Chapter 3573 3585 [The Innocent Subaru Okiya]
Hesitating, hesitating... Conan couldn't help but have second thoughts.
—I have absolutely no intention of revealing my identity to these FBI agents.
"It's not nice to say it like this, but if Ms. Judy can be kidnapped once, she can be kidnapped a second time. And if I remember correctly, James was also kidnapped before, and during his abduction, who knows how much of their information was leaked?"
"I don't know why Vermouth was willing to help me conceal my identity, and that mysterious executive didn't seem to have any intention of arresting me and Haibara, but in reality, there are far more than just these two people in the organization."
“For example, Gin, if he really knew about my existence as a mini version of Shinichi Kudo, he would definitely shoot me dead, and then take the gun to Beika Town and kill everyone who knows my identity, as well as anyone who might know my identity, in order to cover up his previous failure to kill 'Shinichi Kudo'.”
Conan looked at Jodie in front of him and thought to himself, "And for the other executives besides Gin, an experimental subject like me would definitely be a great achievement... Once my identity is exposed by the FBI, I and the people around me will probably be doomed."
This is a serious matter... so it's best not to tell this confused woman in front of me.
A series of thoughts flashed through her mind, and finally, the mini detective smiled and said, "Shrink? What do you mean, Ms. Judy? What are you talking about?"
Judy scrutinized him intently and asked again, "Why did you ask me if I had ever heard of the stage?"
Conan maintained a childlike innocence: "Because an older brother once told me these things!"
As he spoke, Subaru Okiya's face appeared in his mind.
—If Professor Judy were to inquire further about the identity of the older brother, he would have no choice but to reveal the identity of this mysterious and suspicious graduate student.
“Mr. Okiya is definitely suspicious, and he seems to have a lot of secrets. It’s a pity that I’ve been staking out him several times, but I’ve never been able to catch him.”
"If we had the FBI's power, we might be able to get in touch with him and find out something."
Thinking this, Conan continued to cling to the edge of the bed, patiently waiting for Jodie to ask him the next question.
However, Judy on the other end did not speak.
The moment Conan said "big brother," she immediately recalled the phrase "Brother Jiang Xia said" that she had always heard before, and then automatically matched that big brother with Jiang Xia.
"Jiang Xia asked him to ask?" Judy looked bewildered, her heart pounding. "But does Jiang Xia know about the organization?... He probably doesn't. If he did, given his sense of justice and his reputation, he would have been silenced long ago, or at least he would have been attacked."
"I can't figure it out... It's so annoying, I don't want to think about it anymore! But then again, why think so much? The answer to the problem is right in front of us, why not just ask?"
Thinking of this, Judy looked at Conan and gave him a professional fake smile that she used to coax children: "Who exactly are you referring to as the big brother you're talking about?"
Conan waited for a long time before finally getting to ask her a question.
The cunning elementary school student breathed a sigh of relief and was about to bluff his way out of a deal: "Tell me the code name of that mysterious cadre first."
But just then, a voice came from behind him, abruptly exposing his lie: "Dr. Shinichi told him, didn't he?"
Conan was startled: "?!"
Judy was also startled and looked up at the door: "James? You, you're back so soon?"
The intensive training over the past two days made her subconsciously reflect on whether she had said anything she shouldn't have the moment she saw James's face.
After thinking for a while, Judy vaguely felt that there was nothing wrong, and her thoughts returned to the conversation they had just had. She looked at Conan and asked, "Dr. Araide told you that?"
James nodded first: "Yesterday morning, these kids ran into Dr. Araide at Teitan High School, and he even called you afterwards—you've already forgotten?"
Judy: "!"
Upon closer reflection, it seems there really is such a thing!
At that time, Dr. Araide had been strolling around Teitan High School and, after listening to something, he called back, hesitantly asking Vermouth if she was a bad person.
What else could that woman be but a bad person? Judy was furious at the question, and after hanging up the phone, she sulked for a while... and then forgot about the unpleasant matter.
"What a false alarm..."
It turns out that the child's sudden question about the "stage" wasn't a conspiracy; it was because her earlier advice to Dr. Araide had become a boomerang that hit her.
Just as he was feeling relieved, James looked at Conan with a smile and said, "But I suddenly remembered that Dr. Araide only knew that there was such a criminal, but he didn't know about the code name—kid, why did you ask about Judy's code name just now? Who told you about it?"
Conan: "..." I came here to get information out of him, but instead I'm the one getting information out of him.
—As soon as James returned, with someone of temporarily sound intelligence watching over him, he knew he probably wouldn't gain much.
However, he never expected that not only would he get nothing, but James would also try to extract information from him.
"This old man is too cunning. He first helped me cover up the situation, pretending that the conversation was over and letting me relax. Then he suddenly pointed out the loopholes in my words."
“If it were an ordinary child, he might actually scare them and make them react strangely, but I…”
...I was indeed startled.
Conan chuckled awkwardly, about to start making things up, when there was a knock on the ward door.
Immediately afterward, someone flung open the door, and Ran Mouri appeared in the doorway: "Conan! You've run off again!!"
As she spoke, she strode into the ward, picked up the child who had run away, apologized to the two FBI agents in the room, and then turned and left.
After the group disappeared through the doorway, James let out a sigh of relief: "Looks like I'll have to keep a closer eye on this first-grader from now on. I have a feeling he might know something we don't."
As soon as he finished speaking, his heart suddenly skipped two beats.
"Hmm?" After a moment of stunned silence, James stroked his beard, a vague sense of foreboding creeping in.
After a moment of silence, he changed his mind and said, "But now that the events of the full moon night have just ended, let's lie low for the time being and start keeping watch again later."
Having lived to a ripe old age, he finally decided to trust his intuition.
It's not that I'm not materialistic, it's just that I can't waste the sixth sense that I've accumulated over the years.
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