Heiji Hattori, who had been about to lecture Conan about putting the bigger picture first, immediately fell silent. Rising to his feet, he asked Conan, "Is what you said true?"
"Can't you figure it out? Kazuha used to live at Ran's house, and now Ran has come to Hyuga Shin's house. Do you think Kazuha Toyama might have followed her here?"
After Conan finished speaking, Heiji Hattori's expression grew increasingly grim. He was already dark-skinned to begin with, but now his face had turned even darker, making him look like a lump of charcoal.
"That still doesn't prove anything," Heiji Hattori said, trying to struggle a little.
But Conan's next words immediately cast him into an abyss from which there was no climbing back.
"Ran told me herself. Do you believe it now?"
Whether the two of them counted as hurting each other or not, they were indeed fellow sufferers at the moment.
Professor Agasa, who had just walked out of the laboratory, shook his head and sighed when he saw the two of them.
Sigh, why think so much about romance? Look at me—being single alone isn't so bad.
That was what Professor Agasa thought. Having remained single all his life, he did not understand matters of the heart at all.
"What are you doing?" Conan saw Heiji Hattori suddenly rise to his feet and immediately regretted it.
Could Heiji Hattori be unable to bear such a blow? If he really could not take it, then it would be Conan's fault.
"I'm going to ask her," Heiji Hattori said through gritted teeth.
"Don't go. Even if you ask, it'll still be the same. You might get hurt even worse then, so don't go." Conan grabbed Heiji Hattori.
"I think Conan is right. Hattori, try to let it go," Professor