The Split-Actress in Conan's World

In the middle of the restaurant was a long palace table that was often seen on TV, with silver knives and forks placed on both sides of gold-rimmed bowls and plates.

What a life obsessed with paper and money.

"Wow, they look delicious!" Yuan Tai looked at the delicious dishes and felt that his mouth was not enough.

"I'm ready to eat!" The three little guys from the Junior Detective Team raised their knives and forks and started to devour their food.

Mamiya Mitsuru looked at the group of noisy children and smiled: "Hahaha, it's nice to have such a lively time occasionally."

Mamiya Takato also said with emotion: "Yes, when I was young, I had a lot of guests at home."

"It's a pity that after my mother passed away, no one came to visit anymore."

The doctor recalled the rumors that Tian Yanshengnan had told him along the way, and thought that it would be easier to understand these things by asking the parties involved, so he said, "I heard that you two have been staying here since the fire. Why is that?"

"Actually, I had decided to come back here after graduating from university and paint leisurely." Takato Mamiya enjoys the slow pace of life here and wants to get away from the city.

The master, Mamiya Mitsuru, put a spoonful of porridge into his mouth and then sighed: "At first, I was worried about my mother-in-law's pain of losing her daughter, so I stayed."

"But gradually, I fell in love with this castle where I grew up."

"Humph, what you like is not the castle at all, but the wealth hidden in the castle!"

The lady pushed her wheelchair into the restaurant and very rudely exposed the man her daughter brought with her for her second marriage.

Mamiya Takato was a little embarrassed: "Grandma..."

"Haha, that's true. If I say I don't care about my father-in-law's last words at all, I would be too hypocritical."

Mamiya Mitsuru didn't feel embarrassed at all and introduced openly: "That's why I found this scientist friend."

"My poor daughter was kidnapped by a greedy guy like you!" The lady slapped the armrest angrily.

After a while, she turned her wheelchair, leaving behind a sad back: "I'm going to eat in the room. When my daughter arrives, bring her to see me immediately. She's so late, I have to give her a good talk!"

Mamiya Takato looked sad: "Grandma still thought mom was alive..."

"No wonder she became demented. She hasn't left this castle for almost ten years since she suffered a stroke and became unable to walk." Mamiya Mitsuru agreed.

Chiyoko picked up a sausage with a fork, brought it to his mouth and started chewing. He nudged Haibara Ai, who was drinking soup beside him, with his elbow.

"He said the old man hasn't left the castle in ten years."

Huiyuan Ai understood what he meant and continued: "Then how did she know about the changes in passports and banknotes?"

Chiyoko nodded: "And the professor didn't come with her. Wasn't he helping to push the wheelchair before?"

Picking up a corner of the towel and slowly wiped her mouth, Haibara Ai took out the detective badge from her inner pocket, but still no sound came.

"I suspect Kudo has met with an accident. There are secrets in this castle. He who discovered the secret passage may have been discovered by someone and then secretly dealt with."

"You make sense." Chiyoko snatched another lobster that Yuanta had been eyeing for a long time.

Mamiya Mitsuru was unaware of the intrigues at the dinner table. He looked at Dr. Agasa with some anticipation in his eyes.

"How is it, has the mystery been solved, Mr. Agasa?"

"Ah?" The doctor was a little confused, holding a lettuce leaf in his mouth.

Haibara Ai had just replaced most of the high-calorie foods in his bowl with vegetables.

"Huh? Haven't you heard about it yet?" Mamiya Mitsuru said in surprise, "My father-in-law once left a will saying 'I will give the treasure to the person who solves the mystery of the castle.'"

"Oh, I heard about this from the gardener Mr. Tian Yan." Dr. Agasa touched the top of his sparse head embarrassedly.

"But I don't know where to start."

Huihara Ai added some carrots to the doctor's bowl and said calmly, "Chess pieces scattered around the courtyard."

It attracted the attention of several adults at once.

"If the person who set up the chessboard in the yard is the treasure hunter, the key to solving the mystery should be in the chessboard."

Mamiya Mitsuru pursed his lips thoughtfully.

"Really, Ai-kun?"

The Doctor asked curiously.

Mamiya Takato followed up by asking, "Do you know what those chess pieces mean?"

"How is that possible?" Huihara Ai picked up the teacup and took a sip of the oil-free tea. "You spent four years and still couldn't solve it."

"To solve this mystery, I think the only one who can solve it is the missing, curious mystery enthusiast..."

She suddenly thought of something and laughed out loud with evil humor: "You can do it, right?"

"Does this count as what Kudou said, saying bad things behind his back?" Chiyoko tilted her head and thought for a moment, "By the way, how do you know that kid likes secret codes the most?"

"I think he seems to be more attracted to murder."

Huihara Ai restrained her smile, but she was still in a good mood: "I just guessed."

This woman is so perfunctory.

Chiyoko rolled her eyes in boredom and grabbed another lobster.

This lobster is pretty good.

A servant walked up behind the three kids and took out a transparent bag with a smile.

"Here comes the bag, is this okay?"

"Thank you!" Ayumi happily took the bag and thanked him.

The servant waved his hand and stepped aside.

"What do you need this for?" Mitsuhiko asked in confusion.

Ayumi put the bread that had been left on her plate into the bowl and carefully sealed it.

"I'm going to leave half the bread for Conan, he must be starving!"

Seeing this, Mamiya Mitsuru asked Dr. Agasa in confusion: "By the way, where is the kid wearing glasses?"

The doctor shook his head worriedly, "I haven't seen him since a while ago. I was thinking that after we've eaten, we can go look for him together."

Mamiya Takato consoled him, "This castle is quite complicated, so maybe you got lost somewhere."

Mamiya Mitsuru touched his chin, his tone somewhat solemn.

"I just hope he doesn't go into that tower by mistake."

"The tower?"

"It's the tower on the left side of the castle where my wife died in the fire four years ago."

Speaking of sad things, Mamiya Mitsuru's face didn't look good, but if the child really ran in, it would be very troublesome, so he continued.

"Two years ago, a newly hired servant here suddenly disappeared overnight. She disappeared without any warning."

"I heard that he once told a good maid that there were good things in that tower. After we knew about it, we immediately sent people to look for it in the tower. Although we found traces of someone breaking in, we didn't find him."

“Later, we even called the police and conducted a massive search in the forest.”

The doctor anticipated that this story would not have a good ending. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "And then?"

Mamiya Man's face darkened and his tone slowed down: "Four days later, we finally found it in the forest..."

"His body."

His pupils shrank, as if he saw something extremely terrifying.

"His stomach was empty and he was just skin and bones. He starved to death!"

The three little ones got goosebumps all over their bodies after hearing what he said.

Chiyoko hesitated for a second, but still stuffed the dried fish into her mouth.

"This uncle is so annoying." He complained to Haibara Ai.

"Talking about this kind of thing over dinner."

Huihara Ai didn't react much, she just glanced at him and said, "Don't you see this kind of thing often? In a laboratory like that."

"That's true, but it's still a bit uncomfortable to eat." After thinking about it with his head raised, Chiyoko agreed, but his brows were still frowned.

"The police treated the case as an accident caused by someone getting lost in the forest, and since that incident, we have sealed off the tower."

It can be seen that Mamiya Mitsuru, who was in charge of handling these matters at the time, was not having an easy time.

"But strange rumors began to spread among the servants, saying that the wife who died in the tower was too resentful and killed the missing servant."

The more Ayumi listened, the more frightened she became. Thinking that Conan's whereabouts were still unknown, she almost cried.

"If we don't hurry up and find him, Conan will become skinny and die!"

Seeing Ayumi's tearful face, Genta and Mitsuhiko were in a panic and had to open the bag to comfort her.

"Put my bread in there, too!"

"And mine!"

Ayumi calmed down a bit.

Mamiya Takato was puzzled: "I know something happened before, but why haven't I heard of anyone dying from it?"

"You were traveling at that time and were away from the castle for two months." Mamiya Mitsuru said casually.

"Anyway, let's split up and look for it before it gets dark."

Several people left the restaurant and went together to look for Conan's whereabouts.

"Conan!"

"Where are you?"

"Stop hiding, come out!"

The three little ones ran the most actively and with the best energy, shouting all the way.

Tian Yan Shengnan ran around the courtyard and didn't see Conan: "It seems he is not in the yard."

Mamiya Takato came out of the main gate with a few servants and brought bad news: "Everyone in the castle has searched, but no one has found the child."

Ayumi became visibly depressed.

The doctor looked breathlessly at the solitary tower hidden by the woods, with only a pointed corner visible.

"Is it really in the tower?"

Mamiya Mitsuru walked out of the woods, brushing aside the annoying branches. "No, I just checked the entrance, and the gate is still locked."

Chiyoko stood next to a chess piece sculpture and looked up at the outer wall of the castle.

"Did you find anything here?"

Haibara Ai walked over holding the detective badge and asked in a low voice.

He nodded and pointed to the windows of the two rooms they had been to during the day: "Look, there is a wide gap in the middle. That should be the secret passage."

He pointed downwards, "But if it's just a closed space, Kudo can't lose contact, so this secret passage must be connected to somewhere."

The wide distance extended from the second floor to the first floor.

"I went to the rooms on the first floor and found no similar mechanisms. So the first floor is not the end of this secret passage. It goes deep underground."

Chiyoko rubbed her short silver hair, and a few drops of water splashed, and it seemed that it was raining lightly.

"Master Man said that the gate of the tower was locked. I wonder if there is a possibility that this secret passage is connected from the underground to the tower. This can also explain why they did not find the servant in the tower in the incident two years ago."

Haibara Ai felt that his analysis made sense.

"Then the only criminal is the lady who has disappeared so far?"

Chiyoko nodded.

"I'm afraid that professor has been murdered. He hasn't appeared since lunchtime."

He glanced at Huihara Ai calmly and continued, "The detective badge has not moved, and Kudo is probably in danger."

"Without seeing the body, we can't judge that he is dead." Haibara Ai retorted calmly.

"Moreover, in the incident two years ago, the servant died of starvation. The murderer may have simply trapped them in an unfamiliar secret passage and waited for them to die on their own."

Chiyoko thought for a moment and decided to go along with her.

"Well, what you said makes sense."

He turned and walked into the castle, "You watch those kids outside and control the situation. I'll follow Kudo's path and see if I can find any clues."

What he meant was to go to that room and replicate Conan's behavior of fiddling with the wall clock.

Holding the detective badge in her hand, Huihara Ai turned on the communication function and said to Chiyoko who had walked a long way away: "Keep in touch. I don't want to rescue one more person."

"I'm not like Kudo." Chiyoko's lazy voice came over.

Haibara Ai also returned to the group.

"The only place left is in the forest." Tian Yan Shengnan looked over in embarrassment.

Mamiya Takato stretched out his hand to catch a few drops of rainwater, not very optimistic: "It's so dark, and it's raining..."

"It's very dangerous to enter the forest at night. Let's wait until tomorrow to call the police before starting the search." Although he said this, Mitsuru Mamiya had already lost hope in his heart.

"Let's go back to the house and look for it first." He turned and walked into the castle.

"How can this be possible!" the three little ones said anxiously.

"Conan... " Little pearls hung on the corners of Ayumi's eyes.

Huiyuan Ai walked up to her with her hands behind her back, stared silently at the dim woods for a while, and said, "Don't worry, Edogawa won't be defeated that easily."

"He will find his own escape route."

Ayumi looked at her blankly with two big tears in her eyes.

"Instead of spending time crying, you might as well take care of the bag and don't let the bread get wet." Haibara Ai didn't look at Ayumi's face. She found it difficult to deal with such a weak type.

"Hmm..." Ayumi seemed to be calmed down, and her sobbing slowly stopped.

"Hey!"

“You’ll catch a cold!”

Genta and Mitsuhiko had already called them from under the eaves.

"Let's go back." Huibara Ai grabbed Bu Mei's hand and took her into the house.

Ayumi stared at their clasped hands stupidly.

So soft...

"Hey, why do you know Conan so well?"

The inexplicable sense of security made her speak out what was in her heart without her realizing it.

"I don't know either." He answered casually.

"Could it be that," Ayumi's chubby face flushed slightly, but her eyes were firm, "you like Conan, right?"

Haibara Ai was stunned for a moment, then turned around to look at this interesting girl.

She suddenly had some bad thoughts.

"What if it is?" She lowered her eyebrows and slightly curled the corners of her lips.

"No, no..." Ayumi felt a little aggrieved, but didn't know what to do, so she could only say this weakly.

Huiyuan Ai put away her expression, turned around and continued to walk forward, saying lightly: "Don't worry, I don't like that guy."

"That's great!"

......

A bathroom in a corner of the castle.

Professor Lecter was washing his handkerchief carefully at the sink.

He didn't notice that a dark shadow took advantage of this completely unprepared moment and quietly approached the door.

As the black shadow pulled a certain mechanism, the sink in front of him suddenly flipped over quickly and took Professor Lecter over.

Suddenly falling into a dark space, Professor Lecter adjusted his vision a little, and after a while, he picked up the handkerchief he had just washed on the not-so-clean ground.

He chuckled, but there was no trace of smile in his eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses.

He gently patted the dust off his handkerchief to make it as presentable as possible.

In the corner of the handkerchief, there is a string of English words embroidered in floral script.

Ariana Lilith.