The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

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Of course, to prevent being attacked in the dark, Aragaki Yu also had the Yuki-onna float in front of him to scout the way.

Led by the snow woman, Aragaki Yu went down the stairs.

The staircase was unexpectedly long. After walking for quite some time, Aragaki Yu finally saw a glimmer of light ahead.

That should be the place where the mother hid her son.

Yuu Aragaki lightened his steps and slowly approached the light.

Gradually, Xiaoyin began to hear the faint sounds coming from the basement.

That was the sound of Conan's deduction.

Soon, Aragaki Yu arrived at the stairwell and crouched at the basement doorway.

In the very center of the basement, an iron bar ran across, turning the inside of the basement into a dungeon. At that moment, a disheveled man was kneeling inside, covering his face and weeping bitterly.

Outside the dungeon, there were three other people.

The first thing you see with your back to the basement entrance is the back of a thin woman with a head of dry white hair. She holds a kitchen knife in her bony hand, threatening the two children in front of her.

Just like a witch in a fairy tale, she is frightening.

The two children huddled in the corner were Conan and Ayumi, whom Aragaki Yu was looking for. Conan stood up to face the woman without fear, while Ayumi, filled with fear, hid behind Conan, crying.

"Kid, who exactly are you?!"

At this point, Conan seemed to have finished his deduction.

The woman, whose emotions were heightened by the fact that the little devil had revealed everything she had kept hidden for so many years, stared intently at the boy and snapped at him.

“Edogawa Conan is a detective!” Just as Conan’s glasses reflected the light and he confidently looked up at the hideous madwoman in front of him, he suddenly noticed Aragaki Yu hiding behind the basement door.

His eyes lit up immediately, and he almost couldn't contain his excitement.

Fortunately, he quickly regained his composure, suppressing his joyful expression and softening his tone, afraid that the woman in front of him would notice something and discover Aragaki Yu behind him.

At the same time, to prevent Ayumi from seeing Yuu Aragaki behind him and thus revealing his presence, Conan pulled Ayumi's hand and tucked her behind him.

Chapter 142 Conan Suddenly Gets Nervous

Because the white-haired woman was too emotional, she did not notice that Aragaki Yu was slowly approaching from behind.

She had no intention of harming the children, which is why she drugged Genta and Mitsuhiko and threw them into the yard. However, what she never expected was that two of the children would sneak into the basement and discover her son, whom she had hidden in the dungeon.

Even the boy who called himself a detective guessed that his son was the murderer who killed the homeowner years ago, which completely changed the situation.

"A murderer who has been hiding for many years is imprisoned in the basement of the haunted house."

If this gets back to the police, my son will definitely be arrested!

After all, in her eyes, not all Japanese police officers were idiots!

So at this moment, after listening to the boy's entire reasoning, she felt a real urge to kill him. For her son's sake, she couldn't let these two children go!

When she saw the boy pull the girl behind him, she simply thought that the unusually mature boy was trying to protect the girl, and she never expected that someone else would approach from behind her.

"So, old lady! You should take your son and turn yourself in!"

When Conan uttered those words, the white-haired woman, blinded by rage, finally snapped. She raised the kitchen knife in her hand and lunged at Conan.

However, there was no fear in Conan's eyes, nor did he show any intention of retreating or dodging. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Aragaki Yuu slowly moving behind the white-haired woman, and he stood there confidently.

The white-haired woman didn't think much of it, assuming that the child in front of her was stunned by her presence and thus stood frozen in place.

"Ah...huh?!" Ayumi screamed as she hid behind Conan, covering her eyes, when she saw the white-haired woman rushing towards her menacingly. But the scream stopped abruptly.

Because through the gaps between her fingers, she saw that the white-haired woman, holding a kitchen knife, had her hand raised high when someone grabbed her wrist from behind.

"Wh...who are you! How did you get here!?" The white-haired woman was both surprised and frightened by the boy who suddenly appeared behind her. She couldn't understand why anyone would break in when she had completely sealed off the entrance to the mansion, since the children had run into the house because she hadn't closed the side door properly.

"Big brother Aragaki!"

At this moment, Ayumi Yoshida, who had been hiding behind Conan, finally saw the face of the newcomer and greeted him with delight.

"what!!!"

As Aragaki Yu nodded to Yoshida Ayumi, he tightened his grip on the white-haired woman's wrist. The woman cried out in pain and released her grip, and Aragaki Yu took the opportunity to snatch the kitchen knife from her hand.

After the white-haired woman's weapon was taken away, she was pushed by Aragaki Yu to the edge of the cage.

"Mother!" The extremely disheveled man in the dungeon, upon seeing his mother pushed to the ground, anxiously moved over and worriedly checked on the white-haired woman's condition through the dungeon's iron bars.

"Damn it, how could this happen!" The white-haired woman slumped to the ground, clutching her bruised wrist in pain, glaring resentfully at Aragaki Yu who had appeared out of nowhere.

Aragaki Yu weighed the kitchen knife in his hand for a moment, and finally threw it far away.

Conan, who witnessed this scene from the corner, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. For some reason, after seeing Aragaki Yu subdue the white-haired woman in front of him, besides a fleeting joy, Conan felt more worried.

Conan involuntarily recalls the scene from that night in the school warehouse, where Aragaki Yu was beating the kidnapper with a stick, while he could only desperately hold onto Aragaki Yu's leg and try to stop him.

The current scene is strangely similar to that time. The victims are still herself and a little girl, and the perpetrator is still subdued by Aragaki Yu, who appears mysteriously.

But the old woman in front of me was clearly not as tough as the kidnapper from before!

Conan was terrified that Aragaki Yuu would take the kitchen knife he had snatched and beat the white-haired woman severely.

Seeing that Aragaki Yu had dropped the murder weapon, Conan's tension lessened considerably. To prevent Aragaki Yu from developing any negative emotions and violently beating the white-haired woman who had given up struggling, Conan quickly asked Aragaki Yu a question to divert his attention: "Aragaki-nii, how did you suddenly appear here?"

"Yes, yes! Big brother Aragaki, you didn't come all this way just to save us, did you?" Ayumi Yoshida clenched her hands tightly, her face flushed as she looked at the big brother in front of her, her eyes sparkling.

Even the white-haired woman who had collapsed to the side looked at the boy who had ruined so many years of her hard work with bewilderment.

"Oh! After my sister Ran and I were released from the police station and parted ways, we happened to pass by here and saw Genta and Mitsuhiko lying unconscious in the yard. I was worried that you might be here too, so I came in to check on you," Aragaki Yu explained casually.

"Damn it, so that's how it is!" The white-haired woman slammed her fist on the iron bars in frustration, regretting why she hadn't dealt with those two brats properly. Instead, she had been greeted by this boy. At this moment, she had completely forgotten that she had clearly closed all the entrances and exits, so how did this boy manage to get in?

"Genta and Mitsuhiko? So they're in the yard! Thank goodness they're alright!" Ayumi finally felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders after hearing that her long-lost friends were safe.

"So that's how it is!" Conan thought to himself. Based on his understanding of Aragaki Yu, he was indeed the kind of person who would notice these things. Given his past abilities, it wasn't surprising that he could find him and Ayumi.

He began to feel fortunate. If Aragaki Yuu hadn't happened to pass by and come in to investigate after parting ways with Ran, he and Ayumi would have been in real danger...!

"Wait a minute!" After carefully considering what Aragaki Yu had said, Conan was suddenly startled. "What did he just say?! He and Ran came out of the police station?!"

Conan's heart suddenly felt like it was in turmoil, and he became very tense.

Amidst the bewildered gazes of the crowd, Conan stood frozen in place, his eyes wide as saucers. He stretched out his hand, pointing tremblingly at Aragaki Yu, stammering and unable to utter a complete sentence: "Aragaki... big brother, you, you!"

[Yuu Aragaki, he and Ran actually went to the police station!]

Chapter 143 You are my Shinichi Kudo, my best brother

What kind of scheme is this?!

Could it be... the Civil Affairs Bureau?

At this moment, Conan finally remembered that Ran had become mysterious since returning yesterday. Although he had asked Ran what had happened last night, Ran had only given vague answers, saying it was just some trivial matter at school.

Looking back now, these things are really very suspicious!

And just this morning, Xiaolan from the firm, after hiding in a corner to receive a phone call from someone she didn't know, went out looking very excited and nervous!

Conan initially thought Ran had gone to see her mother again, hoping to reunite Aunt Eri and Uncle Kogoro Mouri, which is why he acted so mysteriously and furtively.

But now it seems that she went out with Aragaki Yu!

Although Conan trusts Ran completely, he doesn't trust Aragaki Yu at all. Could it be that Aragaki Yu is secretly getting close to Ran while Shinichi is away, trying to steal Shinichi away from her?

Then, the innocent and naive Ran, under the guise of the evil Aragaki Yu, went to the Civil Affairs Bureau and got their marriage certificate! Conan, overly anxious and nervous, had completely forgotten everyone's age.

For a moment, Conan's eyes blazed with fury as he stared intently at Aragaki Yu.

At this moment, Conan's joy and gratitude after being saved by Aragaki Yu had completely disappeared.

How outrageous! This is the grudge of having one's wife stolen!

Just then, the faint sound of police sirens could be heard from outside.

Seeing the white-haired woman's face grow even paler, Aragaki Yuu added, "Oh, I forgot to mention, I already called the police when I saw Genta and Mitsuhiko unconscious in the yard."

On the contrary, the man who had been in the dungeon revealed a look of relief upon hearing the police arrive.

Because Yu Aragaki was very considerate of the police when he entered the basement, he specially opened the door of the mansion for them and even left the wooden planks leading to the basement open. As a result, the police found the dungeon in a short time.

The two officers leading the group were still Inspector Megure and Inspector Sato.

They couldn't help but show expressions of shock as they looked at the scene in the basement.

They never imagined that, in broad daylight, under the clear sky, someone would dare to set up a private prison in their own jurisdiction!

A disheveled, mentally broken man imprisoned in a dungeon.

An old woman with white hair, leaning against the dungeon bars, looked desperate and her eyes were silent.

Conan stood in the corner, his face pale and frozen in shock.

Ayumi, her face flushed and tears streaming down her face.

And my younger brother Aragaki, whom I had just parted ways with at the police station.

Inspector Megure stared blankly at the people in the room, completely unable to discern the situation in the basement.

Why does it feel like everyone except my brother Aragaki seems a bit off?