Jodie nodded. "That time, Vermouth killed my father.
"I was still very young then. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling uneasy and couldn't get back to sleep. When I saw the living room light was on, I went to look.
"But when I pushed open the door, I saw my father lying in front of the sofa. Beside him crouched a woman wearing an FBI uniform.
"That person was Vermouth.
"When she heard the door open, she came over and spoke to me very gently. I noticed she was holding my father's glasses. She smiled, handed them back to me, then told me to stay by my father's side and wait for him to wake up.
"After saying that, she set a fire and left our villa. I only learned later that my father had gathered quite a lot of information about The Organization. So Vermouth disguised herself as an FBI agent, killed my father, and then burned every document in the house to ashes.
"She probably wanted to burn my mother and me to death too. But not long after I stayed beside my father, I remembered how he always liked to drink juice before bed. We happened to be out of juice, so I ran out to a nearby convenience store. Who would've thought I'd escape disaster by chance?
"Overnight, my home burned down, and my father and mother became two sets of remains in the fire. Later, one of my father's friends took me in and hid my identity through the witness protection program.
"After I grew up, I joined the FBI too. I inherited my father's will and continued investigating The Organization, especially that woman."
Hearing this, Haibara Ai silently clenched her hands. When she looked at Jodie again, there was a