Jiang Xia: "..." He didn't know if it was just his imagination, but he always felt that this Osaka detective seemed to have just a tiny bit of prejudice against him.
—When had he ever liked knocking people out that much? Besides, although Ray Curtis did have Killing Intent, it wasn't strong enough to make him want to rush over, stomp him down, and knock him out on the spot.
The two high school students silently exchanged looks.
Upstairs, Ray Curtis finally recovered from the fact that he had been exposed by a first-year elementary school student.
"It's you..." He suddenly remembered—this was the child who had arrived with Jiang Xia and that other Great Detective.
"Kid, you can't make jokes like that." Ray Curtis bent down and forced a smile at Conan. "Did that detective brother from Tokyo tell you all this?"
Conan sighed and looked up at him. "Your plan wasn't hard to figure out—you were the one who proposed using lights to form a 'K' on the hotel building, weren't you?
"You kept the area you were responsible for sealed off, set up the mechanism from earlier, then deliberately left this room's lights off while you finished the other rooms first.
"That way, once all the other rooms were done, Ran would notice that the lights here still hadn't been turned on.
"She told you about it, and you replied over the radio that you would come right away. Then you kicked the ball to put out this room's lights and turned around to rush to the murder scene—this way, everyone's attention would be on this room, and you could rely on the crowd downstairs to establish your own alibi."
"..."
Ray Curtis was silent for a long time before suddenly spreading his hands. "Kid, I have