Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

As he spoke, Lin Xiuyi took out a crumpled talisman from his pocket, waved it around, and then casually tossed it aside. The talisman fluttered to the floor.

This unexpected turn of events left everyone stunned.

The temperature in the corridor seemed to drop to freezing point instantly. Several "female ghosts" shivered in unison, looked at each other, and didn't know how to react.

Yukiko looked at Hayashi Shuichi's "fierce" face and felt both angry and anxious.

That bastard actually made up such an outrageous story!

Can't you just calmly let me scare you and coax me a little?

Enraged, Yukiko roared, "You really are a heartless man!"

She lunged at Lin Xiuyi, but her ghost-themed sleeve accidentally snagged on a nail on the window frame, making a tearing sound.

Lin Xiu easily dodged to the side, grabbed the "female ghost's" wig, and gently tugged at it.

Suddenly, her long, brown hair was revealed, along with Yukiko's face covered in terrifying makeup.

Several hair clips fell out of the wig and jingled on the floor.

"Ah! My hair!"

Yukiko screamed and frantically tried to grab the wig, but she tripped over the hem of her own demon costume and almost fell.

Her face flushed instantly, whether from anger or embarrassment, it was hard to tell.

"The female ghost even wears a wig?"

Lin Xiuyi chuckled as he lifted the wig high, then walked over to Lingzi and bent down to help the "little ghost girl" up.

"It's damp in the mountains, don't crawl on the ground, or you'll catch a cold," he said, brushing the dust off her ghost costume.

"Okay, Onii-chan..."

Lingzi answered instinctively, but as soon as she finished speaking, she covered her mouth.

It’s over, you spilled the beans!
She looked up and saw Lin Xiuyi's ambiguous smile. The little girl's cheeks flushed instantly, and she quickly lowered her head, pretending to adjust her skirt.

"And you,"

Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but chuckle, then turned to the blood-red "female ghost" and reached out to straighten the crooked special effects scar.

"It's so dark in the hallway, and your eyesight is so bad. What if you fall without your glasses?"

Eri Kisaki snorted, took out her glasses from the pocket of her ghost costume and put them on. Her eyes behind the lenses still held anger, but the ferocity from before was gone.

Yukiko stomped her foot angrily, her makeup smudged slightly from sweat, and her eyeliner blew into a patch of black on her lower eyelid.
"Damn it! Aren't you scared at all!"

She snatched the wig back and haphazardly put it on her head, but ended up wearing it backwards, and her long hair immediately covered most of her face.

Why aren't you afraid of ghosts?

Lin Xiuyi repeated the question, then suddenly lowered his head, his voice turning sinister.

"Because I'm a ghost too!"

When he looked up again, his face was a deathly pale one with no features!

"what--!!!"

The screams of several girls nearly lifted the roof off.

Eri Kisaki took two steps back and bumped into the wall, while Yukiko jumped up, and her wig flew off again.

Reiko hugged Ruri tightly, while Hiromi Yabuuchi instinctively tried to hide in the bedroom.

Unexpectedly, when the bedroom door was pushed open, it revealed the figures of three people inside: one adult and two children.

Rei Furuya and Misao Yamamura each held a flashlight covered with red cellophane.

As they swayed frantically, the blood-red light flickered erratically in the corridor.

Beside Hidekazu Fukuda was a tape recorder still playing terrifying sound effects. As he backed away in fear, his hand accidentally pressed the volume button, instantly amplifying the funeral music to a deafening level.

"Ha ha!"

Lin Xiuyi laughed and removed the tissue covering her face.
"The key to scaring people by playing ghosts is surprise and catching them off guard. People like you may seem well-prepared, but there are actually many flaws in your disguise."

He wiped away the tears of laughter, went into the bedroom, and turned off the tape recorder.

Reiko rushed over and hugged her brother's arm, pounding his chest with her little fists: "Onii-chan, you scared me to death!"

Her voice was choked with sobs, and her makeup was a mess.

Yukiko kicked the floor in a bit of a huff: "I think everyone acted very well. Haruko's makeup was flawless too."

She pointed to her exquisite special effects makeup, although it was now half-smudged by sweat.
How exactly did you discover the problem?

Lin Xiu pointed to the window, where the night breeze was blowing in, carrying the unique fragrance of mountain grass and trees.
"When you climbed in through the window just now, the wind blew your shampoo scent over."

He shrugged, a mischievous smile playing on his lips.
"I don't believe in ghosts, but as soon as I smelled that familiar lemon scent, I knew it was you."

".goat!"

Yukiko's face flushed instantly, and she crossed her arms over her chest. The movement caused another seam to tear in her demon robes.
"You're not a dog, why are you sniffing me!"

"We'll talk about these things later!"

Eri Kisaki suddenly grabbed Hideaki Hayashi by the collar, her eyes behind her glasses flashing with a dangerous light.

"First, explain the whole Sadako thing! When did you meet her? How come I don't know?"

Lin Xiuyi sighed helplessly and reached out to tidy up his childhood sweetheart's disheveled sideburns.
"Miss Fei, we grew up together and were inseparable,"

His voice softened, carrying a hint of helpless laughter.
"We're practically sleeping together every night. You know everyone I know, don't you?"

Eri's face flushed red instantly. She released Lin Xiuyi's collar and angrily slapped his hand away.

"That was the case before, but it might not be the case once you get to high school."

The girl turned her face away, her voice muffled.

"That Sharon, if she hadn't found the izakaya, I wouldn't have known you and she had been 'in life and death' together! Who knows if you've been hiding other girls from me!"

"Didn't I already explain this to you?"

Lin Xiuyi rubbed his temples, about to say something, when a loud bang suddenly came from downstairs.

"boom!"

Then came Kogoro Mouri's groggy voice.
"Who locked the toilet door? Let me out! This place is haunted, haunted!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment before remembering the person who had been forgotten in the bathroom.

"Kogoro!"

Liuli screamed and ran downstairs in a panic.

At this moment, Kogoro Mouri, who was in the bathroom, discovered that the door was not locked, but was being held open with a mop.

He grabbed the mop and hurriedly opened the bathroom door, only to be met with the same hideous female ghost he had seen before.
"Ghost, ghost..."

With his eyes rolled back, Kogoro Mori fainted again.

"Kogoro, Kogoro!" Ruri ran to her boyfriend's side, both amused and exasperated, shaking him helplessly.

The group of people who came down from the second floor also witnessed this scene.

Reiko burst out laughing, followed by Yukiko, and finally everyone burst into laughter.

The night breeze blew in through the window, carrying away the last trace of eeriness, leaving only laughter and cheerful chatter filling the room… (End of Chapter)