Due to his short stature and short legs, Conan lost his center of gravity in an instant and stumbled back several steps before barely maintaining his stability. He rubbed his sore bridge of nose with his small hands and grimaced in pain.
Seeing this, Mao Lilan was about to scold the disobedient child, but after taking into account Katsuki Uehara's previous actions, he immediately closed his mouth and looked at Conan who was rubbing the bridge of his nose with a kind look.
"If you really didn't hide, can you tell me where you are now? I would like to treat you to a meal and give you two sets of clothes and some not-so-valuable jewelry."
Glancing at Edogawa Conan, who had his head drooped by his legs and looked childish, Katsumi Uehara slowly opened the door to his office——
The assistant to the general manager who had just received him was sorting documents at the reception desk outside, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about him.
"I'm right where I should be. If you, Mr. Police, come to visit me, I'd be happy to go out for dinner with you." The electronic sound coming from the mobile phone was calm, but the assistant at the front desk arrived. He didn't speak from beginning to end.
She wasn't the one calling.
Looking past Katsumi Uehara's obstruction, Conan also fell on the assistant outside the office. Conan covered his nose and frowned, lost in thought.
The police knocked on the door of Toshihiko Takasugi's office, and then the mysterious man called Toshihiko Takasugi's phone. If he hadn't been watching from the beginning to the end——
No! No, wait a minute!
Conan suddenly turned his head as if a flash of lightning flashed across his mind. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly remembered that he was no longer the high school detective Kudo Shinichi.
"You said this yourself. I hope you can keep your word when I come to visit you later." Katsuki Uehara took out his mobile phone and typed quickly on the keyboard with one hand. He chuckled and turned the screen over. Raise to partner——
"Where is the surveillance room that can see the surveillance video on the 23rd floor?"
The question written in black on a white background made Sato Miwako immediately turn her head and look at the confused Takasugi Toshihiko. When the latter came back to his senses, he immediately made a sign with his hand, 26.
The control room is on the 26th floor.
Edogawa Conan, who didn't expect that the policeman could think of this quickly, was a little surprised.
"I always keep my word, Mr. Policeman."
"Who knows. However, rather than your character, I am more curious about the reason why you suddenly called to contact the police."
"If I say, it's just to clear Mr. Toshihiko Takasugi's suspicion, do you believe it?" The chuckle on the other end of the phone was obviously a bit mocking and sarcastic.
Upon seeing this, Toshihiko Takasugi's eyes widened immediately, and he opened his hands and kept gesticulating.
Although I don’t know what he wants to say, the meaning should be that he has done nothing. This is slander.
"Are you so confident that you can escape from the police?"
After making a gesture to Sato Miwako, Katsuki Uehara, who was holding his mobile phone, stepped out of the office door in one step, looked up at the surveillance probe under the beam not far away, and said in a cold tone: "There is a price to pay for provoking the police. "
"Before you, a policeman named Shiratori Rensaburo said similar things to me. If I guess correctly, he should be lying in the intensive care unit of the hospital now. Of course, it may also be the morgue."
"...I see, so you called Shiratori to the restaurant called Asahiju through a third-party phone. I said why there is no information on his mobile phone."
"Let's play a game, Mr. Police."
The squeaking sound of the chair rotating was accompanied by an unmistakable electronic sound coming from the handset of the mobile phone. It was obviously a bit playful: "I still have 12 bombs on my hand. As long as you can use these 12 bombs, If you find me before, you win. There are no other rules and certainly no referee."
"...It seems that Shiratori has indeed caught you. You are worried about whether the police have found something." Uehara Katsuki, who narrowed his eyes slightly, answered the question.
"I never worry about anyone."
After a "bang" sound, the phone was hung up instantly.
Uehara Katsuki, who immediately put his cell phone in his pocket, turned around and shouted: "Mr. Takasugi, stop the vertical elevator going down to the 26th floor and ask the security guards to lock all the doors of the safe passages. Now, immediately."
"Huh? Huh? Oh, okay, okay!"
The confused Takasugi Toshihiko immediately issued a notice through the internal landline, and Uehara Katsumi himself immediately ran to the escalator area on the 23rd floor after saying this.
"Sato Criminal, what about the people in the elevator?" After the panic, Takasugi Toshihiko didn't understand what happened, but Takasugi Toshihiko still looked at the other policeman who stayed in the office with a little worry.
"Broadcast notification, just pause for two minutes."
Raising her wrist and glancing at the time, recalling the gesture Uehara Katsumi had just made for herself, Sato Miwako turned to look at Mouri Kogoro: "Detective Mouri, please check with me to see if there are any micro surveillance probes or cameras in this office. The bug exists. Everyone else is standing still and waiting for notification."
Mouri Kogoro, who was a professional counterpart in this regard, nodded. Maori Lan, who was on the side, was just about to pull Conan over to stop him from running around, but when he turned around, he found that the child had already disappeared? ? ?
"Conan?!"
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"Here! Here!"
At the escalator, Katsumi Uehara, who was still looking up at the figures walking above, frowned and acted slightly hesitantly. He had not seen anyone acting suspiciously yet.
But at this moment, Conan Edogawa, who was wearing a classic blue suit, was standing in front of him at an angle of 30 degrees to his left, jumping up and down, crossing his hands and waving to attract Katsumi Uehara's attention: "Police Uncle! I just saw a suspicious person running very fast! He has already gone down to the 22nd floor! He is on the elevator at the nine o'clock direction under your feet!"
Edogawa Conan pointed in a sweet voice and looked in the direction. Uehara Katsumi, who squinted his eyes to focus his sight, soon discovered the figure that was constantly running downwards among the people in the escalator.
"I saw it. Thanks, little one. I'll buy you two exercise books when I go back." Uehara Katsumi, who immediately started chasing, left a promise out of habit. Conan, who hadn't even finished speaking, felt the corner of his mouth twitching when he heard it, which was comparable to a telescope. The scene of you chasing me immediately appeared on the lens.
Probably because he had the first-mover advantage, the prisoner was always one level ahead of Katsuki Uehara.
Taking advantage of his short body and short legs, Conan, who could shuttle freely on the elevator, became the third person in this chase. His right hand constantly adjusted the distance of the lens, announcing the point for Katsumi Uehara with a loud bell-like sound——
"He changed directions! Left! Left!"
"I saw it! It's near the casual cafe on the 19th floor!"
Perhaps it was because he had just become a child, and Conan was already out of breath after just running around seven or eight floors, and his throat felt like it was on fire.
Damn it!
No, there are too many people and I can hardly catch up. If this continues, I will soon lose sight of the prisoner!
Edogawa Conan who ran to the 15th floor bent over weakly, put his hands on his knees and kept breathing heavily. The suspicious trace locked on the tracking glasses continued to rush downward.
"Give me a little bit, please give me a bit! The police are investigating the case! Please give me a bit!"
Uehara Katsumi, who was chasing all the way down, never stopping to explain, saw that the suspicious person had already avoided the crowded crowd, and while breathing heavily, his heart suddenly changed——
He turned over and jumped onto the stainless steel surface between the two handrail slides, using it as a slide and slid all the way down!
The smoothness of the movements stunned Edogawa Conan, who was seeing this scene for the first time.
What kind of ass is this? Will nothing happen?
The figure who didn't forget to look back while running was obviously startled, and his legs, which were already full of lead, once again ran as fast as the wind.
"Get out of the way! Don't block the road!"
The sound of processing came from under the prisoner's mask, and the figure who took out a gun from his arms immediately shocked all the security guards who came to try to help.
"Step aside!"
Bang bang!
After several shots were fired, the security guards gathered at the entrance of the lobby on the first floor immediately stopped. No one dared to step forward to stop them——
Working as a security guard only makes so little money for a month, so there is no need to risk your life.
"Damn it, the distance is too far, the anesthetic needle can't reach it at all!" Driven by the sense of justice in his heart, Conan, who wanted to help, tried to aim several times, but the launch of the anesthetic needle always ended in vain, and he could only watch. The prisoner fled the Takasu Group Building with a gun.
According to the display of the tracking glasses, the prisoner apparently parked a motorcycle beside the restaurant on the road outside.
The prisoner had planned all escape routes.
Conan, who was already out of breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead and swallowed hard: he couldn't catch up.
No matter how reluctant he was, he had to admit that the lack of transportation——
"Um?"
Conan paused in wiping his sweat, his eyes under the lenses widened in disbelief, and his face looked like he had seen a ghost.
Katsuki Uehara, who was also close to being unable to run, stood by the restaurant and looked around, and happened to see an uncle who stopped his motorcycle and was about to come to eat——
"Eh?! What are you doing?! Stealing a car! Robbery in broad daylight?!"
"I'm sorry, uncle! Lend me the car for a while, and I'll return it to you later!"
