Chapter 37: The Corpse Under the Bed
"This is impossible!"
"Hard, the coin actually... floated!"
"It's amazing!" Sonoko clasped her hands together and looked at Okino with admiration, with countless little stars twinkling in her eyes.
"This!?" Conan was also startled by this scene. He stared at the floating coin without blinking, trying to see the flaw in the magic technique.
"So, this magic is not bad." Okino glanced at Conan, who was wide-eyed, and showed a proud and unflattering smile.
"Ken, there must be some trick. Since it is magic, there must be a trick. You must have used a thread that is not easy to find to hang the coin!" Conan gritted his teeth, feeling uncomfortable at all, especially since he didn't want to
Lost to this guy.
"Hey, kid, why don't you give up? Since I decided to perform for you, I won't be afraid of you seeing the flaws."
Squeak, squeak, squeak... Conan's teeth grinding sound... However, no matter how hard he looked, Conan couldn't find the thin line that should exist at all.
"Okay, the magic show is over." After withdrawing the magic power, the coin naturally fell from the air and returned to Xiaolan's hand.
"Okino, I didn't expect you to be a magician." Xiaolan was also quite surprised and looked at Okino with a different look. Originally, she thought he was just the manager of a small restaurant.
Okino scratched his head modestly and said with a smile: "Well... I just became a magician not long ago, and my skills are still very weak now."
At this time, Sonoko transformed into a little fan girl, looked at Okino with admiration, and said: "Hey Okino-san, are all the magic you mentioned before true?"
Xiaolan also looked over curiously. Although she didn't see what trick Okino used to make the coins float just now, she still didn't believe in magic.
Conan still had a frown on his face, as if he was still thinking about the magic trick just now.
"Hmm, this... How should I put it? I can accurately tell you that magic does exist, but now is the end of the Dharma era. There is not a single person in the world who practices magic. But as far as I know, there is one person in Tokyo who can use magic.
."
"Hey, hey, is it true!?"
"Of course it's true. There's no need for me to lie to you."
"Then, who is that magic person? Can you let us see him?" Yuanzi continued to ask.
"Um, this is...impossible."
"Eh?"
"Ahem, I just heard that there is such a person, but I don't know where she is specifically."
"Huh?" A big question mark appeared on Sonoko's face, and Okino could only smile helplessly and did not answer.
When it comes to magic, the first thing that comes to Okino's mind is the witch girl Koizumi Anko. However, at that time, she only learned about it from anime. She should be in the second year of high school with Kaito Kidd, Kaito Kuroba, at Eko High School.
.
To be honest, he also wanted to meet this witch lady, but his current level was too low and he had too little magic power. He might have been killed in the past, so he might as well practice hard and wait until he reaches level 30 before playing ranked.
You can also level it up to gold or something.
However, the practice of magic is to wait hard every day for the magic circuit to restore the magic power on its own, or to absorb foreign objects, and there is no other way.
Sometimes Okino wants to pull his ancestors out of the coffin board. You said that since you left a book for future generations, why didn't it record how to practice magic and become a stronger magician? This is not
Are you joking?
Although there is no cultivation method, it contains another method of storing magic power, which is to store one's own magic power in specific items, but he has not found a suitable item for this item yet.
For example...gems.
Maybe it's a matter of compatibility. The compatibility between gems and magic power may be relatively high.
He remembered that in a certain anime in his previous life, there was a arrogant long-haired girl with black stockings who used this method to store magic power in gems, and then took out different gems according to different situations to attack the enemy.
However, the idea is good, but the reality is cruel. With Okino's current strength and financial resources, the magic power in his body is far from saturated. Even if it is saturated one day, he will not know any attack magic and can only simply use it.
Storing magic power for backup always feels like a waste.
Besides, the gem... is it possible for Okino to steal it?
Alas, there is still a long way to go...
I will cry if I continue.
"Okay, okay, let's leave this matter as it is. Conan, I think the two of us should go check out Chikako's room. Maybe we can find some clues."
"Well...that's right. Nowadays, this is the only method."
"Okay, Xiaolan and Yuanzi, you two stay in the house and don't move. Conan and I will go out and take a look."
"Wait a minute, we also want to go and have a look." Yuanzi couldn't bear the loneliness and said.
"This..." Okino glanced at Conan, then at Sonoko who looked expectant, and had no choice but to nod helplessly.
"Yeah, that's great, right Xiaolan."
"Hehe, hehe, as long as you are happy." Xiaolan looked innocent and didn't say a few words from beginning to end, but that was her character, and besides, it didn't matter if she went over to have a look.
"Okay, let's go. By the way, do any of you know which room Chikako's room is?"
"I know, I know, come with me." Sonoko raised her right hand and walked out happily, followed closely by Okino and others.
Chikako's room
"Okino-san, this is Chikako's room."
"Okay, let's go look for it separately, hoping to find some useful clues."
"Leave it to me." Yuanzi was full of enthusiasm and vigorously pulled Xiaolan and started looking for clues in the house.
On the other side, Conan also temporarily put aside the magic thing and turned his head to look at the room.
"Okino, do you really think the murderer is one of those people in this villa?"
"I don't know, maybe."
Hearing such irresponsible words, Conan's face darkened and he said angrily: "What are these words? It's too perfunctory."
"What can I do? I'm not a detective like you. I always rely on evidence." Okino shrugged and continued: "Besides, don't you think the appearance of the small cabin is too coincidental, and the black people inside
Magic and those missing hearts, and now one more Chikako has disappeared, the sum of all the coincidences is no longer a coincidence."
"You're right, but... there's still no evidence."
"It's none of my business." Okino said casually, pretending to be relaxed: "It's your job to find evidence, and I'm just a magician, so I can't help you with anything."
"Tch." Conan was very unhappy. In the end, he still asked him to come forward to help, but now he has no clue. It has been six or seven hours since he found out that Jiazi has been missing. The clues have been cut off at this point, otherwise they would also be gone.
I won't come here to look for clues.
At this time, Xiaolan and Yuanzi returned with disappointed faces.
"Hey, I can't help it, I can't find anything."
"No, there is still a little clue." Conan suddenly said, attracting the attention of the two women.
"Conan, did you discover anything?"
"Uh, no. I was just wondering that sister Kako was killed not long after we went out for forest bathing. The murderer probably hid her body somewhere. Originally, brother Okino and I thought the body should be there.
In that wooden house, there was no body inside. And..."
"Wait a minute, do you smell a strange smell?" Okino suddenly interrupted what Conan was about to say.
"There's no strange smell. Is there any smell in this room?" Yuanzi moved his nose and smelled hard, but he didn't smell anything.
Conan also tried to smell it, but he couldn't smell the smell Okino mentioned.
"No? It's impossible. Although it's very light, it does have a smell. I originally thought it was the smell of that flower." Okino pointed to the flower on the bedside table.
"Did you really not smell it?"
"No, did you smell it wrong?"
Okino raised his eyebrows, sensed it carefully, and nodded: "I'm pretty sure that there is indeed a strange smell in this room."
As he spoke, Okino walked back and forth in the room in disbelief, finally stopping near the bed and frowning.
"Disgusting smell." Somehow, he always felt that this room was weird, as if something strange existed, which made him slightly uncomfortable.
He walked around the bed, and at a certain moment, a possibility suddenly occurred to him. He hurriedly knelt down, pulled up the flyer, and looked down at it.
Chapter completed!