Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 32 Mischief

Ishino stood calmly in front of the armored knight, quietly waiting for the other party's response.

The opponent slowly retracted his right hand holding the sword, placed the knight sword in front of his chest, pointing the tip of the sword to the sky, and then held the sword in both hands, posing in a standard starting gesture, ready to go.

Seeing that the opponent first saluted before the duel, and then put on a stance, Ishino immediately understood the opponent's intentions, so he didn't take it too seriously, and made a confrontation posture to accept the duel.

Ishino understands that Curator Ochiai's idea of ​​carrying out the murder plan is extremely firm, but he is unwilling to kill innocent people indiscriminately, so he plans to defeat himself with a fair duel, so that he can stop meddling in his own business.

But he already has a plan to bring the other party together with the Mi Hua Art Museum, so how could he allow the other party to fall into a situation where there is no redemption.

Since this stubborn old man refuses to speak well, don't blame him for convincing others with "reason".

Seeing the man on the opposite side adopt a fighting posture that he had never seen before, curator Ochiai was a little wary, but he still took the lead and pointed at the opponent's vital point.

Even though he was wearing a full-body armor weighing tens of kilograms, Director Ochiai's straight thrust still burst out at an astonishing speed, stabbing Ishino's chest with precision.

If it was an ordinary person, they would be pierced through the heart by a long sword before they could react, and the blow would be fatal, but in Shi Ye's eyes, this blow was like a movement in the time of a bullet, without any threat.

He quickly raised his leg and kicked upwards at a speed that the opponent's naked eyes could hardly detect, and precisely kicked the sword of the long sword.

The sudden huge force caused the long sword to come out of his hand in an instant, and flew upwards, while Curator Ochiai's body in full body armor rammed straight towards Ishino due to the huge inertia.

I saw that Ishino had withdrawn his kick at this time, moved lightly, and passed the armor with a sideways move.

Just when Director Ochiai's unbalanced body was about to hit the ground heavily forward, a force suddenly came from behind his neck, grabbing his body weighing more than 100 kilograms including the armor.

He looked back suddenly, and saw that the young man was grabbing the plate armor on the back of his neck with one hand, and easily catching the long sword falling from above with the other hand. It's the wall that's hit.

"How is this possible!" Overwhelmed by the man's ghostly movement and powerful combat power, Director Ochiai finally let out an unbelievable cry.

Just when his heart was shaking, the other party raised his sword-holding right hand, lifted his faceplate lightly, and asked in a peaceful voice, "Can we have a good talk now?"

"It turned out to be you!" At this moment, because the two sides changed their positions, with the help of the faint light from the door, without the mask to cover them, Curator Ochiai finally saw the appearance of the opponent clearly, and was even more shocked.

He originally thought it would be Mori Kogoro, or the bodyguard sent by the boss of Manaka, but he didn't expect that it was Ishino who appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect it to be Mr. Ishino, you are really a fearsome young man."

After saying that, Director Ochiai stood up straight, took off the helmet and held it in his hand, and said helplessly, "Since you appeared here and deliberately lured me to take action, you must have seen through my plan."

"Now that I have been defeated by you with one blow, the plan after that will definitely be impossible to implement. I have nothing to say if you want to hand me over to the police. It's a pity that that kind of scum can't get the punishment it deserves. The museum will also cease to exist..."

"I didn't plan to call the police." Ishino promptly stopped Director Ochiai, who was caught in the prisoner's self-report, and corrected, "But I don't want the Mihua Art Museum to disappear, so why don't you listen to my thoughts?"

Facing the shocked expression of the other party, Ishino issued a reminder: "This is not a place to talk. The boss Zhenzhong who was called here by you should be here soon. Let's talk in another place."

"But before we leave, we might as well leave a surprise for Boss Zhenzhong..."

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"Ah~~~!"

A huge howl came from the passage connecting the Hell Exhibition Hall and the hall, which alarmed Conan and others who were still visiting in the art gallery.

When everyone rushed to the Hell Exhibition Hall following the sound, they saw that in the deepest part of the exhibition hall, Boss Zhenzhong was lying in a pool of blood, shouting for help, and surrounded by knight armor and long sword.

When Mori Kogoro and Conan rushed forward to check, they found that the pool of blood on the ground was just red paint, and Boss Manaka was not injured at all. I got up and slipped and knocked repeatedly.

When Boss Shinaka declared angrily that he must give the person who made such a prank a little bit of color, Conan deduced the trick of the prank through the thin wire left on the armor.

The opponent should put the paint bucket in the armor and jam it in advance, use the bracket to tilt the center of gravity of the armor to a critical point, and then connect the paint bucket with the paper strip on the wall with a thin line, and wait until the boss in the middle is going to tear the paper strip , tugging on the thin wire caused the armor to fall towards each other, and finally formed the scene they saw.

With such a simple mechanism, when Conan handed over the thin thread he found to Mori Kogoro, everyone present understood the principle of the prank trap.

Under the strong request of the furious Boss Zhenzhong, everyone checked the surveillance video of the exhibition hall together. Unfortunately, the camera was deliberately distorted by someone, and it was completely unable to record who arranged the mechanism. Everyone had to return to the scene to investigate .

When Mori Kogoro asked why Boss Manaka came here alone, after hesitating for a moment, the other party still said that he was called here by the curator Ochiai on the phone.

As for the specific reason, he refused to say more, only said that the other party had important matters to discuss, and agreed to meet at the Hell Exhibition Hall at this time.

Just when everyone began to doubt the director Ochiai, the boss of Koshinaka came out to meet him, I saw Ishino and the director Ochiai coming to the entrance of the exhibition hall side by side, talking and laughing, and looking at the puzzled people.

"Why are you all here?" Ishino walked up to Natsumi, smiled and asked Mouri, Conan and others.

"Mr. Shi, did you leave to find Director Ochiai?" Before Mori Kogoro could speak, Natsumi had already asked about Ishino's situation.

"That's right, I wanted to discuss some art design issues with Director Ochiai before, so I went to his office to chat for a long time, but I didn't expect that Director Ochiai missed the appointment time with the boss of Manaka because of his too much devotion. Come in a hurry."

Director Ochiai, who was behind Ishino, walked up to Boss Manaka, who was embarrassed and unhappy, bowed, and said apologetically, "I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting."

"Stop talking nonsense, tell me what's the matter, call me here, and make me look like this by this boring prank."

"A prank?" Curator Ochiai and Ishino looked at the crowd with doubts on their faces.

Under Conan's vivid explanation, the two finally figured out what the so-called prank was all about.

Facing the pressing question from Boss Manaka, Curator Ochiai glanced at the curious crowd with some embarrassment, walked up to Boss Manaka, and whispered a few words into his ear: "Actually, it's about the recent discovery that there is a problem in the museum. Part of the collection was stolen..."

Hearing what the other party said, Boss Manaka's complexion suddenly changed, and then he waved impatiently at Director Ochiai: "Okay, I know about this, you don't have to worry about it."

After finishing speaking, he impatiently walked towards the door, left a sentence of "really bad luck" and disappeared around the corner.

(End of this chapter)