The Mermaid kept feeling that someone was muttering about her behind her back.
She looked around, floated over beside Jiang Xia, and followed the Spirit Medium Master's gaze out the window. There, she saw that Jiang Xia had somehow caught a plump white pigeon.
Her attention immediately drifted to the pigeon. [Are you having a snack?]
The pigeon: "!!!"
Jiang Xia glanced at the diligent, well-behaved pigeon and sympathetically let go. [Compared to it, its owner's Energy Core tastes better.]
Having narrowly escaped disaster, the pigeon frantically took off and flapped away.
Conan noticed the commotion too. He was about to walk over and see what Jiang Xia was concentrating on when, upon reaching the window, he saw a pigeon scrambling away through the air.
"A white pigeon?" Conan froze, then suddenly became alert. "Could it be Kid's Informant?!"
Jiang Xia nodded. "Probably. There was a Listening Device tied to its leg."
Conan: "...?" Then why did you just let it go?!
In the end, he did not ask. Conan silently covered his face. Sigh, forget it. Jiang Xia had never been very enthusiastic about catching the Phantom Thief. Maybe, in his eyes, a Phantom Thief like Kid, who returned what he stole, did not count as much of a criminal.
Thinking of that, Conan guiltily looked back. "..." Fortunately, Inspector Nakamori was still absorbed in talking with Maki Juri and had not noticed Jiang Xia letting that clue escape.
Still, watching the White Pigeon fly away, Conan could not help feeling it was a shame. He jumped up and leaned against the windowsill beside Jiang Xia. "Kid really treasures his pigeons. If we catch one as pigeon-hostage, maybe we can lure him out for a chat."
Jiang Xia: "..." Good idea. Noted.
But on second thought, if he wanted