Mitsuharu
Title: Mitsuharu
Rating: T
Fandom: Detective Conan
Summary: There were only three kids of the Akai Family, right? There was no way that Masumi had a third older brother. So why the hell were these people calling him Akai Mitsuharu? More importantly, how the hell was he even alive!? [OC Insert as Akai Sibling]
'Think, what was something odd that happened recently that doesn't tend to happen in regular cases?' Haru thought back to a few days ago. 'Shin-kun received an invitation from Moriya Teiji! Most episodes aren't Shinichi-centric, yet the culprit specifically was challenging Shin-kun. The culprit is Moriya but I don't have evidence to back up my claim. I'll have to let the plot play out for now,'
Conan managed to deduce that X and XX meant between the rail tracks. The police found all five bombs and disabled them in time. Conan noted that the bridge was designed by Moriya. After looking at the similarities of the other locations of the serial arsonist, they decided to head to Moriya's place. Haru, not wanting to stay cooped up in a hospital room, tagged along with his cat.
While the adults were speaking, Conan and Haru snuck off to the gallery room. Haru immediately went to the display and uncovered it. "My vision of a new town, City of Nishitama," Conan read the plaque. "It was Professor Moriya who made the plans! It's a perfectly symmetrical new town,"
"But without evidence, we can't prove that it's Moriya," Haru told Conan.
"I have a plan," Conan looked around the room. "I need a black marker to make my glasses look like sunglasses and something to make a fake beard and wig,"
"Check his study," Haru suggested. "An office is usually where people would keep their stationary,"
Conan did so and while he was scouting for a marker, he took the batteries out of the detonator. Haru found a helmet and cut off the decorative hair to tape together to form a beard and wig. Once they planted the fake evidence behind the model case, Conan used his bow tie to call Inspector Megure to assemble everyone in the gallery room.
Once the explanation was said, Moriya was still confident that he wouldn't be arrested. "That's an interesting deduction, Kudo-kun. Unfortunately, however, you have no evidence,"
"Oh, there is evidence, right behind the model case,"
Shiratori walked over to the back of the display case and held up the sunglasses, beard, and wig. "These were part of the bomber's disguise!"
"Impossible!" Moriya exclaimed. "They were in the safe in the study!"
"Ah, I see," Conan said as he and Haru came out from hiding. "The bomber's actual disguise is hidden in the safe in the study,"
"What!?" Moriya stared at the two in shock.
"We've darkened Conan's glasses with a marker and used the decorative hair from a helmet to make the beard and wig," Haru informed. "That's what Shin-kun told us to do,"
"Professor Moriya, I'd like you to come to the station," Shiratori started walking towards him.
Moriya held up the detonator. "Nobody move! If you do, I'll explode the bombs I have planted around the mansion,"
"Oh, they won't explode," Conan told them. "I took the batteries out of the detonator switch,"
"That can't be!" He unscrewed the bottom and found it empty. "How did you know that this was a detonator!?"
"You don't use a lighter, you use matches," Conan pointed out. "The sweet smell Ayumi-chan was talking about was the scent from your pipe,"
"Arrest him!" Inspector Megure ordered and Shiratori handcuffed Moriya.
"Superb! This solves the whole case in one fell swoop," Kogoro cheered.
Moriya chuckled. "If you think this settles everything, you're making a huge mistake. There's one more building that I wanted to erase. The economic bubbles burst and my architectural budget was slashed. What a foolish reason! The Beika City Building was my biggest piece but my most awful work. I suppose that you do not understand my aesthetics. Well, there's one minute until ten o'clock,"
Haru took out his cell phone and called Ran, putting it on speaker. "Ran, where are you right now?"
"I'm outside of Beika City Building. Some police officers evacuated everyone and I'm pretty sure I saw a bomb squad go in. Haru, do you know what's going on?" An explosion was heard nearby.
"Ran!" Haru, Kogoro, and Conan cried out.
"I-I'm fine but there were explosions! It looks like they weren't able to disable some of the bombs in time so I think the armed ones just went off!"
"Some of them were disarmed!?" Moriya exclaimed. "How!?"
"I warned the police," Haru answered. "I suspected the culprit was you and knew that the Beika City Building would be one of your targets. You personally invited Shin-kun to your garden tea party which drew my suspicions. What would an architect want with a high school detective, especially one that hasn't been in the limelight for a while? Once we saw the model of Nishitama City after hearing about the case where the mayor got arrested, I knew it was you,"
"The bomb squad has been hunting for the bombs ever since you gave us the railroad hint," Inspector Megure added.
Moriya was taken away. The rest of the bombs were disabled. The officers that were near the bomb that had exploded thankfully weren't seriously hurt or killed and made a fully recovery.
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"Ugh, that was such a long day!" Mitsuharu groaned as he collapsed onto his bed.
"Mrow," Cora curled up beside his face.
"I'll buy supplies for you later," Haru mumbled. He sluggishly got a shallow bowl of water and placed it on the floor. He found a can of tuna in the cupboard and opened it, placing it beside the bowl. "Enjoy your dinner Cora. I'm gonna get some sleep,"
It's not as climactic as the movie, but Haru prevented most of the explosions. The reason some of the bombs went off is because it takes a while to find and disable bombs, especially if you don't know how many you're looking for and in such a large area to cover. Also, they didn't have any of the schematics like how Conan read one out loud to help Ran disable the last bomb.
I'm planning on doing a Q&A in next chapter's author's notes. Please leave any questions you have in the reviews. It could be about any of the characters or about the author.