Chapter 59 Conan misunderstands again!

"Wait a minute!" Matsuda quickly stopped the girl from pressing the elevator button. He frowned as he thought of the bombs on the roof and other floors and said to the young woman, "If the child's crying causes an illness, you can call an ambulance and wait downstairs."

A building fire is no joke. No matter which floor it is, it can spread in just a few minutes. Take your children downstairs immediately. Don't gamble with the odds of disaster; if you lose, you'll have nothing left.

"Uh..." The mother holding her child looked at this obviously unapproachable man, whose handsome face but fierce eyes gave off the impression that he could fill a sea with people at any moment. She didn't dare to refute him for a moment, but she clearly resisted the suggestion to go back into the elevator.

Seeing this, Matsuda frowned. After all, although there was still some time before the bombs on the roof and other floors were scheduled to explode, based on Hagiwara's near-death experience, those bombs could be detonated at any time by the person who installed them.

He couldn't let the elevator waste time here because of this mother and child's dilemma, lest others be in danger because of wasting time here, but he also couldn't just leave the mother and child unattended...

Just as Matsuda was in a dilemma, Conan, who had a keen eye for observation, had already noticed the man on the Shinkansen who seemed to be Gin's accomplice. In addition, he had encountered a murder case in the past few days and saw Gin's car when he visited this building.

All of this suggests that Gin may have his eye on this place, or that the Tokiwa Zaibatsu may have some connection with that black organization, and now this suspected member of the black organization has appeared here.

This made him suspect that the organization was planning something in the building, especially since the fire alarm earlier was too suspicious. He didn't see any open flames, but he did see the automatic fire sprinklers working.

Even with the sprinklers constantly spraying water, the banquet hall quickly filled with a large amount of smoke, forcing the police to disregard their ongoing investigation into Ms. Tokiwa's murder and hurriedly arrange for the evacuation of the banquet hall's guests...

He had previously thought the fire alarm was suspicious but hadn't considered the possibility of a member of the Black Organization. Now, seeing this man, who appeared to be a member of the organization, on the Shinkansen here...

He couldn't help but suspect that he was sent by the organization to deliberately start a fire in the banquet hall, drive people out of the building, and then do something shady. Thinking of this, Conan wore an innocent and naive face.

As he stepped out of the elevator and approached Matsuda Jinpei, he looked at him and asked in a cute boyish voice, "Big brother! Why were you in such a hurry to get that old lady onto the elevator?"

He didn't see that the woman who was gradually calming her child down from crying distorted her youthful face when she heard him call her "Auntie." (￣ヘ￣o＃) Even if she's a mother, she doesn't necessarily have to be an "Auntie"!

His expression changed as he walked up to Matsuda Jinpei. The child's height brought him closer to the adult's legs, and his sense of smell, hearing, and taste were always excellent. He could now keenly smell a slight gunpowder scent on the man in front of him.

Based on this, Conan's keen intuition led him to almost immediately deduce that the man in front of him might be the one who had saved Tokiwa-san in the banquet hall earlier, and that he hadn't even noticed that the man was in the banquet hall at the time.

This person's ability to conceal himself is probably superb, but why is he in the banquet hall? Is it related to the organization's murder of Hara Yoshiaki? Or is it related to 'something' the organization is going to do in this new headquarters building in Tokiwa?

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"Of course it's because of the bomb..." Matsuda, who was struggling with his thoughts, was subconsciously influenced by the child's voice, and his guard lowered considerably. He almost let slip the secret, but fortunately, he managed to avoid the first bomb...

He stopped immediately after uttering the Japanese pronunciation.

He managed to avoid being exposed and causing panic among others, but the boy's voice also made him make a decision. He immediately said, "Forget it, you guys should leave quickly! I'll take her to the next elevator in a bit."

The time for this kind of instance is a bit tight, but if the elevator doesn't have any problems, there's still time. Also, this kid is much cuter than his arrogant older brother.

o(￣ヘ￣o＃) Thinking this way, he completely selectively forgot about his own role in 'corrupting' the child, deliberately lying to Shinichi Kudo that police officer could freely check ordinary people's email accounts...

Unexpectedly, at that moment, the mother holding her child's phone rang. She answered the call and talked to the person on the other end of the phone who appeared to be her husband. Then she glanced at the people in the elevator and gave an embarrassed look.

He actually said to them, "Excuse me, you can go down first! Don't wait for me, I need to explain to Anada in detail what happened here, it will take some time."

Hearing this, no one knew what to say. Matsuda had already made up his mind, but now he couldn't help but worry that the other party's phone call would take longer than the time he planned to take the elevator back to the banquet hall floor. However, he couldn't explain the situation to the madam.

Unexpectedly, at that moment, Conan called out to him in an innocent and adorable boyish voice, "Big brother, come on up! If the old lady doesn't come up, the elevator's capacity can now accommodate another adult!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Matsuda was about to refuse.

"Hey! Big brother just said it's dangerous upstairs, why don't you take the elevator and leave this building quickly?" Conan, who was very good at reading people, didn't give him a reason to refuse: "Does big brother want to go upstairs?"

"Heh...you guessed wrong!" Hearing him say that, Matsuda simply chose to take the elevator. Anyway, he would have to wait for this elevator to return to the top floor later, so there was no difference in time. He could also stop at this floor for a while.

I quickly escorted this madam, who couldn't seem to prioritize, downstairs. But what's wrong with this kid? His voice sounds cute, but every word he says feels like a barb. What did I do to offend him?

We only talked to each other at the toilet entrance on the Shinkansen. At other times, we only saw him running around mischievously in the dining car. Neither I nor Hagiwara stopped him. How did he take notice of us?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Conan with his speechless crescent-shaped eyes. However, after seeing the transparent glass elevator box behind the boy, he realized that this elevator was not an ordinary passenger elevator.

This must be a sightseeing elevator, wow! Standing inside, it's clear this building's height would be difficult to meet Japanese building codes. No wonder it's the Tokiwa Zaibatsu; they can even find a way to overcome such restrictions…

Conan stared at the closed elevator doors, his heart pounding with anxiety. On one hand, he worried that calling a suspected member of the organization into the elevator might drag Ran into an incident related to the organization. On the other hand, he wanted to take the opportunity to test Ran and see if he could extract any information about the organization from her.

At this time, he had not yet experienced the fear of being suffocated and unconscious by Gin after the Itakura Taku incident. He was reckless when facing the organization, and he did not have the strong fear of implicating others when facing the organization after the Itakura Taku incident.

In addition, for some reason, although he had various worries because he deduced that he was a member of the organization, subconsciously he always felt that even if he looked like he would throw all the people he hated into the sea, he would not feel scared!

Therefore, despite his hesitation, he continued after the elevator started descending again.

With his innocent, childlike face, he asked Matsuda in a cute boyish voice, "Big brother, it's rare for us to ride such a tall elevator together. Can you tell me your name?"

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"..." As a police officer, there was nothing wrong with hiding his name, but unfortunately, he was currently in a 'sacrificial' state. In front of these acquaintances who clearly had a good relationship with Inspector Megure, whom he had just seen in the banquet hall, Matsuda Jinpei naturally could not appear 'alive'.

But since the child had already asked, not answering seemed like a betrayal of the child's expectations. Tsk! Officer Sang, who had a fierce look in his eyes and was stern to his peers and older people, but very good-natured to children and younger people, hesitated for a moment.

Using a katakana? What kind of katakana would be good? He was terrible at coming up with names, and could only think of common Japanese surnames like Sato, Tanaka, Inoue, and Inoshita, but he just couldn't think of a name that could go with them. He was struggling with how to answer when...

Suddenly, the image of Hagi deliberately teasing the junior high school girl with the topic of luxury and expensive wine flashed through his mind. He thought that a primary school student of such a young age would definitely not know about famous foreign wines, so he decided to use the Japanese pronunciation of famous foreign wines to fool him.

Heh... Let him experience the 'beating' from the police, just like his brother! o(*￣︶￣*)o Matsuda Jinpei has never been a law-abiding person, otherwise he wouldn't have deliberately teased Shinichi Kudo when he was a primary school student with an even more arrogant attitude than him.

He didn't hesitate at all to tease the other person's 'little brother' now, but what kind of fine wine should he use? He thought of the relatively expensive but somewhat pricey Darmo whiskey that the junior schoolmate had collected earlier, so he simply answered, "Darmo!"

Darmo? Whiskey? Ai Haibara once said that outstanding members of the organization who are appreciated by the organization's boss are given codenames that are named after alcohol.

For example, it is said that Gin, who has great authority in the organization, has a partner and subordinate named Vodka, whose code name is not his real name. Ai Haibara also has the title Sherry, which was given to her three years ago when she first reconstructed APTX4869 after returning to Japan.

The organization member who died in the video game company bombing seems to be named Tequila, which should also be a code name. For example, Ai Haibara's sister was an ordinary member of the organization, so there was no code name with alcohol in it.

This man, who looked fierce, called himself Darmo. Darmo is a type of Scotch whisky derived from Scotch whisky, and it's also just a name for the whisky itself. He was a man who used a whisky name to refer to himself and inexplicably appeared in this building where gin had been seen around.

Gin also murdered Yoshiaki Hara, an engineer at Tokiwa, indicating that the Tokiwa Group's construction of this building must be related to the organization. Just now, there was an attempted murder in the rooftop banquet hall, and then a fire alarm with only thick smoke and no open flames...

He seems to have saved Tokiwa-san, and now he seems a bit angry that the madam isn't leaving the building quickly. His words and actions give the impression that he's just an insider who couldn't stop the other party, so he saved her before she could do anything.

Could it be that the black organization's operations weren't coordinated? Was Gin in charge of this operation, and he was responsible for 'causing trouble'? Cough cough... Anyway, whether he was a member of the organization or just someone who knew about it.

This all indicates that the organization is definitely going to do something dangerous to this building. He just said that he could accompany the madam to wait for the next elevator downstairs, regardless of his mental state or purpose in saving people and stopping the madam.

But he would never put himself in danger, so he estimated that the organization should have some buffer time before carrying out its dangerous operation. He needed to take advantage of this buffer time to get Lan to a safe place...