AWB Chapter 817: The Great Transformation of the Dead Ghost
Chapter 817: The Great Transformation of the Dead Ghost
Chapter 817: The Great Transformation of the Dead Ghost
The opened coffin was empty, with only the bottom of the coffin and a circle of soft packaging around it visible.
"We really saw it, a vampire-like person was killed and lying in a coffin!" Xiaolan emphasized.
Of course Conan and the others believed her, but after Xiaolan and Kazuha closed the coffin, they stood in front of it, basically never taking their eyes off the coffin.
Regardless of whether Torakura Sakumi in the coffin was a living person or a corpse, where is he now?
Could he really have stopped time and run away? Conan and the others turned to look at Martin. After all, with this guy around, it didn't matter whether he studied or not. Anything could happen.
Martin raised his hands and gave a French salute: "I know nothing."
"What happened?" Inakura Moriyo and Inakura Kishiji, who had left the banquet hall earlier, also came over following the sound.
Torakura Mashin gave a general account of the incident, but his words carried a subjective tone, as if the elder brother was jokingly scaring the little girl.
In this case, Tonkura no Kami and Tonkura Kishiharu would care even less.
He Ye said again: "It's true! I saw that uncle lying in the coffin, with pointy ears and fangs. There was a stake stuck in his chest, and he was covered in blood. He was also wearing a black cloak! Just like the vampire Count Dracula!"
"Count Dracula..." Torakura Moriyo suddenly recalled: "Come to think of it, my brother was given this nickname when he was in elementary school. Even now, some old friends still call him 'Count'... because 'Torakura Sakoya' sounds a lot like 'Count Dracula', and it sounds like a nickname that a child would give."
It's pun time again.
Martin: "Were his elementary school classmates from Kansai?"
Old housekeeper: I named it.
"That nickname seems to be more than that, right?" Inakura Mina said, "It should also be based on the history of our Inakura family's ancestors."
"That's right." Inakura Moriyo agreed: "Plus, my brother has been showing a lot of unhuman behavior recently... Maybe he is really possessed by some evil thing."
Legend? The detectives got new clues for reasoning, and the girls got new horror elements.
"How could that be?" Inakura Kishiji tried to smooth things over: "Brother didn't grow pointy ears or fangs, he was just joking with us."
But someone disagreed with him: "Well, the fact that he suddenly disappeared from the coffin like magic is very similar to the vampires in the movies."
Torahara Kishiji looked back at Hanekawa Johei and angrily grabbed his collar again: "You guy, do you think my brother is a monster?"
He grabbed the collar and questioned her twice, and it was obvious that Torahara Kishiji was very dissatisfied with his sister's pretty boy.
"I'm not the only one who thinks this way, am I?" The pretty boy was not only not timid but also somewhat proud. He pointed behind him where the old butler was standing. "Koga also had the same idea, that's why he called these policemen, right?"
The old butler nodded slightly: "The master's behavior in recent times is really too strange, so I rashly invited these detectives."
"Um..." The maid came up from downstairs and was about to say something, but then she saw Tora-Kura Kishiji holding Hanekawa Johei's collar again and shrank her head: "The food is cold... How about I ask the kitchen to heat it up again?"
While they were talking, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at the empty coffin attentively. Then they found some bloodstains on the edge of the coffin.
"Uncle Otaki, I'd like you to take some blood samples with a cotton swab and send them to the police station for testing." Hattori Heiji pointed at the bloodstains and said, "If the owner of this house was really killed, this must be his blood."
As soon as they saw the bloodstains, the expressions of both Kogoro Mori and his group and the people from the Torakura family changed drastically.
As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Otaki Goro set off only after dinner. Of course, Torakura Sakuya did not show up during the entire dinner.
"I'll go too. There are policemen I'm familiar with there." Kogoro Mouri took the initiative to offer to go with Goro Otaki.
Martin explained in a low voice: "Uncle is most afraid of ghosts. When he heard there were vampires here, he did not miss any opportunity to find an excuse to escape, and even left Xiaolan behind."
Martin's whispered explanation was clearly heard by Maori Kogoro: "You are talking nonsense again! I just ran out of cigarettes and wanted to go to the city to buy a pack of cigarettes!"
"Oh, so that's it." Xiaolan didn't believe Martin's rumor at all, but after Maori Kogoro explained it this way, Xiaolan turned around and stared at him with her half-moon eyes.
"Cough..." Kogoro Mouri coughed awkwardly, then ran away pulling Goro Otaki.
Xiaolan sighed and turned to see Sonoko typing on her phone: "Are you chatting with Mr. Kyogoku?"
"What? I was chatting with your husband." Yuanzi answered casually: "Since you didn't ask, Xiaolan, I sent him what happened just now and asked for his opinion... He replied me."
"Ah? Shinichi?" Xiaolan subconsciously glanced at Conan, but Conan, who was not far away from her, had a confused look on his face, and even Hattori Heiji, who was beside Conan, was the same.
Conan took out his phone and took a look. Of course, he had never registered the Line account of the 'dead' Kudo Shinichi, and the current account named Edogawa Conan had not received any messages from Sonoko.
But soon, Conan found the clue in the chat group formed by Martin.
Sonoko @ed the account called 'Sooner or Later Will Be the Best Magician' in the group, and then told Xiaolan about the 'great ghost' that she had just seen in the coffin.
Hattori Heiji quietly patted Conan's head: "What's going on?"
Conan glanced at Martin. "This guy showed her a picture of Kidd. Because Kidd looks a lot like me, she mistook Kidd's account for me. This guy didn't explain."
"What should I explain? Explain that Edogawa Konnan is the great detective's account?" Martin asked in a low voice, then winked at Xiaolan who was looking over here.
In the group, although Kuroba Kaito was speechless about Suzuki Sonoko mistaking him for Kudo Shinichi, it was better than letting her know that he was Kaito Kid, so he interpreted it from the perspective he was good at.
Sooner or later, he is the best magician: {If it is a magic trick like the Great Revival of a Living Person, the coffin as a magic box should have a mechanism. For example, you thought the lid of the coffin was closed, but in fact, when the lid was closed, a secret door was opened on the side opposite to you. Since you said that the person has not appeared until now, it may be a simpler method, that is, there is a layer inside the coffin, just like the magician hiding a pigeon in his hat.}
In his reply, Kaito Kuroba only talked about business. He neither admitted nor corrected the fact that Suzuki Sonoko had mistaken him for Kudo Shinichi.
(End of this chapter)