The B&B where the Children's Conference members were staying was a two-story wooden house built on stilts.
The group went up the steps, and as soon as they reached the window, they heard Kojima Genta's voice coming from inside the room. "Why? Why has one person disappeared again?"
Vodka, who had meant to quietly slip away but had been spotted by sharp-eyed Jiang Xia and dragged over with the others: "..." Disappeared? Who disappeared? In broad daylight, that damn ghost thing's play was already starting?
Beside him, "Dr. Araide's" heart also gave a thump. Someone here had disappeared? Then, going by luck, could the one who had disappeared be...
She was just starting to worry for Conan, but almost immediately, she realized something was off—this question sounded dry, and came across as a little strange.
"No, no, what kind of tone is that!" Suddenly, another child's voice came from inside the room, its pitch slightly sharp. Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko reproached him, "You have to put emotion into your lines! That part you just read was completely dry. When the audience sees it, they won't be scared at all, they'll just get sleepy!"
Kojima Genta scratched his head. "Really? But I was full of emotion when I read it. I really wanted to eat eel rice right then."
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko choked. "Not that kind of emotion!"
Everyone eavesdropping outside the window: "..."
"So they're doing a mystery play? Pretty creative!" Suzuki Sonoko did not notice the killing intent silently rising from the two Organization Cadres beside her, and turned her head to whisper with her two classmates. "And it sounds like the scary kind where people mysteriously disappear one by one—you think if we secretly snatched that little brat away, would we scare the other brats so badly they'd fall over?"
Mouri