Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"This is it!"

The three of them went down to the 16th floor and looked at the sign with the words "escape route". Amuro Toru carefully stuck to the door frame and looked at Jin Yuanguang.

"As we go further down, the manpower required to deploy it will not be something that can be handled by one person."

Yuji raised his watch and confirmed that only half an hour had passed since they discovered the first police officer who fainted, so he hid behind Toru Amuro and stretched his neck to look outside.

"This floor is circular. The guy is probably near the escape hatch."

Feeling that he was so familiar with the door, Yuuji followed the two people who were scouting each other on the left and right, and stared carefully at the surveillance camera. He found that all the cloth bags used to kidnap Naomi had been taken away.

[I will have to destroy the video hard drive later...]

"We're finally here! You three!"

A feminine voice sounded at the end of the corridor. The three men looked forward vigilantly, staring at the woman in front of the escape partition door.

"I knew it was you, Grace!"

Yuji pointed across excitedly, shaking his hands as he explained, "She's the traitor!"

"Insider?" Grace was wearing the same diving combat suit as the Black Organization. She hooked the middle finger glove on her right hand around her left wrist, pulling out a silver-shining steel wire.

"I see three big ghosts in front of me."

Grace had her hands hanging at both sides of her body, the steel wire was faintly visible under the aisle light. She slowly raised her hands and placed the steel wire in front of her eyes, looking at the steel wire that was right at the waists of the three people, as if it was going to cut Yuji and the others in half.

"Vermouth's daughter is actually Kudo Yusaku's vice-chief, and his brother was actually turned into a child by the organization using special drugs."

Grace's false eyelashes hit the wire as she blinked, and were immediately cut off and fell off.

"The police officer who was undercover in the organization is not dead, and he is in a high position. Oh, and you, Bourbon, are the one hiding the deepest."

The woman laughed. "Rum had long suspected that you were not simple. The first thing he ordered me to do when I was allowed to use the ocean buoy was to check the people around Vermouth and Gin. I didn't expect that you were also a member of the public security department."

"You know quite a lot..."

Yuji narrowed his eyes: "But knowing too much is not a good thing."

"What? A kid who hasn't even fully grown his hair wants to kill me?" Grace showed her typical Ko-style evil smile.

"You three are not enough to kill me."

"Then I'd like to try it." Amuro Toru straightened his back, which was slightly bent on purpose, and took a step forward with Jin Yuan.

“Come on.” Grace opened her arms like a fanatic: “Let me tell you, the construction of the ocean buoy was originally supervised by Makino and I.”

The childhood friend who was about to step forward and exchange gestures with this human of the new gender stopped where he was, suddenly having a bad feeling.

"You, could it be..." Yuuji secretly turned on the phone and used the intra-area connection to connect to Fujiwara who had transmitted the information during the previous mission.

"That guy Makino only cares about power all day long. He doesn't care what's missing from this base."

Grace hammered twice on the steel frame of the base. “When the workers who assembled and built the base saw me carrying things over, they just installed the things into the wall as I said. It’s so easy for them to do something.”

"You dare to say the bomb, which proves that you have already activated the bomb."

Toru Amuro pulled out a pistol from his arms and pointed it at Grace: "Tell us where the bomb is and we'll let you go."

This was exactly what the woman was waiting for. She certainly didn't plant the bomb in order to really die together with these guys, but just wanted to increase some bargaining chips when retreating.

After all, it was impossible for these people to watch her escape, so threatening them with bombs was the best option. Now that the identities of these three guys had been confirmed using the cross-age system, it was considered a great achievement in Rum's eyes.

"Throw the phone over here."

Grace took the phone from afar and connected it to the sealed screen on her arm, then threw the thing back.

"I have fifty-six bombs in the ocean buoys, all linked by signals."

The woman stepped back. "As for the location and the corresponding number, I will send it to you after I leave..."

She didn't finish her words because the next second the sound of gunfire echoed throughout the corridor. Seeing Grace fall down with a bloody hole on her head, Amuro Toru and Yuji slowly turned to Kanemoto Hikaru.

The boy's eyes were cold and cold, which did not match his gentle face. He looked back at the two people who came over and put away the pistol that was emitting smoke.

"She knows too much."

"But she hasn't told us the bomb layout yet." Amuro Toru glared at Jin Yuan.

"Aren't there also a computer genius?" Jin Yuanguang walked to Grace indifferently and took off her arm guard.

"If you can't crack it..."

"Then everyone should evacuate. Anyway, this buoy was built with money from the International Police Headquarters, so it's not legitimate for the Metropolitan Police Department to use it."

Jin Yuanguang clasped his hands together and bowed to Qingmei: "Please forgive me. I will listen to you next time."

"Do you still want a next time?!"

Silently watching the two people teasing and playing, Yuji glanced at Grace lying on the ground again.

[You have become part of their play, how pitiful...]

(End of this chapter)