Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Rize, who thought she was of low status, was walking through the submarine passage holding potato chips. She didn't know that in the eyes of the outer members, she was as terrifying as Gin.

"Sir...sir."

With potato chips in his mouth, Rize looked back and found that there was no one behind him, so he shook his head: "I'm not an adult."

"You're kidding. What can I do for you?"

An outer member pushed the others aside and moved closer. He remembered that the girl was brought by Lady Vermouth and kept calling her grandma.

This is a good opportunity to climb up. As one of the few people around Gin who has lived a long life, he knows clearly that this boss seems to be targeted by the organization now. His money has been taken away and he is almost dead.

"Miss, there is another girl on the boat...who can play with you..."

The man's meaning was so obvious that everyone saw what he meant, but they all pulled him back.

"You're crazy, that girl is from the organization..." The person who spoke took a sneak peek and said, "She was kidnapped by the organization. Lord Gin specifically asked for her. How dare you let her play with this ancestor?"

"Oh, what does it matter?"

The man waved his hand and said, "The adults are all on the second floor. This is the third floor. As long as we don't open the passage on the second floor, the girl in the sea will not be able to escape."

Seeing that the man's attitude was getting more impolite and his hand was about to touch her waist, the people who had just tried to dissuade him stopped talking and said no more.

"That's right, Miss, you're having fun, how can you only remember me?"

The man immediately stood in front of Rize, asked everyone to clear out all the dangerous things on the entire floor, told them to guard the important places, and then took Rize to the detention room.

……

"This is where?"

Feeling that her hands and feet were tied, her head was wrapped in a yellow sack, and her mouth was sealed, Naomi gently moved her legs.

To the right, she felt her feet hanging out of the platform, and to the left was a cold wall. After turning over, she put her hands under her body and clearly felt that she was lying on a bed.

【Leon-kun...】

She remembered that Leonhardt knocked on her door, then sprayed her in the face with a spray when she wasn't paying attention, and then she fainted.

"you're awake."

There was a sudden light in front of her eyes. Naomi was a little uncomfortable and closed her eyes tightly. It took her a long time to recover.

"You...you are!"

She pointed at the girl who untied her wristbands, her words were unclear, and she mumbled for a long time before she said, "Shiho..."

Huibara Ai walked back to her bed and climbed up, then paused for a moment, hesitating while recalling where she had seen her before.

[Do I know such a person? ]

"Are you Shiho? It's Shiho, right?"

Naomi hurriedly leaned over to the side of Haibara Ai's bed, holding the girl's shoulders with both hands. It was not until she noticed tears in her eyes that she realized she was too excited.

"Um, excuse me, are you Shiho?"

"I don't know him." Huihara Ai turned her head away. Having stayed with the Kudo family for such a long time, she was confident that she was much better than Kudo Shinichi, the worst actor in the family. But now she was in the organization's territory, and she didn't want to be exposed even if there was only a slight possibility.

"I'm sorry, I think I really recognized the wrong person."

Naomi sat back on the bed and sighed, "She's my best friend."

[…Isn’t this a bit too self-indulgent? ]

Haibara Ai looked at Naomi speechlessly, and finally caught a little impression of the woman from the garbage dump of her memory.

[It turned out to be the short guy who was bullied by the white man! ]

The sudden realization made Naomi's eyes widen. She opened her mouth to scream, but was immediately stopped by Haibara Ai's gesture.

"I am indeed not Shiho. You really have the wrong person."

"You look so much like her, it's obvious that it's not her."

[Then why were you screaming like crazy just now? ! ]

Haibara Ai really wanted to rush over and beat Naomi up, but she definitely couldn't do that because of her small body.

"Are you Shiho's daughter?" Naomi frowned, then denied herself: "No, you are too old."

"You have something to do with her?"

"Ah."

Naomi then told him everything she had done, including the cross-age search system installed on the ocean buoy. She immediately determined what the organization wanted from the woman in front of her, and Huiyuan Ai also deduced why she was brought here by the organization.

[You were the one who led the organization's people to me! ]

"I wanted to thank her in person."

"Just for this!"

This time it was not what was in her heart. Haibara Ai really couldn't control herself. It was unclear whether she was angry or moved on her face. In the end, she only left a sigh.

"Actually, I originally wanted to search for Shiho in the United States."

Naomi thought that this girl was kidnapped just because she looked too much like Shiho, and she felt extremely guilty.

"Why America? It's a Japanese name, right?"

Haibara Ai remembered that although she was admitted directly to high school, she should have told the whole class that she was going to transfer back to Japan in accordance with the organization's requirements.

"because……"

Naomi naturally had no idea what the relationship was between Miyano Shiho and the people who kidnapped her, so she said generously: "When I was helping Interpol investigate a case in Las Vegas, I needed to analyze all the newlyweds in the past two months. At that time, I saw in the electronic file that she and her husband registered their marriage there."

She blinked: "It seems her husband is the internationally famous cartoonist Kudo Yuji."

Rize, who happened to hear these words when the man opened the door, was stunned.

"Ah..." (End of this chapter)