Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

minutes ago.

"Ah!"

The door to the emergency passage was forced open, and a slender figure rushed into the semi-dark stairwell.

Miyano Shiho only felt that all the blood in her body was rushing to her eardrums. She had no time to breathe or stop, and continued to rush forward without slowing down.

——The organization is chasing her, she has to escape to an empty floor as soon as possible to avoid getting affected by Professor Agasa and the crowd.

The heavy door was hastily pushed open, and then closed heavily after losing its support. The dull sound told the people outside the direction in which the prey fled.

But Miyano Shiho didn't care. She didn't hesitate and chose to run upwards.

Da da da da——

The hurried and chaotic footsteps echoed in the stairwell. Miyano Shiho's body almost stuck to the inner handrail as she turned. She had no time to observe the surrounding environment and just kept running.

People cannot feel pain when they are extremely nervous, but she soon felt another kind of discomfort coming from her feet. Since she suddenly turned into an adult, she was now wearing a pair of women's leather shoes she found in the laundry room.

The shoes didn't fit her feet well, they were a full size too big, and after running at full speed, her feet kept sliding in them, which was quite uncomfortable.

Miyano Shiho knew that if she continued running like this, she would sprain her ankle sooner or later, so she quickly kicked off her shoes and kicked them aside. Before she could make the next move, she heard the following voice:

"Oh!"

The door opened and closed heavily again, and the man came in.

Miyano Shiho's pupils constricted, and all her internal organs seemed to be mixed together in an instant.

Although her purpose was to lead the other party away, when she really had to face the members of the organization again, the fear that had been ingrained in her bones since she was a child almost made her collapse to the ground on the spot.

puff.

It was like adding insult to injury. The moment she heard the door close, Miyano Shiho felt her heart skip a beat.

"!!"

She covered her heart and her face turned pale as paper.

As someone who had experienced shrinking once, she knew very well that it was not just the accelerated heartbeat due to extreme fear, but also the effect of the drug.

The drug was about to take effect! She would soon become a child again like Edogawa!
This thought made Miyano Shiho's body shudder, but at this moment, a curse suddenly came from below -

"what?!"

At the same time, there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. The person might have tripped over the stairs or something else.

Miyano Shiho came to her senses and quickly seized the opportunity given by the other party's fall. She hurried to run up the stairs in front, pushed open the door with a number marked on it, and returned to the hotel.

Miyano Shiho had just been to the basement, the lobby on the first floor and the banquet hall on the 20th floor. This was her first time in the hotel's guest room area. At a glance, the corridor was filled with identical doors.

She didn't remember how many floors she had visited, but a rough calculation showed it was the fourth floor. Because the number was unlucky, few of the few guests who could check in early chose this floor.

Miyano Shiho didn't dare to stay there for too long. She ran some distance and tried to open a door at the corner. The door opened suddenly. She immediately went in and closed the door tightly.

The room was pitch black. Miyano Shiho managed to calm herself down. Without turning on the light, she took out her cell phone to provide some illumination.

A beam of light illuminated the room. It was not a guest room but a utility room.

The cleaning cart was parked against the wall, and several employee uniforms were thrown into a large clothes basket in the corner. There was also a pipe opening on the wall - it was 50 centimeters long, enough for a child to slide in easily.

Miyano Shiho took a look and recognized that this should be a conveyor pipe for others to throw their dirty clothes directly in. When she was hiding in the laundry room and growing bigger just now, she saw a similar passage there.

puff.

Her heart twitched again, and Miyano Shiho's legs went weak. She could no longer support her body and fell to the ground leaning against the wall.

Plop, plop, plop.

Along with the abnormal beating of her heart, a familiar and unbearable pain came from her body. Her bones felt so hot that they seemed to melt. She even saw a white mist coming out through her skin.

Miyano Shiho clenched her teeth tightly to prevent herself from crying out in pain.

Her vision became shaky, and in the constantly shaking scene, the only thing she could see was the transmission pipe that was so close to her.

A thought suddenly flashed through her mind:
The people from the organization were chasing her upwards following the sound of her footsteps. If she slid down using this pipe, would she be able to escape again like she did that day when she successfully escaped from the organization... ?
Miyano Shiho felt her body shrinking inch by inch, and it was a hundred times more uncomfortable than before. This time she did not fall down, she used up all her strength and almost crawled towards the pipe opening.

She supported herself on the entrance of the pipe with her hands, and finally fell headfirst into it when her body completely turned back into that of a child.

With a gurgling sound, the room returned to darkness and silence.

The door was quietly closed.

From beginning to end, there was no sound of footsteps outside.

……

In the corridor, a man in black clothes climbed up from the ground.

He had fallen very hard, and had hit himself on a step, knocking out two teeth. Now blood was dripping from his chin.

"What kind of hotel would put so much junk in the corridor?!"

He cursed and looked at the thing that tripped him.

When he saw this, he was stunned.

Click.

There was a barely perceptible sound of a door being pushed open from above, so quiet that it didn't alert anyone.

A figure stood quietly beside the handrail, looking down at the man in black. His face was pale and tired, without any expression.

……

laundry room.

A small figure slid out of the passage at a very fast speed, fell into a pile of dirty laundry, and was swallowed by all kinds of clothes. Huihara Ai opened her eyes and found that her body had stopped changing. She wanted to crawl out, but her arms were sore and she couldn't support her body. She fell out from the pile of clothes and rolled to the ground.

"Ha ha……"

She fell to the ground with her eyes closed, not trying to stand up, and heavy gasps came out of her mouth.

In a trance, she seemed to hear her cell phone vibrate, but her mind was in a mess and she didn't care at all.

There was no one else in the laundry room and the door not far away was closed. It was so quiet that the only sounds I could hear were my own breathing and the sound of my heart beating wildly.

Huiyuan Ai felt her hair wet with sweat, sticking to her forehead. In her worst state, her thoughts gradually became clear...

In fact, Haibara Ai has some self-destructive tendencies.

It was okay at first, after all, her sister was there, and even if they couldn't meet freely, she could suppress the thought by thinking, "If I die, what will happen to my sister alone?"

But with the death of Miyano Akemi, the only motivation that kept Haibara Ai alive was that she knew her sister hoped she could leave the organization and live a good life.

This belief in survival generated by relying on others is not firm. She seems safe hiding in Dr. Agasa's house, but she is always worried that the organization will come to her house one day and kill her and the people around her.

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However, tonight, when she felt the presence of a suspected organization in the hotel, she did not escape immediately, but continued to stay in the hotel and even went to the floor where the TV broadcast would be broadcast.

because……

A hazy shadow emerged in Huiyuan Ai's mind. The shadow had long straight black hair and smiled at her in the sun.

so similar.

Obviously... obviously she knew very well that her sister was dead, but when she saw that person, she still couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity.

She didn't look like her, her body shape or voice were different, but she felt familiar to her for some reason, especially when she smiled, it was as if she saw her sister appear before her.

So when Haibara Ai came to the first floor and saw that person going to the banquet hall, she took the risk of following her back - she wanted to confirm that person's identity, she wanted to see her again.

As a result, this impulsive decision led to her being discovered by the organization.

"elder sister……"

In the laundry room, the little girl curled up on the ground, moaning softly.

She seemed to hear the sound of a door opening and closing, and someone was walking towards her.

Huiyuan Ai's head was dizzy, and she barely opened her eyes. Her vision was fixed on a small area in front of her, and she saw a white Greek dress passing by.

Someone leaned over and hugged her.

"never mind."

The strange female voice said to her, placing her hands on her back and pulling her completely into his arms.

"It's okay, go to sleep... I'm here, I'll always be with you..."

Huibara Ai leaned in the familiar warmth.

She closed her eyes again, and a tear silently slid down from the corner of her eye.

……

Meanwhile, on the 21st floor.

In stark contrast to the tranquility and peace downstairs, a tense confrontation is taking place here.

Eto Daizo pointed a gun at the silver-haired woman, and seeing that she raised her hands obediently without any weapons in her hands, he and his colleagues approached her step by step, trying to subdue her completely.

However, the moment he approached, a mocking smile appeared on her lips, and she swung her knife at the palm of his gun!
Eto Daizo's palms felt numb, his fingers trembled, and the pistol fell off. The silver-haired woman took advantage of the situation and punched him in the chin, knocking him flying!

The colleague was shocked by the sudden change of the situation. He stood there holding the gun and was unable to react for a while. However, the member of the dark organization would not miss this opportunity. He turned around, got close to his side, and hit his temple with an elbow - the second pistol fell out of his hand and he fell down!

After knocking down two people, Curacao did not want to fight anymore. She turned around and ran towards the safe passage.

Jiang Teng Da Zang staggered to his feet, dizzy from the fall. He saw his colleague who had fainted on the ground, gritted his teeth, bent down to pick up his gun, and chased after her again.

He was too careless.

As they were unable to contact other people and the support sent by the public security department had not arrived, they could only secretly hack into the surveillance to check for abnormalities, and then they saw the woman who was sneaking around on the 21st floor.

They took the elevator on the other side, planning to hide in the opposite direction from her and catch her when she passed by, to see who she was and what she was planning to do.

As a result, they were both knocked down in the blink of an eye.

Eto Daizo felt very regretful, but was more frightened.

With such skills and reaction abilities, is this the member of the organization that Senior Zhufu used to be undercover in... No wonder his father refused to let him join the investigation of that organization, it turns out they are such a dangerous existence.

but……

Eto Daizo rushed into the safe passage and heard undisguised footsteps coming from above. He ignored his aching chin and back and tried his best to chase upwards.

——But he has his reasons for tracking down that organization!
Soon, the second footsteps sounded in the corridor, and Jiang Teng Daizo chased after them. He ran a few floors, and saw that the door leading to the rooftop at the end was slightly open, and a chill quietly climbed up his back.

Wait, why does there seem to be footsteps behind him?

Eto Daizo stood at the corner of the last flight of stairs leading to the rooftop, with his back completely to the stairs he had just run past, wanting to turn around and check.

However, a cold hand covered his mouth from behind faster than he could turn around!

"Quiet."

A man in black stood behind him and whispered to him. He held him hostage, and because of the action of covering his mouth with his hands close to his chest, his slightly curly black hair coiled around him like a poisonous snake and fell on him.

Eto Daizo was originally stiff, but when he saw that face, he was stunned.

Qing Liu Bingguang covered him tightly, and when he looked over, a smile appeared on his face, which was completely facing away from the light source and buried in the shadows. (End of this chapter)