Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 91: Little sister, don’t be afraid, uncle is not a bad person!
As a member of the Discipline Committee, Lingzi was very responsible. After sending all the dozen little ones home, she took Lin Xiuyi's hand and walked home.
"Onii-chan, let's have dinner together at home tonight," the little cousin pursed her lips, looking like a pitiful abandoned child. "Ever since you moved out, I've been eating alone every night."

"This..." Lin Xiuyi apologized, "The izakaya is open tonight, and I have to go back soon."

"...Actually, I was just joking," Lingzi forced a smile on her face. "Mom and Dad will be back tonight. I, I won't be alone at all."

Lin Xiuyi's uncle and aunt are both prosecutors in the procuratorate, and they are both very busy with their work.

In his impression, these two elders only returned home before 10 o'clock in the evening on a few occasions.

The little cousin said this obviously because she didn't want him to worry.

"Reiko, hold on for another year," Lin Xiuyi patted his cousin's head lovingly, "Next year when you go to junior high school, come move in with me."

"Really?" Reiko's face was full of disbelief, "Onii-chan, you didn't lie to me, did you?"

"Of course it's true," Lin Xiu said with a smile, "My place is closer to the junior high school, so you don't have to work too hard to go to school."

"Great!"

The little cousin was so excited that she threw herself directly onto Lin Xiuyi.

"You're such a grown-up girl, and you're not ashamed at all," Lin Xiuyi held his sister and spun around before putting her on the ground.

"Hehe," the little cousin happily stretched out her hand, "Onii-chan, we have a deal. You are not allowed to regret it next year. Pinky promise!"

Lin Xiuyi stretched out his right hand and hooked his sister's fingers.
"If I don't keep my word and break my promise, I'll swallow a thousand..."

Before he could finish his words, his little cousin covered his mouth with her hand.

"This is a bit too scary, let's change it," Reiko thought for a moment, "If Onii-chan changes her mind, I'll make sure that Eri-nee and Fujimine-nee ignore you from now on!"

"Okay, whatever you say is fine," Lin Xiuyi shook his hooked fingers lovingly.

The brother and sister continued walking towards Kujo's house. Reiko suddenly said with some regret, "Onii-chan, why don't you break your promise next year?"

"Haha, then you're probably going to be disappointed."

Lin Xiuyi knew what his little cousin was thinking, so he raised his hand and slapped her on the head. "From childhood to adulthood, when have I ever said something I didn't mean to you?"

As they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the door of Kujo's house.

This is a two-story single-family house with a garden. Since his parents passed away, Lin Xiuyi has lived and grown up here until he moved out a week ago.

"Onii-chan, don't you want to come in?" Reiko opened the door with the key.

"No, I have to go back to the izakaya," Lin Xiuyi waved his hand, "Be careful at home alone."

"Don't worry, Onii-chan," the little cousin waved her fist, "You taught me fighting techniques. If a thief really comes in, I can defeat him by myself."

After giving a few more instructions, Lin Xiuyi turned and left.

Reiko stood at the door until he was out of sight, then she walked into the house and closed the door.

"I'm going to move in with Onii-chan next year..."

The little cousin hummed a song and ran upstairs happily, but she was stunned when she reached the stairs: "You..."

I saw a man with an unshaven beard and covered in dirt standing on the stairs to the second floor.

Seeing Lingzi, the man clapped his hands in satisfaction: "What good luck! I'm here right now!"

As he said that, he rushed downstairs and pounced on the girl.

After a brief moment of daze, Reiko quickly turned and ran towards the door, shouting in fear, "Onii-chan!"

Lin Xiuyi had already walked far away at this time, and because of the soundproofing of the house, he naturally did not hear his little cousin's calls.

However, as he walked, he suddenly stopped.

Something is wrong. I just walked to the door, but that stupid dog didn’t run out of the garden?

As a hybrid dog, Wangcai has a very sensitive sense of smell.

Lin Xiuyi remembered that every time he returned to Jiujo's house after school, Wangcai would come out from the garden and squat at the door waiting for him when he was still forty or fifty meters away.

But just now, that stupid dog not only didn't show up, it didn't even bark?

Is Wangcai sick, or... someone knocked him unconscious?
Thinking of the latter, Lin Xiuyi immediately turned around and walked back.

When he arrived at Kujo's house, Lin Xiuyi did not go through the main door. He didn't know what the situation was in the house. If he opened the door rashly, it would likely alert the intruder.

He walked around the house to the back and climbed over the low wall. He landed in the small garden of the Jiujo family, next to Wangcai's dog house.

Lin Xiuyi bent down and went over to check. Wangcai was lying on the ground unconscious with half a meat bun in his mouth.

Stupid dog, you will be poisoned to death sooner or later!
Lin Xiuyi slapped the dog's head in annoyance and looked towards the house with a worried expression.

The situation was now obvious. Someone had broken into the Kujo family home, and Reiko had just entered the house...

Thinking of this, he didn't dare to delay any longer and hurriedly tiptoed towards the house.

Looking inside from the floor-to-ceiling window on the first floor, Lin Xiuyi didn't see anyone, so he took out his wallet, used the card inside to open the sliding door next to the floor-to-ceiling window, and then walked in quietly.

As soon as he entered the house, he heard a man's shouting from upstairs.
"Little sister, don't be afraid, come out quickly."

"I'm a friend of your parents. I came to ask them for help today."

It was not difficult to hear from the shouting that the intruder did not catch Lingzi. After realizing this, Lin Xiuyi breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to the stairs.

……

The second floor of Kujo's house,
The bearded man had a gloomy face, a schoolbag in his hand, and was looking for Lingzi.

Just now on the first floor, when he pounced over, he had already grabbed the schoolbag behind the little girl.

The man thought he could capture the little girl and use her as a bargaining chip to threaten her parents, but he didn't expect the little girl to do something like a turtle escaping from its shell and directly threw away the schoolbag.

Fortunately, he got there first and blocked the door on the first floor, forcing the little girl to hide on the second floor.

"Little sister, uncle is really not a bad person. Look, uncle also knows the names of your parents. Your father is Kujo Yoshiyuki and your mother is Kujo Kotona..."

The man checked the house one by one while speaking coaxing words to the child.

At the end of the corridor on the second floor, there are two rooms facing each other. The one on the left is Lingzi's bedroom, and the one on the right is where Lin Xiuyi used to live.

Although the latter has moved out, there is not much change in the room. The original decorations and furnishings remain the same, and even the hygiene has been kept spotless.

Lingzi was hiding in the closet in the room at this time. Although she had a strong personality, she was only a little girl in her teens after all. Faced with the invasion of robbers, she was naturally frightened.

"Onii-chan..." The girl hugged her knees and prayed in her heart that her brother would appear and save her.

At this moment, there was a sudden "click" sound of the door lock turning outside the wardrobe, and then someone walked into the room...

(End of this chapter)