Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 288 Sister Bei’s request for help

"So you don't deny that you are deliberately trying to please us?" Noticing that Hongzi had unconsciously exposed her true purpose, Ishino quickly grasped the key point and asked.

"Ah, this...it's not..." Seeing that she accidentally let it slip, and was found out by the other party but couldn't find a reason to explain it, Hongzi looked struggling, hesitated for a long time, and finally said: , "Okay, I did do it on purpose! Who told me to have a good relationship with the Kasaka family? If I can make you like me, she will promise to give me double the amount of research. Funding!”

"Miss Scarlet Letter! Madam, she has repeatedly told you not to tell this matter, why did you just..." Hearing Hongzi's self-revealing speech, the old housekeeper on the side quickly reminded him, before he could stop her, "Hey, How can I explain this to Madam..."

"Just tell me how you want to." After saying these words, Hongzi seemed to have relieved all the pressure and said with a relaxed expression, "You see, Mr. Ishino has agreed to be my sponsor, and there is no point about my mother. It’s not a big deal to pick at Sosou’s pocket money.”

Having said this, Hongzi looked at Ishino with a flattering smile and said, "If my mother gets angry and kicks me out of the house, I think Mr. Ishino will not bear to see me, a poor and helpless beautiful girl, living on the street. Right?"

"Don't worry, when it comes to that, I will ask Kaito to take you in. Anyway, his house is very big. He lives alone at the moment. It won't be a big problem to have another one to stay with." Ishino immediately replied with a smile.

"Okay, I don't think your mother will kick you out just because of this kind of thing." Looking at Anko, whose face instantly turned into a red apple and stood there blankly, Ishino stopped teasing the little girl and asked , "But it seems that Mrs. Koizumi does not live with you. Isn't she in Tokyo?"

"Yes, this annex is for me to live in when I study in Tokyo, and my parents live in their hometown in Yokosuka." At this point, Hongzi said with a slightly puzzled look, "It's a bit strange to say, Originally, my mother told me that I must return to my hometown to inherit the family business after graduating from college, but she suddenly changed her tune not long ago and said that it would be okay to stay in Tokyo and develop my career if I wanted to."

"Although I don't understand what she means, Tokyo is much more fun than Yokosuka. It's natural that I don't want to go back to my hometown. One day I will let people here know my name as the 'Red Witch'. Oh~oh~oh~!”

Seeing Hongzi let out a proud laugh again, Ishizomi thought that this optimistic middle school girl was quite cute, but soon his brain began to think about the hidden information in the other person's words.

Knowing that Koizumi Anko's hometown is actually Yokosuka City, and before contacting her, Anko's mother asked her to approach and show her kindness to the Kasaka family. Ishino couldn't help but have some rough guesses in his mind, and planned to solve tonight's incident. Later, I found an opportunity to ask Grandma Yangzi about the situation of Xiaoquan's family.

Although he was unable to find out where Grace was going, he at least knew that Hongzi was not his enemy and might even be an ally. Ishino said goodbye and left the mansion after returning the perfume to her.

Just as he was thinking about the next direction of his search, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

After taking out his mobile phone and finding that it was a call from Belmode, Ishino quickly pressed the answer button and proactively asked: "Senior sister, do you have any news about Grace?"

"So you already know? Let's make the story short." Belmore on the other end of the phone suppressed his anxious mood and pretended to be calm, "Vodka just contacted me and said that Gin saw someone in the evening. He kidnapped Grace at the school gate, and now he has chased her to the vicinity of the Ekoda Museum. However, there are too many police officers nearby, and he does not want to cause too much commotion, so no further discoveries have been made yet." At this point, Bellmore said a little After a pause, he explained the reason for his call: "I'm rushing there now, but I'm afraid I won't be able to get there in a short time, so I want to ask for your help to see if I can find Grace's details with the help of the Kasaka family's intelligence network. Location."

Although he tried to maintain a calm tone as much as possible, Belmode's voice still trembled slightly uncontrollably, which made Ishino immediately understand the other person's mood at the moment.

After all, if it was not a last resort, Belmode would never let herself get involved in an incident related to the organization. Even if the only people who knew about it were her, Gin and Vodka, who were inextricably related to the Kasaka family, but There is still the possibility of exposing the relationship between the two parties.

While listening to the phone, Ishino walked back to the car through the forest. He saw three struggling owls bundled up by him in the passenger seat. He suddenly thought of the opportunity and said to the phone: "Please help me tell Ah Zhen, let me He keeps an eye out for owls, and there’s a good chance Grace is where the owls congregate!”

Hearing Ishino's name for Gin, Bellmode immediately realized that Ishino was helping them as a member of the family. He was moved and quickly agreed: "I know, I will contact him right away."

After hanging up the phone, Ishino was worried that the large number of police officers appearing nearby tonight would make wild owls afraid to approach. He also thought about how these three stupid-looking guys around him dared to come near his home in the city center. They must be the kind of idiots who are not very afraid of people, so they untied the ropes from their bodies and asked them to help find Grace.

On the other side, Gin looked at the news from Belmore, put out the cigarette in his hand and couldn't help but sneered: "Huh, you actually call me by this name, you are really a trick-taking magician, then let me Let’s see if your so-called owl magic is actually a trick!”

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At the same time, after Kaito confirmed that the gems in the bronze statue's eyes were not Pandora, he used the tried-and-tested dummy trick to distract the police and successfully escaped to the rooftop of the Ekoda Museum.

Just when Kaito relaxed his guard because he had escaped the pursuit of the police, a huge golden spider web suddenly appeared in front of him. The mysterious black figure in the center of the spider web was smiling evilly and letting out a scary laugh. .

"Welcome, Kaito...ahem!" The masked man dressed as a shadow was about to say his opening words as a villain, but because he had been chased by Gin for a long time, he was in a hurry and finally set up the trap but failed. He adjusted his breathing and finally choked on his own saliva.

Although he had already guessed the identity of this person under Qinglan's reminder, after seeing the other person's funny performance, Kaito still said with some uncertainty: "Hey, who are you, should you?" Could it be a juggler who came to watch my performance?”

(End of this chapter)