The air fell briefly silent at Suzuki Sonoko's wild idea.
A moment later, Jiang Xia nodded. "It's a good idea, but having a real person protect the Gold Statue is still too dangerous. No wonder your uncle wouldn't agree."
Mouri Ran hurriedly chimed in, helping dispel her friend's dangerous notion. "Exactly! What if you really got kidnapped? Kid's methods are so amazing, maybe he didn't use any trick at all—maybe he really can walk through the air!"
"Of course he used a trick." Conan came back carrying the hat Mouri Ran had lost to the wind, the soundproof earmuffs on his head also removed—now that he had seen through the answer, he finally no longer had to fear Jiang Xia's voice!
Though he was several beats late, at least he had finally gotten a little sense of accomplishment from solving the mystery. Conan cheerfully offered hints to the people who still had not seen through the truth. "If humans could walk through the air that easily, wouldn't the birds be furious?"
"..." Goosebumps rose all over Haibara Ai's arms.
Mouri Ran could not help laughing. "Conan, you talk so cutely. Only a child would think of a comparison like that."
Conan: "..." W-was that figure of speech really that childish? Crap, he had overdone the little-kid act.
He hurriedly dragged the topic back on track. "We might not be able to see through all of Kid's tricks at once, but we can find the traces he left behind when he tampered with things—like on that wall over there. There seem to be two especially fresh scratch marks!"
"How is it?" After wrestling with herself for a while, Suzuki Sonoko ultimately still told this matter to her uncle, who was fired up and determined to defeat Kid.
After a round