Just as I reached the ticket booth outside the cinema, Amuro Tooru rushed in through the main entrance.
From the look on his face, Toyama Yoru knew that he had not only asked the coffee shop manager for leave, but had probably also contacted the police department or something similar.
Even if there's no need to call in reinforcements immediately, they can be on standby at any time.
Thinking about it this way, I felt even more relieved, so I smiled and waved.
“Mingmei and her sister are inside. Go find them.”
Amuro Tooru agreed without much surprise, but his gaze lingered on the "auntie" whose arm was being held by Toyama Yoruichi.
The spy's eyes were sharp, and he immediately recognized that "she" had gone to the coffee shop with the child who resembled Shiho Miyano.
"Let me introduce you, this is my mother," Yoruichi Toyama said seriously. "I'll take her on a tour of the Metropolitan Police Department."
"I see!" Amuro Tooru understood without much thought and nodded politely. "Take care, Auntie."
aunt……
Gao Yuan chuckled dryly.
"Okay, Mom..." Yoruichi Toyama had just pulled him back when she almost bumped into someone coming in again through the door.
"Hey, get out of my way, you old hag!"
The newcomer gave Gao Yuan a shove without any politeness, then took the half-smoked cigarette from his mouth and exhaled a cloud of murky smoke.
The once peaceful ticket hall was suddenly filled with the stench of cheap cigarettes.
The children who were buying popcorn and drinks at the counter inside couldn't help but cough.
"What?! How can someone be smoking in a movie theater?!"
"Hey, old man, you can't smoke here!"
Genta, who always speaks faster than he thinks, shouted it out before his friends could stop him.
Hearing that he was essentially avenging Takato on the spot, Yoruichi Toyama couldn't help but chuckle to herself.
But the scene also felt familiar.
The smoker glanced contemptuously at the children and then exhaled another string of smoke rings, as if in a show of defiance.
"Kid, mind your own business. This movie theater will be gone tomorrow!"
"Enjoy your last moments of fun."
"Wh-what?" The children, as expected, became emo after being told this, exchanging pitiful glances.
"This movie theater is going to close down..."
For a moment, I forgot to be a public-spirited environmental protection volunteer.
Yoruichi Toyama, who had already reached the door, stopped in her tracks upon seeing this scene.
I'd felt something was off for a while now.
Although the Junior Detective League is currently lacking Ai Haibara as a key member, the auspicious power remains unaffected as long as Conan is present.
Someone actually dares to provoke the Junior Detective League!
And a movie theater that's going out of business tomorrow...?
It's exactly the same as what happened at the art museum...
As I was pondering this, I saw a burly man walk towards the person smoking, glaring at him angrily.
"The kids are right, smoking is not allowed in the movie theater! You idiot, do you always need someone to remind you?"
The smoker had slanted eyebrows and a stern look, with an unpleasant and mean appearance, but his physique was far inferior to that of the burly man opposite him.
So he had no choice but to take the cigarette, which was now just a stub, and throw it on the floor as if to show off, then crush it with his foot.
When the leather shoes were moved, there were obvious cigarette burn marks on the floor.
"Don't get too cocky," the smoker said sarcastically. "You'll all be unemployed tomorrow, won't you?"
"You should really think about how to find a job!"
"Zhang Tian, you bastard!" Upon hearing this, the burly man rolled up his sleeves and was about to step forward when another shout came from behind him.
"Guqiao, forget it, don't argue with him."
"Our movie theater will indeed cease to exist tomorrow."
He must have come out of the back office; he was a kind-looking old man.
In Yoruichi Toyama's view, he even bears a resemblance to the old gentleman Ochiai from the art museum.
A certain feeling grew stronger.
The man named Zhang Tian glanced sideways at the old man.
"Muramatsu, you'd better be smart and close down your business."
"After all, we already agreed that you would only be allowed to operate until today, didn't we?"
"Look at your dilapidated movie theater, there aren't many decent audience members left, it's really pathetic!"
"That's because you hired those thugs who fight in the theater every day, making the audience afraid to come anymore!"
The burly man known as Kohashi raised his eyebrows again, but in front of Boss Muramatsu, he finally didn't dare to make a move.
This person appears to be a cinema employee as well.
This scene and these conversations were so familiar that Yoruichi Toyama couldn't tell for a moment whether Conan's encounters were mostly like this, or whether she really knew about this particular incident.
Because he had stopped at the entrance, Gao Yuan, who had to stop with him, quietly observed the people in the ticket hall.
"It seems death is spreading here..."
He said it in a deliberately mysterious way.
Yoruichi Toyama's eyes flickered at this.
"Can you tell who's going to kill someone?"
"How could that be!" Gao Yuan smiled smugly at his question.
"However, my dear son, you must trust my intuition. After all, I have a very keen sense for the smell of 'evil'."
Yoruichi Toyama did not refute, but she also turned her gaze to those people.
The children, filled with regret at the impending closure of the cinema, yet also with excitement, returned to the screening room.
Akemi and Shiho chatted briefly with Amuro Tooru as he walked past, and seemed to decide to continue watching the movie.
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