Chapter 96: Aoyama Biopharmaceuticals - Shiho Miyano

On the rooftop of a distant building near Aoyama Pharmaceuticals.

The city was like a flickering star throughout the night, with lights and neon signs flashing at the intersections.

A gentle night breeze blew, carrying invisible clouds from the deep sky, obscuring the stars and covering the faint light.

The signal lights on top of the tall building were flashing.

Fujino stood beside the red light on the rooftop, with the evening breeze blowing the half-white cloak on his assassin robe.

He gazed at the distant building across from him, focusing on the cluster of buildings.

Above the buildings, the White Wolf was wandering in the night sky, ready to obey his command at any moment.

"Aoyama Biopharmaceuticals, huh?"

Fujino muttered as he scrutinized the prominent building in the distance.

Following the White Wolf, he had ridden his motorcycle all the way here.

This place wasn't too far from Akemi Miyano's apartment, both located in Beika City.

Aoyama Biopharmaceuticals was the collective name for the buildings in front of him.

Honestly, Fujino didn't know why the term "Aoyama" was so common in the world of Detective Conan.

The psychiatric hospital was Aoyama, and the pharmaceutical factory was also Aoyama.

Was it the will of some Aoyama rogue?

Pondering, Fujino lightly stroked the frame of the visual enhancement glasses under his mask.

With the 50x magnification of the glasses, he gradually saw the details of those buildings.

As the name suggests, Aoyama Pharmaceuticals was a factory responsible for developing and producing medicines.

In Beika, it was quite well-known.

He remembered the cold medicine that Ran gave him last time was produced by Aoyama Pharmaceuticals.

Gazing at Aoyama Pharmaceuticals, Fujino slightly raised his hand.

On the other side, the White Wolf hovering in the night sky seemed to sense something. After letting out a howl that echoed through the sky, it flew straight into the factory.

The visual glasses tracked the White Wolf's movements.

Soon, the screen locked onto a room on the fifth floor of a building in the complex.

The magnification of the visual glasses reached 100x.

Through the half-open window, the situation inside the room came into Fujino's view.

The layout of the room was very simple, just like Akemi Miyano's room earlier.

Besides the simplicity, there were many experimental instruments inside, and even a refrigerator...

It looked like the room of a single otaku.

A girl was sitting in a chair by the desk near the bed.

She was a girl about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a dark red sweater, with long brownish-red hair, ice-blue pupils, and delicate features. However, her exquisite face had a somewhat cold expression.

This mixed-race girl was none other than Akemi Miyano's sister, Shiho Miyano.

"Why did I suddenly think of my sister? Usually, we rarely see each other."

Sitting at the desk, Shiho Miyano looked at the photo in her hand and smiled slightly. "Speaking of which, it's been a long time... Maybe I'll visit her someday."

The gentle breeze from the half-open window blew her wavy hair, bringing a rare look of relaxation to her tired and cold face.

She put away her thoughts and looked out the window.

The view outside was still the same, but in the distance, she vaguely felt a gaze spying on her.

"Impossible..."

Shiho Miyano stared at the distance, shaking her head.

From this distance, let alone observing, even the reflection would be enough for someone to easily notice.

Was she being paranoid?

She sighed softly and put the photo into the drawer of the desk.

She took off her dark red sweater, revealing her white... then changed into pajamas and prepared to go to bed.

"So scary,"

In the distance, Fujino, who was spying using visual enhancement glasses, muttered to himself.

From here to Aoyama Pharmaceuticals was at least three or four kilometers.

Generally, at this distance, even a top sniper wouldn't be able to detect him.

After all, the magnification effect of the visual enhancement glasses wouldn't produce any reflective light.

However, it seemed that Shiho Miyano indeed noticed him just now.

And even made eye contact with him?

Could it be the intuition of a materialist Detective Conan girl?

Unbelievable.

After confirming that Shiho Miyano was safe, Fujino began to observe the personnel inside the factory.

From a high vantage point, he roughly estimated that there were at least dozens of black-clad members patrolling outside the factory.

This showed how much the organization valued this "Aoyama Pharmaceuticals."

Using his assassin robe, he could still easily kill his way in.

But getting out would be difficult.

Because from the current situation, the security personnel inside "Aoyama Pharmaceuticals" were clearly more numerous than outside, and it was highly likely that the security guards had guns...

Simply using the assassin robe's [Night Ranger] skill effect to kill his way in would be easy.

But the goal was to rescue someone.

Doing something like killing his way in and then carrying the person out would be difficult, even for him with his cheats.

If he forced his way in, not only would the child be in danger, but even he would be in trouble.

...

After confirming that "Aoyama Pharmaceuticals" was an instance he couldn't handle, Fujino returned home.

By now, it was late at night.

Fujino lay on his bed and took out the soul lotus seed that had absorbed Akemi Miyano's soul, carefully examining it.

Before absorbing Akemi Miyano's soul, the soul lotus seed was red, but after absorbing her soul, it turned green.

And faintly, Fujino could sense some vitality from it.

After pondering for a moment, he bit his finger and dropped a drop of blood on it.

The drop of blood and the small green soul lotus seed fused together, and vaguely, particles of light began to melt on the surface of the soul lotus.

Then... nothing happened.

"Failed?"

Fujino looked at the unchanged soul lotus seed, surprised.

But soon, the seed answered his question with its actions.

[Current Soul Lotus growth progress: 1.001%]

[Tip: Placing the Soul Lotus seed in water helps its growth]

The system's voice echoed in his ear, and at the same time, the soul lotus seed began to tremble.

After a while, a small sprout began to break out from the green shell of the soul lotus seed.

"Looks like it needs time to grow, just as the system described."

Fujino looked at the sprout and muttered.

He quickly went to the bathroom.

Fujino filled the bathtub, which was as big as a single bed, with water and, after muttering, "Revive, my... cough," he dropped the soul lotus seed into it.

"This should be fine, right?"

Fujino watched the seed slowly grow in the bathtub, scratching his chin. "But speaking of which, how can putting this thing in water speed up its growth... what's the principle?"

Vaguely, he recalled an invincible golden boy from a past life who could catch knives with his bare hands.

But fortunately, his soul lotus could be customized, so he didn't have to worry about such terrifying monsters emerging.

(Chapter End)