Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 161 The Dark Shadow Approaching Huiyuan's Secret (Part 7)

In the wooden house, the fire became more and more fierce, and the smoke became thicker and thicker. Ayumi was the first to fall to the ground and fainted. Seeing this, Genta and Mitsuhiko hurriedly moved Ayumi to the position closest to the door.

"Cheer up, Ayumi!" Genta gently shook Ayumi's body.

Mitsuhiko was also there: "Ayumi, this is fresh air, cheer up!"

The little girl had dropped the phone in her hand and was leaning against the wall, coughing.

Suddenly, there was a creaking sound of a door opening behind them.

"What's that sound? It seems like the door has been opened."

"How could this happen? We should be the only ones here."

As soon as Mitsuhiko finished speaking, the door of the room inside the wooden house was completely opened.

"Could it be that the criminal has returned?"

Genta and Mitsuhiko looked back and saw that Haibara, who had turned back into adult size, put on the clothes in the backpack left in the cabin and picked up the axe stuck in the ground.

This scene scared Genta and Mitsuhiko, and the little girl pretended to faint from the smoke.

Now the remaining two people were even more frightened.

"Ahhh! Genta, what should we do? We are going to die!" Mitsuhiko hugged Genta.

With the axe tightly gripped in both hands, Haibara rushed towards the door locked with iron chains. Mitsuhiko and Genta, unaware of the situation, thought that the criminal wanted to kill them to silence them, so they used their last bit of strength to protect Ayumi and the little girl.

However, Huibara's axe was not aimed at them, but instead cut the chain and successfully opened the door of the cabin.

"Are you okay?" Huiyuan asked in a hoarse voice.

Seeing that it wasn't the criminal, Mitsuhiko and Genta breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, big sister, who are you?"

"I've been living in the attic of this cabin. I never thought it would suddenly catch fire, and there are children trapped here. Let's not talk about this for now, let's get out first."

"Wait, what about Huibara? Where did Huibara go?"

"I've moved her to a safe place. She'll notify you soon. We should leave now."

After saying that, Haibara carried Ayumi on his back, and Genta and Mitsuhiko helped the little girl up together. They quickly left the place of fire. At this time, half of the wooden house was about to be engulfed by the fire, and several surrounding trees were also engulfed in flames.

As Haibara led the children through the scorching air, she suddenly met the eyes of a pair of purple eyes in the dark.

Nightmare used his claws like dead branches to push aside a bush and appeared in front of the group. His sharp eyes, with a hint of violence, stared at Haibara, or rather, the little girl behind Haibara who was supported by Genta and Mitsuhiko.

Huibara suddenly stopped and confronted the nightmare. She could feel her legs shaking, every cell trembling, screaming to run away immediately. The monster in front of her definitely had the ability to kill them all.

"Ahem, Aoife, where are you..." The unconscious little girl murmured a few words.

Hearing the little girl's voice, the violent emotion in Nightmare's eyes suddenly disappeared. After glancing at Huibara and his group, he pointed at himself, then pointed at Huibara, then took a few steps back, and disappeared into the darkness amid the cry of crows.

Huibara breathed a sigh of relief. She had understood the hint of the nightmare. The gesture was probably saying "I know you" or something like that. The only one who could do that was someone from Oritis.

"That thing just now...what was that?" Genta and Mitsuhiko were also frightened by the aura of the nightmare.

Huibara sighed and explained, "It's the crow freak who lives next door to me. He likes to raise crows, so he dresses like a crow. I think the fire must have attracted his attention, so he came to see what happened."

"Is that so?" Mitsuhiko complained. "That outfit is so scary."

"Maybe he dressed like that to scare away other people, because he was afraid that someone would hurt his crow friends." After escaping danger, Yuantai began to associate.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Haibara put Ayumi down from her back and prepared to leave.

Mitsuhiko wanted to ask Haibara's name, but Haibara did not answer. He helped the two of them settle Ayumi and the little girl, stood up and wanted to leave. At this time, Mitsuhiko took out his mobile phone, took a photo of Haibara, and planned to go back and ask Kogoro Mouri to investigate so that he could thank her properly.

Conan, in order to confirm who the criminal was, began his final questioning: "Well, could you please let me see your hands?"

"why?"

"Because I was watching you guys from the side just now, Mr. Yonezumi and Mr. Iwakuma only used their left hands, and Mr. Usaki only used his right hand. I was wondering if your other hand was injured, so you deliberately hid it from us."

Both Mr. Yonezumi and Mr. Iwakuma said they were left-handed and extended their right hands to prove that their other hands were not injured.

Mr. Usaki also stretched out his left hand to indicate that there were no scars on his hand, and explained that he was right-handed.

After reading it, Conan said, "Mr. Usaki, the criminal is also right-handed."

Shiliang explained everyone's doubts: "The irrefutable evidence that the criminal was right-handed is left next to the body and the dug hole."

"The wound on the back of the body was caused by a weapon similar to an axe, from the upper right to the lower left. The footprints next to the dug hole are the left foot in front and the right foot in the back. These all confirm that the criminal was right-handed."

After hearing this, Officer Shancun personally verified it by digging a few holes with a shovel: "Ah, it's true."

"So, this person is the criminal?" Officer Yamamura pointed at Usaki Tiaosan.

"What? Wait a minute, there are right-handed people everywhere in the world, and these two people might have been right-handed, but they only used their left hand to pretend to be left-handed in order to hide the truth." Usaki Tiaosan explained.

Conan nodded. "Yes, right-handed people are everywhere, but you're the only one wandering around the mountains at the time of the crime, right-handed, and with the last name Usaki."

Officer Yamamura was a little confused: "Wait, Conan, where is the criminal's name at the scene?"

"Didn't the female victim tell us? Her hands were stuffed into the sleeping bag and were in this shape, weren't they?" Conan gestured with his hands.

Officer Yamamura still didn't understand, but Dr. Agasa stepped forward to explain: "If you look at these two gestures alone, you really can't tell anything, but if you put your hands together and shine a light on them."

As Dr. Agasa spoke, he used a flashlight to illuminate Conan, and a rabbit-like hand shadow appeared clearly under the light.

Officer Yamamura finally understood. "That's... rabbit? It sounds like Usagi, right? But if you have the time, why not just write something in blood on the sleeping bag?"

Sera explained, "The deceased was a kindergarten teacher who sometimes performed finger shadow dances for children. Even if the perpetrator noticed the hand gesture, they probably wouldn't have realized it represented a rabbit. The reason they didn't overlap was probably because the vibration caused by moving the body dislodged the hands."