Ai Haibara pondered. "Hmm, if it's a diamond the size of a fist, it would indeed be quite valuable. I read in a magazine that diamonds like that are exceptionally rare. Only the scepters and crowns of the English royal family would have such diamonds, and they're basically priceless. If we're talking about its actual value, it should be worth over 100 million."
Genta became excited when he heard that. "Over 100 million yen? How many bowls of eel rice could that buy?"
"Why are you always thinking about eel rice?!"
Mitsuhiko complained from the side, then thought it over. "100 million yen... eel rice is probably around a thousand yen per bowl, so 100 million could buy about a hundred thousand bowls of eel rice!"
"That rock is worth that much?!"
"A hundred thousand bowls... then I could eat..."
Genta counted on his fingers, failed to figure it out, and gave an awkward laugh. "Anyway, I could eat for a really, really long time!"
"..." Ai Haibara gave him a deadpan stare.
First of all, she had said dollars, not yen.
And besides, even if he ate eel rice morning, noon, and night, a hundred thousand bowls would probably last him a hundred years.
Secondly, using eel rice to measure the value of a gemstone...
It really did fit Genta's worldview.
Everything had to be measured in eel rice.
They pushed open the door, revealing a pitch-dark room.
The children tacitly switched on the lights on their watches, while Fujino pulled the Shining Staff from his pocket and raised it before him.
Click!
Tiga!
Well, no Tiga appeared.
This Shining Staff was merely a lighting tool.
Other than being brighter, it really had no other use.
The dazzling light illuminated the entire room, revealing the entrance hall in