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Anzai Morio kept waving his hands, trying to drive the crows away.
But how could he possibly drive away these hundreds or even thousands of crows by himself?
His waving arms seemed to have angered the crows.
"Gah!"
A crow opened its beak wide and pecked Anzai Morio hard, and the other crows followed suit, opening their beaks to peck as well.
You should know that these crows just pecked a hole half a meter wide out of the wooden door.
Now, pecking someone is naturally no problem at all.
Surrounded by a flock of crows, Anzai Morio soon let out a shrill scream.
"Taeko!"
Yuji Shimazaki rushed to Taeko Mamegaki's side and shielded his fiancée with his body.
“It’s alright, Yuuji, these crows…” Mamegaki Taeko said blankly, “They don’t seem to attack us.”
Yuji Shimazaki also noticed that even though they were very close, the crows ignored the two of them and only focused on attacking Morio Anzai.
"What on earth is going on?" Shimazaki Yuji stared in disbelief.
“Crows are very intelligent and vengeful creatures,” Conan explained as he arrived. “The fact that they are pecking at Mr. Anzai like this means that Mr. Anzai must have offended them in the past.”
Behind him, Xiaolan and Yangzi ran over.
“Crows…” Mamegaki Taeko suddenly said, “Right, when Mr. Sugiyama was still alive, he liked to feed the crows at the shrine. Could it be that these crows are avenging him now?”
"revenge?"
Conan paused for a moment, but now was clearly not the time to think about such things. He quickly addressed the people present.
"In any case, call the police quickly! We need to find a way to save Mr. Anzai, or he'll be pecked to death by the crows!"
"I think we should protect ourselves first, rather than Mr. Anzai."
Ran shielded Yoko and Conan behind her. Although she had already assumed a karate stance, her face was a little pale, clearly feeling that her fighting skills seemed to be of little use against these crows.
……
Don't worry, how could I possibly use crows to kill someone?
Inside the main hall of the shrine, Matsuda, who was manipulating everything through the puppet body of the crow god, smiled slightly. Mamegaki Taeko's words had given him a great deal of inspiration.
He has a way to force Anzai Morio to turn himself in.
……
Meanwhile, Conan was still racking his brains for a way to save Anzai Morio.
Suddenly, the crows that had been scrambling to peck at Anzai Morio stopped attacking.
They took flight and then, in mid-air, neatly arranged themselves into two words.
Sugiyama!
"...These crows are indeed avenging Mr. Sugiyama!"
Taeko Mamegaki collapsed weakly to the ground.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Sugiyama. If it weren’t for me, Anzai wouldn’t have known there were valuables in the shrine’s storeroom…”
"Alright, Taeko,"
Yuji Shimazaki embraced his fiancée.
"The fact that those crows didn't attack you just now already shows that Mr. Sugiyama didn't blame you. He only hates Anzai Morio, who stole the things!"
"These crows are amazing!"
Ran and Yoko stared in disbelief at the name formed by crows in mid-air.
"Hmph, what a show-off!" Conan muttered. "The real problem isn't these crows, but the people who trained them."
He glanced at Anzai Morio, who was not far away, his clothes tattered and his face covered in blood.
The guy was completely terrified by the name in the air and was lying on the ground, trembling helplessly.
"Ms. Mamegaki, does Mr. Sugiyama, who committed suicide back then, still have any close friends or family members?" Conan asked Mamegaki Taeko.
"Are you suspecting that these crows were specially trained to avenge Mr. Sugiyama?"
Mr. Shimazaki understood what Conan meant.
"That's for sure. The fact that these crows only attack Anzai Morio is the best evidence!"
Conan adjusted his glasses, and through the glint of the lenses, he said confidently,
"The only reasonable explanation for all of this is that someone did this because..."
"Come on!"
Before Conan could finish speaking, a clump of crow droppings fell from the sky and landed directly on his glasses, which gleamed with the light of wisdom.
Uh… Conan immediately shut up, his cheek twitching.
"I think you'd better not speak ill of these crows!"
Yoko pointed to the sky. Conan looked up and saw hundreds of crows circling overhead, watching him menacingly.
"Even if these crows have been trained, they shouldn't be able to understand human speech, right?"
Conan chuckled awkwardly.
Then, in the next moment, he couldn't even manage that little smile.
A line of crows appeared in the sky, swooping down like bombers, one after another, and skillfully dropping feces bombs as they reached the airspace above Conan's head!
"Ah! Help..."
Conan ran around in front of the temple, leaving behind a trail of bombs dropped by crows.
"Ran-neechan..." Conan ran towards Ran Mouri.
"Don't come over!"
Xiaolan stared pale-faced at the excrement bombs, then quickly assumed a karate stance.
"If you dare come any closer, I'll kick you out!"
Being dumped by the girl he loves, Conan is heartbroken.
"Why don't you try apologizing to them?" Yoko suggested. "These crows seem to really understand what people are saying. Look around us, the crows don't even come near us."
Damn it!
How could a crow possibly understand human speech!
This is not scientific at all!
It must have been that bastard who trained the crows!
Conan struggled for a while, but finally surrendered to the choice between dignity and the excrement bomb.
Chapter 56 The Crow God Appears
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong!"
Conan stopped and shouted at the sky.
"Quack quack!"
The crows stopped their airdropping and, as if accepting an apology, cawed a few times.
"Damn it! If I catch him, who will scold me..."
Conan was halfway through his angry outburst when he saw Ran point warningly at the sky.
He looked up and saw that the crows were eyeing him menacingly again.
"I'm sorry! I was really wrong!" Conan bowed deeply in one smooth motion.
At that moment, Nachi Shingo, the male lead who filmed the TV drama during the day and who likes to call himself handsome, also climbed up the approach and arrived at the worship hall.
Upon seeing the sky filled with crows and the crow droppings scattered all over the bluestone slabs, Nachi Shingo immediately looked disgusted.
"What are these stinky birds doing?" He carefully avoided the droppings on the ground. "What if they get my clothes and shoes dirty..."
"Don't speak ill of crows!" Kind-hearted Yoko quickly stopped her.
But Nachi Shingo didn't understand her meaning and said to himself, "This handsome guy is going to find someone to roast you lousy birds!"
"Quack quack!"
Numerous crows began to form a flock, and the scene of bombing Conan earlier was repeated in front of the temple.
Haha, so this is what I was like just now...
Conan stared at Shingo Nachi, who was shouting and running around in all directions, his face darkening.
"What are you all making such a racket in front of the temple so late at night?"
Mr. Mamegaki, the shrine's chief priest, originally wanted to go see what was going on in the main hall, but then he heard the commotion in front of the worship hall, so he came to the front first.
"grandfather!"
Taeko Mamegaki ran to the old man's side and, sobbing, told him everything that had been hidden from him back then.
"So this is the truth of what happened back then."
The old man sighed, glanced at Anzai Morio lying on the ground, and then looked at the flock of crows flying in the sky.
"Perhaps tonight it was truly the spirit of Binshan that caused the crow god to perform a miracle."
After saying this, the old man took his granddaughter's hand, and the two of them knelt down respectfully in front of the worship hall.
“Mr. Sugiyama, I will take Taeko to the police station to explain what happened back then.” The old sage Mamegaki said earnestly, “The truth about the injustice you suffered back then will definitely come to light.”
"Anxi, hurry up and apologize for what happened back then!"
Mr. Shimazaki walked up to Anzai Morio and urged him on.
"What nonsense are you talking about? I just..."