"Irish Whiskey? Hmm, I think I'd heard of him. What, did Akechi Goro give you that information?" Ai Haibara, having returned to Professor Agasa's house, heard the question as soon as she arrived. Without changing her expression, she brushed back the hair by her temple.
She kept her head lowered as she spoke, slowly untying her shoelaces so Conan, standing there with a grave expression, would not see her face.
"Yeah. I traded the antidote you brought out for that intelligence. By the way, when did you develop the KA series antidote? I didn't hear a thing about it." Conan crossed his arms, then could not help muttering, "Right... you gave my antidote to Tangze before you gave it to me, too..."
Why had she secretly developed an antidote to the Organization's drugs without telling me?
Huh? She hadn't told me before, either. Never mind, then.
Ai Haibara detected a faint note of grievance in his tone. Before looking up, she pressed the corners of her mouth to suppress her obvious amusement.
"I gave Tangze the APTX antidote so he could give it to you directly in case anything happened. The reason I didn't want to tell you directly was because I was worried about giving you unnecessary hope. You really cannot take too much of it. It's a laboratory preparation that has never undergone clinical trials. It's dangerous." Ai Haibara tilted her head, considering her words before cautiously continuing, "As for KA, development of an antidote here had been making insufficient progress. I remembered hearing that this drug was being circulated privately, so I made some."
Though the matter with Kumeru had been Tangze's own staged performance, her drug development was entirely real.
With Tangze's parents' research as a foundation, along with the drug analyses obtained earlier from the