Chapter 19: Encounter

Ran didn't notice when Edogawa-san picked up the sobbing and trembling Conan, didn't notice when the police car drove towards the station and didn't notice when she was pushed roughly into the interrogation room. Her mind was still busy digesting everything that happened, unable to grasp what has it apparently meant.

"I don't remember anything after I sat down and recalled the incidence with the murderer who threaten Conan.", she concluded for the fifth time, trying again and again to come up with a different solution, obviously do no avail.

"Mori-san." A voice called out to her, but Ran was too entangled in her thoughts to pay any attention to it.

"Mori-san?", the voice stated again, louder and sharper, still, Ran couldn't even hear it.

"MORI-SAN!", the voice yelled this time, finally breaking through to the high school girl, who jump a little and only stared at the unknown police man in front of her.

Growling lowly, the he took a seat opposite to her and started his questioning, "I presume you know why you are here? Good. Then do tell me what happened this afternoon.", he asked, clearly not willing to let Ran make her own case.

Still not able to fully grasp what was happening, even though she has heard and seen it more than enough, Ran only answered with a mumbled, "I don't know."

The officer, visibly not happy with her answer, sighted loudly and stoop up from his chair, only to slam both hands down on the table startling Ran.

"Okay, little missy, if you want to play this game. We don't need your confession anyway, the video along with the statement of all the people who saw you running on the street chasing the naked boy, should be more than enough to sentence you for the chair! And that's a still way too generous for you, child rapist!", he yelled at her, face red from anger and body tense, he displayed a frightful image. Normally Ran wouldn't be very impressed by the officer's outbreak, but because her brain was still recovering from everything she saw and heard, there was no room to deal properly with this situation.

"Child rapist?! I'm not a child rapist, I could never do such a thing!" she shouted back, her voice high and shrieking, sounding like the cries of a scared animal.

"Of course, you are!" the man shoot back, not willing to hear the nonsensical denials of the criminal in front of him, "You assaulted Conan Edogawa!"

Hearing the name of her little brother along with the memories of what happened before was too much for Ran and the giant black ocean of fear, pain, loneliness, despair and wrath suddenly exploded like a geyser, snuffing out every common sense left in her tortured mind and activated old survival instincts. Sensing danger, her brain had to decide between flee or fight and because the way out was behind the predator who threatened her, there was only one option left. Her karate training and fighting experience, paired with the now overly sharpened senses and sole focus on escaping made for a dangerous and deadly combination.

Shrieking as loud as she could, stunning the officer for a brief moment, Ran jumped over the table, dragged the chair, who was attached to her wrist via handcuffs, along and used it as a weapon. Smashing it on the head of the policeman, the plastic chair blasts into tiny pieces and the man collapses on the floor.

Not even moving an inch, he wasn't a hindrance anymore and because of the broken chair, the handcuffs now dangled loosely from her right wrist, not bothering her either.

Ran rushed over to the door, pushed it open and dashed down the corridor to the entrance hall, but before she could pass the adjacent observing room the door was pushed open to reveal another officer, who watched over the interrogation.

But before he could pull his gun out, Ran was already by him, delivering a punch to the chin, sending the police officer flying and before he landed on the floor, Ran was already past him sprinting down the corridor. Her mind remembered the layout of the police station well enough to guide her to the exit, so she bolted down the stairs, taking 4 steps at a time, arriving at the ground level no minute after she initiated her escape. Panting hardly, she stopped at the top of the staircase, which lead down to the reception and the exit, to survey the situation.

But before her eyes could scan the whole area, they looked themselves on two people, who were standing at the bottom of the stairs, talking loud enough for her to hear.

"To be frank, I suspected something like this for some time, however I didn't think she would only be keen on children. That's why I lay low, so I could observe her and check my theory, but I would have never imagined for her to snap that fast or else I would have brought Conan away from her months ago." The taller of the two persons spoke, earning agreeing nods from the shorter and stouter person.

"No… YOU!", Ran exclaimed silently, but oddly enough her voice seemed to echo in the whole hall despite its low volume, catching the attention of every person in the room, including the two at the bottom of the steps.

Turning his head to look up at her from underneath his brown hair, the blue eyes widened when they recognized her and Ran found herself trapped by the sky-blue colour. Tears started to stream down her cheeks, dripping on the floor when she mumbled his name, "Shinichi."


As always all right go to Gosho Aoyama, the original creator of the Detective Conan Universe.

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