Conan's other self

Inside the Maori Detective Agency, the TV was showing news about a bank robbery that had happened just a few days ago. There were three robbers in total, and they were all on the run.

"This has been the news since morning."

"There's no way," Xiaolan replied to Uncle Maori, "This happened less than a week ago, and a bank employee was shot to death."

"Yeah, I wanted to show off and resist, but I was killed by the robbers."

"He shouldn't have resisted, right?"

Conan retorted, making a gesture of surrender, "According to the customers in the bank at that time, the clerk seemed to have raised his hands like this and said, 'OK! Stop it!', intending to appease the prisoner."

"In the end, 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 were robbed happened to be new banknotes that had just been shipped from the main branch, and the numbers on them were completely mastered."

This is Toru Amuro.

He is similar to Hattori Heiji. He is a handsome guy with dark skin, but he is much older, in his late twenties and early twenties.

He is the detective Conan met during a suicide case that happened a few days ago.

In that incident, a man and woman who were about to get married held a party in a hotel. During the party, the bride-to-be learned from the phone that she and her fiancé were twins who had been separated in a fire a long time ago.

In desperation, 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. During this period, Toru Amuro made wrong reasoning.

After listening to the reasoning of the sleeping Kogoro played by Conan, he decided to become a disciple of Kogoro Mori.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that he also works in the Poirot Café downstairs of the Maori Detective Agency.

Uncle Mouri watched the TV and smoked a cigarette, casually echoing what Toru Amuro just said.

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

Uncle Mori looked back in surprise and noticed that Toru Amuro was holding a tray filled with sandwiches.

"To send a sandwich to Teacher Mori who has been taking care of me!" Toru Amuro replied, "Of course the cost will be borne by me."

"Do we even have a share?" Xiaolan asked.

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

"Ah? How did you know?" Uncle Maoli continued to express his surprise.

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

Tohru Amuro paused for a moment, "And this time is the live broadcast of Okino Yoko's concert, but you didn't even bother to watch it, but concentrated on waiting here. It seems to be a very big case, right?"

"Ah - I forgot Miss Yoko's concert!"

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

"What does it matter? You can watch the video anyway." Xiaolan said dissatisfied, and then complained to Amuro Toru, "Just to watch this live broadcast, he even changed the meeting time with the client!"

"I-so that's it...but a client will come next, am I right?"

"Yes, but I don't know who will come." Uncle Maori looked back at the laptop on his desk, "After all, this is the first customer entrusted through the Internet!"

"Oh... I also opened a detective agency online..."

"Yes, we also need to cope with the global information age and adopt digital methods! When the live broadcast of this concert is over, it will be almost the time to make an appointment with the client - huh? Email?"

Just as he was talking, Uncle Maori's cell phone rang. He opened the email and read it habitually:

"Well... I am Keizuka Kei who made an appointment with you today. Because I have some problems here, I hope to change the meeting place to a restaurant in Colombo. That restaurant is not far from your place, and I think we can meet as planned. I don’t know if this is okay, and I look forward to your reply.”

In this way, although Uncle Maori was reluctant, under Xiaolan's power, the group went to the Colombo restaurant.

However, they waited there for a long time but did not find the client. After Conan reminded them, they went back and took a look and found that there was no one in the office.

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

Conan felt something was wrong. Just when he was about to go into the toilet to take a look, Uncle Mouri received a new email urging them to go there. The thoughtful Toru Amuro pushed everyone out the door.

"I'm afraid that's what happened?"

Toru Amuro made a low-pitched gesture outside the door, "Someone didn't want the client to meet Teacher Mori, so he sent an email to change the meeting place, send the teacher out, and then pretended to be someone from the office waiting here. Let the client come."

"What?" Uncle Maoli and Xiaolan looked surprised.

"The evidence is that the keyhole has been pried open. And there is a teacup stained with water in the cupboard. If it were Miss Xiaolan, I don't think she would put the cup that was not dry directly into the cupboard, right?"

"Y-yeah."

"Moreover!" Conan agreed, "The cigarette ashes that uncle dropped on the table were also wiped clean, right? Doesn't this mean that someone wiped the table when we went out?"

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

"B-But why do you do this? I'm just asking for a coin-operated locker. Is that all?"

Xiaolan was a little confused. This was the content of the commission that the client had told them online. Uncle Maori thought it was a very simple commission and was very happy.

"Is there something terrible in that locker?"

"Well, or..." Toru Amuro said, opening the door of the office again, "Let's ask him directly!"

"Ben, myself?"

"Is it difficult to say?"

"Teacher, you received an email just now when you were going to the toilet, right? Then Conan received another one when he wanted to go to the toilet."

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

"What?"

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

boom--

A gunshot came from the toilet.

…

Some time later, Dr. Ali’s house.

"Cream stew."

Maplehara looked at what was being cooked in the pot and asked Okiya Subaru: "Is this what Yukiko-sister taught you?"

Since we cooked curry together last time, Okiya Subaru has come over from time to time to help with the cooking, and today is no exception.

"Yeah?" Okiya Subaru looked at Feng Yuan.

"Yeah, wasn't the curry you made before taught you by Sister Yukiko? Although it's still a bit undercooked, the taste is almost the same..."

"Ah, that's right... I just learned it not long ago..."

Okiya Subaru took a spoon and stirred 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 Subaru Okiya showed off his cooking skills here just like that time.

"Oh! It looks really good," said Dr. Ali, who was attracted. "I'm really having a good time today..."

"You can only eat two bowls at most, doctor," Haiyuan Ai also came over and reminded, "It's getting late now. If you eat too much, you won't be able to digest it..."

"Ah...ah, the phone." The doctor was depressed when he heard his cell phone ringing, "Huh? It's Xiaolan..."

Fengyuan looked back at the doctor with some curiosity. It was relatively rare for Xiaolan to directly call the doctor's mobile phone.

However, although he was a little curious about the content of the phone call, he did not need to pay attention to listen, because soon, the doctor's reaction told other people in the room what happened on the other side of the phone.

"What?" The doctor looked shocked, "Conan was kidnapped? And kidnapped by a murderer!?"

"Hmm!" Xiaolan spoke quickly on the phone, "So I want to borrow Xiaokong's pair of tracking glasses that can track the badge of the Conan Detective Team!"

"Certainly, it can indeed be..."

"Ah, I'm sorry, there's a call coming in! It might be Conan! If you track Conan's location, be sure to contact me!"

Xiaolan on the other end of the phone hung up the phone immediately after speaking, and the faces of other people in the room also became serious.

The doctor looked at Fengyuan, and just as he was about to tell him, he saw that Fengyuan had already taken out the tracking glasses and put them on.

"I can see Conan's position..." Maplehara said, "But it's a bit far away. If you want to follow him, you have to drive there..."

"But how to track it? Has the doctor's car been sent for repair?" Haiyuan Ai said, "The car used to have no gas..."

"Well, in this case, we can only take a taxi to chase..."

"In that case, why don't you drive my car to chase me?" Subaru Okiya said, turning off the fire and covering the pot, "To tell you the truth, I'm pretty confident about driving..."

The incident happened suddenly, so they did not continue to struggle, but immediately got into Okiya Subaru's car and started following it.

The doctor also followed because he was worried about Conan. Haibara Ai didn't want to stay at home alone and naturally got into the car and sat in the back seat with Maplehara.

"Mr. Subaru, you are also good at reasoning, right?" Maplehara took out his mobile phone and asked Okiya Subaru who was driving.

"Understand a little bit."

"Then do you mind if I ask Sister Xiaolan in your name what exactly happened there? Maybe we can find useful clues..."

Okiya Subaru did not refuse.

He had met Xiaolan and Sonoko before, and had demonstrated his reasoning ability in front of Xiaolan and Sonoko. In Xiaolan's opinion, his reasoning ability was as good as Kudo Shinichi's.

The call was answered quickly.

Kaede originally asked if the phone call she just made to Xiaolan was from Conan. After learning that it was Sera Masumi, she asked Xiaolan to send the relevant information to her mobile phone in the name of Subaru Okiya.

He received the email quickly.

The first one was forwarded. It was an email sent by the person who kidnapped Conan to Uncle Maori. There was also a picture of Conan sitting in a car and falling asleep.

Maplehara stared at the photo twice, and then he looked and read it so that the doctor and Subaru Okiya could also understand the information. Haibara Ai leaned close to his head and read together:

"Since you sent me the email, you must have discovered the body, right? I will let the little boy go back tomorrow morning, but if you call the police and hinder my escape, I will not be able to guarantee the personal safety of the little boy. "

"This, this is bad..." Dr. Ali said worriedly.

Maplehara glanced at the tracking glasses and said, "Well... Conan is still at the position he just mentioned. He has been parked here for a while..."

"Then is this the prisoner's location?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"Probably not. Judging from the position of the signal, he never even got off the bus..."

"Perhaps at a gas station or something," Subaru Okiya suggested. "Didn't the email say that he was going to escape? He was probably preparing for a long-distance attack..."

"Yeah, that's what I thought too," Fengyuan said, hearing his cell phone ring again, "Ah, a new email has arrived."

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

"I see."

After listening to the content of the email recited by Kaedehara, Okiya Subaru briefly summarized it, "When they were sending home the woman named Kei Tsukasa who was kidnapped by the man who shot himself in the detective agency, when she Another male body was found in a suitcase at home. By the time they found it, she had already escaped with Conan and sent the email just now."

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

This is what she also said to Sera Masumi on the phone.

At the crime scene, the man sat on the toilet seat and seemed to have put a gun in his mouth and shot himself, while the woman who called herself Kei Kaizuka was tied tightly to one side with tape.

There was a cell phone in the pocket of the body that was clean inside and out. The address book and call history were blank. There were quite a lot of coins in his pocket, about 5,000 yen, and the lighter was full of scratches.

Okiya Subaru glanced at Kaedehara through the rearview mirror.

If the information is correct, then it is obvious that the initial incident was not a suicide, because the mobile phone placed with those things could not have no scratches. It is very likely that the woman exchanged their mobile phones.

And since I can think of it after listening to it once, then Edogawa Conan must also be able to think of it...

so…

"Kizuka Kei..." Kaedehara repeated the name, "Kui..."

"What's wrong with this name?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"Do you think the pronunciation sounds like OK?"

"OK?" The doctor looked back at Fengyuan in confusion.

Haiyuan Ai was stunned for a moment, then took out his mobile phone and called up the video of the bank robbery that had been broadcast during the day. "You mean the bank employee named Shono Kenya who was killed was shouting..."

"Hmm. It's a bit strange to have this English sentence in that sentence, and he didn't have a comforting expression at the time," Fengyuan explained, "So I guessed that it might be a name...

Moreover, didn’t Xiaolan say that? The man had a lot of coins in his pocket. I think it was because the banknote numbers were memorized and could not be used directly, so he exchanged them for change in a vending machine or other places..."

Feng Yuan paused.

"In this case, Mr. Shono may have recognized one of the robbers as someone he knew well, and wanted to dissuade him, but ended up being killed. If Kei Kashizuka is not the real name of the kidnapper, I think This could be the name of the bank robber..."

"That's the name of the deceased who actually entrusted Detective Mori. That's it," Subaru Okiya continued, "So this is a revenge incident against bank robbers..."

"Well, then Conan..."

"It's okay, doctor. We can think of things just after hearing the report. There is no reason for Conan, who has experienced the scene, not to think that he will definitely be wary of that woman..."

"Then he did it on purpose?" Hui Yuan Ai said.

"Yeah... I probably want to follow that woman to find the last bank robber..." Fengyuan said, bringing up the photo that Xiaolan sent for Haibara Ai and the doctor to see, "In fact, I can see it at a glance. It seems that he is pretending to be asleep..."

Haibara Ai and the doctor each looked at it several times, but they couldn't tell that Conan was pretending to sleep, so they looked at Fengyuan.

"I'm very familiar with this," Maplehara blinked, "After all, Conan and I are...twins."

"snort…"

Haiyuan Ai rolled his eyes at Fengyuan. This was obviously something that only the other self could see, and Fengyuan rarely pretended to sleep like this, and she was not familiar with Fengyuan pretending to sleep.

"So, don't worry, doctor," Maplehara comforted the doctor, "it should be fine...as long as Conan is not careless..."

but…

Conan was still careless.

After helping the eldest sister who took him find the last bank robber, Conan did not directly tell her the identity of the man, but persuaded her to surrender and hand the robber to the police.

The other party was convinced.

But after that, the robber named Chikawa Takadai suddenly rushed out, jumped into the car, and actually kidnapped Conan.

When Maplehara and the others approached the car where Conan was sitting, they happened to hear the threatening gunfire.

"Just now, there seemed to be gunshots..."

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

"That's the car, Mr. Subaru." Kaedehara said, becoming more serious. Since gunshots were heard there, it seemed that things were still out of Conan's control.

The doctor looked back in surprise.

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

"Ah? Won't you notify the police?" The doctor was a little confused.

"Uncle Maori and the others are more familiar with what happened, doctor," Fengyuan said. "That should be the car that took Conan away. Uncle Maori and the others should have seen it..."

From the angle they had just seen, only the tail of the car was visible.

"That's right. Then they will tell the police the model, color and license plate number. If the police set up a roadblock to conduct an investigation, they should be able to stop the car immediately."

"Then, what if they take hostages and forcefully break through for interrogation?"

"In that case," Subaru Okiya said, stepping on the accelerator, "I will do my best to stop it."

A strong pushing feeling came. Fengyuan looked in the rearview mirror and noticed that a car and a motorcycle were following quickly.

but…

Feng Yuan held Hai Yuan Ai's hand.

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

Then, before she had time to get scared, she felt Feng Yuan hold her hand.

"Don't worry, it's okay," Fengyuan said, "This is our home court now."

"Yes... we won't let them escape..."

Subaru Okiya glanced deeply at the two of them out of the corner of his eye, and then let go of the steering wheel, "Doctor, I'll leave the steering wheel to you!"

"What?"

The doctor hurriedly turned sideways and took over the steering wheel, and then saw Subaru Okiya opening the car door and leaning out of the car, as if he was about to perform a classic Hollywood action.

However, the sports car approaching quickly behind them further shortened the distance.

After noticing this, Okiya Subaru sat back in the car, closed the door, then lowered his head slightly and watched the car pass by them.

The driver was Toru Amuro.

He asked Xiaolan, who was originally sitting in the passenger seat, to sit next to him and hugged her. Then he made a sharp turn of 90 degrees and stopped directly in front of the car where Conan was sitting.

After the violent collision, both cars stopped.

Okiya Subaru took over the steering wheel and slowed down the car.

They are clearly not needed here.

Maplehara could see a woman dragging Conan out of the car in front of her, the gun in her hand pointed at Conan's temple. She yelled something loudly, which Fengyuan, who was still some distance away, could hear clearly.

"W-what! What are you people doing?"

Of course it's to save people...

However, it is quite violent...

Feng Yuan glanced at Toru Amuro standing under the night. This was the first time he saw this person - except for photos.

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

"Huh?" Everyone, including the new kidnapper, looked over in surprise.

"Go to hell!" Sera Masumi swung the front of the car violently, and the motorcycle body hit Chikawa Takadai on the head.

Then she jumped down and hugged Conan in her arms, "That's great! It's great that you are okay!"

That's the end of it.

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

Kudo said before that the person named Sera Masumi is the sister of Akai Shuichi...

Haibara Ai thought to herself and glanced at Okiya Subaru.

The previous sense of oppression had disappeared, and the matter had ended successfully, making Haiyuan Ai feel relieved again. Then she was a little surprised to see Fengyuan lying on the back seat, looking behind through the rear window, with his right hand still holding the corner of the tracking glasses.

She remembered that there was a button for the telescope function...

"Mr. Subaru, would you mind stopping in front?"

Feng Yuan spoke.

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

The angle he was looking at... was on the overpass over there...

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

The same goes for Haihara Ai.

But she could see Feng Yuan's lips moving slightly as he watched.

It's like reading lips...

"It seems that you have gained their trust."

Belmore, who was wearing a tight black leather jacket, stood beside his motorcycle, looking at the people under the bridge and talking to his mobile phone, "Then you will abide by our agreement, right, Bourbon?"