Hattori Heiji struggled free from Toyama Kazuha's grip, looking utterly defeated. After applying the foundation and checking himself in the mirror, he had thought his disguise was flawless! He had even carefully planned how to calmly yet elegantly reveal that he was not "Kudo Shinichi"... Yet while it was one thing for Jiang Xia, that Detective with exceptionally sharp observation skills, to see through him, the other classmates had recognized him at a glance too.
"This is outrageous! How do I not look like him?!" Hattori Heiji wanted to struggle a little longer, but when he secretly pulled out a mirror and looked at himself, he fell silent.
—In the mirror, the carefully applied foundation on his face had been rubbed into a complete mess by some classmate with considerable strength, fully exposing his distinctive complexion beneath it.
"..."
After a moment of silence, Hattori Heiji gave up and took out a handkerchief, wiping off all the remaining foundation. Then he ruffled his hair back into his usual style. "..." It was no big deal. He had been planning to reveal himself anyway. This wasn't a disguise failure—this... this was merely part of the plan!
"So it really was you. Instead of staying in Osaka, you came here to cause trouble for us." Inspector Megure looked at that dark face beside him, at a loss for words.
He wanted to scold the boy a few more times, but remembering that his father was the top man in the Osaka Prefectural Police, Inspector Megure fell silent for a moment and decided to get back to work.
"All right, let's continue investigating the case." Leaving that prank-loving, childish dark-skinned high schooler behind him, he turned as though nothing had happened to the deceased's friends. "Judging from the paper cup used for the