"..."
After a brief stunned silence, everyone in the room sprang to their feet. "What happened?! What fell down?!"
Haga Kyosuke froze, stopping his bow mid-stroke as he looked at the group whose expressions had drastically changed. "What's wrong?"
Mouri Ran stared out the window in horror. "That thing that just fell... it couldn't have been... that old lady, could it?"
Shitara Renki snapped back to her senses and ran to the window. Looking down, she saw her grandmother in pajamas lying motionless on the ground.
...The thing that had fallen was actually a person.
"An ambulance..." Shitara Renki said fearfully. "Call an ambulance, quickly!"
Mouri Ran had already pressed the police call button, but at those words, she froze. Right—when something like this happened, shouldn't they call an ambulance first?
However, the call had already connected with a beep, and the dispatcher's voice came through. "Miss Mouri, it's you again. Where did something happen this time?"
Listening to the call, Torimaru Naoko took out her own phone and silently called an Ambulance, though she felt it was completely unnecessary—whoever had targeted this Villa would hardly leave anyone alive.
Meanwhile, Jiang Xia had already run downstairs like a Detective and arrived beside the body.
But before he could do anything, Conan had already reached out to check on the old woman, then sighed. She was completely dead.
"But why was she the one who died?" Conan could not understand it for the moment. "I remember this old lady was called 'Ayane,' spelled 'ayane'—going by the DEFG sequence, shouldn't the next one have been H?"
As he muttered, he suddenly noticed something and jerked his head up. Behind a 3rd Floor window was a human face.
—the old family head with lung cancer had pulled open a gap in the curtains