While Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai were chatting.
On the other side.
Kojima Genta followed the symptoms Conan had described and found a few drooping pine trees, but came up empty-handed.
Just as he was getting worried, he happened to turn his head and, to his shock, saw four or five large, plump matsutake growing under a pine tree behind the wire fence.
"Whoa!!"
Kojima Genta's eyes went straight as he clung to the wire fence and stared fixedly. After a brief hesitation, he stepped onto the grid of the fence and climbed half a meter up...
Then Yoshida Ayumi and Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko came sprinting over, each grabbed one of his arms, and yanked him hard back down from the fence.
"Are you crazy?!" Yoshida Ayumi looked terrified. "Didn't that uncle from the hotel just say there are bears on the other side of the wire fence?!"
Kojima Genta muttered with a guilty conscience, "But look, there are so many matsutake over there. If we don't pick them, they'll all go to waste! And besides, we've been here for so long just now—did any of you see a bear? Even if there are bears behind the wire fence, they definitely aren't here right now. I'll just go in, pick them, and leave. Nothing will happen!"
"We really didn't see any bears." Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko looked left and right, then lowered his voice like a criminal making a secret handoff. "But that uncle from the hotel clearly said we're forbidden from going to the other side of the wire fence. If you go against what he said and climb over... then you'll be a bad kid who doesn't follow the rules."
Kojima Genta: "!!"
The words "a bad kid who doesn't follow the rules" struck Kojima Genta's triangular rice-ball-shaped head like a