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Only Ai Haibara secretly rolled her eyes at Yuu Aragaki. Although she didn't know what the sentence meant, she could vaguely sense that it was rather impolite.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "The more he told us not to move..."
Genta Kojima: "On the contrary, it makes people want to move even more..."
……
"What? Counterfeiting! Is it true, Shinichi?" Inspector Megure's surprised voice came through the phone.
"Yes, although it hasn't been confirmed yet, that should be the case." Conan spoke in the phone booth, using his original voice through a voice changer. "Also, when the police storm in, be careful. The criminals might use the hostages' safety as leverage. Remember that!"
"I understand, Brother Kudo!" Inspector Megure assured him confidently.
"They...could they really be members of the organization?!" Conan seemed preoccupied as he ran towards the newspaper office after hanging up the phone.
……
"Genta, no!"
In the pitch-black stairwell, Ayumi Yoshida urged Genta Kojima, who was groping his way forward, "Conan told us not to move around!"
"You're so noisy! If we don't find evidence, the police won't believe us at all! And why do we always rely on Conan alone?" Genta Kojima turned around and said angrily.
Not wanting to be outshone by Ayumi, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya quickly followed Genta and rushed forward.
“But…” Before Ayumi could finish speaking, Mitsuhiko and Genta had already disappeared into the stairwell. After hesitating for a moment, she had no choice but to pull Junya, who was beside her, and follow them up.
"Hey Ai, aren't you going to try to stop them?" Aragaki Yu, who was lagging behind, looked at the boy band disappearing from his sight and couldn't help but ask Haibara Ai beside him.
When Kojima Genta and the others had just started their operation, Aragaki Yu had already noticed that Haibara Ai was deliberately walking at the very back of the group, her eyes constantly fixed on him, clearly wanting to say something to him.
Chapter 179 Making New Friends
Haibara Ai:"……"
She silently stopped and turned to look at Aragaki Yu, who was following behind her.
Ai Haibara rolled her eyes at Yuu Aragaki with her beautiful eyes: "You're an adult, how can you let me, an elementary school student, stop them if you don't do it!"
Yuu Aragaki looked at Ai Haibara in front of him and couldn't help but reach out to touch her hair, but she dodged away immediately.
Seeing Ai Haibara acting like a little adult, Yuu Aragaki couldn't help but chuckle and said, "Ai, Professor Agasa said you should stay at his house for now."
"Hmm." Ai Haibara looked at the concern in Yu Aragaki's eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded hesitantly. "Because of some family matters, I have to stay at Professor Agasa's house for now."
Even though Ai Haibara is usually very good at disguising herself, she doesn't know why, but when she lies in front of Yu Aragaki, she always feels a little uncomfortable.
So she had to turn her body slightly to the side so that Aragaki Yu wouldn't see her somewhat unnatural expression.
"I didn't expect you to make new friends so quickly," Aragaki Yu said with a smile.
Ai Haibara gave Yu Aragaki a strange look. She naturally knew that the friends Yu Aragaki was talking about were the Junior Detective Club.
Although she herself was indeed dragged into the detective activities of the Junior Detective Club by the little guys in a daze.
Of course, a large part of the reason she was willing to participate in this event was to observe Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo) as her guinea pig; otherwise, she would have already made an excuse to slip away.
She really had no interest in these kinds of childish pretend play activities.
But listening to what Aragaki Yu said, she inexplicably became angry.
The way this guy is talking makes it sound like he can't make any friends!
What's even more infuriating is that what this guy said was true.
Although she acknowledged Aragaki Yu's intentions in her heart, she couldn't help but say aloud, "What, in your eyes, am I some kind of difficult person to get along with?"
"She has no curiosity, acts like a mature adult, always has a stern face, never smiles, has no friendliness, and seems arrogant and conceited..." Yuu Aragaki began to count Ai Haibara's words on his fingers.
As she listened to the comments coming out of Yuu Aragaki's mouth, Ai Haibara's face gradually turned ugly. She stared at the oblivious Yuu Aragaki with a fierce look, and couldn't help but want to go up and teach him a lesson.
"...But she is indeed a lovely girl."
"Ah!" Ai Haibara, who had been clenching her fists to teach Yu Aragaki a lesson, suddenly relaxed when she heard his final assessment. Caught off guard, she could only turn away shyly, hiding her flushed cheeks. "You! What nonsense are you talking about! W-what's so cute!?"
Looking at Ai Haibara's slightly trembling back, Yuu Aragaki couldn't help but chuckle.
At this, Ai Haibara became even more annoyed and embarrassed: "You, if you have time to joke with me here, you might as well hurry up and go keep an eye on those kids!"
Looking at the extremely shy Ai Haibara in front of him, Yuu Aragaki couldn't help but regret that he had forgotten to bring his phone. Otherwise, he could have taken quite a few interesting photos.
I don't know if it's too late to send Little Tengu home to get it now.
(Little Tengu:???)
"Then I'll go up first, you should follow me quickly!"
After nodding to the snow woman who floated down from upstairs, Aragaki Yu immediately set off for the third floor. As he passed by Haibara Ai, who was still standing there in a daze, he reached out and ruffled her hair, gently reminding her.
Fearing something might go wrong, even though Yuu Aragaki and Ai Haibara were chatting in the stairwell, Yuki-onna stayed with the Detective Boys the whole time.
Now that the Snow Woman has returned, it proves that the Junior Detective League should have already discovered the counterfeit money produced by the counterfeit money ring.
So, shouldn't the person in charge of this incident make their appearance next?
According to the plot, it's likely that everything he and Ai Haibara do on the stairs is being monitored by those guys.
They might already be on their way to cause trouble for me.
……
the other side.
"Huh? There's no one inside!" Genta Kojima tiptoed into the newspaper office, poked his head in, looked around, and then spoke to the person behind him.
Although the newspaper office was brightly lit, there wasn't a single person to be seen.
The group cautiously entered the newspaper office and began to search the room.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, looking at the room that appeared completely normal, complained, "I didn't see any counterfeit money at all!"
"Huh? There are so many kinds of paints here!" At that moment, Ayumi Yoshida suddenly noticed the pile of paints of various sizes on the table.
"What!?" Upon hearing Ayumi's words, Genta, Ayumi, and Junya all walked to her side and began to examine the items on the table.
“I think they must be trying to find the most suitable ink for making counterfeit money, which is why they bought so much!” Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya deduced confidently.
"Genta, let's go back quickly! We'll get angry if someone comes!" Ayumi Yoshida said to Genta, who was still rummaging through the drawer, afraid of being discovered.
"Ayumi, you're so annoying! If you want to go back, then go back by yourself!" Genta Kojima said with an impatient expression. "I won't give up until I find some useful evidence!"
"Huh...!?" Suddenly, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, who was rummaging through the pile of newly printed newspapers on the table, exclaimed, "You guys come here quickly, look what I found!"
"What's wrong, Mitsuhiko?"
"Look at this!" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya showed the group what he was holding.
"What! There are so many ten-thousand-yen bills!" Ayumi Yoshida exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the numerous banknotes in Mitsuhiko's hand that had not yet been cut open.
"That's great! With this much money, we can buy eel rice bowls, one, two, three..." Genta Kojima also showed an excited expression.
“But it’s strange, isn’t it?” Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, who was examining the banknotes closely, suddenly frowned. “These 10,000 yen banknotes are all missing Fukuzawa Yukichi’s left eye… I think they must be the counterfeit money we’re looking for!”
Chapter 180 Of course I'm a good person!
"It's just like a roly-poly toy."
Just as Mitsuhiko, Genta, and the others were still immersed in their surprise at discovering these counterfeit coins, a woman's voice came from outside the door.
The group looked up and saw several figures suddenly appear outside the newspaper office.
And the one leading the group was the newspaper editor-in-chief described by the previously unknown policeman, a woman dressed in black and wearing a black hat.
The woman in black walked into the newspaper office with a cold laugh, looking at the few kids in front of her and saying, "Only when the wish is fulfilled can two eyes be drawn on, hahaha, now, everything is just waiting for those counterfeit bills to be made!"
The people in the room couldn't help but feel a little nervous when they saw the figure that had suddenly appeared.
"Huh, who are you?" Kojima Genta, who was still unaware of what was happening, asked the woman who walked in from outside the door, puzzled.
The woman in black did not answer Yuan Tai's question, but coldly continued, "Heh, come and see this touching scene of brothers reuniting!"
At the woman's signal, the two burly men blocking the door pushed a bound boy inside.
When the bound boy saw Junya among the children in the newspaper office room, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Junya!"
It turns out that this boy is the missing Junye brother that everyone is looking for.
"Brother!" Junye couldn't help but run up to his brother as soon as he saw him, but was grabbed by a burly man next to him.
"Hey! Let them go right now!" At this moment, Yuan Tai finally realized that the people in front of him were the criminals who had kidnapped Junye to make counterfeit money.
"No, I have to tell Conan and Aragaki-nii-san right away!" Ayumi looked at the scene before her and couldn't help but feel scared. But just as she looked around to look for Aragaki Yu, she was surprised to find that Aragaki Yu was not nearby.
"Huh...?! Wait, where's Aragaki-nii-san? Wasn't he just behind me? How come I can't see him now? That's strange. And where's Haibara-san too...?"
While Ayumi was filled with doubt, the members of the Junior Detective Club were also taken control of by the two men behind the woman in black, and even Ayumi was captured by them.
"What are you trying to do!?" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya and Genta Kojima struggled desperately to free Ayumi from their grasp.
"Quiet down!" Perhaps afraid that the noise of these kids would attract attention outside, the woman in black suddenly pulled out a pistol from her bosom and threatened them, "You don't seem to know what I have in my hand!"
When Yuan Tai and the others saw the pistol in the black-clad woman's hand, they were so frightened that they dared not make a sound and stood there trembling.
"Please! Don't hurt these children!" Junye's older brother, who was tied up nearby, rushed forward and pleaded with the woman in black when he saw this. "Otherwise, otherwise, I will never help you again!"