Stay away from Conan.

Although for Kudo Shinichi, he really hopes that he can continue to maintain this appearance, just like going back to a long time ago when life was normal, he can go to school normally and live as Kudo Shinichi, instead of being like now, even if he appears in his original appearance, he still has to worry about this and that...

But there is no other way. There is a threat from the organization, and I can't maintain this appearance for a long time. Once the drug wears off, I will turn back into Conan again...

Therefore, even though Kudo Shinichi really wanted to say "yes" to Xiaolan, he was helpless. Looking at Xiaolan's hopeful expression, Kudo Shinichi didn't dare to look at Xiaolan for a moment. Instead, he turned his head with a slightly regretful look, and then turned to a cynical attitude, chuckled and responded to Xiaolan:
"Ah, this is a bit difficult for me... After all, I just came back to rest for a while these two days, but I still have a lot of cases to investigate. I will probably have to set off again soon, so...

"I'm sorry, Xiaolan."

After hearing what Kudo Shinichi said, Xiaolan, who had been expecting something in her heart, was helpless. She sighed in her heart, but her expression was still as normal as possible. She only complained a little and said:
"Really...it's always like this. When can you finish investigating the case..."

"Well..."

After being asked by Xiaolan, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but feel a little bitter, but he could only continue to maintain the attitude just now and said:

"There's nothing we can do about it. There are so many criminals in this world."

In this regard, Xiaolan could only respond to Kudo Shinichi with a slight smile, and then after thinking about it, she couldn't help but talk to Kudo Shinichi about something -

"By the way, Shinichi, speaking of which, there is something I wonder if you are interested in?"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

So, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but be a little curious about the topic that Xiaolan suddenly brought up. He didn't know what Xiaolan was doing, so he asked casually.

Then, Xiaolan said:

"Do you know the female host named Mizunashi Reina?"

Suddenly, Kudo Shinichi, who was originally a bit casual, heard Xiaolan mention the name "Mizunashi Rena". He couldn't help but get nervous all of a sudden, and turned his face away, in order not to let Xiaolan notice the change in his expression——

After all, for Kudo Shinichi, the name Mizunashi Rena is too important.

As a member of the organization, Rena Mizunashi, codenamed "Kil", was taken away by the FBI after Rena Mizunashi had an accident due to previous incidents. There seems to be no follow-up news so far.

At that time, in order to ensure that no one would trace Mizuno Rena's whereabouts in the future, he called the TV station in Mizuno Rena's voice and asked for a long vacation for Mizuno Rena. Then the TV station also issued an announcement to let the audience know that the popular host Mizuno Rena would take a long leave and would not appear on the screen in the short term.

In this way, if you calculate carefully, this matter has been going on for quite some time, but now...

Why did Xiaolan bring this up?

Thinking of this, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but feel a little nervous, wondering what had happened to make Xiaolan ask him such a question. So, although Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but feel uneasy about this question, fearing that this matter related to the organization might be related to Xiaolan, Kudo Shinichi could only try to remain calm, not wanting Xiaolan to notice anything, and began to respond:

"Rena Mizunashi? Oh... I seem to remember her. She was the female host who appeared on TV before? But, I haven't seen her on TV recently. I don't know what's going on...

"What's the matter, Xiaolan, why are you asking this suddenly?"

So, after Kudo Shinichi gave a brief explanation, he couldn't help but ask Xiaolan what had happened.

Xiaolan didn't seem to notice anything unusual, and continued to explain with a smile:

"Actually, this is what happened. This morning, someone who looked very much like Miss Mizunashi Reina came to my father's office..."

"what?"

For a moment, when he heard that someone who looked very much like Rena Mizunashi went to Kogoro Mori's office, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but lose control of his emotions and exclaimed in surprise, which also scared Xiaolan who was speaking.

However, Kudo Shinichi soon realized that this reaction was a bit inappropriate, so he immediately restrained his emotions and took a breath. Under Xiaolan's slightly puzzled look, Kudo Shinichi said:
"Someone who looks very similar to Rena Mizunashi came to your father's detective agency? Is he... someone related to Rena Mizunashi?"

At this moment, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but have various guesses in his mind -

After all, since it concerns Rena Mizunashi, it is natural that it may be related to the organization. Therefore, it is natural that Kudo Shinichi thought of Vermouth.

In this case, if you think about it carefully, a person who looks similar to Rena Mizunashi may actually be Vermouth in disguise.

Therefore, if this matter was caused by the Mori Detective Agency that Vermouth came to, then it is possible that Uncle Mori had been to Rena Mizunashi's residence before she lost contact with the organization. After the organization found out about this, they came to test whether Rena Mizunashi's disappearance was related to Uncle Mori...

However, having said that, when it comes to this matter, Kudo Shinichi feels that this kind of thing should have happened earlier. After all, it is not difficult to investigate that Uncle Mori had visited Rena Mizunashi's residence before she lost contact. Therefore, if the organization had investigated these things, they should have suspected Uncle Mori a long time ago and launched an investigation.

But it just so happened that after so much time had passed, everything seemed to be peaceful, and no figures suspected to be from any organization had appeared near the detective agency.

Therefore, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but feel that things seemed a little strange -

After all, at that time, I thought that it might be because of the FBI's intervention at that time that the organization might have directly linked Mizunoshi Rena's disappearance to the FBI, so I didn't investigate the matter of my uncle having contact with Mizunoshi Rena.
But now, this happened...

If it is the other party's organization, isn't it a bit too late to investigate my uncle? So much time has passed.

Or is it because the organization did not directly investigate Uncle, but took the initiative to contact Uncle after discovering something? (End of this chapter)