Chapter 1: Top of His Class
Rachel looked at the wall, disinterested in the class. She couldn't believe that she was being forced to retake a history class, and of course, they were on the Christianity unit. For some reason, her teacher made a point out of translating the Bible from Japanese to English. Wasn't that the English teacher's job? Thoughts like that were running through Rachel's mind, keeping her from focusing on what was going on in the class. Thankfully, she was in the same boat as her classmates. She didn't have her best friend Serena in the class, unfortunately. She could hear the teacher ask someone to translate a certain passage from the bible, but no one was paying attention enough to raise their hand let alone translate it into English. The teacher looked around, before calling out..
"Yagami, how about you? Are you still with us?" Light wasn't paying attention to what was going on in the class, either. He already knows about all of these things, so there was no reason to listen intently. However, his name was called out, so he looked down at his textbook and stood up, holding it in his hands. "Can you translate the section of the Bible, Light?" to which Light responds, "Sure."
He begins and translates the section his teacher directed him to, standing up all the while. This got even Rachel's attention, as everyone looked over at Light who reads the section in english. After he finished, he looked around the room and sat himself down, to which the teacher replied, "Thank you, Light." Rachel continues to look over at Light. He wasn't really a talker, he was just like her in that he preferred zoning out over talking with classmates. The two look out the window as a.. notebook, is that what it was? A black composition sort of notebook fell from the sky suddenly and dropped to the ground. Rachel was curious, of course, but she just sighed and looked away, towards the wall once more. Light, however was drawn to it and couldn't stop staring at it on the ground. Finally, much later, the class was let out and Rachel heads home and up the stairs, opening the door to the office. Conan is at the conference table, who looks up at the girl.
"Hey, Rachel." Conan greets her and looks over at her father, Richard Moore. Yes, he was a detective, but in his downtime, he got drunk and watched TV. A smile appears on Conan's face after he sees how drunk the "detective" was.
"Dad, you're so hopeless.." she says with a sigh, pressing a palm to her face and giggling just a bit. Suddenly, the screen cut to breaking news much to the older man's dismay. "Hey, I was watching that!" He exclaims. Conan walks over and attempts to get a peek at the screen, Rachel following suit. A female reporter was standing in front of a building.
"Yes, as we speak, there appears to be an armed man inside the school threatening the students and faculty. Police are attempting to regain control of the situation, but as you can see, they are having trouble. The man has been identified as a Mitsui Morito. Of course, the man is armed and has taken several children hostage. More updates as they come in." Rachel looks towards Richard and Conan. The boy was looking intently at the screen, however, the older man seems to have fallen asleep.
"The situation looks pretty bad, huh, Conan?" She asks the child.
"Yeah, hehe!" He reassumes his childlike face and tone of voice. "I hope the police can handle it." "Is Megure there? And why are the police taking so long to take him into custody?" He thought to himself. Suddenly, the phone on Richard's desk began to ring, and the man woke up with a jump. He cleared his throat and picked up the phone.
"Moore detective agency, this is Richard Moore the great." In response to this, the mysterious person on the other line spoke. They were using a voice disguiser, so their voice was dropped a couple of octaves.
"This is Moore, right? I hope you're watching the news." He began. "Yeah, I am. Who am I speaking to?" Through the phone, you could hear a grin form on the man's face. "I am Mitsui Morito, the man inside this building." With that, Richard quickly sobered up. The fact that lives were possibly at stake was enough to sober him up, for a bit at least.
"Mitsui? I hope you've realized your mistake. You called the most formidable detective in Japan, you know." He straightens up his tie. Conan's eyebrows furrowed, and Rachel stepped back a bit, shocked at how fast Richard was able to sober up.
"Listen to me very closely, detective. Here's what's going to happen, and if you do not follow my every move, these children and all the teachers will be killed. Don't think you can be slick, I'm watching your every move." Richard nods in response.
"Okay. What do you want from me?"
"Do not mess up, lives depend on you. I want you to-" Mitsui was suddenly cut off. The man was.. choking? It sounded as if.. he was having a heart attack! What was going on? The trio looked at the screen, only to be shocked by the news.
"Yes, yes, confirmed by police who are currently inside, the man has just passed away from a heart attack. He was apparently holding onto a phone, and police claim that the line was on with the Moore Detective Agency." As the news came out, the phone hang up. "Detectives are currently trying to figure out why he suddenly went into cardiac arrest, more updates.." the reporter continued. Richard places the phone down, and Conan looks intently at the screen.
"What..? What was he going to ask? And more importantly, why did he just suddenly have a heart attack? Was it premeditated? Maybe he took something in before heading into the building, planning to kill himself and he simply took too long.. but.. no, it couldn't possibly be that easy.. maybe it wasn't a heart attack, perhaps he.. so, was the victim stabbed, and the media attempted a cover-up? But why would they do that?" Conan pondered his thoughts.
"What just happened? You saw that, right? We were on the phone with the man, and suddenly he had a heart attack and died.. maybe the situation was too dire and he killed himself, because he couldn't handle the great detective!" A grin grows onto the moronic old man's face, before Rachel spoke up.
"Dad, were you listening? It wasn't a suicide, if you were looking at the screen, you'd know it was a heart attack!"
"A heart attack? Well, his death's even more of a mystery now. What in the world happened? Maybe the news station was lying!" Richard responds, quick to jump to conclusions.
"But for what reason would the news station lie about a man's death? Come on, dad, think!" She balled up her fists and almost hit her dad on the head, before his phone went off again. He picks it up.
"Oh, Inspector! What's up? Yeah, I was watching the news, what's-" he continued as Rachel looked around, before asking,
"Conan? Ah, great, where'd he go?"