I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 523 Why are there three types of mechanical dragons in the Bat Cave?

"Is this the place you brought me to, this desolate wilderness, just to see this dark cave and bats flying around everywhere?"

Ai Haibara asked in a calm voice.

This morning she discovered that the Junior Detective Club had gone missing, the Detective Badges couldn't be tracked down, and they couldn't be reached by phone. Their parents were frantic with worry.

As a result, they spent most of the day running around with Inspector Shiratori.

It turns out the Junior Detective League went on a picnic with Fumino Tsukumo. Their detective badges are out of battery, their cell phones have no signal, and there's a college student who's been nagging the kids to death at the scene.

This college student, I must say, is incredibly tough to kill.

Any adult would probably have been driven mad or driven to death by the commotion caused by the juvenile delinquents of the Junior Detective League.

As a result, she didn't get to eat anything by the afternoon.

Just as we were getting ready to eat, Chen En suddenly grabbed me and carried me away. Before I knew it, I was in this desolate, ghostly place.

Ai Haibara's eyes sharpened.

Her brow furrowed, as if she were about to activate a gentler version of her Spinosaurus form, and she asked,

"Couldn't you have sent Shinichi Kudo?"

Hearing this, Chen En paused for a moment, then replied.
"Generally speaking, it is possible."

"But actually it won't work, because Conan is currently following Kogoro Mouri around to various places, so I can't single out Conan."

—If I had known, I wouldn't have gone back to my apartment this afternoon. I would have gone to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department with Inspector Shiratori. Maybe I could have even gotten a free meal.

Ai Haibara followed along expressionlessly.

Although missing one meal wouldn't kill her, she still felt a bit uneasy. So, she stared at Chen En's back, hoping he would give her an explanation.

Chen En responded to this.

"This is a bat cave."

Haibara Ai:?
I could tell from the bats fluttering around that this was a bat cave. With so many bats, what else could it be but a bat cave?
Could it be Owl Cave?
Ai Haibara's gaze became rude.

However, before she could breathe on it, Chen En casually slipped a chocolate bar that Suzuki Sonoko had given him before she left into her hand.

Although it's not very good as a main meal.

But something is better than nothing, after all, the ads often tout the satiating effect of chocolate bars, saying things like "have a chocolate bar when you're hungry and sweep away hunger to be yourself"... It just feels like a simple advertising slogan.

"So, this is the temporary base you prepared for yourself?"

Ai Haibara's voice was somewhat muffled.

She followed Chen En, moving deeper into the bat cave. The surrounding environment made her frown, as it looked very unkempt, though it could also be intentionally designed that way.

After all, the Batcave in the comics seems to be such a dark and gloomy place.

Chen En walked ahead, his gaze sweeping over every part of the bat cave.

Because Suzuki Jirokichi was drunk and unable to come, he had no choice but to bring Ai Haibara along to explore the unfamiliar Bat Cave. However, he wasn't entirely unprepared for this—

He asked Noah's Ark to send over the design drawings of the Bat Cave from Suzuki Jirokichi's computer.

Although he had never been to this unfinished bat cave before.

But Chen En wasn't entirely unfamiliar with this place.

After walking along the road for a while, Chen En frowned slightly. He could vaguely see a hideous and enormous shadow emerging from the darkness. —A monster? Or some kind of large construction machinery?
Chen En stopped.

Ai Haibara, who was chewing behind him, almost bumped into him. She poked her head out from the side, somewhat annoyed, and was about to ask what was going on when she was stunned by the enormous thing in front of her.

If she wasn't mistaken, this should be... a dinosaur?
"Uh, did you put this here?"

Ai Haibara blinked and asked in surprise.

However, she received an answer she didn't really want to hear.

"No, the design drawings don't seem to mention a mechanical dinosaur here."

"This was probably added on a whim by Uncle Suzuki, but he was too drunk to tell me about this mechanical dinosaur beforehand. Besides, this mechanical dinosaur isn't connected to the internet—"

zizi.

Accompanied by the sound of sparks, two realistic pupils suddenly lit up in the darkness, looking dangerous and ferocious.

The enormous mechanical dinosaur suddenly moved, and only then did most of its body appear in the dim light, allowing Chen En and Ai Haibara to see its full form.

— Rather than the mechanical dinosaur from DC Comics, this thing is more like the Type-3 Dinosaur from the movie.

The metallic body suggests that this machine has the ability to easily take lives; under normal circumstances, this would be a physical security measure that Batman has prepared for his Batcave.

But now, this mechanical dinosaur, resembling a Type 3 Dragon, is clearly about to attack its owner.

"Step back, leave this to me."

"Let me see where the battery or cables are. I don't want to tear down my bat cave, which I'm about to finish, and this mechanical dinosaur that I'm using to guard it."

Chen En stretched his muscles a little.

His finger rested on Cassandra's ring, and the next moment, he turned the ring, instantly unleashing his superhuman abilities. However, against an opponent like a mechanical dinosaur, which had no human structure whatsoever, the superhuman effect was noticeably less than when fighting a normal enemy.

However, all Chen En wanted was the enhanced intuition that came with super intuition.

"Ah, um...that looks really dangerous."

Ai Haibara nodded and said in a low voice.

She took out a grappling hook from her waist and fired it at the rock wall behind her. The next moment, Ai Haibara was pulled by the hook and disappeared from Chen En's back in an instant.

Meanwhile, the massive Type 3 Dragon began to move.

The weapons on this thing are obviously just for show, but the sheer size of this mechanical construct is enough to crush a person into a pulp. Therefore, Chen En has no intention of engaging in a power struggle with the Type 3 Dragon Machine.

At the moment the dragon claw slammed down.

Chen En landed lightly on the dragon claw and moved quickly upwards along the arm of the Type 3 Mecha Dragon. Although the Type 3 Mecha Dragon's simple intelligence included countermeasures, its movements were still too stiff.

Before its other arm could strike Chen En, Chen En had already leaped up and landed on the head of the Type 3 Dragon.

His gaze swept over the mechanical dinosaur's surroundings, quickly landing on the thick back connecting to the cable. Immediately, he jumped down towards the cable.

The Type 3 Dragon has temporarily crashed due to losing the enemy's location.

However, the built-in thermal imaging system in the eye quickly located Ai Haibara's presence. But before the Type-3 Dragon could move, Chen En had already grabbed the cable on the back of the Type-3 Dragon and pulled it out, causing it to fall to the ground with him.

The massive Type 3 Dragon lost its kinetic energy and immediately returned to its previous stationary state.

(End of this chapter)