Ke Xue: An outlaw, a maniac who sets out to usurp the throne! Chapter 057

“Let me see, those with circles will be in charge of the director’s work, those with crosses… will be in charge of entertainment, and those with triangles will be in charge of boiling water, how about that?”

“Boiling water… I can do it.” Mr. Sukame quickly said.

“No need, boiling water isn’t hard, consider it a punishment.” Hamano Rikiya smiled and waved his hand.

“Then I’ll leave it to you.” Hamano Rikiya smiled and patted Jiang Heng’s shoulder.

Jiang Heng flinched, almost attacking directly.

Suppressing his body’s instincts, Jiang Heng said with a half-smile, “This seems to be a matter of luck.”

“It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with magic, does it?”

“Of course!” Hamano Rikiya waved his hand.

He said with a smile, “I’ll also be blindfolded. At that time—”

“I can accurately say who is in charge of each of these tasks…”

“In that case, it really would be magic.” Ara Yoshinori nodded thoughtfully.

Then, Jiang Heng casually drew a mark on a few of the sticky notes.

“Let me think, the person in charge of boiling water… is it Tanaka?” Hamano Rikiya pretended to ponder.

Jiang Heng directly flipped over the sticky note with the triangle symbol on the back. The other side indeed read Tanaka Kiku.

“That’s really accurate!” Tanaka Kiku shrugged.

“Then, the acting director… should be me, right?” Hamano Rikiya immediately followed up.

Unexpectedly, after the sticky note with the circle was flipped over—

The name revealed was actually Doi Takuya!

“Eh? I’ve never done this before.” Doi Takuya helplessly scratched the back of his head.

“It’s okay, just watch and figure it out…” Ara Yoshinori comforted him.

“As for the corresponding entertainment project, it’s Hamano Rikiya!” Jiang Heng directly flipped over the last sticky note.

He gave Hamano Rikiya a meaningful look: “It seems your magic has failed.”

“This…” Hamano Rikiya subconsciously glanced at Tanaka Kiku.

After a sigh, he didn’t waste any words.

Instead, he left a sentence and went upstairs: “I’ll go back to my room first and prepare the project.”

“Then, I’ll go boil water.” Tanaka Kiku shrugged.

“Should I also go back to my room to think about the afternoon’s arrangements?” Doi Takuya hesitated.

As for the remaining few, including Yu Quan, they stayed in the living room chatting…

However, to everyone’s surprise—

They hadn’t chatted for more than a few sentences when the villa’s doorbell suddenly rang from outside.

“Ding-dong—ding-dong—”

“It might be Escape King or Shadow Magician. I’ll open the door.” Ara Yoshinori suddenly sat up.

However, as soon as the door opened, Ara Yoshinori was stunned.

“You… this is?” Ara Yoshinori looked at the old man and young boy outside the door with considerable hesitation.

Uh… Could it be that Escape King and Shadow Magician are actually grandfather and grandson? It doesn’t look like it!

“Um, excuse me, our car had a flat tire on the way.”

Professor Agasa scratched the back of his head, looking quite embarrassed.

“And there’s no signal on my phone, so I wanted to borrow a phone to see if I could call a tow truck company.”

That’s right, the ones knocking on the door were Conan and Professor Agasa!

Originally, Professor Agasa had seen Conan idle and wanted to look at old cases.

To prevent Conan from going further down that path, Professor Agasa simply took Conan out…

Unexpectedly, in the middle of nowhere, they got a flat tire.

Moreover, Professor Agasa never had the habit of carrying a spare tire!

Fortunately, their luck was good; Conan discovered this villa in the woods.

“I see, that’s fine…”

Ara Yoshinori nodded and directly let Conan and Professor Agasa into the house.

After all, an elderly person and a child couldn’t possibly be bad people or anything like that.

“Hmm? Conan?” Jiang Heng raised an eyebrow and looked at Conan and Professor Agasa.

Honestly, encountering these two here this time was truly a coincidence!

“Uh… Lawyer Jiang?” Professor Agasa suddenly paused.

His mind subconsciously thought of the bill with several zeros paid to Dogaki Myoko and Shimazaki Yuji for the out-of-court settlement.

He couldn’t help but feel a pang of heartache…

Conan was also stunned, not expecting to meet Jiang Heng here.

And… Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki are here too? Conan’s gaze swept across the room.

“Why is it this brat?” Sonoko Suzuki frowned.

Sonoko Suzuki still remembered what Jiang Heng and Ran Mouri had said last time about Conan’s identity being a bit problematic.

“I thought it would be Escape King or Shadow Magician.”

“Uh? Are you talking about Escape King Nishiyama Tsutomu, and Shadow Magician?”

Conan’s pupils involuntarily constricted, his voice urgent.

“Uh… How do you know them?” Sonoko Suzuki looked at Conan suspiciously.

“Escape King’s real name is indeed Nishiyama Tsutomu.” Ara Yoshinori also frowned.

“Actually, on our way here, we heard a news broadcast on the car radio.”

Professor Agasa subconsciously glanced at Conan: “It said—”

“This morning, the Tokyo police discovered a corpse in an apartment.”

“And, next to the corpse’s computer, there was a message.”

“It read: One solved—Shadow Magician next!”

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