In an alley near the Rice Flower Luxury Hotel, a black cat slowly poked its head out of the wide gap in the security window on the side of the building.

After looking down to confirm its height, it jumped out of the window of the Internet café and landed on the ground.

For a fake cat, the second floor was still a little higher, and the momentum of the landing shook his feet a little numb, and Shiraishi jumped on the ground twice with his hair, and after relieving himself, he recognized the direction and headed towards the hotel a street away.

Before he got out of the alley, a little boy passing by across the street caught his attention.

The child looked very embarrassed, he was wearing a pair of homely pajamas, and a pair of cotton slippers with uppers on his feet, and there was a lot of dust on the sides and on the shoes.

Although he is dressed like a lost child, his appearance is very calm and a little serious, and he looks like he is thinking about life.

Shiraishi's footsteps stopped suddenly, and there was a kind of rustic joy of walking on the road, and he lowered his head and picked up a useful prop.

The most important reason why the option "Find Conan and Kudo Yusaku to solve the puzzle" was that Shiraishi didn't know where they were when he made the plan, and he was worried that he would waste his time and energy and not find anyone, which would delay his investigation.

I didn't expect to meet it directly now, and sure enough, hard-working people will be favored by God......

Shiraishi turned his head to look at the second floor, took a deep breath, and climbed all the way back to the window very unskillfully, and re-entered the box.

Ten seconds later, the box door was pushed open, and a man in a suit and a wide-brimmed top hat left the Internet café and strode towards the hotel.

……

Not only did Conan escape, but after the two men in black left, he found a crumpled newspaper in the trash can.

Considering that some people were accustomed to piecing together letters from cut out words to conceal the origin of the handwriting and the printer, Conan suddenly became alert and began to take the newspaper and read it carefully.

He thought that through this, he might be able to find a trading place for the man in black and the unlucky customer.

Based on the context, Conan quickly guessed what the cut out kana were, and after piecing them together in different order, he came up with the word "Rice Flower Luxury Hotel".

Maybe there was some parent-child feeling in the dark, although he was cheated by his parents very badly, but Conan didn't cheat his parents after escaping - he didn't call the police, but came to the place of the transaction he speculated by himself, trying to wait for the opportunity to steal the poison.

It's just that before he reached the door of the hotel, Conan was in front of him - there was a person in front of him.

Conan came back to his senses, and when he opened his eyes, he saw two black trouser legs, and his heart was shocked.

He was extremely sensitive to this color now, and with the fact that the road was so wide and there were not many people, the other party obviously deliberately stopped him...... Thinking of this, Conan was already in a cold sweat, and he raised his wrist with a whoosh, just about to activate the anesthetic needle.

But when he went to press the press button, he felt empty.

Conan was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that because Edogawa Fumiyo was in too much of a hurry, all of his equipment was still at Maori's house.

When his mind went blank, a hand with a black hand reached down and grasped his raised arm as smoothly as he held the handle of a shopping bag.

…… You must not be caught again, otherwise you will be more closely guarded, and you may even have your arms or legs removed! Bloody scenes flashed through Conan's mind, and he gritted his teeth and abandoned his face, ready to howl to attract the attention of passers-by.

However, the person on the other side seemed to be able to read minds, and pinched his mouth accurately, and with a slight force of his two hands, he carried the person away.

Conan's face turned pale, and he grabbed the wrist of the man in black and struggled hard, ready to kick him.

But just as the soles of his muddy and snow-soaked shoes were about to be printed on the other party's clean suit, Conan suddenly caught a glimpse of a mask with a familiar pattern along the lower edge of his top hat.

"......" Conan stayed for two seconds, and slowly, in a cold sweat, retracted his feet.

……

A little earlier.

Yukiko Kudo had already seen Conan walking along the road. Her youngest son was very conspicuous among a group of frozen passers-by in a hurry.

Just as Yukiko Kudo held her face and said happily, "It's my son, you noticed the clues we left so quickly", she saw a man in black come out of the snow-covered tree on the side of the road, go straight to Conan, grab the person and run, and the action is smooth.

…… When Yusaku Kudo was alarmed by his wife's screams and hurried to the window, the robbers who had been killed halfway were gone. and those who disappeared, as well as their ill-fated sons.

"That man is dressed in black!" Eyewitness Kudo Yukiko said with tears in the corners of her eyes.

Mr. and Mrs. Kudo are not ignorant of the Black Organization, which has also done a lot of things internationally, so they also know that the members of the organization are black.

The otherwise cheerful air in the room quickly became heavy and tense.

Dr. Asa touched the back of his head worriedly, when Yukiko Kudo mentioned the man in black just now, he seemed to think of something, but after a few seconds of delay, he couldn't remember it again......

……

“…… Wait, don't go! It's almost one o'clock, and there could be a murder at that hotel! ”

Seeing that after walking to the hidden place, Shiraishi did not stop to speak, but walked farther and farther, and Conan was anxious.

After shouting, he realized that his tone was not very polite, and in order to prevent being planted upside down by the angry black cat into the snow on the side of the road, he quickly added: "That...... Thank you for risking your life to save me, but ......"

"You've really caused me a lot of trouble." A voice above him interrupted him impatiently.

Immediately after, the hands that were tugging at him loosened without warning, and Conan did not stand still, and fell into the snowdrift in the alley, and printed the word "human" on it.

There was a sudden chill in his back, Conan was excited, and he got up tremblingly, he patted off the snowflakes on his face tiredly, thinking wildly that he still couldn't escape the fate of being thrown into the snow, but fortunately, at least not head-down......

Shiraishi recalled the black cat's character in Conan's eyes, and after a second or two, he adjusted his state and said in an indifferent tone: "However, you don't need me to save you - do you know who your kidnapper is?" ”

“！” Conan's pupils shrank, and he understood the wrong meaning from this rhetorical question, "You also know the Black Clothes Organization?!" ”

"The Black Order?" The man in black on the opposite side laughed disdainfully, and waved his finger full of denial:

"Those are just two idlers dressed in black, and you should have heard their names - Yusaku Kudo, and Yukiko Kudo."

“？？？” The question mark in Conan's head gushed wildly, and he froze in place for a while. After a few seconds of buffering, he said, "Impossible......

Shiraishi looked down at him, wondering if there was any intelligence buff in the cold weather, and when he thought about it, he suddenly felt a little cold around him.

Thinking about the warm air-conditioned Internet café box that was close at hand, Shiraishi picked up the people and walked around the road towards the Internet café.

Of course, considering that he couldn't concentrate on helping solve the puzzle without first solving Conan's doubts, Shiraishi said in that mocking tone:

"Do you think the people of the Order in Black would throw a captive out of sight and leave it in another room? - That's their escape opportunity for you, playing boring imagile games with you. ”

Conan thought about his words and felt that it made sense. With this precedent, and then recalling the whole thing from the beginning, he suddenly found that there were flaws everywhere.

Glancing at Conan's gradually relieved and changed face, Shiraishi wanted to laugh a little.

He hurriedly turned his snicker into a sneer before the laughter came out, and by the way, he paved the way for the abuse of child labor for a while: "How are you going to compensate for delaying me for so much time?" ”