"From this angle, you can see the entire chessboard at a glance! It's so pretty!"
"Yeah, you can see it from here too!"
Although they had entered to help the current owner of the house solve a puzzle, the children had clearly cast that request aside in no time. One or two of them leaned over the windowsill, letting out excited shouts.
An ancient castle deep in the forest, a maze of intricate riddles, and a castle left in disrepair after a past fire had prevented it from ever being restored...
Everything about it felt like the opening of a classic adventure story. These children, already full of adventurous spirit, had been completely captured by the atmosphere. Their brain cells were currently nowhere near the task at hand.
After observing for a while and forming a rough idea in his mind, Conan took out a notebook and his phone. He repeatedly photographed the chessboard below, then scribbled and sketched in the notebook, quickly settling into the task.
Tangze watched Conan's movements for a moment, then looked down through the window at the other teammates scattered around the courtyard, still racking their brains and trying to pry information about the castle out of people. He could not help feeling sorry for Conan.
In this entire castle, apart from the Mamiya Family members, real and fake alike, who were all practically dying of anxiety, the only one seriously solving the puzzle was this unlucky detective.
Having recorded the riddle, Conan lowered his gaze and pondered for a moment. Just as expected, his attention shifted to the structure of the building.
He turned to look at Ayumi Yoshida, who was excitedly waving at him, then examined the overly wide gap between the two windows and the wall nearby that separated two rooms. After