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The exhausted Officer Sato directed her subordinates to quickly take the criminals away, lest the reporters who would soon arrive capture too much.
Afterward, recalling the criminals' accusations, the corner of her eye twitched as she turned to look at Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia accidentally met her gaze and froze slightly. A moment later, the young detective suddenly flopped onto the sofa beside him, looking as though he had swiftly fallen asleep.
Sato Miwako: "...?"
Since when had this brat unlocked the new skill of pretending to sleep after causing trouble??
She walked over, grabbed him, and shook him, intending to repeat, "Don't beat criminals who have lost the ability to resist."
But she couldn't shake him awake. Jiang Xia seemed very determined to keep pretending to sleep.
Remembering something, Conan advised her not to waste her effort:
"It's probably because the Sleeping Pills took effect—Brother Jiang Xia accidentally drank the tea Ito Misari handed him earlier... Oh, Ito Misari is the female lawyer who planned all of this. There was probably something in that tea."
"...Why does he drink tea from anyone who gives it to him?"
Sato Miwako sighed, then set down the person in her hands. "No wonder Jiang Xia hit them a little hard this time. He was probably worried the medicine would suddenly take effect... Fine, I suppose there was at least a reason for it."
Conan: "..."
He hesitated for a moment, then silently swallowed the part about Jiang Xia having fun knocking people around and decided to seal it away forever.
...No matter what, Jiang Xia had saved people yet again. And when those three criminals had been loaded into the police car, they had howled with such vigor that, aside from some pain, they clearly hadn't suffered any real harm... Let's