Conan: Tennis Boys' Scripted Murder

Ran Mao Li asked Tsukamoto Susumi about the legend of the warehouse.

"Ah, I've heard about this, but it has nothing to do with Yingzhang's death. He accidentally slipped down the stairs... And hasn't the legend here been explained by someone?

The windows here cannot be closed, and when the wind blows, people passing by mistakenly think it is crying, but in fact it is just the sound of ordinary wind. "

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan said in unison: "But Hideaki Hosaka's desk mysteriously appeared in the warehouse!"

The crying sound can be explained by the sound of the wind, but the sudden appearance of the desk in the warehouse cannot be refuted. It’s not that no one has tried to move the desk to other places, but every time it will come back here obediently.

"In that case, how about we go to the place where the second supernatural incident happened?"

Tsukamoto Kazumi knew that Mao Li Ran and the others would not stop looking for the cause, and was willing to follow them to investigate.

"The second place?"

"That's right, come with me little brother!"

Tsukamoto Kazumi turned and walked out of the warehouse. Everyone who came out discovered that it was drizzling. The atmosphere today was like the scene before a supernatural event in a horror movie.

Conan and his team gradually grew larger, and they met another male classmate on the way.

Tsukamoto Sumi knew this boy. When she saw him coming out of the school clinic, she couldn't help but walk up to him and asked, "Seko, why are you here? Aren't you going to school?"

"Ah, I feel a little uncomfortable today. I have to go to school now, otherwise I will be grabbed by the annoying school doctor and sent to the hospital."

After Seko Kunifuji left, Mao Lilan asked, "Schoolmate Sumi, is this also a classmate of yours and Hosaka-senpai?"

"No, he's not in our class, but he and Bao Ban grew up together as childhood friends. I heard they have a good relationship."

"So that's it."

As they were talking, they arrived at the school library.

"Sister Xiaolan, why is this place called the Library of Hate?"

Conan didn't know the details of the supernatural story and chose to ask Mouri Ran directly. Fuji Shusuke and Dr. Arata didn't know about this matter and turned to look at the person who knew the inside story.

This time, the person who explained it to them was not Mao Lilan, but Tsukamoto Sumi, "because every morning when people come to the library, they find books thrown everywhere."

"Eh?"

"Besides, the four books that were thrown out were the ones that Hideaki Hosaka had borrowed before."

Suzuki Sonoko added: "Four days, four consecutive days, four whole consecutive days! I think it must be that Mr. Baoban was unable to reread these books, so he was regretful."

Her voice was getting louder and louder, and Tsukamoto Kazumi and Mao Li Ran quickly made "hush" sounds to ask her to be quiet. All the people reading in the library were disturbed by Suzuki Sonoko, and if they didn't quiet down, they would probably come over and argue with them.

"Wouldn't the librarian notice if the book was taken out?"

"When the books were found, they were not on the bookshelf, but scattered under the desk."

"I think someone is just playing tricks on me. If I find out who did it, I will never let him off. Xiaolan, you have to help me then."

Tsukamoto Kazumi didn't know that Mouri Ran was afraid of ghosts, and thought that she was a reliable junior schoolmate in front of ghosts.

"Okay...okay."

Then they came to the last location - the cursed staircase.

The legend about the stairs is that a student came here one morning and found the bottom of the stairs was soaked with water.

Suzuki Sonoko started to associate, "This is where Hosaka Eiaki fell. Do you think the water here is his tears?"

Seeing that she was talking more and more horrifyingly, Conan interrupted her and asked, "Could it be that it was raining that day and the student on duty didn't close the window?"

"We are all high school students, how could we make such a low-level mistake? And I heard that every time you count the stairs here, you will get a different number of floors!"

"Haha, Sister Sonoko, you can count by yourself!"

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Li Ran set out together, counting the number of floors in their hearts.

Standing at the bottom of the stairs, Conan and Fuji Shusuke could tell how many floors there were at a glance.

"Xiaolan, how many layers did you count?"

"There are twelve floors in total!"

"Why did I count the thirteenth floor?!"

Hearing Suzuki Sonoko's terrified cry, Fuji Shusuke and Conan said in unison: "The correct number of floors is twelve. I think it must be that when Sonoko-san/Suzuki-san was at the top floor, she put her feet together and added another floor."

The noises made by several of them at the staircase made Monobe Masao, who was painting in the art room, open the door of the room angrily and said, "Can you be quiet? You are disturbing my creation!"

Everyone present apologized to the angry Mononobe Masao, but he slammed the door shut.

After this incident, Mao Lilan's fear dissipated a lot. "Today's investigation ends here. After listening to Conan's explanation, I am not as scared as before. Now the rain has stopped."

She looked out the window, but she didn't expect that something incredible happened there.

"Is that Hosaka Eiaki's desk? Is there a note on it?"

Hearing Mao Lilan's shout, everyone rushed to the window and saw a desk that should not have appeared on the playground.

Conan took the lead and planned to run to the table to see what was written on the note on the table. Dr. Shinide and Fuji Shusuke looked at each other and ran out together.

It had just rained and the ground in the playground was very muddy. The three of them left three different kinds of footprints on the ground.

Conan picked up the note and saw that it said "I haven't taken revenge yet."

"This table is indeed the one that belonged to Hosaka Eiaki and was placed in the gymnasium warehouse. Conan-kun, the note in your hand is not wet, right?"

"Yes, it should have been taken here after the rain stopped. But if that's the case, there's a lack of traces at the scene."

"footprint?"

"Yes, there are only footprints of the three of us here."

Fuji Shusuke and the other two returned to the teaching building with stern faces.

"So I guessed correctly, that really is Hideaki Hosaka's desk?"

"Yeah, that's the table we saw in the warehouse."

Dr. Arata told Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko what the three of them had discovered, which made the two girls even more frightened.

Whose prank is this?

"It must be a ghost! It must be the ghost of Hosaka Eiaki who moved there."

"Yes, it is said that ghosts have no feet, so they don't leave footprints on the ground!"