The corner of Sato Miwako's eye twitched. "You really are... full of ideas."
But what she was thinking was, A thief wouldn't care whether you left one bag there or two. And compared to a suitcase, a backpack usually contains valuables. Adding it would only make a thief more likely to notice.
As she was thinking that, Officer Takagi beside her seemed to have been convinced.
He tried lowering his hand to gesture, then suddenly understood. "True. If it were me, I definitely wouldn't steal luggage stacked like that." He looked at Sugimoto Hideki. "You're pretty smart!"
"..."
Inspector Megure secretly kicked him under the table, his eyes full of disappointment at his failure to measure up.
Haibara Ai considered Officer Takagi's words, then suddenly spoke up. "Since he's such a smart person, if he wanted to kill someone, he'd surely be able to come up with a good trick too."
Sato Miwako froze, then raised a hand to pat her head, laughing awkwardly. The children around Jiang Xia really didn't act like children at all...
While everyone else was still gathered around Sugimoto Hideki's suitcase.
Jiang Xia looked at Haibara Ai. Feeling that this fake child might also have some detective talent, he couldn't help casually probing a little further. "You think there's something wrong with him? Why do you think that?"
Haibara Ai paused. "Didn't you think there was something wrong with him? Otherwise, why did you ask about his backpack?"
Jiang Xia: "..." That made so much sense.
So she wasn't a detective, just a fully automated detective-reading machine?
Nearby, the real detective overheard their muttering and immediately leaned over to join the conversation.
Conan stroked his chin and said seriously, "I also think there's something wrong with him."
Haibara Ai was bumped when he squeezed in,