Leaning back on the security door, Conan repeatedly confirmed, "Didn't you find anything suspicious in the hall?" ”

"yes." After being busy for more than an hour, Mao Lilan, who was slightly tired, sat by the wall with a glass of warm water and looked at the people coming and going in the hall, "There are also people who have worried about similar problems, but we checked a few times and found nothing strange." ”

"Unowned packages, strange bags, objects hidden in obstacles......"

With the tone of Emperor Moriya at that time, how could it not just be a bluff? Conan, who was in disbelief, couldn't help but start listing them all.

"Well, I didn't find it. If Professor Moriya was planning to continue blasting next, maybe he installed it in some hidden place, ventilation ducts or something......" Speaking of which, remembering that Teiji Moriya's real target was Shinichi Kudo, Moriran pinched the water glass in his hand and let out an overwhelmed crunch, "Don't talk about this yet, where are you now?" What if Teiji Moriya makes arrangements on your side? ”

"I'm ......" his fingers sneakily ran around the plastic pillbox twice, and Conan undid the lock of the pillbox, finally relenting, "I'm in the safe passage." Just outside the outermost security door. ”

"Wasn't the passage affected by the explosion?"

"It's a little bit affected...... However, the structure is now quite stable. It's safe down the stairs. ”

"Then you don't want to leave!" Mao Lilan's eyebrows raised, and the volume suddenly went up a lot, "You also know what the prisoner wants to do!" ”

The reason why Teiji Moriya is eyeing her is that she revealed her relationship with Shinichi Kudo.

If Shinichi really had an accident here because of her, wouldn't it be in the other party's hands?

Moriran, who now thinks that he is safe and can handle the current situation, strongly disagrees with Kudo Shinichi's current decision.

"You're being implicated by me, Lan. The fire and police who dealt with the accident have arrived, and if I haven't confirmed your safety, how can I leave with confidence. Conan reflexively refused.

Although he was now weak to death, he felt a pang of difficulty breathing at the thought that if the trapped people opened the safety door from the inside, he could not explain his problem at all...... But he still sat still.

In the face of a life-and-death crisis, it is a small question of whether Mao Lilan will be angry or not, whether he will punch him into the wall or something if he is angry.

"But if something happens to you because I'm here, I—I'm ......" Maoliran turned his head to look at the metal door at his side, gritting his teeth.

If her suspicions these days are not unfounded, then the person standing behind this door now is not an adult at all, but a child with weak strength who cannot escape the crisis on his own.

If Teiji Moriya had made follow-up arrangements, then when the secondary explosion occurred, it would have been much more dangerous on the outside than on the inside.

Thinking of this, her worries couldn't help but turn into anger.

This anger is not only for Kudo Shinichi himself, who has concealed something inexplicable and owes not even a word of explanation, but also for Teiji Moriya who used her as a tool to threaten Shinichi without authorization.

"Get out of here, get out of here! Go to the police, go to people for help! Driven by this anger, her voice was loud, "Now, isn't there nothing you can do now-"

Obviously, in a few minutes, it should be the birthday of the bastard on the other side of the phone.

She is dressed up beautifully today, and she came here with indomitable courage to get a clear answer and a happy ending.

As a result, the two of them are now shouting to each other as if they were reprimanding each other through a door that could not be opened at all.

Separated by a thin distance, it is like a sad barrier separated by thousands of miles, as if you will never be able to touch the feeling of the real other, this feeling......

Also, the feeling of being used as a bargaining chip, being regarded as a weak person who can be disposed of casually, and actually becoming the weakness of someone close to me is really terrible!

Not to mention, the one who was threatened didn't even want to talk openly and honestly with her and tell her what was going on with her!

Damn, really, damn!

Sensing the words that Maoriran was about to spit out next, Conan shrunk his neck and pulled his phone away slightly, as if the voice coming from the earpiece had real attack power.

Xiaolan, do you want to say something like how you elementary school student wants to escape from the ruins of the explosion......

It was at this moment that his attention finally caught the faint sobbing sound in the ruins, and he couldn't help but look up sharply to see the corners of his clothes exposed in the collapsed cement blocks above the stairs.

Is this, is someone being crushed underneath?!

"Wait a minute, it seems to be ...... outside" The heart of saving people was raised high, and with an instinctive desire to interrupt Mao Lilan's words, he stood up, wanted to get closer to check the situation, and shouted towards the phone.

"Shinichi! Don't ......! Feeling that his childhood friend wanted to avoid his own problems again, Mao Lilan stared at the almond eyes.

"Drop-boom-"

On the other end of the phone, and from the outside of the metal door beside her, there was an ominous voice that she least wanted to hear.

"New One, New One——!"

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"Bang-"

"Shhh

"Ah, Akemi, you're holding my hair down—"

"I'm sorry Junhui, I'll get up right away...... Yes! ”

"You guys, I'm going to be crushed to death......"

The first one fell, and I wanted to get out of the way quickly, but I saw my teammates Heavenly Maiden scattering flowers falling down one by one from mid-air, and Tang Ze, who reflexively took a hand, made a sound like a gossamer.

"Uh, my waist, hiss......" Because Haori's wind resistance was crooked a little, the waist smashed against the obstacle Asai Narumi, and also let out a breath sound.

"Why, did it fall on the construction site......" was almost poked through the scaffolding, and Hoshikawa Teru, who was still hanging on the wall, struggled a few times.

"There's no way, the secret treasures are in the center of the central axis...... Seitama City, there is no plan to use Teiji Moritani, but many buildings are indeed being remodeled...... "Helping Kimie Shimabukuro to get up, Akemi Miyano pulled out Tang Ze, who was about to be smashed flat by the two of them, from the ground, "Are you okay Azhao?" ”

Tang Ze just wanted to say something, a sharp cat meow came from far and near, and as soon as he raised his head, a powerful cat smashed into his face.

"Poof—"

"Tang Ze, Tang Ze - did you faint -"

Asai Narumi, who barely climbed down from the steel bar, leaned against the wall and barely stood up straight: "Who let him have nothing to do and take the cat in to fight the palace......"

"By the way, what the hell is a secret treasure?" Shimabukuro Junhui, who confirmed that Tang Ze was still angry, couldn't help but ask curiously.

When Miyano Akemi heard this, she looked at Tang Ze's hand, which was holding the secret treasure tightly: "I'll take a look...... Well, as expected, it's the trophy of the Rookie Award. ”

"Let's find a way to go down first. This is a super high-rise building that has not yet been completed, and the construction elevator must be closed at this point. ”

"Fortunately, it is a super high-rise building, otherwise falling from such a tall colossus, except for Tang Ze, we would all have to fall to death."

"This is the building in Seishtama City that is almost finished, right? The tallest twin towers in Japan or something. ”

"Ah, it's here. Have we all climbed that high in the temple? ”

"It's the shadow of Teiji Moriya, it's too high......"

Tang Ze, who finally recovered from the dizziness and grabbed the cat in his hand: "......"

What is this called, should it be said that Emperor Moriya and this broken building are really fateful? Fate.

"Ah, it's 12 o'clock." Narumi Asai, who checked whether the phone was in good condition when it was dropped, noticed the time at a glance, "We were quite punctual." ”

"It's 12 o'clock?" Tang Ze raised his head, walked through the top of the building that had not yet been capped, and saw the bright moon rising into the sky, "That's just right." I gave someone a birthday present, it should be in place, right? ”

Hoshikawa Hui, who quickly realized who Tang Ze was referring to, paused as he was trying to drag himself off the wall, and couldn't help but ask: "Wait a minute, the gift you said should be ......?"

"yes, there's something else on his side now, of course it's a bomb." Tang Ze replied in seconds.

"Huh?"

"Oh, he's probably playing a bitter love scene with classmate Lan right now. Isn't it good that I blew up the door for them? If you accurately estimate the equivalent, you will only blow up the door and no one will be hurt. You're welcome. ”

"Huh?!"

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In the face of the smoke and dust of the explosion, Mao Lilan struggled to open the metal door destroyed by the explosion and rushed into the flames, despite the obstruction of the people around him.

"New one, new one-cough, cough-cough-"

Her vision was completely obscured by the billowing smoke, and she couldn't see what was ahead of her, so she instinctively called out the other person's name and struggled to navigate the narrow stairwell full of obstacles.

Crumbling cement blocks, exposed steel bars, and more lightweight building materials, as well as tarps for stacking debris......

She felt the objects one by one in her palm, and the next moment, she suddenly felt something warm.

Liquid, warm, viscous, combined with a body temperature slightly cooler than the palm of her hand......

Blood, blood!

"New one, new one!" Panic instantly crept into his heart, Mao Lilan didn't dare to directly grab what he touched, for fear of causing a second trauma to the person he touched, "Someone is injured, where is the first aid kit?!" ”

"Miss, calm down!" The people in the hall behind her were a few steps behind her, and finally found Maolilan's location, and walked over to try to lift her up from the ground, "There's still fire here, be careful!" ”

"It's a child, yes, it's a child......" Maolilan's lips trembled, tears had washed away the black ash on his face, and a tear mark was drawn, "Save him, save Conan......"

Sure enough, sure enough, things were just as she guessed ......!

But she absolutely absolutely, she didn't want to know the truth in this way!

No matter who he is, whether it's Conan or Shinichi, she wants him to be okay and nothing......

Tears completely blurred her vision, and Mao Lilan grabbed the hand of the person who was holding her behind her, and cried incoherently: "Didn't you say that the people from the fire brigade have arrived?" Save this child, a lot of blood...... If I need a blood transfusion, I have the same blood type as him, and I can go to the hospital with him......"

“…… Sister Xiaolan? ”

Interrupted by this blank voice, Mao Lilan, who was crying bitterly, was stunned and looked ahead.

The smoke and dust that affected the view slowly cleared, and the view in the stairwell became clearer.

Conan, who was also disgraced, stood there well, holding a little boy whose leg was pressed by a heavy object in his hand and a big hole in his arm, also stared back blankly.

“…… Yes? ”*2

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"Poof—"

"If you laugh again, you're going to cut your own hand......" Conan, who was sitting cross-legged on the hospital bed, looked at the apple peel that had become strangely shaped with Tang Ze's hands shaking with laughter, and grinded his teeth.

"Poof, I'm sorry, but ......" Tang Ze handed the wavy apple on the surface of the fruit knife to the child on the hospital bed.

"Don't laugh, I'm really distressed...... Okay" Conan took a hard bite and chewed twice as he looked at the apple in his hand that had been dug up by an unprofessional peeler.

In order to avoid laughing too much, a knife stabbed into his leg, Tang Ze calmly put the fruit knife into the sheath first, put it at the head of the hospital bed, and then began a brief summary.

"So, you rushed to the safe passage last night, and while talking to her on the phone, you found that there seemed to be a small child trapped in the stairwell."

"yes......"

"And then just as you went up to check, the security door cracked open because of the explosion."

"...... right"

"Then as soon as Lan reached out and touched an injured child, he thought that you had been blown down, and cried and called you Shinichi and called you Conan, saying that he would give you a blood transfusion...... She's really finding out who you are. ”

"Hey......"

"Poof-ha-" Tang Ze, who couldn't hold back at all, patted his thigh and laughed.

"Tang Ze!" Annoyed, the fake schoolboy smashed the bed in anger.

"I don't usually laugh at times like this. Unless, unless you can't help it......" Tang Ze, who was leaning on the bedside table, pinched the bridge of his nose twice, "You are pure bad luck!" ”

To be honest, although Tang Ze did it in the last wave of frank meetings, he still didn't expect such a show effect.

Tang Ze originally expected the scene, probably Conan found out that he was about to be exposed, and even escaped with him, or, because he was worried about the other party, he withstood the embarrassment of social death, and stayed in place and talked nonsense such as "Brother Shinichi just went out......

Quickly forward to here, Tang Ze really didn't hold back.

It is worthy of the theatrical version, and the whole work is energetic.

Conan, who was holding his head, rolled his eyes, and a suspect had already appeared in his mind.

He and Maolilan stared at each other for a short time before they were taken out of the building by the rescue team, and although there was only a slight bruise, he was also packed and carried to the hospital for examination.

After that, he finally got the full picture of what happened that night from multiple angles.

The Monster Thieves Group of Moriya Teiji was able to discover in advance, and he did not sit idly by and watch a major explosion that endangered public safety.

Judging from the situation at the scene, as well as the testimony of Teiji Moriya himself, most of the bombs that really caused danger were disposed of in time.

Except for the wave of bombs that exploded shortly after they sent out the warning letter, the rest were cleared, which meant that on his way to the scene in a hurry, the Monster Thieves might be in the building to solve the problem.

It was also because of this that he was even more sure that the bomb that happened to blow up the security door was definitely intentional by the other party.

Joker！ If you want to say that there is no business for him, you can't believe it if you kill Conan!

However, the email he sent to him to hold accountable was blocked by the other party with the reason that "I blew up the door to facilitate the escape of the trapped citizens".

It's really, it's ......!

"Well, the conclusion anyway is that you're almost going to be exposed right now." Tang Ze, who had laughed enough, finally controlled his expression, and while wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, he asked a little more seriously, "Then what are you going to do now." Is there a showdown with her? ”

"I don't know, too......," Conan flicked twice on the pillow as Conan flicked his back and muttered, "It doesn't seem appropriate to continue to deceive her, but ...... tell her directly."

Although the scene was indeed stiff, although he remembered the sluggish expression on Maolilan's crying face, he was so embarrassed that he clenched his toes.

However, now that I think about it, it seems that now is the most suitable time.

At this point, in addition to the pressure of the organization, Maolilan has guessed most of the truth, and it may be the best opportunity to talk to her and explain the truth.

However, at this critical moment, he was both shaken and timid.

In the face of darkness and the threat of criminals, he had 100,000 courage, but in the face of tears, in the hopeful eyes of those who cared about him, weakness quietly rose......

"Okay, it is estimated that Mr. Lan will have to be hospitalized for observation for two days, and you still have time. Think about it slowly. Tang Ze watched him look at the ceiling of the ward, reached out and patted his little shoulder, "Personally, from the very beginning, I felt that the relationship built on deception was really very fragile. But that's just my thoughts, and you have a lot of your own concerns, so, just for reference. Don't be too stressed, kid. ”

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"What do you mean, don't you approve of my confession?"

"I just hope you don't go around preaching the existence of the Order. Their tentacles are everywhere, which can be dangerous for the Maori family. If you can handle this, I don't need to have any opinions...... Hey, the one who knows who you really are, you can't count Kudo on one hand. ”

"Hattori, why are you smiling all the time......"

"No way, poof, indeed, indeed, it's funny! However, Kudo, it's surprising that you haven't been exposed yet, okay? ”

"Mom, I'm seriously asking you questions! Even if I confessed, I wouldn't have left Japan with you?! ”

"Oh, it's so hurtful to talk Oh Shinichi, the child is really getting more and more rebellious as he grows up...... So what are you going to do, are you going to find the children of the Black Feather family to help you again? ”

"I ......"

"Ding-dong-"

The door slowly opened, and Tang Ze looked at the short child standing in front of the door and grinned.

"I was just wondering when you're going to find me. How's it going, did you have a memorable birthday, Detective-kun? ”

This guy really did it on purpose!

Silently clenching his fists for a while, Conan controlled the twitching of the corners of his mouth and adjusted his breathing.

"I have a few questions for you." With a tense face, Conan closed the door behind him and said straight to the point, "First of all, Yusuke Kitagawa, is he a member of the Monster Thieves Group?" ”

(End of chapter)