"I wouldn't call it a bad thing." Unexpectedly, the magician beside them had pretty sharp ears. Hearing the two high school girls, Hoshikawa Togo dried his wet hair and smiled. "Although in the end, I did climb out of the water tank by my own strength, I only managed it thanks to you."
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko froze, not quite understanding. "Thanks to us? We don't think we really helped with anything..."
"How could you say that?" Hoshikawa Togo winked at them. "Actually, I was truly in danger then. And just as I was about to drown and pass out, I heard the loving calls of two adorable young ladies—when I thought of all those spectators still waiting for me outside, I instantly pulled myself together again, and that was how I managed to escape danger."
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko blushed. "That's wonderful!"
Conan: "?" You believe such an obvious lie? Since when could a drowning person regain consciousness just from someone calling out to them? Besides, look at him bouncing around like that. How does he look like someone who nearly drowned?
"So you woke up because of their voices calling to you." Thinking of this, Conan couldn't help speaking up. "I thought you used the thin needle hidden in your mouth to unlock the handcuffs early on, then escaped through a mechanism hidden in the lid above your head, and after that hid behind the curtain the whole time, only showing up in a dramatic way once the audience started making a commotion, pretending you had just escaped."
Hoshikawa Togo's smile stiffened. "..." Did this kid know a little too much?
"You little brat!" Suzuki Sonoko knocked Conan on the head with a solid thump. "Just watch the magic show. Why do you have so much