Chapter 84

"Oh? You're thanking me?"

Akaso Kaze was taken aback.

Has this kid had a change of heart?

Not jealous of me anymore?

Conan nodded: "That's right, I am thanking you. Brother Akaso, you must have known who the murderer was the very first moment you saw the crime scene, right?"

"I heard that Suwa Yuji's Kikuchiyo sword was bought by you from Mr. Maru, so when you saw the marks on the cabinet, you immediately thought of the murderer, didn't you?"

"Huh?" Akaso Kaze was a bit strange, "I did indeed know who the murderer was, but that's because..."

"Are you going to use your Onmyoji excuse to trick me again?"

Conan turned his head, his face full of disdain.

"You are clearly a detective with very keen observation skills, why do you have to pretend to be an Onmyoji?"

Akaso Kaze looked helpless.

I really don't have keen observation skills.

Anyone who has read the manga several times would know the plot, alright.

Being praised by Conan again and again, he couldn't even be bothered to refute it.

Forget it, let the kid be happy; he can think whatever he wants.

Anyway, I'm an Onmyoji, I'll never be a silly detective.

Conan looked at Akaso Kaze's indifferent expression and suddenly felt very discouraged.

It was only under Akaso Kaze's step-by-step reminders that he deduced the whole case and found the murderer.

Yet Akaso Kaze saw the flaws at the crime scene at first glance, found the dying message left by the deceased, and knew the murderer's name.

Conan suddenly felt that he was so much worse than Akaso Kaze!

It was like one was on the ground and the other was in the sky, or rather, above the atmosphere...

The sense of achievement from shooting Uncle Mouri and solving the case vanished in an instant.

"Hey, kid, you're clearly just a first-grade elementary student, yet you can always make such insightful deductions. Don't you find that strange?"

To prevent this kid from pestering him, Akaso Kaze struck directly at his weak point.

"Huh?" Conan was stunned.

Oh crap, I forgot about that.

"Ha, haha, hahaha! Those were all things Uncle Mouri said; I was just imitating his tone. I'm just an elementary student, how would I know how to deduce things?"

"Wow, fireflies! Brother Akaso, I'm going to catch fireflies."

Conan skipped away.

This guy is really a clown.

Akaso Kaze looked speechlessly at the great detective playing dumb.

He drove the Mouri family back.

After parking the car and entering his small building, he immediately felt something was wrong.

The upstairs was cold and quiet; the usual cat meows were gone.

The light in the first-floor stairwell wouldn't turn on either.

A faint smell of blood was spreading from the darkness.

Akaso Kaze raised an eyebrow and stopped in his tracks.

Eye of Space!

A moment later, Akaso Kaze's eyes narrowed slightly.

Two men in black were guarding the second-floor stairs with guns.

Coming to Conan's world, he had long expected to run into the Black Organization, but it was still unexpected that it would happen so soon.

I shouldn't be famous enough for that yet.

For this situation, Akaso Kaze had long had multiple plans.

In this scenario, it was the perfect time to use Plan A.

He took a playing card from his pocket and stuck a magic gold coin onto it.

With a casual flick and a burst of airflow, the playing card whistled through the air.

It instantly spiraled up to the second floor and, with a 'shhh' sound, embedded itself into the neck of one of the men in black.

The other man in black widened his eyes, looked in horror at his fallen companion, and quickly shrank behind the wall.

Thud, thud, thud...

Rhythmic footsteps walked up.

A deep voice echoed through the building.

"Come down, I won't hurt you, at least not for now. Tell me everything you know, and you can leave."

The man in black's eyes became dazed, and he put down his gun and walked out.

Hypnosis Magic, truly terrifying.

Half an hour later, Akaso Kaze frowned.

"The men in black received orders to search nationwide for mages who know space magic?"

Why does that sound so much like they're looking for me?

Fortunately, I have never exposed my identity as a mage, only posing as an Onmyoji.

However, the Black Organization's targets for investigation are clearly not limited to overt mages.

Magicians, Onmyoji, beginner spirit masters, and all kinds of people with strange abilities are their targets.

Of course, because the scope is too broad and there are too many people to investigate, they haven't locked onto a target yet.

It seems I need to be more cautious in the future.

How should I deal with the one person and one corpse in front of me?

I need to find someone to take the blame for me.

In the darkness, Akaso Kaze's mouth curled into a smile.

Soon, the two men in black walked out of the residential building.

The one in front had a dazed look, and the one behind had stiff limbs.

One had been hypnotized, and the other was being controlled by the Magic Puppet Technique.