Mom, You're Acting Weird!

Conan felt somewhat helpless about this. Though that was what she said, he had no intention of blaming his flighty mother.

All he could say was that everything had been too much of a coincidence.

He had happened to be knocked unconscious, force-fed a strange drug that shrank him, and then encountered Shiho Miyano, who had also been shrunk.

If his mother had not shown her that photo, he and Haibara would probably have been dealt with long ago, right?

Conan could not quite understand it. Even if she knew his mother, logically speaking, as a criminal in that organization, she should not have considered so much...

What was more, she had even saved him.

Wouldn't using someone else's hand to get rid of him have been the best way?

Conan felt a headache coming on.

Beyond her usual flightiness, Yukiko Kudo began to think seriously.

She had never imagined that her close friend would be a member of a criminal organization. After all, who would think of something like that?

Her feelings were rather complicated at the moment.

The good news was that her best friend was not dead.

The bad news was that her best friend wanted to kill her son.

Between her friend and Shin-chan, Yukiko would decisively choose her son. He might have tricked her, but he was still her biological child.

Pulling herself from her thoughts, she asked Conan, "But Shin-chan, if that Araide is Sharon, why did she go to Fujino's shop and act so familiar with him?"

"I don't know either."

Conan shook his head slightly. "Maybe she figured out my identity and was trying to get close to me to gather information?"

Yukiko gave Conan a long look. "So she has already come looking for you, and you still haven't told Fujino