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

Chapter 557 Sera Masumi: Beika Town is Dangerous

A hostage-taker armed with a handgun appears inside the Mori Detective Agency.

He watched as everyone else handed over their phones and placed them on their desks before slowly closing the door to the Mouri Detective Agency and then walking slowly to the center of the agency.

At this moment, the three middle-aged women who had come to visit Kogoro Mouri were already in a panic.

That is, the hostage-taker is holding a carbon-based bio-cooling device.

Otherwise, these three middle-aged women might have already screamed in terror by now.

However, the high school students at Teitan High School seemed more composed, especially Sera Masumi.

Although Sera Masumi is both a high school student in terms of age and status.

However, it would be a big mistake to treat her as a high school student.

Despite being confronted by a hostage-taker wielding a handgun, Sera Masumi remained completely calm.

Her gaze fell on the hostage-taker's hands, pondering where to start to disarm him instantly, even though she and Ran Mouri were strong enough to dodge pistol bullets.

However, the other three middle-aged women, along with Sonoko and that annoying Hondo Eisuke, are not going to be able to dodge bullets.

Sera Masumi didn't want someone to die in front of her on her very first day at her new school.

From any perspective, it's just too unlucky, isn't it?

"Damn it, where's Kogoro Mouri? Where is Kogoro Mouri?"

When the hijackers arrived at the center of the office.

He finally noticed that the desk where Kogoro Mouri should have been sitting was empty. Upon seeing this, his pupils contracted instantly, and a hint of annoyance appeared in his eyes.

"I've come here to find the famous detective Kogoro Mouri to solve my case."

"Now that Kogoro Mouri is gone, I have no interest in right or wrong. I will live as long as heaven and earth—"

Before the hostage-taker could finish speaking...

The next moment, Sera Masumi whispered in Ran Mouri's ear,

"I'll attack from below, you attack from above, and we'll make sure you're disarmed."

Ran Mouri glanced at Sera Masumi and nodded.

Just before the hijackers took any further drastic actions.

Ran Mouri and Sera Masumi, two kung fu girls, attack simultaneously.

Using her explosive speed, Sera Masumi swept her leg, instantly throwing the hostage-taker off balance. Before the hostage-taker could recover, Ran Mouri kicked the pistol out of his hand.

The moment the pistol flew up and landed on the ground, Hondo Eisuke quickly picked it up and turned it around to aim at the hostage-taker.

Although he didn't know anything about fighting.

However, thanks to his father's friend who had a gun collection, and for some reason, taught him a little about how to hold and shoot a gun, Hondo Eisuke still has some knowledge of how to use a pistol.

The crisis was resolved in an instant.

Sonoko Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that Sera Masumi is indeed a very reliable detective.

Not only does he possess remarkable reasoning skills, but he also has incredibly impressive fighting abilities that rival Ran's. He doesn't seem like a fragile high school detective who might get knocked out and disappear.

However, just as Suzuki Sonoko got up, intending to pick up her phone and tell Chen En what was happening,

The next instant, the hostage-taker, who had been knocked to the ground, sneered and said...

“I knew Kogoro Mouri had a daughter who was skilled in kung fu, but I didn’t expect there to be three in the agency.” “Your kung fu may indeed be very impressive, but if I press the detonator on my hand, the bomb on my body will turn everyone in this room—no, the entire building—into ruins in the next instant.”

"If you don't believe me, then open my coat and take a look!"

Sera Masumi:?
Sera Masumi's face darkened.

She quickly reached out and pulled aside the hostage-taker's jacket. The next moment, the bomb vest inside the jacket came into her view, leaving Sera Masumi speechless for a moment.

She originally planned to complete the transfer procedures on her first day in Beika Town.

However, because the situation in Beika Town was so dire that she became worried about the town's safety, she waited two days in between.

Seeing that Beika Town had only experienced minor incidents these past two days, she thought the period of frequent major incidents in Beika Town was over.

As a result, today I encountered a superhuman criminal who came to threaten the detective wearing a bomb vest.

What exactly is going on in Beika Town?

After so many consecutive bombings, how did you manage to get someone to smuggle a vest full of explosives?
Give me back my gun, or we'll die together!

The hostage-taker, his eyes bloodshot, said this.

Left with no other option, Hondo Eisuke threw the pistol back to the hostage-taker, and the situation returned to normal. However, because of the attack, the hostage-taker's condition was noticeably better.

Of course, this state refers not to the physiological level, but to the psychological level.

The hijackers' first reaction upon seeing that Kogoro Mouri was not there was to detonate the bomb and die with him.

But now that he's been beaten up, he's come to a realization.

Since Kogoro Mouri isn't here, it's the same if his daughter is. Her father is a famous detective, so his daughter shouldn't be too bad at reasoning either, right? After all, like father, like son, right?
The hostage-taker stood next to the desk.

He looked at the crowd before him and said in a low voice,

"I'll say the same thing I did when I first came here."

"If you can help me find the murderer, then I will only kill the murderer. If you can't find the murderer, then I will detonate the bomb and take everyone with me."

"Ran Mouri, you're Kogoro Mouri's daughter. You can't possibly be completely clueless about deduction, can you?"

"If you're willing to help me deduce the case, I'll release you once you solve it, how about it?"

Upon hearing this, Ran Mouri pointed to herself in surprise.

Huh? Me? I can't reason!

Where is the logic in saying that if the father is a famous detective, the daughter must also be able to deduce?
However, Ran Mouri knew that now was not the time to refuse.

Just as she was considering whether to agree first and stall for time, Hondo Eisuke spoke up instead.
“Miss Lan isn’t good at deduction. I’m Master Mori’s apprentice, so I’ll help you with the deduction.”

Hondo Eisuke carefully adjusted his glasses and said.

Hearing this, Sera Masumi also spoke up, not to be outdone.

"If he can't do it, I'll do."

"I'm an international student who transferred from the United States. Back in the US, I was a famous high school detective. With me and him helping you, solving cases will be a piece of cake—"

"Tell me, what case are you talking about?"

—Two famous detectives?

The hostage-taker finally spoke.
"My name is Sawakuri Isao."

"The deceased was my sister, and the murderer is one of these three women!"

(End of this chapter)