Hashimoto Maya guessed at his superior's preferences as he watched the upcoming performance.
Not far away, someone else was watching him.
Conan: "..." What was this guy looking around for? Was he waiting for a chance to meet up with Gin, or keeping watch for him?
So Conan began surveying the area as well. As he looked around, his gaze landed on a strange mechanism near the bridgehead, made of rollers and Wooden Stakes.
"What is this?" Conan adjusted his glasses and leaned in for a closer look in the dim night. But just as he crouched down, something slammed into his back with a thud, followed immediately by a cry from behind him.
Suzuki Sonoko, who had nearly tripped, staggered to her feet. Holding onto Jiang Xia's arm, she turned around and discovered a dark lump of Conan crouching on the ground.
"You little brat, what are you doing squatting on the ground in the dark? Trying to scare people to death?! Are you hurt?" Suzuki Sonoko scolded him as she stepped forward and hauled the thoughtless kid up.
Just then, a series of creaking mechanical noises rang out. Everyone turned back in shock and saw the wooden bridge behind them slowly rising, higher and higher... until it finally stood at a right angle with the shore, crashing into place.
Suzuki Sonoko stared blankly at the towering bridge. "What's going on?"
Jiang Xia pointed beneath Conan. "It looks like you accidentally triggered the mechanism that raises it."
Conan straightened his crooked plain glasses and looked down, his heart sinking: the old Wooden Pole had actually been snapped by the collision.
Jiang Xia walked over and poked at the broken section inside the mechanism, but the entire Suspension Bridge did not budge.
He could not be bothered to fiddle with