Amuro Tooru: "..."
A vein throbbed at his temple. He snatched the spray bottle from Jiang Xia's hand and tossed it to a passing officer. "Pay attention to your image as a Great Detective. Don't play around with evidence."
Jiang Xia: "..."
He suspected his boss was abusing his authority for personal gain, but he had no proof...
"A perfectly good banquet actually turned into this. What a tragedy." Suzuki Sonoko sighed, then abruptly perked up. "Still, it was pretty exciting. It felt like we saved the public!"
—Just now, she had also taken a cooling spray bottle alongside Jiang Xia amid the chaos and gone up onstage to give a few hissing sprays, earning herself a decent sense of participation.
Conan, meanwhile, kept a relatively lower profile.
—With the inscrutable Amuro Tooru nearby, he was a little more restrained than usual.
The evening banquet ended early.
Suzuki Sonoko looked eagerly at Jiang Xia. "Why don't we take a stroll around nearby first, then come back to pick up Ran after the Cooking Classroom ends? The clothes in the mall next door are super cute!"
"..." Jiang Xia recalled the average amount of time she and Mouri Ran spent shopping, and his movements stiffened slightly. He did not want to nod.
"Go ahead." Amuro Tooru had somehow passed by them and raised a hand to press the elevator button. "There's also a potted plant exhibition on the north side of the First Floor of that mall. If you're bored, you can pick out a few."
Now that things here had been resolved, Amuro Tooru planned to head upstairs to check on the Cooking Classroom and brace himself for any challenge Uzo might send his way.
Under these circumstances, the fewer innocent people there were in the building, the better,