Next door, Eating Cat had been lying half-asleep in Mouri Ran's arms when its nose suddenly twitched and it perked up.
But before it could go harvest the Killing Intent, Mermaid and Spider Lady had already drifted over ahead of it, leaving behind only two afterimages.
Eating Cat: "..."
...Having a physical body really was inconvenient.
Although its ghost form was not as fast as Mermaid and Spider Lady either, at least it was free...
Eating Cat rubbed its ears and sighed mournfully.
Beside the combination lock.
Not everyone had the same goal. Some were slacking off, while others were eagerly pushing things forward.
Seeing that Ambassador had been unable to figure it out for ages, Poushi Qinglan could not help speaking up herself. "Could it be ВОЛШЕБНИККОНЦАВЕКА?"
Mouri Ran asked curiously, "What does that mean?"
"It really does sound like what Miss Kousaka mentioned!" Ambassador nodded with a look of sudden realization. He explained to those who did not understand Russian, "In English, it means The Last Wizard of the Century—the Magician of the End of the Century."
As he spoke, he pressed the keys.
When the final letter was entered, the room fell silent. Everyone held their breath and stared at the dial.
Silence.
Just as they thought they had failed again, the sound of gears turning suddenly came from beneath the floor.
"...It worked. It actually worked!"
The mechanism that had been sealed away for a century began turning again. The floor near the combination lock suddenly shifted.
Jiang Xia stood and stepped back, casually picking up Conan as he did. Soon, the fully assembled wooden floor slid aside. Dust flew everywhere as a hollow opened in the ground, revealing a staircase leading deep underground.
"I can't believe there really is an underground Secret Passage." Amid