Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 354 Try to survive

Night in Beika Town.

Maybe because too many things happened in the hotel tonight, Edogawa Conan returned safely.

The streets of Beika-cho 2-chome were shrouded in the silence of the night. Just in case, Dr. Agasa drove around and only returned to his residence quickly after finding that there were no suspicious vehicles around.

When Conan Edogawa was about to arrive, he called Mao Lilan. There was a TV in the single room, and she might have seen the news tonight. He told her that he was safe. When the car stopped, he just ended the call.

After getting out of the car, Dr. Agasa went straight to the back seat and carefully carried Haibara Ai on his back. Edogawa Conan opened the door and got out of the car, considering whether to send a message to Uncle Mori who might be back at some point.

"Shinichi, help me open the door. The key is in the left pocket of my shirt." Dr. Agasa, who was unable to free his hands, turned around and said.

"it is good."

Conan Edogawa looked away from the mobile phone screen, but when he looked up, he saw the person lying on Professor Agasa's back moved slightly.

"This...where is this?"

Haibara Ai, who had been sleeping all the way, opened her eyes. She met Dr. Agasa's eyes, which instantly changed from astonishment to surprise, with confusion, and was unable to understand the situation for a moment.

……

The two of them hurriedly sent the awakened Haibara Ai back to her room.

"Ai, how do you feel? Are you still dizzy?"

Dr. Agasa, who had suffered too many frights tonight, looked at the girl worriedly and touched her forehead tentatively. The temperature was normal, but he still couldn't feel at ease.

Huihara Ai huddled in the quilt. The small space gave her a great sense of security. She said in a muffled voice, "I'm fine, Doctor. I feel much better now."

Dr. Agasa frowned and wanted to say something else, but Edogawa Conan beside him interrupted: "Doctor, go get some food for Huibara. We only had some cake tonight."

"……it is good."

Dr. Agasa looked at him, then at Haibara Ai who did not object, and thought that they indeed had not eaten anything tonight, so he turned and walked out of the room.

The door closed with a click, and Edogawa Conan shifted his gaze to Haibara Ai.

Her eyes were fixed on the ceiling, and half of her face was covered by the quilt, so he couldn't see her expression clearly.

"Haiyuan."

After a few seconds of silence, Edogawa Conan couldn't help but speak first: "What happened tonight?"

"What do you mean?" Huihara Ai asked back.

"How did you get down to the laundry room?"

Conan Edogawa knew that Haibara Ai needed to rest now. He himself had just experienced growing bigger and smaller and also needed rest. However, these were issues concerning the organization, so he had to ask about them as soon as possible.

In order to guide Huihara Ai to speak, he also described his own situation: "Mr. Qingliu and I found a public security officer who was attacked and detained by members of the organization on the 23rd floor. When he and I evacuated from the safe passage, we found the body of a man in black."

"He was murdered between the second and third floors. I think he must have chased you up there, right? But you were finally found by the hotel staff in the laundry room on the third floor underground, and your clothes had been changed..."

When she heard the man in black, Haibara Ai's body trembled slightly, but in the next second, she realized it was a corpse and fell silent again.

After hearing the last sentence, her hands under the quilt had already unconsciously clenched into fists.

Huiyuan Ai said calmly: "I fled to a rest room on the fourth floor. There was a pipe opening for conveying dirty clothes. I happened to become smaller at that time, so I got in and slid into the laundry room. I changed my clothes there too."

"As for the man you mentioned... He did run upstairs with me, but I heard him trip over something halfway through. At that time, I just wanted to hurry up and continue running, so I didn't pay close attention to him."

Conan Edogawa originally wanted to ask if someone appeared to save her and kill the man, but after hearing her answer, he didn't know what to ask for a moment.

He had no choice but to say, "You react pretty quickly then."

This time, Haibara Ai remained silent for a few seconds.

"…Because that’s how I escaped from the organization." She whispered.

……

Miyano Shiho has always hated the organization.

What really made her decide to betray was the death of her sister Miyano Akemi.

At that time, it was Curacao who told her about Miyano Akemi's death, and she also told her the whole story:

Her sister wanted to take her away, so Rum asked her to rob 10 billion yen. His original intention was to make her give up, but he didn't expect that she actually did it and succeeded.

Of course, Rum did not keep his promise. He sent people to kill the other two robbers, and then trapped her in an abandoned factory and killed her, making it look like she committed suicide out of fear of the crime, so that she died in front of the world with the identity of "10 billion yen robber".

On that day, Miyano Shiho stopped her research to express her protest, and Curacao tried to persuade her, but to no avail. Finally, under Rum's order, she was transferred from the suburban laboratory to another base near Beihua Town, where there was a gas chamber where the organization punished traitors, and she was imprisoned.

He didn't want to kill her, but he wanted to punish her. During her detention, she had no food or water, and the room was filled with noise that made her unable to rest. He tried to use this kind of torture to make her surrender.

Miyano Shiho endured for two days, during which someone would come to her door every four hours to check on her and ask her if she wanted to go out. She remained silent for two days, and finally, after an observation, she took the APTX4869 she had hidden away.

At that time, she thought, "If I die, I can go down to see my sister and my parents."

However, as the medicine slid down her throat and her body felt a burning sensation, a conversation she had two years ago emerged in her mind.

At that time, a mole who was bribed by the police appeared, and she had to change the laboratory. As a result, problems occurred in the new laboratory. After she woke up, she saw someone guarding her bedside——

"Glenn?" "It's me. Just wake up, Shirley."

"What happened just now? ... Was there an explosion? I fell into the river...?"

"...Yes, but it's not a big problem. You can rest here. Curacao will come over later. I'm leaving first."

"So fast?"

"I'm not your guardian now, so I shouldn't have too much contact with you."

"..."

Miyano Shiho sat up and remained silent. The black-haired young man beside the bed walked beside her and put his coat on her. She felt that the pair of brown eyes were quietly looking at her.

He spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Shirley, when you first fell into the river, you didn't try to survive?"

Miyano Shiho looked like she was stabbed by something.

She froze and wanted to protest, but she couldn't say anything.

Seeing her reaction, Glenn knew the answer. He smiled, and there seemed to be some helplessness and some understanding in his smile.

"Don't give up so early."

There was no accusation in his tone.

"——No matter what happens, try to live first, right? ...Many of the things you love and cherish can only be seen if you try to live."

Miyano Shiho raised her face and met those eyes.

The light from the room fell on that face, making those eyes sparkle as if the sun was shining inside.

However, his face was still as pale as ever, as if carrying a fatigue and decadence that would never go away.

"it is good."

She agreed hesitantly, and then she pulled Glenn back.

"...It's not just me." She stared at him and spoke carefully: "Since you said this to me, you have to do it yourself, Glenn."

Glenn glanced at her and smiled softly.

"it is good."

Miyano Shiho let go of her hand and watched him leave. The moment his figure completely disappeared, she couldn't help but look down at the hand that had just held his.

Glenn's hands were cold.

It’s so cold...it doesn’t feel like a living person’s hand at all.

The constant pain and burning sensation tore Miyano Shiho from the depths of her memory.

The pessimistic and suicidal mood kept accumulating, and the thought of wanting to die when taking the medicine flashed vaguely through my mind again.

If I die, I can go down to see my sister and my parents.

——No! She wants to live! Only by living can she see hope!
Another thought was like a seed buried deep in my heart, breaking through the soil and growing rapidly.

Shiho Miyano, who was lying limp on the ground, opened her eyes and saw her own shrunken body. She also saw the entrance to the garbage pipe not far away. Even though she couldn't stand up, she still tried to crawl towards it...

……

In Agasa's room, the two fake children didn't say anything.

One was wondering if all the organization's bases had infiltration loopholes like pipelines, while the other was immersed in memories.

Haibara Ai felt her eyes getting hot and she tried hard to suppress the feeling.

But she still heard a voice echoing in her heart.

——Miyano Akemi is dead. Glenn executed her.

"..."

Thinking of what Curacao said at that time, Huibara Ai closed her eyes tightly. She pulled up the quilt, wanting to bury herself completely and temporarily isolate herself from everything around her.

However, beside her, a detective who had no idea what she was thinking asked again:
"By the way, Huihara, do you know a member named Curacao?"

……

Wow.

The sea at night is dark and unpredictable.

On the other side of the police's maritime patrol boat search, Curacao, who had fallen into the sea, gradually woke up.

She had a severe headache and felt weak all over, and for a moment she didn't know where she was.

She could only feel a pair of hands supporting her.

Those hands were so cold that they didn't look like those of a living person.

(End of this chapter)