Friday, June 14th, evening.『Talks*Love*

In the basement of the old villa in Sichome, there was a place where a man was imprisoned. Because the middle-aged woman came in, Conan and Arimi hid across the door and the side of the cabinet beside the wall.

After listening to the conversation between the middle-aged woman and the man, Conan understood the secret of the house and the truth of the murder that had no following five years ago.

At this time, Arimi accidentally knocked down the mop beside her. Conan quickly held the cabinet and hooked the long handle of the mop, not letting it fall down. He just breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect the cabinet be empty and it was not difficult at all. He swayed the cabinet as soon as he tried his best, causing the cabinet to shake, causing the small bucket on the top of the cabinet to fall to the ground, making a sound.

"I always feel that besides the two just now, there seem to be other mice sneaking in." Picking up the knife on the ground, the middle-aged woman said, "Okay, you guys come out, it's useless to hide, come out quickly."

After patting Arimi, who was trembling with tears in her eyes, she signaled her not to be afraid. Conan said, "It's useless to hide, right? Madam, I think you should be talking about."

"What?" the middle-aged woman was stunned.

"I just saw the photo taken by the master who was killed five years ago with you, and another person in the photo, your son," Conan said, "this is the man who lives in pain in the dark basement."

"Ah!" the middle-aged woman was shocked.

"I feel very strange since I entered this house. Since the master was killed five years ago, his family has been missing. However, in the empty bathroom, there is water in the faucet. There will be no such person in this world who will always pay for property fees for unoccupied houses? And the exit made in an unobtrusive place is too new compared to the old walls around. I think that's probably something made after the incident, just to hope that entering and leaving the house is not eye-catching." Conan said again, "But if someone lives here, why do you have to do this? And why do you have to lock your son in the basement? I have fully understood these questions from your conversation just now."

"Who are you?" the middle-aged woman shouted, "Who are you?"

With his hands in his pockets and coming out from the cabinet, Conan said, "Conan Edogawa, a detective."

"Detective, detective?" the middle-aged woman asked in surprise.

With two fingers raised, Conan continued, "Generally speaking, there are two possibilities under this situation. One is that the person who killed the master is his wife, that is, you, so you imprisoned the son who witnessed everything in this place. There is another situation, that the person who killed the master is the son who was locked up by you. You know that he committed the crime, and you decided to hide the truth of this incident to protect your son. But for him, such a sin is too deep. The sigh that came from the house is probably his distressed sigh. Perhaps your son wanted to surrender himself in order to relieve his sins, but you, a mother, did not allow him to do so."

The middle-aged woman turned to look at her son and said, "I did all this for Zhaofu."

"Yes, you are determined not to let your son become a criminal, so you chose to live in seclusion without letting him go out of the house." Conan continued, "But look at your son and see how he is now..."

"Shut up, shut up, shut up." The middle-aged woman shouted and rushed up.

Unexpectedly, before the middle-aged woman finished speaking, the middle-aged woman suddenly took action, and Conan was pinched by her neck and raised against the wall.

"Ah!" Azumi screamed when she saw the middle-aged woman wielding her knife and trying to stab her.

"Stop!" Akifu grabbed the railing and shouted, "Please don't do this, mom."

"Zhaofu?" the middle-aged woman turned around and asked with a knife.

"As the child said, it's right, I was the murderer who killed my father." Kneeling on the ground, Zhaofu said in great pain, "It was the spring five years ago. I failed the third college entrance examination again. My father said I was a shame, a scum, and a scum... Therefore, I, who had already fallen to the bottom of my spirit, lost my mind in an instant because of my father's sarcastic words." Then, looking at my hands, recalled, "When I came to my senses, I was holding a blood-stained candlestick in my hand, and my father was also lying on the floor."

"Zhaofu..." the middle-aged woman shouted with concern.

"Then, as you said just now, in order to protect me, my mother turned the scene into a robber's crime and then locked me in this cell." Zhaofu shouted in pain, "But I can't stand it. I no longer want to live this kind of life. I dream of killing my father every day. I don't want it. I want to atone for my sins, so that I can live a little easier."

"You must cheer up, Akio," quickly let go of Conan and ran to the railing. The middle-aged woman comforted, "You must be patient, endure until the pursuit period fails." Then she turned her head and looked at Conan viciously and said, "If, if they didn't say anything, no one would know."

"Yes, if you hide like this, you can escape the police's pursuit, but your son will never escape the condemnation of his own conscience." Conan asked, "Madam, do you really want your son to bear such a heavy burden all his life?"

"Shaofu's life is still long, and condemnation of conscience can smooth it out," the middle-aged woman stretched out her hand and stroked her son's head. "But if people know that Zhaofu is a murderer, it will be the biggest burden in his life."

"Mom, don't." Akifu stretched out his hand, but failed to grab the corner of the middle-aged woman's clothes.

Taking a step back, the middle-aged woman continued to say to herself: "I think my dead husband should agree with me. I often think that if I died, I would be better off. Then Akifu should be taken care of by my husband, because I, a housewife, can only let Akifu live in this dark place, enduring this pain that is more uncomfortable than being in jail without outsiders' communication and entertainment." Then she said to Akifu, "I know you are having a very uncomfortable life in this place, so there is no way to calm down. I am already making arrangements and you will be able to go to a place that will make you feel better soon." Then she turned around and said, "You can endure it for a while..." and rushed towards Conan with a knife.

Conan, who was prepared for a long time, immediately kicked the bucket that fell from the cabinet just now, but it was plastic, and it may have become brittle over time and was kicked and smashed directly. However, the fragments in the sky forced the middle-aged woman to block her left arm with her left arm.

Conan immediately shouted, "Run quickly!" and said that, he went around to the right side of the middle-aged woman, opened some distance, prepared for the back of the palace, and covered Aomi out.

Ayumi quickly ran over from the middle-aged woman's left side, and Conan avoided the knife and cut across the cross-section and immediately ran outside.

Seeing that the middle-aged woman wanted to chase her, she tried to stretch out the railing as much as possible. Zhaofu shouted: "Mom..."

After pausing for a while, the middle-aged woman said, "I'll be back soon." After that, she chased her out, but she was knocked down by Conan, who had just chased her out of the door, with the anesthesia needle in her watch.

After wiping his sweat, Conan and Asumi walked through the imprisonment room along the curved underground corridor and arrived at another room in the basement. This room was a collection of kitchen, debris room, and bedrooms with bathrooms. They carefully searched, but they did not find Yuan Tai and Mitsuhiko.

Before returning to the imprisonment room, Conan and Azumi were stunned because the middle-aged woman who should have been lying on the ground was gone. Conan immediately ran into the imprisonment room and was shocked when he saw it. The iron door of the imprisonment room was opened and Akio was no longer inside. He stepped forward and looked at it. The key was still hanging on the door.

What's going on? Huh? Conan suddenly realized that Ayumi, who should have been following him, did not enter the imprisonment room. After a chill, Conan immediately shouted, "Ayumi..." and ran out.

Not long after, Conan found that he was the only one left in the basement. The door at the exit was closed. Conan tried it and could not be pushed open with his strength. Because the exit was to be pushed open, the telescopic suspenders could not come in handy. He then kicked something with his foot strength and tried it, but the thing bounced back. It turned out that the door at the exit was steel and could not be destroyed. As for kicking directly, since the exit was directly connected to the stairs, it was very difficult to get out. Moreover, after thinking about it, Conan gave up on the matter of kicking the steel plate. In this way, Conan is now trapped in the basement.

When I arrived at another room and made a pot of coffee, Conan sat on the bed and thought about who made it and why? I looked at the watch and said, at 6:27, Yamazaki wouldn't come so early, right? And if it were him, why did he do it? It was what the middle-aged woman said just now, and those arrangements happened to come, but this was not right...
Chapter completed!