"I'm stuffed."

Putting the dishes and chopsticks into the plate and then into the sink, Yuji looked at the one man and two women in the Nakamori family. Although he wanted to stay and watch the fun, he had other important things to do.

"Why don't you just stay for dinner, Yuuji!"

Kuroba Kaito made a request to his younger brother. If there wasn't this light bulb around, he would probably feel very uncomfortable being sandwiched between a group of and a half girls in the afternoon.

"That won't do. I'm in a hurry to choose my reward, and I have to go to Beido Town later." The boy took out his cell phone and showed the screenshot sent by Miss Chris to the other three.

"Teitan Elementary School suddenly assigned an extracurricular experience class, saying that it was in line with the basic education requirements of the Education Committee to enhance students' artistic accomplishments, and selected more than 30 experience points around Beihua Town."

"They chose karate? All those kids?" Kaito pinched his chin, "The Tamagawa Ryukan in Haido Town, I remember that it has been open for 30 years."

Generally speaking, those that are willing to cooperate with the school in organizing such activities are some newly opened kendo halls or martial arts halls. Old-established halls like these have many students of their own and do not have extra space and manpower.

The reason why Tamagawa Ryu Gym joined this kind of activity is naturally because the current business is not doing well. The entire gym has been in a negative operating state for a long time and will probably go bankrupt soon, so they want to give it one last try.

"But the reason they can't make money is not just because there are fewer people learning martial arts outside. Since the old master died, his sons who are not strong in martial arts are simply unable to shoulder the responsibility of developing the dojo."

Yuuji explained to the three curious people, "Sister Xiaolan studied in that gym for a while. It is said that it was because Uncle Maori also studied with the old gym owner for a period of time when he was young."

So after seeing the option of this dojo, Xiaolan couldn't wait to persuade these children to choose Tamagawa, and said that she could go with them and help them learn karate.

"It's getting late, hurry up and choose the things, I still have to go to Beihu to check, my family has given me a task, and I need to take a video..." The boy suddenly became tired.

"I really can't stay."

Kaito Kuroba also knew the importance of the matter. If his mother knew that it was because of him that she could not see the cute video of the little girl practicing karate, Mr. Kuroba would be in big trouble.

"Well, relax, Kaito." Yuji put the car keys and the old keys into his pocket and took out a can of coffee from the Nakamori family's refrigerator.

"It's hard to coax two girls, but it should be easy for Kid."

"Please don't describe me as a guy with strange skills." Kuroba Kaito immediately waved at Yuuji and told him to leave quickly.

"The address of the old house is on the strip of cloth hanging on the keychain."

"understood."

Yuuji immediately ran back to Kuroba's house, started the car and drove to the suburbs of Kamiekoda.

The old house seemed to be located in the forest, but it was not in the same direction as Koizumi Akako's house. Driving west from the fork in the road to the school district, the boy saw more and more villas around him, and after looking carefully, he found that they were all uninhabited.

This seems to be the wealthy area of ​​Jianggutian in the past, but with the development of the times, the residential area gradually moved to the east, and the original west side gradually became quiet, with only a small number of people still living here.

Driving past a small storefront that looked like either a makeshift clinic or a pharmacy, Yuuji looked at the last convenience store and could already see a wall surrounding the mansion.

"This looks much bigger than the Kudo residence." The boy parked the car on the side of the road, looked at the magic lock on the gate, and confirmed that this was indeed the old house of the Kuroba family.

"You have to unlock it according to a specific magic sequence, otherwise it won't open." Yuji held the padlock with one hand and turned the lock until the four words "escape", "face change", "substitute" and "disappear" appeared successively on the lock surface, then he took the padlock off.

The yard was full of weeds except for the stone path, but Yuuji was sure that Kaito would come back often to clean the stone path. He walked to the front of the mansion on the overly clean path, inserted the key into the keyhole and pushed the door open.

The layout of the mansion is very ordinary. As soon as you enter the door, you can see a side staircase going up. There are passages and small doors on both sides. Surprisingly, there are no antiques in the house, which makes Yuji, who thought he could feast his eyes, very disappointed.

Noticing that there was no dust on the floor, the boy was sure that this place was cleaned regularly. He turned into the room on the right and found that it was a room full of magic props.

"So this old man is also a magician?"

Yuuji looked at the old props used to perform magic tricks and various other magic tricks. It should take a long time to confirm that they were definitely not the ones used by Kuroba Toichi.

To the left is an ordinary reception room and dining room. The boy confirmed that there were mostly valuable large items here, such as a 19th century gold clock and a Buddha statue placed in the closet, so he went upstairs without interest.

"This room looks like the master's room."

Yuji pushed open a door, but noticed that it was a Japanese-style house that was out of tune with the decoration. There were calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, and various Japanese swords were neatly arranged on the knife rack in the corner. The wooden drawer facing the window, when opened, contained various old books and some antique collections.

“The things in this room are really valuable.”

The boy took out a manuscript from the grid and looked at it in the sunlight.

[My good friend, I couldn't sleep all night after watching your amazing magic show yesterday. I think that since the incident with my father, I will never be able to touch such high-class things again. If I don't give something in return, I will not be able to face you again.]
"He seems to be a person with a strong sense of self-esteem. However, this manuscript has the smell of ink from an old printing factory, and the paper can vaguely show traces of being pressed by the same book for a long time."

Yuji sat down by the window holding the manuscript.

[My friend recommended me to write, but it is impossible for someone without a degree to gain a foothold in the world of pure literature, so I remembered the mystery novels my mother used to read to me when I was sick, and I hurried to the library to read recent mystery novels, but I was greatly disappointed.]
"This person is quite arrogant. By the time this manuscript was written, the works of those great mystery writers should have been published, right?"

Yuji's eyes moved to the end of the manuscript and he suddenly realized that the time was a little strange.

"1917? Then it's not addressed to Mr. Kuroba."

Maybe we have to go back one generation...

[Most of Japan's modern mystery novels are fantastical. The detectives always say things that have nothing to do with the previous text, or they can't be connected to reality at all. They make up some strange countries and give some absurd customs.]
[I think that reasoning should ultimately go back to the past, make things clear, and let readers become the detectives in the book themselves, returning to the most original flavor.]
"Well, put it back."

If you look at it any further, you will be unable to resist taking it outside and selling it.

The letters could not be destroyed casually, so the boy had to pick up a painting from the wall and then casually took down a peculiarly shaped Japanese sword from the knife rack.

"Let's go back."

(End of this chapter)

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