"So many flowers!"
"Didn't they say this place was full of corpses?"
"They look so pretty!"
Fujino spread his sword aura, hypnotizing everyone's perceptions. Then he climbed up and lowered them down one by one, securing them with ropes.
The moment everyone arrived, they exclaimed over the "sea of flowers" before them.
Under the influence of the sword aura, the underground chamber no longer appeared to be a horrifying scene littered with corpses and white bones. Instead, they saw a field of flowers, red, blue, purple, and every color in between.
As clever as Ai Haibara was, she naturally understood what Fujino had done after considering the words and reactions of those who had gone down earlier. When Ayumi tried to pick two flowers, Ai immediately grabbed her and whispered, "Don't touch anything. This is just some kind of hypnosis Fujino used to create a false image..."
"But they really are flowers!"
Ayumi did not understand at all, looking innocent and bewildered.
Meanwhile, Genta, the two Treasure Hunters, and Kuroba Kaito fell silent. In their eyes, those were not flowers at all—they were clearly battered, decaying skulls!
Were little girls these days really this fearless?
Genta was the first to break. His face went pale as he looked in Ayumi's direction and shouted in terror, "Those are two skulls!"
"Huh? Skulls?"
"Yeah, Ayumi, you'd better not pick them up."
Fujino jumped down from above, steadied himself, and spoke gently to Ayumi. "I temporarily blocked your vision with sword aura, so all you can see are flowers. Children shouldn't be looking at things like that. You'll have nightmares at night."
He had not really figured out how sword aura worked, but it was quite handy to use. Besides hypnotizing opponents in battle, it could put a mosaic over horrifying sights. It