Chapter 60 The Detective's Guilt

Based on Conan's reasoning from various angles, it's clear that Dalmore is a member of the organization. So, is the tall, handsome young man who was with him on the day of the Shinkansen incident also a member of the organization?

Are they ordinary members? Or organization leaders? If they are leaders, what is their code name? But even if these two are members, they don't seem to be the same type as Gin and Vodka.

They weren't aggressive or threatening on the Shinkansen, so do the two gunshots just now mean that person was also there? Are they partners like Gin and Vodka?

Just now, he was also trying to dissuade the madam from leaving the building, as if he knew something dangerous was about to happen and was deliberately trying to get everyone else to evacuate.

Is he one of the few members in the organization who is capable of showing kindness? How can the organization be so magnanimous as to tolerate the existence of such a member and even give him an operational codename equivalent to that of an officer?

Thinking of this possibility, Conan couldn't help but reveal his crescent-shaped eyes, and then his expression turned serious in a second. He thought to himself, unless he has a talent that the organization cannot refuse and can only let him do whatever he wants, is that possible?

As he pondered this, he carefully observed Dalmore's appearance, only then noticing that compared to his obvious disguise on the Shinkansen, he was clearly disguised today. Not only was he wearing glasses, but he had also wet his hair and changed his hairstyle, and his clothes were different from his previous lazy yet serious black outfit...

But this person looks familiar. Just now, when I recalled the handsome guy next to him on the Shinkansen, he also looked familiar. I must have seen them somewhere before...

After Matsuda awkwardly uttered that casual pseudonym, he saw the little boy's face, which had just looked innocent and naive, change rapidly behind his glasses, shifting between fear, speechlessness, and distress...

It was as if his small body contained countless thoughts, making him realize once again how fun it was to tease children! It was fun to tease his "older brother," who was even more arrogant than he was in elementary school, but it was even more fun to tease this overly clever kid!

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Meanwhile, having arranged the advance operation, Gin was also looking at the sightseeing elevator on the roof of the building opposite, searching for an opportunity to ambush Sherry and completely eliminate this traitor to the organization.

He had been checking the building's condition through the scope of his sniper rifle, searching for Sherry's escape route, because the building's engineer, Hara Yoshiaki, was an outer member of the organization, and they knew the building's structure very well.

Therefore, the location of the building's elevators, the number of floors of the two escape bridges, and even the building's exits are all very clear. Now, the hunters of the organization are all waiting in their respective positions, waiting for Sherry's escape route from this building.

No matter which direction, elevator, or exit she chose, there were always people waiting for her. Gin was in charge of this sightseeing elevator, and he seemed to be quite lucky.

I just saw through the scope that there was a woman in the elevator with the same hairstyle and hair color as Shirley, and her figure seemed to be similar. However, the observation elevator was at a height above the roof of the building where he was waiting.

Given the current sniping distance, the range and accuracy of sniping at higher elevations are affected by factors such as air resistance, gravity, and wind, which reduces the accuracy. Therefore, Gin plans to wait until the sightseeing elevator descends to a lower elevation than the building where he is waiting before taking the sniping shot.

But to his surprise, before the elevator reached his predicted sniping position, it stopped. A woman with a child got off, and another man got on.

When Gin saw the man's face clearly through the scope, he remembered the weapon that had been taken from him without his knowledge, and a sinister smile immediately appeared on his face.

At the same time, his cautious and suspicious nature made him suspicious.

The incident on the Shinkansen could be considered a coincidence, but could his reappearance at the hunting grounds where the operation was being organized today also be a coincidence? Besides, after the Shinkansen did not explode as he planned, he arranged for members of the organization to investigate the matter.

According to the scene description, the two fat pigs knew a guy who claimed to be a Japanese policeman. He took the bomb the woman had given him and then mysteriously disappeared. The police couldn't find him and confirmed that he was an imposter...

These two guys, who weren't Japanese police officers, took his own weapons and interfered in preventing the Shinkansen explosion. They seemed to be the kind of people who relied on their abilities and had a little sense of justice, but not much, and liked to meddle in other people's business.

Could it be that they tracked me and Vodka down because of the Shinkansen incident, and found out what the organization was doing in this building in Tokiwa that was being prepared as their new headquarters, and deliberately came to cause trouble for the organization?

Disrupting the organization's operations? Last time, it could be attributed to self-preservation, but what about this time? Is it out of pointless righteous indignation? Or is it because he's unhappy with the nickname "Fat Piglet" and is deliberately causing trouble by disrupting his work?

So, was he the one who set off the fire that happened outside of their plans? Was Fatty's boyfriend involved? Heh... whatever his motives, the fact that this guy is here is great! It saves him a lot of trouble.

Gin thought viciously, "I can settle the score with them now. Just because they're people Fatty knows doesn't mean I'll go easy on them." His sniper rifle scope was already aimed at Matsuda Jinpei's head.

But the next second he moved back to the woman who seemed to be Sherry... Hmph! o(￣ヘ￣o＃) He wasn't showing mercy to the guy who seemed to have a good relationship with the fat piglet, worried that she would throw a tantrum if he killed her friend!

It's only because that fat piglet finally found a man, and this man was so fiercely protective of her, that she seemed like a backup plan, someone she could eventually leave that good-for-nothing to be cared for by another man. That's why she spared his life today...

I'll wait until they're no longer of any use before taking care of them myself. After all, they're the kind of guys who can steal weapons from him; it'll be more satisfying to deal with them face-to-face. o(￣ヘ￣o＃)

As he thought this, he walked towards the elevator to his designated spot, then precisely aimed at 'Sherry's' head, a point where a single, fatal blow would be fatal, and fired...

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Meanwhile, Matsuda mistakenly thought that Conan was the younger brother of that arrogant future detective trainee he had met before, and was thinking to himself that the two brothers looked quite alike, and it was really fun to see the child's face changing!

He felt a chilling sensation, much like being inside a Ferris wheel cabin when a column of mercury is activated, and instinctively looked around to find the source of the danger.

With his professional instincts, he quickly noticed a red dot moving above the head of the girl with short, ear-length hair in the elevator, and then stopping at the exact spot where a sniper shot would be fatal.

Without hesitation, he pressed the girl's head down while shouting to everyone in the elevator, "Everyone, crouch down immediately and cover your heads to protect your vitals!"

"Sonoko-neechan, your underwear is showing." At the same time, Conan also noticed that the moving red dot was unusual, and immediately looked out of the elevator using the high-tech glasses that Professor Agasa had specially made for him.

Upon seeing the familiar black top hat and flowing silver hair atop the distant building, he chose another explanation that would elicit a quick response from Sonoko Suzuki.

Before anyone could react, they heard a sound like glass being pierced, followed by a strange noise coming from the elevator button area. When they came to their senses, they noticed a deep mark on the button area.

The hole was constantly emitting sparks.

"How did this hole appear in the metal button area?"

"Eh!! What on earth happened?!"

Why is the elevator stopped?

Do you know what happened?

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After Matsuda shouted, most of the people were instinctively intimidated by his stern voice and squatted down. Then they felt the elevator shake and inexplicably stop. Only then did they realize that the elevator button area was damaged and the elevator had stopped.

“It was a sniper shot. Someone was sniping at you outside just now.” Matsuda answered while releasing his grip on Sonoko Suzuki’s hand, then gestured to Sonoko: “Go hide in the corner of the elevator over there, crouch down and cover your head with your arms.”

This will prevent you from exposing vital positions. Snipers are used to hitting their target with a single shot; if they can't find a vital point, they won't fire again unless absolutely necessary. Everyone should also be careful and maintain their defensive posture.

As he said this, he looked at Conan. With his keen observation skills, he noticed that when he deduced from the red dot that it was the mark of a sniper rifle scope, the boy pressed his glasses temple and looked outside the elevator before decisively shouting out that sentence.

What seemed like a boy's mischievous prank actually resulted in the girl he called Sonoko crouching down without him having to exert any effort, thanks to his self-cultivation as a woman, thus avoiding the sniper's shot.

Furthermore, considering his more meticulous investigations at the scene of Ms. Tokiwa's murder than the police, and how he quickly noticed and followed up on the three suspects' answers during questioning, allowing him, as an observer, to quickly identify the culprit...

Would such a clever brat play such a pointless H prank? No! No way... He must have seen something when he looked outside, but at such a distance, even with excellent eyesight, one shouldn't be able to see anything. How could he see it clearly?

By the way, thinking back, after he pressed the temple of his glasses, there seemed to be a light green fluorescence flashing on the lenses. Could it be that his glasses weren't ordinary glasses?

During the four years he was away from the real world, there had been some breakthroughs in glasses technology, such as the ability to see far away or night vision? Matsuda speculated as he looked at Conan's glasses, trying to see if there was anything different from four years ago...

At the same time, Conan realized that Sonoko had seen Ai Haibara's hairstyle during their last visit and had grumbled about wanting to change it because she was unhappy with her future image. Today, she had dyed her hair the same color and cut the same hairstyle as Ai Haibara.

It must be that someone from the organization mistook her for Ai Haibara and sniped her. But how did the organization know that Ai Haibara would come here? Weren't they targeting this building because of Hara Yoshiaki?

As Conan pondered this question, he suddenly remembered the time he caught Haibara making a late-night phone call to her sister's secret residence, just to hear a few seconds of the phone's notification tone from that apartment.

He couldn't help but wonder, could it be that she made that phone call again, revealing her presence in this building? He had warned her of the great risk involved; would she have knowingly done so? Or was there something wrong with that phone call that day? What a coincidence?

-_-|| At the time, he felt guilty towards Ai Haibara because after solving the case of her sister Professor's murder, she cried and blamed herself for being able to solve the truth about the professor's murder but not being able to save her sister.

Even knowing that it was the drug she researched that poisoned her into the appearance of a child, she couldn't be as angry as she was when she lied to herself that Professor Agasa had been killed by her, and when she arrived at Professor Agasa's house and discovered she had been deceived, and then she revealed her identity.