In the world of Detective Conan, however, he was bound to the Naruto System.

Chapter 212 Someone Under the Bed? A Corpse!

Chapter 212 Someone Under the Bed? A Corpse!

Sonoko's scream wasn't coming from behind the door, but now the door was tightly shut and locked from the inside. Anyone with a brain would know something was wrong. Akutagawa Hiko kicked the door open.

Fearing that the flying door might cause secondary injury to the people inside, Akutagawa Hiko controlled the force, preventing too much damage. At that moment, Mouri Ran rushed over.

He looked anxiously at the unconscious Sonoko Suzuki, who was lying motionless in Akutagawa Hikaru's arms. If she were still conscious, her lips would be curled up in a smile!

Akutagawa Hiko seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and explained, "It's just a regular anesthetic. Sonoko should wake up in a little while."

No sooner had she finished speaking than a hissing sound came from the side. Akiko Yonehara, who had just been lying on the ground unattended, covered her head and got up.

Then the others arrived one after another at the second-floor entrance, excluding the reporter named Mori Atsushi, who was leaning against the corner of the stairs, looking up with a deep gaze.

He thought it was all for nothing, but he didn't expect to actually meet this group of people, and now that something has really happened, it seems he has more and more to write about.

Subaru Okiya glanced at Conan, who had jumped up to turn on the light, and at Hiko Akutagawa, who was listening intently to Akiko Yonehara recount the events, with a complicated look in his eyes, before quickly looking away.

What just happened was definitely not a figment of his imagination.

Because of the strange noises he had heard earlier, he kept a close eye on the sounds coming from the second floor while writing his paper. He didn't dare to use his brain at all, for fear that he might miss some details when adding the essential information, resulting in incomplete clues.

If this really delays the solving of the case, he can't afford to suffer the consequences.

Upon hearing the scream, he immediately saw two figures flash past in the second-floor corridor as if they had teleported. This was definitely not an afterimage left by running too fast; afterimages are always continuous.

"You said you were attacked, is that true?!"

The PE teacher, his voice gruff, asked incredulously, "Was it a prank by Mr. Sugiyama who was hiding?!"

Hattori Heiji frowned and retorted, "No matter what, if it was a prank, it's gone too far. It's bordering on a crime. Yonehara-sensei was forced to slam her head against the wall and then strangled unconscious with a rope. Sonoko was also drugged—"

Akutagawa handed Sonoko over to Ran's care, then put his hands in his pockets and looked at the completely locked room: "When Conan and I arrived, we heard noises inside, but when we kicked the door open, no one came out."

Conan went to the window of the room and then said, "The window is locked from the inside, so this is the legendary locked room mystery."

Subaru Okiya weakly raised his hand: "I didn't see anyone come down from the second floor either. After hearing Ms. Suzuki's scream, everyone rushed upstairs."

Ran swung her fist, and the wind from her punch made Subaru Okiya's face sting, causing him to take two steps back.

This girl is no ordinary person either.

Xiaolan seemed quite angry about her best friend being attacked. Having encountered so many cases, she had become much more quick-witted and realized that there is no such thing as a perfect locked room in this world.

"So, the culprit who attacked Sonoko and Yonehara-sensei is hiding in this room!"

Upon reflection, everyone realized that this was indeed the case. After all, a living person couldn't simply vanish into thin air; they must be hiding somewhere.

Akutagawa Hiko pointed to the strange-looking characters written on Sonoko and Yonehara Akiko's hands: "If they're put together, they look like a name, Minako. Does anyone know her?"

Several teachers' expressions changed drastically in an instant, but Mori Atsushi, who was slowly walking upstairs, spoke unhurriedly: "The girl who committed suicide at Beika Elementary School three years ago, things seem to be getting interesting."

"Search! We must find that despicable guy!"

Kohei Shimoda lost control and shouted, but it was understandable. According to the reporter, it seemed that someone wanted to take revenge on them and those who were involved in the incident three years ago.

Now that even an innocent person like Sonoko Suzuki has been implicated, do you really expect that person to let them off the hook?

Instead of taking advantage of the large group of people, we should expose the person hiding in the shadows now to prevent them from being picked off one by one.

But Akiko Yonehara gave Kohei a deep look; based on his behavior, she had already locked onto him.

To prevent others from discovering the body under the bed, Akiko Yonehara took the initiative and lay down to exchange a glance with the pale-faced, unseeing corpse, Sugiyama-sensei, who was lying dead under the bed.

He then calmly replied, "There's none under the bed."

Hattori Heiji opened the wardrobe, searched carefully, and then frowned, saying, "It's not in the wardrobe either—"

They even considered the possibility of hiding on the ceiling, but unfortunately, they still came up empty-handed.

"How could that be—"

Everyone felt heavy-hearted. They had truly encountered the perfect locked room, something even detective novels wouldn't dare to depict, as they would be condemned by novel readers. Yet, they had encountered it in real life.

Is this what they mean by reality being even more outrageous than fiction?

As Akutagawa twirled his pen in thought, he seemed to have made a mistake, and the pen fell directly under the bed.

A tense man named Yonehara Kouko said, "I'll go pick it up for you."

Unexpectedly, Akutagawa Hiko directly rejected this helpful suggestion, patting Conan's head and saying, "Conan is too small, let him go."

Before Akiko Yonehara could make a move, Conan, who was already prepared, quickly ducked down.

It is known that Ayan is a powerful ninja whose fingers are far more dexterous than his student's. He knows that even if he thinks deeply, he could never make the pen fly when he spins it.

Similarly, Ayan wouldn't spun the pen around like that.

Therefore, we can infer that Ayan definitely discovered something, but didn't want to make it public, which is why he let the pen fall under the bed for him to pick up.

Conan initially thought that Akiko Yonehara at most had a illicit relationship with the person who attacked them, and was therefore deliberately covering for the culprit, and would at most run into a small fry.

To my utter surprise, what I encountered was a corpse.

So even though Conan was prepared, he was still startled. Then, remembering that he was probably a child, he shamelessly yelled, "There's a dead uncle under the bed! How scary!"

This was serious. Having witnessed Conan's intelligence firsthand, Hattori Heiji didn't think Conan would mistake a dummy or anything like that, so he immediately lay down to examine it.

By the time Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha worked together to pull out Sugiyama-sensei's body, Yonehara Akiko's face was ashen.

Everyone turned to look at Akiko Yonehara, but to everyone's surprise, she pulled out a small knife and lunged at Kohei Shimoda—