against her father's wishes
"Don't you happen to know where the boy is, Inspector?" Ran asks the inspector.
"No, I haven't seen Conan since this afternoon either. Maybe he finally went to play, as it should be for children his age." suspects Megure."But ... his friends haven't seen him today either!" stammered Ran. She is desperate because she is worried about Conan.
"Come on, Mausebein, we can't stay at the police station all night. The little boy shows up again. Wouldn't be the first time he sneaked out of the house like this." throws in Kogoro.
"He could have trampled like a hippopotamus and you wouldn't have noticed anything about who you were, Pop!" thinks Ran angrily.

When Mitsuhiko is back home, Ayumi and Genta storm him.
"Come on, let's look for Conan. He'll definitely want to solve a crime again and won't let us join in. He didn't tell Ran where he was either." explain both.
Then Mitsuhiko comes up with an idea.
"Hey, Conan has such a Detective Boys badge too. We can reach him with it." he says.
It immediately met with broad approval.
"Hey, Conan! Can you hear me? It's me, Mitsuhiko." he calls into the microphone.

Conan turns around quickly.That was Mitsuhiko's voice he just heard. But the kidnapper also noticed the noise. He immediately finds out where it's coming from. Conan reacts quickly and does the only right thing. He screams as loud as he can.
"MITSUHIKO !!!!! HIL ..." he doesn't get any further because the kidnapper has turned off the microphone.
"So, so," he grins, "So you wanted to get help, didn't you? Haha, you can't get away with that. You stay here, like the others. Even if you are a good detective, that will help you here." Nothing!"
"He's right about that!" Conan thinks again.

Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko look at each other in amazement. Had the word Conan been trying to shout really help?
"Hey, listen up," Ayumi begins. "The badge has a recording function so that you can listen to it again later to see what who said it and it is activated when you turn on the microphone." she thinks.
"A great idea!" Genta agrees. "Let's go to Professor Agasa and Ai immediately."The Detective Boys make their way to the professor. You show him the badge.
"Yes, he likes the recording function. Why do you want to know?"
"Then it's good because Conan ...
"What about Conan? Have you seen him? Come on, say quick!" urges the professor.
"Mitsuhiko got the idea to spark Conan on his badge. We thought he would solve another case without us and there ..." Ayumi begins, but Ai interrupts her.
"So what happened now?" yells at Ai the little one.
"Listen to it for yourself!" says Ayumi offended. "Come on Genta, Mitsuhiko, we're going.
She pulls the two with her.
Ai is a little ashamed of her behavior towards Ayumi, but she only concentrates on the recording. The professor rewinds and can be heard:
"Hey, Conan! Can you hear me? It's me, Mitsuhiko."
"MITSUHIKO !!!!! HIL ..."
Then another crack can be heard, and suddenly a few fragments of conversation can be heard, such as:Get help, stay here, good detective, it's no use to you ... l
One last click and then the contact is broken, as if someone were to turn off the badge.
Professor Agasa and Ai look at each other. You both realize what you just heard.
"Da-That, that was Shinichi, Professor." stutters Ai.
She has turned very pale. The professor, however, looks rather satisfied. That makes Ai angry.
"How can you be happy in such a situation! Shinichi could be dead and she ..." she scolds.
"That is the whole point! I am glad that Shinichi is doing reasonably well. Judging by his scream, he is not in pain. And here ...!"
He doesn't talk any further, instead he points to the newspaper with the latest police reports.
"The investigations have shown that the little ballerina must have starved to death. She must not have had anything to eat or drink for at least a week in advance." explains the professor."What's the good of that?" asks Ai.
"It's easy! We still have some time! If he were to put a bullet through Shinichi's head, then we couldn't help him either. But that way we still have a chance. We have to find out where he's hidden." says the scientist.

It's good that Conan does not yet know what is in store for him, unlike the professor. Otherwise he would certainly have lost heart. And he needed it now more than ever.
"I want to try, if I can not cause a riot. Either he gets too much and leaves the whole thing or ..." He swallows at the thought. "Or he'll lose his nerve and kill us all right away."
Nevertheless, he takes heart and begins to let the slightly older children in on his plan. They are excited about it. Of course, Conan didn't tell them the possible consequences, otherwise no one would have participated.
"Ok, the following plan!" Conan whispers, "When the guy walks in, something annoys him immediately.No matter what. But he has to come to you. One after the other. Hopefully he'll be so nervous that I can get the key to the cages. So always whine. "
"Well, if that goes well! But I don't have a better plan either. Gin and Vodka, I wish you the plague on your neck, you got me into it. Not only that I'm no longer Shinichi Kudo and Ran die I have to lie all the time, no, I also have to become a victim of a child murderer. "
Then the man enters the room. The little ones start playing their part immediately.
"Uncle," says a little girl, "I need a bedtime story to fall asleep!"
"You don't get a bedtime story!" the kidnapper snorts at her.
Immediately the little girl's tears roll down her cheeks and she pulls a pout. Then suddenly, when nobody expected it, she starts screaming and raving wildly.
"I WANT A STORY! I WANT A STORY, I WANT ...""Man, she plays her part really well!"
To Conan's horror, however, all the children now start screaming and raving at the same time. The kidnapper gets too much.
"RRRUUUUUHHHHHEEEEE!" he screams.
Immediately they all fall silent.
"You!" he exclaims, pointing at Conan. Again, he can't see his face.
"You planned this, I'm not right!" says the man.
Conan is too shocked to think about it and before he knows it he nods his head.
"Come along!"
With these words, the kidnapper takes the key out of his pocket and unlocks his cage. Conan quickly sees his chance, but he doesn't get far. His leg is attached to a metal chain that otherwise hangs outside the cage and is firmly anchored in the wall.
Because he didn't feel it when he was sitting in the cage, he missed this detail. Then it becomes too colorful for the kidnapper. He roughly grabs the elementary school student and drags him in with him.As much as Shinichi defends himself and kicks around, he does not come up against the child murderer.
"If I still had my old body, then ..."
But so the man drags him into a room where a handkerchief is pressed over his mouth.
"That's chlorophore! But how ..." He can't think any further.
It rings at the door. The kidnapper hides Conan in the bedroom and turns back into Hiroschi Yokomata, the nice man next door.
"I'll take care of you later!" he growls as he leaves.
Then he talks for a while with the postman, who has no idea that he is talking to a murderer. However, he suspects even less that his daughter will be the next victim on the list.

After the postman has finally left, Hiroschi immediately goes upstairs to his bedroom and begins to undress Conan and put a Sherlock-Holmes coat on him. One of the orange-green plaid and with such a strange hat on his head. As a final accessory, he adds a magnifying glass to the whole thing.To keep it in place, however, he sticks it so tightly in Conan's hand with tape that you need scissors to loosen it again.
Conan doesn't notice any of this. He's still stunned.
Then the kidnapper takes him to an abandoned shed, which is very close to the Mori detective agency. However, so that Conan cannot call for help or free himself, he is put on a gag and one hand is tied behind his back. Overall, he is tied up so that he can only stand. The other hand is free, but since he is holding the magnifying glass in it, which incidentally does not contain a lens, he cannot free himself with it either.
When Conan wakes up, he cannot move at all at first. After a while he notices that he is bound and gagged.
"Oh, you shame, what's going on now? What do I do now? Ok, Shinichi, you're a detective."
Then he is startled when he looks down at himself.
"Hey, and even dressed like one.Like Sherlock Holmes. Except that it's not trapped in the body of a 7-year-old boy. "
Shaking his head, he tries to sit down, but fails. Then he stops and looks outside through the cracks in the shed. He can hear the cars go by.
"I have to be very close to a street. Oh, if I could only move a little, then I might be able to use Morse code. But that is not possible here either."
he sighs. Then something catches his eye. Opposite him is a building that he knows all too well.
"There, there is the detective agency! Now I also know where I am! I am in this old shed that stands in this side street and has been empty for 10 years. An ideal place to let you starve to death."
Only now does he realize what he was saying. He will starve to death here miserably. Then suddenly he sees Ran. She walks very close to the shed. Then she says something to Inspector Megure, who is walking with her."We'll probably have to send a missing message if Conan doesn't get in touch soon." she sobs.
Conan can understand every word. He kicks and kicks around with all his might and tries to scream, but thanks to his gag and the cuffs only a few light sighs come out of it. Even if someone walked right in front of the shed, they would think they were mice. But Ran has already walked past Inspector Megure's side.
"So you're already looking for me. Do you think the professor and Ai already know?"
he wonders.

The two are just wondering what to do. But