Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 313 The Disappearing Corpse

On the afternoon of the next day, Kogoro Mouri took Ran and Conan to a restaurant called Royal Sunday for dinner, preparing to attend the Okino Yoko live concert held nearby.

However, not long after he sat down, Mouri Kogoro found a big hole in his jacket pocket, and the ticket signed by Yoko Okino that was inside was missing.

Just when he searched the entire restaurant like a headless fly and couldn't find the tickets, and was in a state of distress, a woman's irritable scolding voice suddenly came from behind. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it was the other person's friend who had caught a cold. I couldn't come to watch Okino Yoko's concert as scheduled.

"Well, this lady, do you have one more ticket for Miss Yoko's concert tonight?" Seeing the woman hang up the phone angrily, Mouri Kogoro immediately took advantage of the opportunity and stepped forward to ask.

Seeing the other person's fawning look, the woman nodded in confusion and responded: "Ah, that's right..."

Hearing the other party's affirmative reply, Mouri Kogoro's eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "I'm really sorry. I have a grudge. Can you please sell me the extra ticket?"

At this moment, Conan, who had helped to find the ticket in the rental car, also ran back, shook his head at Mouri Kogoro and said, "I have looked for it, and the ticket was not left in uncle's car."

"Since you want it so much, it's okay to just give it to you." After hearing Conan's words, the woman smiled and nodded in response to Mouri Kogoro's increasingly eager gaze, "But in exchange, can you please promise me something? What's going on?"

"No problem, just say it!" Hearing that the other party wanted to give him free tickets, Mouri Kogoro agreed without saying a word.

"It's like this. My sister is going to the concert with me tonight, so I hope you can ask me to drive and pick her up on the way." The woman explained with a smile.

"It's a small matter, let's set off now." After hearing the other party's simple request, Mouri Kogoro didn't waste any time and immediately asked the woman to get in his rented car and drive to the other party's sister's house.

Through chatting, Maori and his party learned that the woman's name was Qingdao Quandai. Her sister Qingdao Mina had just recently decided to get married, but her mood seemed unstable and she always started crying for no reason. For this reason, she specially invited her sister to listen to the other party's last words. The concert of my favorite idol Okino Yoko.

The two originally made an appointment to meet at the restaurant, but the other party didn't show up for some reason, and no one answered the call to her home, so Qingdao Quandai was a little worried about her sister's condition, so she asked Mouri Kogoro to pick her up at home. See what happened.

After hearing the whole story, Mouri Kogoro laughed and said that the other party had found the right person, and then introduced himself to Qingdao Quandai, saying that if you have any troubles, just ask him, a famous detective, for help.

However, after Qingdao Quandai learned that the person he had specially hired to provide an alibi for his crime was actually a famous detective, his face suddenly changed and he broke out in a cold sweat.

But the deal was already done, and since the car had stopped at the door of her sister's house, Qingdao Quandai could only bite the bullet and invite the group of people into the house, letting the Maori family rest for a while in the living room while she went to the bedroom to wake her sister up.As soon as he walked into the living room of Qingdao's house, Kogoro Mouri was attracted by the celebrity posters plastered all over the room, especially the limited edition posters of Yoko Okino that made him greedy.

Xiaolan, who noticed the change in Qingdao Representative's expression just now, walked to Conan, who was also observing the room while bowing his head in thought, bent down and said: "Conan, do you feel that when Miss Quandai heard about her father's detective identity just now? Does your expression look a little strange?"

"Well, it's indeed a bit strange. I always feel like she's a little afraid of her uncle." Hearing Xiaolan's question, Conan immediately nodded in affirmation, then immediately reacted and explained with a smile in the face of the other party's scrutinizing gaze, "After all, she was so surprised that she even dropped her key chain under the seat, so sister Xiaolan, you must have noticed it, right?"

Seeing Conan's answer, Xiaolan didn't seem to think anything was wrong. Instead, she nodded slightly and said worriedly: "It's true. Miss Quandai is obviously hiding something from us. I hope no accident will happen."

However, as soon as Xiaolan finished speaking, she heard a scream coming from outside the living room, so the three of them instinctively rushed out of the room and ran in the direction of the sound. Finally, they saw at the bathroom door knocking on the door and calling loudly for their sister. The whole generation of the name Qingdao.

Looking at the word "Goodbye" spelled out with tape from the inside of the frosted glass door, the three of them were shocked at the same time. Mouri Kogoro, who was rushing at the front, came to Qingdao Quandai and asked anxiously: "What's going on? , is the door locked from behind?"

"No, this door has no key or lock at all, so there is no way to lock it." Qingdao Quandai shook his head in denial, then pointed to the shadow reflected on the inside of the glass and guessed, "I think the door should be sealed with tape from the inside. It’s stuck.”

"It seems that this is what happened." After carefully observing the bathroom door for a while, Mouri Kogoro immediately made a decision and greeted Xiaolan behind him, "In this case, the three of us will open the door together."

"One, two, three!" Following Moori Kogoro's order, the three of them slammed into the bathroom door at the same time, and the door that had been difficult to push opened immediately.

"Meicai!" Qingdao Quandai, who was the first to rush into the bathroom, had just called out his sister's name. The next second, he was so frightened by the scene in the bathroom that his eyes widened and his brain went blank.

Looking at the empty bathroom, a bunch of questions suddenly arose in the minds of the three Maori people. They looked at Qingdao Quandai with a confused expression and asked: "Miss Quandai, what is going on? Miss Mina seems to be It doesn’t look like you’re in the bathroom?”

"Yes, yes... But Mina is not in the other room either... Where did she go?" Qingdao Quandai answered the other party's question numbly, but inside he was roaring crazily: Where is my sister? !Where did a body the size of my sister go? ! !
"Uncle, look, there seems to be blood stains on the floor tiles and on the side of the bathtub!" Conan was the first to notice the anomaly in the bathroom. He quickly ran to the bathtub and pointed at the water inside and shouted, "There are blood stains on the inside of the bathtub as well, even the water in the bathtub. It seems to be stained red with blood too!”

Mouri Kogoro was shocked when he heard this. He immediately approached the bathtub to check it, and frowned worriedly: "Does this mean that all the blood belongs to Miss Mina? But if so, where will she be now?"

Just when a few people were filled with doubts and were confused, a doorbell suddenly sounded at the door, causing everyone present to change their expressions.

(End of this chapter)