Conan: "..." Although the listening device had been planted on Suzuki Sonoko, who it had really been aimed at was still unknown—he always felt that crude stalker wouldn't have come up with such a high-tech idea. In other words...
"Maybe it was planted on my classmate to monitor my movements?" As a fake elementary school student who had been turned young again and carried a huge secret, Conan was inevitably overly alert about things like this. And that guess made cold sweat break out all over him in lingering fear:
"If I think of the worst-case scenario, maybe those people are already watching me closely right now... Could it be that Hashimoto Maya and Vodka weren't targeting Jiang Xia, but were trying to investigate me and 'Kudo Shinichi' through him?"
That terrifying guess made Conan instantly swallow the words he had initially wanted to say. Telling Jiang Xia about the Black Organization at a time like this would be the same as harming him.
But unfortunately, Jiang Xia had already noticed that something was not right because of how closely Conan had been watching Hashimoto Maya...
No, he had to think of another excuse to muddle through.
Thinking this, Conan took a deep breath and deliberately put on a puzzled expression. "It's nothing. I just feel like both Mr. Hashimoto and Mr. Yamada are way too attentive to you—don't people their age have careers of their own? What are they doing clinging to you every day?"
When Suzuki Sonoko heard these words, she rolled her eyes speechlessly. "Little brat, do you even know what fans are? Fans wanting to get closer to their idol is only natural, isn't it?"
Conan was choked by her words for a moment. "...But they're both men."
Suzuki Sonoko scoffed at this elementary school student's