"Ha ha ha... Oh my god, Akechi Goro's fan..."
With his back to the others, Conan glared at Heiji Hattori, who was doubled over with laughter, from the corner of his eye and forced out through clenched teeth, "All right, stop laughing... If you were the one eavesdropping, you wouldn't know what awkward excuse to give either..."
That guy, who had slipped up with names several times and then proceeded to demonstrate a hundred homophones for Kudo, had no right to laugh at him!
At least he had managed to come up with a suitable excuse in the moment. That showed some quick thinking, didn't it?
"I get it, I really do, but 'Akechi Goro's fan'..." Heiji Hattori wiped the tears of laughter from the corner of his eyes and repeated what the director had said when Conan was sent back. "'No matter how much you like him, you can't interrupt the adults at work!'"
"Hattori, you...!"
Before Conan could take a deep breath and actually make a move, Heiji Hattori finally managed to rein in his unrestrained laughter. He composed his expression and grew a little more serious.
"We can be sure of it now, right? Rena Mizunashi and Akechi Goro aren't especially familiar with each other, but they definitely both have some connection to the organization."
"Not just them. I didn't have time to listen any further, so I don't know whether they discussed anything deeper. But if those people were practically openly shutting themselves in a room to talk about matters related to the organization..."
Conan did not continue describing that slightly crazy but very possible conjecture.
If—he meant, if—Tooru Amuro, Tangze's nominal guardian, had been planted by the organization from the very beginning, or had been infiltrated by them along the way...
Heiji Hattori exchanged a