I was in Conan, and after picking up Xiao Ai, I was chased by Hongzi.

"spider."

Otoi Hiroshi gritted his teeth and said.

"Oh, don't worry, I have prepared the best gift for you."

Otoi Hiroshi's face darkened, "You will die in an ugly way."

"Hahaha... Go and meet the best nightmare I have prepared for you..."

……

After hanging up the phone, Hiroshi Otoi closed his eyes and thought for a long time.

He quickly dialed Haihara Ai's phone number.

"Good morning~"

"My voice sounds very energetic, and I seem to be in a good mood."

Hearing Haibara Ai's voice, Otoi Hiroshi's heart dropped, "Have you come back yet?"

"If you told me about going out for fun," Haiyuan Ai chuckled, "I didn't go."

"Then why are you still so happy?"

"Where do you think I am now?" Hui Yuan Ai asked mysteriously.

"Where..." Hiroshi Otoi immediately confirmed her location based on Hiroki's position, "Underground research room."

"You actually asked Hiroki to help you locate your location! Bastard!"

"You're in the underground research room so early in the morning... You didn't sleep all night, right?" Otoi Hiroshi's voice suddenly turned cold.

"Of course I'm going to sleep~ Okay, the research has reached a critical stage, I'll die first~"

Hui Yuan Ai hung up the phone and patted his chest gently, almost being discovered by him...

"I must research the antidote quickly. How could I be laughed at by that woman Fujiko Mine..."

She lowered her head and looked at her flat chest, and immediately plunged into the endless data again.

……

"Uncle Maori, can you do me a favor? Please go to Dr. Agasa's house to spend the day today. I ordered your favorite beer and invited Okino Yoko to do an exclusive interview with you."

"Officer Megure, that's it. The Suzuki family has received threats from terrorists, please..."

"Dr. Ali, I informed Officer Takagi to go to your side. Just take the children with him and don't stay away from him."

"Eiffel, strengthen the security at home, something may happen."

"Fujiko? You are at the Pacific Military Base? That's okay."

……

Everything around him was carefully arranged, and Hiroshi Otoi dialed Koizumi Anko's phone number.

The phone was not connected for a long time.

Just after he finished smoking a cigarette nervously, the call finally came through.

Before he could say anything, Koizumi's mother's voice came from the phone:

"Otoi-kun, something happened to Anko."

……

"Click."

The phone suddenly fell to the ground.

He was stunned as if something was blocked in his chest.

His dull eyes looked into the distance, as if he could see far, far away, places he could no longer reach.

After a long time, he came back to his senses, picked up the phone, and said in a deep voice: "I'll be there right away."

……

This is the first time Hiroshi Otoi has set foot in the backyard of the Koizumi family.

Before that, he only thought that Koizumi's house was just a single-family villa.

But I never thought that there was such a vast courtyard hidden behind the villa.

Surrounded by various flowers that cannot be named, but emit mysterious fluorescence.

In the center of the courtyard is a huge magic fountain.

Once the spring water left the range of the fountain, it turned into little starlight and dissipated.

Otoi Hiroshi couldn't see where the spring water spewed out from, let alone how it dissipated.

There is no mechanical structure, just relying on magic to maintain everything in the entire courtyard.

Follow the weird-looking servant, bypass the fountain, and come to the real Koizumi family.

A huge, medieval castle-like building.

The moment he stepped into the door, Otoi Hiroshi noticed a strange aura.

It was as if the moment I stepped across the threshold, I entered another world.

It was pitch black before his eyes, as if he had been deprived of vision and could not feel the slightest glimmer of light.

"call out."

A hot fire ignited from the servant's hand, "Master Otojing, please follow me."

Otoi Hiroshi followed his footsteps for a long time.

Suddenly, he felt like he was in front of a huge door.

Push away.

The bright light stung his eyes until his vision returned.

The imagined product of a magical background did not appear.

In front of him was just a luxurious room that was as noble as a princess's boudoir.

Koizumi Anko lay on the bed with her eyes closed.

——As if asleep.

He held the sleeping Koizumi Anko, while she lowered her head slightly, her crimson hair falling downwards, as if she could no longer open her eyes.

"What's up with her?"

Otoi Hiroshi slowly raised his head, his voice trembling.

Koizumi's mother raised her hand, touching Otoi Hiroshi's cheek as if to confirm something, and looked at him steadily.

After a long time, she turned her back to Otoi Hiroshi.

"I was attacked on the way home, forcing my dry magic circuits to function, causing me to fall into a deep sleep."

Otoi Hiroshi's eyes kept flashing, and he raised his head suddenly, "If this is the case, then it means she can still be saved, right?"

"The cost of forcing the dry magic circuit to operate is to overdraw my life. She is my daughter, and I don't want to see her become like this..."

"--Feel sorry."

"The witch's tears are the source of magic power. Once you shed tears, you will not only lose the magic power. At the same time, you will also suffer the pain caused by the loss of magic power, day after day."

"That's why she became so tired." Hiroshi Otoi lowered his eyes and looked at the girl's face. "It would be nice if you could tell me earlier."

If this was the price of the so-called witch, if he had known everything in advance, Otoi Hiroshi would never have made the decision to come to Ekoda.

If she didn't know herself at the beginning...

Nothing later will happen.

She won't lose her magic and won't be attacked by spiders.

Not to mention lying in his arms like a cold corpse.

"Leave," Koizumi's mother looked at Otoi Hiroshi, "you can't save her."

"Method! Please tell me how to save her! Even if it means turning the pyramid over and smashing the glaciers at the North and South Poles, I still want to save her..."

Otoi Hiroshi held Koizumi Anko tightly in his arms, staring at Koizumi's mother with red eyes.

He looked hysterical, like a wounded beast.

"Pandora, only Pandora can save her."

……

Hiroshi Otoi left the Koizumi family.

Koizumi's mother stood in front of the window, looking at his back.

"Hongzi, you may have really chosen someone worthy of trusting you for the rest of your life..."

She had no intention of telling Otoi Hiro how to save Anko. As a mother, she did have the idea of ​​​​blaming him.

But after seeing his eyes, she suddenly changed her determination.

Perhaps, he might actually be able to find the Pandora's Stone of Life.

But, can Hongzi really persist until that time?

——She had less than a year left to live.