"The blue sapphire is long gone in the kingdom."

In the corridor of the King's Castle, the one-eyed Barry suddenly spoke, and under Karasuma Ying's puzzled gaze, he continued:

"The gem was indeed stolen, but it was not a thief outside, but Princess Freya."

"Huh?" Extremely surprised by this result, Karasuma Ying was puzzled.

Is Freya the one who stole the sapphire?

But why did the princess of the kingdom steal her secret treasure?

"I don't know the details." Facing Karasuma's quizzing gaze, Barry continued, "But I speculate that Princess Freya may have been taken advantage of as well, and stealing the gem shouldn't have been her intention......"

"Commanded?"

Karasuma Ying remembered the two Onimar in Japan, one of whom she had already identified, it was Freya, the princess of Andrew's kingdom, and the identity of the other was still unclear to them.

But according to Conan, both men tried to fight for the sapphire during their time at El Pharmaceutical.

According to Barry's words, could it be that the other unknown Oniemar was the one who instigated Freya to steal the sapphire?

After realizing that he had made a big mistake, this princess chased him all the way to Japan?

"That gem, it's not an ordinary gem." Barry went on to explain: "The gem was back to the royal family ten years ago, and it was a very sensitive point in time, and I think you can guess that. ”

"Ten years ago?"

Hearing a very special point in time for this country again, under Barry's suggestion, Karasuma Ying only thought for a moment, then jerked her head up and looked at Barry in disbelief.

"Could it be that the sapphire is also an ore mined from that border village?!"

Karasuma Ying has not forgotten the story that the old man told her, ten years ago, in the border village, after the researchers of El Pharmaceutical detonated that special ore for the first time, the power of the explosion directly wiped out half of the village.

She didn't know how much ore the researchers used for the experiment, but based on normal logic, the first sample experiment would generally only use a small number of samples.

However, even this small number of samples completely exceeded the predictions of the researchers at that time, and directly wiped out the entire research institute.

And now in Japan, the one is the size of an adult man's fist.

It is no wonder that when the guard Hans introduced this royal treasure to them, he said that the sapphire had not been publicly displayed to the people since it was recovered by the king ten years ago.

That's because this gem is completely a high-powered bomb that can be detonated, and the real Andrew's royal treasure has not been recovered at all.

King Heningu simply found the most similar one of those ores in his place, in order to unite the people's faith.

"I don't know." Faced with Karasuma's question, Barry shook his head and replied.

"Huh?"

As if he felt that such an answer was indeed a bit unpleasant, Barry was silent for a moment before adding another sentence.

"I swore to the king, I swore to the king that I would not reveal to outsiders the slightest thing that happened ten years ago."

[Are you still such a rigid person?] 】

For Barry's answer, Karasuma Ying wanted to complain.

In other words, you have an attitude of wanting me to help you do things, but you speak so hesitantly, is this really good?

"Anyway, everything I can say has already been told to you, as for how to deal with these things, you can make your own decisions, I will not interfere."

Barry seemed to want to end the conversation between the two, he straightened his collar, ignored Karasuma Ying, and turned around and walked straight towards the door of Preben's room.

Of course, his affair was over, but Karasuma Ying's was not.

There was one thing she wanted to take the opportunity to ask Barry.

"Chief Barry."

Behind him, Karasuma Ying suddenly opened her mouth and stopped him.

"You...... Why didn't you even ask me why I went into the dungeon yesterday? ”

Barry stopped suddenly.

"Because you knew it from the beginning, right?"

Looking at him, Karasuma Ying asked the question she wanted to ask the most.

"You...... Who have you been in contact with? ”

The suffocating silence instantly spread, and Barry stood there for a long time before replying.

"There is no one, I am just an ordinary person who wants to save his loved ones, that's all."

After saying this, he walked away quickly, no longer paying attention to Karasuma Ying.

At the same time, Mary walked out of Preben's room, glanced around the hallway, and then raised her leg towards Karasuma Ying.

"Xiao Ying, do you guess what His Highness Preben told me?"

"What?"

"Your Highness told me that the royal commission to recover the treasure is still valid, and the reward for the commission will be twice as high as the original set by Commander Birune, and if we recover the treasure, His Highness Preben will personally award us the Hero of the Kingdom Medal immediately......

Speaking of which, Xiaoying, you're still in high school, right? ”

"Well, what's wrong?" Karasuma asked rhetorically.

"Isn't that just right? If we can retrieve the secret treasure and let you get this Heroic Medal, it will also be of great help to you in the future.

Don't think it's inconspicuous, a lot of times, those elite schools just care about these ......"

"This—That's it......"

Looking at Mary, who suddenly cared about her future university, Karasuma Ying had to smile and accept her kindness with a little reluctance.

[Why did you suddenly care about my university entrance examination......]

In the beginning, Mary didn't really care about this so-called royal commission, because it didn't mean anything to her and had nothing to do with her mission.

But things were different when Preben offered to award the Hero's Medal.

What she cared about was not the medal itself, but the honor of this official nature, and although the kingdom of Andrew was small, it was also a real country.

Xiaoying's child is still in high school, and if she can get this kind of honor, it will definitely be very helpful for her to be admitted to college in the future.

For Mary, there was no conflict between helping the child get this honor and using the child to bring out that person.

It's true to take advantage, but it's also true to care.

Not to mention the use of Mary's mouth, in fact, it was just to tie Karasuma Ying to her, and she didn't have any intention of hacking this child from the beginning.

Because as long as she keeps this child with her, she will surely be able to draw out that person, if he is really in this country......

No matter what was between her and that person, Mary would not implicate the affairs of the previous generation with the next.

What's more, Karasuma Ying had seen her when she was a child, but it was a long time ago, and she had been covering her face with sunglasses for the past two days, so that the child's memory was vague and she couldn't remember.

Therefore, as half an elder, Mary is really concerned about this child's future college entrance examination......

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(End of chapter)