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Chapter 19

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Conan subconsciously thought of the group of guys in black clothes, and immediately turned his head to look at Ai beside him.

The organization's dedicated radar– Ai Haibara, did not notice anything unusual, and could only shake her head slightly.

Conan looked at some police officers around him who he had never seen before, and remembered that these high school students brought sharpened props and undiscovered audio playback equipment and other suspicious points. Relying on being out of danger, he pretended to be stupid, "Ah, what did the big brother say just now about the seventeen-year-old soul? I don't understand it at all."

The boy lowered his head, and the lens reflected slightly, so Yuji couldn't see his eyes clearly, "Just now the big brother said that this is a prank game, so can you show us the video or audio you recorded? I'm a little afraid that my image is a little ugly in the video~"

Finally, the boy stretched out his little hand and grabbed Yuji's sleeve pitifully, and his childish voice was full of pleading, "Big brother, please..."

If it were someone else, afraid they would be soft-hearted because of such a childish plea.

Unfortunately, Sukuna, who could see through the skin, looked at the soul of the teenager who was about 16 or 17 years old, and felt that such cuteness was unbearable to watch.

She couldn't guess Satoru's age through his soul before because she considered that Satoru was the strongest sorcerer and couldn't base it on the form of the soul.

But this person didn't have any strange aura, and he had never seen a curse and knew nothing about the sorcery world. He was clearly an ordinary person.

And through this questioning, Sukuna roughly guessed what happened to this person.

His surprised reaction told her that he had his own 17 years of memory and accepted the fact that he had become smaller. The only answer was that the reason for his current situation was done in a very scientific way.

Especially after discovering that the little girl next to Conan was in the same situation, Sukuna was more convinced.

Science... Sukuna had to admit that this world was indeed interesting in a different way.

Looking up and down at this little boy who looked no different from other children and didn't look like he had dwarfism, Yuji exclaimed in his heart, 'This kid is so smart! Is he really a high school student? But the most important question at the moment is that they, the sorcerers, of course, don't have any video footage, so how can they deal with it?'

Faced with the child's pitiful request, Yuji, who couldn't resist, thought that he had completed Miss Sukuna's mission to pass on the message, and quickly retreated a few steps.

After nodding and bowing to several police officers, Yuji carried the temporarily loaned assistant director Kiyotaka Ijichi and placed the battle-hardened assistant director in front of Conan, "Oh, I suddenly remembered that I have something to do. Kid, if you have any questions, please talk to our assistant... agent!"

Ijichi, who was temporarily appointed as the agent, wiped the sweat from his face and dealt with Conan in an adult professional manner, "This is an event directed and performed by several children under our company. I'm sorry to have caused trouble to you. We will give reasonable compensation for the children's fright. As for the video or audio you just mentioned, it happened that the camera they brought was out of power, so it was not captured."

As long as he was not sandwiched between Satoru and the top management, Ijichi could still handle some social matters with ordinary people perfectly.

Compensation and apology were easy to discuss. If you have any doubts and need evidence, I'm sorry, there was nothing because of various unexpected small matters.

Seeing that Ijichi was very tight-lipped and couldn't get anything out of him, Conan went back and called Inspector Megure's contact number using Shinichi Kudo's phone.

Because he had helped Inspector Megure solve many cases, Inspector Megure would usually be willing to share some internal police intelligence using Shinichi's voice.

But this time, Conan was turned away.

"Kudo-kun, although I have heard about it, this matter is not under the jurisdiction of our Investigation Division 1."

"Don't worry, other departments will handle it properly."

"You don't have to worry about it."

After hanging up the phone, Inspector Megure looked at a document from another department that simply perfunctorily said a few words about this matter, and sighed. Regarding these mysterious areas, he, an ordinary department head, really knew nothing!

At the same time, on the way back to the technical college, Yuji secretly asked Miss Sukuna if she could talk about it, and then asked Megumi and Nobara. "Miss Sukuna said that the little boy with glasses and the little girl who gave you glasses have a soul and body that are about ten years older. Did you find anything unusual?"

Yuji himself was still in a state of blind man touching an elephant when it came to curses, so naturally he didn't understand what happened to these two children.

But to put himself in their shoes, if he turned back to five years old, he would definitely be at a loss, so he thought, if he could help these two children, would he help as much as possible?

Nobara recalled the kid with glasses, "Except for looking a little precocious and clever, there is nothing else unusual, right?"

Megumi didn't think Sukuna had any need to deceive them in this matter, "I didn't sense the curse on them."

Because the incident was successfully resolved, there were no serious casualties, and Satoru was not nearby, Ijichi couldn't help but relax a little, and then he remembered something and explained, "In fact, this kid is a celebrity. I don't know if you have paid attention to the frequent appearance of Kaito Kid on TV shows. He is the nemesis of Kaito Kid."

"Oh, I remember, he often appears around the famous detective Mr. Mori who doesn't look too smart!" Nobara, who often watched TV shows about Tokyo, immediately understood.

Yuji, who rarely paid attention to news in this area, and Sukuna, who had no idea, turned on his phones.

Then, one person and one soul simultaneously exclaimed in ignorance.

Yuji pointed at the number of cases solved by Detective Mori as counted by the gossip media on his phone, and his right hand, which was completely healed by Sukuna, was shaking, "He has solved three-digit cases in the past six months. He must be cursed!"

Sukuna and Yuji's thinking direction was roughly the same, but there are some differences, "Isn't this a professional killer? Don't the officials called the police here doubt it?"

"He may use cursed power, which ordinary people may not be able to find, but you sorcerers should take action, right?"

According to incomplete statistics, this was the death of 700 to 800 people. Even if it was not enough in her world, according to the rules of the sorcery world, it should be sentenced to death.

Sukuna has to admit that this "curse user" had some skills in such secret serial killings under normal order.

Ijichi thought of this and couldn't help complaining, "In fact, someone in the Metropolitan Police Department of Japan also suspected it, so they reported it to the higher-ups. At that time, the higher-ups sent me to take Mr. Gojo to understand the situation. If Mr. Mori or someone around him can really see the curse, we will arrest him on the spot."

"And then what?" Nobara had the urge to eat melon seeds.

Several other high school students and Sukuna also pricked up their ears and listened carefully to this interesting past. After all, that was the strongest Satoru Gojo.

"Then, after screening, the Mori family was ruled out of suspicion." Ijichi thought of the "happy" time when he was forced to get along with Satoru, and couldn't help trembling slightly. "At that time, it was clearly determined that this matter had nothing to do with the curse world, but Mr. Gojo thought it was very interesting and went to the Mori Detective Agency every day."

A group of listeners suddenly had a bad premonition.

Ijichi could already hear Satoru Gojo's not-so-clever laughter of "Ahaha~Ahaha~", intertwined with the wild and unrestrained "Hahahahahaha" laughter of the detective Kogoro Mori. The terrifying duet simply made the diligent assistant director exhausted.

"In order to win the favor of Detective Mori, Mr. Gojo also compete with the waiter and amateur detective of the Poirot Cafe downstairs that week. He relied on his own skills to perform "famous reasoning" on the spot, and almost appeared on the evening show of Beika TV, making his debut as a detective..."

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