Chapters 3524 & 3536 [Beware the Stage]
The new doctor instinctively shook his head: "It's nothing."
Conan looked at him suspiciously, recalling what had just happened. Suddenly, he had a connection. After thinking for a moment, he repeated a key word that Sonoko Suzuki had mentioned earlier: "role role?"
Dr. Shinichi: "!"
"You really do react to that word!" Conan's gaze suddenly sharpened. He grabbed Dr. Araide and whispered, "What's going on?"
The new doctor looked at him and remembered that this child was also someone who knew the truth, and according to Judy, this child seemed to be special.
After hesitating for a moment, he squatted down and said in a low voice, "When Ms. Judy was explaining the situation to me before, she said some very strange things—she told me to be careful about theater, the stage, and things like that."
“I asked her why, but she wouldn’t go into details. She just told me to contact her immediately if I came across similar keywords.”
After a pause, recalling what had just happened, the caring school doctor muttered, "But Suzuki was just making a casual remark; there's no need to trouble Ms. Jodie with such trivial matters... Hmm? Conan? What's wrong? You look terrible."
Conan didn't answer him. The fake elementary school student was focused entirely on thinking, his mind seemingly buzzing: "Drama and the stage..."
When I went to England before, a woman dressed in black came to the Maori Detective Agency in the middle of the night, gave him a passport, and told him that actors who run away from the stage have no value.
"When I got to England, I took this sentence to that suspicious Mr. Okiya to test him. His expression was like he had been struck by lightning... Based on my speculation, the keywords related to 'stage' are likely related to a certain executive in the organization."
"etc!"
Conan suddenly realized something: "The fact that he sent me a passport means that the 'master' the woman in black mentioned probably knows that I am not a real child, but he did not take me back to the organization directly—just like Vermouth!"
"In other words, was the mastermind behind the events of the night before last that mysterious cadre again?"
"Speaking of that night... I always felt that in 'that person's' eyes, Haibara and I weren't some precious experimental subjects, but rather bait used to achieve other purposes."
"...Damn it! What exactly is that person's purpose? I wish I could ask Subaru Okiya, but I haven't found a suitable opportunity to approach him yet—that graduate student is far too cautious."
However, speaking of inquiries...
Conan looked at the new doctor in front of him, touched his chin, and suddenly had a new idea.
—Judging from Dr. Araide's words, the FBI agents clearly also knew about the existence of that mysterious officer.
"If we could get the answer from them..."
Conan suddenly felt a surge of anticipation for the upcoming visit.
There's one more thing.
Conan looked up at Sonoko Suzuki in front of him.
Why did this idiot suddenly utter lines like "arrange scenes for the senior" that shouldn't belong to her?
She's not an author or a director, so...
Conan's expression changed slightly. After thinking for a moment, he quickly ran a few steps to catch up with Sonoko Suzuki and adopted a childlike, innocent tone: "Sonoko-neechan, what kind of work are you creating lately? Why did you say you wanted to give that senior a role where he dies first?"
Sonoko Suzuki, who was happily planning the game's storyline: "!!"
...Oops! I got angry and accidentally let it slip!
"Huh? Did I say that?" Suzuki Sonoko glanced at Jiang Xia out of the corner of her eye. In order to avoid another embarrassing situation, she had no choice but to put on all her acting skills. "You must have misheard me. What I said was... this senior is like the kind of person in a horror movie who is least afraid of ghosts and is the first to die!"
Conan: "..."
No, he couldn't have misheard, and Dr. Araide clearly heard it too... Why would Sonoko hide it?
Could it be that this childhood friend has really...
"No, impossible." Conan took a deep breath and thought calmly. "With Sonoko's intelligence, she couldn't possibly be a member of that organization. Even if that organization is related to the Suzuki Group, they wouldn't tell Sonoko something like this, otherwise they would be exposed in no time."
"Besides, Sonoko wouldn't do something so cold-blooded. But why is her reaction so strange, and why does her gaze keep drifting towards Jiang Xia?"
As various clues came together in his mind, Conan suddenly had a guess.
He jogged a few steps to catch up with Sonoko Suzuki and asked in a low voice, "You're not writing a novel with you and Jiang Xia as the main characters, are you?"
Sonoko Suzuki: "!!!"
Conan: "..." It seems I guessed right.
Just as he was about to show a smug smile, he suddenly felt a thud on the top of his head.
Still dizzy and disoriented, Sonoko Suzuki withdrew her fist: "You brat, you always talk nonsense! I didn't write it! I didn't write it!"
Conan covered his head, watching her initially guilty but quickly regain her composure, and understood: "So you wrote something else, a script? Or a variety show? -- Oh right! I remember when I visited Nintendo before, you made one..."
"Shut up!!"
Sonoko Suzuki grabbed the brat by the collar with a force that seemed intent on silencing him. She stared at Conan with a chilling gaze and said in a ghostly tone, "You know too much."
Conan silently raised his hand and made a zipping motion over his mouth.
"Hmph, you're smart to know what's good for you." Sonoko Suzuki glanced back at Jiang Xia. Seeing that he was talking to Ran Mouri and seemed not to have heard what was happening, the high school girl breathed a sigh of relief and warned Conan again, "Don't talk nonsense!"
Conan nodded: "Don't worry."
He just wanted to know why Sonoko Suzuki would use the word "drama," and now that he knew the answer, he felt much more at ease.
"Sonoko mentioning all this must just be a coincidence," Conan thought to himself. "Thank goodness that's the case, otherwise, if that person's influence had already penetrated into my inner circle, things would be truly terrifying..."
"But how could a cadre like him have time to keep an eye on a group of ordinary students every day? Haha, I guess I'm overthinking it."
A fake elementary school student sighed, trying to be optimistic while glancing around, searching for any traces of the script that might be there.
...
Sonoko Suzuki was suddenly exposed and felt extremely guilty.
To conceal her unusual behavior, she cleared her throat and casually walked towards Jiang Xia and Mao Lilan: "So, have you got any ideas yet?"
Ran Mouri sighed: "I'd rather it's a prank than a ghost... like that senior in the art room, don't you guys think he's very suspicious?"
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