Detective Conan's Cafe Owner

Chapter 136 The Cursed Mask

maid.

In Two-dimensional, it is a cute element.

Qingming has cute maids. Naiheqiao Coffee Shop also sells maid coffee shops, so Enomoto Azusa's uniform is the maid outfit.

It's a pity that she is not a qualified maid.

Nor is it a qualified RBQ.

In addition, there is Qian who often wears maid outfits, but she is also not a qualified maid, although she does housework quite well.

So Qingming needs cuter maids.

Therefore, on the weekend, I came to the villa on the wilderness ridge.

This is the villa belonging to Su Fang Hongzi.

It was the person who invited Mori Kogoro to some kind of charity gala. He used to be a big star called "Oriental Canary".

The time is already afternoon.

When Qingming came here, someone was already here, a person with a camera taking pictures everywhere.

Not long after, Moori Kogoro, who was driving, also arrived.

Together with Xiaolan and Conan.

"Eh? Qingming?"

After getting out of the car, Xiaolan opened her eyes wide when she saw Qingming standing in front of the villa, as if she felt a little unbelievable.

"Why are you here?"

She walked up to Qingming and asked.

Because it's weird.

Su Fanghongzi invited famous people, such as famous detectives like Mori Kogoro, and famous photographers who took pictures of the villa on the side.

Qingming is not a famous person, even if he is famous, he is only famous in school, after all he never goes to school.

And still a student.

Except for coffee shops, I usually don't go to other places.

Now it's pretty good, I will go to the manor, and occasionally go to school to show my face, but I didn't even bother to open the door of the coffee shop before.

Just like the kind of young lady in the novel who doesn't leave the door and doesn't go out.

Conan also leaned over and listened curiously.

Although Hui Yuan Ai didn't say anything, he had an inexplicable feeling that perhaps what happened to Hui Yuan Ai had something to do with Qing Ming.

In his eyes, Qingming is a relatively mysterious person, and he seems to be quite capable, but he basically doesn't show much at ordinary times.

But he is very good at finding people, and his medical skills are also very good.

This has been demonstrated.

Of course, defrauding people is also very powerful. Just a Meng Po Tang Coffee has defrauded many people.

If coffee is the kind that volunteers take the bait, then Suzuki Sonoko is a typical person who was pitted by Qingming, making her parents suspect that there is something wrong with her sexual orientation.

"orchid."

Not paying attention to Conan, Qingming just showed a smile.

A sunny-looking smile.

"I'm here to find the maid."

He replied.

"You also know that the manor is a bit big, and it's too hard for Qian to work alone, so she wants to find two more maids to go back."

"Oh."

Xiaolan nodded understandingly.

Another silence.

Then he couldn't help but speak.

"Qingming."

"Ok?"

"Why do you come to this kind of place to find a maid?"

Is this kind of wilderness a place to recruit maids?And will there be a maid in this kind of place?
Well, even if there is, there is a villa here after all.

However, even if there is a maid in the villa, the owner of the villa, Su Fang Hongzi, would not hand over her maid to Qingming.

But Qingming didn't care.

"Don't worry, there will be."

Saying so, he glanced at Conan.

With the existence of this guy, the two maids will soon lose their jobs, so it's time to invite them back.

Qingming even brought the contract.

Of course, the so-called contract is just a formality, and it has no meaning to Qingming.

Just as he was talking, another car came here.

One came by car, and the other came by taxi.

Masaki Katagiri was the man who was taking pictures; the burly man who came by himself was Mamoru Matsudaira who played baseball; there was also a young girl Haruka Haruka, a fortune teller.

Coupled with the famous detective Mori Kogoro, now everyone is here.

"This house gives me a very foreboding feeling that there will be a catastrophe!"

The fortune teller who walked up to everyone said such a sentence with a blank face, which made Mori Kogoro and others look at each other in dismay.

Qingming, however, took aim at Haruka Nagara.

Not Taoist priests, witches or the like, just an ordinary person.

But being able to see this can be regarded as some skill.

Ability like divination can also be learned by ordinary people, just like a discipline, with systematic knowledge, as long as one can learn it and use it flexibly, it is not much different from a witch.

Fortune-telling is similar. Ordinary people can learn it, and if they are talented, they can get some results.

But the real core is still in the hands of Taoist priests and witches.

Ado.

This almost symmetrical house has doors on both sides.

When I was struggling with which side to enter, the doors on both sides were opened from the inside, and two almost identical maids appeared in front of everyone.

There are some subtle expressions on the face that seem to be smiling, but also not seem to be smiling.

"You are very welcome to visit us."

The two maids spoke one after the other.

"Mr. Maori and the guests you brought, please enter the house from the east entrance here to rest."

"Mr. Katagiri, Mr. Matsudaira, and Ms. Nagara, please enter the room from the west entrance here to rest."

So it's separated.

Why separate?

Because the interior of this villa is divided into east and west parts, only the masked house on the second floor connects the two sides, and when guests come over, the guests who are arranged to rest on which side have to enter from that side.

This is the rule.

If you want to say why there is such a rule...

"Because this, is the mansion where the cursed mask lives!"

……

Several guests, including Xiaolan and Conan, were invited over.

Only Qingming is not.

But others thought he was also invited, but the two maids thought he was brought by Mori Kogoro.

So successfully mixed into the villa.

This villa is full of fake faces, framed and hung on the wall, corridors, stairs, etc., can be seen everywhere.

And the place with the most masks is the Mask House.

In addition to some messy ones, there are two hundred Xiaobulu's masks, like devilish smiling faces, neatly arranged and hung on the wall.

Qingming they came here.

Xiao Bulu's mask was revealed after the multi-handed Conan pressed the remote control.

Everyone else seemed a little shocked.

Only Qingming looked at these masks thoughtfully.

Xiaolan found this out.

"Qingming, did you think of something?"

"Um……"

Qingming nodded.

He did think of a question, a question that was very important to him.

"This kind of smiling face doesn't look funny, so it should be replaced with a funny face."

"……what?"

Xiaolan didn't quite understand.

So what is going on in the mind of this strange foreign student?
Before she could ask, another person came.

The owner of this villa, Hongzi Sufang, and her secretary, Kazuyo Inaba.

By the way, Su Fang Hongzi told Mori Kogoro and the others about the origin of Xiaoburu's mask, the cursed mask, and the psychic who had been asked to seal the curse and so on.

This made Conan on the side hehehe all the time.

curse?

Psychic?
nonexistent.

At least Conan doesn't think that kind of thing exists. He is a loyal atheist. In his eyes, there is nothing that science can't explain.

If there is, it is only because it is not scientific enough.

"Human evil thoughts are more terrifying than any kind of curse."

Saying so, Kogoro Mori took out a piece of paper from his pocket.

It was found on the trunk of a dead tree that was moved to the road and almost let them install it on the way they drove here. The white paper was pasted with words cut from newspapers, books, etc. .

Others also received such a letter.

For example, a certain singer named Aichuan Fuyuya, who just arrived here, also took out a letter, and the content on it was even more interesting.

"The cursed mask will drink blood tonight, the messenger of the cursed mask!"

(End of this chapter)