Miwako Sato's question directly made Toshihiko Takasugi, who was still full of hatred, speechless.

Truth be told, that's why he felt a little uneasy after hearing what was in the recording.

Because of his hatred for Matsumoto Kiyocho, he thought that this woman would be with him because she coveted the property of the Takasugi family, but now it seems that his idea is simply wrong-

Sayuri Matsumoto was willing to be killed by him?!

Conan, who was inconspicuous in the crowd, lowered his head slightly, and there was an inexplicable light reflected on the lenses, and he didn't know what to say for a while:

Perhaps, Sayuri-sensei knew about Toshihiko Takasugi's hatred for her father from the beginning, but she wanted to use her love to melt the anger in his heart......

"Ahem, Mr. Toshihiko Takasugi, now we suspect you and Sayuri Matsumoto-"

"Needless to say these high-sounding words, I will cooperate with you and cooperate with you to find Sayuri."

After scolding, Takasugi Toshihiko waved his hand, his expression a little complicated: "I want to ask her why." ”

"Then go and make a note."

Twilight Thirteen and Kiyocho Matsumoto, who straightened their hats and went out in person, followed Takasugi Toshihiko into the interrogation room.

"Okay, okay, it's all gone, go investigate the case, and do the things you explain quickly. Tian Suo, let you go and check the few mice that Mrs. Miyazawa confessed, have you checked? Just go. ”

After Twilight Thirteen left, Miwako Sato, one of his right-hand men, immediately began to ask the onlookers to hurry up and work. For a while, there were only two or three kittens left in the crowded area that had just been crowded.

"Mrs. Miyazawa, it will be very nerve-wracking for you to hide the relevant facts from me, the detective, as a client." It was also the same person who only knew that Yuka Miyazawa still had the recording in his hand and the fact that he went to meet a few drug dealers last night.

"I'm really sorry, because this recording is so important, so I don't dare ...... I'm sorry. Yuka Miyazawa bit her lip and bowed deeply to Mori Kogoro: "Please trust me again, I really don't have anything to hide from you." ”

Before she fully trusted Maori, she really didn't dare to release the recorder, and today she was forced by the police to prove her innocence.

“……”

Mori Kogoro, who had the intention of refusing, looked at the woman in front of him who was running around in order to investigate the truth about her husband's death, and couldn't help but sigh.

"I still can't figure out why Sayuri Matsumoto would be willing to die for a man who wants to kill him, do you believe Uehara?"

Staring at the back of Maori Kogoro leaving with Conan and Yuka Miyazawa, Miwako Sato asked, leaning on the desk and crossing her hands over her chest.

"It's hard to say, maybe it's because Toshihiko Takasugi took shit luck and met a peerless good woman."

Katsumi Uehara shrugged his shoulders and threw the notebook and pen in his hand on the desk: "Takasugi Toshihiko has now taken over the Twilight Police Department, let's go and meet that Natsukigawa Shiya first." ”

After reaching out on the blackboard and adjusting the photo of Toshihiko Takasugi to the circle with the greatest suspicion, Miwako Sato turned around and walked towards the door with her partner-

Thirty minutes later, the two of them got the news that wasn't good news.

"I'm sorry for the two of you, Dr. Xia Muchuan has surgery tonight, and I don't have time to meet with the two, please forgive me."

"And when does he get off work?"

"Tomorrow morning."

“……”

After witnessing the busyness of the Rice Flower Central Hospital's Advanced Ambulance Center, Katsumi Uehara and Miwako Sato are obviously in a bad relationship.

"I got the contact information of Jiya Natsukikawa from the director of the emergency department, so I'll come back tomorrow morning to talk to this busy man."

In the Rice Flower Central Hospital shrouded in night, Katsumi Uehara, who was holding pure water, poured several sips of it, which was considered to quench his thirst.

"Drink slowly, be careful of choking." Miwako Sato, who was replying to the message by e-mail, glanced at him.

"Something really happened, the emergency room is on the side." Katsumi Uehara pursed his moist lips and pointed to the building a few meters next door: "Is there a new clue, typing so fast?" ”

"No, it's just that our people confirmed that Yuka Miyazawa was not lying. The poison dealers she approached all admitted that she really wanted to use the money to make a deal with them and get them to give evidence that Takasugi had purchased sodium hydroxide capsules, which were the poisons that Takasugi had bought to poison his fiancée. ”

"She's very well-connected, and she can find poison dealers?" Katsumi Uehara, who screwed the lid on, slammed his mouth a few times, and his eyebrows raised a little surprised.

"Use money to open the way, and you can too."

Miwako Sato, who handed her mobile phone to Katsumi Uehara, raised her eyebrows, and glanced at Katsumi Uehara, who was suspicious of her letters-

In the past month, Yuka Miyazawa's every consumption record has been exceptionally clear.

"It looks like she's getting less suspicious as well."

"We are checking whether she and her husband have other bank accounts, and the results are expected tomorrow afternoon."

"Not tonight?"

"Don't think too much, recharge your batteries and get a good night's sleep tonight, maybe we'll have to stay all night."

Miwako Sato, who took back her phone, sighed: "Home, good night." ”

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow."

Katsumi Uehara, leaning against the stone pillar, chuckled and waved at her.

At the intersection of Yonehanamachi in the middle of the night, the two cars parted ways.

Maori Detective Agency, bedroom.

Resisting the earth-shattering snoring of Maori Kogoro, hiding under the covers and using the miniature flashlight of his watch to illuminate the case in front of him that was reproduced with his pen, Conan fell into deep thought.

Regarding the two cases that happened after and after the serial murder case, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while.

The strangest of these is the act of the prisoner tricking the police officer Shiratori Ren Saburo into the restaurant called Asahi and then detonating the bomb.

If it was just to kill Shiratori, Ren Saburo wouldn't have to go through such a big deal at all.

And this notice letter...... What exactly is it talking about?

The little hand picked up another handwritten teaser letter, and Conan frowned.

Ancient Roman ......

Colosseum ......

Conan, who couldn't figure it out, fell asleep with a heavy heart, until he was woken up by Maoriran the next morning.

"Conan, get up quickly, I'm going to school today, don't stay in bed."

"Aha...... Okay, got it, Sister Xiaolan. ”

Conan, who was yawning, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and his lack of sleep made Mao Lilan a little worried: "Conan, didn't you sleep well last night?" ”

Mori Kogoro snores when he sleeps, and she knows it.

"Why don't you sleep in a room with me, Conan?"

——？！

Sleep in a room with Xiaolan?!

Conan, who was still sleepy-eyed, was excited: "This, this is not good, Sister Xiaolan......"

"Why? Don't you want to share a room with me? "Maolilan didn't really understand.

What is the child's sleep?

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll go wash up Sister Xiaolan first." Conan, who didn't know what he was thinking, hurriedly rushed out of the room and was about to run to the bathroom, and when he passed by the living room, Mori Kogoro, who was sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper, glanced at the little ghost and shook the cigarette ash-

"Really, troublesome little ghost, if it doesn't work, I can clean up the third floor for you to live in."

"Dad, Conan is still so young, how can you let him live on the third floor alone." The puffing Mao Lilan put down the breakfast brought out of the kitchen and crossed his hands on his hips.

Conan, who stepped on the bench to get to the sink in the bathroom, brushed his teeth, and when he heard the sound of the TV news outside the door, the father and daughter shook his head helplessly:

Really, it's starting again.

"The latest news is that all the victims of the restaurant bombing that occurred in Kakudo Town two days ago have been treated and transferred to the corresponding wards......

In the living room, a news anchor is elegantly announcing a press release. In the bathroom, Conan, who was brushing his teeth, listened, but his brushing speed became slower and slower-

？！

Wait a minute! I remember what it said in the notice letter?!

Conan, who didn't have time to wash the foam, hurriedly got off the bench and rushed back to the bedroom under the watchful eyes of Mori Kogoro and Moriran.

"Conan?"

Under Maolilan's gaze, Conan, who had forgotten his childlike habits, was half-crouching in front of his futon, holding his mobile phone and seemingly typing and searching for something.

I see......

That's why the prisoner does it!

……………………………………………………

"However, it is a pity that in the list released by the director of the Rice Flower Central Hospital Advanced Emergency Center, 34 of the 136 injured who were taken to the hospital died because of their injuries......

Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, in a high-rise apartment.

Katsumi Uehara, who was eating breakfast, was still playing the morning news as background music, and he didn't forget to flip through the email in the mailbox while eating, but when he heard the broadcast in the news, his brows suddenly wrinkled-

Well?

Biting into the bun he had made, he raised his eyes and looked at the host on the TV news who was announcing the details, and Katsumi Uehara's chewing movements became slower and slower......

Say?!

Suddenly thought of a possible Katsumi Uehara, and there was a flash of lightning in his mind-

Biting the bun, he quickly took his mobile phone to search for relevant information, then stood up suddenly, and immediately dialed the phone number of his boss Twilight Thirteen-

"Hello? Uehara-kun? ”

"Police Department! Take someone to Rice Flower Central Hospital right now! Fast! ”

Katsumi Uehara, who hurriedly put on his suit jacket, said sharply: "The bomb and Sayuri Matsumoto are in the hospital!" ”

"What do you say?! Are you sure?! ”

Twilight Thirteen, who arrived at the office early, slammed the table, and his voice was so loud that it immediately attracted the attention of Miwako Sato and others, who had just come to work outside the office: "Have you already untied the notice letter?!" ”

"Ah, that's what I just thought."

Shoved the unfinished bun into the pocket of his suit, and after spinning the key to start the engine, the magenta EVO rushed out of the parking space-

"For a long time, we have not been able to find out who the eighth person who the culprit was trying to kill when he blew up the specialty restaurant. White Bird? Or a shopkeeper? Or maybe it's a waiter?

"We checked all of them, but there was no result, on the contrary, a lot of time and a lot of police force were wasted on this."

After two generations of Kudo brothers, Twilight Thirteen subconsciously answered with the experience he had accumulated over the years: "Could it be that Uehara-kun, do you already know who the eighth target of the prisoner is?" ”

"The reason why we can't find the eighth target is very simple, because this eighth target is not a single person, but the person who was in the whole restaurant at the time!"

Katsumi Uehara, who blasted out with one foot on the accelerator and no brakes, controlled the steering wheel with one hand, and made a call with his mobile phone in the other, which was photographed by the surveillance at the intersection.

"Do you remember the notice letter left by the prisoner after kidnapping Sayuri Matsumoto, the police department, which is the reason why the prisoner wanted to do this."

Katsumi Uehara, who slammed the steering wheel, honked his horn from time to time: "I said before that the location written in that notice letter should symbolize the ancient Roman Colosseum. And in the history of the Colosseum in ancient Rome, there are some bloodshed and sins that cannot be avoided. ”

Twilight Thirteen's eyes widened as he opened his hands-free eyes: "The history of the Colosseum in ancient Rome?" ”

"That's right, the Sicilian slave revolt. The Second Sicilian Slave Revolt to be precise. ”

Katsumi Uehara recalled what he had searched for not long ago, and said in a deep voice: "In 104 BC, the Second Sicilian Slave Revolt broke out. Slave Savis was elected leader, and after forming a team, he united with the army led by Athenion, the leader of the western slaves, and began a three-year war with the Roman rulers.

Three years later, in 101 BC, the slave rebels fought a decisive battle with the Roman army, which was defeated. Countless captured slaves were crucified, and 1000 slaves were sent to Rome to work as gladiators.

"And these rebellious warriors refused to be entertained, and they slashed each other to death in the practice field."

Miwako Sato's eyes widened suddenly, and she exclaimed: "The people who were affected by the bombs in those restaurants are the slave warriors in this allusion, the police who sent them to the hospital are the Roman army, and the hospital where the wounded are taken is the Colosseum?!" ”

"That's right.

[The monstrous beast's eyes red with hunger amid the shouts of joy, and the mournful warrior in despair swung his deadly spear at his companion; The glittering flowers cheer for the victors, and the life in the cage shrunk in a corner and tremble] The focus of these two sentences is on the Colosseum in ancient Rome and the two places where the spear is waved at the companion. ”

"But why? Why is it a hospital? Twilight Thirteen, who had already started calling the explosive ordnance disposal team, frowned.

This time, without waiting for Katsumi Uehara on the other end of the phone to answer, Miwako Sato already understood: "In the second half of the advance letter, the oracle, God, and the cross are the symbols of Christianity. ”

"More than that, Sato, you've forgotten the most important point."

"The most important point?"

"That's right."

Katsumi Uehara, who was driving a shortcut to the road, stepped on the accelerator and flew up, and then drifted and turned a corner, raised his eyes and successfully saw the sign of Rice Flower Central Hospital, his eyes were fixed, and he said loudly: "Rice Flower Central Hospital is now overcrowded, if the police lead the team to rush in at this time and say that there is a bomb in the hospital, I hope you will evacuate in an orderly manner under the guidance of the police, what do you think will be the reaction of the crowd?" ”

Miwako Sato's tone paused: "The ...... of the crowd React? ”

"Most people are blindly obedient, and once they encounter something that threatens their lives and the lives of their families, their mentality will be unbalanced, not to mention the hospital is the place where the most people cherish their lives.

"At that time, all it takes is a gentle push from someone, and the police are bound to clash with people who want to escape the hospital quickly. At that time, the police and the people who have clashed will be no different from gladiators;

"And this hospital will also be reduced to a colosseum for the gladiatorial battles between the police and the public, offering a visual feast for the murderer hiding in the shadows."

Chirping!!!

Under the sudden braking, the tires made a screeching sound of rubbing against the ground.

Katsumi Uehara, who parked the car directly on the side of the road, opened the car door and got out of the car, stared at the main entrance of the Rice Flower Central Hospital in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "That is—[The sad fighter swung his deadly spear at his companion in despair. 】”