Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"This is it, this is it!"

Hattori Heiji rented a motorcycle again and returned to the scene where Kudo Yuji was attacked. He followed the clues to the airport and with the help of the airport staff, he successfully arrived at the door of a hotel in Hakodate.

"According to reasoning, Yuji is here now."

It was the second day since the news of Kudo Yuji's death was reported on TV, and exactly seventeen hours had passed since he ran out of the hospital. With heavy dark circles under his eyes, Hattori Heiji walked into the hotel lobby cautiously and nervously.

Sure enough, there were several people in the lobby who were smoking in public but actually observing the men in black at the door. Although he didn't know why these guys didn't pay attention to him after glancing at him, Hattori Heiji still carefully avoided the front desk.

If you approach the front desk now, you will definitely be held down by those men in black. Hattori Heiji sensed the aura of a master from the suspects who kidnapped Kudo Yuuji.

Walking up the stairs, Detective Osaka began to think about everything he had searched for before.

"To be able to arrange so many people to participate in the kidnapping in such a luxurious hotel, Yuji's floor must be under strict control."

He walked up the stairs until he couldn't open the door on the fifth floor. He then breathed a sigh of relief and continued up to the sixth floor.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to bring my keys when I went out. Could you please open the door for me?"

The boy picked a room number in the middle and pressed the service number, which connected him directly to the cleaning room on this floor.

"Thank you."

Not long after, looking at the room that was opened with a temporary key, Hattori Heiji thanked the cleaner, walked slowly into the room, and then locked it directly.

"Well, now we have to find a way to connect the circuit in the room."

After the cleaner returns, he or she may pay attention to the signal in the room so that he or she can confirm the time for cleaning later.

Walking to the circuit connector and noticing that it was the type where the room card was inserted from the side, Hattori Heiji glanced around the room and aimed the metal calendar stand on his work desk at the plastic shell and pushed it hard.

"well."

He smashed the shell effortlessly, and then Hattori Heiji carefully pulled the installed circuit and hung it on the calendar rack.

"Di!"

The air conditioner started to sound, and the lights and TV also responded. The Osaka boy breathed a sigh of relief and fell suddenly on the bed.

"I'm so tired." Having not closed his eyes for a long time, he now exudes an air of fatigue.

"Those guys have put so much effort into it, they definitely won't just attack that guy casually. I...I need to take a break."

Otherwise, if he continued like this, he would probably be sending a new hostage to the other party. Under the blowing of the warm air from the air conditioner, Hattori Heiji's eyes became heavier and heavier, and he couldn't open them no matter how hard he blinked.

"Yuji, hold on..."

"Yuji!"

Downstairs, the boy who woke up from his coma found Kaori squatting beside the bed and poking him with her hands. He groaned and groaned, but before he could say anything, he was forcefully fed a bowl of black, thick substance.

"Yuzuki..."

The boy raised his head and noticed out of the corner of his eye that the bunny girl was sleeping in a strange posture. She was leaning against the wall with her upper body lying flat and her legs pressed against the wall.

“This posture…”

Yuuji felt the top of his head darken, and when he came to his senses he met the eyes of Kaori who was kneeling at his head.

"Yuzuki is serious."

Kaori stretched, took out her cell phone and checked the reminders sent by the bodyguards downstairs, then sat down comfortably.

"So it's Hattori-senpai. You must be eager to be rescued by him, Yuuji."

"Uh...uh!"

Kaori stretched lazily. She had just finished a shower and her body was full of the scent of shower gel, which made Yuji feel a little sweet.

"You have to work harder, otherwise our determination will be wasted."

Looking forward to see the spirited boy, Kaori felt that Yuuji, who was having difficulty breathing, grabbed him with both hands and glanced helplessly at the deformed cuffs of his stockings.

"There's really nothing I can do against you."

(End of this chapter)