Chapter 27 Congratulations on being chosen as a hostage
Shiraishi walked into the alley, took out a few coins and put them aside, and then activated [Personal Mask].
This skill refreshes at 0 o'clock every day and can be used for a total of 30 minutes every day.
Shiraishi originally wanted to use it to explore the "haunted house" tonight, but now it seems that he can only go tomorrow. Fortunately, the deadline for exploring the haunted house is more than two days away.
After the state transition, Shiraishi used the elf ball to collect the body that fell aside.
——Of the two tasks of the library, the former is easy to understand, as long as the naughty children are not allowed to die, while the latter may also include bringing the murderer to justice.
You have to call the police first.
Before leaving, after thinking for a moment, Shiraishi dug a hole in the ground and buried the Poké Ball shallowly in the soil.
Otherwise, if you encounter danger and are forced to return the main body, and then take the main body with you, wouldn't it be equivalent to buying one and getting one free? Shiraishi doesn't think so.
Moreover, he has already conducted experiments with fruit knives, hammers, water basins, lighters, etc. This Poké Ball is indestructible, and there is no danger if it is temporarily thrown out in the wild.
...As for why he buried it, it was because he was afraid of being picked up by naughty children passing by and taken home.
If you perform a dramatic performance in someone else's home, it can easily be regarded as a home invasion. If you are unlucky and happen to encounter a murder case, it will be impossible to defend yourself. This kind of trouble should be avoided if it can be avoided.
After getting ready, Shiraishi picked up the coins he had placed next to him and pressed the mask on his face uncomfortably.
This thing is a symbol of [mask]. Shiraishi once tried to take it off, but the moment the mask left his skin, he directly released the mask state and returned to his true body.
At the same time, after a series of scratch experiments, he also confirmed that this mask is like the costume of some anime characters - as long as it is not removed subjectively, it will not fall off due to handstand, being beaten, etc.
Taking advantage of the darkness, Shiraishi quickly ran to a nearby public phone booth, called the police station, and said that he had found the body in the library.
According to the normal procedure, there are too many things to explain to the police. The mask state time is limited, and Shiraishi has to set aside time to find the naughty child.
So he hung up the phone decisively after dropping the key information.
Mask's voice is inherently low, so a guy who sounds like a bad guy might be able to attract attention if he calls...
Next, it’s time to go to the library to procrastinate.
Shiraishi felt that the curator could even get drugs, and he might also be able to hide a gun with him.
Compared to confronting him face to face, those four children were easier to deal with.
Although they often achieve great feats repeatedly, it is actually not that difficult to find their weaknesses.
On the way to the library, Shiraishi quickly thought of a plan.
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Originally, Conan was dragged to the library to do homework by three new children.
But in the afternoon, a police car suddenly arrived. Conan went to the first floor to listen for a while and learned that a staff member named Tamada was missing in the library.
According to Tamada's wife, he would make a phone call home before returning home from get off work every day, but he had not called home since the night before yesterday, so the police speculated that he might still be in the library.
The Mumu Police Department brought in many police officers, but failed to find the missing person and returned in frustration.
Conan felt that there was a vague smell of corpses in the library, so after the library was closed, he secretly stayed in the library to look for the corpses.
The other three children also resolutely chose to commit suicide together.
It's already dark, all the lights in the library have been turned off, and the staff have all gone off work.
However, the four children discovered that Director Jinchuan secretly returned to the third floor and checked a box.
After the curator left, Conan took out his flashlight to check and was shocked to find drugs hidden in the box.
At this time, Director Jinchuan was actually ready to go home.
But when he walked to the street outside the library and looked back out of habit, he found that the light in the room on the third floor where drugs were hidden was on.
For a moment, he wondered if he had just finished checking and forgot to turn off the light.
But under his gaze, the light went out again.
Director Jinchuan suddenly stopped and his expression turned gloomy and terrifying.
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Conan pressed out the light that Ayumi turned on, and rushed to the window uneasily to take a look. There was no one downstairs, and Director Jinchuan seemed to have left.
He breathed a sigh of relief and told several children: "Don't turn on the lights, you will be discovered."
Now, since drugs have been discovered, even if the body cannot be found, the police can be called to arrest the person first.
Conan walked down the stairwell with his three children, wanting to go to the first floor and use the coin-operated phone there to call the police.
The dark atmosphere and Director Tsugawa who just said to himself that he had killed someone made several children feel chilly. Yoshida Ayumi was even more panicked and stepped on the straps of her sandals.
"Wait for me!" She whispered to the front, squatted down and started to tie her shoelaces.
At this moment, a pair of hands reached out from behind, hugged her, and covered her mouth.
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When Conan reached the corner of the stairs, he realized that one of his friends was missing.
He remembered Yoshida Ayumi's shout of "Wait a minute", sighed tiredly, and returned the same way, trying to urge her to hurry up.
Unexpectedly, just after taking a few steps, a man dressed in black, with a gloomy aura and a strange half-face mask on his face was standing at the top of the stairs, holding Ayumi Yoshida in his hand.
Conan's heart skipped a beat.
Ayumi Yoshida was already crying in fear. Amidst the small sounds of struggle, the man in black said in a deep voice: "Go down and don't make any sound, or I will kill her."
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Shiraishi secretly weighed the little girl in his arms, thinking that no wonder the villains in the original novel loved to use her as a hostage.
He loves to lag behind, has little strength, and weighs less than boys, so he is actually the best candidate for hostage.
It's really hard to control four people, especially when there's Conan among them.
If they were to be captured by force, if one of them escaped and bumped into the returning Director Tsugawa, that naughty kid might have to keep company with Rikuto Tamada. In that case, Shiraishi's mission would also fail.
Fortunately, these four naughty kids are quite loyal. If you catch one, you will catch four for the time being.
Shiraishi can also see at night, and the four children rely on Conan's anesthesia watch, which has a flashlight function added by the doctor.
On the way downstairs, Conan suddenly turned off his flashlight and tried to sneak up on Shiraishi with an anesthetic needle.
It's a pity that he encountered a cheater this time. Not only did he not succeed in the sneak attack, his watch was also taken away.
Conan has only been a child for a few days, and he only has two pieces of equipment - an anesthesia watch and a bow-tie voice changer.
The voice changer was temporarily unavailable. After losing his only weapon, the watch, Conan became a little more honest.
Driven by Shiraishi like sheep, the five people arrived at the large hall on the first floor.