I'm in Detective Conan, and I start with the Grand Theft Auto system.

It's 9:30 p.m.

Most of the lights in the Italian restaurant were off, except for the light on the signboard at the entrance.

Shuji Kano was behind the counter counting today's bills, making a few marks on the ledger with his pen. His movements were unhurried, but he was thinking about other things.

The statute of limitations for the case of Chou Silang is about to expire. If he can just get through these few more days, he will be completely free!

He no longer has to worry about anyone using that incident to threaten him.

He heard the sound of the shop door being pushed open, and the wind chimes hanging there rang once.

He looked up, and his expression almost faltered the moment he saw who it was.

It's Miwako Sato again.

He put down his pen, inwardly rolling his eyes.

But he still managed a kind, elder-like smile and said gently, "Miwako, why are you here so late?"

Miwako Sato entered the store but did not sit down.

She stood in front of the counter, leaning slightly forward, her tone filled with a tireless determination: "Uncle Luye, please turn yourself in! If you do, you might get a reduced sentence!"

Shuji Kano found these words amusing.

A reduced sentence?

The statute of limitations for his case is about to expire in a few days. After that, he will be a free man. Does he need a reduced sentence?

He sighed, his tone gentle with a hint of helplessness: "Miwako, you've really got it wrong!"

"That prisoner isn't me. You must have made a mistake."

Miwako Sato shook her head, refusing to back down: "There's no way I could be wrong."

"Dad wrote your name in the police handbook!"

Shuji Kano put down his pen and leaned back in his chair behind the counter: "Miwako, I'm not stupid either."

"Think about it, if it really were me, the Metropolitan Police Department would have arrested me long ago. Why would they wait until now?"

Sato Miwako was speechless for a moment after hearing his words.

She could only grit her teeth and force herself to say, "Well... that's because I didn't notice it before. I've noticed it now."

Shuji Kano came out from behind the counter, walked to the store entrance, and reached out to grasp the doorknob.

His tone remained gentle, but carried an unwavering firmness: "Miwako, I still stand by what I said."

"If you have evidence of my crimes, then come and arrest me."

"If not, then please stop slandering my innocence."

After he finished speaking, he didn't say anything more, turned off the lights, closed the shop, and locked it.

He stood outside the shop and walked along the street toward the station, the night breeze making his pace quicken slightly.

He boarded the Shinkansen train bound for the suburbs, and the city lights outside the window cast streaks of light and shadow on his face.

He leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes for a while. The feeling of relief at arriving home safely improved his mood considerably.

After he got home, he opened the door, changed his shoes, and walked through the entryway, muttering to himself, "Mikako, really... why did you have to find out?"

"If you don't realize it, I'll still be your Uncle Luye. I'll still be good to you from now on."

As he spoke, he reached out and pushed open the living room door.

The living room was pitch black. He reached out and touched the light switch on the wall, then pressed it.

The moment the lights came on, his pupils contracted sharply.

Two men dressed in black were standing in the living room!

Two people dressed in black, wearing hats and masks.

They were crouching down next to the sofa, holding something in their hands, and stuffing it into the interlayer of the sofa base.

Shuji Kano's first reaction was anger, and his second reaction was that something was wrong.

His voice rang out in the empty living room: "Who are you?!"

The two people squatting next to the sofa froze at the same time.

One of the men in black, Sonoko, was startled. She lowered her voice and blurted out in a tense yet excited tone, "Oh no! He's found us!"

She turned to look at another man in black beside her, "Little...little...no, don't shout, don't...don't use your hands!"

The moment Xiaolan, the woman in black standing next to her, heard those words, her body moved almost instinctively.

Without even thinking, she shot off like an arrow.

She rushed in front of Shuji Kano, turned her body to the side, raised her right leg high, and then brought it down!

boom! !

He delivered a precise kick to Shuji Kano's head.

Before Shuji Kano could even utter a complete cry, he was struck head-on by a hammer, his body violently tilting to the side, his head hitting the wall with a dull thud.

Then it slid down the wall and lay motionless on the floor.

Xiaolan remained standing in the same position as when she kicked the ball, her chest heaving violently.

This isn't from being tired, it's from panic!

At that moment, Lin Shen came out of the bedroom next door.

Ran looked at Shuji Kano lying motionless on the floor, her voice tinged with panic and confusion: "President... I... I accidentally knocked him unconscious in the heat of the moment..."

Her voice trailed off towards the end, as if she herself hadn't expected to kick someone so hard.

Lin Shen walked over to Kano Shuji and squatted down, extending two fingers to check his breath.

His breathing was steady and his pulse was normal, but he had fainted.

He stood up and said softly, "It's nothing. He was just knocked unconscious."

After hearing this, Xiaolan and Yuanzi both breathed a long sigh of relief; their exhalations could be clearly heard even through their masks.

Lin Shen glanced down at the things that weren't completely packed away next to the sofa, then urged, "Hurry up. Put these things away, then we'll leave."

Ran and Sonoko immediately snapped out of their daze, quickly squatted down, stuffed the remaining items into the interlayer of the sofa base, then pushed the sofa back into place and carefully checked to make sure no marks were left.

After confirming that everything had been restored to normal, the three of them quickly left the Kano residence and walked briskly along a dark alley for a while before slowing down.

Lin Shen took a cell phone out of his pocket and handed it to Yuanzi: "Yuanzi, call the police."

Sonoko's fingers trembled slightly when she took the phone; it was a trembling of excitement.

She took the phone, took a deep breath, and then pressed three numbers on the dial pad.

The moment the call connected, she deliberately choked herself, making her voice sound like that of a middle-aged woman, and spoke into the microphone in an anxious and flustered tone:

"Police? I need to report a crime! My neighbor seems to be keeping weapons in his house!"

"I just saw him carrying several things into his house, the kind of weapons shown on the TV news!"

"You guys better send someone over to take a look right away!" After saying that, she added Shuji Kano's home address and then quickly hung up the phone.

She clutched her phone in her hand, her shoulders hunched slightly with excitement.

She turned to look at Lin Shen and Xiao Lan, her voice brimming with barely suppressed excitement: "Alright, alright! Now we can just watch the show!"

Lin Shen took the phone she handed him back, casually removed the SIM card, broke it in half, and threw it into the roadside ditch. Then he bent the phone body on his knee and threw it into a trash can.

He clapped his hands, looked at the two girls who were both flustered and excited, and said, "I've already placed several miniature surveillance cameras in his house."

"Once we get back to the coffee shop, we can drink coffee and watch what happens next."

Upon hearing this, Sonoko immediately let out a low cheer: "Yay! Yay!!"

Xiaolan walked beside the two, her expression still carrying a trace of lingering worry.

She asked in a low voice, "But is this really okay? Won't the police find us through the surveillance footage?"

Lin Shen walked steadily through the night, his tone resolute: "Don't worry, they won't be able to find anything on us."

Hearing this, Xiaolan's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled back into place.

She walked along the street under the streetlights, and as the night breeze blew by, she felt her heartbeat slowly calming down.

However, she didn't know whether what she was doing was right or wrong.

But when Ran saw Sonoko's excited and happy expression, the other girl had never smiled so happily before, it made Ran feel that what she had done was worthwhile!