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Chapter 29 - Chapter 29: An Unexpected Corpse

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Teitan Elementary School, Class 1-B.

"Hey, these are the things I promised you last time," Conan said, pouring a pile of items onto the desk. "Detective Badges!"

"Wow! So cool!" Genta exclaimed, picking up a Detective Badge.

"Th-this... did you really make these?" Ayumi said, a bit disbelieving.

"Professor Agasa and Yuu helped me make them," Conan explained. "They're just right for you brats, heh heh."

"I get one too?" Haibara was quite surprised to see Ayumi hand her a Detective Badge.

"Of course, Haibara is also a member of our Junior Detective League!" Ayumi said with great certainty.

"Is that so?" Haibara gazed at the Detective Badge, lost in thought.

Just then, Genta suddenly announced loudly, "Alright! Everyone, immediate action!!"

"Oh!" Ayumi and Mitsuhiko echoed in agreement.

"Hey! What are you planning?" Conan suddenly had a bad feeling.

Haibara chuckled softly, "Won't we know if we just follow along?"

Thirty minutes later.

"Darn it! They punish us without even asking for clarification! It's not like we did anything bad, just used the school's broadcast equipment!" Genta complained non-stop.

"We didn't do anything wrong..."

"Yeah!" Ayumi and Mitsuhiko also complained.

"And you say you didn't, you guys..." Conan muttered inwardly, speechless.

After school.

Genta looked up at the ceiling, bored. "No clients coming..."

"Maybe our promotion isn't good enough?" Mitsuhiko said, propping his chin with both hands, sitting opposite Genta.

Conan, bouncing a ball nearby, squinted at them. "Of course not. Finding clients isn't that simple, is it?! Being a detective isn't that easy!"

Ayumi fiddled with her Junior Detective League Badge, looking disappointed. "We have the Detective Badges, but they're useless..."

Genta tore off his badge. "This is frustrating! I'm not doing this boring stuff anymore!! Mitsuhiko! Let's go play games!"

"But... but..." Mitsuhiko didn't want to give up.

"Excuse me..." Just then, a boy about the same age as the Junior Detective League members walked in through the door. "Are you the Junior Detective League? I'd like to ask you to do something."

Genta and the two others excitedly rushed up to the boy. "Is it a murder case? Or what?"

Ayumi poked her head forward. "Is it fraud?"

The boy looked at Genta and the two others, shaking his head. "None of those!! My Xiaoguang went missing last night!"

"What does your pet look like?" Genta eagerly asked.

Mitsuhiko stroked his chin and said with certainty, "Hmm, it's very likely a kidnapping!!"

The boy pulled out a photo and handed it to the three of them. "What?!" the three said, looking disappointed.

"It's a cat!" Mitsuhiko said.

"We don't have time to help you find a cat. It'll probably come back on its own," Ayumi said dismissively.

Genta nodded. "Alright, you can go now."

The boy, who was about to turn and leave, pulled out a few cards. "And here I was going to offer you Masked Rider cards as a reward!" He showed the cards in his hand to the three. "Look, these are them!!"

Upon hearing the words "Masked Rider," the three looked at the cards in the boy's hand and were instantly stunned. "Th-these... these are never-before-seen Masked Rider Super Gold Cards!!!"

The three quickly grabbed the boy's hand. "We accept your request!!"

Conan's mouth twitched a few times. "What in the world are you guys doing?!"

"...Yuu? What are you doing here?" Conan, who was looking for the cat with the Junior Detective League, suddenly spotted Yuu on the street.

"Oh, it's Conan. I came to buy something for the Professor. You?" Yuu said, showing Conan the items in his hand.

"I'm..." Conan told Yuu everything that had happened.

"Sounds interesting! Can I join too?" Yuu was bored.

"Who are you?" Genta and the two others asked nervously.

"He's Shinichi's good friend, Gen Yuu. He's currently living at the Professor's house. He and the Professor made our Detective Badges together," Conan explained.

"You can call me Big Brother Yuu!" Yuu greeted them.

"Okay." The three agreed.

After searching for an hour.

"I say, when are we going to find that cat? Doesn't your pet have any distinguishing features?" Genta asked, looking annoyed.

The boy thought for a moment. "Xiaoguang's meow is different from other cats, it's very unique, like this: Goo-meow!" The boy imitated his cat's meow.

"Goo-meow!" Then everyone heard the same sound. The boy said, "Yes! Yes! That's the sound!"

Everyone looked around. "It's that house!" Ayumi pointed to a building.

The boy ran to the house's entrance and shouted inside, "Xiaoguang!! Is that you?"

After that, a cat's head really poked out from one of the house's windows. "It's really Xiaoguang!!" the boy said, looking delighted.

But when its whole body emerged, everyone was startled because Xiaoguang was completely covered in blood. Xiaoguang meowed and ran to the boy's feet. Yuu picked up the cat and examined it carefully. "The cat isn't injured, this is human blood."

"What? Could it be..." Conan's heart tightened. He immediately climbed over the main gate, placed a trash can beneath the window, and peered inside. A person, covered in blood, was sprawled next to the bathtub, their head submerged in the water.

"Whoa!!" Genta and the others who had followed saw the scene and ran out of the house in fright. Yuu glanced at Conan. "Shinichi, quickly call the police. I'll watch the kids."

Conan nodded, then pulled out his phone and called Inspector Megure.

"Did you call the police? Did you really find a body?" Inspector Megure, who had arrived quickly, asked the Junior Detective League.

Conan, sitting atop the phone booth, nodded. "Inspector Megure, there's no mistake. Since we found the body, no one has entered or exited that house, so the body must still be in there!!"

"Isn't this Yuu? Aren't you..." Inspector Megure was surprised to see Yuu, as he had known Yuu for a long time.

"I'll explain my situation later, Inspector Megure. For now, let's solve this case," Yuu said.

"Mm," Inspector Megure nodded. "Quickly search this house!" Inspector Megure ordered the other police officers.

"Ding-dong! Ding-dong!" The doorbell rang incessantly.

"Open up! We're the police!" Inspector Megure said loudly.

A middle-aged man wearing a bathrobe opened the door. "What do you want?! You're making too much noise!!"

Inspector Megure pointed at the Junior Detective League. "These children say they saw a body at your residence."

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