Conan's Corpse Picker

Shinagawa District, above the city nearly [-] meters high.

The crows flock together, and the simple and simple throne floats among them.

Hongko Koizumi sat on the throne holding the curse doll in her hand.The golden ornaments with intricate patterns on her body are shining in the moonlight, and her posture is elegant and arrogant, like a queen who has everything under control.

But if you look carefully, you can find that she looked at the cursed doll with suspicion, as if she had encountered some incomprehensible problems.

...According to Koizumi Hongko's script, now, Kidd should have been dragged in front of her, struggling to ask for relief.

However, in practice, Koizumi Hongzi was surprised to find that her dragging progress was extremely slow.

Just now, she even increased her magic power several times, intending to speed up.However, for some reason, the progress of dragging became slower when the magic power was lost, which inexplicably gave people a feeling of grinding and wanting more.

...Magic power went wrong?

... She regressed?

Today is a full moon, logically speaking, the operation of magic should be smoother than she expected.

But now...

Koizumi Hongzi frowned lightly, thinking over and over again, but still couldn't come to a conclusion.

Therefore, after trying several times, although she didn't understand the reason, she didn't dare to input magic power to accelerate the acceleration, so she had to carefully maintain the most basic magic power output, be patient, and wait for the target to appear in front of her eyes.

Time passed extremely slowly.

Koizumi Hongzi went from showing her aura and dominating the city, to secretly softening her back and paralyzing on the throne, and finally she was so sleepy that she covered her lips and yawned several times.

Just as she was idly counting the crows under her feet and secretly regretting that she had laid the trap so far away, a figure finally appeared in the distant night sky.

Koizumi Hongzi saw it with sharp eyes and was refreshed.

She straightened her slumped back calmly, and resumed her queen-like posture.

Then he lowered his eyes and secretly looked at the city below.

Right below her, at the intersection nearly [-] meters in the air, there is a well-concealed magic circle hidden at this time.

That was Koizumi Hongzi's core arrangement today.

——Those who step into it will be burned by a lot of magic power and experience the severe pain of the flames burning their bodies.The body will not be injured, but the spirit is like being repeatedly rubbed against a hot iron.

Koizumi Hongzi planned to pull the target ten meters away, then relax the control, let the other party actively approach her in order to seek relief, and finally step into the magic circle... It doesn't have any special meaning, mainly because she likes that kind of prey The feeling of walking into a hunting net by yourself.

Just as he was thinking, the prey ahead had drifted closer.

Koizumi Hongzi raised her chin arrogantly and looked at the person floating in front: "You are here, Ji..."

……Um?

In front of her was not the white-robed monster in her imagination, but a strange man she had never seen before.The man was dressed in a quaint kimono with a mythical atmosphere, waving huge but not heavy wings behind his back, and his eyes were also different from ordinary people, not only the color was a rare dark gold, but on closer inspection they turned out to be vertical pupils.

This is... a monster?

And judging from the shape, the pair of crow-like black wings are a bit like the legendary tengu...

Koizumi Hongzi's "Kidd" got stuck in her throat, and she was stunned for a moment.

She looked at Jiang Xia who was flying close, then lowered her head subconsciously, and looked at the mini Kidd doll in her hand: ...there is Kuroba Kaito's handkerchief in place, so she shouldn't pull the wrong person.

Koizumi Hongzi looked back and forth between the doll and Wutengu calmly, with a mysterious and charming smile on her face, and her usual reasoning began to unfold in her heart.

...According to her previous divination, it is known that Kidd = Kaito Kuroba.This is the conclusion drawn before, and it should be correct.

In addition, when Rajid came over, she used the handkerchief she got from Kuroba Kaito during the day to locate it.

That is to say, the monster in front of him, who is suspected to be a tengu, is also Kaito Kuroba.

So Kiri Tengu = Kuroba Kaito = Kidd?

Thinking of this, Koizumi Hongzi's eyes moved, and she suddenly had a bold guess.

...Could it be that the real body of Kaito Kuroba and Kidd is actually a monster?Usually, Kidd can disappear from many policemen when he turns around. Is it because he can instantly change from a striking white monster thief to a black tengu, and then smoothly escape into the night?

Koizumi Hongzi touched her delicate chin, feeling a flash of lightning flashing through her mind, and she felt a feeling of "so it is".

……

Jiang Xia flew for a while in the direction where the magic power came, and saw a large group of crows gathered in front of him.In the center of the crows was a throne, and on it sat a beautiful girl in strange clothes.

...This should be the source of that energy core, Hongzi Koizumi.

Jiang Xia looked at her carefully, and always felt that Koizumi Hongzi's face didn't change, but after seeing him, her eyes seemed to be blank for a moment, and then she fell into thinking...

In short, she looked just a little dazed, but she didn't have the reaction of "bringing the wrong person" in astonishment and anger.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the illusory black thread tied in countless knots by him, tied to his wrist forcibly, and still unwilling to struggle.

When it was connected to Kidd just now, the interface was very smooth.

Unlike now, no matter how you look at it, it is unnatural.

However, as the person who made it, Koizumi Hongzi never glanced at this black line from beginning to end.Compared to this, her gaze was more focused on the wings and eyes of the Wutian dog puppet.

Given that the black line struggled so hard, Hongko Koizumi didn't seem to be deliberately ignoring it, but more like she really couldn't see that illusory black line.

...can be made, but not seen?

Jiang Xia's heart moved, thinking of something, and secretly poked the mermaid in his hand.

Chapter 435 Should Have Known You Earlier

After being poked a few times, the mermaid reluctantly let go of the Void Black Thread, climbed off Jiang Xia's body, and swam around in a big circle.

Koizumi Hongzi still kept her eyes fixed, and did not respond to the mermaid's actions.

Jiang Xia vaguely understood: ...she can't see ghosts?

I can't see the flow of magic power, and I can't see ghosts...

Doesn't this mean that, even if the ghost was allowed to squeeze her energy core in front of Koizumi Hongzi, she wouldn't be able to find out what was wrong?

...is really tempting to commit a crime.

……

As Koizumi Hongzi fell into deep thought, the magic power she emitted also temporarily froze, and she did not continue to drag Jiang Xia to her direction.

In order to avoid scaring away Koizumi Hongzi, who is rich in magic power, Jiang Xia had no choice but to hold back and not take the initiative to go there.

He just scattered the ghosts secretly, letting them take some energy cores from the surroundings first - the crow controlled by Koizumi Hongzi, the floating throne, and even the air here are somewhat magical.He is also a master of metaphysics, he has come all the time, and he will go home without any magic power, which is really strange.

When the ghosts were busy, Jiang Xia hovered in the air, looking down inquiringly.

Passing through the flock of crows in the sky, one can vaguely sense that there is an extremely huge source of magic power on the street nearly a hundred meters away below.

That energy even projected through the sky, spanning a hundred meters vertically, from the ground to the height in front of him.

As long as he takes one step forward, he will be able to step into the range of magic power and be surrounded by energy cores...

When Jiang Xia secretly looked at the magic circle.

On the opposite side, Koizumi Hongzi leaned on the back of the throne, turned her crossed legs from side to side, and gradually recovered from the shock of "there are really monsters in the world" and "the monsters are beside me".

At the same time, she also had some doubts about the prophecy of the magic mirror.

What the magic mirror said seemed to be "all the men in the world will be the captives of Master Hongzi", but the "Kid" who was pulled by her in front of her was a little different from a human being no matter how you looked at it.

... Could it be that the "person" mentioned by the magic mirror is just a general pronoun?After all, when the magic mirror told her "there is one exception", it deliberately put the projection of that "exception" on the mirror surface, which is indeed the appearance of Kaitou Kidd.

The magic mirror didn't even make it clear... Tsk, I'll settle the score with it when I go back.

As for now, of course, she must concentrate on taking down the "exception" in front of her who refuses to bow down under her skirt.

Hmm...according to her previous curse, now Ji... Wutiangu should still be suffering from the pain of being smashed into the body by a nail, and now, the only person who can relieve that pain is her.

After understanding this, Wutiangu will take the initiative to walk towards her → fall into the trap she arranged directly below → be burned by a large amount of magic power in the trap, and suffer from this pain → in order to get rid of the pain, he can't wait to eat the food she prepared Magic Chocolate → Be her captive...

Thinking about the way Kuroba Kaito refused her chocolate in the afternoon, and thinking about the wonderful scene that was about to happen, Koizumi Hongzi covered her lips and let out a series of happy laughter.

She stood up, walked off the throne with the clothes floating, raised the mini doll in her hand, looked at Jiang Xia, and softly bewitched: "Want to get rid of that endless pain? Just come to me..."

As soon as he spoke, Wu Tiangou waved his wings and flew forward two meters silently, stepping into the range of her magic circle precisely.

The carefully drawn circle captures the "prey" and triggers it automatically.

Jiang Xia was instantly enveloped by a spring of magic power, fell into the magic circle at the intersection below, and disappeared before Koizumi Hongzi's eyes.

On the opposite side, Koizumi Hongzi had just opened her arms and said the beginning of her confusing lines. In the blink of an eye, the person was gone.

She looked at the suddenly empty sky in front of her, and at the misty dog ​​that was falling towards the magic circle. Her bright red lips moved, and then closed silently, swallowing back the words she hadn't finished speaking, and fell into deep thought.

...Although so far, the script has been exactly as she planned, very smooth.

But always feel...

A little too smooth?

Could it be that the curse was not well controlled and the pain was too strong?

Koizumi Hongzi was puzzled for a moment, her body drifted down, and then fell into the magic circle.

……

Near the magic circle, it seems that some exquisite isolation measures have been set up.

The streets that were supposed to be very bustling with people coming and going, were empty at this moment.

Jiang Xia secretly glanced at the side, but didn't look any more - as soon as he landed, he immediately felt a huge amount of magic power rushing from around, as if falling into a huge hot spring pool.

He narrowed his eyes comfortably, and indulged for a moment.

After regaining his senses, Jiang Xia immediately released all the ghosts and shikigami, and helped them pick them up together.

The moment Paipou Shikigami was born, he was already a ghost with only the obsession for revenge.

When the enemy is punished, their obsession dissipates, and it basically becomes a blank piece of paper with Mo's feelings.

However, although they have no thoughts and emotions, Shikigami still retain certain instincts—when they are thrown next to the energy core, they will also instinctively absorb these useful energies.

At that time, as long as the full-absorbed shikigami is retracted into the pattern on the heart, the energy cores can be recovered together, which can improve the efficiency of picking up energy cores.

The enhancement of the energy check ghosts is relatively balanced-they will eventually return to the psychic master's tattoos uniformly, and then nourish all the ghosts owned by the psychic master equally, including shikigami.

Therefore, the energy core will not be eaten up by the shikigami, and there is no need to worry that if this continues, the ghost fetuses will be weak and weak, and instead a few too strong shikigami will be raised...