Chapter 11 Dangerous Resort Hotel 2

The expected explosion did not occur.

Akiyama Zou paused, glanced back, and saw the body of the mercury bomb lying motionless on the carpet.

Amuro Toru was also stunned. The black-clothed youth's action was too sudden. He was pressed to the ground before he could react. His blood-red eyes revealed a bit of viciousness and hardness when he withdrew his gaze from the bomb.

"…It has been successful." Amuro Toru explained.

He just cut the last string when Cherry Brandy yelled "No!"

“Damn it.”

The young man, who always spoke in a gentle and soft voice, let out a breath from his throat. Amuro Toru noticed that he seemed very angry, but of course, this anger was not directed at him.

Akiyama Kanade got up from him and pulled him up with her.

"The explosion must have happened downstairs," Amuro Toru said with some lingering fear, "What happened?"

Akiyama explained to him several things that happened today. "I didn't connect these things until I remembered that the money that the mole was putting into his pocket had the same wrinkled feeling as the money in the middle-aged man's hand. Obviously, the money had just been traded to the mole."

"It's not the first time he has privately resold bombs, so it's not surprising that something like this would happen."

Moreover, I'm afraid that when the mole sold the bomb to the middle-aged man, he knew that the other party would load the bomb into this hotel. In this way, he had double insurance. Even if the enemy who entered the room did not touch the suitcase, the mercury bomb would still explode under the impact of another wave of explosions.

Amuro Toru also thought of this. His face turned very unpleasant and he sneered, "It seems that this mole is determined to take our lives."

The two decided to check what the explosion was. Occasionally, a few customers would pop their heads out of the rooms, but they would either retreat back in fear or run down the stairs in a panic, their phones still connected to the police.

Akiyama Kanade had good hearing and heard the police on the other side say that they had already dispatched and told the customer not to panic. They also said that a hostage situation had occurred in the hotel lobby and told him not to run downstairs and to try to find a safe place to hide.

Akiyama Kanade shared the information he heard with Amuro Toru.

The hotel has a very spacious lobby on the first floor. It is magnificent and two stories high. There is a circular corridor on the second floor, from which you can overlook the lobby from above.

The two men groped their way to the corridor and used the cover of the railings to quietly observe the situation in the hall.

The hostage-taker was indeed the middle-aged man that Akiyama Kanade had met before. He held a gun in one hand and something like a remote control in the other.

The man's face turned pale, and he raised the remote control and shouted, "I have also placed a bomb here. If you don't obey, I will detonate them like I did just now. This time, you will not be so lucky."

The explosion just now occurred on the third floor and caused a small collapse in a corner of the lobby, but fortunately no one was injured.

"I just want to find the truth... Just tell me the truth and I won't hurt you..."

Akiyama Kanade saw the figure of Mouri Ran among the hostages in the lobby, but could not find where Mouri Kogoro, Matsuda Jinpei and Conan were.

Let’s not talk about the last two for now. According to Akiyama Sou’s guess, there is a high probability that Kogoro Mori is drunk in Wenrou Township.

This was a great injustice to Kogoro Mori. It was true that he was seduced by the beauties to drink on the way back to the hotel, but he sobered up immediately when the explosion happened.

He helped evacuate guests from around the hotel before police arrived.

The police officer in charge of the bombing and hostage-taking incident was Shigego Yokomizo. In addition to the criminal police from the Criminal Division, Chisawa Hagiwara from the Transportation Division came with him. She originally came to keep an appointment with Jinpei Matsuda.

Matsuda Jinpei was her brother's childhood friend, and he was the child she watched grow up. Matsuda Jinpei took the opportunity of vacation to visit her, so when Hagiwara Chisawa learned that the explosion happened at the hotel where Matsuda Jinpei was staying, she hurried over.

She already had some post-traumatic stress disorder from the bomb. Hagiwara Chisawa had also advised Matsuda Jinpei to transfer to another department, or even stay in the relatively less dangerous Investigation Division. However, the latter naturally rejected her proposal.

"At first, I made an appointment with Hagi to join the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team. Now that he's gone, I can't run away... Otherwise, wouldn't that mean I've given up..."

The boy who ran after her back then has grown taller than her now. He has learned to smoke and uses sunglasses to hide his emotions.

Sometimes when he saw him, Hagiwara Chisu couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if his brother was still alive?

Jinpei Matsuda seemed to realize that his presence would make Chisuga Hagiwara even more sad, and in the two years after Kenji passed away, he rarely appeared in front of Chisuga Hagiwara.

But if he doesn't show up, Hagiwara Chisuku will also be worried.

Just like now, she is afraid that one day she will lose another brother in another explosion.

"What's going on?"

Matsuda Jinpei approached from behind and quietly patted Amuro Toru on the shoulder, "Where's that guy? He's not with you?"

"He said he was going to get something. Where were you just now?" Amuro Toru asked him.

"I was in the room when the explosion happened just now, so I didn't become a hostage." Jinpei Matsuda leaned over and looked down.

The police representatives were negotiating with the criminals, but I was too far away to hear what they were saying.

Akiyama Kanade returned to the second-floor corridor carrying a PSG-1 sniper rifle. Matsuda Jinpei widened his eyes in surprise, "Where did you get this?"

This is a German-style gun, a type of police rifle used abroad. It is very accurate, but very heavy, weighing about 8 kilograms.

The young man in black blinked his red eyes under his hat. He seemed to have just seen Matsuda Jinpei behind Amuro Toru. He thought for a moment and said, "I just picked it up from the ground."

Amuro Toru: “…”

You should be more serious in your perfunctory attitude towards me.

Matsuda Jinpei had already realized that his identity was not simple, so he did not ask any more questions. He looked at the young man in black setting up his sniper rifle in the dark, "How is it? Can we hit him here?"

Akiyama Kanade adjusted the optical sight. "I can't hit his nose from this angle. Hitting other places may not be a fatal blow. As long as he can still catch his breath, he may press the detonator in his hand. It's best to find the bomb and dismantle it first."

"Then I'll go to the third floor and look for it. His other bomb is probably not far from the previous one. If he wants to threaten the people in the lobby, he can either install the bomb in the lobby or on top of their heads."

The third floor is just above the hall.

There are many rooms on the third floor above the lobby. It will take a long time to check them one by one. Amuro Toru said, "I will go with you. It will be faster if we each do half. You stay here. If the criminal makes any move to detonate a bomb... just kill him."

Seeing Akiyama Kanade looking at him strangely, Amuro Toru asked, "What's wrong?"

"This is the first time you called me by my name!" he said in a tone of disbelief and joy.

It's just a name, is there any need to be so happy?

Amuro Toru smiled helplessly, and when he was about to leave with Matsuda Jinpei, Akiyama Kanade called him.

"Toru, you should be careful too."

When the young man smiled, his cheeks bulged slightly and the freckles on his fair face were clearly visible.

Amuro Toru and Matsuda Jinpei exited the corridor and came to the hallway leading to the stairs. Matsuda Jinpei's cell phone suddenly vibrated, and he took it out and raised his eyebrows in surprise.

It's Chisawa Hagiwara's phone number.

He and Amuro Toru looked at each other and answered the call.

"Chisuku-sister?"

"You can still answer the phone, so it seems that you are fine for now." Hagiwara Chisu breathed a sigh of relief. "How are you doing over there?"

Matsuda Jinpei briefly explained the situation in the hotel to her, but omitted the sniper rifle of Akiyama Kanade. After that, he asked, "What is the criminal's purpose? Do you know?"

Akiyama Kanade seemed to have noticed something was wrong and followed, holding a sniper rifle and leaning his head to listen to the phone. Amuro Toru helplessly pushed his head to the side, which was leaning too close.

"Five years ago, this hotel had a bombing. The victim was a young woman named Kumiko Itami. She was the daughter of the criminal Takero Itami. The police never found the murderer of the bombing, and it remains an unsolved case to this day."

"Does he suspect that the bombing is related to this hotel?" asked Jinpei Matsuda.

"You could say that," Hagiwara Chisaku explained, "The reason his daughter showed up at this hotel was because she was dumped by the hotel owner's son. She wanted to find him to get things straight, but he kept avoiding her, so she had no choice but to come to the hotel to block him."

"Itami Takero suspected that the man was so annoyed that he killed her. Otherwise, his daughter would not be the only victim of the bombing."

"Itami Takero wanted to confront this man, but he had no power and could not see him, so he came up with this method to force him to show up."

When Akiyama Kanade heard Chitose Hagiwara talking about the "hotel owner's son", he had a bad feeling in his heart. He comforted himself: This owner has three sons and an illegitimate child, so it can't be that unlucky, right?

Matsuda Jinpei asked again: "What did that man say? Is he related to the bombing?"

Chisawa Hagiwara sighed, "That's the problem. The hotel staff said he happened to come to the hotel today, but we couldn't contact him no matter how hard we tried. Now Itami Takeo is very angry. He seems to think that Masada Naoto - that's the man's name - this attitude proves that he is the murderer of his daughter."

"The prisoner's mental state is very unstable and he could explode at any time. We don't know where this guy is! It takes time to retrieve the case data from that year. If he didn't do it, as long as he came out to explain, we could temporarily stabilize the prisoner. But now we can't find him! Damn it!"

Akiyama Kanade lifted up the sniper rifle that was about to fall to the ground. Amuro Toru felt that his reaction was a little strange, "What's wrong with you?"

The young man in black seemed to be shocked. He stood up straight and said in a serious tone, "I, I was wondering where this nasty guy is."

He paused and stuffed the sniper rifle into Toru Amuro's arms. "I have to go to the toilet."

Amuro Toru: “?”