Chapter 3504, Chapter 3516: [The Organization's Retrospective Party]
"Vermouth is quite experienced and possesses skills like disguise, plus she can directly contact the boss... In short, her position in the organization must be quite high." Conan muttered to himself.
"But how could someone so easily take over an operation planned by her and turn it into part of another plan, leaving her in such a sorry state... Who exactly is the person behind this?"
Based on his limited knowledge of the organization, Gin's image quickly came to mind.
But Conan quickly shook his head, ruling out that option: if it were Gin, Ai Haibara should have been even more afraid when he mentioned him. So, that executive… could it be someone Ai Haibara has never actually met, someone she's only heard of? If that's the case, the level of fear would indeed be reduced.
While a detective was pondering this in secret.
Beside her, Ran pulled Jiang Xia further away, and continued from a distance where Conan couldn't overhear: "It was already dark when we rescued Ms. Jodie. There were many people around her, so I didn't see clearly, but I always felt... I always felt that she didn't look like she had just been locked up underground, but rather like she had been locked up for a while."
“But if that’s the case…” Ran Mouri got goosebumps. “Then who exactly is the ‘Ms. Judy’ we saw at school the other day?”
Jiang Xia knew what she was thinking and said disappointedly, "First of all, it's definitely not a ghost."
Ran Mouri breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Xia: "There are many other possibilities. For example, the basement environment is quite dirty, so she was only locked up for a day, but it looked like she had been locked up for a long time. Or, Ms. Judy has twins, or there is someone who looks a lot like her..."
Ran Mouri, remembering this astute detective, asked expectantly, "Which one do you think it is?"
“Well…” Jiang Xia suddenly pointed ahead, “Ask her when you have time, and you’ll find out.”
Ran Mouri looked in the direction he was pointing and her eyes widened in shock—a blonde woman in a hospital gown was sitting in a wheelchair being pushed around the corner by a nurse.
Although only half of her face was visible, it was clear that it was Judy, who had been rescued from the factory not long ago!
“Ms. Judy?” Ran Mouri murmured. “I never expected her to be in this hospital.”
She walked over... then thought for a moment, and came back.
"Ms. Judy is still busy with her check-up, and she doesn't seem to be in good spirits." Ran Mouri sighed, suppressing her curiosity.
"Let's wait until she's recovered a bit before we go—it would be impolite to go empty-handed anyway. Let's buy some flowers and fruit tomorrow and bring them with us."
But speaking of which, who exactly kidnapped Ms. Judy?
...
There were many other patients in the hospital, and it would be awkward for a group of people to stand in the corridor and block traffic.
After their brief reunion, they each completed their checkups, then agreed on a time to visit Ms. Judy together before waving goodbye and going their separate ways.
Before going to bed, Jiang Xia drew the curtains in a good mood, piling the murderous aura he had gathered that day onto the bedsheets.
Although I had already categorized them in the imprint space, the harvest is more tangible when it is actually displayed in front of me.
The ghosts happily plunged into the pile of murderous aura, comparing the quantities of various kinds of murderous aura, and praising the coffee and apple for their exceptional performance.
However, the most popular one is undoubtedly that small pile of ice cream-flavored murderous aura—the murderous aura that Shuichi Akai released when he was captured by the rescue team is almost equal to the total production of vodka in the past.
While marveling at the efficient harvest, Jiang Xia casually lit a vanilla ice cream-flavored mint.
Amidst the rising, sweet smoke, Jiang Xia suppressed his murderous intent, then placed the Ghost Mint in a specially made porcelain container on his bedside table. He prayed for more of tonight's activities before comfortably drifting off to sleep.
...
On the second day, Ms. Judy was still undergoing treatment and declined visits from her students.
However, in the afternoon, Jiang Xia received some good news—Gin asked him to make time the next day to meet at their usual spot.
"The usual place... you mean that sushi restaurant, right?"
Jiang Xia actually preferred the underground bar directly below the sushi restaurant to the sushi restaurant he was tired of eating at.
However, after sneaking in a few times in his puppet, his interest in the shop had waned considerably, so he didn't pay much attention to this detail. In his reply, he said he would arrive on time and hoped that Gin would bring more people to make this rare gathering more lively.
Unfortunately, this friendly email did not receive a reply.
Jiang Xia sighed, but didn't pay much attention. He washed up and went out, intending to visit various hospitals to see if there was any extra killing intent to be found—the quality of patients in the hospitals seemed to be higher than usual these past few days.
...
It's a cloudy day today, with a light drizzle falling.
On their way home from school, the three members of the Junior Detective League surrounded Conan and Ai Haibara, chattering away.
Ayumi Yoshida looked worried: "Yesterday at the tennis court, I heard you were kidnapped..."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "Ran-neechan has also been kidnapped. Were you kidnapped by the same group of people?"
Genta Kojima: "That tennis court was too dangerous! The politician who organized the match was shot in the head right in front of us—such a tall person, and he just fell down with a thud. It gave me a huge fright."
Hearing the topic being changed, Ai Haibara secretly breathed a sigh of relief: she really didn't want to describe the kidnapping to the children. Although in a sense it didn't seem that scary, it was full of the aura of an organization from beginning to end... But then again, why did she always feel that there was also a hint of an organization in the murder of the senator?
Just then, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya realized that the topic had gone astray, and he asked again, "You guys were really kidnapped? -- Ai, forget about it, Conan, didn't you say you had something else to do that day? Why were you at the beach too?"
"That's a long story." Conan skillfully omitted his own experiences, only answering the questions he could:
"The kidnapping did happen, but we were rescued quickly... It's a pity we didn't catch the kidnappers; what a great opportunity."
Ai Haibara: "..." An opportunity? Where is it? How come she didn't see it at all?
The three children, not understanding what was going on, also felt a little sorry for Conan, but soon they cheered up again.
"I'm so glad you're all alright!" Ayumi Yoshida looked at Ai Haibara. "And Ai, your cold is finally better. I was so worried about you because you didn't go to school for the past few days."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya quickly said to the pretty and cute mixed-race classmate, "Actually, we've always wanted to visit you, but Conan always says it's easy to get infected and won't let us go."
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