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It's not just about making myself drive, it's about making myself take the blame!
This……
Careless!
Professor Agasa's gaze towards Aragaki Yu gradually became more complex.
He had never realized before that Aragaki Yu could be so cunning.
However, Conan noticed something different from Professor Agasa.
He looked at Aragaki Yu beside him, excitedly grabbed his arm, and asked, "You don't mean you already know where the bomb is!"
Upon hearing Conan mention this, Professor Agasa immediately put aside his previous distractions and stared wide-eyed at Aragaki Yu.
As expected, Yuu Aragaki did not disappoint Conan and Professor Agasa's expectations, nodding and replying, "Yes, if my deduction is correct, it is already quite obvious where the bomb is."
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"what?"
Conan stared at Aragaki Yu, blinking his eyes in confusion.
As for Professor Agasa, he decisively turned around, smoothly shifted gears and started the car. With a roar from the Beetle's engine, the car shot off like an arrow.
Destination: Hospital.
"Where exactly is the bomb?" Conan asked urgently.
Aragaki Yu glanced at the sun outside the window and said, "Light."
"Light?" Conan looked out the window in surprise, following Aragaki Yu's gaze.
“Hmm.” Aragaki Yu nodded, then, after looking away, he lazily stretched and continued to explain, “The key is that the bomb will explode when the sun sets. I don’t think anyone can accurately predict exactly when the sun will completely set, so the bomb’s detonation is definitely not caused by a timer.”
Conan immediately understood what Aragaki Yu meant: "Mitsutoshi!?"
"Actually, the real location where the criminal planted the bomb was not under the seats of the circular train, nor on the roof structure, nor under the train car. The correct location was between the tracks."
"Between the railway tracks!?"
Conan, who was standing nearby, had more or less guessed the answer when Aragaki Yu said those words. However, Professor Agasa, who was driving, couldn't help but step on the brake, feeling somewhat incredulous.
"Hmm." Aragaki Yuu straightened his body, which had been slightly unsteady due to the sudden braking, and then helped Conan, who had fallen off his seat due to inertia, back into his seat.
"Those five bombs have been designed by the criminals. They will explode if they are not exposed to light for a few seconds. If a train traveling on the loop line passes over the tracks where the bombs are placed, the light will be completely blocked for a few seconds until the train has completely passed the bombs because the train blocks the sunlight."
Yuu Aragaki paused, did a quick mental calculation, and continued, "I just observed that the trains running on the loop line have ten carriages. If each carriage is 20 meters long, ten carriages would be 200 meters long. At a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, that's equivalent to 16.7 meters per second. In other words, it would take at least 12 seconds for the train to travel 200 meters..."
"So, you mean, Aragaki-nii, the bomb will explode if it's not exposed to light for more than 12 seconds?" Conan excitedly interrupted Aragaki Yu to summarize.
Yuu Aragaki nodded in affirmation, "That's right."
……
Meanwhile, after Aragaki Yu informed Inspector Megure, who was in the command room, about the situation by phone.
Upon receiving orders, all train conductors on the loop line worked diligently in accordance with their superiors' commands, moving the trains onto the backup tracks and gradually reducing their speed.
"Start reducing speed now!"
The broadcast system in the control room began to report the status of all trains in real time.
"68 kilometers!"
"66 kilometers!"
……
"60 kilometers!"
As the train's speed was about to drop below 60 km/h, everyone in the control room held their breath in a cold sweat. Kogoro Mouri even closed his eyes and began to pray.
They were afraid that there might be some flaw in Aragaki Yu's reasoning. If a bomb on one of the trains were to explode, it would mean the loss of nearly a hundred lives.
"59 kilometers!"
"Gulp~" Inspector Megure stared intently at the direction of the broadcast, nervously swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
The next second, the train conductor's delighted voice came over the loudspeaker: "58 kilometers! No abnormalities!"
"Very good! Continue to slow down!"
At that moment, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
As the train gradually slowed down until it came to a complete stop, joy finally appeared on the faces of everyone in the control room.
A train...
Two trains...
……
Twenty trains...
No accidents occurred until the last train on the loop line came to a stop on the spare track.
The tense nerves of everyone in the command room finally relaxed, and many people cheered with joy.
However, Inspector Megure was not completely relaxed. He simply took out his handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat streaming down his face.
After calming himself down, he immediately used the walkie-talkie to order the officers and police dogs who had been on standby to begin searching for the bomb along the circular railway track.
Finally, just before sunset, they successfully defused all five bombs that had been planted between the railway tracks, albeit without major incident.
……
In a police hospital ward, the sun is setting outside the window.
At this time, Inspector Megure and Kogoro Mouri had already returned to Conan's hospital room.
Meanwhile, Aragaki Yu, Conan, and Professor Agasa had returned to the ward earlier.
Fortunately, no one visited the ward during this period. When the nurses made their rounds, they simply assumed the patient in that room had gone for a walk in the hospital garden.
Therefore, no one noticed that Conan had secretly slipped out of the hospital.
"Hello... Okay, I understand."
After hanging up the phone, Inspector Megure turned to the group behind him and said, "Great, all five bombs have been safely defused and recovered."
"Great! Yay!" Upon hearing that everyone was safe and sound, Kogoro Mouri jumped up excitedly beside the bed.
"This time, we really owe you a lot, Aragaki-kun!" Inspector Megure looked at Aragaki Yu with satisfaction.
"There are only about ten minutes left until sunset. It's really a close call!" Dr. Agasa said with a sigh as he glanced at the sunset outside the window.
"Good job, kid!" Kogoro Mouri was generous with his praise for Aragaki Yu's act of saving so many lives, patting Aragaki Yu on the shoulder and exclaiming.
However, he quickly reverted to his true colors, throwing his head back and sticking out his tongue in a completely unseemly laugh: "However, you're still a little short of being the great detective Kogoro Mouri, hahahaha!"
Conan: "..."
Even Inspector Megure couldn't bear to look at Kogoro Mouri's expression any longer. He couldn't help but cover his eyes, sighed at Kogoro, and thought to himself, "Sigh, if it weren't for you, Aragaki-kun, relying solely on you, Kogoro, I don't know how many people would have been blown to bits by now..."
Yuu Aragaki, on the contrary, showed great emotion. He simply smiled faintly at Inspector Megure and said, "It's nothing. I was just offering my speculation. It was the police who truly resolved the crisis and saved the lives of the citizens."
"!!!"
Upon hearing Aragaki Yu's words, Inspector Megure immediately became excited.
At this moment, his heart was also filled with emotion, and Inspector Megure couldn't help but look at Aragaki Yuu, who was radiating brilliance, with tender affection.
Look at this, this is a real good brother!
He is capable, willing to help the police, and humble and doesn't seek credit...
He clearly made the greatest contribution, yet he still thought about the police's efforts. He's definitely different from those ignorant and arrogant guys.
Thinking this, Inspector Megure glanced, intentionally or unintentionally, at Kogoro Mouri, who was still laughing loudly.
At this moment, Inspector Megure's mind was completely filled with the image of Yuu Aragaki.
"certainly……"
"Hmm? Brother Aragaki, just say what's on your mind!" Inspector Megure looked excitedly at Aragaki Yu, who was speaking again.
"This bonus can be deposited into your original account, um... don't forget to transfer the money..."
Officer Memu: "..."
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As soon as Aragaki Yu finished speaking, the ward fell into silence.
Even Kogoro Mouri seemed to grow up in an instant, but he couldn't laugh anymore.
"..."
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
"Cough cough."
Finally, Inspector Megure broke the silence with two light coughs.