Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

After hearing M's answer, Kondo took another step forward, with the muzzle of the gun only a tiny distance away from M's forehead.

"I really don't know." A few drops of cold sweat dripped down M's face.

"He should be back soon. Maybe he was delayed by something else..."

"He's not coming back."

Hearing Kondo's words, M couldn't help but blink blankly.

"You are just being used by him. He will kill you once his goal is achieved. The thing on the ceiling of the basement below here is the best proof..."

"He wants to talk to you." M suddenly interrupted Kondo and pointed to his right ear.

Kondo frowned and pressed the speaker switch on M's desk.

"You've done such a stupid thing, blowing up your own room. Do you think you can settle your past this way?" A man's voice came from the speakers. It was Long.

"Who is the one who did this stupid thing? As far as I know, Long, who acts according to circumstances, is a diligent person who only takes on small commissions."

"...Your wife is quite beautiful." Long smiled sinisterly.

“What…” Just as Kondo was surprised.

"Are these people your accomplices?"

Nana's voice came from behind. It seemed that the anesthetic injection Xiao Ai had given had lost its effect. Looking back, Xiao Ai was walking into the room with her hands raised. Behind her, Nana was pointing a gun at the two men.

"Hehehe." Nana smiled happily.

"You want to quit the underworld in a hurry just because you fell in love with a woman. Don't you think this is too easy? You have to do a few more things for me!"

A man's voice came from the speakers. M smiled slightly, approached Kondo, and snatched the gun from his hand.

……

Conan jumped into Kondo's car parked in the parking lot. Sakurai, who was wearing Kondo's clothes, fell asleep in the driver's seat with the door open. Conan quickly woke him up.

"Yeah." Sakurai opened his eyes, looking confused. "What's wrong?"

Sakurai sat up, fastened his seatbelt, and immediately started the car. People in the venue began to run out, and the parking lot was about to fall into a state of panic. However, before it could develop to this point, the car had already left the parking lot.

Mingmei watched a car drive past her—"Could that just now be..."

She seemed to see Conan in the passenger seat of that car. Could she have been mistaken? Akemi stared at the car as it drove away, standing alone in the crowd of people taking refuge. At this moment, Maori Kogoro squeezed out of the crowd.

"dad……"

"Just as I thought, it was Kondo who did it." Kogoro stood beside Ran, indicating that the commotion was caused by Kondo.

"That car..."

Mingmei stretched out her hand and pointed in the direction of Yokohama Landmark Tower.

"Hey?"

Kogoro stretched his head and looked towards the road, but the shadow of the car was getting smaller and smaller.

……

In the room of the villa, Kondo fell into an increasingly unfavorable situation.

"Hand it over quickly." M smiled and stretched out his hand towards Kondo.

Kondo had no choice but to put Sakurai's phone in his palm, and M immediately put the phone into the back pocket of his pants.

"You look at her." Nana pushed Xiao Ai, who had raised her hands, into the house and said to M.

"Understood." M raised his gun and pointed it at Ai.

After confirming that everything was OK, Nana raised her head slightly and said to Kondo in a condescending tone:

"Come with me."

.......

Long, who was hiding in the secret base, said through the phone: "...Ah, there is still time, it's okay...I'll leave it to you."

Long hung up the phone and looked towards Kanae in the room. Kanae's hands were tied behind her back, her mouth was sealed with tape, and she was looking at him with timid eyes. Long couldn't help laughing. He stood up and walked to the window, using his fingers to open a gap in the blinds. Through this gap, he could see the apartment opposite, which was Kondo's room that was destroyed by the bomb. Fire trucks and police all rushed here and were conducting a series of investigations.

Kondo drove Nana's minicoper down the mountain. Just after Nana's call with Long was disconnected, Kondo asked her: "What is your relationship with Long?"

Nana held her chin with one hand, still looking at Kondo with a bright smile: "...The person who found you...was actually me..."

"You found me?" Kondo couldn't help but look at Nana.

"About half a year ago, I discovered the revolving door by chance. You were probably working at the time."

……

That happened on a summer night.

While Long was fiddling with the computer in the base, Nana, who had nothing to do, was looking out the window leisurely with a can of beer in one hand.

She was suddenly startled, and saw two men appear on the balcony of the apartment opposite. The first man in white was very conspicuous in the dark night. Then, a man in black followed, pushed open the partition between the room next door, and came to the balcony of the next room.

"Hey, come and see!" Nana said to Long quickly.

"Ah?" Long agreed impatiently.

"Hurry up!" Nana urged.

"Really..." Long stood up with an annoyed look on his face and walked towards Nana.

"Look across the street." In the direction of her finger, the man in black was calling out to the man in white. The man in white hurried over and restored the rotating partition to its original state. Then, the two of them went into the next room.

"--Then that person began to investigate you with great interest." Nana said with a smile in the passenger seat.

It turns out that was that time...

Kondo gripped the steering wheel and bit his lip.

Half a year ago, Kondo lost his memory and encountered a series of things with Sakurai. At that time, he took Sakurai to the room next to the apartment, but he didn't expect that this scene would be seen by others...

It was the day of Kanae's father's funeral. Kondo heard Beethoven's string quartet from the record left by her father, and recovered his memory on the spot and returned to his apartment. There was no one in the room, but it was obvious that someone had invaded and lived there, and the banknotes he had placed in the iron box were gone.

Kondo suppressed his anger and waited for the person who invaded his room to come back. Two hours later, Sakurai appeared in front of him.

Although Kondo wanted to question Sakurai fiercely about why he did this, he didn't have time to do it. Because Sakurai brought back another uninvited guest - that person was the gangster leader who had previously commissioned Kondo to kill someone. Kondo saw him appear at the entrance of the apartment through the monitor in the room. It seemed that he followed Sakurai to find this place.

There was no choice but for Kondo to climb onto the balcony.

"come over!"

He invited Sakurai to join him on the balcony, and through the rotating partition, he entered the next room. He had never anticipated exposing this secret room, unknown to anyone, to Sakurai. He hadn't expected someone across the street to witness this scene... and that someone from the underworld had discovered this place was even more unexpected. It seemed like misfortunes never come singly...

No, it was the loss of memory that led him to meet Kanae, and it was also because of this opportunity that he was able to give up his underworld career as a convenience store owner. In this way, this should be a blessing. However, judging from the current situation, it is hard to say whether it is a blessing or a curse.

……

"So this is the relationship between you two..." Kondo sighed deeply while driving.

"Is it not possible?" Nana looked at Kondo with disdain and ordered, "Just turn right there."

The mountain road came to an end and the car drove onto the normal road. Kondo followed Nana's instructions, turned on the right turn signal, and turned right at the intersection.

"Were you the one who put the information about the red brick warehouse into my studio yesterday?"

Hearing Kondo's question, Nana smiled proudly: "That man is very smart, don't underestimate him."

……

Conan arrived at the villa, got out of the car, and ran into the yard. After entering the yard, Conan hid in the bushes, raised his wrist to take out the watch-shaped tranquilizer gun. However, he suddenly realized that there was no watch on his wrist, and he couldn't help but smack his lips. Conan had no choice but to bend down, crawl to the side of the building, and look through the window into the room. Then he saw Xiao Ai, with her mouth sealed with tape, tied up and lying on the ground.

(You are really finished now...) Thinking about Quan Yi who wanted to know the situation, Conan couldn't help but observe a moment of silence for the criminals.

He had to find a way to get in... But the window in front of him was locked, so Conan had to stand up and look for other ways. However, after searching for a long time, he couldn't find a window to get in...

"What a bad boy."

Suddenly, a voice came from behind. M appeared behind Conan, pointing a gun at him.

"There are a lot of surveillance cameras in this house."

As he spoke, M looked at the phone in his other hand, and then laughed happily.

"Hey! Where have you been? Is there anyone here?" Sakurai's voice came from the phone.

"Is this idiot also your friend?" M handed the phone to Conan. In the phone screen, Sakurai was standing at the entrance, looking around, and Sakurai's somewhat clumsy face was looking towards the camera.

"I don't know him." Conan said firmly.

However, Sakurai politely rang the doorbell.

"Then I'll let him in too." M continued pointing the gun at Conan and walked towards the entrance, preparing to open the door for Sakurai.

"What the hell is going on? Seriously!"

In the room, the tied-up Sakurai was trying desperately to resist in vain. He kept struggling, then he accidentally sat on the ground and hit his head on the heater. He couldn't help but scream in pain.

"It's noisy."

"Whoa!"

48505,7 (Note: Please note to join the group) M pushed Sakurai to the ground. Even so, Sakurai continued to kick his legs and explain.

"Hey, little brother! This has nothing to do with me!"

M ignored Sakurai and fiddled with Kondo's phone, which he had confiscated from Conan. He pressed a few buttons and looked at the phone over and over again, but the phone didn't respond at all. Conan, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, kept staring at him.

"Come...explain it to me."

M pointed the gun at Conan, with a sinister smile on his face, and then threw Kondo's phone on the table. Ai and Sakurai's phones were also on the table, and M threw them so carelessly that Kondo's phone hit Sakurai's phone.

"That's my cell phone..." Sakurai glanced at his cell phone on the table and couldn't help but complain with some dissatisfaction. There was a white mushroom-shaped pendant hanging on Sakurai's old cell phone.

"Ah?" M turned around in confusion.

As soon as Sakurai said this, their method might be discovered, and Conan was shocked. At this moment, the doorbell rang. M looked at his mobile phone in his hand, and the screen of the mobile phone showed the entrance.

"This woman seems to be in the meeting place just now..."

M put the phone back into his back pants pocket, switched to holding the gun in his right hand, and walked towards the entrance.

Who is this person? Could he be this person's accomplice? Conan couldn't help but panic.

The truth of everything

"Excuse me, is anyone here?"

It was Mingmei who was knocking on the gate of the villa. She had followed Conan all the way here. However, because the fallen motorcycle blocked the road and the car could not pass, Mingmei got out of the car and came to the gate of the villa alone.

After knocking for a while, she heard footsteps from inside, the door lock clicked a few times, and then the door opened. On the other side of the door, M appeared in front of her with a gun raised.

"The little Conan you're looking for is in there... Anyway, just raise your hands up."

Mingmei was stunned for a moment, then she lowered her head slightly and glared fiercely at M. In the next moment, M's pistol was knocked to the ground by Mingmei's knife-hand.

Crackle...

The pistol made a crisp sound on the floor.

"Hey?"

M stared blankly at his hand, which was empty. Not only that... even his wrist had drooped limply. Broken? What happened?

Mingmei glared at M and mercilessly kicked him in a spinning kick, knocking him to his knees on the ground.

At this moment, Kogoro also appeared late.

"This mountain road is too difficult to walk on! ... Oh my god! What's going on? What's going on?"

Kogoro, who didn't know the situation, was shocked when he saw M fainted in front of the entrance.

"Detective Maori, forget about that for now, hurry up!"

Akemi waved to Kogoro and ran into the villa.

"Conan-kun! Are you okay?"

Akemi and Kogoro rushed to the room where Conan was imprisoned. Akemi first untied the rope on Conan, and Conan, who was free, helped Sakurai untie the rope.

"Are you okay?" Kogoro Mouri was also surprised to see Ai tied to the ground. He helped her up and removed the tape on her mouth.

"Call the police quickly! There is a bomb down here!" Conan shouted as soon as the tape on his mouth was removed.

"What?" Kogoro prepared to run out without saying a word.

"Brother!" Conan called out to Sakurai who had just picked up his phone and was still mumbling.