Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 92: Onii-chan doesn’t understand romance at all
"Little sister, I found you. You were hiding in the closet, right?"

The man chuckled, glanced around the room, and then walked towards the wardrobe in the corner.

Lingzi in the closet suddenly became extremely nervous. She fumbled around to find something to defend herself, but in the end she only touched a clothes hanger, which could barely serve as a weapon.

Onii-chan, I'm so scared...

The girl bit her lips tightly, trying hard not to cry.

Lingzi, whose parents are both prosecutors, has heard of many cases where perverts captured little girls and tortured them. When she thought about what would happen to her if she was caught by the man outside, she couldn't help but tremble.

The man had already walked to the closet. This bedroom was the last room he had not checked.

The bedroom is simply furnished, and the only place where someone can hide is the wardrobe in front of it.

Thinking of her mother's expression of regret and fear after catching the girl in the closet, the man couldn't help but reveal a hideous smile.

"Little sister, uncle is here to see you..."

The man put his hand on the cabinet door and was about to open it, but at this moment, he heard clear footsteps in the corridor.

Got it!

That little girl was hiding in the previous room?
The man, fearing that the girl would run away, ran out of the bedroom without a second thought and chased in the direction of the footsteps.

"Tattack!" There was a sound coming from the stairs.

The man ran over quickly, but only saw a fist-sized ball rolling down the stairs.

“…were you fooled?”

The man's eyes widened, and before he could react, he felt a sudden pain in the back of his head.

Looking at the man lying motionless on the ground, Lin Xiuyi did not let down his guard. He had not only heard of examples of people being killed by not finishing off their opponent, but he had also experienced it before.

After hitting the man on the head with a stick again and tying his hands and feet tightly with ropes, Lin Xiuyi ran to his bedroom.

"Reiko?"

After calling out several times, I finally heard my sister's trembling voice from the closet: "...Onii-chan?"

Lin Xiuyi hurried forward and opened the wardrobe. After the girl saw that the person coming was her brother, she could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

"Okay, it's okay, it's okay..."

Lin Xiuyi carried his little cousin out of the closet with heartache.

The girl hung on his neck like a koala and refused to let go.
"Wow, Onii-chan, I just thought I was going to die and I would never see you and mom and dad again..."

"Don't be afraid, I have tied up that man," Lin Xiuyi hugged his little cousin and sat down on the bed, comforting her softly.

Lingzi sobbed for more than ten minutes before she slowly calmed down.

"Onii-chan, clothes..."

The little cousin looked at Lin Xiuyi's coat with embarrassment. The front of the coat was covered with tears and snot that the girl had wiped away when she cried.

"Take it off and I'll wash it for you."

Lin Xiuyi did not object. He put his sister in his arms on the ground and took off his coat.

"Onii-chan, why are you back?" Reiko blinked her red eyes, "Didn't you leave just now?"

"Thanks to that stupid dog," Lin Xiuyi said with a look of relief. "Oh, and Wangcai!" Lingzi nervously grabbed her brother's arm, "I haven't heard from him since I came back, Onii-chan, Wangcai might have been..."

"Don't worry, that stupid dog is fine," Lin Xiuyi said comfortingly, "I checked it, it just ate a bun with medicine in it and fell asleep."

"That stupid dog, I taught it not to eat food from strangers!" Lingzi gritted her teeth in anger. "When it wakes up, I will definitely teach it a lesson."

"I just walked for a while and then realized Wangcai wasn't moving, so I ran back," Lin Xiu said with a smile, "so it can be considered a meritorious service."

"...I thought Onii-chan came back because she heard my prayers," the little cousin muttered a little disappointedly.

"You should watch less romantic dramas," Lin Xiuyi said unhappily. "How could telepathy exist in this world? That's a superpower."

"Onii-chan doesn't understand romance at all," Reiko hugged her brother's arm and smiled contentedly, "No matter what, Onii-chan came back to save me."

"Let's go call the police," Lin Xiuyi pulled his sister to her feet. "This robber was able to prepare meat buns in advance to knock Wangcai unconscious. He must have either done some scouting around the area or he knows my uncle and aunt."

"Onii-chan, when he tried to trick me out just now, he said he knew my parents and even told them their names," Reiko said hurriedly.

"Let's call the police first," Lin Xiuyi took his sister's hand and walked out of the bedroom.

The intruder had his hands and feet tied and was lying motionless in the middle of the corridor.

When Lingzi passed by, she remembered what had just happened to her and couldn't help but kick the robber twice, but she happened to kick open the collar of the robber's coat, revealing the clothes underneath.

"Green..."

Lin Xiuyi squatted down in confusion and pulled open the robber's coat. Inside was a green shirt with a strip of cloth sewn on the left chest. It had the word "Kubo" written on it and a row of numbers below it.
"This is a prison uniform. He is Kubo Shoji!"

"How could a prisoner from jail come to my house?" Lingzi looked puzzled.

"Yesterday afternoon, when Inspector Megure came to the izakaya," Hayashi Shuichi explained, "an inmate from Tokyo Prison escaped. He also said that while he was in prison, he kept shouting that his sentence was too heavy, and that after escaping, he might seek revenge against the judge who tried him."

"Mom and Dad aren't judges," Lingzi wondered. "Even if he wanted revenge, he shouldn't have come to my house."

"Perhaps his original case was brought by his uncle or aunt..."

When Lin Xiuyi said this, he suddenly remembered something and looked at Kubo Shoji's face carefully.

"So it's him. No wonder I felt the name sounded familiar last night."

"Onii-chan, do you know him?"

"Five years ago, my aunt was invited by the University of Tokyo to lecture at the law school there," Hayashi Hideichi recalled. "Kubo Shoji was one of her students at the time, and he even visited our home."

"Mom doesn't have such a criminal student," Lingzi curled her lips in disgust.

At this time, the tied-up Kubo Shoji moved his eyelids. Seeing that he woke up, Reiko hurriedly hid behind her brother.

“…You beat me!”

Looking at the young man squatting in front of him, the man widened his eyes and wanted to pounce on him.

But his hands and feet were tied, so he could only thrash helplessly on the floor.

"Kubo Shoji, weren't you going to seek revenge on the judge who heard your case?" Lin Xiuyi asked, "Why are you here?"

"Why?" Kubo Shoji sneered, "If it weren't for that bitch Kujo Kotona's talkativeness, I wouldn't have been sentenced to twelve years in prison!"

(End of this chapter)