Department Store Hostage Incident!

At around ten that night, Matsuba walked alone down the main road.

After Vermouth, that brat, had been taught by him, she spent almost every moment tormenting Chakra or practicing with every kind of weapon. Matsuba had no choice but to come out for a walk.

Hope I run into something interesting, Matsuba thought.

"Hm?"

Matsuba suddenly stopped after passing the shopping mall. He looked at it curiously. The mall should have been closed at this hour, so why were all the lights still on?

He looked up and saw something else, seemingly words. He could not make them out clearly, but they looked like a plea for help.

"Looks like I found some entertainment after all." Matsuba entered the mall as he spoke.

The mall had indeed closed long ago, but the doors seemed as though they did not exist. Matsuba drifted through them like a shadow.

Fortunately, it was dark and there were not many people on the main road. If anyone had seen that, they would have been scared out of their wits. It would have made the news the next day as a ghost incident.

"This is so annoying. They turned on all the lights just to catch us," Conan said bitterly.

They had been the ones who sent the plea for help from the building. They had already run out of options. There had originally been a large event show here, and Conan's group had come to join in the fun.

When they were leaving, Genta had forgotten something inside and insisted on coming back for it.

But after he retrieved it, the mall had already locked its doors, leaving them trapped inside. Then they had witnessed the robbery of the building firsthand.

It was all because of that idiot Genta. Someone had spotted them