Four passing high school classmates chatted and laughed as they left the School Building for their respective club Activity Rooms.
The other three high school students investigating the supernatural incident had also changed their shoes and entered the School Building.
Conan followed behind Jiang Xia for a few steps, unable to resist turning back to look at the four classmates' retreating figures.
A moment later, he let out a deeply wistful sigh. If it weren't for that hateful organization, if it weren't for that evil Gin, he should still be Kudo Shinichi, living an ordinary yet happy high school life at this school with his childhood friends.
But now...
His life now couldn't exactly be called unhappy, but compared with Conan, who could be silenced by the Black Organization at any moment and had to carefully conceal his identity, he still preferred the person he had been as "Kudo Shinichi."
If only we'd managed to catch Vermouth the night before last. Come to think of it, she'd clearly been posing as Dr. Araide the whole time, yet at the last moment, she somehow switched to "Jodie" again... If only I'd checked one more time. But who could have predicted something like that?
Conan theoretically knew there was nothing he could have done, yet he still felt unwilling to accept it. I was only one step away from catching her with the FBI, but now... that Thousand-Faced Witch has definitely abandoned Dr. Araide's identity and gone into hiding nearby with a New Face. Catching her again is already impossible...?!
Just as he was thinking, someone approached them down the corridor.
Conan casually looked up. Then, upon seeing that gentle face, he froze as though struck by lightning.
"Dr. Araide?" Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko failed to notice the strange reaction of