After thinking for a moment, Matsuda Jinpei leaned close, intending to whisper something to Jiang Xia.
Before he could speak, Jiang Xia's phone suddenly buzzed with a new email.
In the crowd.
The three children had planned to charge straight to the front in one go, but halfway there, Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko merely glanced down at his camcorder and got separated from his two Little Partners, lost in the forest of people's legs.
"Ayumi? Genta?" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko shouted anxiously. "Where are you?"
Before his words had faded, someone slammed into him from behind. Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko hit the ground with a plop, and the camcorder in his hand clattered several meters away.
He sucked in a breath and was about to get up and retrieve it when someone else beat him to it and picked up the camcorder.
"Thanks! That's mine!" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko hurriedly waved at the person, but they had no intention of looking for its owner. Clutching the camcorder, they turned and left.
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko froze.
Several seconds later, he finally understood what had happened and cried out in terror, "There's a thief! Catch the thief!!"
The child's voice was swallowed by the crowd, failing to stir up even the slightest commotion.
When Haibara Ai and Conan first squeezed into the crowd, they still remembered to keep an eye on the children.
But once they reached the front and saw the Star Players passing right in front of them, the two immediately began watching with curiosity, completely forgetting to count how many people were around them.
After watching for a while, Conan remembered something and looked at Haibara Ai in surprise. "I remember you like watching Osaka BIG Team matches. The BIG Team and the Tokyo Spirits, who are parading now, are bitter rivals—why did you come to