Hello Shiroi Mi is back! Alive and kicking. Sorry for the long break before. But now I'm on about this story again. xD anyway this chapter is rather informative I know, but bear with this because this is the necessary information needed to be revealed for the case. See ya soon!

"This is bizarre." A high-pitched rather familiar female voice sounded over Conan's receiver. At present, Conan is crouched under a random desk at the police headquarter, pressing the earphones into his left ear, struggling to make out the hazy and unclear words.

"I completely agree. What's your opinion on this, Satou-san?" Megure's deep voice rattled through the receiver.

"I would think that this case must be the doing of someone or some group with large influence over the country. Predicting and stopping a planned crime is even harder than solving a done crime." Satou answered.

"But we think it just one person or if not, a few persons… We had the profilers analysis the case. The bomber was easy to read, just another screwed guy out there trying to do the wrong things. Possibly with grudge to the police, especially the Beika area since all the targets were Beika areas."

"Obviously someone is trying to stop the bombs or at least preventing the bomb from exploding in places where it can harm people." Feet shuffled.

"Based on this, the first bomb was planted under the circus stage. We received a tip off, possibly from the bomber himself, 10 mins before the set time for explosion. This was sent to the second division. Kuusake-kun from the second division will elaborate on that."

"yes thank you Shiratori-san. We received the tip off by fax coming in exactly at 3.56 pm. The paper, which I have a photocopy here reads, 'The circus is coming to town, with a blast. Fireworks of orange and gold, will drop the curtain to the stage. At 4.16, when the second hand strikes twelve, come to Beika Greens and watch the finale grand.' we concluded that this threat was real because of the wordings and the careful planning of this fax. We mobilized immediately. But it was impossible to get to Beika Greens in 10 mins from here. The bomber clearly planned it in such as way that we could 'see' the circus but cannot 'reach' there in time. About 2 crossroads away, we watched the bomb go off, plastic explosive, orange flame in the sky. When we reached the scene, we found out that the show scheduled for that time was cancelled."

"Why was it cancelled so suddenly? I remember the news reporting it having the last finale show at that time."

"yes that's true. We interviewed the circus owner. He told us a rather curious story. His son was kidnapped."

A collective intake of surprised breaths.

"It's true. The kidnapped demanded that the circus cancel its finale show."

"so it's a bad that turned out good."

"seems so at first glance. A kidnapper saved about a thousand people just accident. If it was an accident."

If it was an accident? Conan mused over this sentence. It was true that it was a rather lucky break but why did the officer say that puzzled him. Why were the officers so set that it was not a

'lucky break'.

"The son was returned, safe and sound. No demand for ransom or anything. Just simply cancel the show. We never really investigated deeply into the case because the owner was more thankful to the kidnapper than anything else and he didn't want to press the case."

Conan smiled musingly to himself. Of course the owner would be thankful. The kidnapper just saved him a lot of trouble and a lot of bloodshed perhaps even the owner's own life. Moreover, his son was returned safe.

"That's the first case." Shiratori's voice returned. "the second case, is the bus ran by the Meiko bus company. The bus travels within Beika daily starting from 7am to 11pm. However the bus's tires had been slashed. So the bus was left at the coach park instead for repairing the next day when it blew up. The time it blew up was 7.00pm. According to the bus route and timetable, the bus would be passing by Beika's highly visited shopping district at that time as it does everyday except for that day. It wasn't the first time bus's tires were slashed and the company thought it was just a prank so they didn't report it."

Now that is interesting. Conan thought as he processed the new information. Lucky breaks don't happen that often do they? Especially not so for the little murder-magnet detective.

"the third case. The van case was done exactly as the bus case which roused suspicions. While we were debating whether these cases were related, the letters of threats from the bomber arrived. Which is why we passed this case on to the first division. This could be the case of the mass-murderer on the loose. A crazy and paranoid one at that, to issue direct challenge to the police." Kuusake-san concluded.

"Yes. Today we got our fourth case." Megure's voice returned again. "The bomb had just been found, exploded in a storeroom at the jetty where they store goods. The bomb exploded from a goods box in storeroom 56. The box was designated to Miluva's cosmetics opening today at the popular Beika mall. According to the store manager, that box of goods were to be delivered today when the store's grand opening. In the box were fresh flowers and small sample cosmetics which were to be given to the public today. However, since they had postponed the opening of the shop to tomorrow, they called off the delivery so the box was undelivered when it exploded."

'So, we have a frantic bomber. An unknown entity prevented the bombs from exploding in packed places. It could be just the work of 1 person. But how does that person know where the bombs are? And why didn't that person just come to the police?" satou questioned.

Mumblings to be heard but no one knew the answer.

End of chapter 10. Look for to chapter 11 where Conan shall unravel the mystery but not before a Kid appearance and a meeting with Hakuba. xD everything will come together slowly, drawn by the invisible hands of fate.

Shiroi Mi~