The boy soldier next to the famous detective

When Jonah immediately mentioned that Bo Gu's family was in trouble, his friend, Shinsuke Nitta, couldn't stand it anymore and was about to retort.

Before he could finish his sentence, three girls gasped in surprise from upstairs.

Jonah sprang up from his chair and ran down the stairs, followed by Conan Edogawa and Sera Masumi.

The sound was confirmed to be coming from the second floor. So Jonah had already taken the dagger he was hiding on his back on the stairs. The first thing he did when he rushed to the bathroom was to look around. Apart from Ran Mouri and the other two girls who were wearing towels and preparing to take a bath, he did not find anyone suspicious.

"What's wrong, Sister Xiaolan?"

Looking up at Ran Mouri, Jonah asked curiously why they had suddenly exclaimed.

"We wanted to take a bath, but suddenly we saw a lot of red tomatoes floating in the bathtub."

Holding a bath towel in one hand and pointing at the bathtub with the other, Ran Mouri was filled with doubt and surprise. After all, she had just heard about the many "red pranks" of this villa and the legend of the woman in red. Now, seeing so many red tomatoes that shouldn't be in the bathtub, it was understandable that Ran Mouri and the others reacted too strongly.

"tomato?"

Jonah blinked and walked to the bathtub, where he saw all the tomatoes floating on the surface of the water.

Why are there tomatoes?

Two steps behind, Conan Edogawa and Sera Masumi also walked to the bathtub. Sera Masumi, being the more proactive type, sensed something was wrong with the bathtub, so she rolled up her sleeves and reached in to feel around.

"How is it, Sera-neechan? Is there anything you need?"

Sera Masumi went ahead, and Edogawa Conan also gave up his plan to figure it out on his own, standing aside and waiting for Sera Masumi to discover it.

"Ha, there really is!"

Upon feeling the texture in her hand, Sera Masumi's expression changed. She grimaced and, with a complex tone, pulled up the object she had touched.

Jonah nodded slightly as he watched Sera Masumi pull Usutani Masayuki from the bottom of the bathtub, showing no surprise at the sudden appearance of the corpse.

So outside, because it was inconvenient for the women and children inside to come in, Shinji Nida was still shouting and asking, "What's wrong? What happened inside?"

Everyone else was shocked that Bo Gu Changjia had died in the bathtub and did not answer him. It was Jonah who kindly went out and talked to him.

"That fat man is dead."

"ha?"

After saying that, Jonah ignored Nitta Jinsuke's shock and went back to the bathroom, ready to listen to Edogawa Conan and the others' preliminary examination of the corpse. However, when he looked up, he saw that Edogawa Conan's face was red and blood was spurting from his nose.

Staring at Conan Edogawa with a puzzled look, Jonah followed his gaze to Ran Mouri, who was hurriedly wrapping her towel tightly again. Suddenly realizing something, Jonah looked at Conan Edogawa with even more disdain.

Covering his nose, Conan Edogawa noticed Jonah's disdainful look and closed his eyes, on the verge of tears.

Conan Edogawa felt wronged. He hadn't done it on purpose. It was Ran Mouri who, in her nervousness at discovering the body, hadn't held onto her towel properly, which is why he saw it.

Although he looks like a child, he is actually a high school boy at heart, in the prime of his adolescence, an age when he has fantasies and excitement about girls' skin. So, seeing his beloved girl's exposed skin would naturally cause him to react strongly.

This is human instinct, not something he does out of malice!

"Is Sister Xiaolan pretty?"

"Hmm, Xiaolan really does have a great figure... Wait, Jonah, let me explain!"

"abnormal."

Jonah coldly stared at Conan Edogawa, then shifted a meter to the side, increasing the distance between himself and Conan.

Ran Mouri and her two friends were changing clothes in the bathroom, while Sera Masumi stood guard at the door. Jonah and Conan Edogawa came downstairs to prepare to greet the police.

Seeing Conan Edogawa sitting on the sofa with a blank expression, not at all like he was thinking about the case, Jonah could roughly guess what was going on in his head.

See, wasn't it all exposed right away?

"..."

Faced with Jonah's gaze, Conan Edogawa was speechless and could only lower his head, forcing himself to think about the strangeness of this case.

The police arrived quite quickly, and the person in charge was Yui Uehara.

Upon seeing Conan Edogawa and Jonah at the scene, Yui Uehara paused for a moment, then relaxed.

Although she knew she shouldn't have this kind of mentality as a detective, to be honest, seeing this pair of "Demon King's Double Protectors" made Uehara Yui feel that this case really wouldn't have any problems.

The arrival of the police brought the scene under control, giving Jonah no chance to tie people up with ropes.

Jonah was also curious about Bo Gu Changjia's death. Although he left the villa midway, he kept an eye on the situation there.

If Jonah were to judge, the woman in red who was considered a suspect should not have entered the villa yet.

But Bo Gu Changjia is indeed dead, which means that the person who killed Bo Gu Changjia was actually in the villa.

Having encountered so many cases alongside Conan Edogawa, Jonah has also developed some deductive reasoning skills.

Jonah shared his conjecture with Conan Edogawa, who paused for a moment before starting to think along Jonah's lines of reasoning.

Currently, Conan Edogawa and Sera Masumi's investigation is still leaning towards the mysterious woman in red, but they both choose to trust Jonah's judgment and focus their investigation on the remaining three.

As night deepened, a sudden power outage at the villa due to a thunderstorm added an extra layer of oppression to the already tense atmosphere.

They found emergency candles in the villa and gathered in the living room to ensure everyone's safety.

Meanwhile, Conan Edogawa and Sera Masumi had found evidence to prove who the murderer was. After exchanging a glance, they smiled and began their deduction in front of everyone.

Jonah was not interested in the results of the deduction, and he didn't even touch the woman in red who was captured later, letting Yamato Kansuke, who arrived later, take her away.

Jonah felt a little disappointed as he looked at the heavy drumsticks in his backpack. Although he had encountered a case this time, he felt that the level of danger was a little low.

Going out for fun, a villa deep in the mountains, legends, detectives—all these conditions have been met.

Could it be because of Sera Masumi?

Thinking of the cases that Conan Edogawa and Heiji Hattori encountered together, Jonah felt that he had discovered something.

"Jonah, Jonah."

"What's wrong?"

His fantasy was interrupted by Conan Edogawa. Jonah glanced at Ran Mouri and the other two girls in front of him, then turned to look at Conan Edogawa, who had a serious expression on his face.

"Sera just asked me to help her find her phone, and I found a strange photo on her phone's home screen."

"The blonde girl in the picture looks a lot like her. She probably showed me this photo on purpose, but I don't know why."

"Jonah, you also know Sera Masumi. Have you seen a little girl with blonde hair with her?"