I'm in Detective Conan, but it's a chaotic battlefield.

The soft, rain-soaked hair carried a pleasant shampoo scent, making it irresistible to indulge in its fragrance.

In addition, when Xiaolan lowered her head, the snow-white northern hemisphere that was revealed through the gap in her neckline made Chen Nuo feel dizzy.

Faced with this multi-sensory stimulation.

Chen Nuo inevitably had the reactions that any normal person would have.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't notice..." Xiao Lan said, but her gaze suddenly fell on the small flashlight that Chen Nuo was carrying in his pocket.

The flashlight gently lifted its head.

Help Xiaolan wipe the raindrops off her fair hands.

Even through the fabric, the burning sensation made Xiaolan's body go limp, and she almost fell into Chen Nuo's arms.

Her skin visibly turned red, starting from the mark left by the flashlight, her wrists, collarbones, earlobes, ankles...

Xiao Lan quickly turned into a cooked lobster.

"Ah~"

Xiao Lan exclaimed in surprise, her body leaping away from Chen Nuo's body with lightning speed, seemingly twisting her ankle in the process.

Because the shock she experienced this time was far more intense than witnessing Ota Katsumi and Nanasawa Miyabi, her exclamation was naturally much louder.

Even if Ota Masaru was focused, there was no way he wouldn't have heard such a loud noise.

"Who goes there?!"

As Ota Masaru pulled on his pants, he looked angrily at the bushes behind him. Because of the rain and the gloomy weather, coupled with the dense bushes, he could only see two figures hiding behind them.

Xiao Lan was shocked. Like a child caught doing something wrong by the teacher, she turned and ran away, not forgetting to pull up the hood of her sweatshirt to cover her identity.

But if the other party could see her, even if she was wearing a hat, Ota Masaru would still recognize her sports jacket, Chen Nuo thought with a wry smile.

However, her clumsy appearance actually looks kind of cute.

Chen Nuo was slowly preparing to catch up with Xiao Lan—he needed to catch his breath, otherwise running would be troublesome—when Xiao Lan suddenly turned back, grabbed Chen Nuo's hand, and ran together.

Although Chen Nuo was very moved by Xiao Lan's spirit of not abandoning her teammates, running like this was really uncomfortable.

However, there's no way to explain this at times.

Chen Nuo had no choice but to hunch over and head deeper into the jungle.

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After running for a short while, Xiao Lan suddenly stopped, and Chen Nuo, as usual, bumped into her back.

When he came to his senses, he realized that a Suzuki Sonoko was lying on the ground not far away.

No, it should be said that Suzuki Sonoko, covered in mud, fell to the ground not far away.

Behind Sonoko, the strange man, whose entire body was wrapped in bandages, was approaching her with a sharp axe.

After seeing Xiaolan and Chen Nuo, the bandaged man turned around and disappeared into the woods.

After rescuing Sonoko, they learned that she had originally come out with Conan to look for Ran, but Ran had been taken away by Chen Nuo.

Sonoko and Conan then split up and began searching in the forest.

Immediately afterwards, Sonoko encountered this bandaged weirdo. If she hadn't regularly participated in the sports club's training, she probably would have been chopped in half with an axe long ago.

Back at the villa, Sonoko first took a shower, then told everyone about her experience of being attacked, before going back to her room to rest.

Upon hearing this news, everyone's expressions turned solemn as they speculated about the identity of the bandaged man.

Chen Nuo was also puzzled. Why did the bandaged monster attack Suzuki Sonoko? Shouldn't it have been Mouri Ran who accidentally saw him changing clothes?

Did Sonoko also know this secret?

Chen Nuo put down his teacup, intending to go to the room on the second floor to ask the two women.

Ran had just finished comforting Sonoko and came out of the room with a teacup when she saw Ota Masaru waiting in the corridor.

Ota Masaru seemed unaware that Ran had witnessed his actions in the forest, and continued to chat with Ran in the manner of a caring older brother.

Out of consideration for Ayako Suzuki, Ran didn't want to show too much, so she simply indicated that she already had someone she liked and then walked away.

Ota Katsu looked at Ran Mouri's retreating figure with a resentful expression, then took out a cigarette and started smoking it at the corner of the corridor.

Xiao Lan hadn't gone far when Chen Nuo stopped her and asked if she had seen anything strange in the garden, such as accidentally seeing someone changing clothes.

Ran glanced furtively at Ota Masaru, who was smoking at the corner of the corridor behind her, and then shook her head, recalling the words Sonoko had told her when she first arrived at the villa.

"No, I've been with Sonoko the whole time."

Chen Nuo asked in confusion, "Did you see anything unusual?"

"Aside from that bandaged weirdo, there's nothing special," Xiaolan said after thinking for a moment.

Chen Nuo nodded, looking at Xiao Lan's hesitant manner, and thought that she was probably just shy. After all, seeing other men changing clothes was probably quite embarrassing for a well-behaved girl like her.

But why did the bandaged monster attack Sonoko Suzuki? Did he accidentally bump into Sonoko while looking for Ran, and then decide to kill her?

Chen Nuo's doubts remained unresolved.

By dinnertime, Sonoko Suzuki seemed to have recovered.

Everyone sat around the dining table in the living room, where Ayako Suzuki and Ran arranged the exquisite food on the long table.

Ryoichi Takahashi was still repairing the roof on the second floor, but Chen Nuo knew that his mechanism could only be operated from the second floor.

Once most people were seated in the restaurant, Ryoichi Takahashi activated the button on the mechanism.

The bandaged monster appeared at the window of the hall, holding Chikako Ikeda's head.

However, unlike what Chen Nuo remembered, the bandaged monster smashed the glass directly before stumbling away, which didn't look very smooth.

Even so, screams still echoed throughout the living room.

Sonoko and Ran, one on each side, clung to Chen Nuo's arm, trembling.

Nanazawa Miya, who had intended to hug Chen Nuo, was suddenly dumbfounded when she saw this scene.

I wondered what the employer meant by this? Was he going to personally intervene? I wondered if he would give me the remaining payment, since I needed it to buy a bag.

Just as Conan was about to rush out to chase the bandaged man, he was stunned by the scene reflected on the glass.

What's going on? Why did Sonoko betray them too?

It's fine if you betray us, but you can't just leave Xiaolan behind.

Conan turned around and looked at Sonoko with a resentful expression.

His turn of the head drew everyone's attention to Chen Nuo.

Chen Nuo calmly clapped his hands, and Xiao Lan and Yuan Zi immediately let go of Chen Nuo's arms.

The two women hugged each other, both seemingly a little embarrassed by their instinctive reaction of hugging the wrong person earlier.

However, this was just a minor incident. Apart from Conan and Ayako Suzuki, the others were more concerned about Chikako Ikeda, who had been captured by the bandaged monster.

Hiroki Kakutani, who was holding a camera, suggested, "We can't let that guy take Chikako away like this. Let's go outside and look for her."

"it is good."

At this moment, Ota Masaru also showed a decisive attitude, which may be one of the reasons why he is so good at winning the hearts of girls.

"The girls can stay in the villa. Lock the doors and windows and wait for us to come back," Ota Katsumi added, showing that he was good at winning over girls with such details.

As expected, Miyako Nanazawa's face already showed an expression of being completely captivated.

Ran and Sonoko weren't paying attention to this; they were still huddled together, shivering.

"Takahashi, what are you still doing there?" Ota Masaru looked up at the second floor and said with displeasure.

"Huh? I...I'm coming right now." Takahashi Ryoichi answered nervously, crouching down outside the second-floor window, fiddling with something.

Ota Katsu then turned his gaze to Chen Nuo, who was sitting at the dining table drinking tea.

He originally intended to reprimand the kid as a senior, but after exchanging glances with Chen Nuo, Ota Masaru suddenly felt a little guilty.

This kid has a sinister side; it's best not to mess with him.

Ota Katsu pretended to look for a weapon for self-defense, thus avoiding eye contact with Chen Nuo.

At this moment, Kakutani had already put on his raincoat: "Let's go first, Takahashi, pack up your tools and come over."

Ryoichi Takahashi: "Okay, okay."

Everyone else assumed that Ryoichi Takahashi was probably fiddling with tools for repairing the roof and didn't take his strange behavior seriously.

Only Chen Nuo knew that Takahashi Ryoichi was probably quite frightened because his prop dummy had malfunctioned, and he probably hadn't recovered yet.

What if the dummy that was holding Chikako Ikeda's head got stuck in the crack of the broken window glass?

His murder plan would probably be exposed immediately, right?

However, Chen Nuo also had some doubts.

Is it possible that the details of this case are not exactly the same as those in the original work?

Chen Nuo had watched the case of the bandaged man in Detective Conan more than once. He remembered it very clearly: in the original work, the bandaged dummy controlled by Ryoichi Takahashi simply passed by the window while holding Chikako Ikeda's head.

How did it swing in here and break the glass?

But then he thought about it again and it didn't seem like there was any problem.

After all, this is the real world, where everyone is a living, breathing human being, not a two-dimensional character from an animation. People are bound to make mistakes; perhaps it's just a small gear on a prop that's been misplaced, but that could very well lead to this kind of situation.

However, it seems that the overall plot follows the original story.

Let's see how it goes first. If I remember correctly, there's a storyline where Ryoichi Takahashi attacks Ran later on.

This is a great opportunity to improve your chances of winning someone over.

Besides helping Chikako Ikeda pass on to the afterlife, another important part of Chen Nuo's arduous journey was to strengthen his relationship with Ran.

On the way to the villa, Gin called him again, ostensibly to ask if anyone had any doubts about his identity, but actually to press Chen Nuo to find out if he had found any information about Shinichi Kudo.

"In that case, let this guy be arrogant for a while longer," Chen Nuo thought.

Conan picked up his flashlight and was about to go out when he spotted Chen Nuo sitting at the dining table, casually sipping his black tea: "Brother Chen Nuo, aren't you going to find that bandaged weirdo?"

Chen Nuo: "I'm not going."

"why?"