Due to the disadvantage of short legs and short legs, Conan, who lost his center of gravity in an instant, staggered back a few steps in a row to barely maintain the stability of his body, and his small hands rubbed the bridge of his nose with pain, so painful that he grinned his teeth.

Seeing this, Mao Lilan just wanted to open his mouth to reprimand this disobedient child, but after considering Katsumi Uehara's previous series of actions, he immediately closed his mouth, and just pressed Conan who was rubbing the bridge of his nose with nuclear eyes.

"If you're really not hiding, then can you tell me where you are now? I'd like to treat you to a meal and give you two more sets of clothes, a little jewelry that isn't very valuable. ”

Glancing at Conan Edogawa, who was drooping his head on the side of his legs and pretending to be tender with a childish look, Katsumi Uehara slowly opened the door of the office-

The assistant general manager, who had just received him, was sorting out the documents at the reception desk outside, and he didn't look out of the slightest.

"I'm right where I'm supposed to be. If you can come to your door, Mr. Policeman, then I will be happy to go out to dinner with you. The electronic sound coming from the mobile phone was silent, but the assistant at the front desk did not speak.

It wasn't her who called.

Looking past Katsumi Uehara's block, Conan, who also fell on the assistant outside the office, covered his nose and frowned, lost in thought.

The policeman knocked on the door of Toshihiko Takasugi's office on the front foot, and the mysterious person on the back foot dialed Toshihiko Takasugi's phone, if he hadn't been watching from beginning to end-

No! No, wait a minute!

Conan, who seemed to have a flash of lightning in his mind, turned his head sharply, and was about to speak, but suddenly remembered that he was no longer a high school detective, Kudo Shinichi.

"You said this yourself, so I hope you can keep your word when I come to visit." Katsumi Uehara, who took out his phone and typed quickly on the keyboard with one hand, chuckled, flipped the screen over and held it up to his partner-

"Where is the surveillance room where you can see the 23rd floor of the surveillance footage?"

The question of black letters on a white background made Miwako Sato immediately turn her head and look at Toshihiko Takasugi in a daze, and the latter, who came back to his senses, immediately gestured with his hand 26.

The monitoring room is on the 26th floor.

Conan Edogawa, who didn't expect this policeman to be able to think of this quickly, was a little surprised.

"I've always been a man of my word, Mr. Policeman."

"Who knows. However, I am more curious about why you suddenly called to contact the police than your character. ”

"If I say that it is just to clear the suspicion of Mr. Takasugi, will you believe it?" The chuckle on the other end of the line was visibly mocking and sarcastic.

Seeing this, Takasugi Toshihiko's eyes suddenly widened, and he opened his hands and kept gesturing.

Although I don't know what he wants to say, the meaning expressed should be that he didn't do anything, which is slander.

"Are you so confident that you can escape from the police?"

After gesturing to Miwako Sato, Katsumi Uehara, who was holding his mobile phone, stepped out of the office door directly, looked up at the monitoring probe under the beam not far away, and said in a tone full of Mori Han: "There is a price to pay for provoking the police." ”

"Before you, there was a policeman named Ninzaburo Shiratori who said something similar to me. If I guessed correctly, he should be lying in the hospital's intensive care unit right now. Of course, it could also be a morgue. ”

“…… I see, so you called Shiratori to the restaurant called Asahi through a third-party phone, and I said why he didn't have any information on his phone. ”

"Let's play a game, Mr. Policeman."

The squeak of the chair spinning was accompanied by an undeniable electronic sound coming from the phone's earpiece, which was clearly playful: "I still have 12 bombs in my hand, as long as you can find me before these 12 bombs run out, then you win." There are no other rules, and of course there are no referees. ”

“…… It looks like Shiratori did get your handle, and you're worried about whether the police have found something. Katsumi Uehara, who narrowed his eyes slightly, replied to the question.

"I've never worried about anyone."

After a "bang", the phone was hung up instantly.

Katsumi Uehara, who was carrying his mobile phone in his pocket, turned his head and shouted: "Mr. Takasugi, stop the vertical elevator down the 26th floor and let the security guard lock all the doors of the safe passage." Now, right away. ”

"Huh? Yes? Oh, good, good! ”

Ignorant Takasugi Toshihiko immediately issued a notice through the internal landline, and Katsumi Uehara himself immediately ran to the escalator area on the 23rd floor after leaving such a sentence.

"Sato Criminal, what about the people in the elevator?" After the panic, he didn't understand what was going on, but Takasugi looked at the other policeman who remained in the office with a little concern.

"Broadcast a notice, just pause for two minutes."

Raising his wrist and glancing at the time, recalling the gesture that Katsumi Uehara had gestured to himself just now, Miwako Sato turned his head to look at Maori Kogoro: "Maori detective, please come with me to check if there are any miniature surveillance probes or bugging devices in this office." Everyone else stood still, waiting for the announcement. ”

In this regard, Maori Kogoro, who is a professional counterpart, nodded, and Maori Lan on the side just wanted to pull Conan over and not run around, but turned his head to find that the child had already disappeared???

"Conan?!"

………………………………………………

"Here it is! Over here! ”

At the escalator, Katsumi Uehara, who was still looking up at the figure walking above, frowned, and his movements were a little hesitant, he hadn't seen any suspicious people yet.

But at this moment, Conan Edogawa, who was wearing the skin of a classic blue suit, stood at a thirty-degree angle in front of him and jumped and jumped, waving his hands constantly to attract Katsumi Uehara's attention: "Uncle Policeman! I just saw a suspicious person running so fast! It's already down to the 22nd floor! On the elevator in the direction of nine o'clock under your feet! ”

Conan Edogawa pointed milkily and looked in the direction, squinting his eyes to focus his gaze, Katsumi Uehara soon spotted the figure in the crowd of people in the escalator that was constantly moving downward.

"See, thank you, I'll go back and buy you two exercise books." Katsumi Uehara, who immediately started chasing, habitually left a promise, and Conan, who hadn't finished speaking, twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard it, and the lens comparable to a telescope suddenly showed a picture of you chasing me.

Probably because of the first-mover advantage, the prisoner was always one level ahead of Katsumi Uehara.

Conan, who shuttled freely on the elevator with the advantage of short legs and short legs, became the third person in this chase battle, and his right hand constantly adjusted the distance of the lens line of sight, and the sound was like a bell for Katsumi Uehara -

"He's gone in a different direction! Left! Left! ”

"See! Near that casual café on the 19th floor! ”

Maybe it's because not long after he became a child, Conan has become out of breath after only running seven or eight floors or so, and his throat hurts like fire.

Damn it!

No, there are too many people, I can't catch up, and if I continue like this, I'll soon lose my vision of the prisoner!

Conan Edogawa, who had reached the 15th floor, bent over weakly, his hands on his knees, panting, and the suspicious trail locked on his tracking glasses continued to run all the way down.

"Let one let let one let go, let one go, let go of trouble! The police investigate! Excuse me! ”

chased all the way down, and Katsumi Uehara, who didn't stop explaining on his lips, saw that the suspicious person had already avoided the crowd, and while panting, he simply felt his heart -

The whole person turned over and jumped onto the stainless steel surface in the middle of the upper and lower handrail slides, and slid straight down as a slide!

The silky smoothness of the action stunned Conan Edogawa, who was still seeing this scene for the first time.

What kind of ass is this? Will it be okay?

The figure who didn't forget to look back during the wild run was obviously startled, and his legs, which were a little lead-filled, ran out of speed like the wind again.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

After processing, the voice came from under the prisoner's mask, and the figure who took out a gun from his bosom immediately startled all the security guards who rushed to try to help.

"Get out of the way!"

Bang bang!

After a series of gunshots, the security guards gathered at the entrance of the hall on the first floor suddenly stopped, and no one dared to step forward to stop people first-

Being a security guard is so much money for a month, there is no need to take your life.

"Damn, it's too far away, and the anesthetic needle can't shoot at all!" Driven by a sense of justice in his heart, Conan, who wanted to help, tried to aim several times, but the firing of the anesthetic needle was always unsuccessful, and he could only watch the prisoner escape from the Takasugi Group building with a gun.

According to the tracking glasses, the prisoner apparently had parked a motorcycle on the edge of a restaurant on the road outside.

The prisoners had all the ways out of the house.

Conan, who was already out of breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead and swallowed his saliva with difficulty: I can't catch up.

No matter how reluctant he was, he had to admit that he lacked transportation-

"Huh?"

Conan's action of wiping his sweat paused, his eyes widened in disbelief under the lenses, and his face was full of ghosts.

Katsumi Uehara, who was also close to running, stood next to the restaurant and glanced left and right, just as an uncle stopped his motorcycle and was about to come to eat-

"Huh?! What are you doing?! Grab a car! Robbery in broad daylight?! ”

"I'm sorry uncle! Lend me the car and I'll pay it back to you later! ”