"Hey, do you smell it?"

"Well, there is a..."

Kuroba Kaito sniffed the room, and suddenly his face twitched and his expression became frightened.

"yue~"

"It smells fishy!"

With Conan's "police dog" attribute, he naturally smelled the fishy smell floating in the room earlier.

But he didn't expect that Kuroba Kaito's reaction would be so big.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Kuroba Kaito turned his back and covered his mouth and nose, and waved his hand back, "No, it's okay... I just hate the smell..."

Because he ate fish when he was a child and had fish bones stuck in his throat, Kuroba Kaito is still very afraid of fish.

Whether it is freshwater fish or sea fish, even the fishy smell will cause Kuroba Kaito's body to suffer great pain.

However, Conan didn't pay too much attention to this, and he didn't notice this weakness of Kuroba Kaito.

After all, some people just hate the smell of fish, and that's normal.

"Then I'll go in by myself. You can wait outside."

Kuroba Kaito gestured "OK" to Conan, turned around and opened the door, leaving only a crack in the door.

The curtains in the room were closed, and the black curtains did not allow light to pass through, making the room very dark.

Conan did not turn on the light, but borrowed the light of a watch-shaped flashlight to search for the source of the fishy smell in the room.

In fact, it is not difficult to find. This apartment has a living room and one bathroom. The kitchen is an open kitchen, and the bar is both a place for eating and cooking.

There is a table in the corner by the window with a laptop on the table.

There is a mat on the floor in the middle, and the quilts are folded neatly. It looks like a place where you usually sleep.

The whole room is very simple, without any furnishings, and it can be seen that it is just a temporary residence.

Conan went around to the kitchen first, opened the door of the small refrigerator, and was immediately shocked by the scene in front of him.

Each layer of the small refrigerator was filled with black plastic bags, and there seemed to be something solid inside the plastic bags.

Conan took out a plastic bag, opened it, and found frozen fish inside.

The fish species is rainbow trout.

Conan tied the plastic bag and took out another bag. When he unzipped it, there were frozen cod pieces inside.

The next bag is frozen eel.

It turns out that the fishy smell comes from here...

I can't tell that she loves fish so much.

Conan didn't bother to take out the frozen goods from the refrigerator one by one to check, and stuffed them all back into their original state.

Then, he went straight to the desk and opened his laptop.

There is no password set for the computer, and it will go directly to the desktop when it is turned on.

However, Conan searched it for a while and found nothing useful.

The browser is in incognito mode and the file manager is blank.

It seems that he is very vigilant and cleans his computer every day...

Conan shut down the computer, jumped down from the chair, and looked around the room.

Judging from the condition of the room, Rumi Wakasa must have been temporarily involved because the room was not ready to leave.

Other than that, there's not much else to discover.

After drawing a conclusion in his mind, Conan turned around and was about to leave.

But when I walked towards the entrance, I saw the toilet with the door closed.

Conan: "..."

Now that you're all here, let's go in and take a look.

Conan raised his hand to grab the door handle and pushed it in gently. A strong and pungent fish smell instantly hit his nostrils.

"Um……"

Conan frowned slightly and had to cover his nose with his hands.

The fishy smell actually comes from here...

With the help of the light of the watch, Conan glanced around and found nothing that smelled bad.

The toilet and sink are very clean without any dirt.

So, Conan turned the light source to the bathtub at the innermost side of the toilet.

The milky white bathtub reflects a rounded halo under the light of the flashlight.

As Conan got closer step by step, the fishy smell became stronger and stronger and pungent.

Until he walked to the bathtub, stood on tiptoes, and shined the light of the flashlight into the bathtub.

The rippling water surface reflects the light source, producing water ripples that are almost like broken lines.

And deep in the water ripples, an octopus between dark blue and dark green sank and squirmed at the bottom of the bathtub.

"drink!"

Conan's eyes widened in surprise, astonished by this eight-clawed "monster".

The stretched tentacles of this octopus are about 50cm in diameter, and the slender tentacles are spread out with wing membranes, like an umbrella that can be freely retracted in the water.

Just looking at the octopus swimming alone in the dark water, Conan couldn't help but feel that this scene was a bit creepy.

Conan shuddered, stopped looking at the octopus, and instead looked at the dagger aside.

On the platform next to the bathtub, there was a bloody dagger.

Conan picked up the dagger and sniffed it.

He originally thought it was the knife Wakasa Rumi used to cut fish to facilitate feeding the octopus, but there was no fishy smell on the dagger.

Instead, there is a faint rusty smell.

This is……

Suddenly, a tentacle came out of the bathtub and wrapped around Conan's neck with lightning speed.

Before he could react, Conan felt a cold, wet feeling on his neck.

"Uh-!"

Conan groaned and subconsciously grabbed the tentacles on his neck with both hands.

However, the tentacle was getting tighter and tighter, and its strength was surprisingly strong. In just a few seconds, it would strangle him and make him unable to breathe.

Boom.

Conan fell to the ground, struggling painfully and pulling out his hands randomly.

But the densely packed suction cups on the tentacles had clung tightly to his neck and even started to wrap around his hands.

After a while, a purple halo appeared on her young face.

Just when Conan's consciousness was dying, a familiar voice echoed in his ears.

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

"Kudo...what are you doing!"

"Kudo! Wake up!"

Kuroba Kaito forcefully pushed Conan's hands away from his neck, and the latter's eyes became clearer.

"I, I am..."

"Huh...what are you doing?"

Kuroba Kaito breathed a sigh of relief, but in order to prevent Conan from doing something stupid again, he still held on to his wrist tightly.

"I..." Conan's eyes were stunned for a while, and he said calmly: "There is an octopus wrapped around my neck..."

"octopus?"

"Where did the octopus come from?"

Hearing what Kuroba Kaito said, Conan got up from the ground in a daze, ran to the bathtub and stood on tiptoe.

I saw that the water inside was crystal clear and there was not even a single obvious impurity, let alone an octopus.

Kuroba Kaito also came over, "Look, there's no octopus here?"

Conan touched his neck in surprise. Apart from some warmth and pain, there was no cold or wet feeling.

There was no water stain on the edge of the bathtub or on the floor.

How is this possible?

Conan looked around in surprise. This place was the same as what he had seen before, except that the octopus in the bathtub was missing.

"Are you hallucinating because of the fishy smell here?"
To be continued...