Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

When Conan woke up, Kazuma Kudo was on the phone.

There was also Inspector Megure by the window in the hospital room.

"...Yes, it's good that you're here to take care of him. Besides, he can rest assured with you by his side."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

After hanging up the phone, Kudo Kazuma saw his miniature older brother staring at him.

"Lan... Sister Lan?"

“Yes, she came with Uncle Mori.” Kudo Kazuma shrugged. “You feel more at ease with her right under your nose, right?”

Conan's cheeks flushed slightly, and he muttered under his breath, "Meddlesome."

Kudo Kazuma gave a half-smile: "Then why don't you call her and tell her to go back?"

Conan paused for a moment, then forcefully changed the subject: "How's the situation? Has that person called?"

"Not yet..." Kudo Kazuma's phone rang before he could finish speaking.

It's Teiji Moriya!

Kudo Kazuma casually turned on speakerphone.

As soon as the call connected, Moriya Teiji's resentful voice came from the other end.

"Shinichi Kudo, you really have a lucky life!"

"Fuck away!"

Kazuma Kudo used Shinichi Kudo's voice, and his tone sounded somewhat exasperated.

"You saw both explosions. You weren't far from us, were you? Right on some high place nearby? You're finished. The police will be able to locate you very soon! You're going to die!"

Hearing Shinichi Kudo's obviously impatient tone, Teiji Moriya became less anxious.

He chuckled and said, "No rush, let's play some more."

"I'll only say this once, so you'd better listen carefully."

“I planted five bombs on the East Metropolis Loop Line.”

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression changed, but no one spoke.

The person on the other end continued, "Starting at 4 PM, if the trains on the loop line travel at less than 60 kilometers per hour, the bomb will explode. If you fail to disarm it before sunset, the bomb will also explode."

"Since you've put me in a good mood, here's a hint. The bomb is planted at XX, where each X represents a word."

"Besides that, I hope you enjoy the surprise I have for you, Detective..."

The phone hangs up.

After a moment of silence in the room, Inspector Megure turned and went out to make a call to the dispatch headquarters.

Kazuma Kudo raised his hand and poked Conan on the hospital bed: "I can't figure out what place he was talking about. Why don't we think about who would target Shinichi Kudo like this?"

Conan nodded: "You just pretended to be angry, and that person acted like he was in a great mood. It's obvious that he was targeting me."

Taking advantage of the fact that it was just the two of them in the ward, Conan made no attempt to hide his true intentions.

“It’s not that I’m pretending.” Kudo Kazuma didn’t hide anything either, and said with a cold laugh, “I really want to find this guy and then kill him.”

"Hey, hey—" Conan was speechless. "Just find that guy and arrest him, do you really want to kill him? What are you thinking?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged and didn't continue the previous topic.

"I wonder if you've offended anyone. After all, you've sent quite a few people to jail before, so it's normal to offend people."

"How could that be? Those people are still in prison."

Conan muttered a comment, then rested his head on his arm and continued to ponder what exactly the X of XX was.

Kudo Kazuma looked at his unlucky older brother speechlessly: "Don't be so naive, okay? Can't they have a relative or friend outside who wants revenge on you?"

Conan stared at his bratty younger brother for a moment, then frowned and said, "If that's the case, it's not impossible..."

At that moment, Inspector Megure, having finished his phone call, entered with a handsome officer in a blue business suit and curly hair.

"What did you say?"

Kazuma Kudo raised his hand: "We're discussing the other party's identity—since they're targeting Shinichi Kudo, it must be related to cases Shinichi Kudo has handled before, right?"

Conan nodded in agreement: "And the other party used a voice changer, probably because he was afraid that Shinichi would recognize him. In other words, Shinichi must know him, or at least have met him before."

Inspector Megure nodded repeatedly, then turned to the officers behind him and said, "Shiratori, quick, take your men and search this area first."

Next, everyone started focusing on where the bomb was planted.

Kudo Kazuma pretended to be deep in thought, but actually focused his attention on the Yang clone.

The Moriya residence wasn't far from Beika General Hospital, and Yang's clone had already arrived at the Moriya residence.

None of the servants at the Moriya residence were present; it was likely that Teiji Moriya had given them all leave for convenience.

Whether it made things convenient for Moriya Teiji, Kudo Kazuma doesn't know, but it certainly made things convenient for him.

"It's you!"

Seeing Kudo Kazuma disguised as Kurosawa Kakuzu, Moriya Teiji was somewhat puzzled.

"What are you doing here? Coming here at this time... Is there something you want with that mysterious organization?"

Kudo Kazuma directly used the [Sound Bewitching] technique to ask, "I want to know where you planted the remaining bombs and how you plan to detonate them?"

Teiji Moriya handed him a piece of paper: "It's all here."

"The detonation method is also very simple. For every bomb that the police defuse on the loop line, they will detonate a pair of bombs in the residential area. The bombs at the two amusement parks and two movie theaters will explode at 20:02 p.m.."

"I control the timing of the explosions of the bombs hidden in the Mihana Municipal Building and this house."

When Kudo Kazuma saw the bomb distribution map, he was speechless.

Okay, no wonder he's a symmetry OCD sufferer.

Theoretically, there are only five bombs in the residential area, but in reality, there is another bomb in each of the locations on the map that is symmetrical to them.

Those two amusement parks and two cinemas are also... located symmetrically opposite to them on the map.

Although the Moriya House and the Beika Municipal Building are not perfectly symmetrical on the map, they are exactly the same distance from the middle street.

Looking at it this way, the asymmetrical bomb distribution at the houses burned down earlier, as well as at the green park and the square in front of Mihana Station, really put him in a difficult position...

After reading it, he let go of the paper and let it fall to the ground.

Then, under Moriya Teiji's questioning gaze, he removed the human skin mask from his face.

"Shinichi Kudo!" Teiji Moriya exclaimed in surprise. "It's you! The one who made the deal with me and sold me the bomb, it was you?"

Kudo Kazuma didn't refute, and asked with his hands in his pockets, "Surprised?"

"I see!" Moriya Teiji's face was extremely pale. "No wonder when I asked your girlfriend questions that day, her answers were all ambiguous. It turns out you already guessed what I was going to do, and you already told her what I was thinking..."

"Oh? Is that so?" Kudo Kazuma tilted his head. "After learning the truth, Ran is quite sensible. Thanks for informing me. Your mission is complete; you can probably die now."

Moriya Teiji slowly pulled a strangely shaped lighter from his pocket, a confident smile appearing on his face: "You're the one who could have died."

"I wanted to give you and your girlfriend an unforgettable memory, but now it seems you're the only one who will die alone..."

After saying that, he pressed hard on the lighter-shaped starter in his hand.

"boom--!"