Conan: I've been linked to the tech tree system.

After the police officers looked at each other, they actually laughed.

For a moment, Tohno Toru thought the person on the other end was Wen Zhang.

"Isn't that Randy Hawke?"

"He's perfectly safe now. He was even on a radio or television program just now."

"Didn't I say it was an American who looks a lot like him? Can't you guys listen to what people are saying?"

Tohru Tono was speechless.

"Oh, sorry, sorry." The policeman scratched his head.

"Wait, officers, was that broadcast you just mentioned a live broadcast?"

"Yes, it's not over yet, is it?"

The thin officer glanced at his colleague.

"seems like it."

"This is bad." Conan's expression turned ominous upon hearing this information.

"If the kidnappers mistook Mr. James for Hawke, then they would definitely listen to the radio programs Hawke participates in."

"What? Wouldn't that expose the mistake?" The professor understood what Conan was talking about.

"Yes, if they discover they've kidnapped the wrong person, Mr. James will probably be in danger."

Conan pinched his chin, his heart heavy.

Although the name James always reminded him of Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, his first impression of this Baker Street-born man was quite good.

Tohru Tono spoke with the two police officers and then called Inspector Megure, whom he knew better.

Although they had gained the police's trust, the police could not offer them any real assistance beyond promising support.

After all, apart from the ambiguous information about "P&A," they had no substantial evidence that James had been kidnapped.

"Damn it, if only I knew what P&A meant."

As Conan walked out of the police station, he rested his chin on his hand, still pondering the matter.

"P and A together are pronounced PA," Professor Agasa said, spouting nonsense.

"Could it be a store that starts with PA? Like a bakery or something?" Ayumi started racking her brains.

Using English abbreviations as codes is definitely a situation where everyone has to guess blindly; maybe someone will be able to make sense of it.

"No, if he wanted to express PA in that situation, he should have smeared blood on Paul's PA, instead of deliberately separating it and smearing the symbol '&' in the middle."

"So we should think about P and A separately," Conan retorted.

Tohru Tono doesn't remember this case, but he's familiar with PA.

Phantom Assassin, huh?

Of course, it's best not to voice this speculation.

To avoid being ridiculed by Shiho Miyano.

“P and A…” Mitsuhiko touched his lips with his index finger, going through everything related to P and A in his mind.

"PINK and AKA?" Ayumi scratched her head, making the connection to Japanese.

"Professional wrestling, red bean buns?" Yuan Tai simply used Romanized words to make the connection, and the things he thought of were completely unrelated.

"Personal computer, data access?" Even Professor Agasa was led astray by him.

"It could also be a pistol and a killer."

Shiho Miyano pondered.

Tohno Toru glanced at her.

That's quite insightful; it's similar to his guess about the Phantom Assassin.

"Maybe it's a policy action; let's think of it as a political maneuver," Toru Tono said casually after a moment's thought.

“That’s possible… but in that situation, would James tell us such useless information?” Conan pondered.

"Well, just a guess."

"Hey, be serious..." Conan rolled his dead fish eyes.

"That's it!" Mitsuhiko suddenly realized something. "P&A, could it mean parking lot?"

"Oh, right, very likely." Professor Agasa clapped his fist.

“But even if it’s a parking lot, we don’t know which one it is,” Yuan Tai questioned.

"It's the parking lot where Mr. James parked his car. Maybe we can find other clues?" Mitsuhiko argued.

"Ah, I thought so too, so I already checked it just now," Conan said casually, hands in his pockets. "But I didn't find anything."

"Oh, I see." Mitsuhiko said, disappointed.

"Damn it, I can't figure this out at all!" Conan couldn't take it anymore. "Looks like I'll have to ask around here for any clues!"

"Then let's split up now. If we find anything, we can contact each other using our detective badges!"

"it is good!"

The Junior Detective League members are all very motivated.

But just before leaving, Ayumi suddenly frantically rummaged through her pockets, muttering, "Strange, it's gone..."

"What's wrong?" Dr. Agasa asked.

"My detective badge is missing?" Ayumi frowned.

"Could it have fallen somewhere?" Mitsuhiko said.

"That's strange, I clearly showed it to Mr. James earlier..."

Ayumi reached into her pocket and suddenly remembered what had happened earlier.

"Oh, right!" she suddenly exclaimed with delight, "Maybe my detective badge is still on Mr. James?"

"Ok?"

Chapter 201 Your circle is so chaotic

"If that's the case, then I can use the transmitter hidden inside to find his location."

Conan breathed a sigh of relief.

I'm having a lucky day!

He turned on the built-in switch of the modified positioning glasses to search for nearby signal sources.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before they discovered that the signal was likely coming from the detective's badge.

"Found it! It's 16 kilometers north-northwest, probably along the Wujin River, heading north along Shengmao Street! Also... the speed at which the signal is changing means they're driving!"

“Then I’ll notify Officer Takagi as you said.” Toru Tono nodded and called Takagi, the officer in charge of the case that Inspector Megure had assigned to him.

"Set up a checkpoint on the border of Saitama Prefecture in the Ikumo district?" Takagi's voice sounded somewhat embarrassed. "With such unclear intelligence, even with Inspector Megure's permission, I don't have the authority to set up a police station there..."

He scratched the back of his head in confusion.

How come a mere patrol officer like him always gets these kinds of tricky situations!

"How about this, is Inspector Megure nearby? Give him the phone and I'll talk to him." Tohno thought for a moment and didn't make things difficult for Takagi.

They're still young, so it's normal for them to be cautious for fear of jeopardizing their future promotion prospects.

This kind of potentially problematic task should be left to Megure, who will probably only be a front-line police inspector until retirement.

“Inspector Megure? He went to handle another case, so he handed this over to me…” Takagi scratched the back of his head, looked around the police station, but did not see the familiar orange figure.

Just as Tohno was trying to come up with another solution, the phone in his hand was suddenly snatched away.

"Hello? Is this Tono?" The person who took over was Sato Miwako, a very popular and beautiful police inspector in the First Investigation Division. She had been listening for a long time.

She gestured for Takagi to take over, and continued, "I'm Sato. There was a traffic accident nearby just now, so Yumi was directing traffic there. Can I ask her for help?"

She was referring to her best friend, Yumi Miyamoto, a friend she had known since high school. She was also a police inspector, but belonged to the traffic enforcement division.

Toru Tono naturally knew who Yumi was that Sato was talking about. He frequented the Metropolitan Police Department and was quite familiar with most of the police officers there.

However, his impression of Miyamoto Yumi did not come from Sato Miwako's introduction, but from her other identity.

—She was the ex-girlfriend of shogi player Hideyoshi Haneda.

Haneda Hideyoshi was just a childish Go player who wouldn't normally get much attention, but the problem is, he's Akai Shuichi's younger brother.

That's right, the Akai family, specifically MI6 agent Tsutomu Akai and Sera Mary, have three children, and each of them has a different surname.

They are Shuichi Akai, the eldest brother who joined the FBI; Hideyoshi Haneda, who was adopted into the Haneda family; and Sera Masumi, a high school detective who took her mother's surname and may transfer to Teitan High School in the future.

Based on speculation, Sera Masumi's mother, Sera Mary, and Miyano Shiho and Miyano Akemi's mother, Miyano Elena, were very likely sisters... meaning that Miyano Elena's surname before marriage should also be Sera.

So the relationship between Akemi Miyano and Shuichi Akai is practically a German orthopedic relationship, even though they themselves don't really know it.

That's exciting... well, it's despicable.

"That's good. With Miss Miyamoto's help, things should be much simpler."

Tohru Tono agreed to Sato's suggestion.

Anyway, it was the FBI who were kidnapped, so there was no need to worry. Even without their help, getting out on my own wouldn't be a problem at all.

"Let me describe James's physical characteristics to you. Please tell Miss Miyamoto... He's over 180cm tall, around 50 years old, a British-American with glasses and a beard..."

"Mhm." Sato took out a small notebook and wrote down his thoughts as he listened. "This person is in a car? I understand. If we find this car, I'll have Yumi find a reason to stop him."

"The assailant might be armed... Okay, don't worry, Takagi and I will be there right away." With that, Sato Miwako hung up the phone.

"Huh? I'm going too?" Takagi Wataru, who had overheard Sato and Tohno Toru's conversation, pointed at himself in disbelief.

"What's the big deal? We'll be fine until dark... Besides, Inspector Megure already entrusted this matter to you, didn't he?"

“...That’s true.” Takagi sighed helplessly.

I guess I'll have to work overtime again.