Chapter 957: Is there really a vampire?

"What strange shadow?"

Hikawa Johei, who was sitting by the window, got up and pulled open the balcony curtain in confusion. His sight hit Torakura Takoya, who looked like a vampire hanging upside down outside the window. His body suddenly stiffened in place, and his two eyes seemed to be staring out.

"It, it is..."

"How is it possible?"

Everyone saw Torakura Takoya poking his head out from above. His fangs and pointed ears were particularly clear, and his pale face made people feel cold.

"It's really big brother!"

"Big brother has really become a vampire!"

"Impossible, right?" Hikawa Johei opened the window with a pale face, "It must be hanging upside down with a rope or something."

"Whoosh!"

Before the window was fully opened, Torakura Takoya shrank up directly. When everyone went to the balcony to check, he was completely gone, as if he had flown away directly.

What was even more shocking was that, accompanied by a flash of lightning illuminating the night sky, something almost unacceptable appeared in front of everyone.

In the darkness, a giant bat-like creature flapped its two wings and flew away from the villa. Everyone immediately associated it with the missing Torakura Takoya.

The vampire turned into a bat and flew away.

"That monster flew into the sky!"

The terrible scene was deeply imprinted in everyone's mind, and everyone was speechless until after the thunder, they were awakened by the dripping sound on the balcony.

"Blood! It's blood!"

Hikawa Johei was the first to discover the blood dripping from the eaves.

"Can you get to the top?" Akaso Kaze leaned out of the balcony and looked up.

"Above is the smoking room in the attic. Hey, Brother Mashin is there!"

"No way?"

The woman with long hair looked at Akaso Kaze following Torakura Anji, who was leading the way, and ran out, her expression gradually becoming terrified.

"Ma, Mashin, did something happen?"

After leaving the restaurant, passing through the corridor and climbing the stairs is the attic.

Conan ran up first, pushed open the wooden cover door of the attic entrance with his own hands, and saw Torakura Mashin lying by the attic window at a glance.

The neck leaning on the window frame was still bleeding outside, falling along the eaves to the balcony directly below.

The carotid artery was cut by someone, and he had lost his breath.

"Husband!" The woman with long hair followed upstairs crying, and seeing Torakura Mashin silently by the window, she almost fainted.

"Don't come over yet," Conan stopped the woman, "Your husband was probably murdered."

"Ho, how could this happen? I'm finished," the woman choked, "My husband is my only support. What will I do in the future?"

Torakura Anji supported the desperate woman and took her down.

"Don't worry, we will find a way. We are not outsiders."

"Was Brother Mashin really killed?" Hikawa Johei asked anxiously below, "Then wouldn't it be terrible if my dear isn't found soon?"

"Definitely," the woman with glasses said as a matter of course, "Maybe Sister Moriyo has been taken somewhere by Brother Takoya who has become a vampire, and was stabbed to death by a wooden stake like in the legend!"

"Don't scare me."

"Hehe, if that's the case, you will return to my side, right?"

The woman with glasses looked at Hikawa Johei with possessiveness.

"Judging from the condition of the body, the cause of death was the carotid artery being cut." Conan frowned and said, "Although Mr. Mashin is holding a knife in his hand, the possibility of suicide is very low."

"Why?" Torakura Anji asked in surprise, "Isn't it because he didn't want to be attacked by big brother that he committed suicide?"

"There is a big difference between suicide and homicide. At least it wouldn't be like the scene, it seems that Mr. Mashin was suddenly cut in the throat from behind while smoking."

"Ah?"

The Torakura family members looked at Conan blankly at the same time.

"Yo, you child, how do you know so clearly?"

Conan did not answer, suddenly stopped, and asked the crowd, "Do you know the Nanban room of this mansion?"

"Ah? Of course I know."

After leaving the attic, the old butler and the Torakura family took Akaso Kaze and Conan to the so-called Nanban room, which was actually a room full of Nanban torture instruments.

Nanban was the name for those Western colonial countries in the island country under the influence of China in the past.

Because most of these people entered the island country by boat from the southern sea near Kyushu.

"According to the master, that is a story from the Edo period. At that time, the person who ruled this area was the ancestor of the Torakura family, a daimyo who was very loved by the people in the territory."

The old butler told a legend about the past of the Torakura family while leading the way.

"But the lord never had his own heirs. Just when there were rumors that he would let his younger brother inherit the family business, the lord suddenly took a beautiful woman as a concubine and lived in the castle."

"As the concubine successfully gave birth to an heir, the people in the city felt relieved. However, on a stormy night, the concubine was found to have fallen off a cliff and died pierced by branches."