"Hahaha, so it was Miss Suzuki gracing us with her presence! I'm old now, my eyes are failing me—I didn't recognize you right away."
One minute later.
Under Yamazaki Yumi's nearly bug-eyed stare, her stern, rigid, eccentric tea ceremony teacher beamed like a wrinkled chrysanthemum. He no longer cared about anyone spying or not, and enthusiastically ushered the group into the house.
"Suzuki..." President Yamazaki muttered the incredibly common surname. A belated thought surfaced in her mind. "Could she be that Suzuki?! No way..."
Thinking of that enormous conglomerate, then looking at this carefree and somewhat dim-witted high school girl, President Yamazaki briefly began to question her life.
The saying "you can't judge a book by its cover" churned through her mind several times before another thought abruptly emerged.
"If it's the Suzuki Conglomerate..."
If this conglomerate wanted to prop up a legendary Detective, and those presidents and councilmen had all been their sacrifices, then although it was a bit far-fetched, every anomaly she had discovered suddenly had an explanation!
"Suzuki Sonoko..." President Yamazaki's gaze settled on the high school girl. For some reason, Jiang Xia made her uneasy. Compared to him, this foolish high school girl should be easier to make slip up.
"It would be best if I can get some dirt on her, but if I can't, there's no need to force it." President Yamazaki quickly mapped out her next objective. Even if she merely learned how Murder Cases operated, she could still scrape together enough benefits to turn her life upside down.
Her future was bright!
Nearby, Conan failed to notice that the female president was secretly observing Suzuki Sonoko.
He only found the Tea Ceremony Master's abrupt change of attitude awkward, so he shifted his gaze to the lake outside. Soon, he spotted something