmed slightly, and she pursed her lips. "Then I won't."

“When did I say you weren’t welcome?” Lin Xiuyi quickly interrupted her. “It’s just that the izakaya doesn’t open until after six o’clock.”

“Then I’ll go wait here,” Akane Koizumi immediately perked up. “I can use this time to do my homework. I don’t really know much about what the school teaches.”

At this point, the girl looked troubled.

"Especially mathematics, it's much harder than magic."

"Not really. Then how did you get into Teitan University?" Lin Xiuyi's eyes widened in surprise. "You couldn't have gotten in by paying money, could you? Are all witches this rich?"

"Why would I need money? I can just use magic," Akane Koizumi waved her hand dismissively. "The headmaster of Teitan High School is just an ordinary person. It would be easy to control him and get me to enroll."

"Uh..." Lin Xiu was speechless for a moment, and a few beads of cold sweat appeared on her forehead. "That villa in Second Street, you wouldn't be like that too, would you?"

“I really bought that with my own money,” Akane Koizumi said casually. “Before my mother sent me to Tokyo, she gave me a large sum of money, probably over a billion yen.”

So you're quite wealthy, huh?
Lin Xiuyi clicked his tongue in amazement: "If the school can use magic, why can't the house use magic?"

"I'm going to stay in the house for a long time. It would be troublesome if problems were discovered. As for the school, I didn't plan to stay there for too long. I just wanted to find the bastard who changed the wheel of my fate as soon as possible, and then go home."

At this point, Akane Koizumi glanced at Hideaki Hayashi.
"What you said on the rooftop at noon did make some sense. Perhaps, as you said, my mother sent me to Tokyo so that I could experience the life of an ordinary girl. So I've decided to stay at Teitan High School."

……

Izakaya.

When Lin Xiuyi and the other two arrived, Orikasa Midori was already waiting quietly at the door, just like always.

"Senpai, Hina-senpai," Midori Orikasa greeted her, then looked at Akane Koizumi with a puzzled expression...

(End of this chapter)