Jiang Xia silently swallowed back what he shouldn't say. Looking at the great lawyer wrapped in everyone else's killing intent, he casually made up an excuse for accepting the invitation:
"For someone like him, even if a friend was killed, he probably wouldn't act on emotion. If he's declaring he'll take on this case, maybe he has other considerations."
Hearing him say that, Conan froze, then suddenly realized. He glanced at Lawyer Tachibana as he walked away and lowered his voice. "You mean he's doing this very possibly because that dead friend of his had some secrets that couldn't be discovered?"
Jiang Xia gave a murmur of agreement. "As long as we keep him tied up and make him run himself ragged over this matter, he probably won't have time to do anything extra."
Conan nodded emphatically at first, but then his conscience suddenly twinged a little. "Although that old hunter had his reasons, if we do this, isn't it..."
Jiang Xia said, "This is only to prevent that well-connected great lawyer from using off-field factors to influence the verdict."
"Exactly!" Suzuki Sonoko had no qualms about this operation at all. She quickly entered her new role and furtively declared in a low voice, "Let this righteous undercover agent expose that lawyer's countless crimes! I'd like to see whether he still has time to deal with that unlucky old hunter once he's in trouble himself!"
Curacao suddenly sensed something and whipped her head around. Then she saw that Uzo and the people beside him were actually standing in the dim forest, all staring this way in unison.
The ghostly figures standing side by side in the woods made Curacao's hair stand on end, and goosebumps rose all over her again.
In the past, whenever she thought of Bourbon going out