I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 343 Vermouth?

"eggplant!"

Sonoko Suzuki grinned and pulled Chen En along, making a peace sign at the camera. Chen En smiled back, stood close to Sonoko, and made the same peace sign, waiting for their picture to be taken.

—Speaking of which, he seems to be smiling less and less.
Is this a curse unique to the bat family?
After taking the photo booth pictures, Chen En rubbed his face to relax his stiff facial muscles, stroked his chin, and pondered, a thought quietly forming in his mind—

He's the Supreme Little Bat!

If he's as serious and unsmiling as other Batmen, wouldn't that be too homogenous? As the saying goes, people who smile a lot have good luck. Perhaps he can try to change his somewhat bad luck through his actions?
As long as it's not like the infuriating, chaotic laughter of the Batman Who Laughs, it's fine.

Wow, this photo booth picture actually turned out pretty good!

Sonoko Suzuki held up a sheet of photo booth pictures and exclaimed in amazement,

Ran Mouri, who was standing nearby, also curiously peeked over.

Looking at Chen En, who was posing happily with Sonoko Suzuki in the photo booth, he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. He turned away with a sigh, feeling somewhat forlorn.

"It would be great if Shinichi were here too, but he's always busy with cases, he'd never come to an arcade, would he?"

Conan, who just followed: ?
What? I'm involved too?
That's like you've never been to an arcade before! Me... have I been here before? I think I've been here before...

Conan rubbed his hair in frustration, then suddenly his eyes lit up.
He ran to Ran Mouri, took her hand, and led her towards the camera, saying in a low voice,

"Sister Ran, Shinichi isn't here, so let's take some pictures together and show them to him later!"

"After all, Uncle Kudo and Aunt Kudo have already returned to Tokyo. If we give them the photos, they can definitely pass them on to Brother Kudo, right?"

Ran Mouri was somewhat puzzled.

—Huh? Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Yukiko went back to Tokyo?

When did this happen? Why doesn't she remember it at all? Could it be that she's been too busy lately to help with the cleaning at the Kudo's house, so she just missed it?

Despite her doubts, Ran Mouri followed Conan closer to the camera.

Conan's behavior of using cuteness to gain girls' sympathy is unacceptable.
Chen En felt quite heartbroken about this.
Damn it, how did Robin become like this?
Well... never mind, at least he doesn't attract boys' attention like the Third Robin or Tim Drake. Come to think of it, compared to the real Robin of the Bat Family, Conan still has a lot of work to do.

"Seriously, that brat Conan keeps taking Kudo's side."

"I've always thought that Kudo is probably a womanizer. He's found another girlfriend and doesn't dare to come back to face Ran. He keeps telling Ran to find a new boyfriend, but Ran has absolutely no interest in it."

Sonoko Suzuki muttered to herself,

She did indeed act on it more than once, and it was obvious to the naked eye that Ran Mouri was quite popular with other boys. So much so that whenever Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri walked together and a boy tried to chat her up, her first reaction was to go after Ran Mouri.

Chen En offered little comment on this.
He glanced at the new fighting machine over there, pondering whether he should also enter the Cocoon Game and have a good chat with Hiroki Sawada if the [Cocoon Game Project] proceeded smoothly.

—He doesn't have much experience in talk therapy.

Even when encountering other criminals in a case, Chen En only tries to persuade them to surrender when he already has an absolute advantage in force and leaves them nowhere to escape.

"Hey, Arn, aren't your fighting skills pretty impressive?" "You were on par with that karate master named Kyogoku Makoto who had a 399-win streak! Why don't you try out that new fighting game console?"

Sonoko Suzuki suddenly said,

After Chen En turned to look at Suzuki Sonoko with some confusion, Suzuki Sonoko replied with an embarrassed smile.
"I heard there's a fighting game master in this arcade known as 'Caesar of Rice Flower'."

"That Mikasa Caesar keeps bragging about how amazing he is, how invincible he is in fighting games. I think we should give him a good beating and let him know that there are always people better than you!"

—A new kind of fighting game console? I've never played one before.

Chen En stroked his chin, looked at Mika Caesar who was surrounded by a crowd, and quietly touched the [Cassandra Ring] on his left index finger, intending to go and try it out as Sonoko suggested.

As for why the Cassandra Ring is used?
Of course, it's for insurance. He doesn't even know how to play the game, so he'll use his super intuition to quickly get the hang of it and avoid the opponent's attacks, ensuring he won't fail and won't disappoint Sonoko.

"Great!"

A blonde female passerby nearby exclaimed in surprise,
Chen En glanced at her and immediately saw that the blonde female passerby was playing "Lasso," a simple game where you win by pressing a button within a specified time, throwing the lasso, and then pressing the button repeatedly to pull the bull to the screen.

He has some skill in this, but he doesn't need to help a female stranger play games.
Just as he was about to go and try out the new fighting game machine, Sonoko said in surprise,

"Hey, you're Ms. Judy? What are you doing here...?"

—Judy?
Chen En turned his head to look at the FBI agent in disguise.

Jodie, full name Jodie Starling, is an FBI agent who infiltrated Teitan High School posing as an English teacher. It's worth noting that she has a blood feud with Vermouth and initially appears to be quite capable.

However, due to Vermouth's later team selection issues and the increasing number of members on the red side, she gradually became a nobody.

He stroked his chin, looking at Judy, who was speaking a mix of English and Japanese to Sonoko Suzuki, leaving Sonoko completely bewildered. He sensed something was amiss, as if he had missed some unimportant information.

Ran Mouri and Conan approached each other after they had finished taking their photo booth pictures.

Ran Mouri also noticed Jodie, and with Jodie caught in the middle by Sonoko Suzuki, it became even more difficult for Jodie to cope. Then, Ran Mouri asked curiously,

"Ms. Judy, do you really enjoy playing arcade games? I don't recall you mentioning it before?"

Judy replied with a smile.
"A secret makes a woman woman."

Chen En: ?
Yes, that's what was overlooked.

He turned to look at Conan beside him, and sure enough, the Grim Reaper had already switched to his battle mode, entered his Spinosaurus form, and reached his hand into Robin's belt, ready to give Jodie a grand slam.

Conan asked Yukiko Kudo about Vermouth.

Naturally, Judy already knew Vermouth's favorite quotes beforehand, and she happily repeated them like a broken record, successfully capturing the attention of the Grim Reaper elementary school student. However, Chen En was somewhat surprised.

Where did Conan learn his "when in doubt, act first" approach?
Seriously, isn't this setting a bad example for elementary school students?
Conan stared at Jodie,

However, before he could find an opportunity to administer a tranquilizer dart to Judy, Chen En had already given the signal.

Conan was taken aback.
Isn't it Vermouth? If it's not Vermouth, why are you just repeating herself? Don't you know that's dangerous?
(End of this chapter)