Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

Only Ai Haibara seemed rather uninterested, not uttering a single word from beginning to end.

At this point, the waiter began serving the food.

"By the way, could I borrow your phone? I need to call Nagano again; I left my phone at the dodo gym," Minami Takayama requested.

"Use mine!" Sonoko handed her phone to Minami Takayama.

Minami Takayama dialed Shiina Nagano's number, but there was still no answer.

"Still can't get through." Takayama Minami handed the phone back to Sonoko in frustration.

While eating, Genta muttered, "Could it be that she's gone missing?"

Mitsuhiko and Ayumi's eyes lit up, and they exclaimed excitedly, "Then let our Junior Detective Club help you find it!"

Conan shook his head, rubbing his forehead.

Minami Takayama paused for a moment, "The Detective Boys?"

The three of them said in unison, "That's right, we are the Junior Detective Club, dedicated to helping others solve their problems!"

Minami Takayama smiled and said, "Thank you. Then let's use the money from this meal to cover the cost."

Sonoko reminded them, "The three of you shouldn't cause any trouble for Miss Takayama!"

Ayumi said, "Sonoko-neechan, we're here to solve problems, not create them."

Just then, a waiter's voice rang out in the store.

"Is there a Ms. Takayama in the store right now?"

“That’s me.” Minami Takayama stood up and walked to the front desk.

"A Mr. Nagano is calling for you!" The waiter handed the phone to Minami Takayama.

"Hello." Minami Takayama answered the phone without thinking much. "Nagano, where have you been? You're not answering my calls."

Shiina Nagano's voice trembled slightly on the other end of the phone, "I'm sorry, I'm already at the store entrance by car, could you come out for a moment?"

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

Minami Takayama looked outside and indeed there was a car parked there.

So he went outside.

After she went out, a tall man wearing a coat and a knitted hat followed her out.

Sonoko saw Takayama Minami through the glass. "Ms. Takayama, why did you go out?"

Everyone followed the gardener's gaze.

As soon as Minami Takayama opened the car door, the man forcibly pushed her inside and then got into the car as well.

The three children exclaimed in surprise, "Ah! Sister Gaoshan has been kidnapped?!"

The car started and sped away.

Conan had already chased after the car outside, but could only watch it drive away.

Kitagawa Taki stared intently and memorized the license plate number.

Xiaolan took out her phone. "Let's call the police..."

Kitagawa Takiya took out his other phone and sent a message to Busujima Kiriko.

Dark green Jeep, license plate number "xxx".

This vehicle is quite recognizable; it shouldn't take long to find it through the mud-picking fair.

Ai Haibara noticed Kitagawa Taki's actions and asked softly, "Did you contact them again?"

Kitagawa Taki put away his phone. "Yeah, with their help, it should be quick."

Ai Haibara nodded.

……

Within minutes, Inspector Megure arrived at the restaurant with Wataru Takagi and Miwako Sato.

The response time this time was extremely fast.

The group explained what had just happened.

“It’s true that you’ve been kidnapped!” Inspector Megure said to Wataru Takagi, “Takagi, you should contact the staff at the martial arts dojo right away. Since it’s a kidnapping, the kidnappers will definitely contact them.”

"Inspector, that car is a dark green Jeep, and the license plate is xx."

Conan only read out a few digits of the license plate; he couldn't see the rest.

Inspector Megure nodded and ordered, "Okay, Sato, go and check this car right away!"

Then, Inspector Megure looked at the group and said, "You guys come with me to the dojo too!"

……

Martial Arts Hall.

When the staff learned that both members of Two-Mix had been kidnapped, they panicked instantly.

The concert is about to start in a few hours. If the two of them don't show up, the audience might just tear the Budokan up.

Inspector Megure reassured them, "Calm down, the kidnappers might contact you!"

Under his instructions, the police were prepared to trace the kidnappers' phone calls.

Jingle bell~

The office phone rang.

Inspector Megure gestured for his manager to answer the phone.

"Hello." The manager answered the phone, and a voice that had clearly been altered came through. He nodded to Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure lowered his voice and said, "Begin the tracking!"

As a result, the robbers directly demanded to speak with the police chief.

Inspector Megure had no choice but to take the phone and turn on the speakerphone.

"I am Megure from the Metropolitan Police Department."

The robber scoffed, "Inspector Megure, it's quite an honor that Inspector Megure of the First Investigation Division has personally come to investigate!"

Inspector Megure said in a deep voice, "Where are the two people from Two-Mix?"

"Don't worry, they're both sleeping soundly!"

What do you want? Money? Or something else?

"Money? Ha, I have no interest in that kind of thing."

The robbers' disdainful laughter echoed in the office.

Kitagawa Taki wanted to laugh too; those words sounded so familiar.

And it's quite interesting that the kidnappers said they weren't interested in the money.

Chapter 216 Going in Circles

The robber continued, "I'm a fetishist. I want anything that belongs to a woman, like the bag that Minami Takayama left in the restaurant."

Akemi Miyano shows Minami Takayama's bag to Inspector Megure.

The kidnapper made a demand: "Bring those five kids to me, and I'll release them."

Inspector Megure firmly refused: "No! We absolutely cannot let children get involved in this kind of thing."

The robber remained calm and threatened, "You'd better think it over. I have two hostages. Even if one of them dies, it won't affect me."

Conan shouted, "Let's go!"

“But…” Inspector Megure hesitated.

The three children looked determined: "Conan is right, let's go!"

Ayumi looked at Ai Haibara: "Ai, isn't that right too?"

Ai Haibara hummed in agreement.

The robber said, "Okay, then. Get to the phone booth at the Kudanpo exit of Kudanpo Station in twenty minutes. I'll call you then."

To this, Kitagawa Taki could only say that the robbers were clever, but their cleverness backfired, as two of the five children were outliers.

The robber hung up the phone as soon as he finished speaking, ignoring Inspector Megure.

Inspector Megure hung up the phone and asked the technician, "Have you tracked it down?"

The technician said, "We only know it's in Beito-cho, but because they made the call from a moving car, we can't find their exact location."

"I see... So the kidnappers kidnapped her just because of this bag?" Inspector Megure took Minami Takayama's bag from Akemi Miyano's hand.

Kitagawa Taki said, "It should be something from the bag."

The kidnappers' claims of being fetishists are 100% nonsense.

In this urgent situation, Inspector Megure immediately took everything out of the bag.

Sunglasses, hat, makeup case, wallet, cassette tapes...

Conan pointed at the cassette tape and said, "This is all the kidnappers want."

Everything else is quite ordinary.

"Is there some secret about this tape?"

Inspector Megure had the tape played.

No one present could discern anything unusual in their ears.

Inspector Megure said dejectedly, "Besides sounding nice, there aren't any strange noises at all."

The agent explained, "This is their new song."

Conan listened to the lyrics and copied them down, reviewing them again and again, but found nothing.

At that moment, Kitagawa Taki felt his phone vibrate.