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"Look at her good fortune!" As he said this, Moriya Teiji suddenly narrowed his eyes and a strange smile appeared on his lips.
……
Countdown: 5 minutes.
"Phew, it's cut!" Following Shinichi's instructions, Ran cut another green outer thread, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Conan, who had been studying the blueprints outside the door, relaxed and said with ease, "Great! Now all we have to do is cut the remaining black wires and the timer will stop!"
"Is it black?" After confirming the color again, Xiaolan exchanged a glance with Miyano Akemi beside her, found the black wire, and cut it off with a pair of scissors.
However, what puzzled Ran and Akemi Miyano was that the timer on the bomb in front of them did not stop as Shinichi had said, but was still counting down.
At this moment, Ran became nervous again. She hurriedly explained the situation to Shinichi Kudo outside the door: "Shinichi, I have cut the black wire, but the bomb's timer has not stopped."
"!!!"
Chapter 252 Red Line
"Wait, Xiaolan! Look, there are still two wires on the bomb!"
The observant Akemi Miyano suddenly noticed that there were still two wires on the bomb that hadn't been cut, so she reminded Ran.
"Oh right, Shinichi, did you hear that? There are still two wires left on the bomb, one red and one blue!"
"What did you say!"
Upon hearing Ran's words, Conan, standing outside the door, widened his eyes in disbelief.
Conan stared blankly at the bomb design in his hand, but couldn't find the two red and blue wires that Ran had mentioned.
Although he was incredibly anxious, he quickly realized: "Could it be that Moriya Teiji deliberately omitted those two lines from this design to lure me into a trap?"
"What should we do, Shinichi? Should we cut both of them?" Ran asked疑惑地 in the hall.
"Idiot!" Conan, extremely nervous, quickly stopped Ran. "How could you do that? One of them is the actual detonation wire! If you cut it, we'll all be blown to pieces!"
"Wh...what!?" Xiaolan, who had thought everything was going smoothly, suddenly turned pale.
Even Akemi Miyano's expression turned ugly.
"Damn it! Which one is it! Blue or red!" Just as Conan was scratching his head looking at the design in his hand, he suddenly heard the faint sound of a clock chiming from outside the building.
"It's twelve o'clock!? Oh no, only three minutes left!"
Conan glanced at his watch and suddenly realized that he and Ran had very little time left, and he became increasingly anxious.
However, at that moment, Ran's voice, which came from the hall, suddenly lost its tense tone: "Shinichi."
"Hmm?" Conan outside the door responded in surprise.
Happy birthday, Shinichi.
Ran suddenly abandoned the bomb in front of her, plopped down on the ground, leaned against the door separating her from Shinichi, and said calmly.
"I think I may never be able to say these words to you again..."
Xiaolan's voice became emotional, and her eyes unconsciously welled up with tears.
Upon hearing this, Conan, who was outside the door, slumped to the ground. He threw down the design in his hand, and after a moment of stunned silence, said, "Cut it!"
"Huh?" Xiaolan exclaimed in surprise.
Conan explained, "Cut off your favorite color!"
"What if I cut it wrong?!" Xiaolan tightened her grip on the scissors, her voice trembling with nervousness.
"So what if I cut it wrong! The bomb will still explode when the timer goes off anyway. Since that's the case, I might as well just cut your favorite color!" Conan said in a deliberately relaxed tone from outside the door.
Akemi Miyano, standing to the side: "???"
She glanced at Xiaolan beside her, then at the door behind her, and blinked in confusion. Although she felt a bit like she was being tortured by a couple, couldn't they please not use such an unreliable method to decide which hair to cut!
Akemi Miyano declared that she didn't want to die!
He hasn't even seen his younger sister Shiho and Aragaki's younger brother get married, have children, and have a house full of grandchildren yet!
……
"But..." Xiaolan's voice also sounded hesitant.
Sensing the confusion in Ran's voice, Conan outside the door smiled and comforted her, "Don't worry, Ran. Even if you can't escape it in the end, I'll always be here with you. If we can't live together, we can die together."
clap, clap, clap...
Just as Ran was deeply moved by Shinichi's words, she heard a clapping sound coming from not far away.
Ran and Akemi Miyano both looked up in surprise, heading in the direction from which the sound came.
"Aragaki (younger brother)!"
It turned out that Aragaki Yu had appeared in the hall at this moment, and he walked towards the two of them with a disheveled look on his face.
Judging from the dust covering his body and the tattered state of his clothes, he had clearly suffered quite a bit from the explosion.
"Isn't this a touching reunion?" Aragaki Yu walked up to Ran and Miyano Akemi, and greeted them with a smile. "Ran, Masami-nee, I'm not late, am I? And Kudo-kun is outside the door."
"Little brother Aragaki, I'm so glad you're alright!" Miyano Akemi, who had been worried about Aragaki Yu, finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw him appear safe and sound.
But the next second, her heart started to clench again.
As a result, Aragaki Yuu, who did not escape the Beika Building, also found himself in a crisis where the bomb could explode at any moment.
"Aragaki-kun, it's been a long time!" Shinichi Kudo, standing outside the door, knew that time was of the essence, so he simply greeted Yuu Aragaki.
Xiaolan looked at the bomb timer, which showed only one minute left on it, and felt a mix of emotions.
Just as Miyano Akemi was about to explain the current situation to Aragaki Yu, Aragaki Yu shook his head and stopped her: "Ayami-nee, I know the current situation."
As he spoke, Aragaki Yu walked over to Ran's side and slowly squatted down.
Amid Xiaolan's puzzled expression, he took the small pair of scissors from her hand.
Then, under her increasingly dilated gaze, he cut the blue wire without hesitation.
"what!?"
The moment the wire was cut, Ran, still reeling from Aragaki Yu's actions, only managed to close her eyes and let out a gasp.
"Ran, what happened! Are you alright?" Conan, who was outside the door, had obviously heard Ran's exclamation and asked anxiously, fearing that something else had happened.
"..."
However, he did not receive a reply from Xiaolan immediately.
The scene suddenly fell silent.
The next moment, the countdown on the time bomb suddenly stopped.
Xiaolan, realizing that she had not been engulfed by the explosion, slowly opened her eyes.
She blinked in confusion before realizing that the time bomb in front of her had stopped counting down to the last 10 seconds.
Yusuke Aragaki was looking at her with a smile, while Akemi Miyano also had a look of relief on her face.
"Stop...stopped...!?" Xiaolan's voice was hesitant, as if she still couldn't believe what she was seeing.
"It's stopped?" Conan, who was outside the door, was about to ask what was going on when he suddenly noticed that the ceiling above him was starting to shake precariously.
The next second, huge boulders fell from the ceiling. Without having time to say anything, Conan could only rush out of the doorway and barely avoid the falling rocks.
Meanwhile, in the lobby, the ceiling near the entrance also collapsed at that moment.
Fortunately, Yuu Aragaki, who was on guard, had been paying attention to the situation. He quickly picked up the time bomb in front of him, then picked up Ran, who was still sitting on the ground in a daze, with his other hand. Together with Akemi Miyano, who had already stood up, they quickly left the doorway.
Just as Aragaki Yu and Miyano Akemi reached a safe spot, a large amount of rubble fell down, completely burying the gate.
Chapter 253: Can't I just cut either one?
0:03
Teiji Moriya, standing in the plaza, stared dumbfounded at the direction of the movie theater lobby where no explosion had occurred, his face showing an expression of utter disbelief: "This... how is this possible!?"
After another ten minutes or so, thanks to the efforts of the rescue team, everyone trapped in the hall was finally rescued.
Upon seeing Ran safe and sound, Kogoro Mouri finally couldn't hold back and burst into tears, hugging his daughter.
Inspector Megure couldn't help but excitedly pat Kogoro Mouri on the shoulder and exclaimed, "It's so good that Ran is alright this time, Kogoro!"
"Thank you so much, Inspector Megure!" Kogoro Mouri also bowed deeply to Inspector Megure.
Xiao Lan, standing to the side, was also deeply moved as she watched her father's heartfelt expression.
However, just as she was about to say something to Kogoro Mouri, a large group of reporters rushed up and surrounded him: "Hello, Mr. Mouri, could you please say a few words?"
Kogoro Mouri, who had been weeping bitterly at the thought that his daughter had survived a close call, instantly changed his expression upon seeing the numerous cameras pointed at him. He immediately reverted to an air of complete control and said in a pretentious tone, "To be honest, the main reason for this bombing was that the suspect wanted to ruin the reputation of the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, so he plotted to put my daughter in danger..."
"..."
Seeing her father start spouting nonsense with a straight face, Ran's expression turned somewhat unpleasant. However, she quickly remembered Shinichi, who had been accompanying her outside the hall. So, she secretly slipped out of the crowd and began searching for Shinichi in the square.
But no matter how hard she looked, she couldn't find Shinichi anywhere. Just then, Ran suddenly noticed Conan in the crowd.
Conan was also covered in wounds, which seemed to have only received basic treatment, yet he looked at me with a face full of joy.