Matsuda Jinpei Makes Quite a Scene

"Section E of the stands—there's a fully armed man... This is so over-the-top. Why would anyone wear a cloak to watch a game?"

"...Maybe he has some special need to dress like that." Conan fell silent for a moment, then hurriedly asked the important question. "Don't do anything rash. Once you've confirmed there's nothing unusual about him, take a picture and email it to me."

Walking beside him, Ai Haibara took out the phone that had received a new message. She fell silent for several seconds when she saw the sender.

Before Conan could notice anything strange about her, Ai Haibara swiftly opened her contacts and changed the name from Hoshikawa Teru to Tangze. Without interrupting Conan, who was talking to the other children through the Detective Boys' badges, she simply held up the screen for him.

She had no idea why Tangze had suddenly swapped places with someone and gone off to do something else, but in any case, what she needed to do now was cover up that fact in time.

Conan looked up and saw that the email Ai Haibara showed him had concisely ruled out several camera positions in the eastern stands aimed at the coaches' bench and the players' entrance and exit. It also contained a line: "The exit at Gate 18—the ransom drop-off point demanded by the kidnappers." He nodded to show that he had seen it.

"I found something too! There's a guy wearing headphones, a hat, and sunglasses. He's dressed really heavily and keeps looking at his watch!" Genta Kojima's excited voice came through.

"Don't get worked up yet. Is he sitting in the front rows, or what?" Conan pressed for more details.

"He's standing next to an exit, like he's looking for someone."

Standing in one spot without moving at all?