Conan had slipped away so suddenly that Mouri Ran hadn't reacted in time. All she could do was watch as he chased after two people dressed like office workers, trying to follow them off the train.
Luckily, a helpful passerby stopped him.
After stopping the brat, the helpful Anonymous didn't linger. She turned and entered the next car, her figure quickly vanishing behind the connecting door.
Mouri Ran watched her leave gratefully.
Once she was gone, Ran looked down—only to find that Conan, who had just been by her legs, had vanished again.
Mouri Ran: "...?"
Jiang Xia controlled Miyano Akemi's puppet and left Mouri Ran and Conan's sight along the train cars.
He entered a restroom, locked the door behind him, and left the puppet there for the time being.
Then he had Xiao Bai drift outside for a while to confirm the bomb's exact location.
With the benefit of spoiler knowledge, it didn't take Jiang Xia long to find his target in the VIP car on the second floor.
A dozen seconds later.
The restroom door clicked open. "Miss Anonymous," dressed in a long black gauze gown and wearing a black sunhat, stepped gracefully into the corridor.
Controlling this bizarrely styled puppet, Jiang Xia passed through several long cars, making sure countless passengers got a good look at her.
At last, he found a train attendant and got straight to the point. "There's a bomb on the train."
The train attendant froze.
—A minute earlier, Conan, who had slipped away, had also come to find a train attendant and said there was a bomb on the train, powerful enough to blow an entire car into ashes.
The train attendant had asked who brought the bomb and how Conan knew about it. Conan's voice had stalled, and