Conan: After teaching the protagonist, they offered their loyalty.

After Conan finished taking a shower, the spacious living room felt somewhat dull and oppressive.

Although there was exquisite food on the table, a group of people sat on the sofa with their heads down, filled with worry and fear, as well as terror and sadness.

Only Fuheishen was sitting on the sofa, propping his head up with one hand and stuffing takoyaki into his mouth with the other.

The perceptive Conan realized what was happening.

"We can't get in touch with Takahashi and Chikako right now," Kakutani said with some concern.

"Besides, didn't Ran say there were bandaged monsters outside just now? Did something happen to them?" Sonoko guessed with some lingering fear.

"Damn it, what are we supposed to do now?!" Ota Katsuichi scratched his head, and seeing Fushiguro Jinji's indifferent expression, he couldn't help but say, "Do you have any compassion at all? The situation is like this, and instead of doing something, you're just sitting there eating with an indifferent look on your face? You're such a cold-blooded and heartless guy!"

"That's really going too far," Xiaolan frowned after hearing this. "Shen'er just said he would go out to look for people, but you refused!"

After entering the house, Xiaolan explained the whole story.

Everyone was very worried. Fuheshen suggested going out to find someone, since he had already killed the bandaged monster, so they weren't afraid of another one.

But Ota Katsumi refused, saying that they should stick together and call the police.

However, it was discovered that the suspension bridge had been cut down and the telephone lines had been severed.

Panic immediately gripped them, and they said they should stick together inside the villa, in case that bandaged weirdo had accomplices or something...

"How could you say that about Shin-ge!" Sonoko couldn't help but stand up and defend her, "Ran was also attacked by the bandaged monster outside, and Shin-ge risked his life to defeat the bandaged monster and save Ran!"

Fukuro Jinji originally had no intention of explaining, but after seeing Ran and Sonoko step forward, he glanced at them briefly and said nothing.

"Ah, Rannai-chan and Sonoko-neechan are right, why don't you go find Chika-neechan and Takahashi-san?"

Conan's voice rang out from the side.

Everyone's eyes narrowed slightly, perhaps because Fuhesh was too tall.

No one saw Conan, who had just gone to take a shower, suddenly appear from there.

"If you ask me, let's go find Chikako," Ayako Suzuki said after a moment's hesitation.

A rumble of thunder sounded, and the wind outside picked up even more.

Perhaps something was stirred up.

A dark shadow flashed past the window next to us.

"Who, who's there?!" Ayako Suzuki suddenly jolted and looked out the window.

Xiaolan also shuddered and turned to look out the window.

Everyone turned their heads.

A strange, bandaged man with a ferocious expression flashed past the window, carrying Chikako who was staring wide-eyed and had her mouth agape.

"Damn it!" Kakutani rushed over and opened the window.

Katsuya Ota followed, "Damn it, it's so dark, I can't see where they ran off to."

Xiaolan said with some fear, "That bandaged monster really is a ghost."

After taking a punch from Shen Erge, he could still stand up and fly over. What else could he be but a ghost?

Fuhe Shen'er, on the other hand, sat calmly on the sofa, drinking hot tea.

The bandaged monster is gone; what happened just now must have been a prop set up by the other side beforehand.

Perhaps the wind was too strong, causing the prop to activate on its own.

At that moment, Conan fearlessly jumped out of the window and rushed out.

"Conan!" Ran was about to give chase, but Fushimi Shigeji stopped her. "There's no danger. You can rest here."

After saying that, he put down his tea, got up and followed.

Ota Katsumi and Kakutani also spoke up, "You guys lock the doors and windows here, we'll go take a look."

Fukushiro glanced at Ota Katsumi.

“Don’t look at me like that. It would be too dangerous to go out and look for them,” Ota Masaru explained. “The suspension bridge has been cut, and there are women and children with us. If we go out to look for them, they are in the dark while we are in the light, and we could easily be separated.”

“I apologize for what I just said,” Ota Katsumi continued.

The group walked forward and saw Conan standing there with a serious expression.

"What happened?" Kakutani walked forward...

His expression changed drastically upon seeing Chikako's fall.

Ota Masaru seemed to have noticed something as well. After seeing what was on the ground, he almost vomited. "Here, there's one here too!"

Fukugoro looked calmly at Chikako, who had made a mistake and kept a backup plan. "It seems the truth has come out."

Conan's lips curled up slightly. "Hey... Brother Shen, you know too, right?"

Fukuro glanced at Conan speechlessly.

Even a fool would know that, right?

There was no one else inside or outside the villa; the missing persons were Takahashi and Chikako.

Now that we know Chikako was murdered, does that mean Takahashi Futetsu must be the Bandage Monster?

No need to think about it?

“You…you…” Ota Katsu pointed at the two of them in disbelief and took a step back.

This child and that man are clearly not normal people.

He didn't want to take back his words; this man was indeed cold-blooded.

Even after Chikako's death was confirmed, he showed no wavering or emotional fluctuation.

If he's a detective, then it's normal that he's seen a lot.

The most crucial thing is that little child.

That's not indifference, that's perversion.

The moment I saw Chikako's body, I felt no nausea or disgust.

A normal child would have already cried or looked for their mother.

And this child, it was immediately clear that he was filled with interest and desire for the corpse.

Like the Grim Reaper, once they smell the scent of death, they can't wait to get close.

"What's wrong?" Conan and Fushimi Shigeji turned around at the same time.

"N-nothing." Ota Masaru took a deep breath, suppressing the question he wanted to ask.

This group of people is abnormal, and so is that high school girl with the unicorn horn.

Ota Masaru suddenly realized something: why would a normal human being have a horn on their head, which goes against science?

"Looks like Takahashi is the bandage monster." Conan's glasses flashed white light.

Kakutani, being a man of principle, intended to continue searching, but upon seeing Chikako's head, he was utterly devastated.

The group followed and searched further, eventually finding the bandaged man sprawled there with his hands behind his back, his eyes wide open, seemingly terrified of something...

After confirming that the bandaged monster was also dead, Ota Katsu and Kakutani glanced at Fushiguro Jinji with some fear.

After everyone returned to the villa.

Xiao Lan and the others had been waiting for a long time.

"How is Chikako?" Ran's heart jumped when she saw that Chikako Ikeda was not among the crowd.

“There’s no need to worry about her anymore, Lan.” Fuheshel’s face was obscured by his hair, so his expression was not visible. “She’s already dead.”

Xiaolan's expression fell. "What, what's there to be worried about?"

"What's there to worry about if you're dead?" Conan stared at Ran with some surprise.

He suspected that Lannai-chan had caught a fever from being caught in the rain, which was why she was a little out of it.

Fuheishen: "........."

He meant that there was no need to worry anymore, since the body had been found.

Conan realized something was wrong and reached out to scratch his head.

The words themselves are correct, but something feels off.