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Chapter 216 Rescue
"W-what! You said..."
Upon hearing Ai Haibara's words, Professor Agasa was so shocked that he momentarily forgot to control his voice.
Fortunately, the others were preoccupied with their own thoughts and did not notice what was happening on their side.
Under Ai Haibara's reproachful gaze, Professor Agasa finally lowered his voice: "You mean, Conan is in trouble?!"
“Yes, Aragaki Yu has already gone to see him.” Haibara Ai nodded, then solemnly reminded Professor Agasa, “Also, never trust anyone in this manor.”
"Huh?...Okay, okay." Professor Agasa was a little surprised at first, but when he recalled the strange behavior of the manor's owner after they entered the castle and the slightly eerie atmosphere in the restaurant, he immediately agreed with Ai Haibara's opinion.
……
Before Masaki Masaki returned to her room from the restaurant, Aragaki Yu had already entered the secret passage with Hotaru.
The secret passages are interconnected, with many different hidden branching passages and exits.
However, with Hotaru's guidance, Aragaki Yu quickly found the secret room where Conan was being held.
Yuu first handed the flashlight to Hotaru, then tried to find the switch to open the hidden door on the surrounding walls.
In the dimly lit secret room, Conan had already woken up, but he was now tightly bound with ropes, and even his mouth was sealed shut with tape.
Surrounded by darkness and silence, Conan could only hear the faint sound of himself scraping against the ground as he struggled. Even for Conan, being alone in such an environment made him feel extremely uneasy.
Just as Conan was feeling extremely nervous and terrified, he suddenly heard a slight noise coming from not far away.
Extremely alert, he quickly shifted his position on the ground and looked in the direction from which the sound came.
Not long after, accompanied by a low, muffled sound of a hidden door being moved, a beam of flashlight suddenly shone in from outside.
Conan's eyes, which were already used to complete darkness, involuntarily closed due to the stinging light of the flashlight the moment he saw it.
A wave of surprise and doubt washed over him: "Who...who could be coming?!"
Was it the person who attacked me?
Conan quickly dismissed the idea, because he had noticed that the person who entered the locked room had obviously been groping around outside the door for a long time before finally opening the door to the Lost Chamber.
If it was the person who initially attacked me and locked me here, it obviously wouldn't have taken this long to open the hidden door.
Thinking of this, Conan immediately perked up.
Someone has come to rescue him!
But who could it be?
Dr. Agasa?
Haibara Ai?
Or are they the three kids from the Junior Detective League?
Or is it……
As Conan's eyes adjusted to the sudden light and slowly opened, the person who had entered the secret room also seemed to have noticed Conan lying on the ground.
"Hey, Conan, what are you doing sleeping here? And what's with that outfit? Is it some kind of bondage play?"
Sure enough, the moment Conan saw Aragaki Yu, he also heard his infuriating voice.
"..."
If Conan's mouth weren't taped shut, he probably would have already started making sarcastic remarks.
He struggled to free his hands and feet, signaling to Aragaki Yu to help him untie himself.
……
"Phew, we're finally saved!"
After ripping the tape off his mouth, Conan stretched his limbs and complained.
"By the way, big brother Aragaki, how did you get in?" Conan turned on the flashlight on his watch and looked at Aragaki Yu with a puzzled expression.
Although Conan was relieved that someone had rescued him, he was also surprised that Yuu Aragaki had found him in the locked room so quickly.
"You came in."
"..."
"Can't you see?"
"..."
How did you get in? You walked in, is there something wrong with you?
Conan remained silent, seemingly without any problem.
Conan was getting a little anxious: "I mean, how did you find the entrance to the secret passage and get in?"
“Hmm…” Aragaki Yu paused for a moment, “I came in through that clock, following your method.”
“So…” Conan’s forehead creased with anger as he said, “So you just watched me fall into the secret passage and only came looking for me now?”
"No." Aragaki Yu's answer was straightforward.
Conan looked at Aragaki Yu's sincere face, which didn't seem like he was lying, and his mood immediately calmed down.
Perhaps, Yuu Aragaki only saw himself fiddling with the clock and falling into the secret passage, and did not know the real way to open the secret door, so he was delayed for a little while.
Or perhaps it was because Aragaki Yu encountered some accident on his way to find him...
Conan couldn't help but start looking for reasons for Aragaki Yu in his mind.
“I closed my eyes at the time, so I didn’t just watch you fall in.”
"..."
Conan was stunned again: "So, you weren't held up by anything?"
Yu Aragaki began earnestly, "I was indeed held up by some things, but I just chatted with everyone outside for a while."
"..."
"Hehe." Conan's lips twitched involuntarily.
"Oh, right, these glasses are yours, aren't they, Conan?" Yu Aragaki looked at the deeply shocked Conan, took something out of his pocket, and handed it to him.
These glasses were found by Aragaki Yu after he entered the secret passage.
It's likely that Conan lost it when he was attacked and fell down.
Yuu Aragaki remembers that in the original storyline, Mitsuhiko found Conan and Professor Agasa, who were trapped, through Conan's glasses.
To be honest, I was quite surprised when I received these glasses.
Although they look exactly like ordinary glasses, it's a mystery how Dr. Agasa managed to design so many functions into such a pair of glasses.
"Ah... thank you, big brother Aragaki." Conan excitedly took the glasses from Aragaki Yu's hand.
After all, these glasses have many functions, all of which are very practical, and they might come in handy right now.
"new……"
Conan was about to say something more when Aragaki Yu suddenly covered his mouth and nose, lifted him up, and quickly moved to the side.
Caught off guard, just when he almost thought that Aragaki Yu was going to kill him, he heard Aragaki Yu's hushed voice in his ear.
The next second, a faint sound came from outside the secret room once again.
Conan finally realized, "Looks like someone else is coming this way!"
Chapter 217 Conan's Grievance
Sure enough, the next moment, a beam of light gradually expanded from the hidden door of the secret room.
Although he couldn't see who was coming from the doorway, Conan knew very well that the only person who would come to this place at this time was probably the one who had taken Masaki Masuyo's place and had been living here all this time.
As Masaki Masuyo's footsteps drew closer, Conan, who was being carried by Aragaki Yu and huddled in a corner, finally remembered to turn off the flashlight on his watch.
Conan whispered somewhat embarrassedly to Aragaki Yu, "Since we could see the light coming from the hidden door just now, she could very well have seen the light from my watch. She probably won't be long before she finds us!"
"It's alright, there are two of us, she's all alone." Aragaki Yu seemed completely unconcerned.
Conan: "..."
Although he was very confident in Aragaki Yu's skills, he was somewhat helpless about Aragaki Yu's tendency to be ready to fight at the drop of a hat.
At this moment, the figure who walked in clearly noticed the tools that had been used to restrain Conan on the ground, and his movements obviously froze for a moment.
But she didn't hesitate for long before she started shining her flashlight around, clearly looking for Conan's whereabouts.
Conan stared intently at the figure groping around. After a moment's hesitation, he decided to warn Aragaki Yu to be careful: "I think the people in this house don't seem quite right. There might be more than one culprit. Let's be careful."
Seeing Conan become more cautious, Aragaki Yu was suddenly stunned, clearly not used to Conan's change.
Conan, doesn't he usually just recklessly rush through things?
What's wrong with me today? Could it be that I was attacked from behind by the murderer and my brain was damaged?
However, Yuya Aragaki had no reason to explain to Conan that the only culprit who attacked him and orchestrated everything was "Masaki Masuyo," so he had no choice but to agree with Conan's statement.
Just as the beam of Masaki Masaki's flashlight was about to shine on Aragaki Yu and Conan.