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Only Akemi Miyano remained by Ran's side, staring grimly at the time bomb in the shopping bag.
"That damned Teiji Moriya! He really did put the biggest bomb here!" Conan, leaning against the door, gritted his teeth so hard that he almost broke his back teeth with anger.
"Ran! How many minutes are left on the calculator countdown?" Conan suddenly remembered the most important thing and hurriedly asked in Shinichi Kudo's voice.
"Wait a minute." Xiaolan paused for a moment, then quickly glanced into her shopping bag and replied, "There are still 42 minutes and 7 seconds left!"
"42 minutes left?" Conan muttered to himself outside the door, looking at his watch with some confusion.
So the bomb was set to detonate at 0:03.
At this moment, Conan finally understood what Moriya Niichi meant when he asked him to pass on his message to Shinichi.
—I've prepared three minutes for him, so just let him savor the experience!
……
At this very moment, in the plaza outside the Mihana Building.
Countless firefighters are working hard to extinguish the flames in the building, but rescuers are unable to reach the lobby where Xiaolan and the others are trapped because of the collapse of various entrances.
Kogoro Mouri, Inspector Megure, and the others could only stare at Ran and the others in their current location, secretly anxious.
……
Time passed minute by minute.
Conan, who had been leaning against the door waiting for the rescue team to arrive, saw no sign of any reinforcements coming.
Knowing he couldn't wait any longer, Conan had no choice but to take the risk before the timer on the bomb ran out completely.
So he continued speaking to Ran in Shinichi Kudo's voice, "Ran, do you have any scissors with you?"
"Scissors?" Ran hesitated and rummaged through her handbag, only to find nothing. Just as she was about to tell Shinichi the truth,
Standing next to Ran, Akemi Miyano, who had also heard Shinichi Kudo's voice on the phone, handed her a small pair of scissors: "Here, Ran, I happen to have a pair in my sewing bag!"
"Thank you, Ms. Miyano Akemi!" Ran nodded gratefully to Miyano Akemi, then asked Shinichi Kudo on the phone, "Shinichi, what do you need the scissors for?"
Conan naturally recognized that the voice he had just heard was that of Akemi Miyano.
Although he didn't know why Miyano Akemi was right next to Ran at this moment, he didn't have time to think about it and could only quickly explain to Ran, "Ran, now I need you to use scissors to dismantle that bomb!"
"Huh!?" Hearing Shinichi Kudo's words, Ran was clearly startled, her eyes widening in disbelief as she stared at him, hardly able to believe what she had just heard.
Even Akemi Miyano, who was standing next to her, was taken aback and glanced at the phone in Ran's hand with some surprise.
"Ran, you have to do exactly what I say!" Conan instructed Ran while pulling out the bomb blueprint he had stolen from Teiji Moriya from his pocket.
Before Shinichi could give the order, Ran quickly said, "Wait, wait a minute! Shinichi, I can't answer your call and defuse the bomb at the same time! I need to get to you right now!"
"Wait a minute!" Conan was startled when he realized Ran was about to move the bomb. He quickly glanced at the bomb's blueprints, then breathed a sigh of relief remembering that Ran had already moved it once. He continued, "Okay, it seems there's no vibration sensor on the bomb. But you still need to handle it gently!"
"Okay!" Xiaolan nodded, put down the receiver, and prepared to carry the heavy shopping bag to the door where Shinichi was leaning against.
Seeing this, Akemi Miyano quickly stepped forward to help Ran carry the heavy shopping bags, afraid that Ran might accidentally drop the bomb on the ground.
Some of the trapped people who were originally hiding near that door panicked and scrambled to the other side of the hall when they saw the two girls carrying bombs and walking towards them.
"Did you hear that, Shinichi?!"
The two carefully placed the bomb on the ground. After giving Miyano Akemi a grateful look, Ran began calling out towards the door.
"Yes, I heard it very clearly!"
The next second, Shinichi Kudo's voice came from outside the door.
"Then I'm going to break the bag!" Xiaolan looked at the bomb in front of her, slowly squatted down, and nervously swallowed.
"Okay, Ran, be careful!" Shinichi Kudo, who was outside the door, quickly reminded her.
Ran's hand holding the scissors trembled slightly. Just as the scissors were about to touch the shopping bag, she noticed that Akemi Miyano was still beside her and did not seem to want to move any further away.
Xiaolan knew very well that the closer she got to the bomb, the more dangerous it was. If something unexpected happened, those who were far away and hiding in the corner might still be able to save their lives, but those who were close to her would probably not even be able to leave behind a complete corpse.
"Miss Yami, you'd better stay away!" Ran, not wanting to involve others, kindly reminded Miyano Akemi.
However, Akemi Miyano shook her head at her, her calm face bearing a slight smile, and then firmly put her arm around Ran's shoulder.
In an instant, a sudden wave of tenderness swept over Xiaolan's entire body, and Xiaolan, who had been feeling anxious and uneasy, suddenly felt a strange warmth.
Her hand, which had been trembling as she held the scissors, calmed down. Hearing Shinichi's voice outside the door and feeling Akemi Miyano's warmth behind her, Ran felt a surge of strength throughout her body.
Chapter 251 Aragaki Yuu was almost buried alive
I don't know how much time has passed.
Feeling dizzy and with ringing in his ears, Aragaki Yu shook his head, brushing the dust off his body, and crawled out of a pile of gravel.
He couldn't help but spit out the sand or other foreign objects in his mouth with a soft "pui" sound, and then wiped the sand off his body.
What was strange was that Yuu Aragaki had been told he was safe by the Yuki-onna all the way, but just as it turned 10 o'clock, a bomb suddenly exploded not far from him.
The powerful shockwave sent Aragaki Yu flying, crashing into the wall behind him. Then, another wave of fire and energy swept towards Aragaki Yu, who was lying on the ground.
"!!!"
Some of the stunned Aragaki Yuu collapsed to the ground, watching helplessly as a boulder flew towards him, with no chance to react.
Just at the critical moment, Yaodao-hime, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, suddenly appeared in front of Aragaki Yu.
"Aha!"
Facing the flying rocks that were within arm's reach, the long sword in the Demon Sword Princess's hand gleamed with black light. With a loud "boom," the rocks flying towards Aragaki Yu were all cleaved into dust.
The next second, a cloud of sand and gravel buried Aragaki Yu and Yaodao Hime completely.
……
Countdown: 16 minutes and 18 seconds.
Xiaolan looked at the time bomb in front of her and took a deep breath.
"How are you, Ran? Are you alright?" Conan, standing outside the door, felt conflicted. If he could, he wished he could rush into the hall right now to protect Ran.
"Yes, I'm fine!" Ran said softly to Shinichi Kudo outside the door.
Seemingly to bolster her courage, she nodded to Akemi Miyano beside her before continuing to examine the bomb in front of her: "Alright, Shinichi, I'm ready!"
"Okay!" Conan, outside the door, tried his best to calm himself down. Looking at the blueprint in his hand, he said in a calm tone, "Okay, Ran, first remove the cover from the bomb. Just move it upwards. Remember to be gentle."
Xiaolan nodded, held her breath, and carefully reached out her hand toward the bomb.
She tried hard to control her fear and to keep her hands from trembling so much.
With a soft click, Xiaolan removed the cover from the bomb.
Akemi Miyano took the lid from Ran's hand and set it aside.
"Alright, I've got it, Shinichi."
"Okay." Conan, speaking in Shinichi Kudo's voice from outside the door, continued to instruct, "Now, the wiring inside will be cut."
Conan took a deep breath and solemnly reminded, "If the order is wrong, the bomb could explode at any moment."
Upon hearing Shinichi's words, Ran in the hall shuddered, feeling a surge of nervousness.
The next moment, Akemi Miyano suddenly reached out and grabbed Ran's hand.
Ran looked up at Miyano Akemi with some surprise, only to see him smiling at her, his eyes full of trust and support.
In that instant, Ran heard Shinichi's encouraging voice coming from outside the door again, and her heart quickly calmed down.
She picked up the small scissors that Miyano Akemi had given her and focused intently on the messy wiring inside the bomb.
"First, Xiaolan, you need to cut off the top yellow strip."
Following Shinichi's instructions, Ran carefully located the yellow line he had described.
Ran held the scissors close to the flames. She knew that if anything went wrong, she, Miyano Akemi, the other trapped people, and Shinichi outside the door would all perish in the fire. So she couldn't help but feel nervous again.
She swallowed hard, and after confirming with Shinichi outside the door again, she cut the yellow wire on the bomb.
At that moment, both Ran and Akemi Miyano's hearts were in their throats.
……
"boom!!!"
The next moment, accompanied by a loud bang.
A corner of the Mihana Building was instantly engulfed in flames.
Seeing this scene in the plaza outside the building, Kogoro Mouri trembled. He grabbed Inspector Megure's arm, his voice filled with fear: "Officer, could it be Ran...!?"
Inspector Megure naturally noticed this scene as well. However, as the person in charge on the scene, although he was also concerned about Ran's comfort, he had to maintain his composure.
Seeing the agitated Kogoro Mouri, Inspector Megure had no choice but to grab his shoulders and shake him a couple of times, trying to bring him back to his senses: "Calm down! Mouri, that place is completely different from where Ran is right now!"
At the same time, Moriya Teiji, who was behind them, suddenly spoke up: "Don't worry, your precious daughter still has 15 minutes before she's smashed to pieces!"
"You bastard!" Kogoro Mouri turned around and looked at Teiji Moriya behind him. His cold and sarcastic tone made Kogoro Mouri's eyes widen in anger.
Kogoro Mouri angrily grabbed Teiji Moriya by the collar, lifted him up, and demanded, "Damn it! How exactly do you plan to stop that bomb from exploding?!"
Despite being stared at intently by Kogoro Mouri's murderous gaze, Teiji Moriya remained unmoved, simply stating, "That's a specially designed bomb. Even if you can dismantle it, you'll still have to gamble on luck in the end."