The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

but……

This is probably for the best. If I were to die here, what would happen to my sister and Aragaki Yu...?

Perhaps he won't be implicated by himself.

"So, Kudo, I'm going to tell you everything I know about that drug!"

……

"Then I'll take my leave now, Aragaki-kun!"

At the entrance, Akemi Miyano, having finished tidying up the kitchen, smiled and said goodbye to Yuu Aragaki.

"Okay, drive carefully, Yami-nee." After watching Miyano Akemi drive away.

Aragaki Yu's expression, which had been full of smiles, suddenly turned serious.

A long time has passed, and Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara from next door have still not returned.

What's more, he had just seen another news story on television that really bothered him—

Congressman Shigehiko Tobu was killed when a chandelier fell from the ceiling and crushed him while he was attending a banquet at the Beika Hotel.

Representative Tunkou, Beika Hotel, plus Ai Haibara and Professor Agasa who have disappeared somewhere.

Connecting all these seemingly unrelated things, Aragaki Yu quickly remembered something—

Representative Tunkou, a politician who appears to have some connection with the Black Organization, is about to be investigated by the police for alleged bribery.

To prevent the leakage of organizational intelligence, the Black Organization specifically planned this assassination operation.

Ai Haibara, Professor Agasa, and Conan were also drawn into this incident.

In this incident, Ai Haibara's true identity was even discovered by an organization executive codenamed Pisco.

The reason why Ai Haibara hasn't returned yet, according to what Yu Aragaki knows about the plot, is probably because she's being imprisoned somewhere by Pisco!

Without much hesitation, Aragaki Yu went up to the second floor.

It seems necessary to go out.

However, this time I can't go out with my real appearance.

After all, whether it's encountering Conan or bumping into Gin and his group, it's a very troublesome situation.

What's more, at this time, there was also that troublesome woman, Vermouth, in the Beika Hotel.

That's right, it's the famous American actress Chris Vineyard who flashed across the television screen during the news broadcast.

……

Meanwhile, Conan learns that Ai Haibara in the wine cellar was not tied up, and that there was a laptop connected to a cell phone left in the cellar.

Conan immediately felt relieved.

It was because he used Shinichi Kudo's voice to ask Inspector Megure to keep all the guests who had received the purple handkerchiefs behind.

Therefore, Conan can be quite certain at this point that Pisco, the organization member who discovered Ai Haibara's true identity, has not yet had time to report Ai Haibara's situation to the organization.

In other words, as long as Pisco is arrested before the other members of the organization realize something is wrong, there is still room for redemption.

Of course, besides finding Pisco within the limited time, the most important thing now is to get Ai Haibara out of this wine cellar.

"You want me to find a way to escape from here?" Ai Haibara's voice sounded somewhat helpless. "It's easier said than done. The problem is that there is no exit at all. The only thing here is an old fireplace."

"Is it possible to climb up to that fireplace?"

Under Conan's instructions, Ai Haibara also crawled into the fireplace to take a look. "No, there's no way. This fireplace is too wide. If my body hadn't shrunk, I might have been able to try if I spread my arms and legs out."

"Is there a rope?"

"Hmm?" Ai Haibara stepped out of the fireplace, glanced around briefly, and said, "Do you think there might be ropes in the wine cellar?"

"A wine cellar?" Conan, who was getting a little anxious, finally noticed the place where Ai Haibara was being held captive. "You said that's a wine cellar? There's a lot of wine in there, right?"

“Hmm.” Ai Haibara looked at the shelves in the wine cellar and said, “This wine cellar, which looks like it hasn’t been used in a long time, does indeed have a collection of famous wines from all over the world.”

"Oh!?" Upon hearing this, Conan suddenly smiled.

It seems there's still a chance for things to turn around!

Chapter 393 Gin's Attack (2-in-1)

After Ai Haibara successfully imported the drug data from Pisco's laptop, which was left in the wine cellar, into her game MO.

Under the combined effects of Conan's suggestion of strong liquor and her own cold, Ai Haibara, in a painful struggle, reverted to her original form as Shiho Miyano.

However, judging from her heavy breathing, Shiho Miyano's condition was clearly not as good as expected.

Before she could even express her surprise at the situation, Akemi Miyano dragged herself with difficulty to change into the uniform on the wine cellar cart.

After hiding her clothes, which were stretched out due to her suddenly enlarged body, Ai Haibara decisively crawled into the fireplace.

She endured her physical discomfort and struggled to climb towards the exit at the top of the chimney, using both her hands and feet.

However, just when she thought she was about to escape, the sound of a door opening from the wine cellar below froze her halfway.

As the room door was suddenly pushed open, she immediately stopped what she was doing and struggled to stay suspended in mid-air.

They were afraid that the noise they made would attract the other person's attention.

"Could it be... Pisco is back? Damn it, didn't Kudo say the police had him back?!" Shiho Miyano frowned, her heart pounding with anxiety.

However, the next moment, two different sets of footsteps came from the wine cellar below.

Just as Shiho Miyano was wondering about this, a conversation coming from the wine cellar sent chills down her spine.

"Big brother, that guy Pisco isn't here!"

It's gin, and vodka too!

In that instant, Shiho Miyano, who was already drunk and had a high fever, became even more nervous, causing her heart rate to increase and her blood pressure to soar.

“We clearly agreed to meet here in thirty minutes, but he didn’t even send a message. We searched for the transmitter, but all we found was this laptop.”

Vodka picked up a bottle of baijiu (a type of Chinese liquor) that was next to his laptop on the table and shook it gently.

Seeing that there wasn't much liquor left in the bottle, Vodka naturally assumed that Pisker was still drinking even while on a mission.

Therefore, he couldn't help but continue to complain, "I wonder where that guy went off to have some fun, and why he's hiding in this wine cellar!"

"This is probably Pisco's way of making an escape route just to be on the safe side!" Gin said coldly after looking around the cellar.

Hearing Gin's emotionless tone, Shiho Miyano, unable to help but recall the scene from her dream, unconsciously increased her breathing slightly due to fear and tension.

"If he hadn't succeeded at the meeting, he probably would have planned to do it elsewhere and then drag the person here."

As expected of the distillery's ace, Gin had already roughly analyzed Pisco's thoughts after just a quick glance at the situation in the cellar.

With the murder of Representative Tonguchi, the building was now filled with police. To prevent any further complications, Vodka suggested to Gin, "No matter what, we'd better get out of here as soon as possible, bro!"

"Um……!?"

Just as Gin turned to leave, his gaze swept over the fireplace beside him, but he suddenly froze.

But soon, he walked towards the door as if nothing had happened, saying to Vodka, "Hmph, you're right."

However, even Vodka, who had been staring at Gin the whole time, didn't notice the fleeting, cold smile that appeared on Gin's lips.

……

Hearing the sound of the cellar door closing and the footsteps fading away, Shiho Miyano finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Suppressing her physical fear, she gritted her teeth and used all her strength to climb upwards.

Finally, just before she was about to collapse from exhaustion, Shiho Miyano managed to knock open the cover on top of the chimney with her elbow, climbed out of the chimney, and collapsed on the roof, utterly exhausted.

Snowflakes were still falling heavily from the sky, and a sudden gust of cold wind made Shiho Miyano, who was only wrapped in a uniform, shiver.

"Whoo~"

After calming her breathless voice, Shiho Miyano continued to contact Conan and Professor Agasa, saying, "I'm out."

"Well done, Ai!" Professor Agasa finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. "Take a closer look, can you tell where this is?"

"Huh?" Shiho Miyano struggled to her feet, looked up at the snow-covered rooftop, and said, "This seems to be the top floor of somewhere."

"Oh, by the way, is Kudo there?" Shiho Miyano was slightly surprised that the person she was talking to had suddenly become Professor Agasa.

"Oh, he just made a phone call with Inspector Megure and then rushed to the restaurant," Professor Agasa explained.

"In a hurry?"

"Oh, Ai, don't worry!" As if sensing the doubt in Shiho Miyano's words, Professor Agasa quickly explained the situation, "He asked me to tell you before he left that he knows who Pisces is from a photo taken by a reporter. He will come to pick you up soon, and he asked you to wait for him patiently there."

"Humph~"

Upon hearing this, Shiho Miyano was both surprised and relieved that Conan had already discovered Pisco's true identity.

After letting out a soft hum, she said with a helpless wry smile, "Don't worry, even if I wanted to move, my whole body is too limp to move!"

However, just as she was struggling to stand up, leaning against the wall, trying to find a place to take shelter from the snow...

With a faint, silenced gunshot, Ai Haibara felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.

Caught off guard, I almost fell right back into the snow.