Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 302: The Noisy Finale (Part 6)

"The last child fainted during the quarrel. It must have been a wicked trick played by the cursed sun."

After reading this part of the lyrics, Amuro Toru pondered: "The story of five children? And now there are five people who are about to participate in the performance..."

"This must be just a coincidence. What it says is different from what we say." The savage scratched his head, looking confused.

The acrobat took the performance sheet from Amuro Toru and said, "It's getting late. Let's go back and rest. We'll discuss the performance in the restaurant tomorrow morning. It won't be too late to ask then."

Everyone nodded and went back to their rooms to rest.

In the middle of the night, Conan, who couldn't sleep, got up decisively and turned on his watch-shaped flashlight. When he was in the living room, he felt that the room was quite familiar, with a piano, fireplace, bookshelf and carpet. He had seen this room somewhere before.

I remembered it was the room above the basement where he finally hid in the Cocoon game! If this is the real Oletus Manor, does that mean that basement exists?

Thinking of this, Conan immediately left his room and ran towards the living room, but he heard someone's footsteps halfway.

So Conan immediately turned off the flashlight and prepared to see who it was. As a result, he saw the Crying Clown walking towards the dancer's room. Then after he knocked on the door, the dancer opened the door and saw that it was the Crying Clown, so she let him in and then closed the door.

Conan quietly approached the door and saw two people reminiscing about the past. The crying clown comforted the dancer not to be afraid, while the dancer fell asleep to the soft music of the music box.

Conan waited until the Crying Clown left the room before he dared to come out from behind the screen and turned on the flashlight again.

"It seems that Miss Margaretha has a close relationship with Mr. Jack, Uncle Muro has a better relationship with Brother Mike, and Miss Valletta has always been alone." Conan analyzed.

On the other side, when Toru Amuro was exploring the flower room, he happened to meet a spider that was rehearsing. The spider that suddenly appeared from the darkness did not scare Toru Amuro, after all, the spider's prosthetic limbs would make a unique bumping sound while walking.

"Is this you, Mr. Detective? Violetta is rehearsing here. I hope I didn't disturb you to relax in the middle of the night." Spider said, taking off the mask he used for rehearsal.

"Ms. Violetta, have you been rehearsing in the greenhouse these days?" Toru Amuro asked politely.

Spider nodded repeatedly. "Yes, yes, Violetta has been preparing for the performance for a long time. Violetta really wants to be on stage. Mike is the big star, Margaretha has become the leading actress, but Violetta is the only one standing still. It's too bad!"

"So, that's why Violetta has to work twice as hard. Only then can she truly become an actor that everyone likes!"

Toru Amuro noticed that Spider was very determined to go on stage, but she was a kind and low-self-esteem person. From the beginning, Spider seemed to be trying to please others with words.

"Miss Valletta, you don't have to speak in such a...humble tone all the time. I mean, you could be a little more confident."

"Really? Thank you, sir. Once Violetta goes on stage, she will definitely become more confident." Spider applauded himself with his prosthetic limbs, moved to the other side, and continued practicing.

Seeing this, Toru Amuro also left the flower room and prepared to explore another room.

Shuichi Akai ran to the outskirts of the manor. It was snowing heavily at night. He tried to use the GPS positioning system he brought with him to find out the specific location here, but failed. It seemed that all communication channels were blocked here, and even satellite positioning was not working.

"This is so weird..." Shuichi Akai couldn't believe it, but he recalled what Oritis and the others had said before.

“The spatial distribution inside the manor is very messy.”

Considering the way the priest brought them here before, this manor seemed like an isolated experimental site, or in other words, a prison that could not be connected to the outside world.

"This is terrible." Shuichi Akai complained with some annoyance.

Then he turned his head to look at the snow beside him. There were a lot of apple crumbs on the snow, and some wild boar hoof prints nearby that were not covered by the wind and snow.

"Hehe." Muro's wild friend pouts his nose and runs to Akai Shuichi.

Shuichi Akai recalled that the wild man did say that he was raised with the wild boar, which means that the wild boar had a family-like relationship with him.

The wild friend gently nudged Shuichi Akai with his nose, then pointed his long fangs in the direction of the room, as if to remind Shuichi Akai that it was very cold outside and to go back indoors to warm up.

Akai Shuichi smiled. This was indeed a wild boar that understood human nature. So he turned and walked into the room.

Not long after, the three of them met in the living room and briefly exchanged information about what they had discovered.

"As you said, no communication means or positioning systems can be used here." Shuichi Akai shrugged helplessly at Conan.

"I saw Miss Valletta still rehearsing a show in the greenhouse. She looked like she regarded the performance as everything to her." Toru Amuro was actually a little worried about Spider's physical condition. After all, it was really too hard for a girl with a physical disability to stay up late to rehearse a show.

Conan paced in the living room. "Mr. Jock and Miss Margaretha must have a good relationship. I saw Mr. Jock go to Miss Margaretha's room. He seemed to be trying to comfort Miss Margaretha to sleep. Perhaps they had that kind of relationship in the circus before."

"That is to say, Mr. Jack is in love with Miss Margaretha." Shuichi Akai raised his eyebrows.

"This is consistent with what Mr. Muro said." Amuro Toru thought.

Conan walked to the carpet, leaned over and tapped the ground lightly: "Sure enough!"

"What's wrong, Conan?"

"It's empty underneath, there's a secret room." Conan pulled back the carpet, revealing a stone slab that was clearly a different color from the floor.

Akai Shuichi and Amuro Toru worked together to move the stone slab away, revealing the space below. So the three of them entered the underground secret room.

"Empty cabinets, operating tables and restraint chairs. It seems that this is a place for experiments." Conan looked around and found that this place was not the same as in Cocoon's game. After all, in Cocoon's game, there was only an ordinary chair in the secret room.

"The restraints show signs of long-term use, and the tools on the operating table are also very complete." Amuro Toru analyzed.

Akai Shuichi opened the empty locker: "Wait, there is a strange list of medicines here."

Conan jumped up on a chair and looked up. "Lyre, the sirens' song, Mnemosyne (Dionysus), the Hydra."

There is a representative pattern painted in front of each medicine, and the pattern of Hydra is the symbol of the Muse of Oletus Manor.

"These are experimental drugs. Unfortunately, there are no instructions on how to prepare them, nor are there any descriptions of their effects." Shuichi Akai sighed with some regret.

Conan looked at the yellowed paper and smelled a peculiar smell: "Strange, it smells like the sun scorching trees."