Halfway through his muttering, Irish suddenly had a flash of insight. "Kid—it's Kid!"
His confidant blinked. "...What?"
Irish felt that he had grasped Uzo's logic. A cold gleam flashed in his eyes.
"I went out just now to chase Kid, and Uzo judged that I really could catch up to him. That's why he used this method to stop me, concealing his true purpose—preventing me from contacting Kid—within a string of seemingly logical falling-and-crushing incidents.
"Before, I only suspected it. But now, I'm almost certain that Kid must have important information about that bastard!"
As he spoke, Irish looked at his confidant. "I heard earlier that Kid came to London to steal the Stone of Destiny ring from an actress. Did he get it just now?"
His confidant hesitated, then shook his head. "While you were being examined at the hospital, I checked the news. There was no mention of it. Kid seems not to have made his move yet."
Irish's mood improved somewhat. "Keep following that film crew. There'll definitely be another chance to contact him. This time, we absolutely can't let the information right in front of us slip away."
But after saying that, he suddenly froze.
...If he remembered correctly, the film crew would be taking a flight back to Japan tomorrow at noon.
And the place Uzo had arranged to meet him in the challenge letter—the place that woman in black was going tomorrow... happened to be that very plane.
While Irish struggled with an unsolvable reading-comprehension question.
At another remote hospital.
Conan was making up an account of his experiences that night for Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, mainly describing how an unscrupulous Phantom Thief had victimized an innocent child.
When the two high school girls went off together to ask a nurse about