Suddenly, Takeshita, standing by, looked at his watch and exclaimed in a panic, "Ah! Time's almost up! We need to hurry to the venue and prepare!"
Hearing Takeshita's words, Ueda also quickly looked at his watch. "What? What are we going to do? We don't have time to queue!"
So Takeshita and Ueda immediately ran to the counter. "Excuse me, please let me cut in line."
"Me too."
Nakajima looked displeased. "Hey, don't cut in line!"
Takeshita turned to Nakajima and said, "You'd better hurry up too, or the president will be angry if we're late!"
"Oh, right!" Nakajima, realizing, also followed Takeshita and Ueda and cut in line.
Yuu looked at the three guys cutting in line. "Is your president really that scary? Heh."
Nakajima cautioned the front desk lady, "Please don't make any mistakes!"
"The three of their cases are exactly alike," Ran said, looking at their three cases, quite surprised.
"Yes," Takeshita replied to Ran. "Not only the cases, but their ties and watches are also identical. This was our president's idea, to strengthen the public's impression of our company."
Nakajima said with a wry smile, "Actually, they're large, heavy, and rotten cases that colleagues can easily mistake. Although we brought them today, almost everyone leaves them here for safekeeping."
Ueda secretly whispered to Ran, "Right now, the only one still carrying it around is probably the president..."
"Cough cough!" A cough came from behind them. Ueda turned around and saw that the president had arrived.
"I'm truly sorry," the president greeted Mouri. "Mr. Mouri, it's an honor to have the assistance of such an excellent talent like yourself."
"You're too kind!" Mouri replied happily to the president.
The trio exclaimed in horror, "Pre... President!!"
"Speaking of which, our company employees are truly thoughtless." The president glared at the trio and roared. "Now, get to your workstations!"
"Yes!" the trio replied, grabbed their number tags, and hastily fled.
After the three left, it was Ran's turn. Ran took the number tag from the front desk lady, looked at it, then smiled at Yuu and Conan, "Wow! How lucky! Conan, Yuu, look, our number is exactly 100! Something good seems to be happening today."
Conan chuckled, disdainfully thinking, "Silly woman."
Yuu looked at Conan, just smiling without speaking.
Afterward, Mouri and the president went to the game software presentation together, while Ran, Conan, and Yuu went to play games.
"Wow! Success! Success! A comeback win!!" Ran cheered, waving her hands, playing a fighting game with Conan.
"Amazing, Ran!" Ueda suddenly appeared and said, "That move doesn't appear easily."
"She's probably just very lucky!" Conan said helplessly from the side.
"I won't even comment on you, a gaming idiot who can't even beat an elementary schooler," Yuu said with a smile, having watched Conan and Ran play the entire time.
"Ah! Let's play that game next!" Ran pointed to a boxing arcade game.
Takeshita stood by the boxing arcade game, looking at the 246 points on the screen. "What a shame, if it were over 250 points, it would light up spectacularly." Takeshita called out to Nakajima, who was on the other side, "Hey, Nakajima! Want to give this a try?"
Nakajima turned and looked. "Oh, sure!"
Nakajima walked over, took off his jacket, placed it in Takeshita's hand, put on the game's special boxing gloves, and walked to the boxing arcade game. With a "Heh!" he delivered a full-force punch to the machine.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Hallelujah!" The boxing arcade game cheered.
"348 points! Amazing!" Ran asked Nakajima, "Mr. Nakajima, did you used to practice this?"
"Yes, I used to box in college," Nakajima said, taking off his gloves and nodding.
"He's pretty good!" Takeshita took the gloves and suggested to Ran, "By the way, Ran, do you want to give it a try?"
Ran quickly waved her hand. "No, I..."
"This can help you relieve stress," Takeshita continued to persuade Ran.
"Stress?" Ran paused, then took the gloves. "Hurry back to me, you stinky Shinichi!!"
"400 points!?" Takeshita was surprised.
Conan looked at the screen in disbelief. "Terrifying..."
Yuu patted Conan's shoulder. "Kid, you've got a lot of living to do, hahaha!"
"Conan, Yuu, do you two want to try it too? It really seems to relieve stress," Ran said, looking at Yuu and Conan.
Yuu pouted, indicating disinterest. "If I went all out, this machine would explode. I'm a low-key man."
"Sister Ran, I'm going to the restroom!" Conan immediately changed the subject.
"Me too."
"I'll go too. Let's go together," Yuu and Nakajima also wanted to go to the restroom.
Nakajima, who was looking around for a restroom, was caught off guard and directly knocked to the ground by a tall man. Conan looked up in surprise and said, "What a tall man!"
Conan asked Nakajima, who was still on the ground, "Is he also from the game company?"
"No, I haven't seen him before," Nakajima said he didn't know him.
"This guy has killed people," Yuu suddenly said. "I can feel the scent of blood on him."
"What!" Conan was startled. He didn't expect Yuu to even be able to sense that.
When Yuu and Conan returned after washing their hands, they saw that guy again. He was picking up a package at the lockers. Conan subconsciously glanced over there. "Number 98!"
"Huh? That's Mr. Nakajima's company logo, but Mr. Nakajima just said he didn't know this person," Conan wondered, watching the man walk towards the vending machine.
Yuu looked at the man and said, "That's none of our business. Let's quickly go buy some tomato juice for Uncle Mouri to sober up."
Conan nodded and walked towards the vending machine.
"Mm, it's me, Tequila. The deal's done, see?" The tall man spoke with a strange accent, but his words made Conan and Yuu alert. "Don't worry, Vodka, I'll meet you two before evening. Tell Gin for me, see?"
Hearing this, Conan's heart skipped a beat. "I finally found you, Gin."
Yuu immediately placed a signal emitter on Tequila when he wasn't looking. "It seems our luck is good today. If we follow this guy, we'll find Gin."
"That's right!" Conan activated his tracking glasses.
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