After expressing the importance of respecting science to Koizumi Hongzi, Qin Zhibo picked up the borrowed "Dark Magic Girl" comic and started reading it.
If Yahara Huang died unexpectedly last year, then the person most likely to have committed the crime was Hirasaka, the owner of this villa.
Even if it were not Hirasaka, as the host of the party, it would be difficult for him to break away from the relationship.
Therefore, Qin Zhibo planned to start by investigating Hirasaka to find out if there was anything suspicious about this person, and then use this as a breakthrough.
To investigate a person, especially a creator, it is best not to have a direct conversation with him or her, but to first try to understand his or her work.
What's more, in this world, a creator's works often hide real murderous motives.
For example: comics plagiarized from others.
Seeing that Qin Zhibo started reading comics, Koizumi Hongzi had no choice but to walk away boredly and sat down at the desk in the guest room to play with her tarot cards.
Kuroba Kaito saw that one of them was reading a book and the other was playing cards, neither of them taking care of himself.
Looking at the clock on the wall, he saw that it was still an hour before the seance ceremony started. Unable to rest, he decided to go out for a walk.
"Then I'll take a walk around the area and see if I can find any clues?"
"Go early and come back early."
Qin Zhibo didn't even raise his eyes and gave a fatherly reply.
Kuroba Kaito was very obedient, and replied "I know" with the unique tone of a rebellious child.
After the words fell, he pushed open the door and walked out.
When the door behind him closed, his handsome face changed into the unique mischievous smile he had before the prank.
Hehe~
Where to go first?
In fact, he said he was looking for clues, but after all, he was not a detective or investigator, he was not good at it, and he had no clue about the direction of the investigation.
After standing at the door and thinking for a while, Kuroba Kaito decided to see what the others were doing first.
First, he came to the hall at the entrance of the villa.
There is no one here. The empty hall may have no lights on to save electricity, or to set off the atmosphere of a spiritual séance tonight.
Facing this pitch-black darkness, Kuroba Kaito's Kaito's vision quickly adapted and he quickly walked through the corridor to the opposite corridor.
When we arrived at the restaurant where we had just had dinner, there was also no one there.
The lights in the restaurant were also turned off, and the dishes and chopsticks on the dining table were simply cleared away and stuffed haphazardly in the sink.
This not only looks messy, but also tends to produce odor.
"Really, you don't even need a servant to live in such a big house?"
The truly rich second generation Kuroba Kaito couldn't stand it any longer and made a casual remark.
After coming out of the restaurant, Kuroba Kaito thought for a moment. Everyone was probably staying in their rooms now, quietly waiting for the spirit seance ceremony to begin.
Instead of going to find everyone's room one by one, and since you can't directly observe the inside of the room, it's better to run directly outside the villa and open the windows one by one.
Just do it.
Kuroba Kaito sneaked out from the main entrance of the villa and came to the front of the villa. It was immediately clear which room had the lights on.
Sure enough, just as he had guessed, everyone stayed in the guest room and master room on the second floor, and no one was active on the first floor.
The building between the first and second floors has a brown convex edge that decorates the building.
Although the protruding part is not much, just the length of the sole of a foot, it is not difficult at all for him as a phantom thief who often picks up walls.
I saw him coming to the pillar next to the porch, squatting down, jumping up with all his strength, and clinging to the pillar.
Then comes the climb up.
A few seconds later, Kuroba Kaito stood on the ceiling of the porch and dusted himself off.
"Easy~"
He glanced at both sides and decided to start from the left side of the villa.
He first climbed to the roof, then ran from the roof to the far left, then climbed down from the side of the building, holding on to the wall and moving step by step to the lighted guest room window on the far left.
He carefully poked his head out and saw short-haired Wen Jingmei, one of the three girls tonight, inside the room.
Her name is...
what do you say that is?
The short-haired girl has a relatively low sense of presence. Even though they only flirted with her for less than an hour, Kuroba Kaito has already forgotten her name.
At this time, the short-haired girl was sitting at the desk in the room, holding a comic book in her hands, but her eyes were looking at the roses beside her.
This rose was given to her by Kuroba Kaito when he was doing magic in the hall.
In fact, for the convenience of preservation, this is just an extremely realistic fake rose, which is one of the commonly used props of magicians.
But the short-haired girl just stared at it dreamily, and she didn't know how long it had passed.
If Aoko Nakamori or anyone else saw this scene, they would definitely be able to tell that the girl has started to get emotional.
Maybe Nakamori Aoko would ask jealously what was going on.
And Kuroba Kaito answered in a rap way-Although I gave her roses~ I really didn’t sleep with her last night~
But in fact, such a thing cannot happen.
Because Kuroba Kaito just took a look and didn't notice anything unusual, so he moved like a bastard to the next lit room.
He came to the second room, which was the room of the blonde and wavy girl.
I forgot the name of this guy, but he seems to be a photo idol~
As a photo idol, his rank is naturally higher. He didn't care about the rose prop given by Kuroba Kaito, but was preparing to change clothes alone in front of the wardrobe mirror.
Wow!
Earn it!
Kuroba Kaito suddenly became interested, his eyes were as big as copper bells.
At this moment, he had already forgotten Qin Zhibo's teachings.
Sex is the first hurdle for a boy, what does it have to do with me, a gentleman?
However, the blond girl just put on the cloak she would wear during the next seance ceremony and posed a few poss in front of the full-length mirror.
Just putting on clothes~
It’s boring~ Just slipped away~
Not seeing the exciting scene of taking off his clothes, Kuroba Kaito immediately lost interest and continued to move forward to the window of the next room.
The lights in this room are slightly dim, but they are still on.
Kuroba Kaito raised his head and saw that the figure-obsessed fat otaku was lying on the bed, squinting and mumbling to himself at the dozen mini beautiful girl figures in front of him.
If you look closely, you will see that all of these figures are Yahara Huang's witch figures.
Forehead……
Kuroba Kaito felt that the crazy face of the fat house was a bit annoying, so he quickly skipped it.
After passing an empty room, Kuroba Kaito came to the next brightly lit room.
This is the master bedroom, which has been converted into an office.
In the office, the host Hirasaka is sitting behind the desk, and there is also a doctor man sitting on the sofa in the room.
Both of them were silent, but looked serious, as if they were thinking about something.
Kuroba Kaito observed it for a while, felt it was not interesting, and jumped over.
Continue to the right and pass by several unoccupied rooms, which is the room of the man with glasses who is a TV director by profession.
At this time, the man with glasses was crouching at his desk writing something. He seemed very focused, and he was probably dealing with work matters.
There is nothing interesting, so Kuroba Kaito continues to skip.
The owner of the next room is Qin Zhibo's room.
Qin Zhibo was lying on the bed reading comics, while Koizumi Hongzi was flipping through her tarot cards at the desk. Everything was normal for both of them.
In order to avoid being discovered by the people inside, Kuroba Kaito just passed by and took a look, then hurried over in his bastard form.
But even at this moment, Qin Zhibo in the room still had a vague feeling.
He stared at the window for a while.
But in the end, my body got lazy and did not get out of its comfortable state.
…
Outside the window, Kuroba Kaito continued to crawl along the wall.
After passing several unoccupied rooms in succession, I found that I had unknowingly arrived at the far right side of the villa.
Um?
Is this gone?
Kuroba Kaito has been counting the people he has seen in his mind. So far, including himself, there are 9 people in total, and there is still 1 person missing.
As for this person, Kuroba Kaito didn't have a deep impression of him, but he still remembered him as the yellow-haired man who was a cameraman by profession.
If the yellow-haired man is not in his room, where can he go?
Outside the villa is a dark and silent forest. Although there are no large beasts, except for the lake in the eastern suburbs in the distance, there is no scenery to enjoy nearby.
Just when Kuroba Kaito was about to go back to the building to explore more, the integrated tower on the side of the villa caught his attention.
The skylight on the red wall is open, and the convex edge extends below the skylight, so you can go over and explore it.
He continued to climb along the ledge to the right, came to the skylight, stuck his head in, and saw what was going on inside the tower.
Inside is a space with an extremely high ceiling, and there is a huge seven-pointed star pattern on the floor below.
At the seven corners of the seven-pointed star, brackets are placed respectively, and huge portrait photos are fixed on the brackets.
There is a heptagon within the seven-pointed star pattern, and within the heptagon is a purple round table painted with complex patterns.
Kuroba Kaito used the moonlight to make a distinction and found that the photos below were all of the same person, and he should be the target of tonight's seance - Yahara Huang.
"So, this is the 'meditation room'?"
After Kuroba Kaito determined the purpose of the room, he immediately felt that it was a bit interesting. He planned to go down and check it out first, just to check it out in advance.
Relying on the agility gained from his sub-professional training, he jumped directly from the nearly 4-meter-high skylight without the need for a ladder and landed calmly.
Standing up and looking around, he found that there was no difference between what he saw above.
In other words, because every picture on the bracket below is a huge photo taken by Yahara Huang during his lifetime, and every face is smiling at him, it feels a little oozing.
Kuroba Kaito walked around the room again, but didn't find anything new.
Just when he was about to leave through the door, the door handle suddenly turned and made a rattling sound.
At this moment, Kuroba Kaito was shocked.
The Kaitou bloodline in his body was instantly activated. He didn't even want to explain, so he subconsciously found a place to hide.
With a quick glance, he saw the bottom of the huge round table.
The round table was covered with a huge velvet tablecloth, the edge of which almost touched the floor, just enough to completely block him.
right here!
I saw Kuroba Kaito's body aiming under the round table and suddenly diving in. After entering, he did not forget to smooth the slightly shaking tablecloth with his backhand.
At this time, the door to the meditation room was also pushed open.
Not long after, the door was closed again, but footsteps had already broken in.
Kuroba Kaito crouched under the table, listening carefully to what was going on outside.
The visitor did not turn on the light or come near the round table, but walked straight to the poster, not knowing what he was doing.
Hearing that the people outside had taken their positions, Kuroba Kaito quietly lifted the tablecloth from under the round table and saw the back of the person coming.
Under the moonlight, a man with yellow hair was tinkering with something behind the poster.
It's him!
Kuroba Kaito immediately understood that the only yellow-haired man who was not in the room just now was the one who planned to cause trouble.
Judging from its movements, it seems that some kind of mechanism is set up on the back of the poster, and it should be intended to play a role in the subsequent spirit seance ceremony.
As for what mechanism it is, you can wait until the yellow-haired man leaves before checking it out.
In order to avoid being discovered, Kuroba Kaito put the tablecloth down again and continued to squat under the round table and wait quietly for the yellow-haired man to leave.
However, while waiting, Kuroba Kaito noticed something was wrong with the floor under his feet.
There is a height difference at the joints of the floor.
If it were an ordinary person, they might not be able to discover it.
But Kuroba Kaito is Kaitou Kidd after all, and his body's ability to perceive external information is at an absolute T1 level, so it is normal to find abnormalities.
Usually in this case, the decorator's skills are so poor that even the floor is uneven.
Or this is a floor door with a cave underneath.
Kuroba Kaito lay on the ground, took out a small tool from his arms, inserted it into the gap in the floor and clicked it to confirm that it was a floor door.
Use a small tool to pry hard, and the floor door rises slightly, and the stench of decay immediately hits your nostrils.
Well……
Kuroba Kaito almost made a sound, but fortunately he reacted in time and stopped the sound in time.
What's down here?
Why does it stink so much?
Kuroba Kaito forced himself to hold his breath, knelt on the ground with his waist bent, and slowly raised the floor.
As the floor door is raised, an incredible thing lies in the small space under the floor.
This is……
Kuroba Kaito frowned and stared for a few seconds before suddenly realizing something.
His pupils shrank instantly, and his body was in a state of extreme shock and stress, and he subconsciously wanted to stand up.
But he forgot that he was still under the round table, which was not a good place to stand up.
Bang!
There was a muffled sound, and the back of Kuroba Kaito's head collided with the table.
His head suddenly sank and he fainted.
…
Time passed minute by minute.
When the clock on the wall reached 7:50, Qin Zhibo had read all the "Dark Magic Girl" comics released so far.
In fact, if you use the [Book Investigation] skill, you can read these comics in a few minutes.
But Qin Zhibo spent some extra time to confirm whether the painting style and sentence style of each comic had changed.
There will be situations where the creator is relatively successful in the early stage of creation, but when the later stage of creation is not going well, he will leave the creative task to others.
Known as a gunman by people in the world of martial arts.
However, after browsing the comics, Qin Zhibo found no signs of this.
At this moment, Koizumi Hongzi stood up at the desk and said.
"It's almost time, it's time to gather in the lobby..."
"Um."
Qin Zhibo glanced at the time, stood up from the bed, and stretched his waist.