Detective Concentration High Enough to Trigger a Case

"Who goes there! Don't you know this is the carriage of Princess Hearts of the Bridge Kingdom?"

"We were ordered to sabotage this marriage. It only benefits us if the kingdom and the duchy maintain their former hostility."

The students playing soldiers from both sides onstage threw themselves into the fight scene, while Kazuha Toyama, seated below, pursed her lips strangely.

"Why playing cards? What's the setting for this story, Alice in Wonderland?" She looked around, then quietly asked Conan, who was sitting there without a word.

What else could it be? Mainly because the props Miss Suzuki had borrowed were all amusement park costumes.

Ai Haibara glanced at her, considered it, and ultimately just gave a grave "Mm."

What could she say? Such a long stretch of dialogue, spoken in a disguised voice, was simply too demanding of one's technique.

"Oh, I see..." Kazuha Toyama stroked her chin and sank into thought. "Then this script seems pretty imaginative."

Knowing what might happen next, Ai Haibara silently looked at her profile.

Mm, it certainly was imaginative... She meant Tangze.

As the mood-setting music swelled, the guards protecting the princess all fell, and the attackers took the princess from her exquisite carriage.

Perhaps the atmosphere had been built up well, or perhaps Ran Mouri, who was responsible for screaming at the crime scene, was simply too convincing. By this point, Kazuha Toyama, who had originally been watching casually with a relaxed expression, could not help slowly growing nervous.

Black feathers fluttered down from the stage ceiling, released by the prepared mechanism.

"Huh, crow feathers... Could it be... Ah—!"

A knight dressed in black, his cape billowing behind him, leaped down from the elevated platform set up backstage. The sword in his hand flashed with blinding white light, like lightning splitting the