Genta immediately frowned at Conan's showboating and was the first to feel indignant inside:
"Obviously, I'm the captain of the Junior Detective League. Why does Conan get to do everything that puts him in the spotlight?"
"If this keeps up, where will the Junior Detective League's dignity be?"
Thinking that, Genta immediately eyed him suspiciously. "So, you didn't buy those clams from a seafood shop, did you?"
"You idiot!" Conan immediately got upset. "What are you even thinking? How could I possibly do something like that?"
Genta looked unconvinced as he glanced at the bucket in his hand. "Look, none of us dug up any clams, so how did you manage to find some?"
"You must have secretly gone and bought those clams!"
Ai Haibara watched Conan endlessly argue with elementary school kids, her eyes dead as a fish's. She nodded at him with a disdainful look. "Some people really would do that out of vanity, you know."
"What are you talking about? There's a trick to this!!"
Conan immediately protested. To clear his name, he began demonstrating. "You just use a rake to loosen the sand soaked by seawater. Once the tide comes in and covers this spot, the clams, which are lighter than the sand, will float up on their own!"
"When there isn't any wet sand, the clams will stick their siphons out of the sand, leaving little holes all over the beach..."
"As long as you dig down along those holes, you can find several clams!"
"See? I wasn't lying to you, was I?"
Conan dug several clams out of the sand and showed them off, only to see the little ones suddenly vanish.
After hearing Conan's trick, the little ones immediately ran off to dig for clams, not giving him the slightest chance to show