Chapter 913 Lavender House
"Lavender..." On the other side of the corridor, Koshimizu Nanatsuki leaned against the wooden wall behind him that exuded the smell of sea breeze, looking at Tokijin Junzai's back and murmuring softly.
Although these decorations were made by her, but after Goro Akechi's "overcorrection", the cabin today is no longer what she saw when she came to conduct reconnaissance, and her memories can't help but return to the time when she received the news. That day when a friend called me.
Her friend Xiaoxun is a child who, like her, has weak family relationships.
In Japan, without family support, it is extremely difficult for a minor to complete his studies and live on his own. Even if he wants to work part-time, he will have to apply for various documents because he does not have a birth certificate, a fixed address, a fixed phone number, etc. rejected for reasons.
Her friends have slimmer personalities and more difficult conditions than hers. It's already a lot of hard work to barely finish high school. Otherwise, at the same age, one would go to college and the other would have to work as a domestic servant in someone else's house. people.
She had visited Xiaoxun there before and heard that the rich man she served had a garden villa on Shikoku Island. Out of curiosity, she followed Xiaoxun to watch that place from a distance.
——It wasn’t until half a year ago that the lady of the host family passed away. When she accepted Xiaoxun’s entrustment and went to investigate the truth, she found out that the garden almost submerged in lavender was the result of the rich man’s drug addiction and mental illness. The cage prepared by the daughter of disease.
In the pungent lavender aroma, Koshimizu Nanatsuki closed his eyes, and also covered a pair of eyes that began to glow with golden light.
"Hey, Shijin!" They were startled by the shocking scene in front of them. The detectives who regained their senses could not care about the cause of the strange scene in front of them for the time being. They could only quickly step forward and hold Shijin who was about to fall out of the window. Jinrunzai.
Hattori Heiji hit his back hard twice to help him cough out the flower petals that were almost ejected from his respiratory tract. At the same time, he stretched out his hand and tentatively touched the bulging artery on the side of Tokatsu Junya's neck.
"Such a fast heart rate." Hattori Heiji frowned when he only touched the hot blood vessels slightly, "There's something wrong with this guy."
"...If what he vomited was not flower petals, but black mud or something, this scene would look a bit familiar." Conan, who was enjoying himself while observing from the window sill, complained.
He has seen prisoners who were brutally punished by the monster thief of the heart. According to his inference, who is allowed to spit out black mud and who is not allowed to spit out black mud should not be decided by the prisoner. To a large extent, it is probably controlled by the joker himself. Otherwise, No one can explain this kind of scene that is always just right.
——Based on the demonstration by Asai Narumi that he had seen on Moon Shadow Island, he guessed that the Phantom Thieves should be more mature in using this ability now.
"Black mud?" Bai Ma Tan grabbed two flying petals and crushed them between his fingertips. Hearing Conan's description, he raised his eyebrows.
He grabbed some petals that fell on the ground and brought them closer to observe, thoughtfully.
Not only is it very surreal to spit out petals, but the petals itself that Tokizu Junya spits out are also very surreal.
Even if someone really caught Tokijin Junya and simply and roughly stuffed a handful of flower petals into his bronchus, forcing him to cough up the foreign matter, the petals coming out of his mouth would probably look like vomit. , it should be stuck into a ball with various body fluids and dripping down, and it should not produce the effect of a rain of petals.
But Shi Jinrunzai just did it, and the tiny petals that flew out even created a stronger floral fragrance. The fragrance was like concentrated perfume, pouring towards them from the window.
...If you think about it carefully, it's quite disgusting.
"Tell me, is there a possibility?" Hattori Heiji also noticed these abnormal petals. He looked at the direction in which they were floating away and the thick fog outside the window that gradually began to obscure his vision. He tugged on his baseball cap with a very serious expression.
As he spoke, he grabbed the wooden stick by the corner flower pot with his backhand and waved it twice.
He always felt that something terrible would appear ahead. To be on the safe side, he had better not use his bare hands.
After being prepared, he pointed to the fog outside the window: "Maybe the mud we saw before may not be mud. At some different angles, or in space, it looks like this?"
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"The style is a bit psychedelic." Zhufu Jingguang, who was on guard at the end of the team, pushed down his eye mask, "Is this a flower's dream? Or some kind of fairy tale paradise?"
The impression space of the island has been completely formed with the surge of fog. Now, the high and low lavender purple and the winding and climbing vines form a small jungle with only purple and green. Under the tall flower trees are bells. A fungus as small as an orchid is a strange fantasy, but there is a beauty that seems to be poisonous.
"Although I was a little mentally prepared, I still felt very impressed when I saw such a powerful scene." Kenji Hagiwara, who was standing in the center of the team and holding a camera, sighed as if he were a tourist. "It should be said that it was imagined by a sensitive woman." I feel like I am Alice falling into the rabbit hole.”
"Such a big Alice? You're telling me I'm getting goosebumps." Matsuda Jinpei, holding a lollipop in his mouth, clicked his tongue and rubbed his arms.
After awakening the mask, he realized that Karasawa's behavior when he took him to the bomber's hall was not a lie. Those special lollipops made by members of the group in cooperation with Haibara Ai were indeed helpful in the battle. of special medicines.
Perhaps it was the sequelae of long-term smoking addiction, or perhaps it was the influence of that experience. Whenever he entered the cognitive world and prepared to fight, he would hold a lollipop in his mouth.
The leader, Tang Ze, heard what he said and turned to glance at him.
Karasawa knew that he might really have goosebumps, but it was not because of Hagiwara Kenji. It might be because he remembered the amusement park.
The "Rabbit and Alice" in the amusement park is not something for children to watch. Especially when this metaphor comes from Hagiwara Kenji's mouth, it will naturally trigger his instinctive aversion.
"Because of the Lavender House incident, the young lady who died had a long history of drug abuse." Karasawa interrupted their banter at the right time and explained, "Koshimizu Nanatsuki is very aware of this fact. Even if he doesn't After losing her friend, this lavender house probably didn’t leave a good impression on her.”
Living in a villa submerged in lavender, it looks like she is carefree, but in fact, she is imprisoned here, separated from her family, always thinking about the girl who is seeking death...
The acidic style, which is associated with death and hallucinations, as if eating fungi, is by no means the target of Koshisui Nanatsukimu.
"If it's not a fairy tale, it might be some dark nursery rhyme." Tangze looked at the shadows composed of flowers and grass blades, and drew out the knife on his waist. "After all, the more beautiful the mushroom, the more likely it is to be poisonous." Well.”
"Bang——"
Zhu Fujingguang at the back of the palace fired a shot, shattering the gathered petals, and watched as the blood-like purple liquid fell to the ground as it shattered. After falling to the ground, it took root again and bloomed new flowers. , tentatively nodded in agreement: "Indeed, at first glance, it looks very poisonous."
————"Well, although we don't know what's going on yet, our guess about the show is still accurate. It is indeed the lavender house case on Shikoku Island." The white horse detective covered his mouth and nose and looked at the film in front of him. of lavender, cogently expressed.
"It's the one who loves lavender, the daughter of a manufacturing upstart named Ishikawa, who died in her villa, right? When you say that, I have an impression." Hattori Heiji put his hands on his hips, He stirred the dense flowers in front of him with the wooden stick in his hand, "But, well, I always feel that the details of this case..."
He turned his head and looked at Tokizu Junya, who was almost submerged in petals and was almost like a human-shaped petal fountain, lying unconscious on the ground. He then looked at Koshizuki Nanatsuki, who followed them silently like a cat. He raised his eyebrows.
"As expected, I can't hide it from the detectives." Koshimizu Nanatsuki smiled brightly, "Yes, the case I talked about on the boat was the Lavender Cottage case. The girl who was almost killed by the detective's wrong reasoning was mine. Friends.”
"So, is it possible that the confused detective who caused the catastrophe was..." Hattori Heiji looked at Junya Tokatsu who was still spraying flowers again, "Speaking of which, it's not you who did this, right? Although it feels like he You won’t die this way, but can you let him stop for a moment? It’s a bit mentally polluted.”
"Before I talk about this question, you guys actually jumped out of the window." Conan covered his forehead, "Although it's not very high, this is the second floor after all."
"Didn't you jump down too? You yourself also jumped directly from the high stands to the runway." Hattori Heiji looked at him sideways, "The children are fine, and there is no chance that anything will happen to us."
What's more, even if he doesn't get smaller, Kudo's physical fitness may still be the weakest among everyone here.
"With such a wonderful scene, it's impossible to resist jumping out of the window, right?" Baima Tan smiled, turned his head again, and looked at the seemingly endless lavender bushes.
After seeing the petals floating into the white mist, vaguely inducing a greater floral fragrance, almost without thinking, Hakuba Tan and Hattori Heiji unanimously chose to hold Tokizu Junya, and climbed directly from the second floor window. come out.
No matter how he looked at the strange scene in front of him, it looked as if Tokijin Junya had vomited it out. He didn't believe that any detective could resist coming out to inquire about the situation.
"That's not the case... forget it." Conan shook his head, feeling the familiar dizziness, curled his lips, and hesitantly took out his phone.
This situation seems to be inseparable from the Phantom Thieves. Do you want to find them?
Without the help of their potion this time, would he have fainted here halfway?
"Wow, K-ahem, Conan, look at this room..." Hattori Heiji turned his head to observe Conan's efforts, noticed the hotel behind him again, and then couldn't help but widen his eyes.
The old wooden walls were replaced by courtyard walls painted in soft gray-purple. In the exquisite European-style floor-to-ceiling windows, servants and housekeepers coming and going were busy setting up the dining table, as if they were preparing for a banquet.
Where they had just jumped down, the hotel windows were no longer visible, replaced by tall walls and white, tower-like towers.
At the highest point of the tower, sat a girl in a white dress.
She has long golden hair, which is tied into an exquisite hairstyle with a bright red bow. Even from such a long distance, you can clearly feel the delicacy and cuteness of this girl.
Just like the most stereotyped image of a carefree heroine in fairy tales, she was sitting sideways on the window sill, wearing shiny leather shoes on the foot hanging outside. She was obviously sitting by the window, but she seemed As if swinging, swinging his legs casually.
Everything was so dreamy, so dreamy that there was no sense of reality at all, so dreamy that Hattori Heiji couldn't help but rub his eyes to make sure he wasn't suffering from food poisoning on the road and fell into some hallucination.
"That's right? What is this, a lavender castle?"
Koshizui Nanatsuki turned his head and stared blankly at everything in front of him.
Several other detectives were just scratching their heads at the changes before them, but she was the only one who knew deeply what would happen next.
The next second, the girl sitting by the window turned around.
As if jumping off the edge of the bed lightly and deftly, the girl jumped down from the window sill without hesitation.
"Don't, don't do this——"
Koshimizu Nanatsuki, who had foreseen this scene, immediately rushed out and stretched out his hands forward, trying to catch the girl who fell from a height.
The girl's blurred face kept changing in her eyes. Sometimes her blond hair was flying upside down, sometimes as short as ear length, sometimes as two low ponytails like Xiaoxun's, sometimes as if she was hanging alone. The lady in the bedroom.
Even the fluttering white dress is constantly changing. Sometimes it is a delicate gauze skirt, sometimes it is rough linen, sometimes it is a maid's skirt wrapped in a simple apron...
Koshimi Nanatsuki felt that everything in front of her was slowing down, and a noisy heartbeat hit her eardrums.
She seemed to hear a faint whisper coming from the depths of her mind.
"Don't do this, don't... don't die, please, hold on a little longer..."
The girl who suddenly fell to the ground fell into her arms, but in an instant, she turned into flying petals and fell all over Yuesui Nanatsuki.
Like a rain, but also like a heavy hug.
Koshimizu Nanatsuki, who always had a smile on his face, knelt on the ground, raised his head blankly, and looked at the empty, gray sky, with strings of tears falling from the corners of his eyes.
The tears slid down the corners of her eyes, staining the petals that fell on her face, and turned them into a bright red color.
The sharp-eyed Conan quickly noticed that something was slowly growing under the bangs of Yuesui Nanatsuki...
(End of chapter)