Conan: I'm a zaibatsu in Tokyo

Chapter 89: Drag Ai out and shoot her.

Ai slapped the large hand off her head.

Then he looked around at the stares that were pouring in, looking completely bewildered.

Meow?
Am I the murderer?
"Are you sure you're not mistaken? How could such a cute little girl be a murderer?" Zheng Yi said, dissatisfied.

He even picked up Ai and shook her, as if to let everyone see this cute little child.

Ai's hair swayed back and forth as Shoichi shook from side to side.

"Dang~"

A glass bottle fell out of Ai's pocket because of Shoichi's shaking.

Zheng Yi was stunned, and Xiao Ai was also stunned.

Everyone who looked at them was slightly stunned.

Ai quickly broke free from Masakazu and picked up the glass bottle from the ground.

Conan looked at Ai and said softly, "That glass bottle...it wouldn't be filled with cyanide, would it?"

This is a question that many people have asked.

Just as Mrs. Kono pointed out that Ai might also be the one who poisoned her, a glass bottle fell off Ai's body. The bottle contained a colorless and transparent liquid.

No one believes that it contains ordinary water.

Conan looked at the glass bottle he had just picked up from the ground, then at Ai Haibara, who was stuffing the bottle into her pocket, and fell into deep thought.

Who is the murderer?
"Little friend, may I take a look at your bottle?" Inspector Megure asked in as kind a tone as possible.

"No."

Ai silently hid behind Curaçao.

Right now, she felt that Curaçao was the one who made her feel the safest among everyone present.

“Young man, the contents of your bottle are suspicious. Let us check what’s inside.” Inspector Megure pushed Sato forward.

Hopefully, this little girl will feel more comfortable around Sato.

Sato gave Ai a kind smile and said, "Could you give me that bottle?"

Curaçao looked at the group and said with displeasure, "Do you think a little girl would kill someone? Especially someone who has nothing to do with her?"

“Of course not,” Sato said.

Sato glanced at Masakazu and then said, "Children might not, but you never know if someone might use children to do something."

Zheng Yi propped his face up with his hand.

Sato, you're not talking about me, are you?
Am I the kind of person who would use a little girl to do bad things?
He pulled Ai out from behind Curaçao, then shoved her towards Sato and said to them:

"Sentence them according to the proper procedure; execute them if necessary. Don't bend the law because of my connections. You must handle this case impartially!"

Ai: Meow?

Ai stared at Seiichi in disbelief, wondering what he was saying.

How did it come to the point of execution?

Ai wanted to back away, but Shoichi's hand remained on Ai's back, preventing her from turning back.

Sato came over and took Ai's hand, saying gently, "Can I see that bottle?"

Ai looked at Sato, shaking her head repeatedly: "This is bad."

“Sweetie, let me see. The things inside are dangerous. If you accidentally touch them, they will hurt you,” Sato said.

Ai continued to shake her head.

She resisted, clinging to Sato's hand, and whispered, "What's inside isn't cyanide."

"How would a little kid like you know what cyanide is? Let me check."

"No."

Ai clutched her pockets, trying to stop Sato from taking her things.

Although it doesn't contain cyanide, it's not a good thing either. It's something you absolutely mustn't let the police check its composition.

After the test results came back, the police might conclude that she was not the perpetrator of the poisoning, but Zheng Yi would definitely suspect that she was not a good person.

Zheng Yi snatched Ai from Sato's hands and looked at her, saying, "Could it be that you really poisoned Takada?"

"No." Ai's eyes darted away.

"You don't even dare to look me in the eye, and you still say it's not true?"

“It wasn’t,” Ai said.

She raised her head and looked directly into Zheng Yi's eyes. The poison in Takada was not administered by her!
Masayuki started by snatching Ai's bottle.

But Ai gritted her teeth and held onto the bottle tightly, refusing to give it to him no matter what.

Although the things inside were prepared for you, I really can't give them to you.

“It doesn’t contain cyanide,” Ai said.

Shoichi poked Ai's head with his finger and said, "Then take a sip and try it. If you're okay, Officer Sato and the others won't check your bottle anymore."

Ai squatted on the ground, curled up into a ball to protect her little bottle.

She no longer looked at Zheng Yi, but instead looked down at the pattern on the restaurant floor, as if she hadn't heard what Zheng Yi said.

What to drink?
She's not thirsty, so why would she need to drink something?

Zheng Yi glanced at Xiao Ai with disappointment, utterly disillusioned with this little murderer.

He said to Sato, "Arrest Ai and put her in jail. Punish her however you want. Even if she's executed, I won't plead for her."

Sato remained silent.

How can you shift the blame onto a little girl? Are you even human?
In a secluded corner, unnoticed by anyone, Kogoro Mouri was already asleep.

Conan crouched behind Kogoro Mouri, adjusted his bow tie to sound like Kogoro Mouri, and prepared to begin today's deduction.

Before we started, that lousy program was still playing on the restaurant's TV.

"Kogoro Mouri, Tokyo's most famous detective."

Known as "Sleeping Kogoro," he has helped the police solve cases many times and is a figure that all criminal suspects fear.

"He never misses a case, never wrongs an innocent person, and never lets a bad person go unpunished."

"Cough cough!"

Conan glanced at the television, coughed, and drew everyone's attention to Ai.

"Don't make things difficult for that little girl; she wasn't the one who poisoned her."

Sato frowned.

Of course she knew that the little girl was not the murderer.

But the evidence she possesses is key to solving the case.

"What she's holding isn't cyanide either," said Kogoro Mouri. "Conan!"

"Yes!"

Conan jumped out from behind Kogoro Mouri, holding a glass bottle in his hand.

"I just picked up this bottle from the ground."

"Then why didn't we see it?" Inspector Megure asked, puzzled.

"Because Mrs. Takada was hitting Mrs. Kono just now, and you were trying to break it up," Conan said.

Chosoka walked over and took the medicine bottle from Conan's hand.

“The bitter almond smell is definitely the smell of cyanide,” Choso said.

After saying that, he looked at Kogoro Mouri, who was resting with his eyes closed.

Although I don't know where this bottle of medicine came from.

But, Mr. Kogoro Mouri, have you found a scapegoat for Mr. Shoichi?
(End of this chapter)