Conan had never expected that while he had carefully avoided Jiang Xia, Mouri Kogoro would turn around and cause such a huge mess.
...It was probably too late to make Jiang Xia lose his memory now. The defenseless Fake Elementary School Student thought for a moment, then had no choice but to put the idea aside for now.
"But if my guess is right, then by tomorrow night, that Cruise Ship being used for the Halloween event might actually be safer.
"By then, Jiang Xia will be trapped on the ship. Even if he notices something is wrong along the way, he won't be able to interfere with what's happening elsewhere... Come to think of it, rather than letting Jiang Xia wander around tomorrow night, it would be better to tell him about Halloween directly. That way, we can stop him from being too sharp and walking straight into the organization's gun while investigating anything unusual.
"In other words, Uncle Mouri actually did a good thing by accident."
Thinking of this, Conan looked up at Mouri Kogoro, his feelings complicated.
Just then, the Basement door opened. A young man wearing an Assault Police Squad uniform and a white helmet walked in through the doorway.
The Detective Boys stared at him in surprise. After a moment, Yoshida Ayumi quietly asked her friends, "Isn't that the big brother we met at the entrance to the Shrine earlier?"
Kojima Genta nodded. "That stingy big brother! He wouldn't even let us touch his gun."
"Keep it down!" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko secretly glanced back at Jiang Xia and lowered his already quiet voice even further. "That gun looked so realistic. It must be a very valuable prop—it's only normal that he wouldn't let us play with it because he was afraid we'd break it."
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