Different Uses for Different Personas

Late at night, Amuro Tooru watched people scramble into the inn and heard that they had called the police. Feeling the scene grow increasingly chaotic, he had mixed emotions.

...He had already been slacking off for a week. And right now, for Bourbon, who was carrying out a mission for the organization, this was not actually a good time for the police to get involved.

But if the police were muddleheaded enough...

Amuro Tooru thought of Gunma Prefecture's Assistant Inspector Yamamura Misao.

If someone like that could make it this far, then perhaps the other police officers in this prefecture were all equally incompetent.

Though this maple forest lay in the mountains, it was not far from the city.

The police arrived before long.

Amuro Tooru was observing in secret when he suddenly spotted several familiar people wandering over from the lobby.

—Though it was already deep into the night, Mouri Kogoro had been trapped in a car during a storm the previous night, throwing his schedule into chaos, and he had yet to readjust. He had just been preparing to rest with his daughter and Conan, but for one reason or another, none of them could fall asleep.

When the shrill wail of police sirens came from outside, all three of them perked up, threw on their clothes, and rushed downstairs. Next door, "Vermouth," disguised as Suzuki Sonoko, likewise opened her eyes alertly and headed down to the lobby.

In an instant, the place was occupied by Jiang Xia's acquaintances.

Amuro Tooru: "..."

But then again, what did Jiang Xia's acquaintances have to do with him?

The isolation observation period was over. They were merely people he knew...

Amuro Tooru leisurely took a sip of coffee. His mission of observing Jiang Xia was nearing its end, and the