While on the phone, Hiroshi Hirokawa happened to pass by a truck parked at the roadside.
Haibara Ai was on the phone while Conan listened in. The two of them happened to look up and saw the ropes on the truck snap. Several heavy steel bars came crashing down from the truck, straight toward Hiroshi Hirokawa, who was intently looking at a shop window nearby.
Both of them jolted in alarm and rushed over, trying to stop it, but they were too late.
Fortunately, just before the steel bars rolled off, Hiroshi had finished looking at the toys in the window and turned away.
The steel bars clattered down behind his feet, smashing the sturdy pavement into a web of cracks. Startled by the noise, Hiroshi hurried away in fright.
"...Hiroshi was almost hit by those steel bars." Haibara Ai steadied herself, sent Jiang Xia her location, then switched back to the call screen.
She ran over to the truck, frowned at the ropes on the ground, and her expression turned grim. In a low voice, she said to Jiang Xia over the phone, "Something's not right—the break in the rope is too clean. This probably wasn't an accident. Someone deliberately cut the tie-down ropes."
"Maybe someone was venting their anger at random, or maybe they were targeting the truck driver—or the child you're following." Jiang Xia glanced at the location on his phone. "Either way, I'll be there soon. Stay safe."
"Okay." Hearing that put Haibara Ai a little more at ease—in every sense of the word. Although Jiang Xia spent all day mingling with Organization members, he really was an upright person. The moment he heard that a child might have been attacked, he seemed to perk right up. He had to be worried about the situation here.