books44 Chapter 223 Demons and monsters are no match for Detective Conan!
Chapter 223 Demons and monsters are no match for Detective Conan!
A chilling murderous intent crept up Conan's shoulder. He quietly turned on his tranquilizer watch and aimed it at his back, injecting the nerve.
A familiar muffled groan came from behind. Conan was about to turn around when a force on his shoulder stopped him. A white, fleshy body slowly fell down, pinning him beneath it, rendering him unable to move!
Ayumi's eyes twitched, and her neck slowly turned like a rusty gear as she screamed, "Aaaaaah! A ghost! It's a ghost! Mommy, help!!"
A long-haired female ghost draped in white cloth crawled on the ground, burying her head in Conan's neck to drain his life force. Conan's face was ashen, and he was too terrified to speak. A twisted humanoid figure crawled slowly in a strange and awkward posture, its arms supporting it on the ground trembling like butterfly wings as it mumbled a curse.
"Children, come to me! Hey, hey, come to me!"
Suddenly, a strange figure dressed entirely in black appeared at the end of the corridor. She wore a mask, held a thick, long pointer in her hand, and occasionally exhaled heavily with excitement. Her eyes seemed to be flashing with bloodlust!
Hearing her stern rebuke, Genta instinctively shuddered: "Ahhh! It's a weirdo who kidnaps children!"
With Conan already subdued by the female ghost, someone has to escape alive and call for help! Mitsuhiko gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and pushed Ayumi and Genta towards the stairs: "Genta, you protect Ayumi! I'll cover your retreat. You two must find the adults and ask for help!"
"But Mitsuhiko, you..."
"No more 'buts,' run!"
Genta and he both caught each other's attention; their gazes were filled with such boldness and valor. Just like what was shown on TV last night, facing his fallen comrades, Kamen Rider Y decided to fight the monsters single-handedly, buying precious time for the people to escape!
At this moment, in Genta's heart, Mitsuhiko seemed to be radiating a heroic aura!
Embracing his comrade's last fighting spirit, Genta nodded resolutely, grabbed Ayumi's hand, and angrily ran upstairs. Tears welled in Ayumi's eyes as she turned back, saying with reluctance, "Mitsuhiko, you must survive!"
"rest assured!"
Watching his friends go upstairs and leave, Mitsuhiko mustered his courage and shone the flashlight beam into the masked man's eyes, flashing it repeatedly.
"Come and chase me, you wretched guy... Aaaaaah!!"
His steps faltered. Mitsuhiko's terrified cry was more frightening than any attempt to cause trouble and have his parents called in. Genta, drenched in cold sweat, deeply lamented the loss of his heroic brother: "Damn it! Even the calm and collected Mitsuhiko..."
Ayumi exhaled a breath of cold air, kicked at the increasingly thick white fog beneath her feet, and forced an optimistic expression, saying, "At least, at least we won't be easily detected in this fog, right?"
White mist?
Pitter-patter... Drops of bright red, pungent liquid fell from the cracks in the stairs, splashing onto the ground.
Ayumi and Genta stiffly raised their heads, staring upwards. In the pale moonlight, a large, menacing white light, the size of a bowl, emanated from the massive body, like the gleam of a headless corpse's severed neck...
Under their horrified gaze, a corpse walked towards them step by step!
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
"Ayumi, Genta! You bastards, stay away from the children!"
A sharp whistling sound cut through the air.
Raising her pointer high, Ms. Kobayashi, Conan's homeroom teacher who had finally figured out what had happened, rushed over and launched a fierce attack on the suspicious bald head under the moonlight!
"Wait, it's me, Ms. Kobayashi!"
A familiar cry of pain rang out, followed by a plea for mercy. Ms. Kobayashi hesitated, halting her actions. Mitsuhiko, arriving late with a flashlight, illuminated everything...
The middle-aged man huddled in the corner of the hallway was wearing a light blue shirt, which Teacher Lin immediately recognized as staff attire. His smooth, rounded bald patch was particularly striking under the bright light, like a luminous light bulb. The man grinned and raised his head, revealing a face everyone recognized:
"Dean of Students? What are you doing here? And what's wrong with your hair...?"
Inside the bustling school building, pairs of bewildered eyes looked at each other, belatedly realizing that perhaps everyone needed to collectively review what had happened.
......
"Hey, whoosh!"
Under Ms. Kobayashi's stern gaze, the head of the teaching department limped along, carrying the student's parent, who was dressed as a female ghost, to the bed in the infirmary.
The door to the staff office next door opened, and Amuro Tooru brought Ai Haibara, who was resting in the classroom, and guiltily looked away.
Ai Haibara looked left and right and saw Haruya Kuromon lying flat on the hospital bed with his arms crossed, like a peaceful corpse. She immediately rushed to the bedside and blurted out in her anxiety:
"mom!"
"Mom?" Everyone turned their gazes and repeated in disbelief.
"So, Kuromon-nii is Haibara-san's mother?" Genta's eyes darted around... he still couldn't figure it out.
Amuro Tooru standing to the side: ?
Do you want to listen to what you are saying?
"Mr. Amuro, please wait a moment." The pointer slammed on her hand with a crisp sound, and Kobayashi Sumiko raised her head, her teacherly authority radiating outwards. "I would like to ask you about what happened tonight."
“...Okay, okay!” Amuro Tooru stood up straight subconsciously.
This homeroom teacher seems even more intimidating than the furious Onizuka instructor! I should have known better than to agree to Kuromon Haruya's idea!
"..."
"...So that's how it is. All the supernatural events were fabricated by you adults!" Genta puffed out his cheeks, about to protest, but was silenced by a look from Ms. Kobayashi.
What a complete blunder! Conan broke out in a cold sweat.
The legendary supernatural events at Teitan Elementary School are simply cases where students witness the teachers' furtive behavior, but the teachers are too embarrassed to explain.
A few days ago, the head of student affairs accidentally had his wig blown off while opening a window for ventilation. Too embarrassed to ask for help, he secretly came to the school every night to look for it after taking leave, only to be seen as a strange person by passing students. Tonight, hearing the commotion of the Junior Detective Club, and wanting to save face, he decided to pretend to be a ghost to scare them.
During her time at her previous school, Ms. Kobayashi's overly gentle personality made her lack authority over the students, which led to two mischievous boys openly fighting at a parent-teacher meeting, prompting her to resign.
After transferring to a new primary school, fearing a repeat of her past mistakes, she deliberately feigned a strict and demanding personality. In reality, every evening after school, she would use hand puppets with name tags as students, and specially bring in statues and mannequins to act as parents, tirelessly rehearsing parent-teacher meetings repeatedly.
Because one of the boys in the last fight looked a lot like Genta, she practiced with the Pigsy puppet a lot, and the puppet was particularly worn out.
The menacing gesture with the pointer just now... was because he wanted to protect the children who were in danger.
As for paper money, bells, and nursery rhymes...
Conan glanced at the culprit lying unconscious on the hospital bed, and his lips twitched.
It's amazing that Kuromon could come up with the idea of "scaring people by dressing up as ghosts to teach the kids a lesson"—no one else could do that! He even took Haibara away beforehand to settle her in, fearing she might be frightened, and persuaded Amuro to help...
"Conan! Conan Edogawa, can you hear me?!"
The black pointer was pressed against the tip of his nose. Conan snapped back to reality, immediately looked up, and replied, "Yes! I'm really sorry!"
"You lot came out to play without even telling us! Do you know how dangerous that is? Do you know how worried your parents are? What if it wasn't us this time, but real bad guys? Your parents are on their way!"
Taking the water from the head of student affairs, Ms. Lin cleared her throat and shifted the focus: "Hey, head of student affairs! How old are you? Why are you scaring kids over something like wigs! What if they panic and trip on the stairs and get hurt!"
"Mr. Amuro, you too, while I appreciate your kindness in helping to find the child, your frightening behavior after finding him was too immature, and you even caused Mr. Kuromon to faint from low blood sugar... Oh well, as long as he's alright."
Looking at the group of mischievous children and disruptive adults, Ms. Kobayashi rubbed her temples with a headache and sighed heavily: "You can't do this again, understand?"
The group being lectured replied, "Yes!"
Beside the hospital bed, as a "poor victim dragged in during her sick leave," Ai Haibara held a glass of hot honey water, blinked, and a smile appeared on her lips that she herself did not realize.
Its closed eyelids slightly lifted, and a sly green glint narrowed into a slit, secretly peeking at the dejected group: 'Thanks, Conan, for sponsoring the tranquilizer darts!'
The anesthetic shot, though off-target, obviously missed him. But it's always good to clean up the mess. While others might not notice the teachers, the crows could see everything perfectly well.
Haruya Kuromon is well aware of the extent of her perverse sense of humor. Looking young doesn't mean she's truly young, and it's still damaging to her image to blame students' parents for these pranks.
Just like taking leave at the last minute during a class criticism session, a well-timed fainting spell helps one evade responsibility. If a nominal consultant is so exhausted from looking after children that they faint, it's disheartening to then reprimand them for a harmless joke!
What? You're saying someone has to take the blame no matter what?
Isn't there also Bourbon, who was specifically brought in to take the fall?