Chapter 124: Indeed, I Don't Understand the World of Lunatics

"Those remaining bombs can destroy a building?!"

"That's just a preliminary estimate. The actual impact could be far greater than just destroying a building," Megure Juzo said seriously. "We've already started interrogating Moritani Teiji, but that lunatic won't say a word..."

Conan looked deep in thought. 

Still three-quarters of the bombs left? Damn it! 

Where could that lunatic Moritani Teiji have hidden those bombs?! There's not a single clue! 

Wait, since those bombs were defused by that guy who said his identity wasn't important. 

Maybe that guy knows something... 

"By the way, Inspector Megure, who exactly caught Moritani Teiji and defused those bombs?" Conan snapped out of his thoughts. "Perhaps the person who caught Moritani Teiji knows something."

"We thought the same, but despite our investigation, we have no clue about their identity," Megure Juzo said with a troubled expression.

"Do you have any leads on this person?" Conan noticed the key point in Megure's words.

"We only know that the person operates widely in Beika Town and likes to wear a Batman mask, appearing at night. Other than that, we know nothing."

"Beika Batman?" Conan was surprised.

"Conan-kun, have you heard of him too?"

"I heard about that weirdo from my classmates." Conan nodded.

He indeed heard about the Beika Batman from the kids around him. It's said that this person likes to appear at night, dressed as Batman, and punishes criminals privately. 

Beika Batman mainly targets robbers and perverts, making him very popular among high school girls, young housewives, and elementary school students. He could be called a friend of women! 

Even Ayumi is a fan of that guy.

...

Near Beika Municipal Building.

Fujino walked slowly to the brightly lit Beika Municipal Building.

"Is this considered asymmetry?" Fujino looked up at the large building in front of him. "Indeed, I don't understand the world of lunatics."

Shaking his head, he walked to a nearby bench and sat down. Then he focused his consciousness on Fujino Akemi, who was currently inside the Beika Municipal Building.

At this moment, Fujino Akemi, or rather Soul Plant Fujino, was wearing an assassin's robe, moving through the crowd. 

Skillfully avoiding people, she reached a designated trash can as per the system's task.

"A trash can?" Fujino had a strange expression. After some mental struggle, he put on gloves and retrieved a bomb from the trash can.

The bomb was a simple timer-triggered one, easy to defuse by cutting the wire connected to the detonator.

Fujino took out nail clippers and, at the moment the blade touched the wire, it was physically cut.

[Congratulations to the host for defusing a bomb. The system rewards 50 bomb expert proficiency points.]

The defusing went smoothly, without even triggering any defusing skills...

Actually, the bombs Moritani Teiji hid in the building and at his residence were mostly simple combinations of timing detonators and explosives. 

After all, it wasn't realistic to carefully assemble each bomb when there were so many. 

All the bombs were defused, and only one large bomb remained, hidden in the movie theater. 

The overall structure of this bomb was interesting, different from the previous ones, as if it had been carefully designed.

But that was it.

For Fujino, who had knowledge of bombs, it was just a slightly more challenging big bomb.

Soon, all the bombs hidden in the Beika Municipal Building were defused.

Fujino harvested bomb expert proficiency points to his heart's content.

Ensuring there was still room for the motorcycle in his personal space, he also discreetly took a lot of explosives and several detonators without the explosives.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the detective profession task: Continuous Bombing Case; the system task reward of 1 million yen and 200 detective reputation points has been issued.]

[Congratulations to the host for completing the bomb expert profession task: Continuous Bomb Defusal; the system task reward of 1 million yen and 200 proficiency points has been issued.]

[Congratulations to the host for leveling up as a bomb expert! Current level: Top level.]

[Current balance: 6.66 million yen.]

"Top level?" Fujino opened the profession interface: [Bomb Expert: Top level (Breakthrough requires 3 million yen).]

"Three million yen?"

Fujino looked at the big prompt of 3 million yen and rubbed his philtrum.

For someone with 6.66 million yen in cash, 3 million yen wasn't much.

But it wasn't a small amount either.

After all, 3 million yen was almost a year's salary for an average Japanese office worker.

Though Fujino, who made money quickly, didn't feel much about it, for ordinary people, it was definitely a large sum!

He needed to think carefully...

"Fujino-senpai?"

Nearby, Ran noticed Fujino lying on the bench as if he was resting with his eyes closed.

She was carrying a gift bag and walked up, puzzled, "Senpai, are you here to watch a movie too?"

"Movie?" Fujino opened his eyes and was surprised to see Ran.

After a moment, Fujino thought for a bit and said, "Yes, I'm here to watch a movie."

"Could it be that you're here to watch 'Red Thread Legend' too?" Ran guessed.

Fujino paused for a moment: "Einstein: Days of Glory and Trouble."

"Huh?" Ran was taken aback, "Senpai, do you like watching this kind of movie?"

Ran looked at Fujino.

Honestly, it was unexpected for her that Fujino liked watching this type of movie.

She remembered Sonoko mentioning that it seemed like a very boring movie.

Unless...

Suddenly, Ran seemed to realize something and showed a knowing smile.

Senpai Fujino must be here on a date with a girl.

"Yes." Fujino didn't notice Ran's strange expression and just nodded in response.

"Einstein: Days of Glory and Trouble" was the movie he had noticed while defusing bombs in the screening room earlier.

"By the way, Senpai, have you seen Shinichi?" Ran looked at her watch. "I had an appointment with him to watch a movie. It's less than an hour before it starts..."

"Kudo Shinichi?" Fujino shook his head affirmatively, "I've been sitting here for a while and haven't seen him."

"Really... he promised me." Ran looked a bit disappointed. "He better not stand me up again."

(The chapter ends here)