Chapter 58: Milking the Rental Company

The series of actions across the street were captured by Conan Edogawa and the others.

"Those people... are they detectives?"

Conan Edogawa immediately realized who the other party was.

His gaze locked onto the three people who had been subdued.

One Japanese, two foreigners.

His mind immediately realized who these three were.

Remnants of the Italian robbery gang.

With this realization, cold sweat kept dripping down his forehead.

I forgot!

He looked down at the slip of paper in his hand.

This paper didn't appear for no reason; the person who dropped this slip of paper must be active in the vicinity.

He had already reacted the moment he realized that this slip of paper contained the meaning of gold in Italian.

This time, I was almost hit with a sap again.

No, if it were the Italian robbery gang, once they really followed us to find the location of the gold coins, those people would definitely not let us live.

Conan Edogawa understood that this was definitely not something that could be solved with a sap.

Only then did he feel lingering fear.

If the detectives hadn't captured those remnants of the robbery gang in time, perhaps his fate and that of the few children would have been sealed.

"Little friend."

Just as Conan Edogawa felt that death was nearby, a gentle female voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

Appearing before him was a mature woman.

The woman took out her police badge to prove her identity.

"I am a police officer. The slip of paper in your hand is very likely a relic of the Italian robbery gang. Can you give the paper to me?"

"Um, here."

"Thank you."

The female police officer took the slip of paper and placed it into a plastic sealable bag.

After the female police officer left, the other few friends were not happy.

The most obvious one was Genta Kojima.

"Conan, why did you give the treasure map to the police?"

"Idiot, that's the Italian robbery gang's stuff. That is to say, the thing hidden behind it is those 15,000 stolen Maple Leaf gold coins."

"That is stolen property; even if we find it, it can't be considered our stuff."

"Besides..."

Conan Edogawa pointed to the three men on the other side of the street who had been subdued and were being escorted into police cars.

"Those three men are very likely remnants of the Italian robbery gang."

"If we had really found the location of the gold coins just now, perhaps we would have been the unlucky ones."

"Robbery gang!?"

The three children were children after all; they all knew what a robbery gang meant.

If they were caught by those people, there would definitely be only one dead end.

"Luckily, luckily."

"If we were caught by those robbery gangs, we would definitely be captured and shot in a dark corner."

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's face looked ugly; he could almost imagine what would happen to them if they were caught.

"Maybe not even shot, but wrapped in cement and then thrown into the river."

Ayumi Yoshida, who had a very rich imagination, also thought of a possibility.

This scare frightened the three children quite a bit.

"In short, the matter here has nothing to do with us. Let's go back quickly."

"Yeah."

This time, none of the three children opposed Conan's suggestion.

Clearly, the stimulation from the robbery gang just now was simply too great. ===== CHAPTER 117 =====

The three children realized they had already walked past the gates of hell; their legs were now soft with fear, so how could they dare to argue?

Just as Conan Edogawa turned to leave, he suddenly saw a familiar figure in his peripheral vision.

He suddenly paused and turned to look.

It was Sonoko.

Looking from afar, he saw Sonoko standing with a strange boy.

An unfamiliar boy.

It must have been Sonoko who took the initiative to find him.

Knowing Sonoko's nature so well, he had already formed a conditioned reflex.

As for that boy, he really didn't have any impression of him.

He must be a boy from another school.

"Conan, we're leaving!"

"Coming."

Ayumi's voice made him withdraw his gaze.

He didn't look at Sonoko anymore and followed his friends to leave.

Seeing the whole process, Sonoko Suzuki couldn't help but hum.

"We have to help clean up the mess caused by his own actions."

"He doesn't even know how to say thank you; that guy will sooner or later get into big trouble due to his own carelessness."

"He doesn't know that we are helping behind the scenes, so it's only natural that he didn't say any words of thanks."

Ren Amamiya shook his head slightly.

"If his affairs were solved clearly, it wouldn't cause so much trouble."

"If it were just him alone, him driving himself to death would be his own business, but the other children..."

"That's true."

He glanced at the other children beside Kudo.

It was indeed unnecessary for those children to be dragged in by Kudo.

"Let's go too. Next, I'll explain my situation to you a little bit."

"Also, I'll show you the scene of gold coins pouring out."

"In this way, you should have some understanding of some of my methods."

Sonoko Suzuki became interested instantly.

The special ability Ran obtained felt like it was strengthening her own muscle power.

And there was also a strange characteristic like being a big eater.

But what she was more interested in was, of course, the power of specialty.

"Really, really?"

"Then I want to see!"

If she wanted to see, she naturally couldn't continue to stay outside.

Ren Amamiya brought Sonoko Suzuki back home.

"Hiss~"

Walking into the Amamiya house, that inexplicable chill still made Sonoko Suzuki shiver.

Knowing the situation of this house, she couldn't help but lean closer to Amamiya.

"Amamiya, is it really okay for you to live here?"

"It's fine."

"Although a very serious murder case happened here in the past, and there are indeed three souls full of resentment residing in this house, I already dealt with them all a few days ago."

"???"

Sonoko Suzuki looked stunned.

"Dealt with them?"

"Why is it still so cold after dealing with them?"

"Ah, that's something I deliberately left behind."

Upon hearing this, her eyes widened instantly.

"After all, the rental price of this house is very low precisely because it has those bad things; otherwise, would the rent be only 10,000 yen per month?"

"Even this house alone has free water and electricity."

"This is intentional by the housing rental company."

"If they didn't give this house to a scapegoat, they wouldn't be able to rent it out in the future, and maybe even the rental company's reputation would stink."

"So, they would rather rent it out at a huge discount."

"Since that's the case, then it's not wrong for me to take advantage of the housing rental company, right?"

Ren Amamiya said it as a matter of course.

And Sonoko Suzuki was dumbfounded.

In order to milk the rental company, this person actually deliberately kept some phenomena of dirty things existing.

PS: New book launch, asking for data. ===== CHAPTER 118 =====