Stay away from Conan.

"How strange..."

  On the street, as James left, time passed by. After waiting for a long time, James, who said he was going to drive, still did not come. Mitsuhiko looked at the time carefully and couldn't help wondering:

"Forty minutes have passed. Why is it so slow?"

"My stomach is almost bursting with hunger!"

Yuantai said this a little sadly while touching his bulging belly.

“It’s a bit strange indeed.”

Conan also felt a little strange about this, and said this in a serious tone.

So, faced with this situation, Mitsuhiko volunteered:

"Well, Doctor, you guys stay here, and we'll go over and see what's going on."

"That's good, and there are only a few parking lots within walking distance."

Conan nodded and said that he was a little worried about James who would never come back.

"Haibara-san, let's go too!"

In this regard, Ayumi couldn't help but suggest to Ai.

"Alright."

Seeing this, there was no point in continuing to wait, so Xiao Ai naturally agreed to this suggestion.

Just like that, except for Professor Agasa who was left behind, all the other children set out to look for James.

So, after the children left here, facing the current situation, Dr. Agasa was a little helpless, but at the same time, on the other side, Judy, who was secretly observing this side, also saw this scene and felt strange that James never came back, so Judy quietly took out her mobile phone and prepared to call James, but -

"I can't get through..."

……

"Hmm? What's wrong, Huiyuan? What's the matter with contacting me now?"

Shortly after the Junior Detective Team discovered that James was missing, while trying to find James' whereabouts, Xiao Ai, who had realized from the beginning that something was wrong, finally took the opportunity to secretly contact Gao Yuan.

"That uncle named James Blake, when I interacted with him, he always gave me a weird feeling...

"Then, he seemed to have deliberately dropped a blood-stained pendant on the ground after losing contact, and the detective badge that Ayumi showed him seemed to be in his hand...

“So, I always feel that this matter doesn’t seem that simple.”

Just like that, facing Gao Yuan's doubts, Xiao Ai told Gao Yuan what happened here -

It turned out that after going to a nearby parking lot to look for James, the children found the car that seemed to be rented by James Blake based on the style of the station wagon and the little lion doll on the car. However, after finding it, there was no sign of James nearby, and the door of the car was not locked.

So, after realizing that James might have encountered something after opening the car door, Conan prepared to investigate the nearby area carefully. As a result, he happened to meet a group of children who witnessed James being taken away by two uncles. From them, Conan and others learned the direction they left.

Just like that, after tracking in that direction, Conan and the others unexpectedly found a small lion pendant thrown on the ground. This seemed to be the pendant that James had shown everyone before, except that there seemed to be some blood stains on the silk ribbon.

Conan immediately concluded that James might have been in trouble, so while Conan and his friends were calling the police, they were also actively trying to find him. As a result, while the children were trying to find James, Ayumi discovered that her detective badge seemed to be missing. Considering that Ayumi had only taken out her detective badge when she showed it to James, everyone wondered if the badge was accidentally taken away by James.

So, through Conan's positioning of the badge, he indeed discovered a fast-moving signal.

In this way, Conan contacted the familiar Officer Takagi and others, ready to ask them for help.

However, because of this, Xiao Ai, who already felt a little strange about James Blake, and then thought about the other party's unusual actions in succession, Xiao Ai couldn't help but feel confused, so she contacted Gao Yuan and expressed her thoughts.

So, after hearing the details Xiao Ai mentioned, especially after hearing the other party's name Xiao Ai said, Gao Yuan actually fully understood the situation -

"Well, it's possible that person had some intentions of testing you. After all, I already know who he is. Just let Conan worry about this matter. It will be fine."

Gao Yuan thought about this, finally gave this reply, and then hung up the phone.

This made Xiao Ai even more confused——

  Do you know who he is?

Then you tell me!

In this way, the depressed Xiao Ai felt helpless facing the hung up call, but looking at Conan's thoughts not far away, Xiao Ai sighed in her heart -

Since Gao Yuan said that Conan should handle the matter himself, he didn't have to worry about anything. After all, he said that the other party would be fine.

Just like that, Ai returned to Conan and the others, and began to sit like a spectator, watching how Conan would guide the development of the situation.

Then, Conan used the power of the police to set up checkpoints to intercept the car before the signal from the tracking glasses went out of range. He then unraveled the code represented by the blood-stained "P&A" on the pendant ribbon, and the answer was "panda", which means a black and white panda car, or a police car.

From this, Conan learned that the other party had disguised themselves as a police car and escaped from the police checkpoint. Then, facing the criminals who were about to enter Saitama Prefecture, Conan came up with a way to take advantage of the other party's disguised police characteristics and designed a plan to encircle the other party's vehicles and captured the several criminals who took James away.

But in the end, James himself disappeared in the chaos of the arrest.

Therefore, after seeing the development of this whole thing, especially James's final departure without saying goodbye, Xiao Ai could not help but become more wary of her feelings towards James, but...

For such a person, does Gao Yuan know his identity and therefore tells himself that he doesn't need to worry?

……

"Really? Accidents happen all the time... Judy was going to pick you up, but you bumped into those kids there by accident... Did you approach them on purpose to test them?"

After the incident, in the black pickup truck driven by Shuichi Akai, Shuichi Akai faced James Blake in the car and couldn't help asking this question.

"I can't say it was my fault, it's just an unexpected coincidence... If it weren't for the reporters mistaking my identity, I probably wouldn't have had such a good opportunity to meet them this time...

"I have to say, those two kids are really sharp, especially the boy...

"No wonder he dares to confront Vermouth."

In response to Akai Shuichi's question, James replied calmly:

"But I didn't expect that you actually cut your long hair..." (End of this chapter)