Ai Haibara did not look at the computer in front of them. Her gaze merely drifted back and forth between the two of their faces.
She slowly peeled off the latex gloves on her hands and asked directly in an interrogator's tone, "Tell me. What happened?"
She really had been busy lately—busy enough that the Professor and Kudo had found time to get up to things behind her back.
The continued development and advancement of APTX-related drugs had left her with no spare time outside class. Take Taku Itakura this time: although she had not personally administered his vitreous injection, she had carefully studied the patient's medical history and records before personally formulating the injection, then having Asai Narumi, who could be considered her assistant, handle and oversee it.
She was still developing suitable formulas for applying the drug to other organs, as well as exploring more possibilities in the medical field. For example, the heart treatment she had promised Taku Itakura required more data and clinical trials to support the dosage and method for such a vital organ. She had been so busy that she had no time to pay attention to the Organization or the Phantom Thief Troupe's recent movements.
Conan glanced at the Professor, then looked at Ai Haibara, who appeared to have just come out of the lab, before carefully speaking. "Actually, it's not a big deal..."
Leaving out Taku Itakura's entanglements with the Organization, as well as the strange things that had happened to him, Conan briefly explained that he had encountered a programmer in a case who had been coerced by the Organization into developing software for them, and that he had obtained some clues related to the Organization from that programmer.
He was careful not to obscure the details regarding the software Taku