Just as Conan watched Yuichi inspect the corpse there and speculate about which of the people next to him was more suspicious, Tomoe Takeda, who was standing not far from him, suddenly smiled coldly and turned around and walked towards the outside of the warehouse.

"I knew it was going to be like this! It must have been the Spider-sama who had appeared and crawled in through the small window on the second floor and strangled Shinichi with her own cobwebs, and she did this to punish Shin for building a warehouse here! Terrible! It's terrifying! Minami no Myoho-renge-kyo! ”

"Old woman! What do you mean? What exactly is Spider-sama? Don't go yet, make it clear! ”

Hearing Takeda Tomoe's strange words that were suddenly clueless but seemed to imply something, Heiji, who was standing aside, immediately asked, but unfortunately for his questioning, Takeda Tomoe did not return, but instead opened his mouth to persuade him.

"Young man! I heard that you are detectives, and I don't care about the policeman over there and why you think this is a murder, but if you insist on investigating, be careful that you will be cursed by Lord Spider! Hey, hey, hey! ”

After leaving such a gruesome sentence, Tomoe Takeda left the warehouse with his hand behind his back, and Ryyuji Takeda, who saw Heiji being a little embarrassed by these words, sighed and took over from her mother to answer Heiji's question.

"My mother is old and speaks a little strangely, so you don't have to worry about it, as for the spider she said, it's an ancient legend here!"

"Legends? Mr. Ryuuji, can you tell me about it? ”

Knowing that Yuichi was there, Heiji, who was not good at interfering, heard Takeda Ryuji explain that this spider-sama who seemed to have some connection with the Spider Mansion, and immediately asked Takeda Ryuji on the side with curiosity.

"Hey! Anyway, I'm just waiting here, I'll tell you about it! Legend has it that once upon a time there was a beautiful woman who lived on this mountain and would call out to travelers and ask them questions. For example: Do you think there is a heaven? Any idea what kind of place it is? Would you like to check it out? ”

And the traveler, bewildered by her beauty, replied, "Yes!" As a result, they were taken to the depths of the forest and never returned! ”

Later, when a puppeteer heard about this, he made an automatic puppet that was exactly like a real person, put it on the mountain road, and secretly hid behind the rocks on the side to observe. The beautiful woman saw someone on the mountain road, and sure enough, she immediately appeared and began to ask the puppet questions, but the puppet stood in place but did not answer her question, and after waiting for no result, she saw that the woman's eyes were suddenly red, her teeth were bared, her hands and feet became six, and the fishy smell showed her spider's true body and pounced on the puppet, and the puppeteer who saw this scene immediately flashed out from behind the stone, holding a longbow and shooting at the spider with a rocket, the spider was on fire all over, and fled back to the cave with a scream, but the puppeteer did not let him go, chased directly to her cave, and burned the spider to death in her cave. ”

"Later, the villagers were afraid of being cursed by spiders, so they built a small temple for her in the cave where she died to worship her, calling her Lord Spider, and this mountain was also called Puppet Peak in honor of the puppeteer!"

Listening to Takeda Ryuji's narration, Heiji, who didn't get any information from it, waited until Ryuuji finished telling this strange legend, and pouted and couldn't help but comment.

"It's just a boring legend! Even if Reido was really old, he wouldn't be so sure that Mr. Shinichi was cursed to die, right? ”

"That's because Lord Spider's cave is exactly this warehouse!"

"What? This warehouse is the cave of Lord Spider, so doesn't it mean that Mr. Shinichi is demolishing the temple here and building a warehouse? ”

Hearing the words that Yuzo Takeda suddenly interjected and said tremblingly, Heiji suddenly understood why Tomoe Takeda had been obsessed with the curse of Lord Spider.

"Alas! Oh, yes! My brother inherited my father's puppet making business, and after my father passed away, despite the opposition of the villagers, he expanded the land and demolished the spider temple here and turned it into this warehouse, and also said, If the spider monster really appears, I will use the puppet to repel her! As a result, three years after the completion of the warehouse...... My brother's daughter, Misa, and my sister-in-law, Juanyo, hanged themselves in this warehouse one after another. When we found them, they were both covered in cobwebs, and they were dead. Since then, the surrounding villagers have stayed away from here, and said that our Takeda Mansion was cursed by Lord Spider. ”

"I see? So this is the Spider Mansion? But there's still a problem here! We won't talk about Ling's sister-in-law and Ling's niece, after all, it's been too long, but you have to tell me about the recent incident with Mr. Negishi, although he hanged himself in your family's storage room a few days ago, and Mr. Takeda Shinichi also entrusted Mori Kogoro to investigate the truth of the matter. But I also received a power of attorney, and although I don't know which of you entrusted me, since I have come, it is my duty to investigate the matter. What do Mr. Negishi have in common with Mr. Shinichi Takeda when he died? Or something different? ”

After listening to Yuzo Takeda and Ryuji Takeda's explanation of the origin of this warehouse, he already vaguely felt that someone was deliberately doing something in the name of Lord Spider, and Heiji took out the power of attorney in his arms again, looked at it, and asked the two people in front of him.

"The same place? When you say that, it's really like! When Mr. Negishi's body was found that day, he was also hanging from the beam with a rope like his eldest brother, and he was also wrapped in these messy threads like spider silk! It's like being tied to a beam by a spider! ”

"Line?"

"That's right! It's the kind of fishing line you use to manipulate puppets! ”

"I see? Then there is a reasonable explanation for this matter, it is not that Lord Spider is doing it, but that someone wants to use this legend to kill people! Now it's interesting, in that case, are there any relics related to the Spider-sama left in this place other than the temple of the Spider-Lord's Cave Mansion? ”

Heiji, who had figured out the path of the murderous glove, glanced at Ryuji and Yuzo, who said that they had not entrusted him to investigate the case, and while handing over their power of attorney to them, he suddenly asked with a thoughtful face.

In the face of his inquiry, Ryuuji handed the power of attorney in his hand to Yuzo to check, and after a little thought, he said with a hesitant face.

"If you want to talk about ruins, there really is one! Rob, the side of the Meisha Cemetery where they are now going used to hear the old people say that it is the forest that Lord Spider often takes travelers into! ”

"What do you say? Bastard! Where is the cemetery? Take us there! ”

Heiji and Conan, who heard Takeda Ryuji's words, suddenly became calm, because it was not only Rob Taylor who went to the cemetery, but also Xiaolan and Kazuha!

If the murderer really wants to use the legend of Lord Spider to do something, then the most dangerous people at this moment must be the three people who are not with everyone.