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

In the dimly lit room, Conan lay on the bed, carefully sensing the movements of Kazuma Kudo beside him.

After confirming that his younger brother was still fast asleep, he immediately got up quietly.

After standing by the bed for a moment and making sure that Kazuma wouldn't wake up anytime soon, he immediately grabbed his clothes and went to the study. After changing out of his pajamas, he quietly climbed out of the study window and carefully made his way down to the street in front of the Mouri Detective Agency.

Then, he took off running towards 2-chome, and while running, he made a special phone call to Professor Agasa to explain that he had an urgent matter to attend to in Gunma Prefecture.

Within two or three minutes, Professor Agasa picked him up in his car and headed towards Gunma Prefecture.

At this point, Professor Agasa asked what he was going to do in Gunma Prefecture.

Conan immediately explained what he had seen in Itakura Taku's diary.

Since Professor Agasa didn't know that Kazuma Kudo was also a member of that organization, Conan didn't bring it up, only saying that they could get their hands on the software first. Even if the people in the organization knew that Suguru Itakura was dead, Suguru Itakura's diary was with them. Without any clues about the software, they naturally wouldn't know that the software had been taken by someone else.

Of course, what he actually wanted to do was take it back and figure out what kind of software it was before handing it over to Kudo Kazuma depending on the situation—Kazuma's mission was one thing, but he was still quite worried about that phrase "for the well-being of all mankind" and the like.

Besides...

"We can be both of God and Devil. Since we're trying to raise the dead against the stream of time."

Conan murmured the last sentence of Itakura Suguru's diary: "We are both God and devil. Because we try to defy the flow of time and bring the dead back to life... Doctor, the purpose of that organization, and the software they want Mr. Itakura to make, is definitely not simple!"

So he wanted to see it no matter what.

If it is truly as Itakura Taku said, concerning the well-being of all mankind, then he absolutely cannot let Kazuma hand over this software!

Dr. Agasa was quite moved by this statement.

Throughout the journey, Conan kept urging Professor Agasa to drive faster.

This left Professor Agasa quite exasperated: "Shinichi, you said that the organization wouldn't be able to find Mr. Itakura's villa before the news of his death is reported tomorrow, so why are you in such a hurry? You don't have some other purpose, do you?"

It's already snowing outside, and Conan wouldn't be rushing him like this if he weren't in a hurry.

Conan frowned but didn't say anything.

He admitted that he still harbored a sense of wishful thinking.

If possible, he wanted to get there before midnight and turn on Itakura Taku's computer.

Although Kazuma said he had informed Gin of Itakura Suguru's death, Gin was not the one who was in charge of Itakura Suguru before.

What if?

What if the person in charge of communication is unaware of the situation and sends over the location and time of the software transaction on time?

As long as the other party is not Gin, he can find a way to find evidence that the other party is a criminal and have the police set up an ambush in advance. Even if there is no evidence and the police cannot deal with the other party, if all else fails, he can contact Mr. Akai.

Even if we take a step back and assume the worst, he might still be able to obtain some information about that organization that his brother wouldn't reveal...

Upon arriving at Itakura Suguru's villa, Conan, following his own deductions, found the hidden key near the villa and opened the door.

After entering, he skillfully rummaged around on the computer desk and quickly found the floppy disk containing the unfinished software, as well as the check that the organization had prepaid to Itakura Taku.

"That simple?" Professor Agasa was astonished. "Isn't that too risky?"

"The most dangerous place is the safest place," Conan explained. "That's why he put it here—because there's no guarantee of safety. Who would have thought that the software they painstakingly obtained would be so openly placed here?"

Professor Agasa nodded: "Now that we've found it, let's go."

Upon hearing this, Conan stood still and instead raised his wrist to check the time.

"Three minutes left..."

As he spoke, he casually turned on his computer and sat down at the desk.

Three minutes later, the email arrived on time. Conan was a little excited, but then he discovered that the email required a password to open, and if the password was not obtained within ten seconds, the email would be automatically destroyed.

In that instant, Conan's expression turned serious.

This password was probably designed by the other party.

This means that if someone tries to open an email but fails to enter the password in time, causing the email to be destroyed, the sender could very well find out...

It seems he underestimated this organization.

Conan frowned, just as he was about to erase all traces of his presence and leave with the software and the check, when the phone rang.

Conan and Professor Agasa were both taken aback.

Compared to the original work, Conan at this point neither followed Tequila at the Mantek press conference nor confronted Gin at Director Sakuragi's memorial service, so he was inevitably a little nervous.

The phone rang one after another, as if urging them to answer, making their breathing quicken.

Suddenly, the telephone beeped.

"Excuse me, the owner is currently out. If you need anything, please leave your contact information and phone number after the beep."

Then, a voice that Conan could never forget rang out from the other end.

"What's wrong? You should be there, right?"

Conan's eyes widened in surprise.

Is it vodka?

However, speaking of vodka...

He had heard about this from Yizhen's complaints; he was a careless and big-mouthed simpleton.

Moreover, since Vodka asked this question, it proves that the organization must have been secretly monitoring this villa all along, but it has never been discovered by Itakura Taku.

Furthermore, doesn't Vodka's question also suggest that Gin didn't specifically tell him that Itakura Taku was dead?

After all, Ichijin said he would send the software address to Vodka tomorrow so he could come and pick it up.

With that thought in mind, Conan suddenly had another bold idea.

Based on a video of Itakura Taku that he had seen before, he used a bow tie voice changer to imitate Itakura Taku's voice and answered the phone.

After testing the waters and confirming that Vodka's men couldn't see into the villa, Conan boldly used Itakura Suguru's identity to force a meeting at 4 AM. The meeting place was chosen at the coin-operated lockers on the lowest level of the under-construction Kanbashi Station.

After hanging up the phone, Conan breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It's still uncertain whether his original bold idea can be implemented.

If they can actually capture Vodka this time, or get some clues about the organization, it will save him the risk of making a trip to the organization's base.

Conan quickly and skillfully disposed of all traces: "Let's go, Professor, let's go back to Tokyo, to Shizuhashi Station."