Conan Moslin

As people went to school, worked, and did other things, Saturday quickly came.

"Dad is out for work today, so you should stay at Dr. Agasa's house..."

Nearing eleven o'clock, Ran Mouri, wearing a red jacket and a short skirt, packed up Conan, who was alone at home, and sent him to Professor Agasa's house. After giving Conan a few instructions, she seemed to be in a good mood and left humming a song.

She had lunch with Suzuki Sonoko, then entered the mall and went straight to the clothing counter.

Haibara Ai sat in front of Dr. Agasa's round table, watching Dr. Agasa make coffee.

When I turned around, I saw Conan looking like he had lost all hope in life.

"You've had this expression since you came here...what happened?"

Conan, who hasn't been to Dr. Agasa's house for several days, looked desperate: "Xiaolan may have guessed something."

"How could this happen?" Dr. Agasa was pouring coffee from the glass pot into the cup. Hearing this, he looked at him in surprise. "Didn't you keep it a secret before?"

"Last time, during the Dark Night Duke case...she saw it..."

When the signal was given, Dr. Agasa and those people turned their heads to look, so they did not notice what Mouri Ran did at that time.

If there was anyone who actually saw it, it was probably only Kuriyasu and Haibara Ai.

But if that's all...

"Shouldn't she be able to guess your identity from this?" Dr. Agasa guessed, "Maybe she thinks you've been in contact with Shinichi? After all, becoming smaller is unbelievable..."

That's possible...

Conan thought back to what happened that night at the tea party.

At dinner on the day of the tea party, Xiaolan told Kogoro Mouri about her decision to go to a midnight movie with Shinichi.

Because the agreed time was too late, it aroused strong opposition from the old father.

"You just said you wanted to go to the midnight show with Kudo Shinichi?" Maori Kogoro was very excited. "No, no! I absolutely won't allow that!"

"It's ridiculous for a young man and woman to be so affectionate in a dark movie theater!"

"That's not the case! Please stop talking nonsense!" Mao Lilan snatched the chopsticks from her father angrily, "I also invited Sonoko to watch it with me, so don't worry about me!"

What? So Sonoko is still here? Conan was shocked.

"Well...that's okay..." Kogoro Mori had to give up.

But when he took the chopsticks back, he still couldn't help muttering to himself.

"But, a movie at 10pm... is still too late..."

After dinner, Mouri Ran returned to her bedroom. Not long after, Conan knocked on the door and came in.

He asked: "Sister Xiaolan, Brother Shinichi hasn't shown up for so long, what if he doesn't come?"

"I didn't mean for him to come..." Mao Lilan put down the book in her hand and looked at Conan, "Of course I know he can't come, but so what?"

There was some stubbornness and indifference in her voice: "Who told Shinichi to forget his birthday every year, so I have to remind him every year."

"Otherwise, wouldn't he just be one year older for nothing?"

Conan was a little dazed.

So...is this the reason?

At this time, Mao Lilan suddenly stared at Conan's eyes seriously, looking through his plain glasses at his eyes that were vaguely similar to his eyes when he grew up.

"Conan, I don't know what Shinichi is doing lately."

"If you can get in touch with him...please pass the message on to me."

"Shinichi has been 'missing' for so long..."

"He must not come!"

"...That's it." Conan's train of thought was diverted by Professor Agasa, "If you think about it this way...she seems to have just thought that I was in contact with 'Kudo Shinichi', so she told me very seriously that 'Kudo Shinichi' couldn't come."

It seems that after asking Dr. Agasa to help block the suspicion at the beginning, Xiaolan never called Shinichi "Conan" again...

Maybe it is really like this?

"When I heard you say that Miss Xiaolan and 'Kudo Shinichi' made an appointment to go to the movies... I wanted to see what you were going to do." Huiyuan Ai gently blew away the steam rising from the coffee cup in her hand and took a sip. "It seems that it is not necessary now."

But...did she really not guess Conan's identity?

Haibara Ai recalled the time at the diplomat's house, and the look in Xiaolan's eyes when Conan became small again.

That was definitely not the look of someone who was worried about a sick child.

"Shinichi, what do you think? Since Xiaolan said so, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing." After listening to Conan's words, Dr. Agasa thought of another question, "However, since she has discovered this, if you use the anesthetic needle to reason again... it's not appropriate."

Conan nodded: "I think so too...but..."

But if the anesthetic needle is not used, Uncle Maori’s reasoning sometimes cannot be reversed!

"How about discussing it with Xiaolan? Ask her to help pass on clues?"

"She doesn't like reasoning so much...it's better to ask Sister Li An for help..."

Kuroba Kurian, who was going to the law firm with Maori Kogoro, suddenly felt a chill on her neck. She thought very calmly about the source of this frightening illusion and asked, "Uncle Maori, this kind of thing shouldn't be allowed, right?"

Maori Kogoro said, "What you want to investigate takes too long, and this is the only place that may have some information... I can't retrieve the police's information either, so this is the only way."

Kuroba Kurian nodded hesitantly.

Fine?

Probably not.

Conan shook his head to himself.

Sister Li An knew that he had an anesthetic needle, and she seemed to have been avoiding direct reasoning...

How to do it?

At this time, the male voice coming from the TV that was reporting the news diverted Conan's attention.

"The day before yesterday, a large amount of explosives including HMX was stolen from the Toyo gunpowder depot. Although the police have dispatched hundreds of police officers to conduct a search, they have not yet found the whereabouts of the suspect..."

"This matter is of great importance." Dr. Agasa looked at the TV.

Conan also became serious: "Yes, if you mix HMX and plastic together... you can make a plastic bomb."

Plastic bombs are plastic and very powerful, and can only be detonated with detonators.

On TV, the announcer's voice remained steady: "Last night, a fire broke out at the residence of Mr. Mizushima, who lives in... Several nearby homes were tragically affected."

"By the way, there have been so many arson incidents recently..." Dr. Agasa continued to sigh, "The same was true for the house of Mr. Kurokawa who passed away before..."

"The criminal method was to use an incendiary device made from short-circuited wires to cause the fire. The police speculate that it is very likely that the person was a serial arsonist..."

"The police speculate that the cause of the fire at Mika Pharmaceutical Company is related to this, and they may restart the investigation."

In the first few sentences, Haibara Ai's expression didn't change much, until the last sentence, her expression changed almost instantly: "Rice Flower Pharmaceutical Company?"

"You know this place?" Conan immediately turned his head to look at her and quickly realized, "Is it related to that organization?"

Ring ring ring——

"Hello?"

Conan jumped out of bed, put on his slippers, and answered the phone.

A deliberately altered hoarse voice came from the other side.

"Is Kudo Shinichi here?"