Conan: Start from Lucky Three

Chapter 99: The Highest Etiquette for Meeting Guests

Late at night, Tachibana Shizuka, sitting in the passenger seat of Takei Katsuhiko's car, arrived at the container terminal at Beihua Port. This was the place where the kidnappers had decided to conduct the transaction, and the time was also determined by the kidnappers.

Under the insistence of Shizuka Tachibana and the persuasion of Katsuhiko Takei, Miwako Sato finally agreed to Shizuka Tachibana's actions.

In fact, both parties involved, Tachibana Shizuka and Takei Katsuhiko, agreed, so it was useless for Sato Miwako to object.

This is the dish cooking with seed oil.

In the evening, the kidnappers called Katsuhiko Takei again. Under the "control" of Shizuka Tachibana, Katsuhiko Takei made several demands to the kidnappers.

One is that the ransom has been prepared, but the requirement is to hand over the money first and then the person. It is absolutely impossible to give the money first and then the person.

Secondly, due to his physical condition, Katsuhiko Takei couldn't carry so much money to meet the kidnappers alone, so he had to bring an assistant. Of course, this assistant wouldn't be a police officer or detective, but according to Katsuhiko Takei, it would be a high school student from his family.

Regarding these two requests, the kidnappers agreed to Katsuhiko Takei that they could deliver the ransom to them that night.

Katsuhiko Takei's conditions were so simple that Miyano Akemi and her group were a little surprised. Could it be that they had misjudged him, and that Katsuhiko Takei was not that difficult to deal with?
This time the meeting between the two parties can be said to be a perfect match. Both Tachibana Shizuka and Miyano Akemi were working hard to facilitate the meeting between the two parties.

"This is it. Have they arrived?" Tachibana Seiji pushed the door open from the passenger side and got out of the car. After looking around, he asked Takei Katsuhiko.

"They should be here soon." Katsuhiko Takei had experienced two waves of kidnappers in one day and had gained a certain understanding of the profession of kidnappers:

"Maybe they arrived early and are watching us from somewhere right now?"

"Yeah, I think so too." Tachibana Shizuka nodded, then opened the trunk and took out the cash box.

After Tachibana Shizuka placed the cash box in a conspicuous open space, the sound of a car engine starting up was heard not far away. Then two high beams shot towards them, and a van drove up to them at high speed.

After the van stopped, the high beam changed to low beam, and then three gangsters got out of the car one after another.

There were two men and one woman in the gang. The female kidnapper was controlling Naoko Takei and standing behind the other two kidnappers.

"Naoko!" Katsuhiko Takei seemed a little excited after seeing his daughter.

"Dad?" Unlike Katsuhiko Takei, Naoko Takei was not very excited when she saw her father, and was even a little disappointed.

"So what are our next steps?" Seeing one of the kidnappers raise a pistol, Tachibana Seiji's eyes first froze, then looked strange.

Finally, he spread his hands and asked Miyano Akemi who was next to Takei Naoko.

Although the kidnappers were wearing standard gangster masks on their faces, Shizue Tachibana still recognized Miyano Akemi's figure at a glance.

I didn’t expect that this girl really didn’t rob a bank, but became a kidnapper instead.

In order to save a lost soul, Tachibana Seiji secretly made a decision in his heart. But the most important thing at this moment was to save Takei Naoko first.

"We need to check the ransom first." Miyano Akemi deliberately lowered her voice, but Tachibana Shizuka, who had the Insight Time on, still recognized her voice at once.

"Yes, that's a very reasonable request." Tachibana Shizuka walked forward a few steps with the cash box, placed it between the two groups of people, and stepped back. He then made a "please" gesture to Miyano Akemi, indicating that they could open the box and "inspect the goods."

Miyano Akemi winked at her accomplice who had no gun and the accomplice nodded and walked to the box to open it.

After the cash box was opened, what came into view was neatly bundled tens of thousands of yuan in banknotes. Seeing so many banknotes, a hint of greed instinctively flashed in the eyes of the banknote examiner.

Then he carefully took out banknotes from several different places, not only checking whether there was any counterfeit money in the ransom, but also deliberately checking whether there was any counterfeit money.

Looking at the kidnapper's actions, Tachibana Seiji couldn't help but laugh - Katsuhiko Takei's reputation is really bad in the kidnapper business.

But it seems that this bad reputation within a particular industry might also be a good thing for Katsuhiko Takei?
Most kidnappers kidnap for money, but kidnapping Katsuhiko Takei's daughter may not only result in not getting the money, but also lead to the loss of life due to their own anger and humiliation.

From this perspective, kidnapping Katsuhiko Takei's family is completely unprofitable. For profit considerations, kidnappers who commit crimes for money will definitely not choose such a difficult target.

Who can say that this is not a different kind of scourge that will last for thousands of years?

"It should be fine." The kidnapper checked three boxes of money in a row, and finally turned to Miyano Akemi and nodded. He had checked so many samples from each box of money.

If someone could still pass off a fake as real, then he would really be convinced.

Just as the kidnapper was about to put the money into the car after closing the box, he was suddenly stopped by Tachibana Shizuka: "Wait, I've given you the money, but where's the person?"

Tachibana Shizuka signaled to Miyano Akemi, since you are all going to move the money away, don’t you have to return the hostage to me?

The kidnapper, who was pointing a gun at them, sneered, "I guess you must have called the police, right?
If we hand over the hostages to you now, do we want to be arrested by the police who rush out?
Don't worry, we will release her once we are sure it is safe."

"You don't keep your word!" Katsuhiko Takei was furious. He had finally made up his mind to raise the ransom to redeem his daughter with the "help" of others. But it seemed that the kidnappers meant that the 3 million yen was only enough for him to have a look at Naoko?

He's never been so dishonest in his business dealings!

Tachibana Shizuka noticed that Miyano Akemi's eyes were obviously flustered at this moment, and the current situation was also an accident for her.

Seeing the unexpected happening in front of him, Tachibana Shizuka nodded in satisfaction - the lower class overthrows the higher class, an old tradition in Japan.

What's more, Tachibana Shizuka didn't think that Miyano Akemi could really control these three people. They were already ready to commit a crime, so how could they be so obedient as to be commanded by a woman?

Unless Miyano Akemi was ruthless enough to establish her authority over them beforehand. But now it seemed that Miyano Akemi was clearly being set up by her own accomplices.

"Credit? What's the use of that?" Hearing Takei Katsuhiko's scolding, the kidnapper's mockery intensified. He even wanted to express a philosophical theory unique to villains:
"Credit is the most important thing nowadays"

Before the kidnapper could finish his words, gunshots rang out on the scene, or to be more precise, six consecutive gunshots.

These six shots not only interrupted the kidnapper's narration, but also killed the two kidnappers, the one who checked the money and the one who held the gun.

When fellow villagers meet, they shoot each other in the head. This is the highest etiquette of meeting guests in Beika Town.

(End of this chapter)