Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

The cold wind was blowing, blowing up the remaining snow on the edge of the ski resort. The red warning lights of the ambulance flickered in the twilight, like uneasy notes beating in this cold and tense atmosphere.

Yuan Tai's eyes widened: "The head is still bleeding!"

Ayumi clasped her hands together and prayed quietly, "Is everything going to be alright?"

Huihara Ai walked quickly behind the three kids and said in a hurried tone, "How can he be okay? The recoil of the car hitting the tree caused the front windshield to hit him hard on the head. He is unconscious and in critical condition. If he had been wearing a seat belt, he might have only suffered minor injuries."

Mitsuhiko frowned and asked anxiously, "Why didn't he wear a seat belt?"

Kudo Yuki winked at Conan, motioning him to explain.

Conan crossed his arms in front of his chest, narrowed his eyes slightly, and tilted his head towards the direction of the accident vehicle: "That kind of old car was not equipped with seat belts when it was produced and sold, but it still passed the vehicle inspection. Not wearing a seat belt when driving is also considered a violation of traffic regulations. Am I right? Officer Uehara Yui?"

Officer Yui nodded in confirmation, "Yes."

The three little ones instantly became depressed and began to observe a moment of silence.

“It’s really worrying.”

"That big brother is a very nice person."

"And he showed us his badge."

Conan's mouth twitched, and he said helplessly: "Hey, hey, he's not dead yet."

The snow crunched under the police boots as Officer Yamato and Morobushi Takaaki hurried over.

"And then? What happened? Little devil."

"You called us here as well...it shouldn't just be a traffic accident, right?"

Conan quickly gathered his thoughts and narrated what had happened.

Upon hearing this, Officer Yamato couldn't help but raise his voice and ask, "While the car was moving, the driver's right arm suddenly caught fire? Did you really see it clearly?"

The three little ones said seriously: "That's true!"

Ai Huihara pointed at the car and added, "I saw Mr. Yuta was frightened by the flames and lost control of the steering wheel, which led to the crash into the tree."

Officer Yui bent down slightly, glanced at the children one by one, and asked softly, "So, it wasn't Mr. Yuta who started the fire himself?"

"I saw it with my own eyes, it's true." Kudo Yuki subconsciously straightened her back with a solemn expression.

Zhu Fu Gaoming paced and turned around, looking at Conan, and said in a serious tone: "What was the trigger for this incident?"

"That car was originally following the car that had the accident, and the accident happened after it restarted." Conan turned his head to look at the three people not far away, "For the details, let's ask the three people in the commercial vehicle."

Officer Yui and Morobushi Takaaki walked towards them to investigate.

Nanjo Kaori stepped forward first, looking a little nervous, and said quickly: "Just like the children and this lady said. We drove to the restaurant, and after the business car passed Yuta's car, his right arm suddenly caught fire."

Officer Yui frowned slightly: "How can you be sure it's the right arm?"

"Yuta has the habit of sticking his right arm out of the window when driving." Kaori lowered her head and stared at the snow, the tip of her shoes unconsciously crushing the gravel.

Zhu Fu Gao Ming suddenly took a half step closer, his voice suddenly lowered, his eyes fixed on Kasai Nanayou: "Why do you want to overtake?"

Kasai Nanayu looked a little embarrassed, and subconsciously covered his abdomen with his hands: "I have a stomachache, and I want to go to the station bathroom first. I wanted to pass by and tell Yuta, but I couldn't hold it anymore, so I passed by directly."

Zhu Fu Gaoming pressed on: "Do you know why your stomach hurts?"

Ito Tamaki bit her lip, her eyes reddened, and her voice was filled with regret: "It's my fault. I like to eat ice cream in a hot air-conditioned room. I bought too much, and Qiyou wanted to eat some, so I shared it with him."

Officer Yamato stared at Kasai Nanasuke with a stern look in his eyes: "Don't you need to go to the bathroom?"

Kasai Nanayu smiled bitterly, with a hint of embarrassment in his smile, and pointed his thumb weakly at the woods: "If you really can't hold it in any longer, just do it in the woods ahead."

The three little ones came over at this time.

"The one who started the fire... might be a monster!"

“Yes, it’s the ‘Lamp of the Dead’. The souls of the deceased will light candles or incense!”

"I heard that you can dodge it by putting your shoes on your head!"

Officer Yamato looked confused: "Shoes on your head?"

Mitsuhiko looked at Nanjo Kaori and asked, "You filmed the experiment video, right?"

"Yes." Nanjo Kaori wondered in her heart: [I have never done the experiment on shoes.]

Ito Tamaki pursed her lips slightly, with a hint of worry in her eyes: "We have opened a channel on social media called 'Haunted Locations Gift'."

Kasai Nanayu looked solemn as he recalled: "We were doing an experiment to summon the soul of our friend Kenhiko who died in the fire."

Nanjo Kaori frowned, her eyes full of anxiety: "Test whether the deceased's spirit lamp is real or fake."

Officer Yamato and Morobushi Takaaki looked at each other, their faces filled with helplessness.

"You guys use your deceased friends as the subject of your video?"

"This is so inappropriate."

Nanjo Kaori waved her hands hastily, and said anxiously, "Yes, we also think it's inappropriate. Although we took a video, we don't plan to release it."

"The spirit lamp of the deceased really appeared. Look at this video!" Kasai Nanasuke hurriedly picked up the camera, found the video, and handed it to everyone with both hands.

After the video was played, Officer Yamato and Morobushi Takaaki were shocked.

"Indeed...it seems like spontaneous combustion."

"That's weird."

Kasai Nanayu excitedly echoed: "Right, right?"

The corners of Kudo Yuki's mouth rose slightly, she remained silent, thinking secretly in her heart.

Ito Tamaki frowned and suddenly said, "Then smoke came out of Kaori's back as well."

Nanjo Kaori nodded quickly: "Yes, the back of my coat is burnt."

Officer Yui's eyes lit up and he asked, "Really? Is there a video?"

Kasai Nanayu's expression froze and he closed the camera: "It happened suddenly... I didn't capture it."

Mitsuhiko suddenly ran over with his phone in hand: "I took it! I took it with my phone."

"Ah?" Officer Yui was surprised and happy.

Mitsuhiko was looking through the video and said, "I had a feeling something was going to happen. Although I filmed it a little late, this is the video from that time."

He handed the phone to three Nagano prefectural police officers.

A few minutes later, Officer Yamato turned his head sharply, and looked at Kasai Nanayu with a dagger-like gaze: "You had a quarrel with Yuta."

Kasai Nanayu looked flustered and waved his hands quickly: "It was just a few words... We have known each other since childhood, and it is normal to quarrel occasionally. Kenhiko, who died in the fire, had a sister, Kaori, who was one year younger than us. We were classmates from elementary school to high school."

Zhufushi Gaoming stepped forward and stared at Kasai Nanayou: "Tell me in detail how Mr. Jianyan died in the fire."

When Ito Huanji heard this, her eyes trembled violently.

Kudo Yuki lowered her eyes to hide the sharpness in her eyes, and her index finger unconsciously stroked the soft fur of Shushu in her pocket. She thought to herself: [Sure enough, it is related to her boyfriend's death.]

While everyone was paying attention to Kasai Nanayou, she silently said in her heart: [Sign in.]

"Ding, congratulations to Xiaoxue for signing in successfully today and getting +1000 mall points and Lingyuanlu.

The current mall points are 6500, and the system space contains: Healing Elixir, Winery Status Information, Winery Location Map, and Listening to the Abyss. Please continue to sign in daily, Xiaoxue."

The system voice then announced: "Lingyuanlu can dig deep into the hidden causes of the case and restore key evidence."

Shushu's chubby little paw suddenly touched it, and the Lingyuanlu item he had just obtained disappeared instantly.

Kudo Yuki was startled and looked down at the rat in her pocket, her eyes full of confusion.

Shushu scratched his little head and said with a smile: "Xiaoxue, when I was eating pine nuts, I accidentally changed the props I used to touch them with my hands."

Kudo Yuki sighed helplessly, poked Shushu's belly with her finger, and scolded him through telepathy: "Next time you change the settings, I will send you to the pet hospital to check your IQ."

Shushu rolled around in his pocket, his furry tail entwined around Kudo Yuki's fingers, and he kept shouting, "Just this once! The Lingyuanlu is a powerful tool, maybe it can help us find the real culprit!"

It patted Kudo Yuki's palm with its chubby little paw and said, "Look, those three people over there are going to explain what happened!"

Kudo Yuki looked up and saw Kasai Nanayuu with a serious expression. He spoke slowly, "It was three months ago, on a particularly cold day..."

"Everyone come to Nagano to shoot on location." Ito Tamaki also fell into memories.

Nanjo Kaori was sad: "Because the theme of this haunted site tour is the legend of the nearby 'Lamp of the Dead'."

Ito Tamaki took out her sunglasses from her pocket and put them on: "On the night of our arrival, we drank in the guesthouse we booked."

Nanjo Kaori confided, “Hime Tamaki got drunk first and then fell asleep.”

Kasai Nanayu's voice trembled slightly, and fear still remained in his eyes: "That day, Kaori, Yuta, and I were picking out wine at a convenience store. Suddenly, there was a violent shaking, and the bottles on the shelf fell down with a crackling sound. When the earthquake subsided a little, we ran to the B&B like crazy..."

Nanjo Kaori's eyes were red and her voice was choked with sobs: "We could see the flames rising into the sky from afar. The heat wave could burn people's skin from a long distance. Yuta was standing on the roadside holding the unconscious Tamaki. He was covered in blood and his voice was hoarse: 'Kenhiko is still inside!' But the fire was too big and they couldn't get in at all..."

After hearing this, Ito Tamaki's eyebrows twitched slightly, and to outsiders she looked sad: "Afterwards, we asked Yuta and he said he looked for Jianyan, but didn't find him."

Officer Yui added: "It seems like he was crushed under the fallen sideboard."

Officer Yamato looked at the three of them and said, "Please let us have a look at your belongings. After that, we can send you to the hospital where Mr. Yuta is."

Officer Yamato spread the cloth flat on the snow and placed the ice spike crutch next to it.

The siblings and the Nagano trio came closer to take a closer look.

Officer Yamato squatted down and said, "First, Mr. Kasai Nanayu, wallet, tissues, handkerchief, cell phone, car keys, house keys, cigarettes, matches and portable ashtray."

Zhufu Gaoming also squatted down and glanced at Kasai Nanayou: "It's rare to see people carrying matches nowadays."

"I bought it at the rest stop at noon!" Kasai Nanayuu was a little confused, "I originally brought an electronic lighter with me, but I don't know where it fell."

Officer Yui asked, "Is an electronic lighter the one that lights a cigarette without making any sound?"

"Yeah, I can't fix the child lock on the lighter I bought at the 100-yen store."

Officer Yamato asked, "Is this all? Is there anything hidden in the car?"

"Yeah... only the coffee cup I drink from while driving is inserted in the cup holder next to the driver's seat."

Officer Yamato nodded. "Then, next! Miss Ito Tamaki."

"Okay." Ito Tamaki held the bag with both hands and placed all her belongings on the cloth.

"Wallet, handkerchief, tissue, mini thermos, a makeup kit, cell phone, charger, key bag and wallet..."

"Hmm?" Kudo Yuki lowered her head, picked up the laser pen at the edge, pressed the button, and the laser shot out. "It looks like the powerful ones made abroad."

"that is……"

Mitsuhiko interrupted, "That's what Miss Huanji always uses when she visits haunted places! Miss Huanji is very timid, so she uses a laser pen to illuminate places that are far away!"

Officer Yui picked up the wallet and started searching: "Your wallet clearly has a place for change, why do you need to bring a coin purse?"

“Ah, that’s because…”

Ito Tamaki was about to explain, but Mitsuhiko answered first: "Ms. Tamaki likes gashapon machines very much. In order to be able to play them immediately wherever you go, you save a lot of 100 yen coins. Right?"

Nanjo Kaori sighed: "This child knows so much."

"Yes."

Kudo Yuki turned off the laser pen and put it back, but her fingertips stayed on the coin purse for a few more seconds, repeatedly stroking the neatly arranged 100-yen coins inside. Her pupils suddenly shrank slightly, as if she had captured some key information, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised a faint arc.

Conan noticed something was wrong with his sister, so he quickly approached her, grabbed her sleeve, and lowered his voice: "Sister, do you know how to commit the crime?"

Kudo Yuki put her index finger to her lips to keep quiet, her eyes swept over the suspect not far away, and her tone was a little mysterious: "It's just a bold guess, but... the evidence is in these personal belongings."

She looked at Kasai Nanasuke's matches and Ito Tamaki's laser pen intentionally or unintentionally, and a gleam of light flashed in her eyes.

Conan wanted to ask more questions, but Kudo Yuki suddenly stood up, her eyes fixed on the piece of cloth that was filled with her personal belongings.

Officer Yamato looked down at the items: "Finally, it's Miss Nanjo Kaori."

"Good, good."

"Wallet, tissues, handkerchiefs, eye drops, a makeup kit, cell phone, headphones, my own keys, power bank, and disinfectant gel."

Officer Yamato's eyes swept across the spread-out items, his fingertips pausing on the disinfectant gel: "Is the ethanol content so high?"

Conan stared at Kaori's fingers that suddenly tightened and asked loudly, "Do you use this often?"

"Yeah." Nanjo Kaori subconsciously avoided the sight of Kasai Nanayuu and Ito Tamaki, and said in a muffled voice, "I have a bit of a mysophobia, and I often lend it to them."

Officer Yui brought the transparent bag to her and asked, "Where's the burnt phone in the plastic bag?"

"This was returned to me by the Nagano Prefecture police today. It's a relic of my brother Kenhiko." Nanjo Kaori took the phone in her hand, opened the screen and searched, "Because this phone... still has this photo."

Takaaki Morobushi and Officer Yamato stood up and looked at the photos.

To be continued...