The boy soldier next to the famous detective

Seeing Jonah suddenly appear, the bandaged monster was not afraid at all. Instead, Jonah pulled out a kitchen knife and charged at him, which startled the bandaged monster.

Having already failed in his attack on Ran Mouri and intending to escape, he didn't want to be surrounded in the forest, so he immediately started running without looking back.

Jonah originally wanted to chase after the strange man who attacked Ran Mouri and catch him, but Ran Mouri called out to him, and Jonah was worried that if he rushed out rashly, Ran Mouri and the others might be in danger, so he gritted his teeth and stopped.

"Sister Xiaolan, are you alright?"

Jonah quickly walked over to Ran Mouri, who had been helped up by Conan Edogawa and Sonoko Suzuki. He carefully examined Ran's physical condition and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that she seemed to be uninjured.

"I'm fine."

She shook her head. Although she was very scared after being attacked, Ran Mouri adjusted her emotions very quickly and calmed down soon.

"What's wrong with that person? Why did they attack you, Xiaolan?"

Supporting Ran Mouri, Sonoko Suzuki looked in the direction the bandaged monster had fled, her eyes filled with deep confusion.

"I don't know. I just saw him today. Didn't I tell you before, Sonoko? He's on the wooden bridge leading to the villa."

Shaking her head, Ran Mouri was also innocent. She didn't know when she had offended this strange person, who was even following her and trying to chop her with an axe.

"Although we don't know who he is, we've determined that he's extremely dangerous! Since he failed to attack Sister Xiaolan, he's very likely to strike again! We need to go back and tell everyone this, and then take precautions."

Looking seriously in the direction the bandaged man had left, Conan Edogawa solemnly expressed his opinion, which was met with nods of agreement from Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri.

"Let's go back first, but before that, Jonah, where's the knife you were holding?"

Pushing up his glasses, Conan Edogawa turned to look at Jonah, his eyes both serious and helpless.

"What kind of knife?"

Jonah stared blankly at Conan Edogawa, seemingly unaware of what Conan was saying.

"Yeah, I saw it too. Jonah, were you secretly carrying a knife again?"

After Conan Edogawa spoke, Ran Mouri realized what was happening and immediately walked nervously to Jonah's side, reaching out to feel under Jonah's clothes to see if he was hiding something.

"Sister Xiaolan, I can't give you the knife."

Jonah deftly broke free from Ran Mouri's grasp and looked at the three of them with a serious and determined gaze.

"It's dangerous here, I need weapons to protect you."

"But Jonah..."

Ran Mouri was somewhat moved, but still felt that it was too dangerous for Jonah to be holding a knife. At this moment, Sonoko Suzuki, who had figured everything out, broke the deadlock with a smile.

"Jonah is right. We don't know where that bandaged guy is hiding now, so having something in his hand does make us feel more at ease."

"Jonah, I entrust my safety to you as well."

"Yes, I will protect you, Sonoko-neechan."

Jonah nodded seriously. Although they had just met today, he could already sense Sonoko Suzuki's attitude towards him. Moreover, Sonoko Suzuki was Ran Mouri's good friend, and based on that alone, Jonah would not stand idly by and ignore Sonoko Suzuki's safety.

It was still raining outside. Jonah and his group quickly ran back to the villa. Seeing the four of them rushing around, Ayako Suzuki, who was preparing ingredients in the room, came over curiously to ask what had happened.

"A person wearing a cloak and wrapped in bandages?"

Because the group of people standing at the door were talking quite loudly, the other people in the villa also came downstairs. As a result, they exchanged information and discovered that, apart from Jonah and his two companions, the other men in the villa had also seen the strange bandaged man when they came to the villa.

"Could it be someone who lives nearby?"

"That's impossible. There are only a few villas on the other side of the bridge, in the valley. You have to cross the mountain to find any houses."

Shaking her head, Ayako Suzuki gave a negative answer, which only made everyone in the villa even more nervous.

"Why don't we call the police first?"

"it is good."

The sudden appearance of the attackers caused panic among everyone in the villa. Ayako Suzuki went to the landline in the foyer and dialed the police, but found that there was no sound coming from the phone and she couldn't get through.

"Can't get through on the phone?"

"Yes, could it be that the lightning just now struck and broke the phone line? It was working fine this morning."

With a worried expression, Ayako Suzuki put down the receiver. She regretted that she should have left a few bodyguards with her when the driver brought her over today; otherwise, she wouldn't be so anxious now.

"It must be that guy! It was that guy who did it; he cut the phone line!"

The constant anomalies kept everyone on edge. Jonah was still considering whether to take Ran and the others back across the suspension bridge before it got completely dark and leave the dangerous villa when Ryoichi Takahashi screamed in terror and ran out of the villa.

Seeing this, the others instinctively followed and found Takahashi Ryoichi sitting on the ground at the suspension bridge.

Jonah stared coldly at the severed suspension bridge, no longer harboring any expectations. His opponent's intentions were clear: he wanted to trap them here and look for an opportunity to attack.

Jonah would not allow such a thing!

Without participating in any conversations, Jonah returned to the villa and immediately went to the villa's storeroom. After searching the storeroom, he found a large, well-prepared toolbox.

What pleased Jonah the most was a battery-powered nail gun; although it was a tool, it could still inflict damage at close range.

Jonah put the nail gun into his backpack and then used wood, nails, ropes and other odds and ends from the tool shed to make many simple traps, which he planned to set up at several entrances and windows on the first floor of the villa.

"Jonah, what are you doing?"

When Jonah carried these things out of the storeroom, everyone on the first floor stared in astonishment at the wood with its sharpened tips and the planks studded with countless nails, speechless for a moment.

"These are traps. I'm going to set them up in various locations on the first floor so we can defend against them at night."

"Stop joking, little brother. Kids should hide quietly and not play such dangerous games..."

With a sneer, Ota Masaru walked to Jonah's side, his movements frivolous, and reached out to grab the trap that Jonah had placed to the side.

However, the next second, Ota Masaru felt a dizzying sensation, accompanied by pain in his back and the ceiling in his vision. It took him a while to realize that he had been tripped by Jonah and fallen to the floor.

"You wretched brat!"

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The sound of a knife being drawn interrupted Ota Masaru's anger. Looking at Jonah, who had one knee pressed against his chest, holding a kitchen knife to his neck, and whose eyes were devoid of any emotion, Ota Masaru instinctively shut his mouth.

"We can't rely on you, you're too weak."