Oritis in the world of Detective Conan

Chapter 73 Moonlit Night Escape

"Conan, my dad's friend recently developed a very interesting game. Do you want to come to my house to play it?" On the way home from school, the little girl invited Conan, Haibara and the three little ones.

Mitsuhiko immediately became interested: "Hey, what kind of game is it?"

"It's about Halloween. You have to find a way to escape from a cursed church."

"Oh, it won't be that scary." Ayumi was a little scared.

Little girl: "Don't worry, the costumes used in the game are all the usual Halloween ones. They're a little scary, but not horrific."

Conan didn't want to play this boring game at first, but he couldn't resist the three little ones' insistence. The most important thing was that Haibara actually showed some interest in this game.

So, under Conan's half-moon eyes, the few of them arrived at Delos Manor, and the novelist welcomed the children as usual.

In the living room, Conan noticed that the Lady Mary he had met earlier was also there. Lady Red explained, "I'm here to take care of my nephew's life. He's a bit nervous, and he's been running around looking for inspiration. He's ruined his health. What should I do?"

"Hmph, today I'm going to show him my cooking skills. Well, let me see, little Frederick's favorite dish is French custard. Let me see the recipe..."

Conan looked at the composer who was curled up on the sofa on the other side. The composer was using a pillow to cover his head. His eyes with dark circles showed a melancholy look, and he looked like he had lost all hope in life.

Conan almost instantly realized that this famous female model was probably the type who had never done housework. Now she suddenly had to cook for her nephew herself, and it seemed that the quality control of the food she made would be questionable.

Composer: Help me! Help me!

Conan: Show your half-moon eyes, Uncle Frederick, come on.

Under the composer's hopeful gaze, the little girl ruthlessly led the detective team out of the living room.

Coming to the living room on the right, the little girl turned on the game console and the huge display screen.

Everyone who was extremely looking forward to the game quickly prepared to enter the game.

Accompanied by the special effects of shattering glass and a slightly strange music box sound, the characters controlled by Conan and others slowly appeared in the center of a church.

"Wow, the design is so realistic."

"That's it."

Conan looked at the church filled with bats, spiders, pumpkins, and ghosts, and couldn't help but sigh that the atmosphere was indeed full.

A line of small text appeared at the bottom of the game screen, telling the terrifying legend of Halloween: "Legend has it that when Halloween arrives, the castle's evening bells will ring twelve times, and thirteen crows will land on the church roof. Any rabbit that arrives late will be lost forever in the moonlit building."

Yuantai: "Is there still a time limit?"

Mitsuhiko: "It's normal for games like this to have a time limit to create tension."

Ayumi: "Hey, so we have to start looking for a way to escape now?"

"Pushing these boards will reveal new paths, but there are also potential dead ends," the little girl said to the people around her as she manipulated her character to push the boards away one by one. "The game screen shows that some boards open up new paths, while others, when pushed, are blocked by wax again."

Conan clicked on the game prompt, and a screen popped up immediately: "Game Tips: Escape from the Moonlight Church through the maze and collect dinner props."

Yuantai: "But what is this collection of dinner props?"

"I think it's these little props scattered around the map. Look, this little snack is it." Mitsuhiko controlled the character to pick up the props. "As long as you collect ten of them, you can open a shortcut."

"Ah!" Ayumi was suddenly startled. It turned out that when she was opening a cabinet, the wax figure that rushed out of it caught up with her and exploded, turning the character she was controlling into a wax figure.

"It's okay, it's probably just a scare mechanic. The characters we control are just slowed down, not turned into wax figures," Huiyuan consoled. "Besides, if you're mentally prepared before opening the cabinet, you won't be frightened."

"Wow, Genta, what are you doing?" Mitsuhiko angrily scolded Genta's behavior.

It turned out that in order to collect those tea and snack props, Genta ran around the map, opened every cabinet, and ran away after opening them. The wax figures that were released chased after Mitsuhiko who came later.

Mitsuhiko became a little frustrated after his character was repeatedly blown up by the wax figure.

Genta: "Hehehe, sorry Mitsuhiko, I just wanted to collect those snacks."

"Those are just snacks in the game. You can't eat them even if you collect them."

“But I just want to collect.”

Conan was probably the only one who was seriously looking for a way out: "Hey, everyone, if you go into this cabinet, you can be teleported to a new area."

"Where is where?"

"I marked it on the map, you can see it."

However, after several repeated attempts to drill into the cabinet, Conan became a little dizzy.

Conan: Oh my god, where was I teleported to?

Seeing Conan's embarrassing look, Huiyuan couldn't help laughing out loud: "It seems that our famous detective also has moments of confusion?"

Conan blushed: "I just haven't mastered the trick yet, that's all. Soon, soon I will find a way out."

Surrounded by waves of golden light, Conan, who had teleported countless cabinets, finally blushed: "Ahhh, which cabinet leads to the door?"

Every time he tried to cross the wooden board to the other side, the wax blocked the way. After finally finding a cabinet that could be used for teleportation, he discovered that the place he teleported to was either not the gate area or it teleported him back to a place he had been to before.

In the end, it was the three little ones who were admiring the pumpkin lanterns and little ghosts on the map who found all the dinner props and opened the shortcut, and Conan ran from a pile of messy buildings to the gate area.

"Huh, I finally found a way out." Conan breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the iron gate slowly open under the orange full moon.

Haibara: "It's so rare to see a frustrated expression on the face of a great detective like you."

Conan: "Huh, if this was one of those clue-finding mystery games, I would have cleared it long ago!"

Shortly after everyone finished the game, the novelist invited everyone to dinner.

Caramel apples, chocolate, popcorn, puff towers... There are many more desserts on the DeRoss family's table today, and of course the truffle nougat that the little girl loves.

In front of Mrs. Red was a Salzburg cake frosting that was custom-made by the cake shop. However, she was not in a hurry to taste her favorite dessert with a small fork. Instead, she looked at the composer with anticipation.

The composer looked at the custard in front of him. Ugh, it smelled ominous, but no matter how bad it tasted, it was still just an egg dish, right?

The composer took a mortal bite, and then, as if struck by terror, he fell to the ground and fell into a fetal sleep.

A world where only composers are hurt has been created. (laughs)