Chapter 387

The old butler opened the Namban room. As soon as they entered, they could see various terrifying torture instruments placed on both sides, and the atmosphere was eerie and terrifying.

"It turned out it was because someone told the concubine that the young lord had entered the forest and hadn't come out, and asked the concubine to go into the forest to find the young lord. The person who planned this conspiracy was the lord's younger brother."

"The enraged ancestor had his younger brother and the subordinates who participated in the plan pierced with wooden stakes and left in that forest. Since then, the ancestor has been called the 'Stake-Piercing Grand Duke,' and just like the prototype of Count Dracula, the legend of the vampire gradually emerged."

It seems that old people are very good at telling stories, and they tell them with a sense of horror.

But for Conan, stories are stories, yet this legend felt somewhat familiar.

In this Mao Li family now, what is happening is quite similar.

Mao Li Brother Pomi, who had no heirs, suddenly had a fiancée, and then not long after, the fiancée had an accident, and the inheritance fell to the numerous brothers and sisters.

Now, one person has already been murdered.

"Creak!"

The old butler opened the Nanban Room, and as soon as they entered, they could see all kinds of terrifying torture devices placed on both sides, and the atmosphere was gloomy and terrifying.

I don't know what Tokiya Torakura asked the maid Hikaru Hihara to avoid others and come to this room for; it really wasn't a normal place.

Conan felt as if he had grasped some clue. Regarding this murder case, he suddenly asked: "Did you also search this room when you were looking for Mr. Tokiya?"

"Yes."

The Torakura family members nodded.

Conan turned back and said to the crowd: "In any case, everyone stay in the dining room for now. We can't split up anymore. Even if you go to the bathroom, you must go in pairs."

"What do you mean by that?" Johei Hanekawa asked anxiously, "I still have to find my dear."

"There's no other way," Conan looked at Johei Hanekawa seriously and said, "Everyone involved in the inheritance is in danger now. If you are alone, you might be attacked by a vampire!"

The maid hesitated for a moment, said nothing, turned around, and returned to the dining room with the Torakura family.

Besides the dining room, the other maids and chefs of the Torakura family also stayed in their rooms. In the huge villa, only Akaso Kaze, Conan, and the old butler were left moving around.

The old butler wondered, "If the opponent is a vampire, will we be okay?"

"No problem," Conan took the old butler back to the photo room, "I have a rough idea of the vampire's method. It's just man-made."

"What?" The old butler opened his squinted eyes, "Could it be that the Master..."

"The Master, who is suffering from a terminal illness, should not have the ability to complete so many things. There is an accomplice in this villa," Conan turned back to look at the old butler and said, "Who do you think is more suspicious?"

"This..."

The old butler lowered his head.

"If you want to say who is more suspicious, it might be the maid, Miss Hikaru. You should have heard about her mother, Miss Yoko. The day she passed away was a stormy night. Miss Yoko, who was waiting for the Master to return in the mansion, suddenly said she wanted to drive to the Master's hospital to pick him up."

"I tried to persuade her that it was dangerous, but she didn't listen. As a result, she really drove off the cliff with the car at the bend of the mountain road. After the investigation, the police concluded that the cause was fatigue driving due to poor visibility."

"Is there any hidden story behind this?" Conan frowned and asked.

"Actually, before she went out, I received a call from the Master, asking me to tell Miss Yoko that her daughter's surgery had been successfully completed. In the end, it was the maid, Miss Shimizu, who went to find Miss Yoko."

The old butler said sadly.

"The maid, Miss Shimizu, said she might have wanted to see her daughter as soon as possible, but now that I think about it, Miss Yoko's face was very pale at the time, and she didn't look like that. I have been wondering if Miss Shimizu's death could be related to this."

"Then what about Mr. Nobunobu?" Conan grasped the clue and asked, "What does Mr. Nobunobu have to do with this?"

"I'm not very clear, but at that time, Miss Yoko was driving Young Master Nobunobu's car. That day was the 13th anniversary of the old master's death, so everyone had returned to the mansion."

The old butler said with a heavy expression, "Everyone here today was there that day. So if that accident was really a conspiracy planned by someone as rumored, it wouldn't be strange to face retribution."

Conan's mind flashed with the pure figure of the maid Hikaru Hihara.

"Does Miss Hikaru know about this?"

"She shouldn't know. The Master told me not to say anything, saying he would tell Miss Hikaru himself."

"If that's the case..."

Conan thought of what the maid Hikaru Hihara had mentioned.

That email.

The email sent by Tokiya Torakura.

If Tokiya Torakura explained this in the email, or made an appointment with Hikaru Hihara to meet in the Namban room and confess, Hikaru Hihara, who wanted to avenge her mother, would indeed be likely to cooperate in committing this murder case.

Moreover, whether it was discovering the body in the coffin, seeing the ghost in the photo, or even in the dining room.

The first to discover it was always the maid Hikaru Hihara.

It seemed like this maid was directing and acting it all out herself.

However...

There's no reason to take the initiative to mention the email.