As a karate expert, the unicorn girl Ran's physical condition was not comparable to that of ordinary people.
Just as everyone found the village police box, Ran, who had already returned to the inn, sprinted back:
"Conan, Conan isn't in the inn!"
Among those people, Kazuha, the only one who was clueless, let out a surprised cry: "That kid didn't stay quietly inside the inn?!"
"No!"
Ran panted anxiously a couple of times. "The people in the village said he walked toward the forest alone!"
Hattori Heiji knew what Conan had run off to do.
So, at this moment, he was not all that anxious.
Instead, he was wondering how to help his good bro lie.
After a brief moment of thought, he spoke up: "Could it be that he went to look for that guy Kudo?"
"Eh?" Ran paused for a moment. "But just now when I was asking the villagers, I didn't see anyone else around him, did I?"
Hattori Heiji thought about how Fujino usually bluffed people, waved his finger, and answered with a straight face: "It's also possible that that guy Kudo and this kid Conan arranged to meet in the forest."
"You guys think about it, is this kid Conan the type to run around blindly on ordinary days?"
Ran: "..."
I feel like he totally is...
Ai Haibara: "..."
It's really hard to say.
Hattori Heiji's face turned dark for a moment, though his face was quite dark to begin with, so his expression didn't change much after darkening.
Kazuha, who was still out of the loop and an ordinary person, offered an ordinary person's suggestion at this time:
"We should still go look for Conan!"
"It would be bad if he happened to encounter any danger in the forest..."
Hattori Heiji gave a