But speaking of "not killing the people around him"...
Conan froze, suddenly realizing it was too soon to relax—Ran and Uncle Mouri were indeed fine, but Vermouth's target had never been those two ordinary people who knew nothing. That meant the one truly in danger now was...
"Haibara!" Remembering something, Conan hurriedly took out his phone, intending to call Vermouth's real target.
As he dialed, he prayed that Vermouth and her accomplices had not taken advantage of the chaos to launch a sneak attack on Haibara Ai.
But just then, Officer Takagi heard the name he was muttering and said, "Oh, that child? She's fine. The pier was pretty chaotic just now, but she cleverly hid beside a shipping container and only scraped her leg. To be safe, Jiang Xia took her to the hospital for an examination."
"Who?" Conan blinked. "You mean... Haibara was at the pier too?!"
"Yeah, weren't you together?" Officer Takagi was also taken aback. "She said you'd been taken away, and we were worried there'd been another kidnapping. Didn't expect us to find you so soon... Huh? Wait."
Officer Takagi scratched the back of his head, belatedly recalling something. "Wasn't that little girl over at the tennis court earlier? Why did she run to the pier? And get caught up in something so dangerous too." ...Going wherever danger was—was that really something a first-grade elementary school student should be doing?
Mouri Ran recalled something as well and nodded. "I did see Ai at the tennis court around noon, but then I was kidnapped, so I don't know what happened after that. Come to think of it..."
She looked at Conan in confusion. "Why were you at the pier? Didn't you say you had something else to do today and even turned down the tennis match?"