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**Chapter 1123: No One Has the Right to Judge Anyone Else**
At the seventh-floor open-air restaurant, Mori Kogoro and Conan were squatting in front of the hold's access panel, fretting anxiously.
Mori Kogoro tried to open the deformed lock, but couldn't get enough leverage. "Damn it! I can't open it!"
Conan looked up, searching, and saw Chi Feichei walking towards them. "Brother Chi, Ran should be right below here. There's a fire axe over there..."
Chi Feichei stepped forward and squatted down, aimed at the hold's access panel, and struck it with a palm.
"Crack!"
The entire thick wooden panel directly turned into fragments. Even the iron piece of the lock bounced out, landing on the floor in the distance with a 'thud'.
Conan: "..."
Σ(゜ロ゜;)
Scary! Was the fire axe completely unnecessary?
"Ran!" Mori Kogoro saw Mouri Ran's figure floating in the puddle below and quickly went down to pull her out.
Mouri Ran choked on water. Her consciousness was a bit blurry, but she wasn't completely unconscious. "Father?"
Conan also snapped out of his surprise and quickly said, "Uncle, hurry! There's not much time left..."
The cruise ship suddenly tilted rapidly to one side. The tables and chairs in the open-air restaurant all fell over and slid towards the tilted side.
Chi Feichei reached out and pulled Conan, who had almost fallen over.
Conan breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head and saw Chi Feichei's expression and gaze were calm, and even the action of letting go of his hand was unhurried. He was speechless for a moment.
Fortunately, the sound of a propeller came from the sky, and a bright beam of light approached.
Only then did Conan completely breathe a sigh of relief. He turned back and smiled at Mori Kogoro, who was helping Mouri Ran out. "Uncle, it's a rescue helicopter!"
"Miss Akiyoshi and Captain Kaito have already been put onto a lifeboat by me," Chi Feichei added.
Mori Kogoro saw the ship tilting severely, nodded seriously, "Okay! We'll go to the top deck first. Hassashi, take care of this kid!"
Chi Feichei nodded and lifted Conan.
"No... need!" Conan saw that the trouble was already solved, and his mood wasn't so heavy anymore. After Chi Feichei lifted him by the collar and he felt like his throat was being choked, he struggled for a bit. "This isn't taking care of me, it's murder!"
Mori Kogoro, walking ahead while supporting Mouri Ran, chuckled, "Kid, stop being so picky!"
Conan: "..."
The master and disciple are teaming up to bully him, huh?
Chi Feichei didn't keep carrying Conan. After passing the area where they could easily be hit by chairs, he put Conan down and changed to holding his hand.
Only then did Conan remember to ask about the doubt in his heart. "Hey, why didn't you evacuate? What are you doing running here?"
"Looking at the rare peaceful ship scenery," Chi Feichei said.
Conan choked. This was the first time he had seen someone describe an abnormal situation so confidently and without any guilt. He pressed on relentlessly, "I want to ask, why didn't you evacuate? Aren't you worried about the sunken ship being dangerous? Don't you know this is very dangerous?"
He wanted to ask if Chi Feichei was having an illness episode. Last time, Haibara Ai was in danger, yet he calmly stayed on the bus where the bomb was about to explode. His mentality itself was wrong. This time, Chi Feichei was the same, which was very suspicious. But he felt that asking directly would easily stimulate Chi Feichei...
"No one present has the qualification to ask me this question," Chi Feichei turned his head to look at Conan and reminded him, "Including you."
Conan: "..."
Very good, very good...
He really couldn't win against Chi Feichei!
(▼へ▼メ)
This was the most annoying thing!
Mori Kogoro was just about to admonish Chi Feichei, Conan, and Mouri Ran, but upon hearing that, he decisively fell silent.
Didn't he also stay behind alone?
His disciple was really right. The four of them here were the same, all courting death enough. No one has the right to judge anyone else.
...
Arriving at the top deck, Mori Kogoro supported Mouri Ran and waved towards the sky.
"Here! We are here!"
The helicopter's searchlight illuminated the surrounding area of the four people. Search and rescue personnel wearing striking orange fluorescence search and rescue suits used ropes to descend onto the deck and asked loudly, "Are all the remaining people here?!"
"Yes!" Mori Kogoro also responded loudly against the howling sea breeze.
"Younger brother, bear with it a little longer," the descending search and rescue personnel didn't forget to appease Conan. "I'll rescue you soon."
Conan nodded. He wasn't panicked, he just felt like he was annoyed by Chi Feichei again.
A rescue harness was quickly lowered from the rescue helicopter. The descending rescue personnel helped Mouri Ran put it on, then directed Mori Kogoro and Chi Feichei to put on their rescue harnesses, and checked the tightening rings.
"Younger brother, you need to hold onto me tightly!" The rescue personnel picked up Conan and said to Mori Kogoro and Chi Feichei, "Take good care of that girl. We're going to be pulled up now!"
Chi Feichei put a rope around Conan, all the way to Conan's waist, and tightened it. His fingers nimbly and quickly tied a knot. The other end was tied to his own rescue harness.
With him there, the famous detective shouldn't think about causing any more trouble.
Mori Kogoro sweated a bit. Didn't this show distrust towards the rescue personnel? "Hassashi, you really are..."
"No, this is fine too," the rescue personnel reached out and made a gesture upwards, smiling, "It's more stable than me holding you directly, and I can have much more peace of mind."
The helicopter pulled the rescue harness's rope upwards. A strong wind suddenly blew from the sea, causing the helicopter to suddenly shake violently. The group of people on the rope were also shaken and were flung towards the cruise ship's metal mast frame.
The rescue personnel's face changed drastically. Seeing that if this continued, Conan in his arms would crash into it, he immediately turned around in the air and met the metal mast with his back.
Almost simultaneously, Chi Feichei also adjusted his angle in the air. Using the impact from being swung over, he extended his foot first and kicked the mast heavily.
The strength of his arm had been enhanced by the Three-No Golden Finger. Breaking the mast wouldn't be a problem. But he didn't have time to grab the mast with his hand before the rescue personnel would be hit, so he could only use his foot to kick.
The training results he had persisted in all along were good. The mast bent under that kick. Although it wasn't enough to make the mast break or bend to a certain extent, the strength caused the group of people hanging on the rope to swing away from the mast again.
Others: "..."
That was really close, but why does it feel like swinging high in the air?
Chi Feichei glanced at Conan.
He suspected that Heaven wanted to kill a certain Magic Person of Light, which was why so much trouble happened around Conan.
Thinking about it this way, Heaven was still pretty good to him. It just made him unable to distinguish time, be thought of as crazy, have a genetic disease that was considered an unstable factor, and occasionally, like Belmode, want to trick him or give Conan an opportunity to discover his identity... That's all.
The helicopter stabilized, seizing the time to retract the rescue harness, while the fuselage also flew upwards.
When the group of people swung back again, their position was already higher than the mast by a section, and they swung towards the other side without any obstruction.
On the search and rescue ship on the sea surface, the other members of the Junior Detective League gathered on the deck, looking up at the situation there. Seeing the group of people narrowly dodged the impact, they breathed a long sigh of relief.
"So dangerous," Ayumi patted her chest.
"Yeah," Mitsuhiko was also scared quite a bit, "Fortunately, they didn't crash."
The feeling of relief in Haibara Ai's heart landed, and she couldn't help but comment, "They should be fine now, but they are swinging back and forth like a pendulum now. It's also inconvenient for the helicopter to pull up the rescue harness, so they will probably be hoisted directly here."
Running onto the quickly sinking ship one by one, and actually some people didn't evacuate, causing everyone so much worry. They should be hoisted!
The fact confirmed Haibara Ai's speculation.
Due to the severe shaking, the helicopter didn't continue to hoist the people up. It slowed down its speed and directly hoisted the group of people onto the search and rescue ship. They even arrived one step ahead of Doctor Agasa and Suzuki Sonoko, who came by lifeboat.
After the people being hoisted landed safely and unhooked the harnesses, the three true children of the Junior Detective League ran over. Haibara Ai followed them.
Originally, they wanted to complain, but...
Mori Kogoro, Conan, the search and rescue personnel, and Mouri Ran were expressionless. Chi Feichei wasn't anything unusual, it was just that the others seemed very weird.
In addition, besides Mouri Ran and the search and rescue personnel, the other three male individuals were all dressed in all black evening wear, and their presence seemed quite formidable.
The three true children fell silent.
How did it feel like they weren't rescued, but rather collectively rope sliding and airdropping to fight and cause trouble?
Haibara Ai also fell silent.
Making everyone worry, and still being so justified?
"Are you okay?" The medical staff on the ship ran forward. "Are you injured?"
"I'm okay, it's just that the strong wind blew on my face so much it's a bit stiff..." Mori Kogoro looked towards Chi Feichei expressionlessly. "Hassashi, your foot isn't injured, is it?"
Chi Feichei shook his head with a calm face. "Nothing."
Haibara Ai and the three true children: "..."
Then these few people all having indifferent faces is because...
Conan lowered his head aside, reaching out and rubbing his face.
Don't ask. If you ask, it's because they swung in the air for too long, the mad night breeze slapped their faces wildly, and their faces were all stiff!
Not only was his face stiff, he also had a bit of tinnitus. It seemed like there was still the sound of howling wind beside his ears.
...
The night passed, and the search and rescue ship returned to port in the morning sunlight.
After recovering, people gradually went onto the deck for activity, to look at the first sunrise after surviving a calamity.
"Ran..."
The three true children found Mouri Ran standing beside the railing, enjoying the wind, and said in unison with apologetic faces, "We're sorry!"
"Huh?" Mouri Ran turned her head, surprised and confused. "Why are you saying you're sorry?"
Ayumi looked at the shell bracelet on Mouri Ran's wrist. "It's because you went to get the bracelet we gave you that Ran encountered danger..."
"You gave me a gift, that was your good intention. How can I blame you when something like this happened?" Mouri Ran chuckled, bending down and speaking gently to the three children, "It was me who didn't keep the things you gave me properly, and it was also me who insisted on going back to get it. If anyone should say sorry, it should be me to you. I'm sorry for making everyone worry about me."
In front of the railing not far away, Doctor Agasa turned his head and looked at the three children smiling, and also followed suit and started smiling.
Chi Feichei, who was smoking aside, suddenly remembered something. "Doctor, my computer sank with the ship."
Doctor Agasa was stunned for a moment, then realized, and smiled, "That was the computer I helped you with computer assembly, right? It's nothing, I'll assemble another one for you afterwards!"
Chi Feichei considered it a bit, but still refused. "I can do it myself. Shinchi Group has quite a few parts, but Doctor seemingly made some modifications in the assembly of the onboard memory..."
"Huh? Have you taken it apart and looked?"
"Researched it."
"You have a lot of research spirit! This is also very simple. I'll tell you, and you'll understand. It's just..."
Haibara Ai looked at the two people starting to chat about computer assembly, and speechlessly gave a yawn.
Never mind, she didn't expect Brother Hichiji to explain why he didn't evacuate in time. She guessed it was probably because he discovered Edogawa's reasoning was wrong.
As long as everyone is okay.
(End of Chapter)
At the seventh-floor open-air restaurant, Mori Kogoro and Conan were squatting in front of the hold's access panel, fretting anxiously.
Mori Kogoro tried to open the deformed lock, but couldn't get enough leverage. "Damn it! I can't open it!"
Conan looked up, searching, and saw Chi Feichei walking towards them. "Brother Chi, Ran should be right below here. There's a fire axe over there..."
Chi Feichei stepped forward and squatted down, aimed at the hold's access panel, and struck it with a palm.
"Crack!"
The entire thick wooden panel directly turned into fragments. Even the iron piece of the lock bounced out, landing on the floor in the distance with a 'thud'.
Conan: "..."
Σ(゜ロ゜;)
Scary! Was the fire axe completely unnecessary?
"Ran!" Mori Kogoro saw Mouri Ran's figure floating in the puddle below and quickly went down to pull her out.
Mouri Ran choked on water. Her consciousness was a bit blurry, but she wasn't completely unconscious. "Father?"
Conan also snapped out of his surprise and quickly said, "Uncle, hurry! There's not much time left..."
The cruise ship suddenly tilted rapidly to one side. The tables and chairs in the open-air restaurant all fell over and slid towards the tilted side.
Chi Feichei reached out and pulled Conan, who had almost fallen over.
Conan breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head and saw Chi Feichei's expression and gaze were calm, and even the action of letting go of his hand was unhurried. He was speechless for a moment.
Fortunately, the sound of a propeller came from the sky, and a bright beam of light approached.
Only then did Conan completely breathe a sigh of relief. He turned back and smiled at Mori Kogoro, who was helping Mouri Ran out. "Uncle, it's a rescue helicopter!"
"Miss Akiyoshi and Captain Kaito have already been put onto a lifeboat by me," Chi Feichei added.
Mori Kogoro saw the ship tilting severely, nodded seriously, "Okay! We'll go to the top deck first. Hassashi, take care of this kid!"
Chi Feichei nodded and lifted Conan.
"No... need!" Conan saw that the trouble was already solved, and his mood wasn't so heavy anymore. After Chi Feichei lifted him by the collar and he felt like his throat was being choked, he struggled for a bit. "This isn't taking care of me, it's murder!"
Mori Kogoro, walking ahead while supporting Mouri Ran, chuckled, "Kid, stop being so picky!"
Conan: "..."
The master and disciple are teaming up to bully him, huh?
Chi Feichei didn't keep carrying Conan. After passing the area where they could easily be hit by chairs, he put Conan down and changed to holding his hand.
Only then did Conan remember to ask about the doubt in his heart. "Hey, why didn't you evacuate? What are you doing running here?"
"Looking at the rare peaceful ship scenery," Chi Feichei said.
Conan choked. This was the first time he had seen someone describe an abnormal situation so confidently and without any guilt. He pressed on relentlessly, "I want to ask, why didn't you evacuate? Aren't you worried about the sunken ship being dangerous? Don't you know this is very dangerous?"
He wanted to ask if Chi Feichei was having an illness episode. Last time, Haibara Ai was in danger, yet he calmly stayed on the bus where the bomb was about to explode. His mentality itself was wrong. This time, Chi Feichei was the same, which was very suspicious. But he felt that asking directly would easily stimulate Chi Feichei...
"No one present has the qualification to ask me this question," Chi Feichei turned his head to look at Conan and reminded him, "Including you."
Conan: "..."
Very good, very good...
He really couldn't win against Chi Feichei!
(▼へ▼メ)
This was the most annoying thing!
Mori Kogoro was just about to admonish Chi Feichei, Conan, and Mouri Ran, but upon hearing that, he decisively fell silent.
Didn't he also stay behind alone?
His disciple was really right. The four of them here were the same, all courting death enough. No one has the right to judge anyone else.
...
Arriving at the top deck, Mori Kogoro supported Mouri Ran and waved towards the sky.
"Here! We are here!"
The helicopter's searchlight illuminated the surrounding area of the four people. Search and rescue personnel wearing striking orange fluorescence search and rescue suits used ropes to descend onto the deck and asked loudly, "Are all the remaining people here?!"
"Yes!" Mori Kogoro also responded loudly against the howling sea breeze.
"Younger brother, bear with it a little longer," the descending search and rescue personnel didn't forget to appease Conan. "I'll rescue you soon."
Conan nodded. He wasn't panicked, he just felt like he was annoyed by Chi Feichei again.
A rescue harness was quickly lowered from the rescue helicopter. The descending rescue personnel helped Mouri Ran put it on, then directed Mori Kogoro and Chi Feichei to put on their rescue harnesses, and checked the tightening rings.
"Younger brother, you need to hold onto me tightly!" The rescue personnel picked up Conan and said to Mori Kogoro and Chi Feichei, "Take good care of that girl. We're going to be pulled up now!"
Chi Feichei put a rope around Conan, all the way to Conan's waist, and tightened it. His fingers nimbly and quickly tied a knot. The other end was tied to his own rescue harness.
With him there, the famous detective shouldn't think about causing any more trouble.
Mori Kogoro sweated a bit. Didn't this show distrust towards the rescue personnel? "Hassashi, you really are..."
"No, this is fine too," the rescue personnel reached out and made a gesture upwards, smiling, "It's more stable than me holding you directly, and I can have much more peace of mind."
The helicopter pulled the rescue harness's rope upwards. A strong wind suddenly blew from the sea, causing the helicopter to suddenly shake violently. The group of people on the rope were also shaken and were flung towards the cruise ship's metal mast frame.
The rescue personnel's face changed drastically. Seeing that if this continued, Conan in his arms would crash into it, he immediately turned around in the air and met the metal mast with his back.
Almost simultaneously, Chi Feichei also adjusted his angle in the air. Using the impact from being swung over, he extended his foot first and kicked the mast heavily.
The strength of his arm had been enhanced by the Three-No Golden Finger. Breaking the mast wouldn't be a problem. But he didn't have time to grab the mast with his hand before the rescue personnel would be hit, so he could only use his foot to kick.
The training results he had persisted in all along were good. The mast bent under that kick. Although it wasn't enough to make the mast break or bend to a certain extent, the strength caused the group of people hanging on the rope to swing away from the mast again.
Others: "..."
That was really close, but why does it feel like swinging high in the air?
Chi Feichei glanced at Conan.
He suspected that Heaven wanted to kill a certain Magic Person of Light, which was why so much trouble happened around Conan.
Thinking about it this way, Heaven was still pretty good to him. It just made him unable to distinguish time, be thought of as crazy, have a genetic disease that was considered an unstable factor, and occasionally, like Belmode, want to trick him or give Conan an opportunity to discover his identity... That's all.
The helicopter stabilized, seizing the time to retract the rescue harness, while the fuselage also flew upwards.
When the group of people swung back again, their position was already higher than the mast by a section, and they swung towards the other side without any obstruction.
On the search and rescue ship on the sea surface, the other members of the Junior Detective League gathered on the deck, looking up at the situation there. Seeing the group of people narrowly dodged the impact, they breathed a long sigh of relief.
"So dangerous," Ayumi patted her chest.
"Yeah," Mitsuhiko was also scared quite a bit, "Fortunately, they didn't crash."
The feeling of relief in Haibara Ai's heart landed, and she couldn't help but comment, "They should be fine now, but they are swinging back and forth like a pendulum now. It's also inconvenient for the helicopter to pull up the rescue harness, so they will probably be hoisted directly here."
Running onto the quickly sinking ship one by one, and actually some people didn't evacuate, causing everyone so much worry. They should be hoisted!
The fact confirmed Haibara Ai's speculation.
Due to the severe shaking, the helicopter didn't continue to hoist the people up. It slowed down its speed and directly hoisted the group of people onto the search and rescue ship. They even arrived one step ahead of Doctor Agasa and Suzuki Sonoko, who came by lifeboat.
After the people being hoisted landed safely and unhooked the harnesses, the three true children of the Junior Detective League ran over. Haibara Ai followed them.
Originally, they wanted to complain, but...
Mori Kogoro, Conan, the search and rescue personnel, and Mouri Ran were expressionless. Chi Feichei wasn't anything unusual, it was just that the others seemed very weird.
In addition, besides Mouri Ran and the search and rescue personnel, the other three male individuals were all dressed in all black evening wear, and their presence seemed quite formidable.
The three true children fell silent.
How did it feel like they weren't rescued, but rather collectively rope sliding and airdropping to fight and cause trouble?
Haibara Ai also fell silent.
Making everyone worry, and still being so justified?
"Are you okay?" The medical staff on the ship ran forward. "Are you injured?"
"I'm okay, it's just that the strong wind blew on my face so much it's a bit stiff..." Mori Kogoro looked towards Chi Feichei expressionlessly. "Hassashi, your foot isn't injured, is it?"
Chi Feichei shook his head with a calm face. "Nothing."
Haibara Ai and the three true children: "..."
Then these few people all having indifferent faces is because...
Conan lowered his head aside, reaching out and rubbing his face.
Don't ask. If you ask, it's because they swung in the air for too long, the mad night breeze slapped their faces wildly, and their faces were all stiff!
Not only was his face stiff, he also had a bit of tinnitus. It seemed like there was still the sound of howling wind beside his ears.
...
The night passed, and the search and rescue ship returned to port in the morning sunlight.
After recovering, people gradually went onto the deck for activity, to look at the first sunrise after surviving a calamity.
"Ran..."
The three true children found Mouri Ran standing beside the railing, enjoying the wind, and said in unison with apologetic faces, "We're sorry!"
"Huh?" Mouri Ran turned her head, surprised and confused. "Why are you saying you're sorry?"
Ayumi looked at the shell bracelet on Mouri Ran's wrist. "It's because you went to get the bracelet we gave you that Ran encountered danger..."
"You gave me a gift, that was your good intention. How can I blame you when something like this happened?" Mouri Ran chuckled, bending down and speaking gently to the three children, "It was me who didn't keep the things you gave me properly, and it was also me who insisted on going back to get it. If anyone should say sorry, it should be me to you. I'm sorry for making everyone worry about me."
In front of the railing not far away, Doctor Agasa turned his head and looked at the three children smiling, and also followed suit and started smiling.
Chi Feichei, who was smoking aside, suddenly remembered something. "Doctor, my computer sank with the ship."
Doctor Agasa was stunned for a moment, then realized, and smiled, "That was the computer I helped you with computer assembly, right? It's nothing, I'll assemble another one for you afterwards!"
Chi Feichei considered it a bit, but still refused. "I can do it myself. Shinchi Group has quite a few parts, but Doctor seemingly made some modifications in the assembly of the onboard memory..."
"Huh? Have you taken it apart and looked?"
"Researched it."
"You have a lot of research spirit! This is also very simple. I'll tell you, and you'll understand. It's just..."
Haibara Ai looked at the two people starting to chat about computer assembly, and speechlessly gave a yawn.
Never mind, she didn't expect Brother Hichiji to explain why he didn't evacuate in time. She guessed it was probably because he discovered Edogawa's reasoning was wrong.
As long as everyone is okay.
(End of Chapter)
