Chapter 320

His reasoning ability, Wen Shengzai's observation and action ability, and Ran's combat ability—with their lineup, even if they encountered danger, they would have a good grasp of retreating unscathed.

But now...

"It's okay, Conan, I will be responsible for protecting you all well."

Looking at Conan's expression of hopelessness, Ran also comforted him understandingly and indicated that everyone was also worried about him, so they planned to follow him.

And after hearing Ran's comfort, Conan revealed an expression that looked more like crying than laughing.

Reasonably speaking, if you were really worried about me, you should wait obediently outside. It's true that quantitative change leads to qualitative change, but the point of the problem is the direction of the qualitative change—is it toward the favorable side or the unfavorable side?

Obviously, Conan felt that bringing a large group of restless brats to infiltrate the enemy's lair was not as good as doing it alone...

"Ran and that group of brats, shouldn't have any problems, right?"

As one of the two big sisters in the team, now letting a group of children take risks while she stayed in a safe position to watch, honestly, Sonoko felt quite ashamed.

But she had no other way, right? After all, she only had this one brother. She couldn't let Wen Shengzai watch outside alone, right?

What if an accident happened outside? How could he, a child, handle it?

Moreover, having grown up with Ran since she was small, she knew her best friend's combat value quite well.

Splitting stone blocks with bare hands, even dodging pistol bullets—her best friend's combat value, in Sonoko's view, had simply reached a superhuman level.

"If it were a normal situation, there shouldn't be any problems, but now with the Teitan trio plus a few death-seeking rich kids, various debuffs are almost stacked to the max. It would be strange if they didn't bite the dust."

Sonoko was originally full of question marks about what her brother said, but just as she wanted to ask, she suddenly heard a burst of gunfire and fighting sounds from the poker club.

Obviously, things were just as Wen Shengzai said. With a group of pit-mates, and debuffs almost stacked to the max, this trip of Conan's was simply impossible to go smoothly.

Originally infiltrating the poker club and seeing the target Colonel Moran winning money by cheating, Conan was still thinking about what way to negotiate with the other party.

Who knew that the few rich kids led by Moroboshi Hideki would run out to seek death at this critical moment, and holding the revolver they had stolen from Holmes before, they pointed it at Colonel Moran's nose and mocked him.

Colonel Moran was just a dog-leg of Professor Moriarty, but he was also an underworld big shot. How could he be scared by a few brats?

After knocking down the revolver in Moroboshi Hideki's hand with a playing card, everyone on the field started fighting.

Especially when Colonel Moran picked up the revolver Moroboshi Hideki dropped on the ground and discovered that it actually had Holmes's name abbreviation on it, he shouted angrily: "Finish off all these brats. They are Holmes's people."

If he didn't know who Conan and the others were, Moran would probably catch them and interrogate them.

And since that revolver had already proven Conan and the others' identities, Colonel Moran naturally wouldn't be polite anymore.

After all, Professor Moriarty and Holmes were nemesis, and as the professor's henchman, Colonel Moran naturally regarded Holmes as a thorn in his side.

A group of bratty kids fighting with the London underworld—the final result was naturally obvious.

Although Ran was fierce, she couldn't handle four hands with two fists. Relying on her alone to protect so many children present was obviously impossible. Moreover, many people in the field had guns.

Except for Moroboshi Hideki, the other three rich kids were eliminated one after another in this gunfight, and the Teitan trio also suffered heavy blows one after another to protect Conan, Ran, and Haibara, and were also eliminated.

But all in all, the Teitan trio didn't cause trouble like before in this operation and also "died" more valuably than the few rich kids.

When seeing the "Cocoon" containing Takizawa Shin'ya, Emori Akira, and Kikukawa Seiichiro—these few rich kids—dim their lights and slowly sink under the stage because of their exit, their parents also cried out in pain on the spot.

Some even glared at Moroboshi Hideki's grandfather, the Deputy Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Department, on the spot.

These parents saw very clearly from the outside that Wen Shengzai and Conan in the game scene performed excellently, and their children also seemed to have grown up a lot in this experience.

If it weren't for Moroboshi Hideki constantly stirring up trouble and seeking death crazily, their children would have had a chance to hug the Suzuki family's young master's thigh and live to the end.

"Why are you looking at this old man like that? Children have their own ideas. If you knew how to educate your own children, would they follow that kid of mine to make a scene!"

Hearing the Deputy Superintendent's words, the parents of Kikukawa Seiichiro and the others were directly retorted until they were speechless.

Indeed, the fact that their own children became like this had an inseparable relationship with their unprincipled doting and their education since they were small.

Because of their doting, they became arrogant and disobedient.

Because of their wrong education, the children became sycophantic toward those with more power under their influence, but looked down on children from ordinary families.

"Mrs. Suzuki, now whether those children can be safe and sound depends entirely on your child."

Although their children were eliminated, those parents didn't give up hope completely. After all, "Noah's Ark" had said before that as long as one person could successfully live until the game was cleared, others could also be saved.

And up to now, everyone had seen all the various performances of Suzuki Wen Shengzai, who was the greatest hope for those children to be saved.

Of course, that little brother with glasses also performed quite well, but in the end, the impression Wen Shengzai left on others at the banquet before was even deeper.

There was another reason that the social elites present all knew but didn't say out loud.

That was, even if Conan was outstanding, he was just a child from an ordinary family, while Wen Shengzai was the heir to the Suzuki conglomerate, representing the upper class.

If the person who saved all the children in the end was a child from an ordinary family, wouldn't that mean that the children of their upper class who received elite education were not as outstanding as those mud-legged ones?

So on this point, these upper-class people present, compared to Conan, hoped more that the person who saved their children was the young master of the Suzuki conglomerate.

After all, a group of children who claimed to have grown up receiving elite education were finally saved by a child from an ordinary family. They would also become a joke in others' mouths in the future.

(End of chapter)