"Me?" Jiang Xia paused like an audience member who had been sitting properly below the stage only to suddenly be addressed. Then he said, "I probably can't solve the case today. I can only tell a story. Mr. Haga, would you like to hear it?"
"?!" The police officers all turned sharply toward Haga Kyosuke. They did not know why Mr. Jiang Xia had said he wanted to tell a story instead of solve the case, but from experience, whenever Jiang Xia singled someone out like this, that person had to be the murderer hiding in the shadows!
Mouri Ran also looked over in surprise, then turned back to Jiang Xia, finding it difficult to believe. "Him? But..."
Shitara Renki was not as familiar with Jiang Xia. She only vaguely sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and she could not help becoming tense as well.
Yet among everyone present, Haga Kyosuke himself was surprisingly the calmest.
He did not seem particularly surprised that Jiang Xia had suddenly pointed him out. He merely sighed softly and smiled. "You truly are as sharp as the rumors say. It is an honor to hear your deduction—you may speak freely. I am not the sort of suspect who endlessly pesters detectives."
Jiang Xia nodded and, indeed feeling quite at ease, said, "You are the murderer behind the two murder cases tonight."
Inspector Megure jolted. "It was Haga?!"
They had met several times on the island before, and Haga had even offered a little help with the investigation. Megure had thought he would surely become another one of his Shin-chans... yet now, he had become the murderer?
Shitara Renki was even more stunned. It took her quite a while before she fiercely objected, "How could that be possible?!"
Conan held his soundproof headphones,