The boy soldier next to the famous detective

Upon hearing what Rum said on the other end, a murderous glint flashed in Rumi Wakasa's eyes, but after making eye contact, she still pushed her phone towards Jonah.

Dave and the others were worried that Jonah couldn't outwit Rum, so they immediately had Curaçao and Rumi Wakasa sit next to Jonah and asked Eisuke Hondo to find paper and pen so that the two could help Jonah answer those troublesome questions at any time.

"I'm here, who are you?"

Jonah pinched his throat and used the basic voice-changing techniques he had learned from Kaito Kuroba to alter his voice, beginning his conversation with Rum in the voice of the 'Dwarf Killer'.

"I don't want to talk to people of low status. Call Gin over."

"Hehe, don't worry. If your goal is Gin, then telling me won't disappoint you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Rum. You should know me quite well."

A soft chuckle came from the phone, causing Jonah to raise an eyebrow.

When working with Conan Edogawa, Jonah witnessed many criminals bluffing. When attending banquets and dinners with Shiro Suzuki, Jonah also discovered how many pretentious people spoke.

Those people who do this have only one purpose: to seize the initiative in the dialogue and make it develop according to their own ideas.

In that case, Jonah knew he absolutely couldn't let Rum get too happy.

Jonah didn't quite understand how to regain control of the conversation and make it flow his way, but he felt he had some ideas on how to prevent Rum from having too much fun.

"You didn't install a transmitting device on this phone. Don't you want to track our location?"

Jonah calmly began to speak, recalling many "conversation tips" he had learned from Conan Edogawa.

"Of course I want to, but I know that even if a transmitting device is installed, you can find it, so there's no need to humiliate myself."

"You haven't stationed any personnel outside the General Affairs Bureau? Are you afraid that more people will die at our hands?"

"It's just a small trick to minimize losses."

Rum's tone was somewhat smug, as if he were pleased with himself for predicting Jonah and his group's actions.

"You didn't install any transmitting devices to monitor the phone, nor did you deploy surveillance at the General Affairs Bureau to search for our whereabouts. So how did you know the phone was in our hands and still call on time?"

Before Rum's smile could fade, Jonah threw out a question that made his expression change slightly.

"Dwarf Killer, I don't think we need to waste too much time on this..."

"Are you trying to change the subject? You can't be betting on when we'll find our phones."

"I naturally have my own plans..."

"Rum, you're not going to call this phone every now and then, are you trying to contact us this way?"

"...Of course I didn't!"

"How long did it take you to get through?" Jonah seemed to detect the exasperation in Rum's voice. He blinked, thought about what Conan Edogawa would do, and then nodded earnestly into the phone.

"Sorry, we found the phone too late. You must have been very tired waiting."

"..."

The phone went silent instantly. Jonah waited a moment longer, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized that the call had been disconnected.

Staring blankly at his ringing phone, Jonah blinked in bewilderment and looked up at everyone around him.

"Did I do something wrong?"

"No, Jonathan, you did a great job! That's how you should annoy that damn bastard Rum, make him furious to death!"

Dave burst into laughter, giving Jonah a thumbs-up and laughing wildly.

"Well done, Jonathan. There's no reason why we should obediently talk to him just because he wants to contact us. Whatever he wants to do, the fact that he hung up on us proves that his plan failed."

Although she wanted to talk to Rum more and see if she could get more valuable information from him, Rumi Wakasa also felt very relieved by Jonah's behavior.

Moreover, Rum himself was a cunning and shrewd man, and Rumi Wakasa herself wasn't very confident that she could actually trick him into revealing information. In that case, it would be better to ridicule him mercilessly.

"Rum will be very angry. The fact that he hung up the phone means that Jonathan interrupted his train of thought."

As Rum's former top subordinate, Curaçao was the person who knew Rum best, and he covered his mouth and laughed as Rum hung up the phone.

"Jonathan is really amazing. I've never seen anyone make Rum this angry."

Jonah thought he had done something wrong, but seeing everyone laughing so happily, he started laughing too.

"No, I still can't track them down. Their security system is really good, damn it."

Hondo Eisuke laughed for a while, but quickly refocused his attention on tracking Rum's phone call. After a few more attempts, he gave up the tracking in frustration.

"Don't feel pressured. If that old bastard were so easy to find, he wouldn't be alive now."

Dave waved his hand, indicating that Hondo Eisuke didn't need to worry about it.

Dave was arguably the one in the team most eager to catch Rum, but he remained remarkably calm despite Rum escaping again.

"So, what exactly did he call about?"

After laughing for a while, Jonah was still curious as to why Rum would design and leave the phone so that he could contact them.

"I don't know, maybe they want to talk to us about something."

Dave shook his head and turned to look at Curaçao.

"Curaçao, you know Rum best. Guess what he's up to? I don't think he'll call again."

As he spoke, Dave picked up his phone, preparing to throw it aside and destroy it.

"Wait a moment."

Seeing Dave's actions, Jonah suddenly remembered something, picked up his phone, found the encrypted number that had just called, and tried to call it back.

"No way, Jonathan, numbers like that are practically never dialed... Huh? Did you dial it?"

Staring in surprise at the phone that was dialing, Dave's eyes widened, somewhat confused about what Rum was doing.

The dial tone rang for a while, and just when Jonah thought Rum wouldn't answer the phone, the call was suddenly connected.

"I think we can have a good talk, Dwarf Killer."

This time, when the call connected, Rum had no intention of chatting with Jonah and went straight to the point.

"What do you want to say?"

"I've investigated this carefully, and I feel that we don't need to keep fighting like this; it doesn't benefit either of us."

"No hatred is truly unresolved when it comes to interests. I believe that if we both sit down and have a proper talk, we can definitely..."

"No way, Rum, you're dead!"

Jonah interrupted Rum's speech with a cold look, his tone becoming more agitated with anger.

"No matter where you are, we will find you and kill you. Just wait, that day is not far off!"