I'm in Conan, I'm not a gangster

Chapter 599 A Narrow Escape (1st Update)
Kazuha slowly opened her eyes, her vision blurry for a few seconds before gradually clearing.

She found herself leaning against the back seat of a bumpy car, soaking wet and with water dripping from her hair.

Next to her, Natsumi Kosaka was also soaked to the bone, rubbing her temples and looking around blankly.

"Where...where are we?" Kazuha's voice was hoarse, her throat burning as if she had choked on water.

Natsumi Kosaka also snapped out of her daze and suddenly grabbed Kazuha's arm: "Wait! Weren't we hit by artillery fire?!"

Memories flooded back—the hail of bullets at the US military base, the flying rockets, and that SUV that was blown into the air…

"Are we dead?" Kazuha's face was deathly pale, and she trembled as she touched her face. "Are we on our way to the underworld?"

A soft chuckle came from the driver's seat.

“Kazuha, we won’t be taking a car to the underworld.” Shiraishi E gripped the steering wheel with one hand, took a swig from a water bottle with the other, and said, “We’re not dead yet.”

"We...are still alive?" Natsumi Kosaka pinched herself in disbelief, gasping in pain.

Kazuha followed suit and pinched her own thigh.

After feeling the pain, she knew this wasn't a dream!

She turned her head to look at the scenery outside the window and found that the vehicle was driving through the mountains and forests.

"What...what exactly happened?" Her voice trembled. "There was no way we could have escaped under those circumstances!"

Natsumi Kosaka also looked confused, sweat dripping from her hair onto the leather seat. She said, "The US military has tanks, fighter jets... our off-road vehicle was clearly already..."

Shiraishi E did not answer immediately, but instead rolled down the car window.

The damp sea breeze blew into the carriage, carrying the distinctive salty smell of Yokohama Bay.

He pointed out the window: "See that big pit?"

The two looked in the direction he pointed out and were astonished to find a huge pit in the distance.

The two women estimated that the crater was at least a kilometer long!
"W-What's going on?" Kazuha's eyes widened.

Natsumi Kosaka was stunned: "When I returned to Yokohama, I didn't hear about any huge pits in the mountains around here!!"

Shiraishi E turned the steering wheel, a mysterious smile playing on her lips: "Just as the US military was chasing us, several 'meteorites' fell from the sky and landed right in the base."

"Meteorite?!" the two girls exclaimed in unison.

"You can't be kidding me!" Kazuha exclaimed, peering closely through the car window. "What a coincidence!"

“Yes, and it wouldn’t be that accurate!” As Natsumi Kosaka said this, she suddenly thought of something, and her expression became serious: “Wait, could it be… that Russian ambassador!”

She had already fainted, so she didn't see the Russian man at all.

Upon hearing this, Shiraishi E was immediately delighted.

You don't even need to try to convince her; she just starts thinking in this direction!

This is really great!
He nodded and said, "Yes, that was the Russians' call for a submarine attack! I took advantage of the chaos to escape with you."

"Huh? Really? Is he that extreme?" Kazuha said in disbelief, "We've already been taken to a US military base, and he still won't let us go?"

Shiraishi E chuckled lightly, "Yes, otherwise why would we call him Russian?"

Natsumi Kosaka muttered, "Besides, they have a grudge against each other, so it's not entirely incomprehensible that they would do something like this!"

Kazuha sighed, "So, we really have to thank him. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to escape at all!"

A brief silence fell over the carriage.

Kazuha and Natsumi Kosaka processed this information, and the terrifying scene of a missile strike flashed through their minds!
“So…” Kazuha swallowed hard: “Those American soldiers…”

“Completely wiped out.” Shiraishi said calmly, “A saturation strike of 16 ‘Bulava’ missiles is enough to wipe the entire base off the map!”

Natsumi Kosaka suddenly shivered: "Then how did we survive?"

“Escape pod.” Shiraishi pointed to their soaked clothes: “I took you guys and jumped into the river, then sped away in a yacht!” Although the reason was absurd, Kazuha and Natsumi Kosaka were a high school girl and a pastry chef, respectively, so how could they know so much?

They looked at the water stains on their bodies and felt a slight drowning sensation, and suddenly they understood the reason!
The two girls, unsuspecting, let out a long sigh of relief and slumped in their seats, exclaiming things like, "Thank goodness!" "We escaped a disaster!" "It feels so good to be alive!"

As Shiraishi drove towards Yokohama, she reminded him, "You must keep this a secret. You absolutely cannot let anyone know, understand?"

He deliberately tried to scare the two women by staring into their eyes through the rearview mirror, saying, "If the outside world finds out that Russian missiles bombed a US military base... there might be a third world war!"

"World War III!" Natsumi Kosaka repeated the words, her face pale.

Kazuha suddenly covered her mouth: "Then wouldn't we become... sinners?"

"So, you absolutely can't tell anyone else, understand?" Shiraishi Ei secretly chuckled as she looked at the two of them with uneasy expressions.

These two are so easily fooled, it saves him the trouble of talking.

He continued, "So from today onward, you must forget everything about missiles and submarines. If anyone asks, say we know nothing about them and we didn't go into any US military bases, understand?"

The two girls nodded vigorously.

Having experienced the surreal realities of drone bombings of the US military, tank battles, and submarine missiles, they wished they could lock these memories deep in their minds.

Never think about it again!!
But at this moment, Kazuha said with great worry, "But... those soldiers have already seen what we look like—"

"Don't worry, they're all dead," Shiraishi E assured her. "No one will know where we've been."

Upon hearing this, He Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt completely at ease!

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Inside the five-star hotel on the Yokohama Bay, Kazuha and Natsumi Kosaka went to their room and lay down on the bed.

At that moment, they didn't want to do anything.

Taking this opportunity, Kazuha told her family that she and Sonoko had come to Yokohama and asked them to ask the school for leave.

Because Natsumi Kosaka still had a gunshot wound in her leg, Kazuha took a bath with her to take care of her.

The enormous marble bathtub could comfortably accommodate two people, and warm water flowed from the gilded faucet, the rising steam quickly blurring the mirror surface.

Kazuha submerged herself completely in the water until she felt a burning sensation in her lungs, then suddenly looked up, water droplets dripping from her hair.

She glanced at Natsumi Kosaka, who in turn glanced at him.

The two were silent for a moment, then burst into laughter at the same time—a kind of laughter born of relief and almost neurotic.

Just hours before, they were fleeing from gunfire, but now they were lying in a bathtub in a luxury hotel. The contrast made them feel both absurd and fortunate.

"Speaking of which," Kazuha squeezed out some shower gel and lathered it into a rich foam, "we were both saved by Shiraishi-kun, weren't we?"

"You can't call it that, they saved me!" Natsumi Kosaka exclaimed with emotion. "And it wasn't just once!"

As she spoke, she looked at Kazuha, winked, and smiled, "So, Kazuha-chan, how do you plan to repay him? How about offering yourself to him?"

Kazuha blushed. She hadn't expected the other person to say such things so readily, which made her feel quite uncomfortable.

But then she thought about it again and realized that the other person worked in Paris and had a more open-minded outlook, so she felt relieved.

Kazuha, believing that Osaka natives shouldn't be looked down upon, said with a grin, "Sure! I have no problem with that!"

She figured it wasn't the first time, so she wasn't bothered at all. Instead, she challenged him, "What about you, Miss Xia Mei? Want to come along? I don't mind!"

Natsumi Kosaka was stunned for a moment, not expecting the other party to provoke her in return, which caught her off guard.

"Um... I still have a leg injury." She blushed and quickly made an excuse, saying, "It's not suitable for strenuous activity!"

Upon seeing this, Kazuha couldn't help but burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)