Everyone followed the old monk for some distance, making their way along a forest path.
It took them about ten minutes to reach the building the young monk had mentioned.
It was a temple building that looked like it had come straight out of that old story about three monks and a mountain.
Fundamentally speaking, Japanese architecture bore traces of the Tang Dynasty.
Buddhism had also been introduced to Japan during the Tang Dynasty.
At the time, Buddhism had still been tremendously powerful in the Tang Dynasty, to the point where it had thoroughly permeated society.
So much so that Princess Gaoyang, wife of the legendary Tang prince who loved green hats and died by hanging himself before his rebellion could succeed, sought satisfaction from a monk named Bianji because she was sexually frustrated.
The room Monk Denkyu had mentioned was simply a clean, empty room.
There was nothing much to look at.
There was only one word for it: simple.
It was so simple that it truly gave the impression of a temple belonging to some enlightened monk who had renounced worldly pleasures.
Hattori Heiji swept his gaze over the room and asked Monk Denkyu, "So, young monk, where exactly did you see the body?"
"Up in the upper-right corner of this room!"
Following the monk's indication, Conan and Hattori Heiji immediately headed over to where he had pointed and lifted the tatami mats.
Conan looked beneath the tatami, then suddenly shuddered as though he had discovered something.
Compared to Conan and Hattori, who were focused on investigating,
the girls were far more relaxed.
They examined a statue displayed inside a glass case in the corner of the room to the left of the entrance.
"A deity statue?"
"Could it be a Nio guardian?"
Mori Ran and Toyama Kazuha