Conan’s World Stand-in: Chapter 15 A substitute again?

"So, you are also investigating the so-called 'spiritual events' on campus?"

Kudo Shinichi and the others are also investigating the so-called "spiritual incident". It is said that because Xiaolan will come to school early next week to be a student on duty, but she is unexpectedly afraid of ghosts or something, so Kudo Shinichi helped to investigate.

Sonoko got together because he and the two of them were good friends, and the other short-haired girl they met during the investigation. She is currently in the third grade and is called Tsukamoto Sumimi.

I heard that she used to be in the same class as Hideaki Hosaka, the student who died in "Sighs in the Sports Warehouse", "Tears in the Staircase" and "Library with Hate", one of the protagonists of the supernatural legends. The leader of Xiaolan, the senior of Xiaolan.

Kudo Shinichi also introduced Guan Dounan to a few people, but he didn't say anything else, only that the two met by chance.

"We just went to that sports warehouse before. There is indeed Hosaka Hideaki's desk there. Although it has already fallen to a thick layer of dust, his signature can still be seen in the corner." Xiaolan said, " However, Miss Shumei said it was just a rumor."

"The so-called sigh is actually just the sound of the skylight being blown by the wind. I don't know when the lock of the skylight broke, and the janitors have been lazy and have not repaired it, which led to the rumors. ." Tsukamoto Sumimi with short hair said, "Then we will come to this library here to investigate the so-called 'hateful library' and see what rumors are spread."

"So, is there a result?"

"It must be some kind of boring person who wants to scare everyone with supernatural events. He actually used a dead classmate as a rumor. If you let me know, I will give him a hard blow." Tsukamoto Sumimi waved towards the air. With a punch, Guan Dounan seemed to hear a faint sonic boom near her fist.

"…"

Is this also a stand-in attack? No, it seems that these sisters are practicing Ripple Qigong, and they have double A in force and speed.

"When the time comes, Xiaolan, you have to help me too."

"Ah, I think, senpai, you should be enough alone..."

"Speaking of which, this should be the stairwell where the 'tears in the stairwell' are located?" Guan Dounan tapped with his foot the stairwell where a few people are standing now. Speaking of what's in front of the art department's activity room...

"So handsome...Ah, I mean, it's like, oh, it's like it's under the stairs here..." Sonoko crouched down and looked at the ground that seemed to be all right now, "I heard that one day early in the morning, someone Here, I found a puddle of water that was not dry, but the windows were closed, and there was no leakage or rain. Could it be that Hideaki Hosaka's soul is crying..."

Yuanzi's performance was a little exaggerated, and Guan Dounan and Kudo Shinichi frowned.

"Maybe it's just someone who accidentally spilled a little water here..."

"However, it was already early in the morning of the next day. If someone sprinkled water last night, it would have been killed no matter what happened overnight."

"may be because…"

"I said you guys, can you speak in a low voice, it's very noisy!"

The sliding door of the activity room of the Art Department on the third floor above the stairwell was suddenly opened, and a boy wearing glasses held an oil paintbrush in one hand and said angrily.

"Ah, sorry, we'll pay attention..."

When the man with glasses closed the door, Guan Dounan noticed that there was another person in the activity room of the art department. From the back, it should be a girl who was drawing a sketch.

For some reason, the back of this girl seems a little familiar... This is very abnormal, because Guan Dounan has only been a little over a day now, and he knows only a handful of people in the literal sense. How could this happen? The bizarre familiarity?

However, when he was about to use the ability brought by the stand-in to recall, Mao Lilan, who was next to him, seemed to have found something terrible and screamed.

"That, that is!" Looking at the sound, Xiao Lan was pointing at something in the center of the playground, her fingers still shaking. And the location she was pointing to was supposed to be empty on the muddy playground just after the rain, but at this time a student desk suddenly appeared.

There seems to be a piece of paper on the table, which is gradually deforming in the wind, but it was pressed by the heavy object and did not fly out for the time being.

"Is that desk the one we saw just now?"

"Hosaka Hideaki..."

Kudo Shinichi whispered, turned and rushed downstairs, he wanted to see what was written on the piece of paper before the wind blew away. Guan Dounan hesitated for a moment, then followed.

At this time, it is a theoretically "reasonable" response to follow.

If it had been before, he would probably have thought of it as a so-called "impossible crime" illusion created by some ingenious technique. But now, he suspects that there are avatars or other superpowers involved in this matter, so he has to go and see for himself.

Is it the work of 30% of the people? The action of "moving the table" was made in advance, just started, so there will be no footprints... No, his ability can't leave no traces.

After changing their shoes, they ran into the playground, leaving two lines of clear footprints on the mud. The two came to the desk one after the other and read the content on the paper.

"My revenge is not over yet..."

"Senior Guan, have you noticed?" Kudo Shinichi said with a serious expression looking at the piece of paper.

"Well, the paper is dry, and it wasn't wet by the rain at all." Guan Dounan nodded. If the paper wasn't wet, it meant that it should have been placed on the desk after the rain stopped. Come on, without the re-washing of the rain, there should be clear footprints left in the mud.

But the desk stood solitary in the middle of the playground, with no footprints beside it, as if someone was floating from the sky and placed the desk here.

"Is this the same as the 'superpower' you performed?" Kudo Shinichi stared at Guan Dounan's face, trying to see any flaws in his expression.

"Maybe, maybe not... I can't be sure for the time being." Guan Dounan shook his head, there is too little information now, Xiao Hei has no inspiration, and the effect of forcibly activating the ability is not expected to be ideal.

"In short, let's move this desk back to the sports warehouse first." Kudo Shinichi confirmed that Guan Dounan was not lying, checked the desk, and there was nothing unusual, so he and Guan Dounan moved the desk again. Walk. After all, if someone really created these supernatural events, then he must want to cause panic, and it is best to avoid such things from happening.

"Come with me, I'll do an experiment."

Guan Dounan was led around by Kudo Shinichi and came to a relatively hidden place. After confirming that there was no other person or surveillance around, Guan Dounan summoned the stand-in Xiao Hei again and made it crouch down and stand on top of it.

Of course, in Kudo Shin's eyes, he was suspended in mid-air once again, and there was no trace of the soil under his feet, not even a slight deformation.

"It's still the same, I can't find any traces at all... How on earth did you do it?" Kudo Shinichi reached out and probed the space under his feet, but he couldn't touch anything. He even poked the ground with his fingers. , with nothing but a hand of mud.

"I can only say that my method is feasible, but it is not the only way. Because it has no way to block the rain, it cannot guarantee that the paper and the tabletop are dry."

Guan Dounan stepped back on the ground again, and said cautiously, after all, he couldn't be sure what the abilities of the other stand-in messengers might exist.

"Really... The only people who would do this kind of thing are those who are relatively close to Hosaka Hideaki, such as Tsukamoto-senpai, Seko-senpai I met on the road, and other students, will there be related people? It should be possible. Ask Tsukamoto-senpai."

"Then, without further ado, let's go now."

"No, I still want to investigate the playground area where I found the desk... Senior, can you help me find Tsukamoto-senpai and the others, and let Seko-senpai come over by the way? If nothing else, he should be sleeping in the infirmary. ."

"All right."

…

Going back to the stairwell, Xiao Lan and the others were anxiously waiting next to the activity room of the Art Department above, probably because they felt that there was a classroom next to them that would be more reassuring. Guan Dounan was about to go upstairs, but his feet slipped unexpectedly, and he almost lost his footing.

"This is... wax?"

A thin transparent layer of wax seemed to have been applied to the side of the stairs and steps, extending to the wall below the small closet with a small fire extinguisher next to it. Guan Dounan looked at the traces of wax, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

"Senior Guan, what are you looking at?" Sonoko, who has been following the handsome guy, couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing, I suddenly thought of something..." Guan Dounan clapped his hands and stood up, explaining the situation to Xiaolan and the others.

"If there is someone who is related to Hosaka Hideaki, the one who came out just now is that he and Hosaka were both members of the art department." Tsukamoto pointed to the activity room of the art department behind him, "and then in the infirmary. Seko Kunifan, I heard that he and Hosaka are children."

"In this way, the most suspicious person is Senior Segu. After all, we were standing in front of the activity room just now, and the senior who was painting didn't have time to move the table." Xiao Lan said.

"It's not necessarily. If he has a way to set up some kind of mechanism here, then he appeared in front of us just now, maybe he deliberately created an alibi for himself." Tsukamoto Sumimi disagreed.

"Hey, I can hear what you are talking about!" Saying who was coming, the man in glasses who opened the door before angrily opened the door of the activity room, "What agency, what alibi, do you think I'm a prisoner? Yet?"

"Well...not really, actually..."

Guan Dounan was thinking about how to explain it well to this guy, but his eyes drifted into the art activity room, and he saw a girl who seemed to straighten up suddenly because she heard her own voice.

Some rustic low double ponytails, small stature, and the two moon accessories on the hair rope. With the blessing of the stand-in ability, Guan Dounan suddenly remembered the back of this girl.

This is the first time in the video obtained by [Reflection], the girl who gave herself first aid and was also rumored to be a stalker.