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

Sure enough, this guy said he wasn't Shinichi. Only a deduction maniac would have that kind of look where his eyes light up the moment he sees a case.

but……

Xiaolan glanced at the flattened cotton candy in her hand, on which strange shapes were still clearly imprinted.

This time seems a little different from before.

But kissing through a "thick" layer of cotton candy shouldn't count, right?

Moreover, he only did it because Conan messed things up; it wasn't his own initiative. It should just have been an accident.

Xiaolan tried to calm herself down.

Because she didn't want to give up her first kiss there. In Ran Mouri's relatively conservative view, that should at least wait until the two of them expressed their feelings for each other.

Although I managed to convince myself for the time being.

But the lingering heat on the tip of her nose made her thoughts increasingly chaotic.

She even forgot that Conan was still behind her, being brutally punished by the little girl's father.

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The group left the festival venue and arrived at the hotel where the deceased, Imatake Tomo, had stayed.

This is a two-story building in a relatively remote location. The decoration is also quite old. The owner stood at the front door with a worried look on his face, seemingly troubled about how to eliminate the negative impact of someone dying here.

Kogoro Mouri also came along. After he introduced himself, he was immediately treated like an honored guest by Inspector Yokomizo.

However, Conan acted somewhat unusually this time; he wasn't the first to rush to the crime scene to begin investigating the case.

Aside from the fact that I felt a little dizzy after being hit on the head several times by Kogoro Mouri and Ran, I was also a little dazed.

The more important reason is...

He felt he had to find a way to make Xiaolan see the true colors of that bastard.

That despicable bastard, how dare he treat Xiaolan like that...

The thought of the glistening mark on Ran's nose ignited a nameless anger within Conan.

That was territory he had never even touched, yet that bastard had already marked it first.

To prevent that guy from taking more of Ran's firsts, Conan decides to take a risk and take action.

If I just call Ran in front of that bastard using Shinichi Kudo's voice, I should be able to explain everything clearly, right?

At the end of the corridor on the second floor of the hotel, Conan took out a bow tie-shaped voice changer and called Ran.

drip-

After a few rings, Ran's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Shinichi?"

"It's me, Ran. You're with that guy now, aren't you? You believe me this time, right?" Conan said urgently.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone.

"You're Professor Agasa, right?" Ran's tone was somewhat downcast.

"Agasa... no, it's Shinichi! Can't you recognize my voice?" Conan didn't expect Ran to answer like that.

Xiaolan sighed: "Doctor, have you forgotten? You just developed that gadget that can transform into other people's voices, and you even asked my dad to help you find sales channels."

Conan froze on the spot, phone in hand.

Damn it, the Doctor is so unreliable! He didn't even tell me about something so important.

At that moment, he heard the noise from the microphone discussing the case gradually subside.

Conan looked up.

They discovered that Xiaolan was walking out of the room where the murder occurred.

The evening breeze lifted the hem of her light-colored yukata, revealing glimpses of her fair ankles. Her long, jet-black hair floated in the air, making it impossible for Conan to see her expression.

"Shinichi made you do this, didn't he?" Ran leaned on the hotel railing, gazing in the direction of the festival in the distance.

Conan: "I really am Shinichi, Ran, you have to believe me."

Xiaolan sighed: "Okay, then if you appear in front of me now, I'll believe you."

Conan glanced at his small body: "I can't right now, I'm out investigating a case."

"Okay, when are you coming back? I'll introduce you to Daimon-kun."

“Um…” Conan scratched his head, but couldn’t think of a good way to explain it clearly.

Xiaolan said gently, "Alright, Doctor, I know you mean well, but let's solve our own problems."

The matter has already been discussed to this extent.

Conan knew that saying anything more would be useless.

He had no choice but to hang up the phone, his gaze falling on Xiaolan, who was standing in the corridor staring blankly at her phone screen.

The fluorescent light from the phone screen shone on her face, and there seemed to be a faint glimmer on the tip of her delicate, upturned nose.

That exquisitely beautiful nose, like a work of art, was the spot he had planned to kiss when he confessed his love.

"Damn it!" Conan slammed his phone shut.

Since we can't explain it clearly for the time being, at least we can't let that guy Goro Daimon steal the spotlight today.

If that guy solves this case again...

This will only fuel Xiaolan's suspicions.

If things continue like this, unless he finds a way to turn back into Shinichi Kudo, there's really no way to explain it.

However, Conan is quite confident when it comes to solving cases.

Although he accidentally lost to his opponent once at the art museum, he didn't know there was another opponent in the shadows that time, so he wasn't in top form.

When faced with an opponent, Conan's strong competitive spirit greatly enhances his reasoning and observation skills.

Thus, Conan, with an unwavering belief in defeating his suspicious love rival, entered the crime scene.

"The murderer is Mr. Sei Kenichi."

Before Conan could adjust to the glaring lights in the room, Chen Nuo's voice reached his ears.

The case is solved?

Conan looked at Chen Nuo with disbelief.

How long has it been? He solved the case in the time it took him to make a phone call?

One reason he didn't rush to solve the case but instead called Xiaolan first was that, after learning about the case, he judged it to be a case full of suspicious points, but difficult to find evidence of the suspect's crime.

The murderer had definitely planned this meticulously.

Cracking that flawless alibi alone would take a lot of time, not to mention finding evidence to prove the murderer's identity, so he wasn't in a hurry.

But in the short time he was on the phone, that guy solved the case.

Conan instinctively felt that Chen Nuo was bluffing.

But while he was still in a daze, Chen Nuo had already begun to deduce.

"The evidence is on his wrist, Mr. Sei. You seem to have missed it, but in the photos you took today, there's a faint mark on his wrist. That must have been from wearing a watch..."

Chen Nuo calmly explained the methods the murderer used to create an alibi.

Sei Kenichi also showed an extremely shocked expression.

He had actually considered that the police might suspect him, after all, he and Jinzhu Zhi were good friends and stayed at the same hotel.

It's perfectly normal for him to be the first to suspect him.

However, he had strong confidence in the perfect alibi that he had been preparing for a year.

Even if the Metropolitan Police Department suspects something is wrong with him, they can't do anything about it given his strong alibi.

Even after learning that the mustache was the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, Sei only panicked slightly before regaining his composure.

To his utter surprise, the case that even the Metropolitan Police Department officers and Kogoro Mouri couldn't solve was exposed by a lecherous brat kissing a girl in the street.

Moreover, the demolition was so thorough that they could even determine roughly when he would leave the house.

"Mr. Sei, is there anything else you want to say?" After Chen Nuo finished his reasoning, Yokomizo Sango walked up to him and said with a stern face.

Sei glanced at the marks on his watch strap, then at the brat who had given him that devilish smile.

"Damn it, it's all that guy Jinzhu's fault..."

Sei Kenichi knelt on the ground and began to repent.

In Chen Nuo's view, just as Sei Kenichi knelt on the ground to repent, a ball of green light immediately emerged from the deceased's corpse and flew towards him.

It seems this cheat can only be triggered after helping the deceased punish the murderer and allowing the deceased's soul to let go of its obsession.

Chen Nuo let the green light enter his body, then went to the corner of the room, closed his eyes, and entered the mine interface.

Sure enough, a smaller version of the same size appeared next to Boss Shinaka.

Chen Nuo looked at Jin Zhuzhi's soul form with anticipation.

I thought that a newly tamed pet would usually bring its owner some surprises, right?

Sure enough, he had just had this thought.

Imaizumi's pickaxe unearthed a ball of light blue light.

[Hokushin Ittō-ryū - Experience Points +13]

The amount added is a bit small, but it's still pretty good that you only need 1 experience point to unlock a new kendo style.

Chen Nuo quickly opened the scroll to observe what changes his newly unlocked school of martial arts had brought.

He noticed that below the entry for Shin-Dang-Liu, there was a new entry for Hokushin Itto-Liu.

Clicking on the entry will show an additional skill listed below.

【Kasaya-giri】

It's a skill that cuts into the enemy from the shoulder at an angle, like a monk's robe, slicing the enemy in half.

Of course, in reality, you can't cut a person in half with a bamboo knife.