(blushes shyly)
After the civic-minded Vodka left.
Before long, another sneaky figure arrived at the kitchen.
Conan pressed himself against the wall and peeked into the kitchen. "..." What had Vodka been secretly doing in there just now?
As he observed, a gust of wind blew over, and he faintly caught a whiff of something pungent.
Conan: "?!"
He assessed the gas concentration in the room and rushed to the Valve. Just as he reached out to turn it off, he took a closer look and found that it was already closed.
"No gas leak?" Conan wondered to himself. "No, it must have leaked before, but it's been shut off now... What's going on?"
While the group battled wits around the innocent Valve.
Elsewhere.
The law-abiding High School Detective was elegantly drinking tea with two classmates while attentively listening to the client's request, completely removed from the turmoil outside.
However, the topic they discussed was anything but calm.
After exchanging pleasantries, Haitang Chizuru suddenly laughed at herself. She said to Jiang Xia, "I heard your observation skills are exceptionally sharp—I wonder if you noticed that my shameless old husband and my young, beautiful female assistant have already gotten together behind my back."
Jiang Xia neither confirmed nor denied it, merely following a Detective's usual line of thought. "I see. So you invited me here today not to tell Detective stories, but to catch evidence of their affair?"
Haitang Chizuru gave a cold laugh. "That's right. In their eyes, I'm probably just an obstacle. But unfortunately, no matter how much those two want me out of the way, I won't voluntarily step aside and fulfill their wishes—I'm a strong woman. I'll never back down before an adulterous pair!"
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko sat nearby, feeling somewhat awkward about the