Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Sitting on the 18th floor and eating the bread she brought down, Machiko looked towards the stairs with Nogami's face, and met the eyes of Goto and Yokawa who were holding the desperate Gil.

"what happened to him?"

"I don't know. I suddenly became depressed halfway down the stairs."

Yokawa's legs were trembling slightly, and he noticed Goto's burning gaze, so he shrank a little closer to Nogami.

"Chief, what do we do next?"

"Next?" Yuji stuffed the bread into his mouth and chewed it, then raised his fingers and counted down incoherently: "Three, two, one..."

The sound of two people falling down was extremely clear, and it also called Mizuno Rena back from her own world, as she was originally in a daze.

"Can't you be a little gentler? We worked so hard to carry Kiel-kun down from there."

Pushing the garbage truck aside, Leon held his chest and kicked the trash can twice. The breathing sounds coming from inside indicated that the three people's mission was almost completed.

"You disguised yourself as this woman, but what about her?"

Fujiwara asked Yuuji to push the trash can, and after holding Rena Mizunashi, the three of them went to the 16th floor together.

"You don't have to worry about this."

Machiko looked at the mechanical door she came in through. She took out a sealed mask from her pocket and put it on Naomi's face in the trash can. She confirmed that there was no problem with the connecting port on the mask, then installed an oxygen pen capsule and pressed the button.

"Can you still swim?"

Machiko saw Mizunashi Rena shook her head, and she and Fujiwara tied one person to each of them. After putting on protective gear, they fully activated the 16th-floor escape function, and swam into the sea after the escape door was opened.

The continuous alarm sounds at the base woke up Conan and Hiroki who were taking a nap in the room. Having a bad premonition, the elementary school student rushed to the door of the detention room in a few steps. Looking at the disappearing "Binga", he gritted his teeth and urged Hiroki and himself to go to the command room.

"what happens!"

Only Makino and Grace appeared in the command room with the two little kids. The chief had no choice but to control the situation himself. Including several police captains who rushed in from behind, everyone was looking at the almost black surveillance screen.

"Why? Why are all the surveillance cameras at the base dark?"

Makino looked at the few floors that were still lit, and then he switched back to the video, finally stopping at the scene where Nogami put a mask on Naomi at the entrance of the 16th floor. "What's wrong?"

Coincidentally, when the picture stopped, the real Nogami happened to take the elevator up from downstairs.

"Chief Nogami, shouldn't you explain why you met the terrorists in the base and Leon-kun at the escape door? And where is Naomi-kun?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about. There should be a limit to how much you can throw mud at me." Nogami rolled his eyes. "I have been resting since my people came in this morning."

The police captains in the command room all attended the meeting that Nogami held before the exchange with Kudo Yuuji, so it was certain that the section chief had arranged to assist the Indians in taking Naomi away, and they all helped to cover it up.

"That's right, the section chief stayed up late yesterday and was busy catching up on sleep. How could he have time to take care of your business?"

“That face…” Makino didn’t want to let it go easily. Even if that person wasn’t Nogami, he could still throw dirty water on her head, but reality was always unreasonable.

"Director Makino, I think you should think about what you are going to say. After all, we are now representing a national agency."

The other captain kindly reminded Makino, but even Conan could hear the threat and murderous intent in the other's words.

"This incident shows that we are being targeted, or the focus should be on you, Interpol."

Nogami clapped his hands, and Yechuan, who had a sore neck, and Goto walked in from outside.

"Yechuan, you will stay in the command room from now on. If anything goes wrong, sound the alarm to alert us."

Nogami stared at Goto again: "You go follow those two kids, such a big base, how dangerous it is."

"child?"

Goto saw that the two children had disappeared in the command room and ran out in a hurry.

He and Yechuan were knocked unconscious together before. In Goto's opinion, Nogami had other things that he didn't want them to know. The section chief's words clearly meant that there were things in the base that could not be seen by others, and he wanted him to quickly get the two children back.

[Sure enough, the section chief still treats me as his confidant. ]

Glancing at Yechuan who was still smug, Goto curled his lips, said hello to everyone, and ran out again.

(End of this chapter)