Chapter 98 Exposed
Since Edogawa Conan has discovered Hatori Yui's identity, Amuro Toru brought up his plan to turn him against the emperor.
"Do you think that after experiencing a normal life, he wouldn't be willing to die?" Edogawa Conan raised his eyebrows.
Amuro Toru nodded: "Everyone yearns for light. Those who have seen the light will never want to return to darkness."
Edogawa Conan added in his heart: What's more, he has something to worry about.
"I'm wondering now if I can persuade him without revealing my identity." Amuro Toru pondered, supporting his chin.
Edogawa Conan also frowned in thought. After a while, he raised his head and said, "Let me give it a try."
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Hatori only suspected Haibara Ai's identity, but he did not tell Vermouth.
If Miyano Shiho had truly defected, the organization would surely punish her upon finding her. And if Gin shot her dead, who would then develop the "rejuvenation" drug? This wasn't the outcome he wanted to see. So he wanted to investigate thoroughly before deciding what to do next.
But from that day on, Huiyuan Ai never came to the house with Yoshida Ayumi and the others. He could only ask the three children indirectly to get information about her.
He learned that Haibara Ai was the child of Dr. Agasa's relative, temporarily living in his house, and had just transferred to Teitan Elementary School a few months ago.
Hatori Yui pretended to be surprised and asked, "Aren't her parents around?"
Yoshida Ayumi thought about it carefully and said, "Hmm...I don't think I've heard her mention it much."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya said: "Haihara's parents must be working away from home. Maybe it's because they are so busy and have no time to take care of her that she is so independent."
Hatori Yuiichi followed up, "She's very independent?"
Yoshida Ayumi nodded and began to praise her friend: "Ai is amazing! Not only can she live on her own, but she also takes good care of Professor Agasa!"
Kojima said, "I think she's very mature. Sometimes she talks like my mom." He touched his chin and said, "The words she says to me most often are 'no' and 'you can't'. That tone of voice really does resemble my mom's."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya interrupted, "That's because you, Genta, always have sudden ideas and do inappropriate things. Haibara-san is correcting your behavior!"
"Anyway, I think she's a bit nagging..." As soon as Kojima Genta finished speaking, he was criticized by the other two, saying that he shouldn't say such things to his friends who cared about him.
Hatori Yui beside him lowered his eyes slightly.
Little adult...is it really just precocious?
Later, he learned more about her from the children. She liked reading fashion magazines, liked brand-name bags, was a big fan of Higo Ryusuke, had great makeup, was very knowledgeable, and sometimes spoke very realistically...
The more Hatori Yui listened, the more she felt that she was not an ordinary child.
As they talked, the children's topic turned to Edogawa Conan.
"By the way, among us, only Conan can keep up with Haibara-san's thinking." Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko said dejectedly, "Sometimes I can't understand what they say."
"And Ai and Conan always whisper to each other behind our backs. Is there anything they can't hide from us?" Ayumi Yoshida said angrily.
Kojima Genta nodded. "It's like they're isolating us. That's too much."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "Is this called isolation? Shouldn't it be called division?"
Yoshida Ayumi: "It's not that serious."
The children started talking one after another, complaining about Edogawa Conan and Haibara Ai being unsociable and forming their own cliques. As they listened, Hatori Yui frowned slightly.
Come to think of it, Conan doesn't look like a normal kid. What kind of elementary school kid would defuse a bomb?! Could it be that, like Haibara Ai, he took a drug that could "rejuvenate" him?
If that's true, then who was he before he became smaller? Was he a member of the organization that defected with Miyano Shiho? Or was he a victim who accidentally took the drug?
That was all the information he could get out of the children. Hatori Yui felt more certain of Haibara Ai's identity and decided to go talk to her in person.
He acted quickly. After finding out the address of Dr. Agasa's house, he pretended to meet her by chance on the road that Haibara Ai had to take after school.
Seeing Hatori Yui suddenly appear, Haibara Ai, who was carrying a schoolbag, couldn't help but take a step back.
"Hello!" Hatori Yui greeted with a smile, "Are you the kid who came to my house with Ayumi a few days ago?"
Haibara Ai nodded slightly, then walked around him and continued forward.
Hatori Yuiichi thought: He's really alert.
As the two of them met, Hatori Yui whispered, "Miyano Shiho, Dr. Sam asked me to say hello to you."
When Haibara Ai heard the name, she paused, her pupils suddenly shrank, and her body trembled slightly.
When she heard her own name, she knew that Hatori Yui was testing her. She should have pretended to have no reaction, but the name Sam awakened the fear deep in her heart. Her body instantly lost control and became stiff.
“Heh~”
A soft laugh echoed from above her head, and Huiyuan Ai closed her eyes in despair. It was over! Could she finally escape the organization's pursuit?
Hatori Yui squatted down, patted her shoulder gently, and said, "I was just kidding."
Haibara Ai suddenly opened her eyes and looked at him sharply.
Hatori Yui spread his hands and smiled slightly: "It's just that I didn't expect you to react so strongly to his name. Why are you so afraid of him? Aren't you his student?"
Haibara Ai pursed her lips and said in a hoarse voice, "Who is his student!" She was so angry at the last sentence that she gave up and stopped pretending at all.
Seeing that she had dropped her disguise, Hatori Yuiichi heaved a sigh of relief. This was truly an accident. He hadn't known that Dr. Sam's name was so offensive, instantly piercing Miyano Shiho's defenses. Although he also hated Dr. Sam.
He said, “Let’s go to the park over there and talk.”
Ai Haibara held the shoulder strap of her schoolbag and followed him silently into the small park.
The two sat side by side on the swing. Huiyuan Ai glanced at him secretly and asked in a low voice: "How did you know my identity?"
Hatori Yui said, "I just felt that you looked familiar. Back then, you were only a few years older than you are now, and I recognized you at first sight." He didn't say it because he had seen her childhood photos at his aunt's place. He felt that if he told her his aunt's code name, she might be more scared.
Huiyuan Ai said sarcastically: "Then you have a really good memory."
Hatori Yui didn't care about her attitude. He asked, "Does your current behavior mean that your research has been successful? Did you defect? Is the organization hunting you down?"
"You ask so many questions." Haibara Ai said, "I am indeed being hunted by Gin." However, Edogawa had already used a trick to make them all believe that I was dead.
Hatori Yui frowned and said, "Then why don't you hand over the medicine? As long as you tell us the results of the experiment, the organization will definitely not kill you."
Haibara Ai looked sideways at him and said, "Hand it over? Why?" She tilted her head and said, "Even if the organization is hunting me, as long as I keep the medicine firmly in my hands, I can reach more wealthy businessmen and politicians who are afraid of death, and they will all be my umbrellas of protection." She showed no weakness, and like an angry pufferfish, she puffed up all her thorns.
Hatori Yuiichi pointed out the problem, "But you're just hiding in the home of an ordinary doctor." He suddenly thought of the key point and asked, "Could it be that this drug was just a coincidence and you didn't leave any experimental data?"
Ai Haibara glanced at him and didn't answer.
Hatori Yuiichi said in a deep voice, "Is it really just a coincidence? Then what about Edogawa Conan?"
Haibara Ai's eyelids twitched a few times. She controlled her expression and asked, "Edogawa? That kid? What happened to him?" She didn't know how Edogawa Conan was exposed, so she could only try her best to hide it for him.
Hatori Yui had been observing her expression, noticing her underlying nervousness. He said, "Did Edogawa Conan take the same medicine as you? Aren't there any left from this batch? Just one pill can be used on the boss."
Huiyuan Ai rolled her eyes silently: "No more!" She looked down at the ground and said, "I only hid one at the time. The others were taken away by Gin. I don't know who they were fed to."
When Hatori Yui heard that the medicine was taken away by Gin, she immediately wanted to call him.
Huiyuan Ai held his hand and said seriously: "If you tell Gin, I will definitely die."
Hatori paused in her only movement.
"No one knows I've shrunk now. If you tell anyone, Gin will definitely find me. According to his usual habits, he will definitely shoot me to death." Haibara Ai said, "I know what you are thinking. You think that with this drug, the organization's human experiments will stop, the boss can 'rejuvenate' himself, and your lives will no longer be in danger."
She looked at Hatori Yuiichi with a dark gaze and said, "However, this drug isn't what you think. Gin has always used it as a poison. If the organization learns of the 'rejuvenation' drug's effects, they will definitely try it again based on the experimental data I left behind. At that time, they will still use you as a human experiment, and your chances of death will be even higher."
Hatori Yui wanted to say that they would not be treated like this, but it was not impossible if the boss had a brain seizure.
"And this kind of heaven-defying medicine also has side effects."
Hatori Yuiichi asked, "What are the side effects?"
Haibara Ai looked at her palms and said, "I haven't grown since I took the medicine." Edogawa was the same. It was clearly the age when they should be growing taller, but they were both like they had stagnated, their figures not changing at all.
"In my eyes, this is poison. Furthermore, the reaction is extremely severe, causing pain all over the body and increasing the burden on the heart. Given Boss's current condition, he'll definitely die of a heart attack before he shrinks." Haibara Ai jokingly said, "If he wants to take this medicine, he needs a stronger heart first."
Hatori Yui's expression darkened. Indeed, given the boss's current condition, he couldn't withstand any harsh medication.
Seeing him lower his head in silence, Haibara Ai inconspicuously reached into her pocket. Inside was a glasses leg, the very same bug on the tracking glasses. She tapped it lightly a few times, sending a message to Edogawa Conan in Morse code.
When Conan Edogawa learned that Toru Amuro wanted to incite Yuiichi Hatori to rebel, he was thinking about what method to use. When he learned from Genta and others that Yui Hatori was trying to find out about Ai Haibara, he knew that her identity was exposed.
Since that was the case, he decided to use this opportunity to test Hatori Yuiichi. However, Haibara Ai's defenses were broken from the start, and before she could even test Hatori Yuiichi's attitude towards the organization, she collapsed. Fortunately, Hatori Yuiichi wasn't someone who would pull out a gun without a second thought like Gin, and fortunately, he had his own selfish motives.
From their conversation, it's clear that Hatori's sole focus is on the "rejuvenation" potion. He doesn't even care how Miyano Shiho escaped. His biggest concern is whether the potion can be used on the boss.
Conan Edogawa also learned from their conversation that the boss, Karasuma Renya, should be in very poor physical condition.
Yes, according to calculations, he is over 130 years old, how can he still be in good health?
And this information is something that Haibara Ai has never told you before.
As for the side effects of the medicine...
Conan Edogawa had also noticed this long ago. He had a rough idea of his own growth. However, this was the first time Haibara Ai had personally acknowledged the drug's side effects. So, she'd recently accelerated her research into the drug, even testing it on herself.
Let's get back to the topic. Since Hatori only cares about his life and the lives of his companions, there is a possibility of cooperation.
Conan Edogawa quickly simulated the process of subversion in his mind and smiled confidently.
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