Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko had long been very concerned about this.
It was just that they had been following the plot before and had not found an opportunity to ask.
Now that it was finally time for the players to talk, the two of them immediately grew curious.
Hearing that, Haibara Ai came back to her senses and turned to look at Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran.
When their eyes met, Suzuki Sonoko went, "Hmm?" then blurted out, "You look so much like that little girl called 'Ai'!"
Mouri Ran nodded slightly. She had felt the same way.
Watching the three girls, Kudo Shinichi's heart leaped into his throat. If the matter of "Haibara Ai = Miyano Shiho" were exposed, and Ran realized that "children could transform into adults and vice versa," then he...
Beside them, Hattori Heiji had already vaguely guessed Haibara Ai's identity and realized the same thing.
The image of Mouri Ran kicking down a door flashed through his mind. When he looked at Kudo Shinichi again, there was a trace of sympathy in his gaze.
Jiang Xia looked around. He had been quietly enjoying the show, but suddenly noticed that Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko's gazes had shifted away from Haibara Ai and landed on him.
Jiang Xia paused, then immediately understood why.
—Haibara Ai was standing closest to him, so from Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko's perspective, she looked very much like someone he knew.
"..."
After hesitating for a moment, under Kudo Shinichi's frantic, praying gaze, Jiang Xia went along with Suzuki Sonoko's earlier guess and said:
"This is Ai."
After a pause, he swept his peripheral vision across everyone's spectacular expressions and naturally added the second half of the sentence: "Her cousin—Miyano."
Haibara Ai: "..."
Just now, although she had wondered