Fate

Fate

"What exactly is up with that guy? Could he suspect me? No way..."

Ever since the Valentine's Day Murder Case ended and he returned to the Mori Detective Agency, Conan had been rather absentminded.

That young Officer Sato's deductive ability was far too formidable. He had actually managed to pinpoint the truth so accurately from the few scraps of information Conan had provided!

Had Conan revealed something in front of him?

Using the identity of a child as a cover did let him do many things, but at the same time, some of his actions probably seemed rather unusual—different from those of a normal child.

Was that why he had started paying attention to him?

To be honest, there were quite a few flaws in his behavior. If someone with such powerful deductive skills kept an eye on him, then unless he truly acted like a child...

Ding-dong~

At that moment, the Mori Detective Agency welcomed a visitor...

Outside Kudo Shinichi's residence, an elderly man in a wheelchair was being pushed over and eventually stopped at the entrance to the house.

"Boss, this is the home of the Famous Detective Kudo Shinichi. We spent quite some effort investigating it."

The suited man pushing him spoke with a hint of self-congratulation.

"Cough, cough, cough~ So this is the place? You've done very well."

After coughing for a while, a glimmer of excitement flashed through the old man's cloudy eyes.

Excellent. He had not expected his luck to be so good. His starting location was Japan, and thanks to his Comprehensive Reputation, he had begun as a small business owner with some savings and a few people at his disposal.

That was why he had found out Kudo Shinichi's identity so quickly and learned that he was a high school