Hattori shouted, "I'm coming over right now!"

After hanging up the phone and putting on his coat, Qi Mu hurriedly put down the table lamp and quietly followed behind him, wanting to get the card.

That was because it was likely to be his "key" to return home.

Qi Mu had already tried. He wanted to give up on the "tribute" and tried to recall the card, but to no avail.

[Looks like I can only snatch it by force.]? _?

A strong wind suddenly blew on the street, and the strong wind made it difficult for people to open their eyes.

Just as Hattori raised his hand to press down on his hat and his clothes fluttered, the card in his jacket pocket disappeared.

"What kind of strange wind is this!?"

After the wind stopped, Hattori looked at the surprised expressions of the passersby and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "It's only blowing on me!"

He didn't notice that the strange card had been taken away by someone else, and he had returned.

Yes, Qi Mu wanted to teleport back to Shibuya after getting the card, but the card disappeared from his hand. He looked back and saw that he was indeed back at A Swarthy Youth's place.

[Can I only wait for him to "offer the tribute"?]

Qi Mu didn't give up and continued to follow Hattori all the way until he got on the Shinkansen Railway.

Then, he watched the train leave.

_ | | | Only 3000 left on him?

Sulfur?

Barium grasshopper?

It was easy for him to escape, but the restrictions placed on himself by a superpower user wouldn't change just because he was in a different world.

Then, could he collect the "tribute" himself?

Qi Mu went to A Swarthy Youth's house again and pulled out a blade of grass in the yard.

[Sure enough, it won't work.]? _?

Was it a matter of "value"?

Qi Mu looked at the cake left on the table by the boy.

[Forget it.]

Who knew if his wish of eating it would be considered "fulfilled."

So, he turned around and left.

He finally had a clue to return home. Although the card made him feel confused and awkward, the feeling of gradually mastering a new ability couldn't be wrong.

Qi Mu's heart that had been on edge all this time finally relaxed by half.

While paying attention to A Swarthy Youth, he was also interested in bringing back some local specialties.

[I've "transmigrated" after all.]

On the other side.

Around seven in the afternoon, Conan and Hattori successfully met up at Dr. Agasa's house and began studying the card.

"What?

The cake has been eaten! "Conan was shocked.

Although both of them thought that there was nothing special about the cake other than the way it appeared and that it was not the main target of the investigation, it did not mean that this unknown thing could be eaten!

"It's with that idiot Ye!" (Qi Shen: What? Are you suspecting me?)

It turned out that Hattori had forgotten about his promise to his childhood sweetheart.

"Girl Who Is Used To Waiting For Detectives" No. 2, after eating the cake that was placed in the room, she waited for a long time before calling to question Hattori. Hattori was scared half to death.

[That woman even said something like 'It's so delicious, where did you buy it?'. She's really big-hearted.]

"There doesn't seem to be any problem, but I still asked her to check." Then, he was scolded by his mother.

The research lasted for a few hours. During this time, the professor and Ash Plateau also joined in.

Two detectives and two scientists surrounded a seemingly ordinary "cardboard" and performed various tests.

This was not going well, because unlike Hattori's description of the card being "self-regenerating and unbreakable," the card was now truly "indestructible." They tried everything they could, but not even a speck of powder came off.

"What's going on?" Hattori was dumbfounded. "I've rolled it into a ball before!"

"Are you sure this is the same 'paper' as the previous one?"

Ash Plateau squinted his eyes, full of suspicion. "It might have been an ordinary paper at first, but later on, it was switched."

"Impossible!"

Hattori, who had the same thought, refuted. "Although I didn't notice it when I threw it away, the changes were right in front of me …"

"You also said that it 'returned to its original state' after you looked away, right?

And after the words changed, you didn't try to destroy it again, right? "

Ash Plateau interrupted him, the suspicion in his eyes turning into disdain. "I say, Kudo, is this guy really a detective?"

"…" Hattori could not refute the fact that he himself was uncertain.

He did not "see" the "restoration" of the card "with his own eyes". It always happened after he left, even if it "changed in the blink of an eye," it was after the real blink of an eye.

"If there really is such a paper that is' impervious to fire, water, and swords, 'I would like to see it," Ash Plateau continued. "But this is obviously not it." She beckoned everyone to take a look at her discovery.

Under the microscope, the card did not have any lines at all. It was completely "unknown material."

"According to Shinichi and your description, it's probably something like a voice-activated display," Dr. Agasa echoed. "Unfortunately, I can't dismantle it at all."

Then he made a deduction. "Even a genius inventor like me can't do it. This must be alien technology!"

Hattori, Conan, and Ash Plateau.

Compared to the four of them, Qi Mu on the other hand had found a "local product" that he liked so much that his wallet was completely empty.

[Looks like it's time for the Hundred Dollar Warriors, no, the Thousand Dollar Warriors to take action again.]

Qi Mu looked at the four of them who had no intention of "offering tributes" and decided not to return to the "alternate dimension" where time stood still to rest until there was a result.

[Let's go to the hot springs in the mountain tonight.]

It was also convenient for him to observe (kan) at any time.

— — —

The next morning, Ahli's house.

After staying up all night and only taking a little rest, the four of them began to study the "advanced electronic product that looked like paper." And they seemed to have achieved some in-progress results.

"So, this' card 'will automatically return to Hattori as long as it is more than ten meters away from him."

[Emm, my bedroom window is definitely less than ten meters away.]

Qi Mu, who had just arrived and heard such a "significant result", wanted to immediately take the tanned young man to the Vast Expanse Of Whiteness to try it out.

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"This should be some kind of positioning system at work."

Doctor Agasa played the video to the slowest speed. "Although we can only see a slight change in light, it is enough to prove that the machine is just moving too fast and doesn't really disappear and reappear suddenly."

【。。。】?_?

[It can't be.]

Qi Mu, who did not see any "change in light", was puzzled.

[And what the hell is "that machine"?]

The other three nodded in agreement. If he did not hear their thoughts, Qi Mu would have thought that there was something wrong with his eyes.

It turned out that they could not "damage" the card no matter what they did. After Hattori shouted in different ways, the words on the card did not change. They could only study the attribute of "cannot be discarded" and finally came up with a "systematic and scientific" explanation.

But then, before Qi Mu could complain, the four of them were slapped in the face by the results of the new experiment. The card that was placed in an airtight container returned to Hattori's hand when it was more than ten meters away from him.

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"… It's probably alien technology," A Swarthy Youth concluded as he stared at the card. "Something like teleportation …"

Using scenes from sci-fi movies as an argument, the four of them ended this stage of the research.

Then, they began to examine the energy fluctuations when the card was "teleported."

Doctor Agasa and Ash Plateau were naturally excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Hattori and Conan were also very concerned about the possible impact of this "technology" — especially on the case.

It was not that they did not have doubts. [Is this really something that can be done by technology?]

But obviously, they were not so easily swayed.

[Are you still not going to give up?]? _?

Qi Mu realized that he had overestimated the acceptance of supernatural phenomena in the "normal" world and underestimated the detective's persistence in pursuing the truth.

[Maybe we shouldn't have used the "equivalent exchange" earlier.]

Instead, it was more "logical" — for example, if he placed it on the windowsill, they would probably act according to the card's instructions in order to see what tricks the "mastermind" had up his sleeves.

But now, there was no need to rush to take any measures. After all, there was still the stone statue waiting for him to deal with the aftermath. He would just take it as borrowing the hands of these "professionals" to understand the card in detail.

— — —

12: 30 p.m., at the Pretty Boy Cake Master's house.

[It turns out that the store manager is so considerate of me even though he talks about how powerful he is.

I actually planned to … I shouldn't have!]

A certain someone was crying bitterly.

He had just been petrified. After receiving a call from his colleague, he was full of doubts. Suddenly, the image of the store manager looking for a suitable shop for him appeared in his mind.

After confirming it, the attempted criminal finally believed that the card was real. For a moment, he was filled with regret and fear.

[Well, although it's not the whole truth, no matter how desperate you are, it's still outrageous to use murder to solve the problem.]

Qi Mu, who was hiding at the side.

However, the cake master decided to reflect on himself. What he couldn't figure out was …

[Why do I have no recollection of what happened after noon yesterday?]? _??

[Because he was very sick.]? _??

In order to fill in the blanks of that day's memory, before the stone statue recovered, Qi Mu had already arranged the scene very carefully. He placed the fever medicine and the thermometer, which had been processed by psychokinesis, at the bedside.

[Okay, let's call it a day.]

Looking at the man holding the slightly melted thermometer with a confused look, the teenager felt relieved and left.

At the same time, the research team on the other side was in a deadlock because the "energy monitoring" did not yield any results.

The few people who didn't know where to start discussed and finally made a decision that made "Namio A Dream," who was hiding at the side, feel very gratified. They followed the instructions of the card to "offer the tribute."

"Speaking of which, there's something I've been wondering about for a long time." Hattori, who was holding a plate of peanut and blueberry jam sandwiches, said, "You guys don't seem to have noticed."

[Is it the smell of the sandwiches?]

Qi Mu, who was looking at their "dark cuisine."

For some reason, Conan, who was not interested.

"Oh, what is it?" Ash Plateau, who had checked Doctor Agasa's inventory, was in a better mood.

T.T. Doctor Agasa.

"It's the wind!

The wind! "

A Swarthy Youth said in all seriousness, "What do you mean by 'wish fulfilled and offering the tribute'? You don't even bother to add punctuation. It's so different from your previous tone!"

"Haha, so what." Conan's eyes were dead fish. "Do you think I'm afraid that you'll give me a bad review?"

[Your cake has been delivered. Please pay for the strange sandwiches.]? _?

After some bickering, Hattori covered his "tribute" with the card on the table.

The moment the plate touched the card, Qi Mu felt that he could take away his "tribute" — there was no need for an equivalent exchange.

So, with a thought, the plate of sandwiches was in his hand.

[It's over?]

Then, the completely white card turned into a spot of light and disappeared. It then gathered in front of Qi Mu again.

[Looks like it's transformed by ability.]

But before the "mission" was completed, he couldn't summon it back.