Conan Rick's Investigator

But even so, if you put your nose close to it and sniff carefully, you can still smell that faint smell of blood.

The legend turned out to be true...

Conan scanned the wooden sticks, each of which represented a life.

"It should be here."

Qin Zhibo had already reached the other side of the cemetery and continued walking into the mountain.

Conan quickly chased after him and asked, "Is that person Torakura Sakoya?"

"He wanted to avenge the person who killed his fiancée two years ago, so he used his vampire powers..."

"Do not."

Before Conan could finish, Qin Zhibo gave a negative answer.

"The man we saw on the cliff was actually..."

……

In the cave, a kerosene lamp slowly lit up, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

Maid Xiaoguang huddled against the side of the cave, trembling, her back pressed against the damp and cold stone wall. Her originally neat maid uniform was now dirty and messy.

And in her frightened pupils, a tall black figure stood beside the kerosene lamp on the desk.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you..."

The old voice echoed in this deep space, adding a bit of coolness.

Such comfort sounded like a threat to Xiaoguang's ears.

"Who are you?" Xiaoguang asked tremblingly.

The figure was silent for a while and did not answer directly. Instead, he raised his hand and pointed to a coffin in the corner and said in a deep voice.

"Go see your biological father. He is there..."

"Biological father?" Xiaoguang asked in confusion.

Ever since I can remember, my mother told me that my biological father had an accident and died before I was born.

Although I have never seen my father's grave, my mother would not lie to me.

However, Xiaoguang didn't dare to refute at the moment, and could only crawl to the coffin trembling.

When she slowly pushed open the coffin lid, she saw a man lying in the coffin in a peaceful posture.

That face belonged to one of the maid's most familiar people, Torakura Sakuya!

"O-Master!"

Xiaoguang thought that the master he served was asleep in the coffin as usual, and subconsciously grabbed Torakura Sakuya's shoulders.

However, this force actually moved the head away from the neck where it was originally connected.

Seeing the horrifying scene of the body being separated, Xiaoguang was so scared that he screamed.

"what--!"

The scream lasted for two seconds. Driven by the instinct to survive, Xiaoguang stood up and tried to escape, but the man grabbed his wrist.

"You murderer! Let me go!"

Xiaoguang struggled desperately, and the hairpins on her head were thrown away, but she couldn't get free at all.

The figure never spoke, but he didn't let go of Xiaoguang's hand either.

Just then, another man's voice was heard in the cave passage.

"Ms. Xiaoguang, you misunderstood..."

"He can't be the murderer of Torakura Sakuya, because he is the legendary 'Piercing Daimyo'."

"He is also Torakura Hakumiya's father."

Chapter 1414 The Secret of the Vampire

"Piercing... Daimyo?"

Xiaoguang stared in horror, subconsciously repeating this word that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

Conan, who was standing next to Qin Zhibo, stared at the figure under the shadow of the kerosene lamp, his mind highly concentrated, not daring to relax at all.

Is that a real... vampire?

When he heard the answer from Qin Zhibo for the first time, he was also shocked.

Because he thought that the so-called vampire was the Torakura Sakuya who had been disappearing.

In fact, even Qin Zhibo thought so before he looked into her eyes on the cliff.

Qin Zhibo stood in the passage at the exit of the cave, his slightly narrowed eyes sweeping over the man's head under the light.

[Name: Tora-kura Sukemori]

【Sex: Male】

【Age: 178】

……

It was when Qin Zhibo saw this information that he realized that the person he was tracking was not Inakura Sakumi.

This is why the locating spell sometimes works and sometimes produces no results.

Although Torakura Sukemori looks very similar to Torakura Sakuya, he is at least twenty years older in appearance.

"If I'm not mistaken, you are the third generation head of the Tonkura family in the black and white photo displayed in the Tonkura family's photo studio..."

Facing Qin Zhibo's questioning, Tora Kura paused for two seconds and replied in a deep voice: "Yes."

"That photo was taken almost 100 years ago..."

Qin Zhibo nodded and continued, "The person in the photo looks very similar to Inakura Sakoya, but he doesn't look like anyone else in the Inakura family, so I have some doubts..."

Upon hearing this, Conan suddenly remembered that he had seen that photo in the photo studio, but had ignored it.

But Qin Zhibo remembered this important clue.

"The reason why the other members of the Torakura family don't look like the people in the photo is because they are not real descendants of the Torakura family."

"Only Torakura Sakuya is your biological son, the one that the legendary 'Piercing Daimyo' gave birth to with great difficulty."

The figure under the lamp swayed, then sat on the seat next to him. He seemed tired and gasped heavily.

"You are right. Only Pokémon is my biological son..."

"As for the others, they were all adopted by Hakumiya over the years... Strictly speaking, they are all Hakumiya's children."

Hearing this, Conan's mind exploded.

This huge amount of information was too much for him to accept for a while. How could brothers and sisters become the relationship between father and children?

Another person who couldn't accept this was Maid Xiaoguang.

She widened her eyes in shock and murmured foolishly, "This is impossible..."

Torako's eyes dropped to Hikaru who was sitting on the ground like a duck, and he said calmly, "This is true."

"Hokiya is a very kind child. He longs to form a normal family like humans, instead of living alone."

"Vampires are almost infertile, so he adopted some children, took care of them until they grew up, and then became one of them to continue this bond."

"But it was this kindness that ultimately killed the woman he loved most in his life..."

"It almost killed his only biological child..."

"That means you, Hikaru."

Tora Kōsuke looked at Xiaoguang, and a faint warmth emanated from his cold and pale pupils.

Xiaoguang stared blankly, feeling extremely conflicted for a moment.

On the one hand, she was afraid of the existence of men and the so-called "vampires".

On the other hand, she longed to know her own life experience and why she was born into this world.

These two thoughts made her unable to do anything for a while, and she could only sit there blankly.

At this time, Qin Zhibo spoke softly, breaking the silent atmosphere.

"I think at this point, you should tell me everything you know."

"Ms. Xiaoguang should also have the right to know about this..."

Torakura Keimoru looked at Xiaoguang, saw a hint of desire flashing in his widened pupils, and nodded in agreement.

"Well, I'll tell you the story that happened to me..."

"I think you all know from the legends what happened before I became the 'Piercing Daimyo', so I won't go into details."

"I'll start from then on..."

Next, Torakura Sukemori talked about his own story.

"After the incident of piercing the daimyo, I stopped trusting anyone and dismissed most of my subordinates and servants."

"With the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji era, I sold off my family's old assets, became a new noble, and raised Hashimiya."

"One of the characteristics of vampires is that the more blood they suck, the stronger their abilities become, but the negative effects that come with it also become greater."

"I became increasingly afraid of the sun's ultraviolet rays, until I couldn't go out during the day at all."

"In order to solve the negative effects of vampires, Hakoya became a doctor and later opened a hospital specializing in the treatment of various blood diseases."

"However, most human blood diseases are incurable and terminal illnesses, and many patients eventually die in the hospital."

"So, Hakiya began to adopt orphans who had died in the hospital and had no one to take care of them since birth, and acted as their biological father."

"Until one day 27 years ago, a woman came to Hakumiya's hospital."

"The woman was suffering from chronic renal failure, which was already in the advanced stage. Her husband disappeared because he did not want to bear the endless medical expenses and the sky-high surgery fees."

"But the woman has an optimistic personality and doesn't seem to be troubled by her situation. She still greets Hakumiya with a smile every day."

"The woman's cheerful personality infected Hakumiya, so Hakumiya paid for all of the woman's medical expenses."

"Later, the hospital found a suitable kidney source, and after the woman completed the transplant surgery and recovered and was discharged from the hospital, Pomi and the woman naturally became husband and wife."

"However, in order not to affect other children in the family, their relationship was not made public at first."

"Until one day, the woman miraculously became pregnant..."

When he said this, Tora-Kura's voice trembled slightly.

"The fertility of vampires is close to zero. Vampires cannot reproduce with other vampires, and the probability of vampires and humans reproducing is also close to zero."

"But Hakoya has created a miracle just like I did back then."

"But in order to protect the child and prevent the child from knowing the truth that his biological father is actually a vampire, Po Ya did not take the child with him. Instead, he left the child with his biological mother to raise him well."

"It was not until the child grew up and had enough self-protection ability that Hakoya recognized the child."

"That child is you, Hikaru."

Torakura Keshou bent down, put his face close to Xiaoguang, and stared carefully into those still somewhat confused eyes.

"Although I haven't met your mother very often, you do look a lot like her, especially your eyes..."

Torakura sat back in his chair and continued, "Although your mother had a kidney transplant and has lived for more than 20 years, it was not her own organ, so the disease eventually recurred."

"As a last resort, I had to transform your mother into a vampire so that she could continue to live."

"Your mother also made a three-article agreement with Pomi. The two agreed to never drink human blood again and to live only on animal blood."

"Two years ago, you had a sudden illness and stayed in Hakumiya's hospital. Hakumiya performed the surgery on you personally."

"Your surgery was successful at that time, but the other adopted sons in the family were worried that your mother's existence would take away all the inheritance, so they asked the maid named 'Qingshui' to tell your mother that you were critically ill."

"Your mother was extremely worried and had a car accident on the way to the hospital that night..."

"After your mother passed away, although Hakoya was heartbroken, he still had you as his pillar of support."