"As for this urban legend, I have actually heard of it."
Hearing this, Ran thought for a moment and said with great interest, "I heard that the medieval armor comes back to life in the dead of night and wanders around inside that museum!"
"Medieval armor wandering inside the museum?"
Fujino frowned upon hearing this... feeling like this urban legend was a bit familiar.
Night at the Museum... bah!
It should be the Museum Urban Legend Murder Case from Conan.
If he remembered correctly, this case happened at the Medieval Museum.
And the armor in that urban legend should be played by librarian Ochiai.
The old librarian was an old comrade who loved art pieces, regarded them as his life, and had dedicated most of his life to the Medieval Museum where he currently served as librarian.
However, due to recent poor economic conditions in Japan, the company that originally invested in and ran this museum went bankrupt, and the current museum was about to be acquired by another company.
That would have been fine normally, but the acquiring Mr. Manaka went back on his word and wanted to demolish the museum to rebuild it into a hotel.
Out of anger, Ochiai gave rise to the idea of murder.
The reason he disguised himself as an urban legend was to practice in advance how to cleanly and efficiently kill Mr. Manaka to prevent the museum from being demolished.
"Eh?"
Sonoko looked at Fujino in surprise, as if she had discovered some new main road: "Could it be that you are also interested in this kind of urban legend, Senior?!"
"I wouldn't call it interested, just a little curious."
Fujino nodded, "After all, as for urban legends, since they exist, there must be a reason for their existence."
"How unexpected. Judging from now, Senior Fujino is really much better than that cocky reasoning maniac!"
"If that cocky reasoning maniac were here, he would definitely say: What urban legend, those are just things to scare kids... or something."
Sonoko imitated Kudo Shinichi's tone convincingly, glanced at Fujino, and muttered, "We're both detectives, why is the gap so big?"
Suddenly seeming to remember something, she asked Ran, "Speaking of which, Ran, I haven't seen that guy come to school for a long time."
"Shinichi he..."
Hearing this, Ran frowned, sighed, and softly said, "He went to deal with a complicated case... and probably won't be back for a short time..."
"That's why I say that kind of cocky detective reasoning maniac is the most unreliable!"
Sonoko said righteously, "I bet that guy must have abandoned you, Ran—you old hag—and gone off to dally with other pretty little girls!"
"Sonoko!"
Ran complained resentfully, her face showing the sweet shyness of a young girl.
"Hahaha..."
Seeing Ran's shy appearance, Sonoko immediately smiled with deep meaning.
Then, she invited the two of them: "Senior Fujino, Ran, tomorrow is the weekend. How about we go to the Medieval Museum together tomorrow to check out that walking armor?"
"The weekend?"
Fujino frowned.
Clearly today was Monday, and tomorrow was the weekend... He really couldn't understand the time rules of the Conan World.
"Ding, Detective Career Upgrade Mission detected."
At that moment, the system prompt rang in Fujino's ear.
Fujino was stunned for a moment, opened the system interface, and saw the system task come into view:
Detective Career Upgrade Mission: Museum Urban Legend Murder Case Mission Objective: Solve the Museum Urban Legend Murder Case Mission Option 1: Ensure zero casualties Reward: 50 detective reputation points, 500,000 yen bounty, random career upgrade ticket (purple) Mission Option 2: Solve the museum urban legend case Reward: 50 detective reputation points, 500,000 yen bounty, Mask of Falsehood (purple) Mission Time Limit Countdown: Two days
"Two options?"
Fujino looked at the system task in front of him and couldn't help being stunned.
Unlike the usual single-choice tasks, this time two choices were provided.
Moreover, the task rewards for completing these two choices were also different...
"Hey! Senior Fujino, do you have time tomorrow to go to the Medieval Museum?"
Hearing this, Fujino closed the system interface and saw Sonoko looking at him expectantly.
"Ahem."
He gave a light cough, thought for a moment, and agreed, "If tomorrow is a day off, I do have time. It seems I haven't had a good rest lately, so going to a museum to cultivate one's character isn't a bad idea..."
"Then it's a deal!"
Sonoko smiled knowingly.
The look she gave Fujino was full of meaning.
Sunset.
Fujino returned home, took off his school uniform and hung it in the wardrobe, changed into his usual suit, ate a cream pudding rewarded by the system, and then opened the system interface, falling into deep thought as he looked at the system options before him.
The system's two options were completely different approaches.
Option one, ensuring zero casualties, should require him to stop Ochiai from committing murder in order to achieve the goal of solving the case.
The reward was a purple random level-up ticket, which could randomly upgrade a career level.
As for option two, it was not much different from usual tasks.
However, this time he knew that this case was about to happen.
If he wanted to solve this case, he would need to wait until after Ochiai committed the murder before heading to the crime scene to solve the case.
Both were solving the case, but one was preventing the case from happening, while the other was standing by and watching the killer commit murder.
Fujino pondered for a moment and made a decision...
Late at night, the Medieval Museum.
Fujino strapped his wooden sword behind his back, tucked two enhancement cards into his waist, and sneaked into the Medieval Museum.
His infiltration went very smoothly, not because he was particularly good at stealth, but entirely because the museum's security at the moment was simply too pathetic.
Due to the recent impact of the urban legend and the fact that the museum was closing in ten days, the security guards hadn't been paid for a month.
Without pay, who would work.
Therefore, in such a huge museum, there was only one old man on patrol duty.
That old man was over sixty years old, and he only came over to do unpaid duty out of respect for the librarian.
The Medieval Museum had four exhibition halls: the Sky Exhibition Hall, the Earth Exhibition Hall, the Ocean Exhibition Hall... and the Hell Exhibition Hall. The name of each exhibition hall corresponded to the style of its collection, housing different items respectively.
After entering the museum, Fujino headed straight for the Hell Exhibition Hall.
If he didn't remember wrong, that murder case happened in the Hell Exhibition Hall.
"I wonder if the old librarian came over to practice tonight..."
Fujino looked at the dim hallway of the exhibition hall and muttered, "If not..."
"Click! Click! Click!"
Before he could finish speaking, crisp sounds of metal came from the Hell Exhibition Hall not far ahead.
Hearing this, Fujino tightened his grip, raised the wooden sword, and walked slowly toward the direction of the sound.
Clinging to the corner of the wall, he looked into the Hell Exhibition Hall.
What came into view was a suit of medieval armor swinging a scabbard...
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