A Reliable Bastard of a Leader

"W-What happened?!"

"What's going on?!"

"Stop the parade immediately! Evacuate all spectators from the scene at once!"

Wataru Takagi's car was over ten meters away from the parade crowd, but since the blast had been powerful enough to flip the entire vehicle, it naturally startled both the crowd and the convoy.

Conan and the others, who had been walking along the outer edge of the crowd, were drawn by the commotion and quickly headed toward the intersection.

"What was that sound just now?"

"A bomb!" Conan declared with certainty. "That fax Officer Sato and the others mentioned should be related to the bombing case from three years ago. It looked like a car was blown completely into the air."

"Wasn't that Officer Takagi's car?" Through the smoke, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya judged the approximate direction and recalled seeing Wataru Takagi earlier. "Is Officer Takagi okay?!"

"Hard to say. I saw someone approach the car through the crowd just now..." Conan's brows were tightly furrowed.

Led by him, the group slipped past the guardrails and ran toward the blast site before the police could put up caution tape.

Only Ai Haibara lagged behind by two steps. As she ran, she reached out and tugged on the cuff of Tangze's pants. His pace looked hurried, but he was actually strolling along with ease.

"I think I saw someone get there before Officer Takagi. Is that okay?" she asked quietly.

Tangze, taking tiny steps forward, did not answer. He merely smiled at her.

Of course it was okay. He had just seen someone who looked suspiciously like Matsuda Jinpei, that was all. Before this bombing case was over, that "hallucination" would soon become a collective one.

As long as everyone saw a ghost, it was practically the same as nobody seeing one!

"Where's Officer Takagi?