Stay away from Conan.

Because when he was Conan, he had already habitually called Ai "Graybara", so for a while Kudo Shinichi did not change his way of addressing her. But obviously, as a high school student, calling a primary school student by his last name, this kind of address that is a bit like a peer relationship is a bit strange, so Kudo Shinichi immediately made up for it:
"That's the little girl from Mr. Akechi's family! I think her last name is Haibara, right? But I can't quite remember her exact name."

In this way, Kudo Shinichi forced himself to explain why he addressed him that way just now.

And because of this, after Kudo Shinichi had a discussion with the children about this topic, the children, who had been very nervous about meeting Kudo Shinichi who they had only heard about in rumors, now began to relax when they saw Kudo Shinichi talking to them so kindly. They happily came forward to introduce themselves to Kudo Shinichi and expressed their admiration for him.

In response to this, facing the excited children, Kudo Shinichi squatted down and explained to them with a smile that he knew about the children, but now was not the time to talk about it, so Kudo Shinichi looked at Inukai Genichi and asked him if they could find an absolutely safe place to talk about his thoughts on this matter.

In this regard, Inukai Genichi naturally agreed and considered taking him to a room in the nearby police station to talk.

Kudo Shinichi affirmed this, and just as he was about to leave for the police station, Ayumi asked carefully:
"By the way...where's Conan? It seems like he left a while ago and never came back..."

So, hearing Ayumi ask this question, Mitsuhiko and Genta couldn't help but think of this matter and prepared to find Conan:
"Oh yeah! Did Conan go out to play alone again? Let's go find him!"

Having said this, the three children prepared to set out to look for Conan without the supervision of Professor Agasa.

At this point, because Ayumi mentioned Conan at this time, Xiaolan couldn't help but feel a little suspicious. She subconsciously wanted to stop the behavior of these children, but just as she was about to raise her hand to express her opinion, she stopped and didn't know what to say -

After all, Conan now is actually...

"Well, as for Conan, you don't have to look for him!"

At this moment, hearing the children were about to go find Conan, Kudo Shinichi spoke up to stop their actions.

So, regarding this, the children who were about to set out but were interrupted turned back to look at Kudo Shinichi and asked the reason in confusion, so Kudo Shinichi explained:

"Just now I asked Dr. Agasa to investigate the matter, but Conan followed Dr. Agasa away, so you won't be able to find him near the hospital now. If you don't believe me... you can contact the doctor to check!"

After saying this, Kudo Shinichi knew clearly that in order to ensure that he could explain Conan's problem after recovering to his original appearance, he had asked Dr. Agasa to leave here with Conan's bow voice changer and detective badge, and let Dr. Agasa wander around Kyoto alone. As long as he is not seen by other people, it will be fine. When someone wants to confirm Conan's whereabouts, let Dr. Agasa use the voice changer to pretend that Conan is by his side. This can be regarded as a way to disguise the existence of Conan and Kudo Shinichi at the same time.

Just like that, after listening to Kudo Shinichi's explanation, the children were quite resentful about Conan going alone to investigate with Professor Agasa, but they still tried to contact Conan using the detective badge. After the detective badge was connected, the voices of Conan and Professor Agasa were indeed heard from the badge, which explained Conan's whereabouts.

In this case, the children were helpless. They could not follow Conan to do the so-called investigation, so they had to follow Kudo Shinichi and take the next step...

……

"Oh? Let Dr. Agasa act alone and pretend that Conan is with him?" At the same time, because he heard the movement over there through the signal of the tracking glasses, and found that it was Dr. Agasa who was pretending that Conan was still there, Gao Yuan, who had already arrived at Kurama Mountain, basically understood the general situation.

After all, since hearing the roar of Conan turning back into Kudo Shinichi just now, no meaningful information has been transmitted to him through the equipment over there.

Now it seems that Kudo Shinichi handed all the equipment belonging to Conan to Dr. Agasa, asking him to pretend that Conan is still there.

This is a very natural thing, but...

Can this still be concealed from Xiaolan when she may have already guessed the truth? This makes me wait and see, and I want to see how this matter will develop in the end.

Then, because the plan to use Conan's devices to listen to the situation over there was no longer meaningful at the moment, Gao Yuan no longer started the program on his mobile phone to secretly listen to the movements over there. If he really needed information, he might as well go and ask directly.

However, the current situation...

Looking at the Kurama Mountain in front of him, and the location of Ai that he saw from the "star", Gao Yuan stopped here for a while and began to consider his next plan. After all, the hostages were still on the other side, and he couldn't just rush in to rescue them, right?

I'd better observe from the outside to see if there is anyone left alone...

……

"Regarding this incident, according to the intelligence from the Tokyo police, we can confirm that a murderer has killed five people in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto in one night. After investigation, we can confirm that these five people are all members of the thief gang "Genji Hotaru", and they are the last five members of this gang."

When he arrived at the nearby police station, Kudo Shinichi wore a hat the whole time to cover his face as much as possible, so that passers-by would not recognize him. In a meeting room in the police station that Inukai Genichi had specially requested for him, Kudo Shinichi began his explanation of the incident.

Therefore, Xiaolan and others, who heard this news for the first time, could not help but be shocked by this -

After all, it was originally just a case of Buddha statue theft and Kazuha's kidnapping, but when it came to Kudo Shinichi, it became a serial murder case.

Now, Xiaolan, Sonoko, and the children couldn't help but feel more worried about the safety of Heye and Xiaoai, because the person who kidnapped them might be such a crazy murderer!

In response to this question from Kudo Shinichi, Inukai Genichi also had a serious expression, and then at this point, Kudo Shinichi also stated the key points:

"In this case, there should be only three members left in 'Genji Hotaru', and I actually have a guess about these three..." (End of this chapter)