Hoshikawa Teru: So Alike

Vermouth waited for a few seconds. Seeing that Kumeru remained silent, merely withdrawing his gaze from her as though he understood something, she curled her lips in a disdainful smile.

"Kumeru. Now that things have come to this, I can no longer do anything to Sherry either. You needn't be so guarded. You must have detection equipment here too. I'm not carrying any bugs or cameras." Convinced she had caught Kumeru's weak point, Vermouth leaned even closer, trying to heighten the pressure she exerted. "You don't need to keep hiding it from me."

Very few people truly knew about what had happened to Shiho Miyano and Edogawa Conan, or that APTX had caused a transformation. Therefore, even Organization members could not possibly know that Sherry had become a child.

In that case, Bourbon probably did not know that Sherry, under the alias Ai Haibara, had been forced by Tang Ze Zhao's existence into temporarily cooperating with Kumeru.

"No wonder you could tell me so confidently about the temporary antidote, as though you had participated in its development too and heard Sherry explain the drug's effects to you in person. I knew it. If Sherry had learned to ask others for help and was truly willing to frankly tell Cool Guy every secret she knew, then she wouldn't be Sherry." Recalling all the little details from before, Vermouth could not help laughing.

No wonder Sherry had remained so calm at her arrival, as if she had expected it all along... How interesting, these children.

Tangze, who had indeed participated in the research, personally handed the genuine Drug A to Ai Haibara, monopolized the supply channel for the temporary antidote, and had even delivered the medicine to Conan himself: "..."

How was he supposed to answer that...

Tangze struggled to understand Vermouth's