Conan’s Corpse Picker

Suzuki Sonoko was startled: "A threatening letter?"

  She thought belatedly: "It turns out that Jiang Xia came here because of this. I almost forgot."

Maya Hashimoto: "..." Hey, he asked questions knowingly and pretended to be naive. Could it be that he wanted to use this method to strengthen her innocent image in Jiang Xia's mind?

 The detective seems to have no idea about the sinister intentions of the female high school student.

 Jiang Xia heard Suzuki Sonoko's question and nodded under Maya Hashimoto's complicated eyes: "The letter said that before the end of the festival, Tatsuma Seimaru's life would be taken away, and the signature was 'Cursed Samurai'."

"It's a samurai again." Suzuki Sonoko buried her head in her rice. "It seems that the murderer must be someone from this village. Why do they have such a soft spot for samurai?"

Tatsuma Seimaru snorted coldly: "It must be my 'good big brother', Tatsumi Ryuunosuke."

He looked at Jiang Xia: "Hey, keep an eye on him these days. That guy was the son of my stepfather and his previous wife. He has no blood relationship with me. If he takes action, he will not be lenient."

Jiang Xia: "I remember that he also has a younger brother and a younger sister. Are those two people related to you by blood?"

Xunzhengwan: "...Well, that's not the case."

However, one of the two people is a fool and the other is a middle-aged girl. They don't look like the murderer. And even if he died, it would not be his brother and sister's turn to succeed him, so his motivation would naturally be low.

Xinshengmaru got angry when he thought of the three so-called "orthodox" brothers and sisters: "Eight years ago, after the head of the family's ex-wife passed away, my mother was attracted by him and became the step-in-law of this family - even if she is a step-in-law, she is A serious lady, and my mother has taken care of him for eight years, but those three guys never took my mother and me seriously, thinking that we were outsiders."

Speaking of this, he showed a sneer while being angry: "So now, my father has left me the position of head of the family, and they are anxious."

Suzuki Sonoko sat next to Jiang Xia, eating rice and listening to the gossip: "..." He actually left the position of the head of the family to a child who has no blood relationship at all. This Tatsuma Seimaru doesn't seem to be a genius who can lead the Tatsumi family to glory. How unreliable are the three brothers and sisters for the head of the family to make such a decision?

  She suddenly became curious about the three people.

Tatsuma Seimaru thought more and more: "Last week, when the lawyer came with the will to announce it, Ryuunosuke was extremely arrogant, saying that when he became the head of the family, he would kick us mother and son out immediately, and urged the lawyer to hurry up. Opening the envelope, the result - haha! The contents of that will actually stated that all the property of the Xun family and the position of the head of the family would be inherited by me!

“The suicide note will take effect immediately after this year’s Samurai Festival. Ryunosuke rushed towards me at that time, grabbed my neck and tried to strangle me to death - if there weren’t so many people at the time, he might have succeeded.

“Since then, strange things have continued to happen around my mother and me, plus the threatening letter...My mother didn’t want to sit still and wait for death, so she took me to Tokyo.”

 An ancient family feud left a group of Tokyo citizens speechless.

 Fortunately, the detective was well-informed and quickly got into work. Jiang Xia asked Tatsuma Seimaru: "What exactly is going on in this festival?"

Tatsumi Seimaru: "It's the samurai festival held every year in the village. When you went out just now, you should have seen some lanterns from a distance. Those lanterns were lit because of the festival. Usually it's not so lively here at night."

Mao Lilan shuddered quietly: "..." Do you call this "lively"?

Tatsuma Seimaru didn't think his words were strange. He said to Jiang Xia: "You have been keeping an eye on my **** brother these days and followed him every step of the way! When the festival is over and I get all the power, I will kick him out immediately."

Jiang Xia looked at the unlucky client and thought of the delicious cadres he met these days. He hesitated for a moment and said: "If I were you, I would sleep on the floor in the lobby with five or six people all the time. Together, with people coming and going like this, no one can plot against us."

Xun Zhengmaru snorted coldly: "I've protected myself, so what else do I need from you? It's just free food. Anyway, if you keep an eye on Ryunosuke, I'll be safe."

 He gets angry whenever he mentions that **** brother. I was so angry that I didn't want to eat anymore. I pushed the table and got up to go out. At this moment, a frightened scream of "Ah—!" came from a nearby room.

  “?!”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, Conan fled out.

Jiang Xia also followed immediately. After the two detectives ran away, the others came to their senses and followed them out of fear and curiosity.

Following the sound, I walked through the corridor and came to the side room. I saw Mrs. Xun opening the door in horror and crawling to the corridor with weak legs. Next to her was the doctor, who also looked frightened and turned pale.

Hearing someone approaching, Mrs. Xun grasped a life-saving straw and hugged Jiang Xia's legs: "The curse... the curse warrior... the curse warrior mentioned in the threatening letter came to the door!"

Jiang Xia looked past them into the house and saw a figure reflected on the barrier leading to the yard opposite.

Shoji is a push-pull paper door commonly used in old-style Japanese-style buildings. Such doors are also found everywhere in the old houses of the Xun family.

At this time, the door was closed, and a man wearing armor and dressed as a warrior stood outside the door. The lantern in the courtyard cast his shadow on the door.

The man held a long knife in his hand, and he slashed a gap more than one meter long in the barrier. A ferocious eye could be seen through the gap.

 “Mom! Mom, are you okay?” Xun Zhengmaru also rushed over.

There was chaos for a while, but by the time Mrs. Sundan and the doctor rushed over to open the barrier, there was no one in the yard.

Jiang Xia looked around and then came back.

Just as he was about to ask Mrs. Xun about the detailed situation, a young man came from the corridor and said irritably: "It's so noisy, what are you talking about!"

"Ryunosuke?" Tatsuma Seimaru saw him and said angrily, "Did you do something wrong just now?"

Tatsumi Ryunosuke frowned: "What do you mean?"

Mrs. Xun said tremblingly: "There was a cursed warrior standing there just now. He, he cut down the barrier."

Tatsumi Ryunosuke waved his hand indifferently: "Did you forget that it's the Samurai Festival now? - Probably a villager dressed as a samurai got lost and walked in accidentally."

Jiang Xia: "I'm afraid it's not easy for outsiders to get lost to this location."

Tatsumi Ryunosuke glanced at him and said, "Who are you? Huh, it's really unseemly for an outsider to lead a group of outsiders running around our house."

"Who are you calling an outsider?" Suzuki Sonoko's temper rose. After saying this, she felt something was wrong and silently changed her words, "What's wrong with outsiders? We are guests invited by the future head of the family!"

The words "future head of the family" were so poignant that Tatsumi Ryunosuke's face twisted.