Officer Megure said, "Finally, all you had to do was throw the bicycle down from the mountaintop to wreck it, pick it up again on the winding road below, toss it into the bushes, and return to the campsite as if nothing had happened."
"After meeting up with the others at the campsite, you drove the RV and took everyone up the mountain. They were chatting and laughing in the back, so they wouldn't have noticed what was happening outside.
"And you only had to ignore the body lying on the ground while going up the mountain, then scream on the way down and pretend you'd just discovered it. Wouldn't that solve everything?"
Amuro Tooru glanced at his middle-aged colleague, who always brought up exactly what he did not want mentioned and kept fixating on his tires. "..."
Though the details were still completely off, this man's reasoning had somehow become more reliable than before. At least he had actually started using his brain... It seemed that staying around Jiang Xia for too long really could fundamentally change a person—for example, that bespectacled first-year elementary school student.
If not for his childish appearance, his tone and behavior sometimes made him seem almost like an adult.
"Still, although that child called Conan has spent a long time by Jiang Xia's side..." Amuro Tooru thoughtfully stroked his chin. "Can that level of influence really bring about such an enormous change?"
Looking at the bespectacled elementary school student, who was quietly listening to the testimony and seemingly working through something on his own, Amuro Tooru could not shake the feeling that something was off about the boy.
Beside him, Jiang Xia glanced at his boss, who had drifted off into thought, shook his head, and said to Inspector Megure, "This method sounds simple,