"Sources say that President Shinra has passed away in last night's terrorist attack. No word from the police if this was just a unique attempt on Shinra's life, or if this will be part of a chain of attacks. Details on Akumetsu remain scarce, however. It seems public opinion seems divided on the issue..."
Murder is murder. No one has the right to take the life of another. Conan Edogawa thought this as he passed an electronic shop on his way home after school. I had separated from my second grade classmates by this time and now accompanied the two high school girls, Ran and Sonoko, towards the detective agency run by Ran's father. There, I get to listen in on the cases from police that visit for advice. I also help out to solve the cases. I do this since I need to find out information on a crime organization that targeted me for trying to expose them once. Truth is I'm already sixteen years old and well regarded as an aspiring detective.
My name is actually Shinichi Kudou and in the third year of high school. No one except for my family and two others know this. I look like I'm in grade school because the crime organization drugged me once with the intention of killing me, but I ended up degenerating into my childhood form instead of dying. The organization doesn't know that I survived. Otherwise, they would have tried to silence me again. Since then, I've taken up the persona of Conan Edogawa in order to get back at the organization.
For the time being, I live with Ran and her father, Mouri Kogoro. Our families have been family friends since our parents were in high school. They don't know about my true identity though. They took me in on the pretense that I was a relative of the high school me and that my parents were overseas for an extended period of time. My real parents actually do travel a lot, so they send "Conan's" living expenses via mail. My house isn't used much so we rented it out to a Hakase that was good friends with us; he knows about my situation and supplies me with some gadgets I use in doing detective work.
Up to now, I haven't made much progress into finding out information on the organization other than that they like to wear formal dark clothes, and that they are extremely careful in their methods. I doubt the recent terrorism is the organization's doing, since they like to keep a low profile. Even if there's no connection, I'm still hoping that there'll be information about this new terrorist back at the detective agency. This group looks dangerous.
We were still far from the agency while Ran and Sonoko chatted about their classes.
I miss being being in high school with Ran and the others.
Ran bumped into someone, "Oh, I'm sorry. Please excuse me."
The person she bumped into looked rich and was stylish in his school uniform, "I'd easily forgive someone as pretty as yourself... Hmm, actually I think you'd be perfect."
Ran looked flustered, "What do you mean?"
"Just wait here a second," he replied. Then he called someone on his cellphone, "Can you come pick me up?" He said some things in a hushed voice.
A short time later, a Bentley arrived where we stood. The rear door opened and a burly man in a suit came out. He took Ran's hand and dragged her into the car while the rich student quickly got in the front seat. I saw Ran struggling to punch the man, but he over-powered her. The doors closed before Sonoko and me could get to them, and the car drove away.