Lord Yunwen's Exorcism Log~

Four in the afternoon, on a pedestrian street near Tokyo Tower.

With a photo in his hand, Shu Yunwen looked back and forth at the signs along the street, scratching the back of his head in frustration.

When he first watched Detective Conan, he'd only rushed through it once, and his memories had long since grown hazy. If he'd known he'd transmigrate—and into the world of Conan, no less—Shu Yunwen would have watched Detective Conan carefully N times, never missing even the smallest detail.

Better yet, he could have kidnapped old man Gosho and gotten him to spoil the rest of the story.

Damn, it had been twenty years and over seven hundred episodes, and the big boss of the Black Organization still hadn't made an official appearance. It was ridiculous. He'd heard some fans had already written their wills, asking their descendants to burn a whole Gosho for them when visiting their graves.

"Lord Yunwen, still no luck?" Matsushita Heisaburo asked from beside him.

"That's right. The second symbol, the one shaped like a hat, was easy enough to find, but there are far too many three-triangle symbols around here. I have no idea which one it is. Damn it!"

As he spoke, Shu Yunwen raised his wrist to check his watch, looking rather helpless.

Just then, the pager at Matsushita Heisaburo's waist began to beep.

Matsushita Heisaburo hurriedly took it out and glanced at the screen. "Lord Yunwen, Mr. Yamagishi is calling. He probably wants to ask about the exorcism..."

"The exorcism?" Shu Yunwen thought for a moment, then turned and instructed him, "Call Yamagishi Eiichi and tell him to bring Ono Yoko over to Tokyo Tower. Hmm..." As he spoke, Shu Yunwen glanced around. "...Let's meet at this Dream Coffee Shop."

Matsushita Heisaburo glanced at the coffee shop nearby, nodded, then went over to a public phone and called Yamagishi Eiichi.

After the call, Shu Yunwen and Matsushita Heisaburo went into the coffee shop to wait.

About forty minutes later, three people walked into the coffee shop. Yamagishi Eiichi was in the lead, followed by a disguised Ono Yoko and a middle-aged man.

When Yamagishi Eiichi spotted Shu Yunwen and Matsushita Heisaburo, he hurried over to their corner.

"Lord Yunwen, Vice President Matsushita, sorry to trouble you." Yamagishi Eiichi greeted them, and Ono Yoko bowed right after him. "Lord Yunwen, I'll be counting on you today."

Ono Yoko looked exhausted. Even the thick makeup on her face couldn't conceal her weariness.

Shu Yunwen smiled. "Miss Yoko, there's no need to be so formal. And this is...?"

Shu Yunwen looked at the man beside Ono Yoko.

Yamagishi Eiichi immediately introduced him. "Lord Yunwen, this is our agency's president, Akechi Kunihito."

So he was just some extra who'd never appeared in the original story!

"Hello, President Akechi." Shu Yunwen exchanged pleasantries, then pointed to the seats opposite him. "Please, take a seat."

After the three of them sat down, a server brought over three more cups of coffee. The five chatted casually for a while, before Yamagishi Eiichi hurriedly said, "Lord Yunwen, it's already... already four fifty. You said that the best time to perform an exorcism is right now..."

Shu Yunwen turned to look out the window. The sky was already starting to darken. He smiled. "The time is right. Please wait a moment."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Yunwen began chanting a Sorcerous Curse. A few seconds later, he cast Ghost Sorcery: Ghost Eye. A thin haze seemed to veil his eyes. The scene before him shifted, and he saw a misty spirit hovering over Ono Yoko's head.

Before Fujie Akiyoshi died, he'd been clutching one of Ono Yoko's hairs.

So after his death, it made sense that he'd clung to the top of her head, driven by his obsession.

"Miss Yoko, does your head feel heavy?" Shu Yunwen teased with a smile.

It was dark humor that only he understood.

Ono Yoko froze, then stammered, "Lord Yunwen, I... I feel heavy all over right now..."

That was because she was tired and sleepy, right?

Shu Yunwen rolled his eyes and began chanting another Sorcerous Curse. Then he said, "Seize!" The misty mass hovering over Ono Yoko's head seemed to struggle against its will as it flew into Shu Yunwen's hand, eventually shrinking into a ball about the size of a ping-pong ball. A ghostly face formed from the mist of Fujie Akiyoshi's spirit howled across its surface, seeming to struggle to break free.

With the ghost trapped inside the ball in his hand, Shu Yunwen smiled. "All done, Miss Yoko. Since I was the one who suggested this exorcism, I can decide the fee. I'll give you a twenty-five percent discount, so that'll be 1.5 million yen."

"Th-that's it?" Before Ono Yoko could speak, Yamagishi Eiichi blurted out, "Lord Yunwen, was it really that quick? That was a powerful vengeful spirit..."

Yamagishi Eiichi didn't think Shu Yunwen's fee of 1.5 million yen was expensive. If Fujie Akiyoshi's spirit was really gone, he wouldn't mind paying even twice as much.

Even now, thinking of the sight of Fujie Akiyoshi in the mirror that afternoon still sent a chill through him.

But... wasn't this exorcism too fast? It hadn't even taken half a minute!

Shu Yunwen replied casually, "Mr. Yamagishi, I know better than you whether the problem's been solved. Please don't question a real exorcist, all right?"

"Ah? Yes..." Yamagishi Eiichi hurriedly nodded.

After a pause, Shu Yunwen continued, "Of course, if you're not reassured, I can let you see the spirit I caught with your own eyes. But that will take some of my energy, so it'll cost an extra 500,000 yen."

As soon as he heard that, Yamagishi Eiichi replied without hesitation, "Lord Yunwen, I want to see it for myself. Please perform the spell!"

Paying another 500,000 yen to see the vengeful spirit caught with his own eyes and put his mind truly at ease was worth it.

Beside him, Akechi Kunihito, who'd never appeared in the original story, chimed in right away. "Lord Yunwen, I'd like to see it too."

"It's 500,000 yen per person!" Shu Yunwen explained, then turned to Ono Yoko. "Miss Yoko, don't you want to see it for yourself?"

"I..." Ono Yoko bit her lip. "I want to see it too!"

"Three people, 500,000 yen each, for a total of 1.5 million yen." Shu Yunwen smiled faintly, then began chanting another Sorcerous Curse. He cast Ghost Sorcery: Ghost Eye three times in succession. Once Ghost Eye had taken effect on the three of them, Shu Yunwen opened his hand. The misty ball, about the size of a ping-pong ball, appeared before them.

"You can all see it, right? This is Fujie Akiyoshi's spirit."

The three stared at the thing in Shu Yunwen's hand, unable to believe their eyes. This was Fujie Akiyoshi's vengeful spirit? It didn't look like one!

As they wondered about it, the surface of the "ping-pong ball" suddenly rippled. A cloud of mist burst out of the ball and gathered into a face before them. Its expression was terrifying, as if it were howling in rage—and it was Fujie Akiyoshi's face!

"Ahhh!"

In an instant, all three of them screamed in terror.

The other customers in the coffee shop turned to look curiously. A server hurried over and asked, "Is something wrong, everyone?"

Shu Yunwen hurriedly replied, "Nothing's wrong. I was just telling them a ghost story, and they got scared."

"Is that so? Hehe... Please call me if you need anything." The server smiled faintly and walked away.

The other customers nearby chuckled too.

But Ono Yoko and the others couldn't calm down for quite a while.

Shu Yunwen really had been telling them a "ghost story." It was just that the "ghost" was right in front of them!

Shu Yunwen reached out and caught Fujie Akiyoshi's spirit again, then smiled. "All right, you've seen it for yourselves. I really did catch this ghost. So, Miss Yoko, when you go home, you can sleep peacefully. I can guarantee that Fujie Akiyoshi won't cause you any more trouble."

After seeing the captured "vengeful spirit" with his own eyes, Yamagishi Eiichi became even more respectful. "Lord Yunwen, thank you so much for helping us. You saved our lives. Yoko-chan, hurry up and thank Lord Yunwen."

Ono Yoko hurriedly thanked him too.

Shu Yunwen waved it off. "There's no need to thank me. You paid for it."

After a pause, Shu Yunwen checked the digital watch on his wrist. "Sorry, I still have something to take care of, so I have to leave. Matsushita-kun, collect the payment."

Matsushita Heisaburo froze for a moment and looked at the three from the agency.

Ono Yoko froze too. Akechi Kunihito, the agency president who'd never appeared in the original story, hurriedly took out his checkbook, scribbled out a check, and handed it to Matsushita Heisaburo. "Yoko is an artist with our agency, and solving her problem also solves a problem for the company. So let's put the three million yen on the company's account."

Matsushita Heisaburo took the check, looked it over, and handed it to Shu Yunwen.

Shu Yunwen didn't take it. Instead, he stood up. "Now that the fee's been settled, I'll be going. By the way, if you're not in a hurry, it'd be best to stay here for an hour before leaving. Ghost Eye is active on all of you, and it'll last for about an hour. During that time, you'll be able to see other spirits too. If you leave now and run into one, it'll frighten you."

"Understood!" Ono Yoko and the others hurriedly nodded.

Just then, Akechi Kunihito, who'd never appeared in the original story, stood up and said, "Please wait, Lord Yunwen. I'm very impressed by your abilities, so our agency would like to establish a long-term partnership with the Keqin Exorcist Agency and hire you to handle cases like this. Would you have time to discuss it?"

A new client!

Shu Yunwen checked his watch, then smiled. "I'm sorry, but I really do have something urgent to take care of, so I have to leave. If you're free tomorrow, you can contact our agency. Matsushita-kun can handle everything. Matsushita-kun, I'm counting on you. Tomorrow's Monday, after all, and I have to go to school."

"Understood, Lord Yunwen." Akechi Kunihito didn't dare insist.

Ono Yoko suddenly spoke up. "Lord Yunwen, what are you going to do with him?"

By "him," she naturally meant Fujie Akiyoshi's spirit.

Shu Yunwen smiled faintly. "What I do with him is a matter for us exorcists, Miss Yoko. It has nothing to do with you. Besides, Miss Yoko, as I said in your apartment earlier, he killed himself in your apartment and tried to frame you for murder, destroying your life too. As far as I'm concerned, he wasn't a good person. He doesn't deserve your sympathy."

Ono Yoko's expression darkened, and she said no more.

Only after Shu Yunwen and Matsushita Heisaburo hurried out of the coffee shop did Akechi Kunihito, who'd never appeared in the original story, ask curiously, "Does Lord Yunwen have to go to school? Is he a teacher?"

"Uh... No, Lord Yunwen is a second-year high school student," Ono Yoko replied. Ran had told her about Shu Yunwen.

"What?"

Akechi Kunihito, who'd never appeared in the original story, was dumbfounded.

Wasn't that a face belonging to a middle-aged man, someone even a few years older than him?

He looked nearly fifty, yet he was only a second-year high school student?

Yoko-chan, are you messing with me?

PS: Akechi Kunihito threw a brick at the sky:

"Author! Do you really have to keep saying 'who'd never appeared in the original story'?!"