One thing I want to mention again. Yes, Furuya knows about Scotch, he's just angry that the FBI is coming to Japan. I actually forgot that when I first wrote it so I'm trying to replace the chapter. If it doesn't work I don't think it matters too much. Furuya knows who Akai is and is mad at the FBI as a whole for interfering. Also, I think Furuya should have been told there's a new apprentice Conan suspects by now, it could end up really badly and would be something anyone would want to know.

Ran, Kogoro and the others were all able to be brought as planned. The PSB had a less important case about finding a hacker who was targeting personal computers of government workers. The real hard part ended up being to convince the PSB members to not take any advice he said too seriously.

"Why not?" They had asked, "isn't he supposed to be one of the smartest people in the world. You, yourself was beaten by him, Furuya. Doesn't that mean he's one of the most qualified people to handle this?"

"He works best against murderers. Any scene when the criminal is next to him and he can watch the body movement to look for irregularities. When he has witness testimonies then he is able to notice small details in their excuses by playing their statements over and over again in his head, having next to no information about who he's looking for will put him completely out of his comfort zone."

Conan had to admit that Furuya's argument was logical and had no specific weaknesses. It would hold up for the investigation they did, at least making it so that there would be less questions.

Ran had also brought up problems but of a completely different kind. Out of everyone they had to convince to come she wanted to stay the most.

Apparently she had a friend at school who she wanted to get together with but a bit of overly childish acting on Conan's part had changed her mind and convinced her to come. At the base she went around asking questions and keeping her father out of any serious trouble, a good balance to the feeling of danger that surrounded the building.

"She seems happier than I thought she would be." Furuya mentioned to which Conan gave a bitter smile that didn't completely meet his eyes.

"Yeah, she didn't want to leave but she's happier now. She doesn't cry at night anymore or anything, she's just moved on." Conan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He had accepted this situation and everything that would come with it, he was fine with this outcome. "So, what do you think we can do against Rum?"

Furuya looked down for a moment, surprised at the sudden change in topic. Understanding that Conan didn't want to talk about Ran Mouri any more he began thinking about the question, barely noticing as footsteps began walking closer to them.

Akai, having also heard what they were talking about while he walked over, began thinking about the question himself. Unfortunately, there really wasn't much they would be able to do in regards to Rum, they didn't know who he was.

"How much information do you have on him?" Conan was silent for a moment before answering, giving a slight sigh.

"I don't know much. Just that he has an artificial eye and that he could be an old man, a stocky man or an effeminate man. I know a few people matching these descriptions or could count for all three so I'm just trying to be careful around them."

His earlier sigh was due to not enjoying sharing his information before he had deduced something with it. If it was simply information he was given he liked to have gotten something out of it first. Though he knew that those two were the best people for him to tell.

"We can continue to investigate them, could you tell us anything about them?"

Giving a quick nod Conan explained the most important one. "Actually I was going to tell you this earlier but everything became a bit hectic and I forgot. One of them is a new apprentice Kogoro took under him."

"He was fine getting himself another apprentice?"

"In exchange he's being given discount sushi at a restaurant near here. We solved a case there and a worker saw what he did and immediately asked to become his apprentice…" Furuya facepalmed, Conan sighed and Akai scowled at the reason.

"And is there anyone else?" Akai said, trying to take his mind off what was just said. Giving a nod Conan began to list through his different suspects.

"One of them is tricky because he fits the description but I also know him on a personal level and don't think he feels at all like a member. Yamamoto Kansuke is a police officer whose leg was injured so he walks around on a cane. He has long hair and is a strong man, he could be interpreted as all three possible descriptions."

Leaning back onto the wall Furuya nodded. "Yeah, he would be a good person to keep track of. Though I'm not sure how much we can help you with that. It's not exactly proof we can arrest someone for or even have them investigated."

Nodding in agreement Akai continued, "If you met him before we were told about Rum coming to Japan then there's probably a high chance he isn't involved."

"That's what I thought too. We probably don't need to consider him a suspect at this point, he hasn't disappeared unexplainably recently."

"Recently?" Furuya asked in confusion.

Smiling, Conan explained his meaning. "He was involved in an accident a while ago and that's why he has a cane and only one eye. He disappeared for a few days or maybe a few weeks until he was found. It's not really unexplainable but he still disappeared."

Akai gave a hum of agreement then motioned for Conan to continue. "Oh, right. There are two others, one is the new superintendent. He apparently disappeared for a while during the injury that left him with one eye and someone said that when he came back it was like he had become a different person. He has an unusual amount on interest in me for a reason I'm not sure about."

"It would be unfortunate if he ended up being the organization member, he has access to a lot of information through that." Furuya mumbled as he ran his hand through his hair in a tiered manner, "and the last one?"

"We got a new teacher at school, Wakita Rumi. Aside from her name there's also the fact that she can't see out of her left eye. She could fit the description of an effeminate man or strong female as she has brought me on a few cases knowing knowingly and seems to be scary enough to incapacitate criminals. She also likely has a currently unknown connection to the superintendent."

Pulling out their phones both men texted other agents to have them conduct as thorough an investigation as possible on the suspects.

"I still can't believe you know so much about our police force…" Furuya mumbled thinking about how Conan seemed to know the life story of two officers.

Blushing Conan responded, "It's not my fault cases happen around me. I have no idea why, they just happen." Furuya and Akai gave a slight laugh at that, causing Conan to blush more.

"We have a problem!" The three detectives stopped their conversation and turned to look at the agent who had spoken. Agents had been following the man with the weapon around, but couldn't go themselves as too many would cause suspicion and 'we can't let a civilian like you get involved in something so dangerous, Conan.'

Running closer to the monitor they immediately saw the problem. The main suspect who was carrying the weapon was dead. Haibara ran to Conan's side and joined them, having passed them while on her walk around the building. The agents had been told that the two of them could go anywhere Furuya or Akai could go so no one objected.

The man was shot, he had a bullet wound in his head from point blank range. Other than the actual body there was no evidence to suggest that a crime had taken place. No gun, no suspect in the area and no traces of someone escaping the room. The door was also locked tight, it was a sealed room murder.

"Did the organization already get to him? I mean the weapon's still in the room but they could easily carry out a murder like this and leave no trace." One agent suggested, fearing for the worst.

"Who could have done it though?"

"Gin maybe? He's probably the only one who would be able to pull off something like that in this amount of time."

Several hums of agreement were heard through the room, all present were waiting excitedly for new information. Despite not being in danger themselves adrenalin caused them to be ready to fight at a moment's notice.

"We found a gun! There's a ring on it next to the trigger that's connected to an empty envelope. We're not sure what this means. We're running a fingerprint scan now."

"Tell us what hand the fingerprints are from as soon as you can." Furuya jumped in, "There are a few things we can check through."

After several minutes of silence the call reconnected, "It was someone's right hand, we have the fingerprints down too, they're not listed in our database."

"Probably not Gin then…" Conan mumbled much to the surprise of the adults in the room. The other child, Haibara, agreed with his statement.

"Yeah, there's no way he would ever fire a gun with his right hand." They both looked forward in extreme concentration as they ignored the curious glances sent their way. Adults were meant to be more subtle about these things than kids, weren't they?

Of course, they weren't actually kids, so the same logic might not apply.

Whatever. Back to the case

As it turned out the case was easy, largely based on the people who were working on it. At the very least it was something that the world's best PSB member, FBI member and detective were able to solve in a matter of minutes.

The victim was blackmailed into bringing the weapon over by the organization but the criminal in this particular case was someone else. The criminal realized the victim was being threatened by someone who they posed as the organization, saying that if he also gave money to the criminal the information would be given back.

The victim was told the information was placed in an envelope inside a safe, so the victim opened the safe without paying much attention to his surroundings. After locking the door he assumed that there was nothing that could hurt him. When he reached out to grab the (empty) envelope the ring through that and the gun pushed the trigger and shot the gun. He was killed instantly.

The criminal was deduced due to there being a camera around the office where the envelopes were kept, it showed him entering the room and grabbing an envelope, something he couldn't explain the disappearance of.

"What was the motive?" Haibara asked Conan after the case. They were in a private room, but unknown to them Jodie, Akai, Furuya and Camel could hear them. Those four were going to knock on the door and bring them to the Mouri family but heard their conversation and stopped. They had not heard the motive as they had been too busy but Conan tended to pretend to not know things around them.

"It was the fact that the victim stole something from his family and killed his sister. Remember? Eight years ago there was a huge news story about it."

"How would I remember that? I've lived 'sheltered' my whole life."

"Ah, right. Anyways it was revenge for the sister."

"How could he remember something from eight years ago?" Jodie whispered in confusion. She turned to Akai in hopes that he had an answer for her.

He did know the answer but couldn't tell her that so instead he said, "They probably watched old news reports as part of their detective game but Haibara's family didn't want her to learn about crimes at her age."

Jodie nodded in agreement and knocked on the door to tell them to go to Mouri.

Conan and Haibara started making their way to where the man was in order to help him. They had been asked to make him not worry about them but really they were going to solve the case for him.

Same difference.

"Hold on," Conan suddenly commanded, "I'm going to get some coffee, want any?" He asked pointing to a vending machine down the hallway.

She shook her head and followed him as he left to go get his true love, coffee for when he had been thinking a lot.

Inserting the change he had in his pocket he reached to put in the numbers for a canned coffee- only to realize he couldn't reach.

He stood on his tiptoes and stretched as far as he could but his body was too short to reach the buttons he wanted to.

Haibara laughing her head off in the background wasn't helping either.

Blushing, Conan took a few steps back and ran forward, jumping to hit the button, then missed and hit his head on the machine.

He rubbed his head as Haibara laughed in the background. "This is great! Edogawa Conan, kid killer and former savior of the police force, boy who made Gin feel fear, can't reach the coffee buttons on a vending machine. Oh, I am never going to forget this!"

"You could help me you know!"

Trying- and failing- to control her laughter she walked to Conan and let him work as her stool to buy him some coffee. Conan was annoyed because when she climbed on top of him she was shaking from laughing so much.

"Yes, yes, very funny. Now can you please stop laughing, Haibara?"

Said girl was starting to have trouble breathing and choked before finally stopping, her cheeks rosy in joy. She smirked and looked him in the eye.

"I'm never going to let you live this one down."

Conan could only give a resigned sigh as they walked to where Kogoro was again.

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