[Damn, at a time like this, why are you still splitting up?]

I'm afraid we'll really have to go our separate ways soon.

In this situation, splitting up is just suicide missions.

After separating, Kogoro Mouri and the others began to search for an emergency exit to escape.

Asakawa Yu and the others stayed put and waited, but as time went on, they couldn't help but start to worry.

"Why are they so slow? Don't they know they can't find the exit?" Nana Koyama raised her hand to check the time and realized that a while had passed.

"Don't worry, I think they'll be back as soon as they find them."

“That’s right, let’s just stay here and wait for them to come back. Maybe they’ve already found their way back.”

Seeing that Nana Koyama was starting to get anxious, Ran and Akemi Miyano went up to comfort her so that she wouldn't feel too worried.

But while the girls were still chatting, Conan had already disappeared.

"Okay! I'll go look for it too."

After putting the juice on the ground, Conan ran towards the back where no one could see him.

But just as he began to accelerate, a figure blocked his way, startling him so much that he quickly stopped.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Ai Haibara!

At this moment, she crossed her arms and squinted at Conan, asking, "Where are you going?"

"Um... Haibara, well, I just wanted to..."

"I think I just reminded you not to wander off, right?"

Just as Conan was about to make an excuse, a calm voice came from behind him.

Although the voice was completely calm, Conan knew that he was probably in grave danger this time.

He turned around stiffly, and sure enough, Asakawa Yu was standing behind him, also with a smiling face.

"I'm...I'm sorry, Asakawa-nii, I was wrong!"

There's an old saying from a neighboring country: "Those who understand the times are heroes." Conan embodies this perfectly, summed up in one word—following his heart.

What a wise man to say, "Those who know when to yield are the heroes"!

[Haha, Conan's expression just now was so cute!]

[Conan: I'm not being a coward, I'm just following my heart.]

Just as Asakawa Yu was about to teach this kid a lesson, a strange phenomenon suddenly occurred!

With a snap, the power to the entire restaurant was cut off, plunging the surroundings into darkness.

"W-what's going on?! Why is the power suddenly out?!" The sudden power outage frightened Nana Koyama, and she began to scream involuntarily.

That's... fluorescent paint!

Upon realizing this, Conan instantly understood who the culprit's target was this time.

Before they could react, a cup flew from behind Conan and the others, grazing past Nana Koyama's ear.

With a loud crash, the cup shattered on the floor, startling Nana Koyama, who screamed, "Help!"

"Wait, Miss Nana!" Miyano Akemi quickly reminded her when she saw Nana Koyama starting to run around.

But clearly, Nana Koyama was no longer listening to any advice at this point; fear had taken over her mind, leaving only her biological instinct for survival.

"what!!!"

Suddenly, Nana Koyama was grabbed by the neck by two hands, and no matter how she resisted, she could not break free.

Just as the murderer was about to plunge the knife into her body from behind, a powerful kick stopped him.

With a muffled groan, the murderer was kicked away, and the knife fell to the ground.

It was Asakawa Yu who made the move. This time was different from the past. With his extraordinary eyesight and hearing, Asakawa Yu saw Sawaki Kohei preparing to commit the crime in the darkness. It was no longer the usual 'Little Black', which led him to some speculations.

To verify his conjecture, he stopped Sawaki Kohei. In reality, he simply kicked him, rendering him unable to move.

"What's wrong? What happened?!" Hearing the noise, the group that had just left realized something was wrong and rushed over, while Kogoro Mori went to find the main power switch.

After searching for a while, Mori successfully found the power source, pulled it down, and the restaurant lights up again.

"What happened... Ah!"

"This is……"

The people who arrived at the scene were dumbfounded. It was no wonder, because the place was just too eerie.

Nana Koyama was sitting on the ground, covering her face and crying, while Ran and Akemi Miyano were comforting her. Yu Asakawa and Conan were standing next to Kohei Sawaki, who had already fainted, to prevent him from doing anything rash if he suddenly woke up.

"So... can someone come and tell us what just happened here?"

"It was him! This man just tried to kill me!" Nana Koyama pointed at Kohei Sawaki lying on the ground, vehemently accusing him of his actions.

"You're saying Mr. Zeki wants to kill you! What exactly is going on?!"

Everyone present found Nana Koyama's words utterly absurd, and they all wore expressions of disbelief.

"How should I know! The power suddenly went out here, and then suddenly a pair of hands grabbed my neck from behind. At that moment, I thought I was going to die. Luckily, Mr. Asakawa saved me, otherwise I would have died at this man's hands just now!"

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Asakawa."

Nana Koyama's tone was very agitated, but everyone could tell that she was hiding her fear, which could be heard from her slightly trembling voice.

"Is this true, Asakawa-kun?!" Inspector Megure hurriedly came to Asakawa Yu's side and asked.

“It really is Inspector Megure. Look, this knife just fell out of him. Besides that, Conan and I also found these on Sawaki Kohei.”

After speaking, Asakawa Yu presented to everyone what she had just found on Sawaki Kohei.

Upon seeing this, everyone was shocked, because the thing was a deck of cards from the seven of spades to the one of spades!

“This…this is a deck of cards! Could it be…” An absurd conclusion emerged in everyone’s minds.

“That’s right. I think the culprit who committed these multiple crimes this time is not the so-called Murakami Takeshi, but Sawaki Kohei.”

"But... but why would he do that?" Kogoro Mouri asked hurriedly, not understanding why Kohei Sawaki would attack them.

"We'll have to wait until he wakes up to find out."

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