Chapter 404

"My, you two are really brutal in your actions." Henry rubbed his neck, which had just been hit hard by the intruder, and opened the door of the paper room with a groan. "Mr. British Government, have you ever considered how I will continue to stay in the FBI in the future?"

"Sherlock said you can handle it yourself." Bond, wearing a black suit, walked inside and excused McCoff. "Besides, you have actually prepared various response plans a long time ago, right? Is all the information about Shuichi Akai here?"

"Well, here's some extra information that Senior Ponytail requested from the FBI as the source of the information." Henry pulled out a stack of documents and handed them to Dion, who was also wearing a black suit. "Although for us, they should all be information we already know - that is, the information related to the two crazy scientists."

One day shortly after the FBI database was hacked by the Black Organization, Moran targeted a warehouse at a dock from a high-rise building.

"Although as an Archer you don't have to worry about avoiding obstacles, walls do block your vision. Without the Magic Eye, it's impossible to hit a certain point accurately." Holmes sat by the window, crossing his fingers as he watched Moran set up his sniper rifle. "No wonder Will wanted to push me over to work with you."

"...I'm ready." Moran narrowed his eyes and stared at the direction of the warehouse that William had told him in advance. "Then, you don't have that kind of perspective magic to use, right?"

"But I have the power of 'Explanation'." Holmes laughed. "Will said that you can determine other parts of the body based on the position of the heart, right? My treasure can mark the fatal points of Gin's head, heart, and throat for you - you should be able to infer which specific point to snipe based on this, right?"

"In this situation, you may need a little luck to hit her." Moran put the trigger on the gun and reminded Holmes, "It should be about time - well, at worst, we can just shoot Xiaoqin's hand or leg and avoid the fatal point. If we do this, we will have to report to Albert later..."

"Well," Holmes sighed, turning his head to look in the direction Moran was looking at, "Well, let's get started. This is common sense, my dear friend—"

『Elementary My Dear』

When Conan Edogawa reached the dock, all he saw was a burning warehouse.

"William!?! How could that warehouse explode?!" Moran, who had returned to the office with Holmes after discovering the explosion, asked William, "Didn't you tell the little detective to bring her to us?"

"I forgot to take the gap between the times into consideration." William frankly admitted his mistake. "If it was Charlie, he would bring the person to my side, just like Irene did at that time - but Conan is a detective of this era, he would give priority to sending Miyano Akemi to the police."

"So I temporarily found someone to help take her away - before Edogawa Conan arrived at the dock."

"When Gin saw me, his expression was quite grim." Lansermelo walked out of the bathroom at the end and stopped beside a few people. "Come to think of it, I didn't expect that I would be asked to participate this time. I originally asked William if he wanted me to assist at the shooting position, but Moran refused because he didn't want to wear glasses or use a sniper scope..."

"Although it would be more convenient to have such magic, I just can't get used to the feeling of having something on my face." Moran took a few steps back speechlessly and spread his hands to everyone, "So, what did the teacher do in the warehouse?"

"In order to prevent the police from finding the surveillance footage, I used magic to get through - I arrived at the warehouse door around the time Moran shot Gin with the third bullet." Lansermello replied, "I thought the girl would take the opportunity to escape, but she probably wanted to take her sister away too much, and she raised her pistol again when Gin turned the gun and pointed it at me..."

"Then I fired the fourth shot." Moran added, "Because based on the positions of the previous shots and the location of the fatal point that Holmes marked for me with his treasure, I deduced that he had made another move at that time - in order to prevent him from pulling the trigger, I fired another shot."

"Wait a minute, Gin has been shot four times, right?" Sherlock frowned, "He's not running away?"

"After all, Gin has been responsible for hunting down those rats who want to betray the organization since the day he got the code name." William showed an expression that he expected*, "Especially with the only failed mission hanging in front of him... Is this the second or third failed attempt to silence someone?"

"That's three times if you count Kudo-kun," Watson replied to William. "By the way, why did Gin leave in the end?"

"Ah... because I blew up the warehouse first." Lansemero replied with a smile, "I used the same explosion method as the Chaldea control room explosion, and the detonation point was some distance away from everyone present... But Gin and Vodka should have been knocked unconscious by the explosion. If they don't wake up soon, Gin will die from excessive blood loss even if Moran didn't hit them in a fatal area."

"You cast a protective spell on everyone, right?" John, who was standing behind Watson, blinked and pointed out what he had discovered. "Ms. Mingmei doesn't have any obvious injuries on her body, right? There are no signs of injury on her internal organs or head. You probably cast a hypnotic spell on her or something else, which is why she is still unconscious."

"The quality of the defensive magic left for Gin is probably not that good." William took out his mobile phone and opened the email application. "I'll assign the task to Gin - I don't need to care about his situation or whether he has completed the task...right?"

"What task are you going to throw at him?" asked Holmes.

"There is someone who knows too much - even that old crow would want to kill him." William replied to Holmes with a smile, "And, if you want to give Shirley a reason and opportunity to escape - Miyano Akemi must die, and there can be no members who understand the true efficacy of the APTX4869 research and Shirley's appearance as a child."

"Then I'll take advantage of her coma and throw her back to Chaldea." Lansemello walked to Watson's side. "If she goes now, she can catch up with the first batch of basic magic learning - this is the basis for returning to the outside world. If she misses this year's opportunity, she can only wait until next year. Although this year is the first time."

"Ah, speaking of this." William put the phone that had just sent the mission email back into his pocket and called Lansermero who was about to leave with Watson, "Brother Albert has arranged their fake identities. As long as the employee information input process on the Chaldean side is completed, they can come out, right?"

"After getting the ordinary employee ID card - in order to prevent people from mistakenly entering the real Chaldea, the ID card made in Antarctica cannot be used to swipe the door to Chaldea at other coordinates." Lansemello answered, "But in addition to the basics of magic, they still have to complete many challenges before they can get out of Chaldea."

“Complete a lot of challenges?”

"After all, they are all dead people." Lansemero turned around and smiled at them. "Chaldea now can be considered half of the underworld. If you want to achieve the miracle of resurrection from the dead, the conditions are very harsh."

At the same time, Chaldea was carrying out a vigorous study of the basics of magic - a mixed study of world history, theology, astrology and other subjects.

"I feel like we've been tricked." After the bell rang on Chaldea Radio, Jinpei Matsuda said this to the three people around him with a serious look.

"You can't say that, can you?" Hagiwara Kenji closed his notebook and put down his pen. "Even if they really have some conspiracy, they locked up so many people deep in the snowy mountains at an altitude of 6,000 meters in Antarctica. Even the richest people would not do such a thing where their expenses are not proportional to their income."

"Maybe they're planning to use us as a reserve of magic power, just like the Witch of the Age of Gods said?" Matsuda Jinpei gave an example.

"Don't you believe what they say?" Morofushi Kagemitsu looked at Matsuda Jinpei strangely.

"Just because I believe what they said in class doesn't mean I don't suspect they have other plans." Matsuda Jinpei solemnly stated to Morobushi Kagemitsu, "After all, didn't Master Jing come here a month later than me?! How come he seems to trust these people more than Hagi who came here several years earlier!"

"Ah, because I ran into some more subtle things, so I know a little more than you." Morobushi Kagemitsu laughed, "But you are also studying this course, you should know that I really can't reveal the situation to you - the way they restrict me from revealing the situation to others is much more effective than the self-restraint of the undercover code or something like that."

"Magic." Date Kou summarized for Morobushi Kagemitsu and confirmed with Matsuda Jinpei, "Are you in a hurry to go outside to confirm something, Matsuda?"

"Ah, because in fact, none of the members of the research institute responsible for running Chaldea are in this institute." Matsuda Jinpei answered Date Kou and wrote on a blank page in his notebook. "And didn't Hagi and I go out to pick someone up before? Based on the clues I got in Chaldea before and what I said to them... I was able to discover something very strange."

"According to the introduction of the research institute in Chaldea where we are, there are only two directors in Chaldea now, and a deputy director who has been there since the establishment of Chaldea. The first director and the second director are father and daughter. The first director, Marisbili Animusphia, committed suicide in 2012, so Olgamari Asmiret Animusphia arrived in Chaldea in 2013 to succeed her as director."

"Ah, but when Jinpei and I went to pick them up, the people we picked up were..." Hagiwara Kenji took off the cap of his pen, squeezed next to Matsuda Jinpei and wrote down the situation in his notebook, "Maris Billy, Olga Marie, Deputy Director Lancer Melo, Kirshtalia, one of the members of the A-Team's chief, and Fujimaru Ritsuka, the 48th chief who was recently added to the Chaldean staff list."

"Apart from the fact that there's someone who's 'dead' just like us, is there any problem?" asked Date Kou.

"They mentioned a third director, Mujik, of whom there is no record in Chaldea at present."