The sound of sirens blaring came from afar.

Hoshino Aoi's empty eyes became sharp again.

"It looks like it's over."

She murmured as the black sedan appeared on the road again like a ghost in the night.

Vermouth, who had torn off the mask of Tomoaki Aida, passed by her.

Both of them saw each other through the windshield from the car.

However, unlike Vermouth's eyes, Hoshino Aoi, who was still wearing the mask of Solana, did not keep her eyes on her. She just glanced at her lightly and then looked away.

It just so happened that Edogawa Conan was also trying to avoid her. When he saw her, he deliberately moved his body down so that she wouldn't find out that he was also in the car. So naturally, Hoshino Aoi, who had just plotted against Vermouth, walked past her in a swagger, leaving behind a trail of exhaust gas that gradually dissipated in the darkness.

"Hello, my dear friends, is there anything I can help you with?"

She parked the car in front of Judy, rolled down the window, and asked with a smile to Judy and Akai Shuichi who were standing on the side of the road.

But Akai Shuichi snorted and put away the shotgun in his hand.

"Are you here to cover for that woman's departure? You actually hid aside and watched the show for such a long time."

Judy didn't know, so when she found that the direction Hoshino Aoi came from was the same direction Vermouth left, she just took it for granted that she didn't know Vermouth's true identity and let her go.

But Shuichi Akai knows about the friendly relationship between her and Vermouth.

So when he saw her car slowly coming from the direction where Vermouth left, he couldn't help but laugh out loud, and said it directly to Judy, half mockingly and half teasingly.

Hoshino Aoi didn't take his sarcastic words seriously, but after noticing Judy's doubtful and scrutinizing look, she raised her eyebrows, but her expression changed in an instant.

"How can you say that?"

Hoshino Aoi pursed her lips and pretended to be aggrieved, but her eyes did not look at Akai Shuichi, who knew her inside and out, but glanced at Judy who was standing diagonally behind him.

"You didn't tell me your specific plan. I just happened to see Ai on my way home. She looked anxious because she couldn't get a taxi, so I did her a small favor and sent her here. I didn't know you were here, so please don't accuse me of anything when you're covering for someone else's departure..."

She deliberately added some emphasis to the word "coincidentally" to make people who understood her intention more clear, and also to make people who didn't understand her really think that she just happened to see it and so happened to help the other person with a small favor.

This made Judy unable to help but interrupt Akai Shuichi's questioning.

"Xiu, I really didn't tell Solana about our plan, and she hasn't seen the true face of that woman named Vermouth. It's normal for her to let her escape, right?"

So you shouldn't suspect that she was colluding with Vermouth and deliberately letting the other person go.

After all, she doesn't even know her...

Judy defended Solana seriously.

Of course, she didn't think she said anything wrong.

After all, Solana didn't know that this was the place where they were going to implement their plan to capture Vermouth. The reason she appeared here was entirely because of Haibara Ai. So instead of worrying about why she appeared here, it would be better to wait for Haibara Ai to wake up and ask her how she knew where they were.

Secondly, she only knew that there was something wrong with Tomoaki Arata, but she didn't know that he had already been replaced by a master of disguise. So it was normal for her not to stop Vermouth when she left with her real face.

In this case, if she really stopped Vermouth, that should have aroused their vigilance, right?

Judy thought about it and naturally didn't think there was anything wrong with her protection. After Akai Shuichi frowned slightly, he didn't say anything either.

However, with his back to Judy, he closed his mouth and secretly gave Hoshino Aoi a look.

Obviously, he wanted to get the truth from her about why she let Vermouth run away.

Seeing this, Hoshino Aoi raised her eyebrows, but considering that he didn't say anything nonsense in front of Judy, she still gave him a look.

In response to this, Shuichi Akai didn't care whether the meaning of her eyes was the answer he wanted, and he just understood it according to his own ideas, thinking that the two had reached a consensus.

But in an instant, the two people who had been slightly at odds with each other became peaceful.

Before the police arrived, the three of them carried Ran Mouri and Ai Haibara, who were lying on the ground and had fallen asleep, into the car.

As for the other man who had committed suicide, Akai Shuichi wanted to take him away, but Hoshino Aoi said:

"If you want to take it, throw it in your own car. Don't throw all the messy things in my car."

The sound of the sirens was getting closer and closer, and they didn't have much time to finish the job. Hoshino Aoi was still refusing to let Akai Shuichi throw Calvados's body into her trunk. Akai Shuichi's pickup truck was a two-seater, and with Judy, who was requisitioned by Vermouth, the car was already full, so naturally there was no room for another cold body.

Without much thought, Shuichi Akai gave up the idea of ​​taking him back.

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