"How interesting. They came looking for me." Interest glinted in Hyuga Shin's eyes.
"I'll go take a look." Shin spoke to Akemi Miyano before walking out.
"You two were looking for me?" Shin asked Heiji Hattori and Conan indifferently.
"Hyuga Shin, you finally came out. I thought you were too scared to show yourself," Heiji Hattori said.
"Hahaha, what are you talking about? Me, afraid to come out?" Shin found it amusing. Heiji spoke as though Shin were afraid of him and Conan.
"If you have something to say, say it. I don't have that much patience," Shin said to them. If not for his curiosity, he would not have bothered meeting these two.
"This isn't the place to talk. Let's go somewhere else," Heiji said to Shin.
With that, Heiji turned and dragged Conan away. Shin followed with a faint smile.
"Hyuga Shin, you know who I really am, don't you?" Conan asked gravely.
"That's right, I do know. Shinichi Kudo, surely you didn't bring me here just to talk about this?" Shin asked casually.
Conan's heart sank. Sure enough, the other man knew his identity. That left Shinichi Kudo feeling rather displeased.
"Who else knows my identity?" Conan asked Shin.
"Well, quite a lot of people know. Too many to count," Shin said with a faint smile as he watched Conan's remarkably dramatic expression.
Conan's face darkened, black as charcoal. The identity he had been hiding all this time had apparently long been known by many people.
"Does my mother, Yukiko Kudo, know?" Conan suddenly thought of his mother and asked Shin.
"She doesn't know. But if she gets curious enough to ask, I wouldn't mind telling her." Shin looked at Conan with a broad smile.
"No, you absolutely can't tell her!" Conan's reaction was frighteningly intense. It