In the room, the male secretary who had just taken a slap covered his face. His glasses had been knocked off.
After venting the frustration he had suffered at the hands of the female accountant, Lawyer Tachibana withdrew his hand and glared at him coldly. "Who the hell do you think you are, talking back to me? Since ancient times, what apprentice hasn't run errands for their master? They don't have nearly as many complaints as you do! With someone as socially clueless as you, forget becoming a lawyer—you'll never amount to anything anywhere!"
The corner of Conan's eye twitched. "..." This lawyer actually had the nerve to beat around the bush and dig for Jiang Xia's dirt through the children, when he himself was far from clean... Still, if he remembered correctly, this man's reputation was already beyond saving. Just beating and humiliating his subordinates probably wouldn't pose any threat to him.
...It would be best to find evidence of some other crime and keep this lawyer so overwhelmed that he had no time for any more bad ideas.
A Fake Elementary School Student stroked his chin and fell into thought.
Though he thought that, Conan truly had no idea what to do right away.
—As a Detective, what he was good at and familiar with had always been solving mysteries and reconstructing other people's actions.
But taking the initiative like this, especially in a field he was less familiar with... clearly required more time to think than solving a case.
As a Fake Elementary School Student tossed and turned, a peaceful one night passed just like that.
The next day.
The sky was bright and the air fresh. Several high school students emerged from their rooms and began wandering around.
When they reached the yard, Suzuki Sonoko