Chapter 34: The One-Kick Superman
"Now arriving at Kyoto Station. Passengers getting off here, please prepare to exit!"
A Shinkansen train rolled slowly to a stop at Kyoto Station.
Gin and Vodka, dressed in black from head to toe, stood out sharply in the crowd.
"Boss, you're really just letting her walk away?"
Vodka watched the striking woman in the red dress carry her suitcase off the platform.
"Letting her walk away?"
"Heh. I'm just letting her live a few more days."
Gin said with a cold smirk.
"What about those thirty thousand Gold Maple Leaf coins?"
"At today's gold prices, they're already worth $60,000,000."
Vodka asked.
Not long ago, a gang of Italian robbers had broken into a bank vault and fled to Japan with thirty thousand Gold Maple Leaf coins.
But just a few days ago, the police had already arrested the whole crew.
Even the thirty thousand coins had been seized, now waiting to be shipped back to Italy, to the bank they belonged to.
Thirty thousand coins—and each one a full ounce of gold, no less.
Weighing in at over nine hundred kilograms, nearly a full metric ton.
Worth a staggering $60,000,000!
This time, the people they were doing business with were a different crew of robbers entirely.
They'd sell word of the coins to that crew, and let them go rob the thirty thousand coins themselves.
"The mantis stalks the cicada, never seeing the oriole waiting behind."
"And in this case, we're the oriole."
Gin tossed the briefcase packed with explosives carelessly onto the crowded platform.
Then, with Vodka in tow, he walked straight off.
'What do your lives matter to me?'
"Conan, how are you still wetting your pants?"
Ran frowned, thoroughly exasperated.
Sure enough!
Moving out and living on her own really had been the right call.
Otherwise, she'd be the one stuck washing this little pervert's pants.
"Kid, hold onto your own pants!"
"Have some shame!"
Kogoro was pretty fed up himself.
The boy was in elementary school already, and he still wet himself.
And on the seat of the Shinkansen, no less.
Kogoro had to keep apologizing to everyone around them, and even paid ten thousand yen out of pocket for the cleaning fee.
If this kept happening, his monthly allowance of a hundred thousand yen wasn't going to cut it—he'd end up running at a loss.
"I—I didn't do it on purpose."
Conan hung his head, his face burning red.
His mind might still be sharp, but his body was just a kid's, after all.
"If you wet yourself again, I'll have Dr. Agasa take you back. You're not staying at my place!"
Kogoro warned.
"Y-yes sir, I understand!"
Conan agreed at once.
'If I go back to Dr. Agasa's, wouldn't that mean living with a smelly old man every single day?'
'A nightmare!'
"Somebody left their luggage behind!"
Ayumi suddenly called out to the crowd.
But no one responded to her at all.
The black suitcase just sat there, quietly, on the ground.
"That's so weird. Nobody wants this case?"
Ayumi asked, puzzled.
"The teacher always says lost things should be handed over to the police."
"Let's turn the case in to the police!"
Mitsuhiko proposed excitedly.
In his head, he could already picture the grown-ups praising him for it.
"I bet there's tons of good snacks in there, right?"
Genta drooled, reaching out to open the case.
"Don't!"
"There might be a bomb inside!"
Just then, Conan suddenly shouted.
A bomb?
For one instant, everyone froze in place.
It was as if time itself had stopped, the whole scene frozen on that single second.
But once they realized it was just a little kid who'd said it, everyone laughed it off and went back to their own business.
"Kid, you're spouting nonsense again!"
Kogoro cracked him one with an iron fist, cutting off his train of deduction.
"No more causing trouble!"
Ran warned him, displeased.
This child never stopped stirring up chaos, not even for a single day.
A bomb?
Makoto swallowed hard, eyes going wide, his face draining of color as he stared at the black suitcase.
If he remembered right, that was the same case Gin had been holding earlier.
And today's plot was very likely—
The Shinkansen's Bomb Case!
"Move! Get out of the way!"
"It's a bomb! It's a bomb!"
Makoto roared at the top of his lungs.
He grabbed the suitcase and sprinted toward the station's outer wall in just a few bounding strides.
Before anyone could even react, he threw every ounce of strength into a single kick, sending the black suitcase flying clean over the wall.
"Boom!"
An earth-shaking blast tore through the air.
Thick smoke billowed up, debris scattering in every direction.
The once-peaceful crowd erupted into chaos in an instant.
Everyone scattered in a blind panic, scrambling for safety.
Women screaming, men cursing, children crying—the whole platform dissolved into pure bedlam.
Conan stood there, stunned.
What he'd shouted a moment ago had been pure reflex.
In his gut, he'd been certain Gin and his partner were bad news.
And whatever bad news left behind couldn't be anything good either.
But even he hadn't expected—
It really had been a bomb!
"Whew—"
"Good thing we made it in time!"
Makoto let out a long breath of relief.
A few seconds later and this place would have been a sea of corpses and blood, a living hell on earth.
"Makoto!"
Ran cried out, her face blank with shock.
"It's fine now!"
"It's all been taken care of!"
Makoto said with a smile.
"B-but..."
"Your foot!"
Ran, eyes brimming with tears, pointed a trembling finger at his right foot.
"My foot?"
Makoto looked down.
His foot was bent at a completely wrong angle!
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Gold Maple Leaf — A real-world Canadian gold bullion coin, each one troy ounce of 99.99% pure gold. First minted in 1979 and still produced today.
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Edogawa Conan — Shinichi's alternate identity. Series: Detective Conan.
Gin — Silver hair, Black Organization. Series: Detective Conan.
Higashino Makoto — Protagonist. Transmigrated.
Mouri Kogoro — Ran's father. Series: Detective Conan.
Mouri Ran — Shinichi's childhood sweetheart. Series: Detective Conan.
Vodka — Black Organization. Series: Detective Conan.
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Translated by CheapBiscuit.
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