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There weren't many people left at the dinner table.
All the male members of the Takeda family left, and Kogoro Mori was plied with alcohol and fell asleep immediately.
Conan and Heiji Hattori didn't go to see the moon with their childhood friends; instead, they chose to stay behind.
Because of Lin Che, Koizumi Akako had her first experience with a girl group and even enjoyed it, so she didn't refuse the invitation to go out.
Before leaving, she glanced at Lin Che and wondered why she should have to report her actions to him.
But when it was time to go out, she still pursed her lips and came back to tell Lin Che.
To make herself appear "arrogant" enough, she even claimed she needed to give Lin Che some instructions to prevent him from acting recklessly.
That arrogant air of his could be smelled from ten meters away.
But arrogance is outdated.
Anyway, Lin Che planned to properly temper Koizumi Akako's spoiled princess temper.
Currently, this woman's favorability towards him is only 5 points, while Kaito Kuroba, who was manipulated and threatened by him, still has 15 points of favorability.
After watching Koizumi Akako leave, Conan and Hattori Heiji approached her in perfect unison.
Not far away sat the wife of the second son of the Takeda family and his twin daughters.
"I refuse to chat." Lin Che continued eating the food he hadn't finished.
Hattori Heiji was very unhappy. "Why? What did we do to offend you?"
Lin Che didn't even bother to look at them. "Because you guys are really annoying."
Various problems arise one after another, and they are like chewing gum that can't be removed once it's stuck on.
Conan rolled his eyes. "Then why don't you have a real talk with me about the Twin Towers...?"
Lin Che promptly raised a finger, "After Yuan Jiaming died, the only things related to him were the main computer room and his own home."
"I took Ai to the main computer room to investigate, but we didn't find any useful information. However, we discovered that people from the organization were watching that place."
He looked at Conan.
"Gin's usual style of doing things, I guess he will wait for the right opportunity to blow up there."
"Similarly, continuing to investigate Hara Yoshiaki's residence would be extremely dangerous."
"So what's wrong with me sending Professor Agasa and the children away?"
"I can't handle the bomb crisis on my own, let alone confront a well-prepared organization, so what's wrong with choosing to stay away from trouble?"
Conan remained silent.
Hattori Heiji shouted, "Then you can tell Kudo what happened! Are you just going to leave everyone there to be blown up by a bomb?"
Lin Che glared at the dark-skinned man. "You should know him better than I do, right? If I told him, would he obediently leave?"
"As for telling the police, I wandered around inside for quite a long time but couldn't find the bomb, and there were organized people watching outside."
"The police could go in one second and Gin could detonate a bomb the next."
"At the time, I thought that at most there were only bombs in the power distribution room and the computer room. Since there was no one there and no casualties, why would I go and wipe them all out?"
"Of course, if you want these people to die in vain, then I admit that I was wrong."
Dark-skinned man fell silent after hearing this.
Lin Che's reasons were reasonable.
"Big brothers, what are you talking about? We heard an explosion."
At that moment, the twin girls from the Takeda family suddenly appeared, their identical big eyes filled with curiosity.
Hattori Heiji was so startled that he almost lost his balance and hurriedly waved his hands, "It's...it's just some bombing cases. My brothers are detectives, and we're just discussing the cases we've encountered."
“Detectives.” The twins blinked. “Could you investigate some supernatural legends, like the Spider Fairy stories Grandma told? They’re so much fun.”
"We want to see the real Spider Fairy."
Conan and Blackie frowned in unison, "Spider Fairy?"
On their way here, they had heard some stories about this place and knew it was called the Spider's Home in Puppet Ridge.
It's called Puppet Ridge because the Takeda family inherited the skills of puppeteers and made a living by creating various puppets.
I don't know much about what's called Spider House.
Furthermore, the letter Hattori Heiji received also mentioned the word "spider".
"Don't disturb the brothers' conversation. Come on, finish the rest of the food and don't waste it."
The twins' mother, Yoko Takeda, suddenly spoke, her tone somewhat stern.
Hattori Heiji quickly pressed, "What's this about the Spider Fairy they're talking about?"
After a moment's hesitation, Yoko Takeda began to explain, "It's a legend that's been passed down here."
Legend has it that 1,800 years ago, a tall, fair-skinned, and exquisitely beautiful woman lived in this forest, almost like a fairy.
This woman would always approach travelers on the road and ask them questions such as "Do you think there is a heaven?", "What is heaven like?", and "Would you like to go and see it?"
Travelers were always captivated by her beauty and followed her, only to be led into the forest and never return without a trace.
As word spread, a skilled puppeteer made a puppet the size of an adult and placed it by the roadside. Sure enough, the woman arrived and asked questions as usual.
But puppets can't speak.
After realizing she had been tricked, the woman became extremely angry. Her eyes turned red, she bared her teeth, her limbs multiplied into eight, and her body emitted a foul stench, revealing her terrifying form as a giant spider.
The puppeteer, who had been observing the situation from the shadows, immediately attacked the giant spider with a rocket.
After the giant spider's body caught fire, it let out a fierce screech and fled back to the forest. The puppeteer followed along the way and eventually found that the giant spider and many small spiders had all been burned to death in their nest.
Fearing the spider's curse, the villagers built a small temple on its nest to worship it, and called it the "Spider Fairy".
Upon hearing the image of the Spider Fairy, Lin Che's first thought was actually of the Eight-Foot Lady, and he also recalled related hentai anime.
Based on Koizumi Akako's account, the legend seems to be true, and the spider fairy was not burned to death.
As for that puppeteer who exorcises demons and protects the righteous path... Lin Che simply doesn't believe he can subdue monsters with just a few rockets.
That puppeteer is probably a magician hiding his identity, and might even be from the red magic lineage, given the imagery of "fire".
"Ok?"
Lin Che looked out the wall.
The now-passive skill, [Detective Instinct], allows him to see something unusual outside the wall: Robert is sitting in the car waiting for Koizumi Akako and the others, but he is staring at the direction of the attic, with the famous crime prop, fishing line, still attached to the back of the car.
"What's wrong?" Hattori Heiji turned his head and asked.
Lin Che looked away. "It's nothing."
He doesn't care whether the people here live or die.
Koizumi Akako once said that the Spider Fairy's magnetic field and dark magic power needed death to nourish them, so he had even less reason to care.
Moreover, although the motives for crimes in the world of Detective Conan are often very abstract, very few of the victims are truly innocent.
Lin Che now understood what Koizumi Akako meant by "the murderous ritual that points to the Spider Fairy."
This likely refers to killing someone in the Spider Fairy's territory using the same method the Spider Fairy used to kill her prey.
The reason he thought this way was because the fishing line reminded Lin Che of spider silk.
When history coincided, the magnetic resonance gave the dying Spider Fairy a second chance, which also led to Koizumi Akako sensing it and ultimately guiding her here.
I sensed the car had started moving.
Almost at the same time, Lin Che saw the dense, crystalline spider silk in the air.
The faintly visible, translucent white spider silk was stained with blackish-red "ink".
And these "inks" representing the power of dark magic began to splash towards Lin Che at an increasingly faster speed.
The pollution began.
Lin Che closed his eyes and silently sensed the changes.
This time, it's not just about being able to see.
He could also feel faint streams of black energy flowing and converging within his body's meridians, eventually rushing towards his brain.
Very strange.
The location where the black energy gathered was clearly deep within the brain, yet it seemed to be separated from the material world by an intangible and unfathomable membrane.
At once......
It seems to be there, yet it also seems not to be there.
Lin Che inexplicably thought of the so-called "sixth sense".
This thing also has a standard name: "extrasensory perception".
[You have unlocked extrasensory perception, and the activated magnetic field is defined as: Black Magic]
【Magnetic field compatibility: 100%】
[Magnetic field frequency: 3% (increasing)]
Chapter 92 The Spider Fairy Appears
As Lin Che began to change, a crimson glint flashed in Koizumi Akako's eyes as she sat with a girl for the first time.
An invisible barrier of flames appeared on her body.
The jets of black ink that splashed over were like highly toxic corrosive liquid, but they were blocked and evaporated by the flame barrier.
The Spider Fairy's current magnetic field level is far from being high enough to cause her harm.
In her view, Ran Mouri and the others were already splattered with ink and gradually became unrecognizable.
However, these ink dots could not stay on their bodies for long; instead, they hung on and flowed off like mud.
Koizumi Akako looked in Lin Che's direction, her shock impossible to conceal.
Because Lin Che was like an ink mixer at this moment, and had already condensed an ink vortex with a diameter of two people.
This might be some kind of evil god...
While she may not be the strongest in the Red Magic lineage over the past millennium, she can certainly be considered a groundbreaking genius.
Even so, she didn't have this kind of reaction when she received the family inheritance back then, and when she finally fully activated her super senses, she could barely match Lin Che's current situation.
As a result, Lin Che was already like this even at the very beginning...
Comparing people to each other is really infuriating.
Koizumi Akako not only felt her pride shattered, but also deeply regretted leading Lin Che into this field.
But then she thought about it again and felt relieved.
Given Lin Che's talent and performance, there must have been some unseen opportunity that led him to accidentally enter a similar environment and naturally perceive the existence of dark magic.
If Lin Che knew what Koizumi Akako was thinking, he would definitely lament that he was too busy and hadn't followed any of the usual Detective Conan cases. Otherwise, he might have already unlocked the black magic.
The mysteries of the magical realm are unknown to mortals.
"Hongzi, don't be so clingy. We're just going out to see the scenery."
When Kazuha Toyama saw Akako Koizumi's gaze, she couldn't help but complain and even lecture her:
"You can't be too clingy to Mr. Lin. If you keep doing that, he'll definitely think you can't live without him and start neglecting you."
She spoke with the confidence of a seasoned emotional strategist.
"Relationships require back-and-forth tugs of affection to make him deeply feel your importance and to make him unable to resist you."
Koizumi Hongzi: "......"
Ran Mouri couldn't help but chuckle to herself: How could I not know how you behave in relationships? And you're teaching others how to behave?
However, she couldn't help but ponder her best friend's words.
Every time she showed tolerance, understanding, and empathy, Shinichi Kudo wouldn't even make a phone call.
Whenever she is sad, upset, in tears, or even wants to give up, Shinichi Kudo immediately appears, sometimes even in person.