Chapter 3428 3440 [Vermouth's Full Moon Plan]
However, a famous detective is still a famous detective after all.
After a pause, Hattori Heiji unexpectedly understood most of the current situation without asking Conan to repeat it a second time:
"Disguise, you mean the technique of pretending to be someone else, like Kaito Kid, right? Sharon Wynyard used this method to pretend to be her own daughter, Chrissie Wynyard?"
Conan shook his head. "Most of it is correct, but there's one thing that's the opposite—it's not that the elderly mother disguised herself as her younger daughter, but that the daughter, who never ages, used a disguise to age herself and disguise herself as 'Sharon Wynyard.'"
Hattori Heiji: "Not getting old? How can that be..."
He lowered his head silently in the middle of his words, looking at Tokyo, a classmate who should be the same age as him but whose legs were not even as tall as his: "..."
After a moment, he said, half lucidly and half confusedly, "I understand."
Conan nodded in satisfaction, and then continued: "Sharon Wynyard is a friend of my mother. Besides, when I went to New York, I encountered some things related to her... In short, she should not harm Xiaolan and me."
"..." Hattori Heiji pressed his temples and began to digest rapidly again: time was running out and he had no time to figure out how these situations came about. The most urgent thing was to remember all of this first.
Conan glanced at the Halloween invitation next to him. "This invitation was sent to Uncle Maori and me. It's probably not a threat, but protection disguised as a threat. She wants to use this method to get us away so that she can attack someone else."
"Another person..." The figure of Jiang Xia subconsciously flashed through Hattori Heiji's mind, because among the detectives living in this area, Jiang Xia seemed to be the only one who did not receive the Halloween invitation.
But he soon realized that this was not the case - Jiang Xia had nothing to do with that organization, and Vermouth's target must be another person who had a deeper connection with the organization.
He understood something and glanced at Dr. Agasa's house next door: "The scientist who became smaller like you?"
Conan nodded and picked up the brown wig next to him.
This was made by Kudo Yukiko, and it looks exactly like Haibara Ai's hair.
Conan took a deep breath and said, "So I plan to pretend to be Huibara, stay at Dr. Agasa's house, and wait for Vermouth to come to the house to see what her purpose is.
"—Originally, to prevent Huibara from objecting, I planned to trap her in the basement and pretend to be her. Unexpectedly, she suddenly wanted to go to the suburbs to watch a tennis match. This is perfect. When the match is almost over, I will send a message to her and a few other elementary school classmates, asking them to stay there and not come back."
Hattori Heiji frowned upon hearing this. "But if that's the case, you're in far too much danger. Are you sure the people from that organization won't get angry and kill you after they find out you're pretending to be someone else?"
Conan: “…” Actually, he’s not sure at all.
But nothing ventured, nothing gained. If he didn't seize every opportunity to take a gamble, he'd probably spend his entire life as an elementary school student, playing an endless game of hide-and-seek with the Black Organization... The thought of that future was truly despairing.
He must become Kudo Shinichi again and find his own life! It is that organization that should be hiding in the dark.
Conan secretly clenched his fists, put away his worries, and said with pretended confidence:
"Of course not. In fact, during this time together, I can occasionally sense her kindness towards Xiaolan and me. It is precisely because of this that, although I sometimes feel that 'Dr. Arata' is suspicious, I have never seriously doubted him."
Hattori Heiji still felt that this was too optimistic: "Then I'll go with you."
"No, you have other tasks." Conan said solemnly:
"Only after I board the Halloween ship can Vermouth feel at ease to attack Huibara, so you are responsible for dressing up as 'Kudo Shinichi' and going to the ship for me.
"I transformed into Kudo Shinichi once during the Teitan Junior High School festival, and 'Dr. Shinde' was there at the time—as long as Kudo Shinichi showed up on the ship, she wouldn't be suspicious anymore."
"Okay then." Hattori Heiji scratched his head, then suddenly remembered something and froze for a moment. "I remember you said Jiang Xia was also going to board that ship? What if he found out?"
Conan was about to say that Kudo Yukiko's disguise technique wouldn't have too many flaws, but suddenly, he remembered a certain thief.
In my memory, Jiang Xia could always quickly find the Phantom Thief who was good at disguise. That disguise of Hattori Heiji...
Conan gritted his teeth and started to plan plan B: "If you are discovered, you can say that Kudo Shinichi's old client has a commission and you are here on my behalf. Jiang Xia is not like us and will not ask questions about such things."
Hattori Heiji thought about it and relaxed a little: "That's right."
Yukiko Kudo, who was listening in: "..."
Looking at it this way, my son is quite self-aware sometimes...
She picked up the disguise tools and began to dress up Hattori Heiji as Kudo Shinichi, and then added circles of bandages on this basis - the event on the Halloween cruise ship was not organized by Vermouth, but by a very prestigious organizer.
The organizer's requirements for boarding the ship are to wear formal attire and dress up as various ghosts.
Hattori Heiji had already disguised himself once, and other monster costumes were difficult to keep secure, so Kudo Yukiko grabbed a lot of bandages and prepared to make him look like a transparent man.
"I wonder if Jiangxia can see through my disguise." Thinking of the clever kid next door, Kudo Yukiko suddenly became motivated. She rubbed her hands and said to Hattori Heiji:
"Don't rush to expose yourself from the beginning. Remember to play more and never admit that you are not Shin-chan until the last moment!"
Hattori Heiji: "..." It's already this time, why are you still thinking about these things... However, if you can deceive Jiang Xia with your disguise, it will indeed be an interesting challenge.
Thinking of this, his fighting spirit gradually ignited.
After putting makeup on him, Kudo Yukiko started working on Conan's face: Fortunately, children don't have big figures, and when wrapped in heavy clothes, boys and girls look the same.
Soon, a "Haibara Ai" with a slightly different temperament appeared vividly before her.
Kudo Yukiko took the mask next to her and handed it to Conan. Inside the mask, a complex and sophisticated mechanism was embedded.
"This is what Dr. Agasa prepared for you. He dismantled the spare bow-tie voice changer and installed the key part in the mask. When you wear it and talk, you can make Ai's voice."
(End of this chapter)
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