"The story goes like this. During the Warring States Period in Japan, there was a child named Momonosuke. He was eight years old and a noble young master."

"This kid often takes advantage of his age to act coquettishly towards women and takes advantage of him in various ways, including asking girls to take him to take a shower, sleeping in the girls' dormitory, and lying on girls' chests to rub oil on them."

"It would be fine if this Momonosuke was simply an innocent child, but at his core he is a little pervert. He looks like a child but has the mind of an adult."

"Later, the soldiers of the nobles and the common people couldn't stand Momonosuke's actions, so they rose up one after another, and under the banner of 'Momonosuke must die', they destroyed Momonosuke's family...

"

Qin Zhibo said the "story" he had made up in his mouth. Conan was stunned for a moment and didn't understand what Qin Zhibo meant by telling this story.

Momo...nosuke?

Who is this person? Why didn’t I know that there was such a nasty kid in the history of the Warring States Period?

He looks like a child, but he has the thoughts of an adult... Why is the sentence structure of this sentence so familiar?

Just when Conan "didn't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because he was in this mountain", Mao Lilan and Yuanzi walked down the steps.

"Xiaolan, how many steps have you counted?"

"Level 12, what about you?"

"Ah?" Yuanzi took a breath and shouted, "Why did I count 13 floors? No way!"

Mao Lilan was startled and opened her mouth wide, "No way! Why?"

Hearing this, Qin Zhibo and Conan were also a little surprised.

Qin Zhibo knew that with the ghost's ability, it was impossible to do something of this level.

Conan believed that the number of steps could not be different at all.

The two men walked together again, but both concluded that the stairs were 12.

"Sister Yuanzi, didn't you count wrongly?"

Faced with Conan's question, Sonoko immediately straightened her back and retorted, "Hey! I'm already a high school student. How can I not even do such a simple calculation?"

"Maybe it's because Sister Yuanzi put her feet together when she was going up the last step, so she counted one more time?"

"Eh?" Yuanzi was stunned for a moment, "It seems like this..."

At this moment, the classroom door next to where a few people were standing was suddenly opened with great force, and half of the body leaned out.

"Hey! Can you guys please be quiet? You are affecting my painting!"

Qin Zhibo followed the gap in the open door and saw various drawing boards and plaster statues of human bodies behind the door. It seemed that this was an art classroom.

The student's name is Masao Monobe, and he is 18 years old.

"I'm really sorry~" Mao Lilan quickly bowed and apologized. The student's face softened and he closed the classroom door.

After exploring this series of supernatural events, the group finally mastered the truth about all supernatural phenomena.

"Sighing Sports Warehouse" is a sigh-like sound produced by the wind blowing through the damaged skylight.

The "library of hate" should be a prank played by someone with ulterior motives.

The "cursed staircase" does not have different steps, but everyone's way of checking the steps is different. The water under the steps may be caused by the windows not being closed properly, and the wind blowing the windows open, allowing the rain to blow in.

The three supernatural events were all reasonably explained, and Mao Lilan was relieved. She smiled and thanked Qin Zhibo: "That's great. It seems that none of this is because of hauntings. I can rest assured that I will be on duty next week."

Already."

Looking at the rejuvenated Mao Lilan, Conan smiled happily, and the corners of Qin Zhibo's mouth also raised slightly.

That would be great...

Although the behavior of this ghost is a bit strange, after walking around, it is basically certain that it is the ghost of Hideaki Hoitai that is wandering around.

Otherwise, what I saw that night would be completely inexplicable.

You can come again at night, use necromancy to summon the ghost, and then fulfill his wish casually.

Generally speaking, if you want to get rid of a ghost, the usual way is to fulfill his wishes in the earthly world.

If you are too soft, "The Secret of the Worm" also contains the "Ghost Spell" recorded by Ludwig Purin, which is a kind of magic that forcibly expels ghosts from this place.

"It's already so dark now, let's all wait for the rain outside..."

As Mao Lilan spoke, she tilted her head and looked out the window, but a look of horror suddenly appeared on her face.

"Then, what is that?"

Qin Zhibo and Conan realized something was wrong and hurried to the window to check. They saw a set of desks neatly placed in the middle of the playground, with a piece of paper pressed with a stone on the table top.

On the empty playground where the rain had just stopped, this scene looked very strange.

Yuanzi's brain immediately began to think, "Is this desk the one I just saw in the warehouse?"

How can it be!

Conan immediately gave a sharp look, turned around and ran downstairs, Qin Zhibo also ran downstairs.

Running to the desk, the two of them were sure at a glance that it was Hosaka's desk in the warehouse, because there was a Roman signature written by Hosaka on the desk.

On the desk, a piece of white paper with a torn edge was pressed down by a pebble. On the paper was written the words "I haven't taken revenge yet."

"This piece of paper wasn't even wet, which means it was brought in after the rain stopped."

"But this is strange. The soil on the ground has been soaked by the rain, but there is one very important thing that has not been left behind..."

Conan turned around and looked behind him. Qin Zhibo knew what he meant. There were no footprints here.

This is the back playground of Didan High School. The ground is soft sand. Once it gets soaked by rain, people running over will definitely leave footprints.

But at this moment, except for the fresh footprints left by Conan and himself, there were no other footprints on the playground.

Put something in the middle of the ground that can leave footprints, but leave no footprints around it. Why does this technique feel familiar?

Qin Zhibo thought about it carefully and then recalled that in the incident at a gathering of magic enthusiasts, the magician's granddaughter used an aerial sling to transport a body to the middle of the snow, achieving this magic-like technique.

However, this method obviously does not work here, because the difficulty of transporting a desk with a thin rope is obviously much more difficult than transporting a body.

What's more, this is a set of desks, including desks, chairs, and desks. Papers and stones are also placed on the desks, so there is almost no possibility of operating them through ropes.

So someone must have moved it here secretly and then used some method to remove the footprints.

...

Back upstairs, Qin Zhibo and Conan explained the situation to Mao Lilan and Yuanzi.

When the two girls heard this, their faces immediately turned pale, thinking that it must be Hideaki Hoba's soul that moved the desk, because the souls in movies and TV shows are all floating in the air, so they didn't leave any footprints.

"This statement is not correct."

Qin Zhibo shook his head calmly and said seriously: "Ghosts are not from this world after all. They are not strong enough to carry something as heavy as a desk."

"Ah——?" Yuanzi and Mao Lilan couldn't believe their ears and were stunned at the same time.

They originally thought that Qin Zhibo would explain this from the scientific perspective that it must be a prank, but they did not expect that Qin Zhibo would actually say that ghosts could not do such a thing.

It's as if ghosts really exist...that would make it scarier, right?

Conan, who was standing next to him, quickly explained categorically in order to prevent the two girls from continuing their evil ways, "This must be someone's prank~ There is no one in the school right now, so it's just convenient to do it..."

Conan's opinion was the same as Qin Zhibo's inner thoughts. It should be some kind of method to hide the footprints. It was specially chosen to be carried out after school because the probability of being seen by others was low at this time.

"But my uncle and I have returned the desks to the gymnasium warehouse to avoid causing panic to everyone."

"But the incredible sentence left by the suspect was, 'I haven't taken revenge yet'..."

ah--

As Conan was talking, screams suddenly came from the art classroom next to him.

Qin Zhibo's heart suddenly agitated, his eyes widened, and his eyes flashed with a faint light.

Side mission, here I come!

He was the first to open the door of the art classroom, but he didn't see the scene he expected.

In the art classroom, the senior boy who had just opened the door to scold a few people for talking too loudly held his head and curled up on the seat in front of the drawing board, as if he had encountered something terrible.

"Yes, it's true...those are all true..."

"Hoita Hideaki, he...is alive..."

Alive?

Upon hearing this keyword, Qin Zhibo and Conan frowned at the same time.

The boy named "Masao Monobe" was muttering to himself while trembling, as if his spirit had been severely hit.

Conan, as a newborn calf, took the initiative to step forward and asked, "Do you also recognize Hideaki Hosaka?"

His thoughts were interrupted by the childish voice, and Mononobe Masao calmed down a little. The childish eyes trembling slightly under the lens glanced in the direction of Conan.

"Yeah, but he is in the art group like me. Before he fell down the stairs two years ago, we were both in the same group..."

He was probably frightened and repeated meaningless words.

Suzuki Sonoko took a step forward and continued to ask: "Were you also there at that time?"
To be continued...