Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

The wind and snow outside were getting heavier, making the snow-covered mountain villa with its heater seem even warmer.

The group couldn't go back for the time being, so Ms. Yonehara specially helped Ran and Sonoko notify their families so they could stay here without worry.

“But…” Ms. Sakai asked with some doubt, “Do we really have the money to rent such a luxurious villa?”

"It's alright, it's alright," Nakamura-sensei said, half-jokingly and half-seriously. "I think we should let Sugiyama-sensei, who planned this event, pay for the rent."

Just then, the doorbell rang, and the teachers exclaimed with relief that the person who was supposed to pay had finally arrived.

To everyone's surprise, when the door opened, there was a man with a gloomy face and a rather deep voice.

"Oh, you're all here?"

Ran and the others also gathered around, and Sonoko asked curiously, "Are you Sugiyama-sensei?"

"Hmph, me?" the gloomy man sneered. "My name is Mori Atsushi, just a newspaper reporter who received a lot of help from them three years ago."

Kazuma Kudo and Conan exchanged a glance. Could something crucial have happened three years ago?

Ms. Sakai asked, "How did you end up here?"

"Hmph, of course it's because I received a secret message saying that something would happen here today..." The reporter said with a gloomy face. "I was originally in my car in the woods, but the wind and snow got heavier and heavier, so I had no choice but to come here to take shelter."

As he spoke, he entered the room as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

After being stopped, he retorted, "You wouldn't want me to write in my report that 'the teachers at Beihu Elementary School are inhumane, leaving a newspaper reporter in a blizzard,' would you?"

Seeing the unpleasant expressions on their faces, the reporter snorted again: "For the sake of your reputation, I think we should try to get along."

The arrival of the gloomy reporter, Atsushi Mori, dampened everyone's spirits, especially those teachers who had been threatened. They were unwilling to stay in the first-floor living room with the reporter and left.

A short while later, Ms. Yonehara brought over a stack of clean sheets and blankets.

"Sonoko, could you help me make the beds in all the rooms? As for Ran, Edogawa-kun, and this little brother, could you go to the kitchen and see if Nakamura-sensei, who's making dinner, needs any help?"

Conan asked curiously, "Didn't Mr. Sugiyama, who hasn't arrived yet, call?"

Ms. Yonehara shook her head: "We called him, and the answering machine was on. I think he should be on his way already, right?"

Kudo Kazuma looked up at the building.

Is that so? He clearly saw an unfamiliar soul standing at the top of the stairs, staring intently at Mr. Yonehara.

It seems she is the murderer...

However, he couldn't quite remember the plot, and for a moment he couldn't recall which episode it was, so he wasn't sure if today's matter was over.

Hmm... based on experience, there shouldn't be, right?

Before Kudo Kazuma and his two companions could even finish cleaning up in the kitchen, they heard a scream.

Xiaolan suddenly became alert: "Yuanzi!"

The three of them hurriedly ran upstairs, only to find that the other empty rooms were also empty. They then went to the only room that was locked from the inside.

Xiao Lan kicked open the door and rushed inside.

"Garden!"

In the dimly lit room, Sonoko lay sprawled on the floor.

Kudo Kazuma casually turned on the room light and saw that next to Sonoko, Yonehara-sensei had also fainted on the ground.

In her panic, Ran realized that Sonoko was just asleep, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

As everyone gradually arrived, Ms. Yonehara also woke up.

"Were you attacked, Mr. Yonehara?"

"Yes, I was just making the bed when suddenly a hand reached out from behind and covered my mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and then I immediately lost consciousness..."

Kudo Kazuma gestured to the handkerchief on the ground: "It seems this is the handkerchief they used."

Ms. Shimoda picked up the handkerchief: "They often show this on TV, maybe there was some kind of anesthetic on this handkerchief."

Ms. Sakai curiously picked up the rope next to her and asked, "Where is this rope?"

"After the person falls down, they use a rope to strangle them..." Conan continued, "Look, there are strangulation marks on Sonoko's neck."

Ran looked up at Ms. Yonehara: "Then, doesn't Ms. Yonehara also have one on her neck?"

Mr. Yonehara nodded.

Kudo Kazuma raised an eyebrow and asked, "Really? But I see that the marks on Yonehara-sensei's neck are much lighter than Sonoko's; you can hardly see them unless you look closely."

Ms. Yonehara frowned slightly and said, "Because I didn't faint immediately, I struggled. Because I struggled and resisted, that guy forced my head to be slammed against the wall a few times. You see..."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and lifted her bangs to show everyone the redness and swelling on her forehead, but unexpectedly everyone looked at the back of her hand.

"what is that!"

Upon closer inspection, everyone noticed that the Japanese katakana “ミ (Romanization: mi)” written in lipstick on the back of Ms. Yonehara’s hand, while the katakana “ナ (Romanization: na)” was written on Sonoko’s hand.

“Mina, all, heh heh…” the reporter blocking the doorway chuckled in a low voice, “It means kill them all, right? I think that’s what the murderer wanted to say.”

"Fortunately, no one died this time. However, with outsiders present, I don't think you can distort the facts and cover up the incident like you did three years ago, right?"

The reporter's words immediately broke the teachers' defenses, and while they were attacking each other, Kudo Kazuma and Conan told Ran to watch the garden, then broke out of the window and chased after the footprints in the snow...

After circling half of the villa, they returned to the front gate.

After learning that the murderer might have returned to the villa, everyone guessed that it was Sugiyama-sensei, who had not yet appeared, who did it in order to scare them.

Only Kudo Kazuma shrugged – he had already absorbed Sugiyama-sensei's soul while he was in the room, who would have thought that Yonehara-sensei would stuff Sugiyama-sensei's body under the bed?

While everyone was discussing Sugiyama-sensei, Kudo Kazuma sent Ai Haibara a Bond message.

Could you help me find out if any unusual incident happened at Beika Elementary School three years ago? If it's difficult to find, could you ask Professor Agasa to look for the case files in my father's study at the Kudo residence?

He doesn't really need this kind of information, but his brother, the Grim Reaper, probably does.

A moment later, Ai Haibara replied to the message.

【it is good. 】

It's safe for now, and after a few words of discussion, everyone went back to doing their own thing.

During dinner, everyone went out to eat, but Xiaolan stayed in the room on the first floor with the sleeping Yuanzi.

After the meal, Kazuma Kudo placed his phone in front of Conan.

"I asked Ai to help me investigate what happened three years ago. You must really want to know, right?"

The phone screen showed Bond's chat interface. Upon seeing the message from Ai Haibara, Conan unconsciously frowned.

Just then, the doorbell of the villa rang.

The two male teachers jumped up almost simultaneously.

"Our music teacher has finally arrived!"

They all rushed towards the doorway.

Following behind, Kazuma Kudo tilted his head and asked Conan beside him, "With such heavy snow, how do you think that teacher got through?"

With Shimoda-sensei pulling, Sugiyama-sensei's stiff body fell to the ground with a "bang".

Kazuma Kudo shrugged.

Yes, he came back from the dead...