Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 90 Offline Party
In a blink of an eye, the weekend came, and it was the day when members of the magic lovers chat room gathered offline.

Kaito, disguised as Doi Takaki, arrived at the agreed villa early in the morning, and met Aranoshino as the host and Shibata Kazu, a laborer who was hired by the other party to temporarily help here today.

Kaito specifically asked Ishino yesterday if he wanted to come with him as his friend, but he got the reply "I can come to the party by myself".

Just when he was curious about the identity of the other party's visit, he did not expect that Ishino, disguised as Shibata Kazu, received the temporary job earlier than the co-star named Sukama Kiyohiro, and arrived at the villa early. He even appeared in front of him without realizing it.

Following Kikue Tanaka, Toshiya Hamano, and Naoko Kuroda arriving one after another, Kogoro Mori took Ran, Sonoko, and Conan, who was suffering from a cold, across the suspension bridge to the villa soon after.

After the members of the chat group who attended the party introduced each other, the Maoli family saw a freelance reporter who had a relationship with Moon Shadow Island, and asked in surprise: "Mr. Shibata, I didn't expect you to be here, are you also Are you a magician?"

Shi Ye shook his hand with a smile and said: "I just saw on the Internet that there was an offline party for magic lovers recruiting temporary helpers, and I thought there should be something that could be written into a report, so I applied to come here to help."

Ishino then looked at the other people in the room and asked: "I believe that you don't mind if I write an article about the magic show I saw here and publish it in newspapers and magazines, right?"

"Mr. Shibata is also very interested in magic. I knew about his request before hiring him. I personally think that if you have any wonderful performances, it is very meaningful to write reports." As the owner of the villa Huang Yi helped explain.

After hearing the words of Araki Yoshino, the others also felt that there was no problem, so they agreed to Ishino's request.

Hearing the conversations of several people, Yuanzi finally recovered from the disillusionment of the "Prince Charming" dream, and realized that the mature and stable man in front of him was actually someone Xiaolan knew.

Seeing adults they knew were present, Mori Kogoro and Conan, who were worried about leaving the two girls here alone, felt a little relieved, and left the villa after asking Ishino to take care of their daughter and the garden.

Afterwards, everyone came to the living room and exchanged pleasantries and learned that there were still two members, the "Escape King" who is the leader of the group, and the "Shadow Mage" who often made dangerous remarks.

At the request of everyone, Huang Yi, the only one who knew the name and contact information of the "Escape King", called him, but found that there was no answer on the other side.

Ishino, who has been busy all the time, heard the discussion of the people in the house, and naturally knew that the "Escape King" had already been killed at home by Kikue Tanaka who was disguised as a "Shadow Mage".

However, there is no evidence that the other party killed him yet, so Ishino intends to hold back for the time being, and wait for the other party to make another move to make a final decision and win the game.

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When everyone in the villa temporarily put aside the two people who were not present and went back to their rooms to rest, Mori Kogoro and Conan, who were on their way home, learned from the car radio that Misato Nishiyama was planning to attend the party of magic lovers. , the news that he was killed at home by a guy who called himself "Shadow Mage".

Knowing that something bad happened, the two immediately turned around and rushed back to the villa. Unfortunately, when they reached the suspension bridge, the suspension bridge was already crumbling due to the fire.

Conan, who was extremely worried about Xiaolan's safety, ignored Mori Kogoro's dissuasion, and rushed to the burning suspension bridge without hesitation, and successfully reached the other side when the suspension bridge was about to break.

Maoli, who stayed on the other side of the canyon, had no choice but to turn back to the police station at the foot of the mountain to call the police, and contacted police officer Megure, hoping that the police would send a rescue team as soon as possible.

Due to heavy snow closing the mountain, Police Officer Megure discussed various options with the rescue department, and finally decided to send a helicopter to the Snow Mountain Villa after dawn tomorrow. Although Kogoro Mori was very anxious about this, he could only accept it.

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Ishino, who has been quietly paying attention to the direction of the suspension bridge, began to pay attention to whether Conan would return here according to the inertia of the plot development when he saw a faint fire coming from a distance.

When he saw Conan's small figure appearing not far from the villa in the dark night, struggling to move his feet, he immediately walked out of the villa, and carried him back to the house when the other party was about to collapse from a high fever .

When Xiaolan and Yuanzi got the news and rushed to the guest room, Conan had already fallen into a deep sleep under the effect of the anesthetic that Ishino carried with him.

"What's going on, why did Conan appear here?" Xiaolan ran to the bed and asked anxiously looking at Conan who was unconscious and sweating profusely.

"When I was cleaning the living room just now, I saw someone outside the window. When I opened the door, I saw Conan-kun collapsed in the snow, so I immediately carried him back to the room."

Shi Ye signaled Xiaolan not to be nervous, and then said, "Don't worry, I've already fed him antipyretics, and he should get better soon."

Hearing this, Xiaolan and Yuanzi's rather anxious expressions eased, while Kaito, who was about to go back to the room to get the antipyretics, paused, and walked back behind everyone in embarrassment, looking at Ishino's face with searching eyes. back view.

Afterwards, everyone speculated that Conan turned back alone because he wanted to stay here overnight, leaving Xiaolan alone to take care of him, and the rest returned to the living room to prepare for the scheduled party.

Since the group leader "Escape King" who was in charge of the event arrangement did not come, it was decided to adopt Hamano Toshiya's proposal and use magic to assign everyone's tasks.

Watching Toshiya Hamano and Kikue Tanaka's oboe performance, Ishino felt that it was not so much magic as it was just a child's game, which really didn't interest him.

Kaito, who is also not very interested, intends to go forward and open the card to reveal the answer, but Hamano Toshiya stops his action aloud, making a mysterious gesture, saying that his prophecy will reveal the answer.

Hamano Toshiya pointed to the symbols Sonoko blindly wrote on the card, and successfully "predicted" Naoko Kuroda, the acting director, and Kikue Tanaka, who was in charge of boiling water. The two had no choice but to leave first to take charge of the tasks they needed to undertake.

Hamano Toshiya finally pointed to the card representing the person in charge of the sideshow, and said the name of Doi Takeki, but to his surprise, the name behind the card was not Doi Takeki, but himself.

Just after he went back to his room wondering how to design the program, Ishino said that as a reporter, he was a little interested in the magic technique just now, and planned to talk to Mr. Hamano first, and then come back to make dinner.

(End of this chapter)