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

When Conan, Kogoro Mouri, and some police officers rushed over, Sato had already put the Metropolitan Police Department's special silver bracelet on Kyosuke Kazato's wrist.

After Xiaolan described the incident and Sato added details, everyone understood what had happened.

It turned out that when the power went out, Xiaolan noticed a sliver of light coming from the cabinet under the sink. Out of instinct, she opened the cabinet door out of curiosity.

But when she saw the flashlight inside, she suddenly remembered Conan's warning, and then she thought of the flashlight she had been holding in Yokosuka Castle that had caused everyone to get hurt.

Xiao Lan's vigilance immediately increased. Without thinking twice, she closed the cabinet door to block the flashlight beam inside.

With the help of the sliver of light peeking through the crack in the door, she could vaguely see a figure walk in, and that the person had raised their arm.

Having already experienced it once, Xiaolan had a guess, and without hesitation, she went up and kicked, which actually sent an umbrella flying. Fortunately, she had anticipated that one kick would not end the fight, so she followed up with another kick.

However, after the first kick hit the umbrella, the second kick lacked power, only making the opponent scream in pain, but it didn't incapacitate him, which led to the guy firing four shots randomly in the dark.

As for Sato getting shot, that was basically just bad luck.

In a moment of panic, the other party fired four shots haphazardly, and one of them grazed her leg, leaving a rather deep wound.

Fortunately, no bones or muscles were injured. After emergency bandaging, all that was needed was to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

Seeing that Ran was not injured, but was a little scared, Conan followed her closely, wishing he could hold her hand and never let go.

After handing the unconscious Kyosuke Kazato over to Takagi and Chiba, Kazuma Kudo walked over to Ran and Conan and said, "Let's go back. If Aunt Eri finds Ran is missing and thinks about the gunshot earlier, she'll definitely be worried."

The three of them went back to the banquet first. As for Kogoro Mouri, he said he wanted to stay and discuss with the culprit when he woke up about how that guy dared to harm Ran.

On the way back, Kudo Kazuma tilted his head and looked at Ran: "Compared to the time at the castle, your reaction this time was pretty quick."

After Xiaolan's explanation, he remembered the killer's method—in the original story, Xiaolan took out the flashlight that the killer had deliberately placed in the cabinet. Under the illumination of the only light source, the killer, who was hiding in the dark, fired several shots at Sato. If Sato hadn't had the aura of a main character, he would have been killed on the spot.

After realizing that it was her act of taking out the flashlight and shining it on Sato that caused Sato's serious injury, Xiaolan also suffered a brief amnesia due to the double blow of extreme regret and shock.

Compared to the previous tragic scene, this time Ran successfully learned from her experience facing Scorpion at Yokosuka Castle and dealt the culprit a heavy blow. If Sato hadn't been so unlucky, it would probably have been an unscathed situation this time.

"Conan specifically reminded me to be careful when I'm acting alone, and considering the lesson I learned last time, I certainly can't make the same mistake again," Ran said with a sigh. "But Officer Sato is still injured, let's go to the hospital to see her later."

Conan gripped Ran's hand tightly and said in a low voice, "It was Kazuma who warned me first. I'm so glad you're alright..."

Seeing his relieved smile, Kudo Kazuma shrugged.

Although many of Conan's iconic scenes are gone, given his older brother's obsession with Ran, he'll probably be more accepting of the current outcome.

Kyosuke Kazato, the serial killer in this case, was caught red-handed. When he woke up, he was faced with Inspector Megure and all the police officers who had come to the banquet except for Sato. Behind them was Toshiro Odagiri, whose face was gloomy...

Having lost his composure, he finally confessed his motives and methods in detail.

However, none of this has anything to do with Kazuma Kudo.

After the banquet, most of the unsuspecting guests left, except for those from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Meanwhile, Kazuma Kudo, Conan, the Mori family, Sonoko, and Sara Shiratori and her husband, who had received many blessings that day, went to the hospital to visit the injured Sato.

Sato, who thought her injuries weren't serious, was both amused and exasperated to see such a large group of people coming to visit her.

"It's just a minor abrasion on my leg. I'll be discharged in a few days. It's not worth all this trouble."

What made her even more exasperated was that before this large group of people had left, the door to the ward was knocked on again, and Inspector Megure, Takagi, Shiratori, Chiba, and other officers from the First Division who were on good terms with Sato all squeezed in.

The originally spacious ward was squeezed into a subway-like situation by these two groups of people.

Sato responded to everyone's concerns, and then specifically said to Ran, "Thank you, Ran. If you hadn't reacted so quickly back then, everyone might still be struggling to find the culprit and figuring out where to start with this case."

Xiaolan was a little embarrassed by what she said: "No, I'm still a little scared when I think about it now."

In the instant the gunshot rang out, she vaguely saw Officer Sato lying on the ground, covered in blood, with several bullets in his body.

Thankfully, thankfully that terrible situation didn't happen...

After leaving the hospital, Kazuma Kudo took a car to Kagoshima Prefecture.

It was already past nine o'clock at night when I got off the bus.

Fortunately, he slept for a few hours in the car and wasn't too sleepy, so he simply used the [Sword Control Technique] to go directly to the island where Rum's base was located.

If Kudo Hajime really was driving an Apache, the base's defenses would definitely have noticed him when he got close.

But he flew here purely using a cheat code, and since he was dressed in all black and chose a cloudy, moonless night, unless someone was staring intently at the sky with infrared night vision devices, they really wouldn't be able to spot him.

Kudo Kazuma activated [Awakening Technique] again, spending 10 points to upgrade the skill map to a radius of 100 meters. He then scanned the area in a similar location to the one he had visited before and roughly deduced Rum's location.

Under the cover of night, he found a secluded corner and landed silently. Then he hid in a blind spot that he had observed before, where no one was guarding him, and remained hidden as if he had become invisible.

In the base's underground facilities, Rum asked Curaçao in a deep voice, "How's it going? Have you gotten that elementary school student named Ai Haibara's fingerprints?"

Curaçao nodded: "We got it. After comparison, it matches the information and data that Sherry left in the organization."

Rum sneered, "Sherry really isn't dead! Although I don't know how she turned into a child, but... Danpo and that Ai Haibara have had contact, right? Hmph! I don't believe he doesn't know that girl is Sherry!"

"Since that kid hasn't made any moves, let's use Sherry as a breakthrough point and give him a big gift."

At this point, he suddenly became somewhat annoyed: "This Danpo, I was actually waiting for him to make a move, but it turns out this kid only has the ability to parry and counter, and he might even have relied entirely on Gin's help. As for himself... hmph..."

Rum was just thinking about how to use the fact that Sherry was still alive to cause trouble when he heard a mocking voice coming from the corner of the room.

"Were you waiting for me? I'm here~"

Rum and Curaçao turned their heads simultaneously, their expressions changing instantly: "Danpo!?"