Conan's I'm really not a model worker in a winery

Chapter 660 The Mansion of Cursed Mask

Simply, the sound of so many cars' engines should have attracted the attention of the owner of the mansion.

People like Mouri Kogoro were not allowed to hesitate for too long.

Just when they were about to choose a door at random to visit, the door on the right was pushed open by a maid.

"Dear guests, welcome."

The maid respectfully said a word of welcome.

Mouri, Kogoro and the other three were no strangers to this maid, who even blinked at them.

Three people recognized it at once:

Isn’t this the maid from the previous client named Okura Kazakatsu? She’s working in a different place...

However, they still remember that they should be twin sisters...are they called Shimogasaho Nami or Shimogasa Minaho?

"Oh! Are you going in through this door?"

Among the people except the four Mori people, the baseball player named Mamoru Matsumoto thought this was the correct answer. When he was about to take a step, the door on the left also opened.

"Dear guests, welcome."

The two maids who looked exactly the same made everyone stunned for a moment.

The person on the left, I don’t know whether she is an older sister or younger sister, Shimogasa Honami, also recognized Mouri Kogoro and the others. She blinked, but did not make any special expression. Instead, she smiled and said: "Mr. Mouri and his party, are you still here?"

Please enter from the east entrance."

Mouri Kogoro and Lie looked at each other and said blankly: "Just us?"

"Mr. Katagiri, Mr. Matsudaira, and Miss Nagara, please enter from the west entrance." The maid on the right, Shimokasa Minaho, followed suit and made an invitation gesture.

The robbed people were divided into two groups, and everyone looked at each other in shock.

"Hey, let me ask you a question, why do you have to separate into two sides when entering? Is it a rule set by the owner of this house?"

Lie raised his hand and asked the question naturally.

Facing her, Shimogasa Honami smiled and said: "Yes, because the interior of this house is divided into two different parts: the east and the west."

"Guests arranged by the host in the west wing can only enter through the west entrance."

"Guests who are arranged in the east wing can only enter through the east entrance."

"This is customary in this house."

The two Xia Li sisters explained it concisely and clearly.

Conan's eyes twitched twice when he heard this strange rule.

And Lie's eyes gradually lit up: "Then~ what will happen if you don't follow the rules? For example, if I take Conan in through the west door..."

Everyone: "..."

Conan: "..." Qiudou Sack! Why bring him?!

"If you don't follow the rules, disaster will happen later." Shimogasa Honami still smiled.

But her words frightened the others a little: "Disaster, disaster? What's going on?"

"Because here...

It’s the mansion where the Cursed Mask lives.”

…

After receiving the first wave of fright from the maid, everyone finally divided into two groups and entered the mansion.

Since the lobby on the first floor is also divided into two sides, it seems a little narrow... but that's only relative.

On the wall from the lobby on the first floor to the stairs, there is a mask decoration hanging at a distance.

According to the maid Shimokasa Honami, Su Yoshiko herself has a habit of collecting various masks, and the ones hanging outside are carefully selected to greet guests.

But most people probably have difficulty appreciating this kind of mask decoration...

Especially at night, if a person is walking in a dark corridor with a flashlight, even if he is not frightened half to death by these weird masks, he will still be frightened walking in this weird place.

——Of course, Lie is definitely not included in this.

"Hey, can I take off this cat ear mask and wear it?"

Lie looked at the mask hanging on the wall with stars in his eyes, and even reached out to take it off.

"No, these are the collection of Teacher Su Fang. If you touch them at will, Teacher Su Fang will be angry." Shimogasa Honami stopped Lie's mask removal action with a smile on her face.

"What about this dog head?"

"That's not possible."

"What about the helmet of that armor~?"

"That's not possible either."

"I want to put on that one-meter-tall black mask for Conan~"

Conan: "???"

Mr. Lin, please be a human being! That mask is not meant for people to wear at all!!

"Dah ah."

Shimogasa Honami's refusals became more and more brief. After a few people arrived on the second floor, she immediately said: "I will be responsible for storing your luggage. Please wait at the Masked Gate first."

"Masked hall?" Mouri Kogoro heard another new term.

"Yes, this is the room." Shimogasa Honami briefly introduced, "The Mask Hall is Teacher Su Fang's exhibition hall specially used to store masks. It is also the first stop for entertaining guests."

The door of the mask hall is pure white, which forms a very obvious contrast with the original wood color of the corridor wall outside.

Out of curiosity, Mouri Kogoro took the lead in pushing open the door and entering. Maori Lan pulled Conan and followed closely...On the contrary, Retsu was far behind them.

Lie walked slowly and passed by Shimogasa Honami, who was holding her luggage. "Hey, do you have any mission here?"

Shimogasa Honami blinked and said equally briskly: "No, it's just that Mr. Kamikawa asked us to find a wealthy family to stay on call, so we came here to help. Su Fanghongzi will go to Osaka next week to attend the auction party held by the Ooka family...

…”

"Well~ I know that." Lie blinked, and finally said with a chuckle, "But you guys probably have to find a new home~"

Shimogasa Honami: "...?"

Is there anything wrong with the family they found? Although their character may be a little worse... why should they change?

Before he could ask 'why', Lie had already rushed into the mask hall and closed the door thoughtfully.

It happened that when Jae Lie entered the mask hall, a door on the opposite side also opened, and those who entered were the three people who entered from the other entrance.

I have to say that this mansion does have some ingenuity - from the first floor to the third floor, the only connection between the east and west sides is the Mask Hall.

The Mask Hall lives up to its name. The display cabinets are full of masks of various shapes. It is estimated that there are hundreds of them.

Seeing these spectacular masks, Lie whistled and followed Conan to visit them.

"...Huh? What is this?"

Conan wandered to a counter and found a remote control hanging on the cabinet.

Out of curiosity, he took off the remote control and took a look.

There are only two buttons on it. The two arrows on one button are opposite, and the other one is facing...

Lie, who was following Conan, narrowed his eyes and said, "Ah~ could this be some kind of mechanism?"

"...This is more like a switch than a mechanism, right?"

Conan rolled his eyes and was about to press the button with the opposite arrow on it, but Liejie got there first and pressed the opposite button several times.

"Hey~ why didn't you respond?"

"Nonsense, how can I close it if there is nothing to open it?" Conan continued to roll his eyes and pressed the button above.

Buzz——

The sound of gears turning suddenly sounded, making everyone present jump.

The next moment, the red curtains on both sides of the hall slowly unfolded, revealing display racks with more than a dozen rows of masks.

"These masks..."

Except for Lie, everyone else looked at these masks with some fury.

Because there are probably hundreds of masks on these display racks, and they all look... exactly the same.

(End of chapter)