Conan hurriedly nodded and leaned closer.
Then he heard Jiang Xia whisper, "I was thinking, you used to complain about Uncle Mouri all the time. I never expected you to become so skilled at flattering him—time really is a butcher's knife."
Conan: "...?"
He should have known. Whenever Jiang Xia looked serious, he was never thinking about anything serious!
Unable to hold back, he said, "...Could you focus on something important for once?!"
Jiang Xia paused. "What important thing? Those bratty kids smashing walls late at night, or the two passersby who are scared of cats?"
Conan: "..."
Topics related to the Men in Black rose to his lips, only for him to force them back down.
...Better not.
Thinking it over carefully, The Organization valued secrecy above all else. They might merely keep an eye on a sharp detective like Jiang Xia, who stood in the spotlight, rather than approach him—after all, when he had still been the Great Detective Kudo Shinichi, he had been quite famous too, yet no Men in Black had come to contact him. Instead, he had delivered himself right to their doorstep...
Sigh.
In short, if there's currently a 10% chance that Jiang Xia has come into contact with the Black Organization, then the moment I tell him about them, the chances of him getting involved with that organization will immediately become 99.9%.
Conan rapidly weighed it in his mind. Put myself in his shoes—if someone suddenly told me there was a Mysterious Organization in society that could shrink people and committed every kind of evil, I'd definitely investigate it. Jiang Xia would be the same.
*And there's already precedent for what happens when a High School Detective goes directly up against them... I should observe him in secret for now and confirm that