The Unscientific Detective in Detective Conan
Chapter 189

Nishikawa Mutsumi: Impossible! Absolutely Impossible!

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Mamiya Masayo Masaki, in her wheelchair, returned to her room.

She stood up from her wheelchair and locked the door from the inside.

She stretched, her expression full of resentment.

Pretending to be an old woman all year round must be exhausting.

But soon, she will be able to escape this life, get her face fixed, and then go abroad with a large fortune to live a happy life!

Thinking of this, she became even more invigorated.

He opened the hidden door in his room, grabbed Iron Pipe from the side, and headed deeper into the secret passage.

She had to get to the secret passage before the detective arrived.

She wasn't worried that the detective would discover the secret on the clock so quickly.

Even with extraordinary reasoning abilities, it's impossible to discover the secrets of the clock in just a few minutes.

We arrived at the entrance to the tunnel to the room Fujino had just entered.

Mamiya Masayo held an iron rod in his hand and a flashlight.

She glanced at the real Mamiya Masayo on her lips.

This despicable woman actually tried to stop her from finding the treasure.

Hmph, he still died a violent death here, turning into a pile of white bones after his death.

No one can stop her from getting those treasures!

She has already paid too high a price for this!

Time flies.

Mamiya Masayo turned off her flashlight and waited calmly at the bottom of the stairs.

But after waiting for a long time, she still didn't see the mechanism on top open.

"Could it be that he didn't notice the trap?"

Mamiya Masayo stepped out of the shadows, turned on her flashlight, and wanted to make a commotion to attract the detective she wanted to kill.

Just as she stepped onto the stairs, a white figure followed behind, raising a stick-like object high and smashing it straight at the back of her head.

Ah!

Screams and muffled thuds echoed throughout the dark tunnel.

Mamiya Masayo's vision gradually turned pitch black, even though it was already quite dark to begin with.

Her body slammed heavily onto the steps in front of her, her head hitting the ground, two teeth knocked out, and blood spurting from the corner of her mouth.

"Sixth Brother, is that all?"

Fujino silently put away his Wooden Sword, lifted the white hood of his Assassin's Robe, and glanced at the pitiful old woman lying on the ground with a hint of disdain.

He then put away his Assassin's Robe, squatted down, grabbed her calf and dragged her up, and began to fumble for a way to leave.

The underground network was complex and intertwined, but thanks to the light from his Shining Staff and his keen senses, he still managed to find an exit.

Fujino pushed open the hidden door, stumbling along the way, and the old lady knocked out a few more teeth.

A blinding light appeared.

What came into Fujino's view was the exhibition hall from when he first arrived at this castle.

"Are we back here?"

Fujino, still holding onto the old lady, glanced around and then saw Mamiya Takato standing there dumbfounded, staring blankly at the fake Mamiya Masayo who had just come out of the secret passage.

After a moment, Mamiya Takato finally came to his senses and angrily rebuked, "What exactly did you do to my grandmother?!"

A few minutes later, our client was physically calmed down and forced to listen to Fujino's reasoning.

"You mean, this old man has been impersonating my grandmother all along, and my real grandmother died a long time ago, and that the fire four years ago was also started by this old man?"

Mamiya Takato frowned, his gaze blank as he stared at Mamiya Masayo, as if his worldview had been completely shattered.

"That's right, Madam Mamiya is indeed dead, and her body is in the secret passage..."

Fujino patted Mamiya Takato on the shoulder in a comforting gesture.

"I can go and take a look..."

Mamiya Takato opened her mouth, her expression particularly complex.

Before he could finish speaking, Fujino interrupted him, "Let's wait for the police to arrive. You shouldn't go see the old lady's body. Based on my assessment, the time of death is over four years..."

Fujino certainly wouldn't let his client see something so terrifying.

That kind of corpse, which was him, would definitely have given an ordinary person psychological trauma if it were them.

If this guy, Guiren, doesn't handle things well and suddenly goes crazy, his commission fee will probably be gone.

A commission of 1.5 million is quite a lot.

Soon, the news that Mamiya Masayo entire castle.

Upon hearing the news, Mitsuru Mamiya Mitsuru rushed over, and the maids and servants from the castle also arrived at the castle's entrance exhibition hall.

This news is absolutely explosive.

So much so that it concerned the future of everyone in the castle.

Mamiya Masayo was woken up by a bucket of cold water.

Despite her lisp, she initially remained defiant, feigning madness and ignorance.

However, after Fujino revealed his reasoning, she realized that the situation was hopeless and confessed to all her crimes.

Her Nishikawa Mutsumi, and she has been a maid working at this villa for many years.

Four years ago, she set fire to the house, killing her colleague and Mamiya Takato's mother. Before that, she also murdered Mamiya Masayo and took her place.

The servant who died in the forest two years ago was also murdered by her using a secret passage.

Her purpose in doing this was to obtain the treasure hidden in the castle.

"It's all because of the treasure left by my grandfather..."

Mamiya Takato's eyes were filled with rage. "Just for a treasure whose whereabouts and quantity are still unknown, you killed so many people?!"

"Hmph, stop pretending. You're staying here for that treasure too, aren't you?"

Nishikawa Mutsumi scoffed disdainfully, her gaze sweeping over the crowd. "Who among you dares to say they have no interest in that treasure? Who wouldn't kill someone to get it? It's all just hypocritical, fake compassion."

"You..."

Mamiya Takato's anger had clearly reached its peak, and he stepped forward, wanting to give the culprit who had murdered his two blood relatives a good beating.

"Sir, it's not worth it for such a madman."

Fujino stopped Mamiya Takato, "Instead of beating her up, I have a way to make her truly repent."

"What method can make her repent?"

Under Mamiya Takato's gaze, Fujino turned his eyes to Nishikawa Mutsumi and asked in a deep voice, "Do you want to know where that treasure is?"

"Treasure?"

Nishikawa Mutsumi was stunned, then asked Fujino in an almost frantic voice, "Have you already deciphered the code?!"

"Of course it's untied."

With a hint of seduction in his voice, Fujino slowly walked towards the painting of Mamiya Takato's grandfather hanging at the top of the stairs not far away. "If you rotate this painting hanging on the wall counterclockwise, the entrance to the treasure will appear."

As he spoke, Fujino rotated the painting counterclockwise, revealing a vertically upward passageway.

Then, Fujino grabbed the ladder embedded inside the passage and climbed up.

Nishikawa Mutsumi originally intended to escape through the secret passage she was so proud of, which had been used to kill many people.

But now...

Now that the treasure has appeared, it all belongs to her!

We absolutely cannot let that detective get there first!

Without thinking twice, she quickly got up and stumbled after him.

The passageway behind the painting connects to the top of one of the castle's several towers.

Fujino pushed open the door at the top of the passage and came into a small room.

The room was pitch black, with only a few rays of light shining through the crack of a hidden door not far in front of me.

Fujino stepped forward, opened the hidden door, and the sunlight shone in blindingly.

Outside the hidden door, a beautiful view of the castle unfolds before your eyes. On the blue stone tiles outside the hidden door, it is inscribed. "The beauty of this castle is to be given to the first person to arrive here."

Clearly, the so-called treasure is the view overlooking the entire castle from here.

I must say, it is indeed very beautiful.

I wonder what that crazy woman will think when she sees this.

"Treasure! My treasure!"

Just then, a roar came from Nishikawa Mutsumi.

Fujino stepped aside, making room for him.

At the same time, it was also to prevent being pushed down by that madman.

"Where is my treasure?!"

Arriving at the hidden door, Nishikawa Mutsumi peered out and then turned to question Fujino.

"Isn't it right behind you?"

Fujino pointed behind her, "The beautiful view overlooking the entire castle from here is the treasure left behind by the great patriarch of this castle. He wanted to give this view to the first person to arrive here, and it's already written on the secret door."

Following the direction Fujino pointed, Nishikawa Mutsumi immediately saw the words carved on the blue stone tiles outside the castle's hidden door.

"It's fake! It's all fake!"

Nishikawa Mutsumi was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses, covered her face, knelt on the ground, and roared wildly.

She couldn't believe that the so-called treasure was actually this kind of thing!

This is a treasure she painstakingly cultivated for many years, even undergoing plastic surgery to look like this, before finally finding it!

How could it be something like a joke?!

It's fake! It's all fake!

What's wrong with her?

Mamiya Takato also followed, looking at Nishikawa Mutsumi kneeling on the ground like a madwoman, and asked Fujino in confusion.

"Perhaps the inability to accept the difference caused the problem."

As he spoke, Fujino pointed to his head, "The treasure left by your grandfather is the view overlooking the entire castle from here. Over the years, this guy has killed so many people just for this view."

"No wonder."

Mamiya Takato nodded, his gaze toward Nishikawa Mutsumi devoid of any pity.

"That's right, they're all fake!"

Almost frantic, she turned around, shouting, "It must be you! You must have hidden my treasure!"

Roaring, she charged at Fujino, trying to grab Fujino by the neck, "Hand over the treasure right now!"

"I told you, this is a treasure!"

Fujino kicked out, sending him crashing into the wall at the edge of the hidden door in the room.

"Impossible! Impossible!"

Nishikawa Mutsumi began frantically tearing at her old face, "Is this all I got after turning myself into this inhuman, ghostly mess?! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Actually, I'm quite curious too."

Looking at Nishikawa Mutsumi's almost frenzied state, Fujino spoke with a hint of sarcasm, "You've wasted so many years of your youth, turned your original face into this, killed so many people, and in the end, it's all for this ephemeral thing. What were you thinking?"

"Shut up! Shut up!"

Enraged by these words, Nishikawa Mutsumi struggled and charged at Fujino, only to be kicked against the wall by Fujino. Fujino continued, "You'd better just wait for the police to come and take your death sentence. But your face is really pathetic; it'll probably stay with you for the rest of your life until the day you die... After all, in Japan, the death penalty takes a very, very long time to be carried out."

"Shut up, shut up!"

Tears, large as beans, slid down Nishikawa Mutsumi's cheeks and accumulated on her wrinkled face.

Although she had lost her mind, she could still understand that Fujino was right!

With this in mind, an idea began to form in her mind.

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