Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

Yuan Tai chuckled and said, "I feel like we are a group of adventurous little heroes."

"Yes, we are so brave." Mitsuhiko agreed, "I am the most clever magician."

"Then the hero is me."

"Then I am a lovely female warrior." Ayumi was not willing to be outdone: "Xiaotuo is a smart and wise man."

"Then I am..." Conan didn't know what was wrong with him, but he actually wanted to join the conversation.

However, Yuan Tai pointed at him and said, "You are an ordinary little boy."

Conan: "..."

After all, he was a high school detective known as the "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era," but now he was being looked down upon by a group of elementary school students.

creak-

A door on the second floor suddenly opened.

With a scream, the female warrior Ayumi tightly grabbed Watanabe Toru's arm, and the brave man Genta and the magician Mitsuhiko hid behind Conan.

Watanabe Toru: “…”

Conan: "..."

Yuan Tai said tremblingly: "You, who of you will go in and take a look?"

No one answered.

Watanabe Toru sighed softly: "I'll go take a look."

067. This child is a little different

"Xiao Che, what's going on? Is there a ghost in there?" Yuan Tai asked in a low voice from outside.

Watanabe Toru looked at the curtains in the room that were blown by the wind and responded, "There is no ghost. It was the wind from outside that blew in and opened the door."

After hearing what happened, everyone came in with peace of mind.

"I told you, how could there be ghosts in this world?" Guangyan looked relaxed, as if it wasn't him who had just hidden: "Well, I want to go to the bathroom, you guys wait here for me."

"Do you want me to go with you?" Watanabe Toru asked kindly.

"No, I don't believe there are ghosts here." Mitsuhiko waved his hand and ran out.

Twenty minutes later, Guangyan still hadn't returned.

Genta was getting a little impatient waiting: "Mitsuhiko is really slow, could he have escaped secretly? If so, I will never let him off."

"Mitsuhiko wouldn't run away. He must have been unable to find the restroom, so he took a little longer." Ayumi spoke up for Mitsuhiko: "Toru, Conan, don't you agree?"

Watanabe Toru gave a perfunctory "hmm".

Conan said nothing, shining the flashlight around.

"what--"

Suddenly, a scream came from outside.

Ayumi's expression changed: "It's...it's Mitsuhiko's voice."

Conan had already rushed out, leaving behind a message: "Stay here and don't go out. I'm going to find Mitsuhiko."

This was his subconscious action, and he completely forgot that he was a child.

"Xiao Toru, what should we do?" Ayumi pulled Watanabe Toru with an uneasy look on her face.

Genta, the leader of the group, was also panicked and looked at Watanabe Toru at a loss.

Watanabe Toru comforted him: "Don't worry, let Conan go out and look for him first, we will stay here and wait for him."

Another ten minutes passed.

Conan hasn't come back yet, but Genta's stomach is growling. He scratches his head embarrassedly and looks at Ayumi.

Only Ayumi brought food.

Ayumi opened her schoolbag and poured out the snacks inside: "You must be hungry, eat something."

"Thank you, Ayumi." Genta took a bag of snacks without hesitation, tore open the package, and stuffed handfuls of snacks into his mouth.

"Xiao Tetsu, here's what you're looking for." Ayumi handed a bag of snacks to Watanabe Tetsu: "This is delicious."

"Thank you."

Time passed very slowly while waiting. When Genta reached out to take the third bag of snacks, Ayumi finally stopped him, held the snacks in her arms, and said angrily, "Genta, don't eat anymore. These are for Mitsuhiko and Conan."

Yuan Tai withdrew his hand awkwardly: "I know, I know."

For a big eater like Genta, two bags of snacks were not enough to fill his stomach. He sat on the ground, rubbing his stomach and muttering, "Why haven't Mitsuhiko and Conan come back yet? I want to go home."

There is hot rice to eat when you go home. Isn’t it better than staying hungry in this gloomy old house?

It was you who insisted on coming here to explore. Watanabe Toru was speechless. He looked at the time and saw that twenty minutes had passed since Conan left.

"I'll go out and take a look. You guys stay here and don't leave." Watanabe Toru said.

"But it's very dangerous outside now."

"It's okay, I'll be careful."

Toru Watanabe walked in the corridor with a flashlight, recalling the cases related to this old house.

He vaguely remembered that the son of the owner of this villa accidentally killed his father. In order to help him escape legal punishment, his mother locked him up in the basement of the villa until the case was dismissed.

Da da da.

In the silent environment, the footsteps were particularly clear. Watanabe Toru turned off the flashlight and hid in the next room.

The footsteps came from far away and the candlelight illuminated the wall. Watanabe Toru stuck behind the door and saw everything clearly through the crack.

An old woman with long hair and a face mask, thin and hunched, slowly passed by him, holding a candle in one hand and pushing a food cart with the other.

After the footsteps faded away, Watanabe Toru came out from behind the door. Without turning on the flashlight, he followed with the faint candlelight in front of him.

After turning the corner, the road ahead became dark again and the old woman disappeared.

It seems that the secret passage in the basement is nearby. Watanabe Toru turned on the flashlight and was looking for the secret door when a beam of light shone from the other side.

"Conan?"

"Watanabe?" Conan was surprised to see Watanabe Toru here too: "Why are you here? Where are Ayumi and Genta?"

"They're in the room," Watanabe Toru said. "I came here with an old woman, and she disappeared here. I thought there might be a secret door nearby."

Conan looked at Watanabe Toru in surprise.

This guy seems a little different from the other three kids.

068. Follow my command

The secret door was quickly found by the two men.

Conan grabbed the handle on the groove and tried to lift the secret door, but unfortunately his strength was too weak and he failed after several attempts.

"It seems that we need to use tools." Watanabe Toru hinted at something. He knew that Conan had a lot of props given to him by Dr. Agasa.

Sure enough, Conan's eyes lit up, and he took off the braces on his clothes, tied one end to a hook on the wall, and tied a loop through the handle of the secret door, then pressed the button. The braces began to tighten, and the secret door was affected by the tension and slowly lifted up, revealing the steps leading to the basement.

"Mitsuhiko might be down here."

"And the old woman you mentioned, she is a very dangerous person, we have to be careful."

"After you go down, don't act rashly. Follow my instructions."

Conan had already guessed the truth and was waiting to confirm it. His only concern was Watanabe Toru. Although Watanabe Toru's analysis had surprised him, he was only a seven or eight-year-old child after all, so he gave him some warnings to prevent any problems later.

Looking at Conan's small body and mature words, Watanabe Toru suppressed his laughter and said in agreement: "I understand."

The two tiptoed to the basement and saw the large iron cage. Conan was surprised and muttered in a low voice: "Why is there such a thing in this place?"

"Ahhh-"

A creepy scream suddenly came from the cage.

Then a woman's voice said, "Another nightmare? How pitiful."

"It's been five years. Just forget about it."

"It's impossible for the dead to be resurrected. Come, eat."

bang-

It seemed like the sound of bowls being knocked over.

The woman sighed. "I'm not locking you up here to torture you. I'm thinking about your future."

Conan pinched his chin thoughtfully.

Watanabe Toru glanced at him, and without any warning, he suddenly kicked the wooden cabinet next to him.

The sound of "bang" was particularly harsh in the quiet environment.

Conan looked at Watanabe Toru in amazement. Didn’t he just warn him not to act rashly?

It was too late to escape. The woman who heard the noise was already walking towards them: "It seems that besides that little devil just now, there are other mice that have broken in to cause trouble. Come out quickly, there is no point in hiding..."

Conan gritted his teeth and was about to step forward to uncover the truth of the case, and then wait for an opportunity to escape with Watanabe Toru, but something he didn't expect happened again.

Watanabe Toru swaggered out and sneered at the old woman, "Madam, are you talking about yourself?"

"You, what did you say!" The old woman's face changed slightly.

"Did I say something wrong?" Watanabe Toru said calmly, "I felt something was wrong the moment I stepped into this house. I heard that the family of the deceased moved away after the murder. However, this house actually has running water. Isn't this suspicious? Based on your conversation just now, I have a bold guess. The case five years ago was not a robbery and murder case at all. It was your son who killed your husband. For his future and to prevent him from being punished by the law, you have been living a hidden life here. However, it seems that your son doesn't want to live like this, so you locked him up in an iron cage."

Conan looked at Watanabe Toru in shock. Watanabe Toru's reasoning was exactly the same as his, but the problem was that he was only a child of seven or eight years old.

He knew that Watanabe Toru lived in Xiaolan's house and had Xiaolan's father, Maori Kogoro, as his teacher, but how could that confused detective teach such a child? In such a short time.

really.

Although Watanabe Toru spoke eloquently, he had no evidence to prove that the mother and son were responsible for the crime five years ago. However, it no longer mattered. The son had had enough of the days in prison without seeing the light of day. If given the chance, he would rather confess everything and turn himself in.

Sure enough, when the old woman held the knife and yelled at Watanabe to shut up, a hysterical voice came from the cage.

"Stop it! Mom, please stop! That kid is right, I'm the one who killed Dad! I want to atone for my sins! I want to turn myself in!"

"Zhao... Zhaofu." The old woman looked at her son anxiously. "Don't talk nonsense. Just bear with it for a while. The deadline is almost up. As long as you don't admit it, even the police can't do anything to you."

"It's true that five years have passed since the case occurred. Even if the police reopened the investigation, they wouldn't gain much," Watanabe Toru said calmly. "But, can you bear to let your son live with the shadow of his father's murder for the rest of his life?"

These words were like a bolt of lightning. The old woman opened her mouth, looked at her dejected son in the iron cage, and finally covered her face and cried.

PS: Although the number of flowers did not exceed 10,000 before noon, it still exceeded 10,000 in the afternoon. I will add an update later. Thank you all for your support.

069. Sayuri Matsumoto's Crisis (Additional Update)

"Mitsuhiko...Mitsuhiko..."

Hearing someone calling his name, Mitsuhiko slowly opened his eyes.

"That's great, Mitsuhiko is awake." Ayumi breathed a sigh of relief and said happily.

Mitsuhiko blinked twice in confusion and got up from the ground: "Why am I here? I'm not...right..."

The memory fragments seemed to be restored, and he said with horror: "I... I encountered a ghost. It caught me, really, there is a ghost in this house..."

How scared must this be for the child? Watanabe Toru was a little emotional. Although Mitsuhiko was a little timid, he firmly believed that there were no ghosts in the world. He had been talking about ghosts all the time when he went to the toilet.

"Mitsuhiko, that's not a ghost." Ayumi comforted him and told him what happened.

"Huh? So that's a human." Mitsuhiko finally breathed a sigh of relief and scratched his head: "I was saying, how could there be ghosts in this world?"

Everyone: “…”

The criminal mother and son had been taken away by the police a few minutes ago. After solving the case, Watanabe Toru received 2000 points from the system, so his trip was not in vain.

Just as he was about to tell everyone to go home, he saw Conan staring at him with a confused expression, wanting to say something but stopping himself. He coughed dryly and said, "Conan, why are you looking at me?"

Conan hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Watanabe, did you learn your reasoning from Uncle Maori? Is he... is he so good?"

The last sentence was said with an extremely skeptical tone.