Mouri Ran said worriedly, "Could he have suddenly fallen ill again? The last time I met him, he collapsed by the roadside. Could it be happening again this time...?"
Conan had a different opinion. ...How could he have fallen ill at such a convenient time? He was fine in front of us, but he got sick in the time it took to fetch a car?
More likely, James had already completed the transaction and quietly slipped away.
"It has been a while," Jiang Xia said after thinking it over. "Why don't we go look for him? I remember James went that way just now, and there really is a parking garage in that direction."
Hashimoto Maya was still thinking about the Magician. Hearing this, he came back to his senses. "All right."
The group followed the direction James had gone, and before long, they spotted an automated parking garage.
"James?" The two high school girls called out as they peered through the gaps between cars, searching for an ailing old man clutching his chest on the ground.
Hashimoto Maya also wandered around the parking garage casually. Suddenly, he stopped and looked in one direction suspiciously. "Why is this car's door open?"
Jiang Xia walked over and glanced down. "The automatic payment machine at this spot has stopped operating, and the barrier by the wheel has lowered... If this is James's car, then he should have inserted coins to unlock it and opened the door. I just don't know why he didn't drive away and vanished instead."
The others noticed the commotion and gathered around the car.
After hearing Jiang Xia's words, Mouri Ran couldn't help crouching down to inspect the undersides of the nearby cars. It was possible that he had struggled and rolled around after falling ill, accidentally ending