The truth...   von Anni-chan95
                       (...and what it can do sometimes)
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                      Kapitel 4: At the police department
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charpter 4 At the police department
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„Nani? He got kidnapped!“, Heiji was shocked. ‘Oh Kudo, where did you get
drawn into?’
“Oh no, poor kid, surely he’s really afraid.”, Kazuha was really worried.
“It was his own fault!”, Ai said uncaringly.
“How can you say something like that, Ai-chan!”, Yukiko was stunned.
“Because it’s true. I told him, how dangerous his situation is, but he
didn’t even listen to what I have got to say.”
“It’s not about, whose fault it is, but how we are going to get him back
soon and safe!”, Ran almost yelled at them.
“You’re right. But with whom shall we talk. Here’re so many police
men.”, Kazuha asked.
“Look, there are Takagi-keiji and Sato-keiji…”, just when Heiji said that,
the other walked towards them.
“Takagi-keiji! Sato-keiji! Could you please help us?”, Ran asked hopefully.
“What happened? For what do you need our help, Mori-san?”, Takagi-keiji
asked.
“We need to find Conan-kun?”
“Why, did you loose him here in the crowd?”, Sato was a little confused. Why
should he get lost?
“No, he got kidnapped. In the morning between 8.20 and 8.22.”
“Ok, that’s serious. Let’s go to another room. Here it is a little too
loudly, don’t you think. We’ll find a room, where can talk undisturbed!”
The two officers led Ran and Co in a little converence room and they explained
the situation. “If I understood right, the little Conan-kun got kidnapped. The
last person who saw him, were you, Mori-san.”, Takagi-keiji summarized. Ran
nodded.
“He said, he wanted to go from the Kudo’s villa, where Mori-san were to
Agasa-hakase and after that straight home to the detectiv agency.”, Sato-keiji
continued. Ran nodded again.
“But Ai-chan and Agasa-hakase said he didn’t arrive there and he isn’t
somewhere else either. When Mori-san walked over to Hakase, she found a
hankerchief, which was dipped into chloroform. Furthermore C.V. was stitched
into it, which made you deduct that a very dangerous, well branched crime
syndicate has to do something with it.”, Takagi-keiji took over.
“I don’t understand, how you came to that deduction, but if you are right,
what do they want from conan-kun. He’s very clever, but still a grade
schooler. Explain us everything you know. Every little detail can help.”, Sato
commanded.
“The organisation value, that nobody…really nobody, knows about her, who has
no reason to know. Conan-kun watched a deal between two men of the organisation
and a buisness man some time ago. Since that day, they are after him!”, Ai
said calmly.
“If it like that, we are going and calling Megure-keibu. He’s our boss and
only he can decide, what to do.”, Sato-keiji said. The officers left to call
their boss.
Everybody, besides Kazuha, looked at Ai. “What? What should I have told them?
We can’t tell them everything. If the police knows, it’s just a matter of
time until the organisation know. Now only Vermouth knows she kidnapped him.
Moreover I just have no interests in answering serveral questions.
“Seems plausible!”, Heiji admited.
“Somehow I seems to me, that everyone here knows something I don’t know.
Could you please explain it to me!”, Kazuha was a little outraged.
“Well.”, Ran began.
“What ‘Well’. If you told Heiji, you can tell it to me as well.”
“I can’t remember, someone told Hattori-san!”, Yusaku determined.
“Nobody told me. I found it out by myself, when we took part at the Sherlock
Holmes Mystery Tour.”
“Ah, so you know. There were that murder, which wasn’t suicide in the end,
and which you solved, right?”
“Yes, but I didn’t solve it. Kudo did. I didn’t do anything, but listen
and that’s how I found out.”, Heiji explained.
“And what has Kudo to do with that. He wasn’t even there. You’re confusing
me…Well, I give up. You won’t tell me, right.”
Before anyone could say something to that, Takagi-keiji and Sato-keiji arrived
with Megure-keibu. “Konnichi wa, minna-san. I came as soon as possible, when I
heard, that the little Conan-kun got kidnapped.”
“That’s nice, Megure-keibu, we have to act quick.”
“Yes, that’s self-evident, but we don’t have any hints, where he could be.
Any ideas?”, Keibu-san asked. Silence…everyone thought, where they could
have brought the boy.
“Can’t we just locate him with that tracking glasses?”, Heiji suggested.
“Genta-kun broke them yesterday.”, Ai said.
“But certainly he got spare glasses, right. And when they got a tracking
function, Conan-kun must have a locator beacon with him.”
“Yes, that’s right. That beacon resembles a sticker, which is located on the
buttom of his jacket. Who don’t know it, thinks it’s a normal buttom. Why
didn’t we think of it earlier?”, Hakase told them.
“Maybe because the radius only is 20 kilometers wide. I found them in my bag.
She must have fallen into it accidently. Of course I already checked it, but the
only signal I received were from the detective boys’ badges, but nothing from
Conan-kun. He’s too far away from here. She must have known, that we try
that.”, Ai said still calm.
“Then…I am out of ideas.”, Heiji admitted.
“Ai-kun. I upgrated the glasses. The radius is now 30 kilometer, but that
doesn’t change anything, right?”, Hakase said. Ai nodded.
“Are there any other reason for kidnapping. When we understand how the
kidnapper thinks, we might find out where she hides him.”; Sato-keiji throw
in.
“Do you know the identity of the kidnapper, when he or she really belongs the
that organization?”, Megure-keibu asked.
“Ai-chan said, it’s Vermouth.”, Ran said.
“Very interesting. Why do you know that, Ai-chan?”, Takagi-keiji asked the
girl.
“That Hakerchief. There were C.V. on it. That stand for Chris Vineyard.”
“That American actress, who disappeared from public some time ago.”
“Exactally. Her codename in the organization is ‘Vermouth’ and she is
really high-ranked. She disappeared from public because she got a new
mission.”
“Could it be, that her mission has something to do with Conan-kun?”,
Takagi-keiji asked.
‘No, her mission is just killing me, Sherry, the traitor of the organization,
but what has Kudo-kun to do with that?’ She asked herself that question
serverial times today. But now she knew the answer…’Of course.”, she
thought.
“The truth is, Conan-kun is the only one, in Vermouth’s eyes, who has the
potential to destroy the organization. So he’s ‘the silver bullet’ of the
organization.”, Ai said. He had to tell them something. And that wasn’t a
lie.
“Tell us, why do you know so much?”, Takagi-keiji was dazed. ‘For a grade
schooler, she knows really too much. For sure she and Conan-kun keep a very big
secret, which they don’t want to share.’
“Right, really know a lot. Are you sure, you’re just 8 years old?”, the
police men wondered.
“Usually yes, but if you ask me now, I am not sure anymore…”
Megure-keibu continued. “Is there anyone, who had to do anything with the
organization and who could help us in our investigation?”
“I think I know someone. I’ll call her, but could you please tell me where
the toilet is?”
“The hall along, right downstairs and then the first door.”, Sato-keiji
explained.
Ai thanked her, took her bag and wanted to leave the room. “Wait, Ai-kun, you
don’t wanna do, what I think you will do, right?” It was hakase.
“Well, Hakase, that is just a matter of what you think I am planning to do!”
With that words she left. ‘Strange, everywhere are so many officers and
here…nobody.’
Meanwhile in the converence room they discussed about the location of the boy.
“Are there any other hints, which could help us somehow?”, Megure-keibu
asked. He also feared for Conan. The little boy, who always managed to give the
most crusial hints just with child-like comments.
“Maybe if that organization is really that unscrupulous, as you say, then he
isn’t…” He didn’t dare continuing. Takagi-keiji didn’t want it to be
true.
“Don’t worry about that. Vermouth wouldn’t go this far. At least not with
Conan-kun. Otherwise she would have done it before.”, Hakase calmed them down,
“Furthermore she seems to like him somehow. No, she wouldn’t kill him.”

‘Should I really do that? It’s too dangerous. The risk is too great. But I
have to. Because of me…Just because of me she got Kudo-kun. It’s my fault.
I, Haibara Ai, need to make everything alright. No, not Haibara Ai, but Miyano
Shiho.’ With that thought she swallowed the capsule in her hand. Today she
spent the whole day, after she sent the kids away to search Conan, with the
research of the andidote for the APTX4869. She prepared two capsules. One for
herself and one for Conan. She took them with her, just in case. As well as
bigger clother. She put them on, before she swallowed the capsule. And now she
felt how that feeling, that pain came back to her body. She could feel how she
returned to her old body. As well as the pain in her body got stronger. And all
of a sudden it vanished. It was over. She took her back and returned to the
others. She stopped in front of the door. ‘I am going to have to explain a
lot.’ She took a deep breath and then she opened the door.

The eyes of the involved went to the door, when the young lady entered. When
that strangerous person came in and sat down at Ai’s place, Megure-keibu
asked: “Sumimasen, but we’re busy right now! May I ask who you are?”
“I am Miyano Shiho and I thought you want to know more about the organization.
I can give you information, but if you don’t want me I can go.”, she said
like it was self-evident. Silence. Her plan worked. If the others wouldn’t
reveal her, she could give the police information about the organization and
keep her secret identity. But she didn’t include Ran.
“Ai-chan, so that’s how you really look like! But I hope for you, that you
have another capsule.”, Ran broke through that silence.
“Really thank you. If I wanted to tell everyone, don’t you think I would
have done it…but you have luck. I really have another one. Because I don’t
want to hear, what he has got to say, if I don’t have one for him.
Unfortunally it doesn’t change the fact that it only last 24 hours. Not one
minute longer, furthermore who knows what Conan-kun does in 24 hours. The last
time it took me a lot of nerve.”, she said.
“I’m just asking myself, what you do in 24 hours, Ai-kun. You know exactally
that the organization is looking for you. They want to kill you. Remember the
last time you were yourself. They almost shot you.”
“Yes, I know, but only Vermouth is after me and that’s the reason why
Ku…Ku…Ku…Conan-kun, o my gosh, now I am starting that as well, and
that’s the reason why Conan-kun is stucking in the terminal.”

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