There is a small storage space under the mats.

Conan hid inside, curled up, praying that he would not be discovered.

The first to walk in was the fat woman.

"Gone! The imp is gone! ”

"Huh?" The masked man followed.

"New... This little imp doesn't know when he woke up! And the windows are open! The woman bent down and poked her head out of the window to look down, "He must have jumped from the window!" ”

The masked man glanced around the room, then crouched down next to the traces of the tried liquor and knocked on the floor.

It was so close to Conan that Conan could feel his breath blowing into his face through the slits. He didn't move, not even daring to breathe, but he realized that he might have been discovered.

Sure enough, in such a short period of time, the wine stains could not be cleaned up at all. He's stupid, really...

At this time, the woman's voice came, "I'm going to chase him!" ”

Yes, go after me!

The woman's voice gave Conan another glimmer of hope. He curled up, silently cheering up the woman.

However...

"What's the hurry... He's still in the house..."

The masked man chuckled, and in the midst of the woman's puzzled gaze and Conan's desperate thoughts, he barely hesitated to lift the small wooden door of the storage space.

"Found you..."

The masked man lifted Conan up with one hand by the collar and with the other by his neck.

Conan, who couldn't react at all, subconsciously struggled in the air. The masked man's hand didn't hold very tightly, focusing on his collar, but Conan still felt a little out of breath.

He couldn't escape.

He couldn't save Kaedehara.

He didn't get back to his old self to see Xiaolan.

He's going to die.

He couldn't do anything.

The masked man suddenly let go of his hand, causing Conan to fall to the floor.

The height was not high, it was not very painful, Conan got up and couldn't help coughing a few times.

"Don't worry, you're an important test subject," said the masked man, "I don't want to kill you like that." ”

"You see, I saved you, but I didn't send you to the dissection table like the other part of you. I'm your savior... Isn't it good to be obedient? ”

“……”

"You're still reluctant." Despite receiving no response, the masked man kept talking, leaning over to look at the silent Conan, "But, it's okay, I expected you not to cooperate obediently... So I went to prepare..."

Conan, who had just recovered from his near-death feelings, was going to make a last-ditch effort with the props invented by Dr. Asasa had a bad feeling in his heart.

Then he heard the man say, "... Bring her up! ”

This was apparently said to the fat woman standing by the door.

Conan froze.

The word "she" exploded in Conan's mind over and over again, making him feel that everything was unreal. Even though the masked man didn't say "her" by name, it would be stupid if he didn't even realize it.

"Ran..."

When he came back to his senses, Conan saw the girl who had been brought in, tied up.

He whispered the girl's name, his voice hoarse. He thought he would shout loudly out of his mind, but when he found that when he saw the girl, he lost his voice a little.

The masked man holds a gun to the back of Conan's head and looks at Moriran, a girl who grew up with Shinichi Kudo.

"Shinichi... It's really you..."Xiaolan burst into tears, "It turns out that you have really become a child..."

I'm sorry, Lan, it's all my fault.

Conan didn't know what to say. He just looked at Mao Lilan in a daze, at the heartache and reluctance in her eyes, and his heart was full of remorse.

He shouldn't have been following the two men in black in the first place.

"Alright, that's the end of the touching reunion," the masked man motioned to the fat woman to plug Xiaolan's mouth with a towel and take her down, "Now, will you be obedient?" ”

Conan looked at Xiao Lan, who was struggling to be taken away, and glanced at her, from which he seemed to read Xiao Lan's heart: "Shinichi! Don't give up! ”

I'll definitely get you back!

At the moment when the figures of Xiaolan and "Edogawa Fumiyo" disappeared, Conan suddenly missed the gun in the masked man's hand, and then turned around and fired, all in one go.

However, the anesthetic needle on the masked man's neck and the button on the watch did not give him any response.

But he was doubly prepared.

Just when he got up from the ground, he had already quietly turned on the button of the foot strength enhancement shoe. There was nothing to kick here, but the Masked Man was very close, so Conan chose to kick the Masked Man directly.

Kicked.

But it doesn't seem to be a hit.

The kick that hit the masked man was just a kick belonging to an elementary school student. Even though there was actual contact with the other person's body, even though the other person did seem to feel pain... But apparently it's just a little painful, and it's completely different from the expected scene where the other party flies out directly.

Instead, the masked man seemed to subconsciously pull the trigger on Conan.

I'm going to die.

Conan thought.

And then...

I feel like I'm getting a head of water.

“… Hey? ”

"Shhhh It hurts... The bastard is really ruthless. The masked man rubbed where he had been kicked.

“…？”

Poof.

Relieving the pain, looking at Conan, who was still dazed, the masked man suddenly laughed.

"Hahaha... Don't you understand? I'm the world's premier mystery novelist—" The masked man said as he took off his mask, "Yusaku Kudo! ”

"Dad, Dad?"

"Oops~ Shinichi seems to be frightened! Really, I forgot to take a picture...", "Maolilan", who was still tied up just now, walked in.

However, although the "girl" has the same face as Mao Lilan, the voice is completely different, combined with the fact that the masked man is the father...

"Mom?"

"That's right!" The woman tore off the camouflage props on her face, revealing a beautiful face, "Ha! I didn't even notice my own son! It seems that I'm really a good actor~ But Shinichi, you are really, Xiaoxin can recognize it at a glance..."

What a new one, Conan has no time to deal with it now, he just turned his head to the "fat woman" who walked in again in a daze, and the other party touched his head embarrassedly...

"Dr. Asasa?"

"Hey, hey... It's me, Shinichi, didn't expect that, right? Dr. Asa took off his disguise with the help of Yukiko Kudo, "But I've only played this for a while, and this role was played by your mother before..."

“… What about Kaedehara? ”

"Hey." Hearing that he was being called, Kaedehara walked in and said hello.

“… Damn it! Conan's chest was like an accordion, "You guys! Really! It's too much! ”