Outlaw in the World of Conan, Tokisaki Kurumi

When their own lives were hanging by a thread, they still had the mood to sleep.

With a sneer, Kurumi equipped the voice changer and adjusted it to a male voice.

"Knock, knock, knock!" Kurumi knocked on the door and said, "Inspector Megure, that kid from Detective Mouri's house is here, saying he wants to see Mr. Mouri."

Hearing the report from the police officer outside the door, Inspector Megure, who didn't suspect anything, glanced at Mouri Kogoro, who was still reading the newspaper. The latter frowned upon hearing this and said unhappily, "What a nuisance, what could Conan possibly want?"

With that, he stood up, ready to go outside and see what that brat Conan wanted with him.

However, what Mouri Kogoro didn't expect was that when he opened the door, he didn't see the police officer and Conan. Instead, the police officer who should have been standing outside was already lying on the ground.

"!"

Mouri Kogoro, instinctively knowing that something was seriously wrong, was about to shout when, in the next second, he felt a sharp pain in his neck and lost consciousness.

King Crimson, with quick reflexes, caught Mouri's falling body and gently placed him on the ground.

Adjusting the voice changer to Mouri Kogoro's voice, Kurumi pretended to be angry and said, "Really, Conan, what is it now?"

"Huh? A secret? Alright, if it's not something big, get ready to take a punch from me!"

Inside the room, hearing Mouri Kogoro's voice from outside the door, Inspector Megure, who hadn't noticed anything unusual, continued to stare in the direction of the bedding and then lost consciousness.

"Done!"

Standing behind Inspector Megure, Kurumi's exquisite face revealed a cruel and cold smile.

"Now... let's have a proper game in peace."

Drawing a dagger from her waist, Kurumi, who had decided to make them play a true life-or-death game, walked to the side of the bedding.

'Wrong!' Less than a meter away from the two, Kurumi's expression suddenly changed.

"No breathing sounds? Could it be!"

Quickly having King Crimson lift the bedding, what greeted Kurumi's eyes was not Nishimoto and Kuroiwa as she had expected, but two convincing illusions made purely of clothes and wigs.

"Damn it!"

Kurumi, who had quickly realized she had been tricked, instantly turned cold.

Her slightly narrowed eyes were filled with the rage of being toyed with.

"Hiding in plain sight? Or a trick of substitution?"

Glancing at Megure, who was lying on the table, Kurumi suppressed the killing intent in her heart and observed her surroundings.

As expected, on the clothes rack, Kurumi found the suit that Kuroiwa should have been wearing.

Searching quickly, Kurumi found a listening device stuck to the inside of the clothes.

"I was careless..."

She mocked herself for having been toying with the police with a cat-and-mouse mentality, only to be outsmarted herself.

Putting the listening device into her pocket, Kurumi walked out of the room in silence.

She had to know what had happened here last night!

61 Never Give Up

At this moment, Kurumi, who had returned to the clinic, had long lost her usual gentle smile.

'Damn it, damn it, damn it!'

Kurumi clenched her fists tightly. Beside her, King Crimson, with its large and small faces also contorted, reflected Kurumi's current anger.

Kurumi sat silently in a room on the first floor, lost in thought.

Meanwhile, Mouri and Megure, who had been knocked unconscious by Kurumi one after another, also slowly woke up.

"What happened?" Mouri Kogoro, clutching his neck, got up from the ground and looked around in confusion.

Seeing the police officer lying beside him, Mouri Kogoro suddenly came to his senses, recalling what had happened before he fainted.

'I remember... a police officer reported that Conan kid was here looking for me.'

While recalling, Mouri Kogoro's expression turned serious as he checked the police officer beside him.

"Knocked out?" Forcing back the pain, Mouri Kogoro, who suddenly thought of something, hurried back into the room.

As expected, behind the desk in the room, Inspector Megure was also slumped over the table, seemingly having experienced the same fate as himself.

"Inspector Megure! Inspector Megure!" Patting Megure's fat face, Mouri no longer cared that the person in front of him was his former superior. The most important thing now was to wake Megure up.

Until Mouri's patting had made Megure's old face turn red, finally, Megure let out a "hiss" and woke up groggily.

"Brother Mouri?"

Seeing Megure's dazed look, Mouri knew he hadn't fully woken up yet.

But he couldn't care less now.

"Inspector Megure, we were knocked out by a criminal, including the police officer outside the door!" Mouri Kogoro hurriedly recounted the scene outside.

Hearing Mouri Kogoro's words, Megure immediately sobered up: "What? What did you say!"

Taking a sharp breath, Megure quickly walked to the corridor.

Looking at the several police officers lying on the ground, Megure's expression turned grim.

He took out his walkie-talkie and quickly ordered the officers guarding the first floor and the outside to gather on the second floor.

He needed to know exactly what had happened here.

Clearly, Kurumi didn't know what kind of tricks the police were playing.

Similarly, the police, led by Megure, had no idea how the mysterious culprit managed to knock out the police on the second floor without alerting anyone, and also incapacitate Mouri and himself.

Half an hour later.

After settling the injured officers, Mouri and Megure sat in a room, their faces serious and solemn.

Judging by the way the culprit operated, they concluded that the perpetrator, still lurking in the shadows, possessed skills far beyond ordinary people. Moreover, the target was clearly aimed directly at Kuroiwa and Nishimoto, who were under protection.

"Fortunately, if we hadn't transferred those two to another location yesterday, we probably would have only found their corpses when we woke up."

Mouri Kogoro said with a sense of relief.

"Indeed." Megure nodded, a shiver of fear running down his spine. "But the fact that the culprit didn't harm the police officers, including us, and only knocked us out..." Megure analyzed, "From this point of view, the culprit isn't so cruel as to harm others for revenge."

For some reason, Megure suddenly felt that this mysterious person seemed to have a sense of morality.

However, such a thought only flashed through Megure's mind for a moment before he suppressed it.

As a police officer, especially a Superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, he, Megure Juusan, absolutely would not allow this criminal to continue acting so brazenly.

But a problem arose.

From the information gathered from other officers, those responsible for guarding the first floor and the outside had not detected any abnormalities.

It was as if the criminal had been on the second floor of the Community Center the entire time.

How was this even possible?

Such questions filled the minds of Megure and Mouri.

Meanwhile, on the other side, after Aso Narumi took a bath and changed her clothes, she went downstairs and saw Kurumi sitting alone on a chair, looking somewhat sulky.

Confused, Narumi thought Kurumi's plan had encountered an unexpected hitch and asked with concern, "Kurumi? Did something happen?"

"They're gone," Kurumi's voice was icy cold. "We were played by those police and detectives."

"Gone? What do you mean?"

Facing Narumi, Kurumi quickly suppressed her anger.

She took a few deep breaths and slowly said, "The police had already transferred Kuroiwa and Nishimoto. What was in the Community Center before was just a diversion."

Kurumi shook her head. "The lead is gone now, and after my previous actions, the police will definitely implement even tighter security. The chance of success if I try to act like before again is less than thirty percent."

Although the King Crimson's ability was practically invincible, that was in a one-on-one situation or when the opponent's numbers weren't overwhelming.

Now that she had alerted them, she would likely face the police at full strength. If she continued with the cat-and-mouse mentality, she would be the one to suffer in the end.

Hearing Kurumi's words, Aso Narumi didn't blame her for the failed operation.

Instead, she walked behind Kurumi and gently hugged her.

"It's okay, Kurumi," Narumi's soft voice reached Kurumi's ears. "As long as you're safe, I'm happy."

Instantly, Kurumi's heart skipped a beat.

Yes, during the time she had spent with Kurumi, although Aso Narumi still harbored hatred towards those people, if Kurumi were to get hurt while helping her get revenge, Aso Narumi would rather put aside her hatred for the time being.

"I know, Sister Narumi." Kurumi slowly placed her hand on Aso Narumi's hand on her chest, her tone softening. "But I'm not willing to fail like this. Do you know? Ever since I joined the Organization, my mission success rate has been one hundred percent. I've never failed before." As she spoke, Kurumi's tone was filled with pride.

"There was no failure in the past, and there will be none now!"

Kurumi's aura was full of determination.

If those two scumbags were still hidden on the island by the police, she, Kurumi, would dig up the island three feet to find them and bury them herself.

If they had been taken away by the police in advance, then even if it meant storming the Metropolitan Police Department, she would do it!

62 You're finished, Kurumi holds grudges

I feel like this is dragging a bit. It wasn't supposed to be like this in the plan.

I can't figure it out...

I'll speed things up a bit now and get through it quickly.

It might be a bit messy.

The main text follows—

That afternoon, Tokyo.

Before leaving Moon Shadow Island and returning to Tokyo, Kurumi specifically instructed Aso Narumi to remain on Moon Shadow Island and wait. She was to come to Tokyo to find Kurumi after the police had withdrawn a few days later.

The reason Kurumi suddenly returned to Tokyo was that she had learned through an informant the Organization had placed within the Metropolitan Police Department that Inspector Megure had ordered Kuroiwa and Nishimoto to be secretly transferred back the previous night and held at the Metropolitan Police Department for temporary custody.

Upon hearing this news, besides being angry, Kurumi also marveled that the Tokyo police had finally become a bit clever.

And now, if Kurumi was still determined to get revenge, she would have to face the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and its forces. Moreover, if Kurumi guessed correctly, Inspector Megure had likely already instructed his Tokyo colleagues to be extremely cautious when transferring the prisoners.

Honestly, this situation was becoming quite difficult.

Returning to her home, Kurumi began to ponder her next move.

According to information from a mole within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Kuroiwa and the other person had already been detained by the police department and would be directly sent to prison after the necessary written procedures were approved by their superiors.

If Kurumi let things continue as they were, it would be incredibly difficult for her to act once those two were locked up in prison.

Therefore, given the current circumstances, Kurumi believed the best time to act would be when the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was transferring them, by ambushing the transport vehicle on the road.

After all, the cat-and-mouse game was over. Kurumi now only wanted to eliminate those two and wash away the humiliation of being toyed with!

After instructing the mole via phone to continue monitoring the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Kurumi went to her storage room on the second floor.

Inside the room, the cramped space was filled with tools and miscellaneous items, appearing just like any ordinary household storage room, with no hint of anything unusual.

However, as a member of the Organization, and especially given her personal interests, Kurumi had specifically set up a hidden compartment within the storage room.

Pressing a hidden button that only she knew, a wooden wall slowly opened to reveal a dark door, about 1.5 meters high.

Without hesitation, she ducked inside. In the pitch-black space, Kurumi familiarized herself and turned on the light.

The white light dispelled the surrounding darkness, illuminating Kurumi's surroundings.

From the outside, the hidden compartment Kurumi had set up didn't appear much larger than the storage room. However, once inside, one could discover that the space was far more expansive than the former.

After all, Kurumi had hired someone to specially modify a room like this during renovations, all to hide things that couldn't see the light of day.

For example... weapons and equipment!

Yes, within this space stood several tall metal cabinets, and in the center of the room was a long table.

Entering the password to unlock the cabinet, Kurumi pulled open two doors.