Conan was thinking gravely and failed to notice a classmate secretly watching him from a distant corner.
Once the Courtyard Gate opened, Conan jogged into the neighbor's house. While Haibara Ai was busy tinkering around in the Basement, he quietly asked Professor Agasa, "Professor, how did the investigation into that person I asked you to look into go?"
Professor Agasa froze for a moment. Countless "suspicious people" Shinichi had mentioned flashed through his mind, and he awkwardly scratched his head. "Which one exactly do you mean?"—some had been investigated, while others had not been looked into at all.
"..." Conan was speechless and could only remind him, "Of course I mean that actress, Chris Vineyard!"
After hearing from Officer Takagi that a mysterious person had infiltrated the Metropolitan Police Department and searched through Murder Case files related to Mouri Kogoro, Conan's first reaction had been that The Organization had discovered his true identity as "Kudo Shinichi."
At once, he imagined a horrible scene drenched in blood. Yet when he returned to the Mouri Detective Agency, everything there was calm and peaceful. Nothing had happened.
That let him breathe a sigh of relief, but it also made him more vigilant—if he did not want the terrifying scene in his imagination to become reality, he had to hurry and learn more about The Organization.
Thinking of this, Conan said quietly to Professor Agasa, "A year ago, Ran and I went to New York, right? A while ago, she said that she met a man there named Akai, and the clothes he was wearing had FBI written on them."
"Although I don't know whether his FBI identity was real, he really was carrying out an investigation at the time. And Sharon Vineyard, what she said and did that day... looking back now, it