Various scenes replayed in Conan's mind before quickly freezing on one. He suddenly remembered—when Hashimoto Maya had left the Magic Venue last night, he had been holding a beautiful bouquet of white roses.
"White roses, magic..." Conan tried to follow this thread and grasp onto something. "That's too much of a coincidence. Could there be some connection here that I don't know about?"
He stared at the beautiful Female Magician with long hair in the group photo, desperately wanting to seize on this point and question her further.
But when he glanced at Amuro Tooru beside him from the corner of his eye... Conan could only clench his fists, silently hold a grudge, and swallow his questions.
When Mrs. Kujukuri mentioned those three apprentices, her expression softened. "All three of them are good children. They're currently staying at my home to study magic."
Although Amuro Tooru knew nothing about the white roses, Mrs. Kujukuri's description stirred something in him: three magician apprentices living in their master's house, also two men and one woman... That background was practically identical to yesterday's case.
He cleared his throat. "Where were those three when the crime occurred?"
Mrs. Kujukuri recalled, "That evening, Beika Hotel was holding an Evening Banquet, and a magic performance had been scheduled for it. The pay was generous, and there were many celebrities attending, so all three children accepted the invitation and went to perform."
"Actually, the hotel had wanted to invite my husband most of all, but he thought that sort of occasion was beneath his status and refused to go... Sigh, if I'd known this would happen, I would have made him agree no matter what."
Jiang Xia pushed the box of biscuits toward her in a gesture of comfort, then asked, "When will the victim's three apprentices