A/N : (A bit)Longer chapter as promised! Enjoy~
Note - I never attend to this kind of party before, so it may look weird to some of you...(According to the fifteenth in 'More about me' in my profile.)
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Chapter 5 – Blood Party
"If you think it was just a prank, then why you show it to me?"
"I'm not sure if it was a prank or not and I don't want to cause a commotion."
'Bomb, huh?' Conan thought.
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While he is listening to their conversation, there is staff look suspicious with a cart with white cloth covered it. While the staff wore a cold mask, he/she passed the door and turned to enter the room, Conan studied the staff with curiosity.
But he has to go back to Ran now because he knows that Kogoro will come out soon.
When Conan's back at the table, Ran asked "Why took so long? Or you're running off somewhere again?"
"A little bit, he he" He laughed dryly.
"By the way, where did Mouri-san go?" Kaaka asked Ran.
"I don't know, maybe he goes flirting with pretty girls somewhere…"
"Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to the 20th anniversary party of 'The Way' magazine officially!" The announcement came from the stage, everyone turn to look.
Meanwhile, Kogoro walked back to the table. All of the sudden, the lights in the room dimmed and there is a spotlight shined at the center of the stage.
"Please give a round of applause to welcome our host of this party; Hirata Banba-san, please proceed onto the stage to deliver an opening remark."
Everyone clapped their hands when Hirata-san walked onto the stage.
"Kaaka-chan, let's go to the front!" Narumi said and picked the camera out from her bag.
"Excuse me." Kaaka informed Ran.
"Go on, take your time." Ran replied.
"Ladies and gentlemen" Hirata announced. "Our magazine won't have today, If the lack of our supporter; Masao Hiroaki-san!"
Masao, who is sitting at the table stands up, the spotlight moved to shines at him. Everyone applauded while Conan looked at him with boredom.
"And another supporter, the former actress; Tomoko Funaki-san, she also volunteered to be the first model of taking up in a magazine cover!" Hirata continued. Everyone applauded again with Tomoko that come on stage.
"And this is our working group; the first is Toshimi Anako-san!" Toshimi who is standing on the stage bowed. "She is a pretty editor who just came to work with us recently, but she is hardworking person and pushed our magazine forward, to be known by many people…" Conan looked at the stage, left hand to his chin and made a face that can be said 'I'm bored to death right now!'
"…Next is our photographers! Ryoji Kawashima-san and Kaede Mioya-san! And the last one we can't be missed! Takuro Shigematsu-san, our chief designer!"
Each person mentioned walk up on stage and bow to greet the guests.
"Actually, there is Reiko Shinjo-san; our editor, but she's not feeling well right now and didn't show up since the evening. Anyway, she is a person who worked with us for a long time and…"
And this extremely boring opening remark goes on and on…until-
"And now, we will proceed to cut the cake to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 'The Way' magazine!" Two staffs helped push the cake out to middle of the room, many guests astonished by what they saw in front of them.
"This is a layer cake that was especially made for this party; 5 layer with the 1 meter diameter in the first layer and each layer high 150 cm."
"Wow" Ran exclaimed. "I wish I can have a wedding cake like that."
Conan looks at her and smiles.
"What are you talking about? I don't want you to be a bride yet." Kogoro said.
"Hirata-san, please proceed with cutting the cake" The announcer said and one of the staffs hand him a cake knife approximately 60 cm long.
He carefully cut the cake from the middle of the top layer, cake knife slid down from the top to the middle, and gradually into the bottom of the cake.
"What's wrong, sir?" The staff whispered to Hirata when he suddenly stopped moving the cake knife.
"Eh, I can't slide it down, it seems to be stuck with something." Hirata whispered back.
"Excuse me" The staff tried to press the knife down to no avail. "It really stuck, there may be something wrong with the cake." He told another staff.
And then he grabs the knife's handle and tries to pull it out, but what came along with it made whoever saw it, frightened, dreaded, and panicked.
Because it was a fresh blood, flowing until it reached the handle and dripped down to the floor.
"Oh god!" The staff who holding a knife, exclaimed with fear.
'What?!' Conan, who also witnessed the event, walking closer to the cake.
"There's must be something in there!" The second staff said and put on a glove, trying to find something in the cake. His fingers touched with something inside and…
"What's happening?" Kogoro asked.
'Don't tell me!?' Conan runs to the cake immediately by instinct.
When the staff finally caught that something, he pulled it out…
Conan also finally reached the scene and when he saw it, he froze still.
That thing…it was a bloodied human head that was severed and was stuffed inside the cake!
The one who still holding it, with a shock, let go of what he was holding and the head dropped to the floor.
"Kyaaaaaaaaaa!" The party guests screamed in panic.
"Oh my god, Reiko-san" Chief Editor Hirata said when he recognized the face of the head, its Reiko-san's who didn't show up since the party started.
"Ran, call the police!" Kogoro told her in haste and ran to the scene.
'Not again' Conan thought, mentally face-palmed.
"Everyone stands still! Nobody move!" Kogoro shouted from where he is when he saw someone was about to run away.
A/N 2 : Next chapter Conan will starts his investigation! And will be longer than this chapter. And don't forget to review too, I want you comments to support my motivation!
Ps. *- Birthday countdown - 3 days -* (Supposedly) one-shot fic to celebrate my birthday will be post on April 14.(Between 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in Thai's timezone: GMT+7)
PPs. - I kind of have 'Time-habit' like Saguru-chan. (just didn't tell time to seconds and milliseconds, but like to check the time every ten to thirty minutes yeah, read 'Ps.' to know what I mean...)