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"Alright!"
"We know!" The trio answered cheerfully.
"Strange? Why are they answering so cheerfully this time?" Conan heard the trio's reply and looked at them suspiciously.
Sergei noticed that the old art dealer Kazuyoshi Igarashi hadn't arrived yet. "Mr. Igarashi is so slow."
"He said he had to go somewhere else first," Shiratori said. Just then, a red minivan drove into the castle. Kazuyoshi Igarashi got out of the car with a bag on his back. "Sorry, it took me a while to prepare."
"What luggage? Are you going on an adventure?" Mouri pouted.
"Better safe than sorry!"
"Great Detective, be careful. Scorpion might be right beside you," Haibara said with a light chuckle to Conan. "But with our Great Mercenary Mr. Yuu here, perhaps you don't need to worry."
"You're still so sharp-tongued." Conan smiled wryly. Ran looked at Haibara and Conan talking together, her expression somewhat downcast as she sighed.
"I told you not to show off, but you didn't listen. Alright, now Ran has basically confirmed your identity." Seeing Ran look at Conan talking with Haibara,
Yuu knew that Conan's identity had been discovered by Ran. After everyone entered the castle, Mouri said to Natsumi Kosaka's butler, Sawabe, "Please lock the door. Don't let any children in."
"Okay." Sawabe agreed and locked the door from the inside. Outside the castle, Genta saw everyone go in and excitedly said, "Alright, let's start our action too!"
Professor Agasa asked, puzzled, "Huh, what are you going to do?"
"First, find the treasure!" Ayumi also said happily. Mitsuhiko also chimed in, "There must be other entrances, let's go find them!" Saying that, the trio ran towards the side of the castle.
"This is really troublesome. We should go too, Professor." Haibara spread her hands.
"You're right. It wouldn't be good if the children got hurt." Professor Agasa agreed with Haibara's suggestion.
Inside the castle, Sawabe began to introduce the rooms inside the castle: "This is the Knight's Room, decorated with Western armor and carpets."
"This is the Lady's Room. The old lady often spends the day here because she says this room is the most comfortable."
"This is the Emperor's Room." While everyone was touring the Emperor's Room, Kazuyoshi Igarashi suddenly said he needed to use the restroom.
"The restroom is on the right side of the corridor," Sawabe explained to Kazuyoshi Igarashi.
"The decorations here are truly luxurious. It seems your great-grandfather truly loved your great-grandmother, Miss Natsumi," Yuu said with emotion.
"Yuu is right," Mouri also said. "I suppose so? Although I don't know what my great-grandmother looked like," Natsumi Kosaka said with a tone of regret.
Kazuyoshi Igarashi came out of the Emperor's Room but didn't go to the restroom. He merely used it as an excuse to slip out of the Emperor's Room.
He immediately rushed into the Lady's Room, lifted up several oil paintings from the wall to check behind them. When he removed one of the oil paintings, he found an iron box embedded in the wall.
Kazuyoshi Igarashi saw the iron box and revealed a triumphant smile. "Heh heh heh, just as I expected." He took out lock-picking tools from his bag, picked the lock of the iron box, and found many jewels inside.
Kazuyoshi Igarashi found that there was no other egg he wanted inside. "No egg... Never mind." He reached out to take the jewels, but unexpectedly,
an iron handcuff suddenly emerged from among the jewels and handcuffed his hand. Then, many weapons like swords and spears, tied with ropes, fell from the ceiling, scaring him half to death. Kazuyoshi Igarashi screamed, "Ah!"
After Mouri opened the door to the Lady's Room, he saw Kazuyoshi Igarashi sitting slumped on the ground, panting heavily. Many swords, tied with ropes, hung above his head, almost piercing Kazuyoshi Igarashi's head.
"What's going on?" Sawabe took out a key and unlocked Kazuyoshi Igarashi's handcuffs. "This is an anti-theft device made by Mr. Kiichi 80 years ago. There are other mechanisms in the castle. Please be careful."
"These are real weapons!" Yuu walked over and touched them. "But Mr. Kiichi was still lenient. The length of this rope is just enough for you to squat down and hide. You saved your life, Mr. Igarashi."
Inspector Shiratori checked Kazuyoshi Igarashi's bag and found that it contained everything. Finally, he threw a flashlight to Kazuyoshi Igarashi. "That is to say, please don't act without permission. You only need the flashlight."
"..." Hearing Yuu's teasing, Kazuyoshi Igarashi, because it was his own fault, silently took the flashlight without refuting. "Mr. Kiichi indeed loves mechanisms.
In that case..." Thinking of this, Conan asked Sawabe, "Does this castle have a basement?" Sawabe thought for a moment and replied, "No." Conan continued to ask, "Then what about the great-grandfather's room on the first floor?"
"There's an office." Saying that, Sawabe led everyone to Mr. Kiichi's office on the first floor. "Please come in. Here are the old man's photos and photography works."
Conan looked at the photos hanging on the wall. "Strange, why are there only photos of Mr. Kiichi? Not a single photo of Miss Natsumi's great-grandmother?"
"Hey, look, isn't that a photo of the famous Russian traitor—Rasputin?" Yuu was very surprised to see this photo. Sergei affirmed Yuu's statement,
"That's right, it even has his signature." Ran saw everyone talking about Rasputin, so she asked Yuu, "Yuu, who is Rasputin?"
Kazuyoshi Igarashi, who had been silent all along, suddenly said, "He was a great villain!" Yuu looked at Kazuyoshi Igarashi and explained to Ran, "He was also known as the Mad Monk Rasputin,
the culprit behind the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. He once controlled political power for a time. But later he was killed by Grand Duke Yusupov, a royal noble. His body was found in a river, his skull was caved in, and one of his eyes was gouged out..."
"Yuu, stop talking! It's too scary!" Ran clung to Mouri's arm in fright.
"What's there to be afraid of? Just a killed traitor." Mouri said, looking at the frightened Ran.
"That's right. I heard his death was very popular." Kazuyoshi Igarashi also said. Conan was not concerned about Rasputin's death. "One of his eyes..." He thought of Scorpion.
Inspector Shiratori saw that the topic of discussion had strayed from their original purpose for being here. "Um, everyone, finding the egg is more important." Mouri lit a cigarette and said, "That's true...
but in such a large castle, where do we even begin to look?" Conan took the cigarette from Mouri's hand. "Uncle, lend me this for a moment."
"What for?" Mouri didn't understand why Conan wanted the cigarette. Conan placed the cigarette on the floor in front of the fireplace and found that the smoke column was constantly moving.
"There's wind blowing up from below. There's a secret basement down there." "What?" Everyone looked at Conan in surprise. Yuu glanced at Ran with concern. "Shinichi, you're being too reckless."
Conan touched the floor and said, "So, Mr. Kiichi, who liked making mechanisms, must have hidden a switch." Saying that, Conan opened a strange floorboard and found a Russian keyboard.
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