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

Mihana General Hospital.

Conan leaned against the hospital bed, listening to Ran's rambling.

Inspector Megure is watching the three children draw what they imagine the killer to be.

Kazuma Kudo is telling Kogoro Mouri and Professor Agasa about their various speculations.

Suddenly, a series of almost continuous explosions rang out in the distance, seven or eight times in total.

Takagi suddenly burst in from outside: "Inspector, something terrible has happened!"

Inspector Megure jumped up with a "whoosh": "Is there a problem with the loop line?"

Takagi paused for a moment, then shook his head: "No, that's not it..."

Before Inspector Megure could even catch his breath, he spoke again: "The Beika City Hall exploded, and the house of architecture professor Teiji Moriya also exploded at the same time."

"what?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Only Kazuma Kudo silently rolled his eyes.

Moriya Teiji even planned to blow him up and then run away.

ridiculous.

Of course, he personally saw that guy off, and incidentally retrieved his Yang clone before the explosion affected him.

Inspector Megure originally planned to wait until the three kids finished drawing the suspect's portrait before contacting headquarters, but now he can't worry about that anymore.

Not only are there five known bombs on the loop line to deal with, but now we also need to arrange for people to rescue the survivors of the Beika Municipal Building. The superintendent of the First Investigation Division, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, even called to inquire personally; it definitely won't work if he's not there.

When Inspector Megure left, he only left Takagi there to wait for the three kids' outcome; he took everyone else with him.

The group was still discussing where the bomb was on the loop line and what exactly the X of XX was.

All of their previous guesses, such as under seats, on shelves, or under trains, have been rejected.

Firstly, these places have nothing to do with sunlight, and secondly, the train crew had already searched the entire area inside and out, but found nothing.

Since the bomb was already planted and Moriya Teiji was gone, Kudo Kazuma, after pretending to be profound for so long, simply started flipping the table.

"By the way, have you guys noticed a problem?"

His words immediately drew everyone's attention: "Since the crew has searched all the trains and found nothing, it can only prove that the bomb isn't on the train, right?"

"Not in the car?" Kogoro Mouri slammed his fist into his palm. "Could that guy be lying?"

"That must be it! They used the excuse of a bomb on the loop line to lure the police away, and then took the opportunity to plant the bomb at the Beika Municipal Building and Professor Moriya's house!"

"No, he's not lying." Conan shook his head, and when he saw Ran looking at him, he quickly changed to a childlike tone, "You see, what he said before about the bombs in the Green Park and the station square was true, he wasn't lying."

"And when that guy called, Ichijin pretended to be angry. That guy sounded so smug. I've seen it on TV. Those smug villains are the ones who make the most mistakes. He definitely didn't think of lying!"

Dr. Agasa didn't think the other party would lie, or rather, he didn't think Shinichi and Ichigo's judgment would be wrong: "But if not on the train, where could they be?"

Ran, who was standing nearby, asked curiously, "Conan, did that person say that he planted five bombs on the loop line?"

Seeing Conan nod, Ran asked without hesitation, "There aren't just trains on the loop line, are there? There are tracks too..."

As if a flash of inspiration had struck him, Conan immediately stood up straight: "I get it!"

He and Xiaolan said in unison, "Between the railway tracks!"

Upon hearing this, Takagi immediately called Inspector Megure.

After hanging up the phone, he picked up the three little ones' already drawn portraits—somewhat comical, but with no character missing—and hurriedly left.

Watching Takagi's departing figure, Kudo Kazuma shrugged: "I don't think that painting is of much use—you guys remember, right? That escaped convict who tried to kill Uncle Mori a while ago was disguised..."

Do you think this bomb-monger might be in disguise?

Conan breathed a slight sigh of relief: "Let's leave that guy aside for now. At least all those passengers on the loop line should be safe."

"Yes..." Kudo Kazuma, who released his Yin clone amidst the chaos, sighed.

The series of explosions he's been waiting for are coming soon.

Twenty minutes later, Inspector Megure brought good news—the twenty trains on the Toto Loop Line had been successfully diverted and stopped, all passengers had disembarked safely, and the bomb disposal team had entered the scene.

Twenty-five minutes later, Shiratori, who had been investigating the information, returned with the speculation that the son of the former mayor of Nishitama City might be a suspect in the revenge plot—he had already sent people to investigate more specific clues.

Half an hour later, news came at the same time that the first bomb had been found and successfully defused, along with news of explosions in two other residential areas.

Kazuma Kudo guessed that this might be the "surprise" that Teiji Moriya had mentioned, the one he was leaving for Shinichi Kudo, but unfortunately, he himself would not be able to see it.

Fifty minutes later, after defusing three bombs on the circular wire, the bomb disposal team, who had determined that the bombs could no longer be defused, were completely at a loss...

The other side actually tied the bombs on the circular route together with the bombs in the residential area, and did so without any prior notice. This inhuman act in the world of Detective Conan caused many people's blood pressure to rise.

Seeing the indignant crowd, Kudo Kazuma could only shrug, indicating that he completely couldn't understand.

I've never heard of someone getting angry over a crime committed without prior notice—if it were him, he'd be hoping all the bombs would explode secretly, why would he give a warning or information? Dream on!

Only criminals in the Detective Conan world would do something like that.

The Metropolitan Police Department quickly found a suitable location to detonate the remaining two bombs on the loop line. These two detonated bombs did not trigger a chain reaction of explosions.

But there are definitely still hidden bombs in the residential area.

With no other option, the Metropolitan Police Department had to launch a massive manpower search for traces of bombs in the residential area while trying to pinpoint the location of those bombs.

After the second bomb exploded, Kudo Kazuma and the others asked Shiratori to find them a city map of Tokyo.

A group of people, young and old, watched as Conan and Ran used pens to mark all the places that had been exploded on a map.

Conan frowned as he stared at the map: "Aside from the green park, the station square, and the loop line mentioned on the phone, the other places seem to be symmetrical on the map..."

“That’s right.” Kogoro Mouri nodded. “And the two locations that explode simultaneously each time are exactly the same two symmetrical locations.”

The three little ones lay side by side on the hospital bed, peering at the map. Mitsuhiko pointed curiously at the Moriya residence and the Beika City Hall and said, "They're not symmetrical on the whole map, but if you only look at this small part, they seem symmetrical!"

Kazuma Kudo chimed in, "So, in that case, aren't the toy airplanes in the sky and the toy boats in the river at the Green Park a kind of symmetry?"

After saying that, he turned to the only police officer in the ward: "Officer Shiratori, there were also two bombs in the station square, right? Where were they found?"

"One was in a cat bag under a chair, and the other was in a handbag with a dog pattern on the chair opposite."

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "Isn't this also a kind of symmetry?"

"This feels very familiar..." Kogoro Mouri pondered. "So, the person who planted the bomb was someone who particularly liked symmetry?"

He clapped his hands and exclaimed, "I know! It's Moriya Teiji!"

Hey!

Kazuma Kudo's eyes lit up.

Is it because Teiji Moriya is dead?

The elimination method isn't working for him anymore!