SailorStar9: With Chapter 121 uploaded, I present Chapter 122 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or Detective Conan, I only own this plotline and the pairing.

Pairing: Established!Furuya Rei/Mizuno Ami

Chapter 122: The Cost of Likes, Part One


Time passes, in Beika General Hospital...

"You're lucky it's just a scratch." Mitsuhiko remarked.

"We were worried, you know." Ayumi complained. "We heard you were taken to the hospital."

"That Kagura guy saved me." Genta looked over Kagura Sumito on the hospital bed beside his.

"It was unfortunate for us both." Kagura added.

"Because of me, your arm..." Genta muttered.

"It's not your fault." Kagura assured. "Don't worry about it. Besides, I might be able to use this."

"Did they catch the culprit?" Genta asked Conan.

"Not yet." Conan answered.

"Who would do something like that?" Genta cursed.

"Either way, they sure caused a lot of trouble." Haibara looked at the occupied hospital beds in the room.

"All the patients here were collateral damage." Mitsuhiko noted.

"That Otsubo-san guys lives in Aobadai." Genta supplied.

"That's pretty far away." Ayumi pointed out.

"I happened to be in Beika City." Otsubo Kikuhide shrugged. "And look what happened to me. I'm so unlucky."

"How truly unfortunate for you." Kagura sympathized.

"Kagura." Kouchiyama Go entered the room with Ibe Haruka.

"You came." Kagura chuckled. "Kouchiyama, Haruka."

"Who called us to come visit him?" Kouchiyama chided. "You're really unlucky." he noticed Kagura's arm in a sling.

"I'm going to get compensated again." Kagura whispered.

"Again?" Kouchiyama echoed. "In that case," he whipped out his phone. "Smile, Kagura. Look happy."

"I'll earn more likes for you." Kagura relented.

"You three seem unusually happy." Conan pointed out.

"Kagura suffered collateral damage about half a month ago." Kouchiyama explained.

"I was out hiking alone." Kagura elaborated. "I suffered collateral damage from an unexploded bomb."

"Because of all the money he received from the construction company, he was able to pay off all his debts at once." Kouchiyama added. "The nerve of this guy." he ribbed.

"Kouchiyama's pretty cheeky, too." Kagura threw Kouchiyama under the bus. "The next day, he took me back to the construction site. He used me to get likes."


After everyone was released from the hospital...

Conan sent the Detective Boys to investigate Kagura, while he went off to find out about Otsubo.

"Apparently, Kagura-san said he hoped to suffer some more 'tasty' collateral damage." Mitsuhiko reported what he and Genta found out from the Chonenten Acting Company employees.

"Since he couldn't just wait around for it to happen, he made the bomb threat and caused a panic." Haibara concluded.

"Is Kagura-san really such a bad person?" Ayumi wondered.

"While following him, he seemed like a very cheerful and sociable person." Haibara clarified. "Even though he'd just been injured, he never stopped smiling."

"The people he was talking to were smiling, too." Ayumi added.

"That's because he's going to get compensated." Mitsuhiko argued.

"He didn't seem like a bad person who would trick his friends." Ayumi stated.

"He's an actor." Haibara reminded. "It's possible it was all an act."

"He told his actor friends that he hoped to suffer more collateral damage so he'd receive more money." Mitsuhiko remarked. "That could be his true nature."

"Then it's decided." Genta declared. "The culprit is Kagura-san."

"The implausibility of the coincidence isn't a strong enough basis for anything." Conan pointed out.

"We need evidence." Mitsuhiko realized what Conan was implying.

"That's where Otsubo Kikuhide-san comes in." Conan stated. "If he was following Kagura-san, then it's possible he saw Kagura-san make the call. I was waiting to confirm that, but Otsubo-san hasn't come home."

"We'll do all of it tomorrow." Mitsuhiko declared.

"We'll check in with Otsubo-san and do whatever it takes to find conclusive evidence." Conan laid out their next step.


Later that night...

Otsubo called out someone to meet in a park and threatened to expose the person.


The next day...

"Did something happen?" Mitsuhiko wondered when a police car sped past.

"Otsubo-san?" Conan gasped at the bludgeoned man at the crime scene.

"Kids, you can't enter the crime scene." Takagi chided.

"Do you know him?" Chiba asked.

"Yes." Conan nodded. "Was he murdered?"

"From what I can discern, he was most likely struck by a rock." Ami responded. "I estimate it happened around eight last night."

"You kids know the victim?" Megure stepped in.

"You know the bomb threat made to that bank yesterday afternoon?" Genta reminded.

"Though it turned out to be nonsense." Megure nodded.

"Because it was a Friday at the end of the month, it caused a huge panic." Haibara added.

"Otsubo-san is another one of the victims." Mitsuhiko supplied.

"The night of the incident, victim Otsubo-san was murdered." Megure pondered. "We'll have to investigate and see if yesterday's bomb scare and this case are related."


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