Since they had finished eating, the group didn't stay in the dining car any longer.
Conan pulled Chi Feichi to the back and asked in a low voice, "Don't you think the people in the dining car just now were all very strange?"
"Yeah, when I came in, they were talking about Mr. Mouri, right?" Chi Feichi also lowered his voice to whisper back. "The expressions on the others' faces were a bit off at that time."
"The strangest one was that woman," Conan stroked his chin in thought. "Acting all mysterious, eavesdropping on our conversation, then suddenly getting angry. And the last thing she said sounded a lot like a threat."
Chi Feichi was a bit speechless. "You're probably overthinking it."
"Maybe," Conan was immersed in his own thoughts. "Some women really are unreasonable..."
As the group passed a room, the door opened a crack, and Kudo Yukiko watched Conan walk by with an expressionless face.
Is he saying I'm unreasonable?
Conan felt a chill down his spine. He turned to look, but only saw a closed door. He frowned immediately. "The person in that room..."
Chi Feichi glanced at the room, unsure whose it was.
Conan thought for a moment. He hadn't said anything important just now. He pulled back his thoughts and looked at Chi Feichi with a slightly complicated gaze. "Come to think of it, why do I feel like every time I meet you, there are always some people around behaving strangely or having abnormal emotions?"
Thinking carefully, the family in the castle incident wasn't normal. Later, Mamiya Mitsuru's reaction was also strange, secretly laughing to himself while eating, which was simply terrifying.
Then, the Morizono family could continue eating calmly while their pets fought and roared terrifyingly, which was also a bit weird.
This time, that woman's mood swings were also strange, like she had bipolar disorder, suddenly making eerie threats...
Chi Feichi stared at Conan without saying a word.
He suspected Conan was smearing him, but he had no evidence.
"Ahem," Conan felt uncomfortable under Chi Feichi's cold stare and changed the subject. "Anyway, better be careful. I feel something is definitely going to happen."
Chi Feichi withdrew his gaze. "I understand. After all, every time I meet you, an incident seems to occur."
Although he had no evidence, it didn't stop him from fighting back.
"Oi, oi..."
"Conan?"
"Coming!" Hearing Mouri Ran calling, Conan quickened his pace to catch up.
Mouri Ran laughed. "You and Mr. Chi really have a good relationship!"
Conan suddenly had an idea. Since they had met, it would be better for him to stay with Chi Feichi. If anything happened, he could move freely. "Ran-neechan, tonight I want to stay at..."
"No, you don't." Chi Feichi dropped a sentence in a low voice, walked past the Mouri trio, and opened his own room with his key card. "Good night."
"Uh, good night..." Mouri Ran hadn't heard what Chi Feichi whispered to Conan. seeing Darcy enter and the door close, she withdrew her gaze and smiled at Conan. "Conan, what did you want to say just now?"
"N-Nothing." Conan smiled awkwardly.
Chi Feichi, that guy...!
In the dark night, the train sped towards Hokkaido.
In the gradually quieting corridor, a figure slipped out, quietly approached Asama Anji's room, and knocked on the door. "Asama."
No response.
The figure frowned and took out a phone to call.
In a carriage far away from there, Asama Anji felt the phone vibrating and woke up. He shouted 'Mmph, mmph' a few times before realizing he was in total darkness, tied up securely, and gagged.
Beside him, Feichi shook his dizzy head, realized Asama Anji was awake, found the capsule, and pierced it with his tail again.
Before Asama Anji could recall what had happened earlier, he fainted again.
On the other side, the sneaky figure made two more calls. Realizing no one answered, he knocked on the door with a frown. "Asama?"
"Asama, it's me!"
"Hey, are you sure you want to hide from me?"
Still no response from behind the door.
The figure looked at the locked door, gritted his teeth, put on a wig, hat, and mask, and adjusted the trench coat that was identical to Asama Anji's. He walked to the side and dialed another number. When the call connected, he lowered his voice and said, "Hello, I'm the passenger in Room 05. I accidentally left my key card in the room. Could you use the spare key card to open the door for me?"
The staff member came and opened the door. After walking into the room, Kaetsu Toshinori was bewildered.
He thought Asama Anji had discovered something and was deliberately hiding and not opening the door. He didn't expect Asama Anji not to be in the room at all...
They had clearly agreed that Asama Anji would wait in the room for him to come over!
Now that his arranged scapegoat was gone, what should he do about his murder plan? Should he continue with it?
Two hours later, at 4:00 AM, gunshots and screams rang out as the train passed through a tunnel...
In the room, Darcy, who was sleeping on the sofa, opened his eyes and sat up immediately, staring vigilantly at the door, moving slowly.
Noisy footsteps came from outside, running past, accompanied by several gunshots.
Then came Mouri Kogoro's fading shout, "Bastard! Stop right there! Don't think about escaping!"
Chi Feichi was also woken up by the commotion outside. After sending a location message to Feimo via phone, he put on his coat and got up to leave the inner room.
Did something happen after all?
He thought without Asama Anji as a scapegoat, the culprit would give up on killing.
Darcy noticed Chi Feichi was awake too. He glanced over and whispered, "Young Master, something happened. I'll go out and take a look. Lock the door..."
"It's fine, let's go look together." Chi Feichi went straight to the door and opened it.
"Ah, Young Master..." Darcy couldn't stop him in time and hurriedly followed.
In front of a room, cold wind whistled into the carriage. A group of train police stood in a row.
"Stop the train quickly," Mouri Kogoro shouted, "then call the police!"
"Mr. Mouri," Darcy asked, "may I ask what happened?"
Mouri Kogoro turned around, his expression solemn. "Don't come in. Someone was just shot dead in the lounge car. The culprit ran all the way here, broke the window with a gun, and escaped!"
Chi Feichi turned to look at the shattered glass window. "Do you remember what the culprit looked like?"
"It was someone wearing a trench coat, with a mask and hat covering their face," Conan said with a very grave expression. "We didn't see their face clearly."
Chi Feichi didn't ask further.
Unexpectedly, even with Asama Anji absent, the culprit still committed the crime according to the novel's plot...
The train stopped. Half an hour later, the police arrived and began their investigation.
While the police, Mouri Kogoro, and the others were concentrated in the front carriages and the lounge car, Chi Feichi turned on the communicator on his necklace. putting on gloves found in the restroom, he walked quickly to the rear carriage and found Asama Anji, still unconscious in the closet.
"Master, I've arrived," Feimo's voice came from the communicator. "The taxi has arrived too. The items are placed under the tunnel!"
Chi Feichi didn't rush to move the person. "Good. Tell me the situation outside."
"The train is stopped outside the tunnel now," Feimo said, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings. "There are police on both sides; it's not easy to take someone off the train... Wait, Master. Near the third-to-last carriage door, the police just withdrew. The door isn't locked yet. The police in front can't see this spot. You can take the person out from here."
"Keep watch for me. Finish with the rope within three minutes. I'll clean up the traces here first." Chi Feichi carried the unconscious Feichi out, hid him in a nearby restroom, then moved Asama Anji, avoiding people, and got him out as fast as possible.
Outside the train, the police officer standing in front of the broken window looked up in confusion. "Why are there crows here?"
"Because someone died, I guess," another policeman sighed. "Hearing crows cawing at night is eerie..."
Feimo flew high above, cawing occasionally to give commands.
Under the tunnel, a flock of crows worked together, carrying cardboard pieces, tape, and rope in their beaks. Avoiding the police's line of sight, they placed the box and tape near the carriage door and looped the rope around the railing beside the tunnel.
Before long, Chi Feichi opened the door and got off. He expertly set up the cardboard box, taped three sides securely, and put Asama Anji inside.
"Caw—!" Two crows flew over and dropped two printed papers at Chi Feichi's feet.
Chi Feichi sealed the box with maximum speed, wrapping the entire cardboard box tightly, not forgetting to poke a few air holes. Then he tied the rope pulled to his feet securely around the box and grabbed the other end of the rope.
Below the bridge outside the tunnel was a highway running perpendicular to it.
The cardboard box was dragged near the guardrail. A flock of crows perched nearby to block the police's view.
Feimo flew up and down, observing and directing. Only when the box crossed the guardrail and was lowered down did he breathe a long sigh of relief. "Alright, Master. Landed safely, no one noticed. The second taxi I contacted should be arriving soon."
"Clean up the drag marks of the box on the ground." Chi Feichi whispered, taking off his gloves and throwing them to the flock of crows, then turned back to the train without hesitation.
From the moment he took Asama Anji out until now, only a little over five minutes had passed.
Running through a carriage with a grown man, sealing the box at top speed, and then lowering it under the bridge with a rope—he was exhausted.
Moreover, this operation was a total mobilization.
If the culprit had given up on killing due to Asama Anji's disappearance, he could have waited until the train reached the station to find a way to get the man out.
Since the culprit killed someone anyway, the train would inevitably stop. After receiving his location message, Feimo would contact a taxi, leave money by the roadside, and have the taxi deliver the box and rope so he could move the person away from the tracks. While rushing over, Feimo would contact a second taxi.
Once the box and items arrived and the first taxi left, he would lower the box. The second taxi would arrive shortly after, responsible for 'picking up the goods'. The money would also be placed on the box by Feimo.
Although picking up a box in the middle of nowhere was weird, it was much better than picking up an unconscious person.
Through text notifications and money placed on the box, they would transfer through a few taxis until the person was delivered to the National Police Agency, with Feimo monitoring the whole process...