In the Maori Detective Agency, the news of the bank robbery that took place only a few days ago was on the television. There were three robbers, all of whom were at large.

"It's been the news since the morning."

"I can't help it," Ran replied to Uncle Maori, "it happened less than a week ago, and a bank clerk was shot and killed." ”

"Yes, I wanted to be in the limelight and resisted, but I was killed by a robber."

"He shouldn't be resisting, right?"

Conan retorted and made a gesture of surrender, "According to the customer at the bank at the time, the clerk seemed to raise his hands like this and said, 'OK! Stop! , intending to appease the prisoners. ”

"As a result, the prisoner was angered and attacked."

"But you really can't do bad things."

Another voice came from behind them, "The 200 million yen that was stolen happened to be new banknotes that had just been shipped from the head office, and the numbers on them were completely controlled. ”

This is Toru Amuro.

He is similar to Heiji Hattori, a handsome guy with dark skin, but he is much older, twenty-eight or nineteen years old.

He is the detective Conan met in a suicide case that happened the other day.

In that incident, a married couple held a party in a restaurant, during which the bride-to-be learned by phone that she and her fiancé were twin siblings who had been separated in a fire long ago.

In despair, she chose to commit suicide.

Since she set herself on fire in a car outside the hotel, the groom-to-be was also suspected of being a murderer at the time, during which time Toru Amuro made a mistake in reasoning.

And after listening to the reasoning of the sleeping Kogoro played by Conan, he decided to worship Kogoro Maori as his teacher.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that he also works at the Poirot Cafe downstairs from the Maori detective agency.

Uncle Maori watched the TV and smoked a cigarette, casually replying to Amuro's words.

"yes, with the money you want to use but can't, it's only a matter of time before you catch those robbers - why are you here?"

Uncle Maori looked back in surprise and noticed that Amuro had a tray full of sandwiches in his hand.

"To give a sandwich to my Mori teacher who has been taking care of me!" Amuro replied, "Of course, I'll pay for it. ”

"Do you even have our share?" Xiaolan asked.

"Yes! You can return the finished plate whenever you want. By the way, what kind of case did the client bring today? ”

"Huh? How would you know? Uncle Maori then expressed his surprise.

"Of course I do! Normally, at noon on a day off, you would pass the time listlessly with a horse racing newspaper, but today you have a shaved beard and tie, and you look like you're waiting for someone to visit! ”

Amuro paused, "And this time is the live broadcast of Yoko Okino's concert, but you don't even care about this, but concentrate on waiting here, it seems to be a very big case, right?" ”

"Ahh

Uncle Maori was stunned for a moment, and quickly picked up the remote control to change the channel.

"What's the matter, you can watch the video anyway." Xiaolan was dissatisfied, and then complained to Amuro, "Just to watch this live broadcast, he also specially changed the time of meeting with the client!" ”

"Hara, so that's the case... However, the next client will come, am I right? ”

"yes, but I don't know who's coming." Uncle Maori looked back at the laptop on his desk, "After all, this is the first customer to be commissioned through the Internet!" ”

"Oh... I also opened a detective agency on the Internet..."

"Yes, we also have to deal with the global information age and adopt a digital approach! By the time the concert was live, it was almost the time to make an appointment with the client - huh? Mail? ”

As he was talking, Uncle Maori's mobile phone rang, and he opened the email, habitually reading while reading:

"Hmm... I'm Kei Kashizuka, who I made an appointment with you today, because I have a bit of a situation here, and I would like to change the meeting place to a Colombo restaurant. It's not far from you, so I think we should be able to meet as planned. I don't know if this is possible, but I look forward to hearing from you. ”

In this way, despite the reluctance of Uncle Maori, under the authority of Xiaolan, the group still went to the Colombo restaurant.

However, they waited there for a long time without waiting for the client, and after being reminded by Conan, they went back to take a look and found that there was no one in the office.

Then, when Uncle Maori was about to go to the bathroom, he received another email, which said, "I just arrived in Colombo, please come back again".

Conan felt that something was wrong, and was about to go into the toilet to have a look, when Uncle Maori received a new email urging them to come over, and the thoughtful Amuro pushed everyone out of the door.

"I'm afraid that's the case, right?"

Amuro gestured quietly outside the door, "Someone didn't want the client to meet with the Mori teacher, so they sent an email saying that they would change the location of the meeting, pay the teacher's expenses, and then pretend to be someone from the office and wait for the client to come." ”

"What?" Uncle Maori and Xiaolan looked surprised.

"The evidence is that the keyhole has been pried open. And there are teacups stained with water in the cupboards. If it was Miss Xiaolan, I don't think she would put the cups that haven't dried directly into the cupboard, right? ”

"yes, yes."

"And yes!" Conan chimed in, "The soot that Uncle dropped on the table was wiped clean too, right?" Doesn't that mean someone wiped the table when we went out? ”

"In other words, someone invited the client to come while the teacher was out, wiped the table and made a cup of black tea to entertain him."

"But why do you want to do that? It's just a request to find a coin-operated locker, as for that? ”

Xiaolan was a little puzzled, the content of the commission that the client told them on the Internet before was like this, and Uncle Maori still felt that this was a very simple commission, and he was very happy.

"Is there something terrible in that locker?"

"Well, still—" Amuro said, pushing the door of the office back open, "Let's just ask me!" ”

"Ben, me?"

"Difficult, do you say?"

"Teacher, I got an email just now when you were going to the bathroom, right? Then Conan received another letter when he wanted to go to the bathroom. ”

"And on the floor in front of the toilet, there are traces of something being dragged!" Conan said.

"What?"

"That's right, I'm afraid that person has been hiding here with his client for some reason," Amuro looked at the door of the toilet, "It's in that toilet!" ”

Bang –

A gunshot rang out from the toilet.

……

After some time, Dr. Asasa was at home.

"Cream stew."

Kaedehara looked at what was boiling in the pot and asked Okiya, "Is this also what Sister Kiko taught you?" ”

Since the last time we cooked curry together, Okiya has been coming over from time to time to help cook, and today is no exception.

"Also?" Okiya looked at Kaedehara.

"yes, didn't the curry you made before also be taught to you by Sister Kiko? It's still a little hot, but the taste is not too much..."

"Ah, that's right... It didn't take long to learn..."

Okiya took the soup spoon and tossed it in the pot.

In order to make it easier for elementary school students to learn to cook, the doctor prepared a set of kitchen utensils here, and Okiya showed his cooking skills here just like that time.

"Oh! It looks good," said Dr. Asasa who was attracted to him, "and it was a great day..."

"You can only eat two bowls at most, Doctor," Gray Yuan reminded him, "It's not too early, and if you eat too much, you won't be able to digest it..."

"Alas... Ah, the phone. The Doctor was depressed when he heard his cell phone ring, "Huh? It's Xiaolan..."

Kaede Yuan looked back at the doctor with some curiosity, Xiaolan's mobile phone calling the doctor directly was a relatively rare thing.

However, although he was a little curious about the content of the call, he didn't need to pay attention to it, because the doctor's reaction quickly told the other people in the room what was happening on the other side of the phone.

"What?" The Doctor looked shocked, "Conan was kidnapped?" And it was kidnapped by a murderer!? ”

"Hmm!" Xiao Lan on the other side of the phone spoke quickly, "So I want to borrow Xiao Kong's tracking glasses that can track the badge of the Conan Detective Corps!" ”

"Yes, yes..."

"Ah, sorry, there's a call coming in! It could have been a call from Conan! If you track down Conan's location, be sure to contact me! ”

Xiao Lan hung up the phone after speaking, and the faces of the other people in the room became serious.

The doctor looked at Kaedehara and was about to tell him when he saw that Kaedehara had already taken out his tracking glasses and put them on.

"I can see where Conan is...," Kaedehara said, "but it's a bit far, so if you want to follow it, you'll have to drive there..."

"But how do you keep track of it? The doctor's car was sent to be repaired, right? "The car used to run out of gas..."

"Since that's the case, I can only take a taxi to chase it..."

"In that case, drive my car to chase it, right?" Okiya said, turned off the heat, and put the lid on the pot, "To tell you the truth, I'm still quite confident about driving..."

The incident happened suddenly, and they didn't continue to struggle, but they got into Okiya's car and started tracking.

The doctor was worried that Conan would also follow, and Gray Yuan didn't want to stay at home alone, so he naturally got into the car and sat in the back seat with Kaedehara.

"Mr. Pleiades, you're also good at reasoning, aren't you?" Kaedehara took out his mobile phone and asked Okiya, who was driving.

"I understand a little."

"Then mind if I use your name to ask Sister Xiaolan, what exactly happened over there? Maybe we'll be able to find useful clues..."

Okiya did not refuse.

He had met with Xiaolan and Yuanzi before, and he had also shown his reasoning ability in front of Xiaolan and Yuanzi, and in Xiaolan's opinion, his reasoning ability and Kudo Shinichi were open.

The call was quickly connected.

Kaede originally asked if the phone call he had just made to Xiaolan was Conan, and after learning that it was Shiliang Zhenjun, he asked Xiaolan to send the relevant information to his mobile phone in the name of Okiya Pleiades.

He was soon in the mail.

The first one was forwarded, an email sent by Conan's kidnappers to Uncle Maori, and it also included a picture of Conan falling asleep in his car.

Kaedehara stared at the photo twice, and then read it as he read it so that the doctor and Okiya could also understand the information, and Ashbara leaned over his head to look at it together:

"Since you sent me an email, you must have found the body, right? I'll let this little boy go back tomorrow morning, but if you call the police and prevent me from escaping, I won't be able to guarantee his safety. ”

"W-This sucks," Dr. Asa worried.

Kaedehara glanced at the tracking glasses, "Hmm... Conan is still in the same position he just mentioned, and has stopped here for a while..."

"Is this where the prisoner is?" Gray Plains asked.

"Probably not, judging from the location of the signal, he didn't even get out of the car..."

"Maybe it's at a gas station or something," Okiya offered his opinion, "Didn't the email say you were going to escape?" I guess I'm preparing for a long-distance attack..."

"yes, that's what I thought too," Kaedehara said, hearing his phone ring again, "Ah, a new email is coming." ”

It's still Xiaolan's email, this time written by herself, and the email tells about the people and things they met today.

"I see."

After listening to Kaedehara's retelling of the contents of the email, Okiya briefly summarized, "When they were sending home the woman named Kei Kashizuka, who was kidnapped by a man who shot himself in the detective agency, they found a male corpse in a suitcase at her house. By the time they found out, she had already escaped with Conan and sent the email. ”

In addition, Xiaolan also talked about the things that the man who committed suicide was carrying and the situation at the scene.

This is what she also said to Shiliang Zhenchun on the phone.

At the scene of the crime, the man sat on the toilet lid and appeared to have put a gun in his mouth and fired a shot at himself, while the woman, who identified herself as Kei Kashizuka, was tightly tied to the side with duct tape.

In the pocket of the body was a mobile phone that was clean inside and out, and the address book and call logs were blank. He still had quite a few coins in his pocket, about five thousand yen, and the lighter was full of scratches.

Okiya glanced at Kaedehara through the rearview mirror.

If the information is correct, then it is clear that the original incident was not a suicide either, because it is impossible for the phone that was put together with those things to be free of scratches, and it is likely that the woman exchanged the phones of the two.

And since you can think of it after listening to it yourself, then Edogawa Conan can definitely think of it too...

So...

"Kei Kashizuka..."Kaedehara repeated the name, "Kei..."

"What's wrong with the name?" Gray Plains asked.

"Do you think the pronunciation sounds like OK?"

“OK？” The doctor looked back at Kaedehara in confusion.

Gray Yuan was stunned for a moment, took out his mobile phone, and called up the video of the bank robbery that had been broadcast during the day, "You mean that the bank clerk who was killed, named Kenya Shono, was shouting at the time..."

"Hmm. It was a bit strange to have that in English, and he wasn't trying to appease the other person," Kaedehara explained, "so I guessed it might be a name...

Moreover, didn't Xiaolan say it? The man had a lot of coins in his pocket, and I think it was because the number of the banknote was remembered and he couldn't use it directly, so he changed it to change it at a vending machine or other place..."

Kaedehara paused.

"In that case, it is possible that Mr. Shono recognized one of the robbers as someone he knew and tried to dissuade him, but was killed, and if Kei Kashizuka is not the kidnapper's real name, I think it may be the name of the bank robber..."

"That's the name of the deceased who actually went to commission the Maori detective, I see," Okiya continued, "so this is a revenge incident against a bank robber..."

"That, that, Conan, he..."

"It's all right, Doctor, we can think of things just by listening to the retelling, and Conan, who was on the scene, couldn't have imagined that he would definitely be wary of that woman..."

"Then he did it on purpose?" Gray Yuan said.

"yes... I probably wanted to follow the woman to find the last bank robber..."Kaedehara said, bringing up the photo sent by Xiaolan for Gray Yuan to see with Dr. Graybara, "Actually, I could tell at a glance that he was pretending to be asleep..."

Both Ash and Dr. Gray Yuan looked at each other several times, but they couldn't see that Conan was fake sleeping, so they looked towards Kaedehara.

"I'm familiar with this," Kaedehara blinked, "After all, Conan and I are... Twins. ”

"Hmph..."

Gray Plains glanced at Kaedehara. This is obviously something that only another self can see, and Kaedehara rarely fakes sleeping like this, and she is not familiar with Kaedehara's fake sleep.

"So, don't worry, Doctor," Maple reassured Dr., "it should be fine... As long as Conan isn't careless..."

But...

Conan was still careless.

After helping the big sister who took him to find the last bank robber, Conan did not directly tell her the identity of the person, but persuaded her to turn herself in and hand over the robber to the police.

The other party was convinced.

It's just that after that, the robber named Chikawa Takashi suddenly rushed out, ran into the car, and really kidnapped Conan.

As Kaedehara and the others approached Conan's car, they happened to hear the sound of a threatening gunshot.

"There was a gunshot just now..."

The doctor looked at the corner of the intersection ahead of him and became worried again.

"That's the car, Mr. Pleiades." Kaedehara said, also a little more serious. Now that gunshots are heard there, it seems that things are out of Conan's control.

The doctor looked back in surprise.

"Please inform Mr. Maori as soon as possible."

"Huh? Didn't notify the police? The doctor was puzzled.

"Uncle Maori, they're more familiar with what happened, Doctor," Kaedehara said, "that should be the car that took Conan, Uncle Maori, they've probably seen..."

From their point of view, all they could see was the tail of the car.

"That's right, and then they tell the police the model, color, and license plate number, and if the police set up a roadblock to check it, they should be able to stop the car right away."

"So, what if they take hostages and force a breakthrough through the interrogation?"

"In that case," Okiya said, stepping on the gas, "I'll do everything I can to stop it." ”

A strong push came as Kaedehara looked in the rearview mirror and noticed a sedan and a motorcycle speeding up.

But...

Kaedehara shook Ashbara's hand.

At that moment, when Gray Yuan Ai was looking at the car in front of her, she suddenly felt a strong sense of oppression coming from nowhere, making her body freeze slightly.

Then, before she could be afraid, she felt Kaede Hara grasp her hand.

"Don't worry, it's okay," Kaedehara said, "and now this is our home field." ”

"yes... I won't let them escape..."

Okiya glanced deeply at the two of them out of the corner of his eye, and then let go of the steering wheel, "Doctor, the steering wheel will be handed over to you!" ”

"What?"

The Doctor hurriedly turned to the side and took the steering wheel, and then saw Okiya open the car door and lean out of the car, looking like he was about to perform a classic Hollywood move.

However, the fast-approaching sports car behind them shortened the distance even further.

Sensing this, Okiya sat back in the car, closed the door, and lowered his head slightly as the car drove past them.

It is Amuro who drives.

He let Ran, who had been sitting in the passenger seat, sit on his side and hugged her, followed by a ninety-degree sharp turn that stopped directly in front of Conan's car.

After the violent impact, both cars came to a stop.

Okiya took over the steering wheel and slowed down.

They are clearly not needed here.

Kaede could see a woman in front of her dragging Conan out of the car, the gun in her hand pointed at Conan's temple. She was still roaring something loudly, so that Kaede Yuan, who was still some distance away, could hear it clearly.

"W-What! What are you people going to do? ”

Of course it's to save people...

Still, it's violent...

Kaedehara glanced at Toru Amuro, who was standing in the night, and it was the first time he had seen this man - except for the photos.

In the next moment, the motorcycle behind jumped onto the roof of the stopped car and stopped.

"Huh?" Everyone, including the new kidnapper, looked at him in amazement.

"To hell with it!" Sera Zhenchun swung the head of the car violently, and the motorcycle body smashed the head of Takashi Chikawa.

Then she jumped down and hugged Conan in her arms, "Great! It's really good that you're okay! ”

And so it ended.

The people in the car also breathed a sigh of relief, and Okiya watched the scene in silence, and the slow-moving car passed by everyone in the field.

Kudo said before that the one named Shira Masumi is the sister of Shuichi Akai...

Gray Yuan thought to himself, and glanced at Okiya.

The previous sense of oppression has disappeared, and the matter has ended successfully, allowing Gray Yuan's mourning mood to go down again. Then she was somewhat surprised to see Kaedehara lying on the back seat, looking behind through the rear window, and pressing the corner of the tracking glasses with her right hand.

She remembered that there were buttons for the telescope's function ...

"Mr. Pleiades, would you mind stopping in front of you?"

Kaedehara spoke.

Okiya parked the car in front of the zebra crossing and looked back.

He looked at this angle... It's on the overpass...

But at this distance, it was night, and without the help of the Doctor's invention, he couldn't see what was on the bridge.

Gray Plains mourning too.

But she could see Kaedehara's lips squirming slightly as she watched.

It's like lip reading...

"Looks like you've got their trust."

Belmore, dressed in tight black leather, stood by his motorcycle, looked at the crowd under the bridge, and spoke into his phone, "Then you will keep our agreement, Bourbon?" ”

(End of chapter)