(thud)
Although figuring out how to smoothly get the antidote to Conan was worth some thought, it clearly wasn't a difficult problem—after all, Student Kudo was now merely a weak, pitiful, helpless elementary school student. If no good opportunity presented itself, Jiang Xia could always knock him out from behind with a stick, force-feed him the antidote, then solemnly say after he collapsed, "People shouldn't fall in the same place twice."
There were still two or three days until the school festival anyway. After a casual thought, Jiang Xia set the matter aside and prioritized dealing with the letters piled up at the Detective Agency, merely paying a little more attention than usual to Conan's situation.
Before long, while eating, he received the latest news about the elementary school students from Haibara Ai. "A training camp?"
Haibara Ai nodded. "Isn't there a Children's Conference coming up? Those children are going to perform a puppet show with other kids at the conference. This training camp is for rehearsing the script."
"The school festival, and a puppet show for the Children's Conference... There have been quite a few theater-related events lately." Jiang Xia thought of Sea Heart Theater Island, which was still under construction, and casually sent Hashimoto Maya a message urging him to speed things up.
As he looked down at his phone, Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko, who had come over to find him, suddenly thought of something because of the topic.
"Speaking of training camps..." Suzuki Sonoko stroked her chin. "I remember seeing a murderer on the news who still hasn't been caught. He broke into a lot of B&Bs in the countryside, and even guests and staff have fallen victim to him. My sister recently bought a Mountain Villa and had wanted to take some friends there for