BONUS CHAPTER #4
Conan hung up the phone suspiciously and decided to check things out himself.
He quickly explained the situation to the other three, who looked a bit confused. Grabbing his skateboard, he headed out the door.
Jiangxia thought it over, then went home to grab his motorcycle and rode off toward Greenland Park, the place Conan had mentioned.
Just now, Jiangxia had remembered something after eavesdropping on the phone call.
This was another case.
The doctor's house really was Conan's daily recharge spot. He'd only been there ten minutes, but he'd already caught wind of two different cases. Talk about a feng shui treasure.
It was Moriya Teiji who had called earlier. A professor at Tohto University and the island's top architect, he was also a late-stage obsessive-compulsive disorder patient who was obsessed with symmetry.
So obsessed, in fact, that Moriya had changed his own name from "Sadaji" to "Teiji" just so it looked perfectly symmetrical from left to right. He even secretly burned down his earlier designs—all because they weren't symmetrical enough.
This time, Moriya had stolen a ton of gunpowder. On one hand, he planned to use it to kill Kudo Shinichi. On the other, he was using the chaos as a chance to blow up his own "dark history"—including a bridge and the municipal government building in Beika City.
Moriya Teiji's grudge against Kudo Shinichi was also linked to "symmetry." Moriya had designed the entire new city of Nishitama as a perfectly symmetrical complex, backed by the mayor.
But halfway through construction, Kudo Shinichi had convinced the mayor to call it quits by sending him to jail through careful reasoning.
With the mayor gone, Moriya's dream city got shelved—and so, Kudo Shinichi had unknowingly forged a grudge with Moriya.
For Jiangxia, compared to Officer Sato's case, Moriya Teiji's was way more troublesome—and far less rewarding. A bomb going off in a crowded place could cause mass casualties, turning the area into a playground for vengeful ghosts.
Catching a bunch of ghosts at once? That was a VIP-only experience for the big bosses. For Jiangxia, the innocent psychic, it meant he wouldn't be picking up ghosts—he'd be the one getting robbed.
Then he'd have to lay low for days, watching from afar as who-knows-how-many ghostly murders happened in Tokyo.
Ugh. Just thinking about it made him want to scream.
To avoid that, better nip the danger in the bud.
Jiangxia hopped on his motorcycle—not much slower than Conan's skateboard, but Conan had already taken off.
By the time Jiangxia reached Greenland Park, Conan was already there, holding his skateboard and running toward the Detective Boys playing with remote-control planes by the river.
Teiji Moriya had rigged a bomb inside a remote-controlled plane and randomly handed it out to kids in the park.
The unlucky "chosen ones" happened to be the three Detective Boys—Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko.
Jiangxia parked under a tree and admired the four adorable kids from afar. He was pleased their case magnetism was still strong and hoped they'd keep it up.
When no one was watching, Jiangxia clasped his hands, and a lump of white clay suddenly formed out of thin air.
It was the same material as his puppets. Once solid, it felt just like normal clay to the touch.
Jiangxia pinched it a few times, and soon a white dove—the same color as the clay—appeared in his palm.
Because of material and time limits, although the dove's shape was just like a real pigeon, you could tell it wasn't fluffy at all—it was fake.
But if it flew fast and far enough, at a glance it looked just like a normal pigeon—except maybe a little bigger.
This little puppet wasn't nearly as powerful as the ones controlled by ghosts, and it couldn't handle Jiangxia's possession.
Luckily, a psychic can directly control the puppet. With enough skill, it's almost like giving it consciousness.
Jiangxia raised his hand, and the pigeon took off, fluttering toward the remote-controlled plane.
…
Conan ran up to the Detective Boys and immediately spotted the fancy remote-controlled plane they were playing with—the remote still looked brand new.
He had a bad feeling: "Where did this come from?"
The three kids happily replied, "An uncle wearing sunglasses and lots of beard gave it to us!"
Conan: "..."
Would you accept a gift from someone who knew you were disguised and basically had "suspicious" stamped on your forehead?!
Conan was exhausted. He was pretty sure the "bomb" the mysterious caller mentioned was 80% connected to this remote-controlled plane.
He tried to take the remote and fly the plane into the empty river.
But the kids were having too much fun and refused to hand it over.
In the scuffle, the remote fell and broke.
Conan mashed the buttons, but he couldn't control the plane at all. He just watched the toy swoop toward them like it had grown eyes.
His face fell.
But before it got close enough, a white shadow flew by, snatched the plane, and shot up into the sky.
Seconds later—the plane exploded.
The Detective Boys stared, stunned, at the smoking wreckage drifting in the wind.
They suddenly realized they'd just escaped disaster and burst into tears: "Wuwuwu pigeon…"
Conan didn't expect things to be solved so accidentally.
He felt sorry for the innocent pigeon, but then his phone rang.
Urgent business. Not exactly the time to mourn a pigeon.
Conan paused, then answered.
The mysterious man gave the next hint.
"The next bomb, planted in the small square in front of Beika Station, will explode just after 1 o'clock."
Moriya Teiji was actually lurking nearby, secretly watching the park. Because Conan forgot to use his voice changer when he answered the phone, Moriya thought Kudo Shinichi wouldn't dare show up—and had only sent a kid instead.
Moriya Teiji was blinded by Conan's kid appearance and cute voice, thinking, gave him a hint: "Under the tree, but not buried under the tree."
Conan mulled over the hint and planned to rush to Beika Station.
But as he turned, he spotted a familiar figure off in the distance—Jiangxia, sitting on his motorcycle under a tree outside the park, just arriving and about to get off.
Conan immediately called out: "Don't come here! That mysterious man is sure 'Kudo Shinichi' isn't nearby. That means he's probably watching here now. He's lowered the difficulty and given a hint just because I'm a child… but if he sees you, he might focus his intimidation on you instead."
*Goal #1: Top 200 fanfics published within the last 31 - 90 days by POWER STONES.
Progress: 3/60(approx) for 10 BONUS CHAPTERS
Goal #2: One BONUS CHAPTER per review for the first 10 REVIEWS.
Progress:2/10*