"But I really am a little curious. Why did Lupin's group take you away for no reason?"
As the two pondered, Fujino spoke again, staring straight at Conan with a soul-searching question. "Why did they take you specifically instead of someone else?"
"Do you have some kind of special ability or something?"
"They took you away to study you!"
Faced with Fujino's soul-searching question, Conan, who had been deep in thought, froze for a moment before slowly raising his head with a baffled expression.
"Why would that be?"
"Of course, because they dug up my identity as Kudo Shinichi!"
"Going from a high school student to an elementary schooler probably counts as a special ability, right?"
"No, you scheming bastard... why are you questioning me instead?"
"Damn it, what am I supposed to say?"
Conan immediately gave up thinking about Fujino's remark about whether they had done anything strange to him and instead began considering how to answer.
"Well..."
"I don't know!"
Of course, he could not say: I'm Kudo Shinichi. They found out after I shrank, and then Fujiko Mine took me away and groped all over me.
He could only pretend to be a child and play dumb.
Fujino stared at Conan for a moment, but ultimately did not press the matter any further.
"Um, wasn't the main point of our discussion that Kaito Kid had been impersonated?"
Hakuba Saguru lightly coughed at that moment, cutting off the two before they could continue and reminding them to focus on Kaito Kid being impersonated. "Kid was impersonated... the person pretending to be him wants to steal the painting. There must be some kind of conspiracy behind this."
"I wouldn't know."
Fujino shook his head helplessly.
Hakuba Saguru continued naturally, "In that case, I'll come along and see what's going