Multiple choice system: Conan World

Just when Conan was at a loss as to what to do with the situation at the scene.

Lying on the hospital bed, with a ventilator mask installed and inhaling high-concentration oxygen, Masumi Sera slowly opened his eyes.

A dizzy feeling, along with a pain like a needle prick, filled Sera Masumi's head.

It made her feel nauseous.

After Sera Masumi regained consciousness a little, he quickly reached into his pocket.

She recalled that she had not yet completed her suicide.

However, the pocket where Masumi Sera originally placed the dagger was now empty.

"It's over! The dagger was found? !'

In a trance, Sera Masumi's heart sank as he realized that he might have messed up.

After a moment.

The blurry scene in front of Masumi Sera, which seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, gradually became clear.

Her deep green eyes stared blankly at the hospital ceiling.

After about five seconds of silence,

Only then did Sera Masumi suddenly realize that she was not arrested, but was in the hospital.

"I'm not dead?! And I'm not caught?! "

'What is going on?!'

Masumi Sera found it very unbelievable.

Originally, she had not defeated Vermouth in a one-on-one fight, and when she later entered Kunio Koizumi's room to escape from the private hot spring, she was stopped again.

After Vermouth hung up the phone call with "Conan" who pretended to be Kunio Koizumi, Masumi Sera fell into complete despair.

She knew that her plan with Conan had completely failed.

The only thing I can do is to commit suicide to avoid causing trouble to others after being caught.

But after grasping the dagger, Masumi Sera fainted.

When I woke up again, I found myself lying in the hospital

without any restraints on my hands and feet.

Obviously, he was not captured by Vermouth and Chianti, and he was still alive!

'Was I saved by the boy?'

Soon, Masumi Sera realized that he had been rescued.

Because only in this way can the current situation be explained.

'Come to think of it, how did I faint?'

Masumi Sera recalled the scene before she fainted.

I felt weak all over at that time, and then suddenly lost consciousness.

As Masumi Sera recalled in her mind, she also noticed the ventilator mask installed on her cheek.

"If you were simply knocked unconscious, there is absolutely no need to give you oxygen."

"Since I'm taking oxygen, that means I'm suffering from hypoxia."

Masumi Sera tried hard to search for the memory before she fainted, and then she remembered that the air was filled with the smell of rotten eggs, which was much stronger than usual.

Then her eyes widened in an instant.

'The smell of rotten eggs in hot spring areas is the smell of hydrogen sulfide.'

'At the same time, hydrogen sulfide poisoning can reduce blood oxygen saturation and lead to tissue hypoxia.'

'The doctor must have assessed my blood oxygen level and determined that I needed oxygen, so he connected me to a ventilator.'

"I didn't pass out because of the knock. I passed out because of hydrogen sulfide poisoning!"

"Then this shouldn't be what the kid did!"

Realizing that there might be other people involved in this case, Masumi Sera reached out and tore off the respirator mask on his cheek.

Then he pulled out the needle that was inserted into the blood vessel on the back of her hand and was connected to the intravenous drip.

Masumi Sera turned over and got to the ground.

After her feet touched the shoes and she supported her body to stand up,

A strong pain suddenly came from the abdomen.

"hiss--"

Sera Masumi took a breath and then lifted the hem of her shirt.

Then he saw that the skin on his abdomen and sides that had been hit by Vermouth had turned light purple.

"There's subcutaneous bleeding. I'm afraid my mother will find out."

My current condition is just the early stage of subcutaneous bleeding.

When the skin is first injured, it appears red or light purple, but as blood gradually spreads, the bruise will turn dark purple or bluish purple within 6 to 24 hours.

By that time, my mother would definitely find out.

Masumi Sera knew that this was not the time to think about these useless things.

She loosened the hem of her clothes, picked up her coat, pushed open the door and ran outside.

Masumi Sera ran to the front desk of the hospital on the first floor and asked the staff on duty to help call a taxi.

Then he quickly returned to Kosen-an Temple.

She paid the fare with the money in her coat pocket, but after getting off the bus, Sera Masumi saw a scene that shocked her greatly.

Chianti, who was fighting with him just now, has now turned into a corpse.

'Chianti is dead?!'

Masumi Sera widened his eyes and slowly walked towards the real culprit of the car accident who he had been tracking down for more than half a month.

The detectives around noticed someone approaching and looked over.

Then Inspector Okamura recognized Masumi Sera and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Ms. Sera, why did you come back?! Weren't you poisoned?"

"What's wrong with her?"

Masumi Sera did not answer Inspector Okamura's question, but looked at Chianti and asked.

"Conan-kun said that this person died after his neck was broken by another woman wearing a Kosenan staff uniform."

Inspector Okamura gave a supplementary answer.

Masumi Sera observed Chianti's body and also found the pressure marks on her neck, as well as bloodstains on her body and on the surrounding ground.

After asking the detective from the forensic department for the details.

Masumi Sera learned that Chianti had no bleeding external injuries, so he concluded that the bloodstain must have belonged to someone else.

"If this blood is not from Chianti, then it must be from Vermouth."

"Judging from the blood on Chianti's body, she must have been run away from Kosenan by Vermouth."

"But I tried my best but didn't hurt Vermouth much, so how did she bleed so much?"

Masumi Sera felt extremely confused in his heart.

She couldn't understand why Vermouth wanted to kill Chianti.

"Chianti's body was outside of Kosen-an, which means she most likely died outside of Kosen-an."

"Since you said with such certainty that it was Vermouth who killed Chianti, it means you witnessed it."

"So, when the injured Vermouth and Chianti were leaving Kosenan, they happened to run into the boy outside."

Masumi Sera frowned and thought, trying his best to reconstruct the scene in his mind based on the existing clues.

After a moment, she thought of a possibility.

"Could it be that Vermouth couldn't take Chianti away at that time, so in order to prevent Chianti from being caught, she had to kill Chianti?"

"They ran into the boy outside, so it's impossible that he made them like this."

"Who on earth could have caused Chianti and Vermouth to suffer such a terrible loss and flee from Kosen-an in such a hurry?"

Combined with his previous experience of hydrogen sulfide poisoning, Masumi Sera concluded that there must be someone else who caused all this.

(End of this chapter)