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"Wow, this is great!" Genta's eyes lit up.
"I think these must be from a puppet show an old class performed!" Mitsuhiko also said, peering over the edge of the cardboard box.
"But this is too strange! Why would these things be out here?" Conan was past the age where seeing dolls made him forget everything. He was pondering a more important question.
Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko were hunched over, rummaging through the box of dolls.
"Look! This Tripitaka doll has the same name as me written on it!" Ayumi happily said, pulling the doll's arms.
"There's my name on Sha Wujing too!" Mitsuhiko also found a doll with his name.
"Why is mine Pigsy?!" Genta pouted in dissatisfaction, holding a doll by its arms.
"Look, only this doll is torn and tattered!" Mitsuhiko said mysteriously.
"Ah! Then... then... does that mean someone wants to kill me?!" Genta asked nervously.
"No way! Your name just happens to be the same as the one written on it!" Ayumi said, laughing as she comforted Genta.
"No! Maybe it's not a coincidence!" Conan, however, said seriously after hearing their conversation. He was holding a Monkey King doll. "Look, the surname Edogawa isn't something you see just anywhere!" The Monkey King doll had the characters "Edogawa" written on it!
"Then, our names are on these dolls..."
"Could it be, the recent decrease in the number of students at school has something to do with this?" Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's faces had gone pale!
"Oh no! We're next to be killed!" Genta collapsed weakly onto the floor.
"Ah—!" Mitsuhiko screamed and fell to the ground.
"Mitsuhiko, what's wrong?" Yuu quickly rushed to Mitsuhiko's side.
"I saw that anatomical model in front of the infirmary!" Mitsuhiko squeezed his eyes shut, pointing frantically at the window.
"Ah! What?" Conan, Ayumi, and Genta quickly peered out the window.
"Where is it? I don't see anything!" Genta said dismissively.
"But I really did see it!" Mitsuhiko firmly countered Genta.
Hearing Mitsuhiko say that, Conan turned and ran towards the infirmary.
"Isn't the anatomical model right there?" Genta said, pointing at the model to Mitsuhiko.
Mitsuhiko stared at the anatomical model with wide eyes, hardly believing it! But just a moment ago...
"No! You yourselves come look at this anatomical model! Down here, at the base!" Conan stared intently at the model's base, speaking seriously. "Ayumi's handkerchief, which she dropped earlier, is pressed underneath it! That means after we left the infirmary just now, the anatomical model was indeed moved!"
"So, are you saying the model can run by itself?!" Ayumi asked Conan, covering her face.
"Idiot, someone obviously moved it!" Conan handed Ayumi her handkerchief.
"Do you think they just wanted to scare us?" Mitsuhiko murmured.
"If that's the case, they certainly achieved their goal!" Genta said.
"If they only wanted to scare us, they wouldn't have put the model back in its original place!" Yuu glanced at the model, deep in thought.
"That's great! At least it wasn't a ghost playing tricks!" Ayumi said with relief as they walked out of the infirmary.
"This is much scarier than a ghost playing tricks!" Conan said with a cold laugh. "Someone is still sneaking around the school doing these strange things at this hour. Don't you think that's terrifying?!"
"Who's there?!" Yuu yelled out, stopping in his tracks.
"Oh no! What's wrong, Yuu?" Genta asked Yuu.
"I just saw a figure hiding behind the window, secretly watching us!" Yuu said, then turned and ran back.
Turning a corner, he saw nothing!
"Where? There's not even half a person!" Genta said in a reproaching tone.
"This is where my equipment comes in handy!" Yuu said, tapping his phone. After a few operations, a blue interface appeared. "My phone has a device that can emit sound waves; it can detect life forms within a ten-meter radius. Hmm, besides the five of us, there's one other person!" This was something Yuu had built himself, drawing inspiration from Batman's knowledge. It had saved Yuu's life many times when he was a mercenary; it was absolutely reliable.
"In any case, it's too dangerous with just us here! Let's hurry and call the security guard! I remember the phone number is..." Conan said.
"Conan, if you want to make a call, there's one in the staff office!" Mitsuhiko pushed open the staff office door.
"Conan, Conan, hurry and come in!" Ayumi whispered, calling out to Conan, who was still standing motionless.
Why isn't the staff office locked? Conan thought strangely, watching Mitsuhiko easily push open the office door.
The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered!
"Has something happened?" Mitsuhiko asked nervously.
"No way! I bet he's just drunk again. That security guard has always been so lax!" Yuu said with a helpless smile.
"How do you know about things from before?" Genta asked strangely.
"Ah... Ran-neechan told me!" Yuu luckily reacted quickly.
Conan broke out in a cold sweat, giving Yuu a glare. He had almost given them away.
"Hey, this is really exciting now! Look! This smoke underfoot, it's like being a fairy!" Ayumi jumped up and down, stepping on the smoke.
"What's with this smoke?" Mitsuhiko asked Conan, who was ahead.
Conan shined his phone's light, and indeed, a stream of smoke was rolling down the stairs ahead. He took off running upwards.
Genta's hand, which was gripping the stair railing, suddenly felt sticky. He instinctively raised his hand to look. "Ah, it's blood!" Genta screamed in fright.
Yuu dipped his finger in it, looked at it, and said, "This isn't blood; it's just red paint!"
"Paint?!" Genta shone his phone's light on the "blood" on his hand.
"Someone just made the paint flow down from a gap in the stairs!" Yuu shone his phone's light on a gap higher up the stairs. "By taping the gaps between the stairs, someone could make the paint run down the handrail!"
"Then what about this smoke?" Mitsuhiko asked.
"This is just the result of putting dry ice from the chemistry lab into water! I found this in the corner of the stairs!" Conan said with a smile, showing them a piece of dry ice in his hand.
"So, the culprit did all this to scare us away, then!" Mitsuhiko said, looking at the dry ice.
"Alright then! Let's go upstairs and catch him now!" Genta was filled with courage again.
"It's no use; he's definitely already run off! But, since that's the case, I have my own method!" With that, Conan smiled slyly, then turned to the stairs and cried out loudly, "A ghost! A ghost! I'm so scared!" After shouting, he turned back to the dumbfounded Mitsuhiko and the others and said, "Come on, you all scream too!"