"Rescue Naomi? I think you've made up your mind to scare certain people to death."
Ai Haibara, sitting on a stool by the window, looked at the message on her phone screen. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she still stood up and quietly slipped out of the room.
When Conan told her that Naomi had most likely been kidnapped by an Organization member codenamed Binga, her first reaction had indeed been concern. But she quickly calmed down.
The main focus of Tangze's plans for this trip had always been the Organization. If she had guessed right, Binga was probably Tangze's primary target.
With that as a premise, Tangze couldn't possibly stand by and watch Binga harm someone right in front of him, much less a world-class engineer like Naomi.
Tangze had recently been tinkering with something for Noah and was so desperate for programmers that, before Taku Itakura fled, Tangze had even leveraged a favor against him. In exchange for personal protection, Itakura had signed a contract to work remotely for him. Even for Naomi's technical abilities alone, Tangze wouldn't let anything happen to her.
Looking at it that way, either Tangze was confident he could guarantee Naomi's safety, or Naomi's kidnapping itself was part of Tangze's plan.
Ever since she had reunited with Tangze and gradually integrated into the Phantom Thief Troupe, her mindset had been quite stable: there was nothing to worry about.
The pressure she couldn't bear and the problems she couldn't solve, Tangze would help her shoulder. And if even Tangze couldn't handle them, then she wouldn't be able to do anything about them either. There was no point worrying.
"So you dressed up as me and deliberately showed yourself on the balcony?" After hearing Tangze's account, Ai Haibara tilted her head,