Then the middle-aged man hurried after Sato Miwako and President Ishimoto as they left.
Conan watched his retreating back, then couldn't help saying to Jiang Xia, "Don't they think that hacker's death was a little too convenient? I think the killer was targeting the councilman, and there had to be more than one killer. The hacker definitely had an accomplice—an accomplice hiding behind the scenes who planned this assassination attempt on the councilman, then killed the hacker to close the case and clear himself completely."
The bodyguard job seemed to have come to an end. Jiang Xia felt a little disappointed.
But there was no point staying in this empty place, so he had no choice but to carry Conan away with him. He also took the opportunity to soothe this highly motivated detective. "Evidence. We need evidence."
Conan had been deep in thought when his feet suddenly left the ground, snapping him back to himself.
Remembering the female secretary calling him "little friend" earlier, he immediately protested like a High School Detective, "I can walk by myself!"
As he struggled, the two of them rounded a corner and nearly collided with someone.
Jiang Xia only nearly did, but half of Conan's body really did slam into the person, sending him spinning half a turn through the air.
Dazed, he adjusted his glasses and gloomily glanced back at the person who, like them, had been walking without watching where he was going. Then he froze. The man had dark skin, a large build, and a short ponytail tied at the back of his head—he was the unidentified man who had secretly met with President Ishimoto's female secretary in the Game Arcade next to the banquet hall after the incident!
"It's that guy from the Game Arcade last night," Conan quietly