"Stop! Hands up! Don't move! ”

"I have a hostage! You are not allowed to come! ”

Just when Conan and the others were a little stunned by this super expansion, Sato, who rushed in with the mysterious man, followed with a gun, but alas! I didn't expect that there would still be people on this kind of building that was just as abandoned, and they were acquaintances.

In the face of Higashida Ichiro's threat, although the silver teeth full of anger were crushed, in order to ensure Ayumi's safety, Sato still stood in place.

Seeing that Sato didn't make any further moves, Higashida Ichiro seemed to be quietly relieved, and after secretly observing the surrounding environment, he ran towards the stairs behind him with Ayumi.

At this moment, Ayumi, who was held hostage by him in his arms, suddenly understood what was happening to her, Aunt Sato on the other side she had seen it, it was the real police who didn't run away! According to this logical reasoning, the robber who is holding her hostage now is definitely a real robber, and thinking about someone filming or something is definitely a brainless idea.

So, as a little ghost who is still in the first grade, Ayumi made her simplest reaction.

"It hurts! Let it go! Let it go! Help me! ”

Sato, who heard Ayumi's shout, jumped in her heart, and she was afraid that Higashida Ichiro would tear up the ticket, so she hurriedly chased down the stairs with a gun, and Conan and others, who also reacted, immediately ran up with her.

However, to their surprise, when they caught up with the stairs, they actually saw Ayumi standing alone at the corner of the stairs intact.

"Ayumi! What about the man? ”

Sato, who felt weird, slowly raised the gun and aimed it at the corner of the stairs, but Ayumi's answer made her stunned for a moment.

"That weird uncle seems to have gone to the roof!"

"Really?"

Although it was strange why Higashida Ichiro put the hostages he had managed to get hold in random places, Sato, who received the task to escort him back to the Metropolitan Police Department, didn't care about this, and after letting Conan and the others stay to take care of Ayumi, he put away his gun and quickly chased him to the roof of the upper floor.

However, by the time she reached the roof, Higashida Ichiro had already climbed up a long ladder left on the roof to the opposite balcony, pulled the ladder over, and hid behind the door behind the balcony and began to lock the door.

In a hurry, Sato performed a trapeze in front of Conan and others, and she rushed to the opposite balcony with a leap pulling the PVC pipe of the drainage pipe on the side.

Just as Conan and the others stood in place and shouted six-six-six, Wataru Takagi, a role-player who was dragging the elite back, gasped and chased after him.

Obviously, compared to Sato, Wataru Takagi, who had more contact, made Conan more relaxed, and Conan, who saw Takagi standing beside him gasping for breath, immediately leaned over and whispered inquiring.

"Uncle Takagi! What the hell is going on? You and Aunt Sato......"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Takagi! I'll chase you from here, and you go down to the bread!" ”

Before Takagi, who was quite a child, could say anything to them, Sato, who was chasing the bandits on the other side, opened the iron lock in front of him with a few shots, and then ordered Takagi resolutely.

"Yes! Sato-senpai! ”

Before Takagi could see the situation on the roof clearly, he turned around and ran downstairs again, but this time he was no longer alone, how could Conan and other young ghosts who were curious enough about the murder that happened to him let go of this kind of good show?

Not only did all of them participate in the chase automatically, but they also inquired about everything with Takagi along the way, and Takagi has much more patience with children than Mori Kogoro.

And Conan and others, who felt that they were friends with Takagi, couldn't help but worry about Takagi.

"Actually let the suspect escape on the escort road? Uncle Takagi! This is not a case where writing a letter of repentance will do the trick. ”

"That's right! I know that, too! That's why I'm so anxious with Sato-senpai! ”

"Uncle Takagi! You can rest assured! We'll help you! Dare to take Ayumi as a hostage! We won't let him go! ”

Listening to Takagi's lament, Motota Kojima, who has always been very righteous, patted his chest and reassured, but Ayumi, who was forced by him, hesitated when she heard this.

"That uncle, he ......"

Just as Takagi and the others were rushing towards the exit of the building, ready to intercept Higashida Ichiro, Sato, who was following from the balcony on the other side, finally saw Ichiro Higashida in a panic in front of a bathroom.

Higashida Ichiro, who was still running wildly in front, stumbled forward and fell headlong on the toilet board, knocking the cubicle board to the ground.

Looking at Ichiro Higashida, who was lying under the partition and wailing in pain, Sato, who was finally relieved, stood in place and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead.

"Phew! At 18:43, the suspect who had just escaped was caught! Well? The chain of the handcuffs is actually broken! Good thing I'm prepared! To prevent you from running away again! I can only handcuff the two of us together! ”

Taking a few deep breaths and taking a relaxed breath, Sato raised his hand and looked at his watch, so that when he went back to be questioned by his boss, he could have a specific time material when he wrote the report materials. However, Sato, who had done all this, suddenly found that the handcuffs that bound Ichiro Higashida had been broken at some point.

Sato, who was afraid that he would do anything more, immediately handcuffed Higashida Ichiro and himself, so that he was not afraid of him running away suddenly, but unfortunately when she was about to drag Higashida Ichiro who was lying on the ground to leave, she was embarrassed to find that when Higashida Ichiro's hand was on the flush toilet just now, it was very coincidental that it stretched out from the back of the toilet, so when Sato stood up with Higashida Ichiro, she found that she and Higashida Ichiro's arms were locked in the flush pipe of the toilet.

So after confirming the situation of Ichiro Higashida, Sato cautiously touched his other hand into the pocket of the inside of his clothes, but something more embarrassing happened to her. The key that had been left in his pocket was missing.

"Damn! It must have been when I was chasing this bastard, and I don't know where I threw it! Now I can only stay here for the time being, waiting for Takagi to come! ”

Just when Sato was sighing unlucky with black lines on his head, Higashida Ichiro, who was originally sitting on the side, suddenly looked up with tears on his face and explained to her.

"I am innocent! Miss Policeman, I really didn't kill anyone! I really am innocent! The murderer is not me! I don't know how, I woke up in the morning and the body was there! I don't want to, but I have something I have to do! My daughter is getting married soon, and I have to go to Chicago for her wedding! Otherwise, I won't have a chance to mend our relationship! ”

"Huh?"

Looking at Ichiro Higashida who was kneeling on the ground with a pleading face, perhaps it was his words of attending his daughter's wedding that stirred Sato's compassion, and Sato, who stayed in place with Ichiro Higashida, couldn't help but bow his head and ponder his words.

Maybe it's true?