"Mouri? That name sounds familiar." Mouri Ran quickly remembered. "Isn't she the woman from the speedboat earlier? The one with Mr. Kasuga."
Jiang Xia was about to say something when he suddenly sensed something and spun around.
Kasuga Teruhiko was standing behind him, peering down at the note.
The Black-skinned Conglomerate heir soon waved a hand helplessly. "She's fooling around again."
"Fooling around?" Suzuki Sonoko asked in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Sachiko loves staging these melodramatic incidents to make me worry about her, so she can test how much I love her." Kasuga Teruhiko sighed. "What a sly little troublemaker."
The four high school students looked at his blissful expression and shuddered in unison, breaking out in goosebumps.
Kasuga Teruhiko seemed to notice their distaste and chuckled. "Don't worry. I'll go find her later. First, I'll pick out a gift for her and give it to her after I 'rescue' her. Go have fun—you don't need to worry about this."
With that, he left without staying with the high school students.
Once he had gone far away, Mouri Ran rubbed her arms. "Is this the sickening smell of romance?" It was... far too overpowering...
Conan's attention was clearly elsewhere.
He was more concerned about something else. "I keep feeling that their relationship is a little strange. And this distress note doesn't seem like a prank—if Ms. Sachiko really is someone who pursues 'romance' that passionately, then even if she were acting, would she use such a crude mineral water bottle for it? Wouldn't a proper glass bottle be more fitting?"
"That's true. What if something really happened to her?" Suzuki Sonoko stroked her chin and pondered like a Detective. "Maybe this is a The Boy Who Cried Wolf situation."
"Then let's look for her." Seeing them roll