"Even if I have my own reasons, if I kill someone, can the police really let me go afterwards?"
Sekiguchi Yoshio fell on the bench in the hospital lobby, his eyes full of despair, "To say the least, let's say the police don't hold me accountable... But what will my relatives and friends think of me if they know I have blood on my hands?"
"And my daughter..."
In the midst of the dilemma, Sekiguchi Yoshio looked at his watch and was horrified: it was already 3:20 in the afternoon. There was only less than ten minutes left before the 3:30 when the robbers asked him to take action.
"Why does time fly by so fast?" Sekiguchi Yoshio's fingers began to tremble. He turned to look at the building outside the window, and his thoughts changed rapidly:
"If I don't take action after 10 minutes, according to what those guys said, my daughter will be pushed off the roof of the building opposite... No, there is no time to hesitate!
"If you think about it carefully, it was just a matter of pulling the trigger a few times, and everything was over as soon as you closed your eyes. And the guy in the ward is not an innocent patient, he is one of the robbers - even if you kill him,
There’s nothing to feel guilty about.”
Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the puff box on his lap.
At this moment, a child's voice came from the side: "Uncle, don't do anything stupid."
"?!" Sekiguchi Yoshio was startled. He suddenly turned his head and looked to the right, only to find that there was a little boy with glasses on the bench at some point - he seemed to be one of the children who just went to visit Mr. Yamada.
"Don't look at me, keep looking at the box in your hand." The kid with glasses pushed up the frame and said calmly, "Let me guess - someone is coercing you and wants you to kill the patient named Akabane in your father's ward.
, is that right?”
Sekiguchi Yoshio was stunned.
Conan laughed: "The puff box in your hand does not contain puffs, but tools used to kill people - such as a pistol."
Sekiguchi Yoshio finally couldn't help but said in a trembling voice: "How do you know!"
"Shh, keep your voice down. You don't want those guys who are monitoring you to discover our conversation." Conan said while using his identity as a child and looking around curiously.
Originally this was just to observe the robbers, but suddenly, he made a move.
Conan: "...?"
When he suddenly turned his head and looked behind him, there was a shadow in a hospital gown behind the potted plant in the corridor that instinctively shrank back.
"It looks too familiar... I can't be mistaken, Vodka is also spying on Mr. Sekiguchi!"
This discovery made Conan feel even more alarmed: "Could it be that the worst thing has happened? That well-planned robbery gang is also related to the black organization... And Vodka appears here because he is also the supervisor responsible for the silence?"
This thought flashed through the already cautious fake primary school student, and he suddenly became even more vigilant.
He thought for a while and continued to speak as if nothing had happened, intending to gain Sekiguchi Yoshio's full trust first so that the other party could cooperate.
And the fastest way to gain an adult's trust...
"You know that famous detective in Jiangxia?"
Conan expertly put on the skin of a famous detective: "Children are not easy to alert bad guys, so after he learned about the situation at the scene, he specially sent me to contact you - from the phone your father placed on the bedside.
Judging from those medicines, Grandpa Sekiguchi has diabetes and cannot eat sweets, but you are walking around the hospital holding a puff box. This is really strange.
"In addition, there are always a few specific people around you who are doing nothing. They don't look like patients or family members, but they operate around you and the ward. They look like they are monitoring you.
"And you always look to the roof of the building opposite, and keep mumbling a certain name. I remember that there is an open-air children's amusement park in the building opposite. When you mentioned your daughter in the ward just now, your expression changed.
It's very strange - so if I guess correctly, it's not that your daughter doesn't want to come over to visit grandpa, it's just that she can't come over because she was taken away and used as a hostage."
A series of reasoning, every word struck Sekiguchi Yoshio's heart.
The unlucky man's determination was shattered in an instant, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "Not long ago, someone suddenly called me and said that my father's condition had relapsed, and asked me to take my daughter to the hospital.
"I thought the person looking for me was a doctor, so I hurried over with my small bow. But I was intercepted by some vicious guys near the hospital. They made excuses to take my daughter away, and then threatened me and asked me to
I helped them kill Akabane, who was in the same ward as my father."
Speaking of this, Sekiguchi Yoshio looked at his watch painfully: "There are less than 10 minutes left... I can't leave Xiao Gong alone. Since you know Mr. Jiang Xia, can you ask him to help me intercede with the police?"
?——Tell them that I was forced, it was those people who forced me!"
Conan saw him clenching the puff box and said quickly: "Do you think that killing Akabane can save your daughter? - That's not the case at all. You and your daughter have seen their faces, and I'm afraid they have already boarded the board.
on their kill list."
"So even if you really help them silence their accomplices, they will not let you and your daughter go.
"Don't forget, this group of bank robbers just robbed your bank not long ago. They acted in an orderly manner and were extremely efficient. Many crime programs and variety shows have speculated on this, saying that this robbery must be
There was an insider, so that group of robbers was able to take over so easily."
"Internal response..." Yoshio Sekiguchi thought of the terrible policeman and trembled, "I know who it is! It's the honest policeman! He must have abused his power and found a loophole in the bank's security system, so...
…”
"It's not important." Conan looked at the little time left and interrupted: "And compared to a police officer, you, a bank employee, seem to be more likely to be a sleuth in the eyes of others.
"I guess they plan to ask you to hand over your daughter to a remote place after you succeed. Once you arrive, they will kill you and then disguise the scene as a suicide in fear of crime to make the police believe that you are the one responsible for the bank robbery."
Internal response.”
Ryōo Sekiguchi thought of that terrible scene and his scalp went numb for a moment: "How could they do this..."
Desperate people will instinctively grab life-saving straws. Halfway through the words, Sekiguchi Yoshio suddenly remembered a name. He turned to look at Conan with hope in his eyes: "Jiang Xia, what did Mr. Jiang Xia say? - Since I asked you to come and contact me.
, does he already have a perfect way to break the situation!"
Conan: "This..." There is no perfect solution. At this point, I can only take a bold gamble.
He was about to express this meaning euphemistically, but at this moment, someone on the bench on the other side of Sekiguchi Yoshio suddenly laughed and said casually: "Of course."