"It would be somewhat difficult to hold Mutsumi Nishikawa responsible for the fire four years ago. The police may need to put in some more work. But it is a fact that she locked Masayo Mamiya in a sealed room and starved her to death, assumed her identity, and illegally seized much of the Mamiya Family's property. In any case, she has already been taken away by the police. We do not need to worry about what happens next."
As he drove and spoke, Professor Agasa glanced at the children in the rearview mirror.
The camping trip had turned into a hair-raising castle adventure. Though it seemed they had not exactly lost out in the end, it had still gone against his original intentions.
Fortunately, although the children had found the secret passage, Mutsumi Nishikawa had been focused on trying to kill Conan and the young people. She had never encountered the children, so they had not gone through anything too terrifying. That was a good outcome.
"But that old lady was so pitiful..." Ayumi Yoshida said, her eyes misty as she chewed the bread they had taken from the Mamiya Family estate. It was hard to tell whether it was simple sympathy or whether she had choked on the bread. "Why did this fake grandma like starving people to death so much?"
"Because she was too cowardly, and too selfish." Ai Haibara did not even raise her head from the fashion magazine in her arms. "Whether it was setting the tower ablaze four years ago, or killing the old lady and the servants who tried to explore the tower's secrets over the past few years, she chose methods that allowed her to avoid facing death directly. Set a fire and run away, or lock someone in a sealed room