Chapter 852 Classmate, Where Is Your School Uniform?

"The story goes like this. During the Warring States Period in Japan, there was a child named Momonosuke. He was eight years old and a noble young master."

"This child often takes advantage of his age to act coquettishly towards women and takes advantage of him in various ways, including asking girls to take him to take a shower, sleeping in the girls' dormitory, and lying on girls' breasts to rub oil on them."

"It would be fine if this Momonosuke was simply an innocent child, but at his core he is a little pervert. He looks like a child but has the mind of an adult."

"Later, the soldiers and common people under the nobles couldn't stand what Momonosuke did, so they rose up one after another, and under the banner of 'Momonosuke must die', they destroyed Momonosuke's family."

Qin Zhibo said the "story" he had made up in his mouth, and Conan was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Qin Zhibo meant by telling this story.

Momo nosuke?

Who is this person? Why didn't I know there was such a nasty little guy in the history of the Warring States Period?

Why does the sentence pattern of "Looks like a child but has the thoughts of an adult" so familiar?

Just when Conan "didn't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because he was in this mountain", Mao Lilan and Yuanzi walked down the steps.

"Xiaolan, how many steps have you counted?"

"Level 12, what about you?"

"Ah?" Yuanzi took a breath and shouted, "Why did I count 13 floors? No way!"

Mao Lilan was startled and opened her mouth wide, "No way! Why?"

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo and Conan were also a little surprised.

Qin Zhibo knew that with the ghost's ability, it was impossible to do something of this level.

Conan believed that the number of steps could not be different at all.

The two men walked together again, but they both concluded that the stairs were 12.

"Sister Yuanzi, didn't you count wrongly?"

Faced with Conan's question, Sonoko immediately straightened her back and retorted, "Hey! I'm already a high school student. How can I not even do such a simple calculation?"

"Maybe it's because Sister Yuanzi put her feet together when she was going up the last step, so she counted one more time?"

"Eh?" Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, "It seems like this."

At this moment, the classroom door next to where several people were standing was suddenly opened with great force, and half of the body leaned out.

"Hey! Can you guys please be quiet? You are affecting my painting!"

Qin Zhibo followed the gap in the open door and saw various drawing boards and plaster statues of human bodies behind the door. It seemed that this was an art classroom.

The student's name is Masao Monobe, and he is 18 years old.

"I'm really sorry~" Mao Lilan quickly bowed and apologized. The student's face softened and he closed the classroom door.

After exploring this series of supernatural events, the group finally mastered the truth about all supernatural phenomena.

"The Sighing Sports Warehouse" is a sigh-like sound produced by the wind blowing through the damaged skylight.

The "library of hate" is probably a prank played by someone with ulterior motives.

"The Cursed Staircase" doesn't have different steps, it's just that everyone checks the steps differently. The water under the steps may be caused by the windows not being closed properly and the wind blowing them open, allowing the rain to blow in.

The three supernatural events were all reasonably explained, and Mao Lilan was relieved. She smiled and thanked Qin Zhibo: "That's great. It seems that none of this is because of ghosts. I can rest assured that I will be on duty next week." ”

Looking at the rejuvenated Mao Lilan, Conan smiled brightly, and the corners of Qin Zhibo's mouth also raised slightly.

That's fine.

Although the behavior of this ghost is a bit strange, after walking around, it is basically certain that it is the ghost of Hideaki Hoitai wandering around.

Otherwise, what I saw that night would be completely inexplicable.

You can come again at night, use necromancy to summon the ghost, and then fulfill his wish casually.

Generally speaking, if you want to exorcise a ghost, the usual way is to fulfill his earthly wishes.

If you are too soft, "The Secret of the Worm" also contains the "Ghost Spell" recorded by Ludwig Purin, which is a kind of magic that forcibly expels ghosts from this place.

"It's already so dark now. Let's all wait for the rain outside."

As Mao Lilan spoke, he tilted his head and looked out the window, but a look of horror suddenly appeared on his face.

"Then, what is that?"

Qin Zhibo and Conan realized something was wrong and hurried to the window to check. They saw a set of desks neatly placed in the middle of the playground, with a piece of paper pressed with a stone on the table top.

This scene looked very strange on the deserted playground where the rain had just stopped.

Yuanzi's brain immediately began to think, "Is this desk the one I just saw in the warehouse?"

How can it be!

Conan immediately gave a sharp look, turned around and ran downstairs, Qin Zhibo also ran downstairs.

Running to the desk, the two of them were sure at a glance that it was Hosaka's desk in the warehouse, because there was a Roman signature written by Hosaka on the desk.

On the desk, a piece of white paper with a torn edge was pressed down by a pebble. On the paper was written the words "I haven't taken revenge yet."

"The paper was not wet at all, which means it was brought over after the rain stopped."

"But this is strange. The soil on the ground has been soaked by the rain, but there is one very important thing that has not been left behind."

Conan turned around and looked behind him. Qin Zhibo knew what he meant. There were no footprints here.

This is the back playground of Didan High School. The ground is soft sand. Once it gets soaked by the rain, people running over will definitely leave footprints.

But at this moment, except for the fresh footprints left by Conan and himself, there were no other footprints on the playground.

Putting something in the middle of the ground that can leave footprints, but leaving no footprints around it, why does this technique feel familiar?

Qin Zhibo thought about it carefully and then recalled that in the case where magic enthusiasts gathered, the magician's granddaughter used an aerial sling to transport the body to the middle of the snow, achieving this magic-like technique.

However, this method obviously does not work here, because the difficulty of transporting a desk with a thin rope is obviously much more difficult than transporting a body.

What's more, this is a set of desks, including desks, chairs, and desks. Papers and stones must be placed on the desks, so there is almost no possibility of operating them through ropes.

So someone must have moved it here secretly and then used some method to remove the footprints.

Back upstairs, Qin Zhibo and Conan explained the situation to Mao Lilan and Yuanzi.

When the two girls heard this, their beauty immediately paled, thinking that the soul of Hideaki Hoba must have moved the desk there, because the souls in movies and TV dramas are all floating in the air, so they did not leave any footprints.

"This statement is not correct."

Qin Zhibo shook his head calmly and said seriously: "Ghosts are not from this world after all. They are not strong enough to carry something as heavy as a desk."

"Ah——?" Yuanzi and Mao Lilan couldn't believe their ears and were stunned at the same time.

They originally thought that Qin Zhibo would explain it from a scientific perspective that it must be a prank, but they did not expect that Qin Zhibo would actually say that ghosts could not do such a thing.

It's as if ghosts really exist. That makes it even scarier, right?

Conan, who was standing next to him, quickly explained categorically in order to prevent the two girls from pursuing evil ways, "This must be someone's prank~ There is no one in the school now, so it's convenient to do it."

Conan's opinion was the same as Qin Zhibo's inner thought. It should be some kind of method of hiding footprints, and it was specially chosen to be carried out after school because the probability of being seen by others was low at this time.

"But my uncle and I have returned the desks to the gymnasium warehouse to avoid causing panic among everyone."

"But the incredible sentence left by the suspect was, 'I haven't taken revenge yet.'"

ah--

As Conan was talking, screams suddenly came from the art classroom next to him.

Qin Zhibo's heart suddenly agitated, his eyes widened, his pupils shimmering.

Side mission, here I come!

He was the first to open the door of the art classroom, but he didn't see the scene he expected.

In the art classroom, the senior boy who had just opened the door to scold a few people for talking loudly held his head and curled up on the seat in front of the drawing board, as if he had encountered something terrible.

"Yes, it's true. Those are all true."

"Hideaki Hoita is alive"

Alive?

Upon hearing this keyword, Qin Zhibo and Conan frowned at the same time.

The boy named "Masao Monobe" murmured to himself while trembling, as if his spirit had been severely hit.

Conan, as a newborn calf, took the initiative to step forward and asked, "Do you also recognize Hideaki Hosaka?"

His thoughts were interrupted by the immature child's voice. Mononobe Masao calmed down a little. His slightly trembling pupils under the lenses glanced in Conan's direction.

"Yes, but he is in the art team like me. We were both in the same team before he fell down the stairs two years ago."

He was probably frightened and repeated nonsense.

Suzuki Sonoko took a step forward and continued to ask: "Were you also there at that time?"

Mononobe Masao buried his head deeply and said in a low voice, "Yes, there is also Doctor Shinde. He died normally and has nothing to do with me."

Conan looked at the bespectacled senior and felt that the expression on his face was more inclined to one of self-blame.

His second sentence didn't seem to be for others to listen to, it was more like a self-comfort.

Qin Zhibo's focus was on the first sentence, which explained why Belmode did not follow the investigation of the supernatural incident.

Because she couldn't know all the trivial things that happened two years ago, she took the initiative to leave in order to avoid exposing her identity.

"Please all go out, I'm already very busy in order to catch up with this art exhibition."

"Let's go! I don't want to waste any more time!"

Mononobe Masao suddenly stood up, shouted loudly, and scolded several people to leave quickly.

After all, no murder occurred, and it was difficult to force them to stay, so the four of them had no choice but to leave.

Before leaving, Qin Zhibo glanced at the works on his easel.

It was a somewhat abstract, even weird painting, with a cloud of gray mist on top, and a slender figure vaguely visible in the chaos.

Are the paintings of high school students these days so unconventional?

Coming out of the art classroom, Mao Lilan and Yuanzi discussed whether they needed to consult Miss Tsukamoto Shumei.

At this moment, Conan took advantage of his height and discovered that the bricks on the ground were somewhat reflective.

I squatted down and scratched it with my fingernail, and found that there was actually a thin layer of wax on the floor tiles.

Although I heard that in some places the cleaning staff would wax the floor to show how clean it is, but this is a school and this shouldn't be a habit.

Could it be related to the water on the stairs?

Conan lowered his head and stared at the ground, and Qin Zhibo also stared at Conan.

In the absence of investigation points, Conan is equivalent to a "literacy dog" who can eliminate all investigation blind spots that are not easily discovered by himself.

After the two girls discussed it, they decided to tell Tsukamoto Sumi, who was studying in the library, about the latest supernatural incident that had just happened.

"What? Are you telling the truth?"

Tsukamoto Sumi suddenly slapped the table and stood up. Even other students in the library also turned their attention here and stared at this side. The atmosphere was a bit strange.

Tsukamoto Sumi's expression was surprised and a little complicated at first, but she quickly accepted it.

"Excuse me, don't you know the names of those books that were borrowed by Hideaki Hoita who are still in the library?"

Conan was determined to expose "someone's" prank and restore his innocence, so he was investigating seriously.

Tsukamoto Sumi nodded, went to the library bookshelf, and found four books one by one.

Conan glanced at the four books on the table. They were all relatively obscure professional reference books, involving geography, history, industry, etc., which were not likely to be of interest to high school students.

When I opened the debit cards in the four books, there was only Hideaki Hoita's name on it, indicating that he was the only one who had borrowed these books in the past two years.

Tsukamoto Sumi explained with a smile: "His ambition is to be a cartoonist. He often says that in order to draw interesting cartoons, you must enrich your mind from various aspects."

Qin Zhibo looked at Tsukamoto Sumi with a somewhat subtle expression.

As a warrior, Tsukamoto Sumi also felt Qin Zhibo's eyes, turned her head, and collided with Qin's eyes.

After the two looked at each other for a few seconds, Tsukamoto Sumi took the lead and looked away.

Not getting any useful clues from Tsukamoto Sumi, a few people went to the first floor again, wondering if they could find witnesses, maybe they saw the prankster directly.

But school has been out for a long time now, and there are almost no students on the first floor. Only when passing by the health room, I found that the lights inside were still on.

Opening the door, the Segu Kunushige whom I met before was lying on the bed by the window of the health room, with his arms resting on his head in a leisurely manner.

When he saw several people coming over again, he didn't have much surprise on his face, he just smiled and asked "What's the matter?"

Mao Lilan stepped forward and said politely: "Senior, we would like to ask you, have you seen any suspicious people on the playground just now?"

Shigu Guishan did not get up, he still rested his arms on his head and covered himself with the quilt, "I have been resting on the bed in the health room, and you can't see the situation on the playground here, right?"

He turned his eyes to the window, and saw a lush green plant blocking most of the window's view, and he could not see the situation on the playground.

How was this designed? The principal is real.

Just when Conan was complaining about his alma mater in his heart, a voice as majestic as the Z teaching office next to him suddenly spoke.

"Classmate, where is your school uniform?"