coobybook Chapter 526 Miss Nightingale (Part 7)
Chapter 526 Miss Nightingale (Part 7)
"Hahaha, it's not as serious as you think, Ms. Wynyard." Miss Nightingale covered her mouth and laughed. "The so-called price is just a term. If I were to use a more appropriate description..."
"The template of your appearance and clothing is the real price you pay. It's something very simple, requiring no bloodshed, no experiments, just 'being known'."
Akai Shuichi was the quickest to react: "I remember that at Melody Villa, Oletus Manor prepared those costumes for us, which means those costumes are..."
"Oh, those are different. Those costumes are all fashions based on the scripts created by the owner of the manor, but yours are special."
"Maybe I can show you directly." Miss Nightingale walked slowly to the front of the bookshelf. The way she walked with her bird claws was even more elegant than those ladies wearing high heels.
Miss Nightingale gently turned the candlestick on the side of the bookshelf, and the bookshelf opened with a click, revealing a dark secret passage. Then, Miss Nightingale called two cute little birds from somewhere.
Miss Nightingale gestured for everyone to follow her into the secret passage, and at the same time gave orders to her two followers: "My half (follower - Miss Nightingale) and 'Eternal Companion', please help ensure that the visitors do not fall behind."
The two little birds immediately landed on the shoulders of Kogoro Mouri, who was at the back, as soon as they received the order.
Maori Kogoro was horrified. He didn't want these two strange-looking birds to stick to him. So he waved his hands to try to drive them away. However, the two followers had seen a lot of storms, and even Maori Kogoro, a former criminal police officer, couldn't drive them away easily.
Soon, two birds squatted on Mouri Kogoro's shoulders, one on the left and one on the right. Mouri Kogoro waved his hand to chase away the one on the left, and the one on the left flew up to avoid it. When he wanted to chase away the one on the right, the one on the left flew back.
"Hey, go away, don't stick to me!"
Xiaolan chuckled when she saw this scene. She always felt that the two birds were deliberately teasing Maori Kogoro: "Dad, I think they like you very much. Don't chase them away."
Hattori Heiji gave a provocative smile: "I think they think you are the most likely to get lost, uncle, so they are protecting you so closely."
Maori Kogoro: My fist is hard. Never mind, they are just two unique birds at best, no big deal.
Several people followed Miss Nightingale into the corridor. At the end of the corridor was a rather spacious room with many sofas and chairs. There seemed to be two people inside.
"I wonder how Alice will fare today. Will she use her book pages to push her teammates into Bon Bon's bomb? Will she get stunned accidentally? What if the opposing supervisor kills three enemies and she happens to be the one being chased first?"
A series of mumblings directly caused a huge question mark to appear over everyone's head.
"You're not done yet, are you? I've told you countless times that if you're not good enough, just practice more. If you can't afford to lose, then don't play. You can't even break a piece of glass right now. You're just asking for trouble if you go in there."
"How dare you say that? If it weren't for you, how could I have been locked up in the living room for five years?"
"Are you blaming me for this? If I hadn't woken up halfway and left you some hints, you wouldn't even be able to enter the corridor."
"I really am..."
Miss Nightingale frowned at the scene before her. "Gentlemen, please stop arguing. All the passages are under repair recently. According to the assigned rooms, you two can only stay here for the time being."
"What? Ms. Nightingale, didn't you come to inform me that I can leave here?" The detective's face was full of disbelief. Ever since the Lord in Yellow took back his power, he, who had only been in the chat group in his mind for about ten days, was kicked back to this dark and cramped reception room.
"Who are you going to get beaten up by, in such a hurry to leave?" The owner of the manor sat on the sofa, holding the copy of 'The White Horse of Death' in one hand and tapping the armrest with the other. "Don't forget, if you go back now, you'll face a beating from six people, including Clayburgh, Pliny, and Campbell."
"Wait, six people? I remember Mr. Kreborg didn't have an ID personality?"
"Lady Mary said that if you continue to write novels based on rumors, you will be sent to the guillotine."
"That was clearly written by our novelist's personality."
"Aren't the five of us the same person at different times?"
"That makes sense..."
Seeing the two about to quarrel again, Miss Nightingale's iron-gray skin turned cold: "Get out of here! Go to Fantasy Hall and calm down!"
Although Miss Nightingale said this to two people, only the detective got up and left. Before leaving, he glared at the evil manor owner fiercely: "She is still so young, why don't you strengthen her?"
"Even if I'm not going to die, I don't want to be hacked in half by Mr. Percy's sword. All the shit that happened before was already troublesome enough."
After finally getting rid of the troublesome detective, Miss Nightingale breathed a sigh of relief. At first, she thought that the owner of the manor would pretend to be sophisticated in front of everyone. It seems that over the years, the owner of the manor, like everyone else in the manor, has been infected by the electronic meme virus from the outside world.
"Let me introduce myself. I'm also an 'Orpheus', the owner of this manor, responsible for maintaining the balance of this manor. (Which isn't very balanced, though.)"
Everyone present had heard the sparring between the detective and the owner of the manor. It was obvious that these two people were the same person as the novelist "Orpheus", but they lived in different periods of time. This was obvious, after all, the novelist looked much younger than the detective and the owner of the manor.
"Don't be surprised. After all, Oletus Manor doesn't originally belong to this time and space. Most of us are from the Victorian era."
This can explain why there was an unstable power supply when they participated in the performance of the eighth group. The use of electricity at that time was definitely not as developed as it is now.
"You don't belong to this world?" Akai Shuichi raised his eyebrows. He had never thought about this question. After all, it was really ridiculous.
But Kudo Shinichi felt that what the other party said was true. Whether it was the magical methods of Oritis and his people, or the abyss material that would bring destruction, these were definitely not something that could be achieved by human power. And the dream that Darren took him into at that time made him even more convinced that there was such a thing as parallel time and space.
The owner of the manor continued, "Logically speaking, it's difficult for two worlds to intersect, just like two completely different books. It's rare for a mystery novel to contain fairy tale content. If the two suddenly intersect in some way, it can only mean that the people reading the two books are communicating with each other. We've experienced many such incidents, but most of them involve visitors coming to our manor, rather than our manor going to that world. Do you consider this an accident?"
"Perhaps it's the resentment of those outsiders. Even the visitors from 'Neverland (The Promised Neverland)' are supposed to be returning to the manor soon, but the 'detectives (Detective Conan)' we once crossed paths with haven't made any progress yet..."