"Welcome ...", came another voice. It quickly caught the attention of the three detectives. All three looked around and tried to recognize the man, but none saw him. First they looked at the drivers who brought them here, but they just stood next to the car, then got in and drove away again. The three detectives were now alone and had to quickly find out where the man was talking about.
Shinichi immediately realized that those people were using a voice transponder, just like he was before. Since he did it so often, he could slowly recognize it and besides, the voice was slightly distorted and for a somewhat older person, which he assumed, was much too high.
"Where are you?" Heiji yelled out. The man should finally show himself and tell the three what was going on here.
"It can be friendlier, Detective of the West," said Saguru, who didn't like Heiji at all. He had always been so stormy and paid no attention to the obvious things, rather to the things that were not needed.
"I just don't understand how you can still stay so calm. We were almost dragged here," Hattori said.
"I don't know how it was with you, but I got a nice letter and was ready to come here," interjected Hakuba.
Heiji had also received a letter, but it was now a minor matter. While he sat in the car and thought about where he was going, he was supposed to hand over his cell phone and other valuables that would facilitate contact with the outside world. Since he did not want to do that, the things were taken away from him by the driver of the car and not exactly the easy way.
"But, gentlemen. Don't argue, it would be of no use if you argued before the beginning. I suggest you work together," said the man, who was still nowhere to be seen.
"Are you that Q. Dorar?"Shinichi shouted questioningly. He didn't know where to turn and was therefore a bit louder when he called, because he wasn't sure whether the man would hear. They could hear him through loudspeakers, which were round They were all around the property, which the boys had only recently noticed, and these speakers were made using the latest techniques in technology, they were hidden underground all the time, and when the two detectives were arguing, they could reach the surface of the earth unnoticed.
"Yes, I am, as you can see," said the man. Directly at the front door a large flat screen went upstairs. On this screen, a man could be seen, he was covered, wore a black cap that almost fell over his face, he also had black sunglasses on, a scarf around his neck and mouth. As Shinichi suspected, the scarf had the voice transponder, which made the man's voice sound different. He also wore a gray trench coat, which changed his figure, he appeared plump, but also larger.
"What do you want from us and who are you really?" Shinichi asked. He didn't believe that the man on the screen was the real Dorar, he was disguised and you could see it, even Heiji and Hakuba recognized it.
"You will see what I want soon enough. Take your time with it, you have the whole day for it, enjoy it," grinned the man on the screen.
"Tell me, what's that supposed to mean. You surely didn't just bring us here. I finally want to know what's going on here," Heiji grumbled. He had absolutely no desire to go on monkeying around here, neither in front of Hakuba nor in front of Dorar, a weirdo as he thought it would be.
"You shouldn't be so impatient, Detective of the West," the man admonished. It almost seemed as if he could read the thoughts of the three guests himself, which of course was not the case.Nobody could read minds, not even KID, nobody had been able to.
"Impatience is not exactly a virtue a detective should have. If I were you, I would think about whether the job is really suitable for you," Dorar teased the boy from Osaka.
"I'm not impatient, I am the way I am. Why don't you band with him if you secretly think I'm a bad detective," Hattori grumbled and pointed to Saguru. He just didn't like that another person thought so badly of him as a detective. One person, Saguru Hakuba, had been bad enough, but now there was this stranger and accused him of everything he never wanted to hear again.
But he didn't want to give up. He had inherited this stubbornness from both his parents and even his father did not tell him that he should stop working as a student detective. Nobody could forbid him, he had been a detective with body and soul and nobody would be able to change this fact.
"You should learn to control yourself. I only said what I think about you at that moment, Heiji Hattori," emphasized the stranger and looked down at Heiji. "To see if you are a good detective, we will only find out at the end. I hope you enjoy it," he said. One could already deduce from this alone, if one had not noticed from the beginning, that detective skills were necessary here.
"Get to the point," Kudo shouted. He wasn't exactly comfortable in his pajamas, he would have loved to change, but that was difficult. Still, it was his own fault if he hadn't been so sleepy he would have noticed that he should have changed. And now it was too late. He could no longer escape this situation.
"Come on, finally tell us what exactly you want us to do," Heiji snapped.
"I would rather be concerned with the question of why only the three of us were brought here," said Saguru."What do you mean by that? Are there more coming or do you think we are bad than that we could solve this case?", Heiji grumbled at him, while Shinichi thought about what a great cooperation it would be if the two of them would keep doing what you're doing. He had known that he could work with them, but whether the two would make it too, he couldn't tell.
"I just find it strange that the three of us are here and no one else. In my opinion, there is a logical explanation for everything that is going on here, but unfortunately I don't see it yet, which doesn't mean that there are none, "said Hakuba.
"So what? We also know that there is a reason for this, you don't have to emphasize that," said Heiji and looked at Shinichi. "That's right, Kudo."
"We just have to find out why and I doubt it will be that easy," interjected the Eastern detective.
"Oh no, so far every case has been resolved by us, we can still manage this, even if it will take a while," said Heiji. He could already imagine what would happen if it took longer for this to happen. Kazuha would freak out, especially because then he couldn't keep an appointment with her again.
"We'll see that later," interrupted Dorar.
"Now finally take off those glasses and show us your true colors," Hattori grumbled.
"You will see my face soon enough," grinned Dorar shyly, which the detectives couldn't see because of the scarf.
"I would now like to come to something else," he began, but was immediately interrupted by Heiji, who wanted to know what the other thing was. Slowly he had got the feeling that the detective of the West had far too little patience and would break his neck at some point. "I've decided to play a game with you guys. Only one of you three will go to the last level and play against me at the end of the day.I'm really excited to see who it will be, "said Dorar.
"You're crazy, the three of us will come out as winners, that's for sure," hissed Heiji, who had no intention of beating his friend in any way.
"Then I'm crazy in your eyes, I don't mind that you think that way about me, Western detective," said the other. "And you will still take part in my little game. I have two very pretty ladies on offer and you didn't want anything to happen to either of them." With these words Dorar snapped his finger. Two tall, extremely strong men came into the room and held two girls by the hands, which were trying to free themselves from its grips.
"Let go of us", one of the two shouted, she could not bring anything against the big man and now remained in this position.
"Come on, smile at the camera," ordered Dorar and had it pointed at the two.
"Ran."
"Kazuha."
Both boys shouted the girl's name at the same time, making it hard to tell who was louder. When she saw the two girls, both of them had changed their eyes, they were shocked, sad and at the same time angry because they were not able to keep the two out of the whole thing.
"If you hurt them both a hair, then you will experience me," hissed the detective of the West, who could not control himself again and just started talking. At that moment he hadn't realized that he could endanger the two girls even more.
Dorar didn't have to be told that twice. "Is that so?" he wanted to know ironically. Now he turns to his two guests, took a strand of hair each and tore out only one hair. Then he broke it apart and looked into the camera. "Now I've curled a hair in both of them and what do you want to do now?" He asked."Come on, tell me. What exactly should we do?", Heiji admitted defeated. Such a defeat was beneath his dignity and he couldn't do anything other than defeat, it had been for Kazuha's good.
"You are finally assuming your senses, it had lasted long enough," began Dorar. He hadn't had such leverage for Hakuba, but he didn't need that either. He had been sure that the boy would either do it by himself or at the latest when it came to two girls who had nothing to do with the whole thing.
"You have until tonight and no longer, so don't think that it doesn't matter if you don't get any further. Whenever you get stuck, your time goes by and then it could already be over. I'll be different for you Only then do you get to the next level and all work, it would be a shame if a detective doesn't know what to do and needs help, "said Dorar. Although he had known that a detective also needed the help of others, it had been funnier for the game if they would work alone.
"And what do these puzzles look like?" Shinichi wanted to know. In his mind there was only Ran at the moment, even if he didn't want it, he had to