After listening for a few more lines, Haibara Ai's expression gradually changed.
Haibara Ai: "..." For some reason, she seemed to catch a whiff of the Organization in the circumstances Itakura Suguru had described.
Instinctively holding her breath, she pricked up her ears and listened in even more carefully.
When she heard that final sentence the "mysterious woman" had said to him, the Mini Scientist trembled. A suffocating terror seemed to descend upon her from afar.
"We are both God and devils, because we intend to reverse the torrent of time and bring the dead back to life."
Had she heard only that passage, she might have assumed Professor Agasa and Conan were immature chuunibyou types, huddled together over some science fiction novel online.
But combined with everything before it, that mysterious, cryptic tone, and the Diary Owner's description of that "mysterious woman"... a Codename suddenly leaped into Haibara Ai's mind.
—Vermouth.
...Could the person who wrote the Diary have met that terrifying Thousand-Faced Witch??
"The worst-case scenario is that the Diary Owner had contact with Vermouth, and now Conan has gotten hold of the Diary he had."
Having sorted out the situation, Haibara Ai's already terrified heart tightened again. "I remember Jiang Xia casually muttering when he called back that he'd 'just solved one case with Conan and immediately ran into another one'... So where did Kudo steal this Diary from?!
"With his personality, if he got his hands on something from the Organization, he'd definitely be too impatient to wait and would open it immediately. And there was a second case, yet instead of solving it, he went home to read the Diary... Kudo most likely stole it while solving the previous case with Jiang Xia.
"If the Diary Owner discovered he'd lost something this important, then Jiang