Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 298 They are all FBI, why do you treat them differently?
Dr. Agasa's house in Beika-cho 2-chome.

"So, what are you doubting about?"

Ai Huihara had a gloomy face and asked a question to the detective sitting opposite her.

She felt that Edogawa Conan's paranoid complex was indeed a bit serious.

"That man with the knitted hat, don't you remember him? He was the one who got hijacked on the bus before..."

Conan was holding a glass of juice in his hand, looking anxious, as if he felt it was strange that Haibara Ai couldn't remember such a suspicious person.

When they were looking for Mr. James who was taken away by the robbers, they happened to see the man wearing a knitted hat driving by on the side of the road...

Conan even remembered the model of the car, Chevrolet C-1500, a black car.

He had the license plate number memorized.

Huihara Ai glanced at him sideways, "Ah, I remember, that time when Mr. Lin knocked someone down and fired several shots. Inspector Megure criticized him for a long time... Oh, Hiroki also helped to knock down a robber at that time, and he was praised, wasn't he?"

Well, she remembered that Mr. Lin seemed to have damaged the car's engine?
At that time, she didn't know Mr. Lin's identity, and she was scared to death.

Conan twitched his lips, "It's that time, every time... But I'm talking about the one wearing a knitted hat! A knitted hat!"

"Yes, yes, yes." Huibara Ai flipped through the biology magazine in her hand with dead eyes, "So, Detective Kudo, what do you think of that man? Didn't you say you met him on the street last time?"

Lei... As for Shuichi Akai, she would recognize him even if he turned into ashes, a wicked man who took advantage of her sister.

She should have listened to Gin and told her sister to stay away from this guy.

"Yes! And Xiaolan also said that I met this person when I went to the United States with her." Conan said in a slightly low voice, "Xiaolan said that the person next to that person had 'FBI' printed on his clothes..."

Haibara Ai:"……"

It’s printed with FBI, doesn’t that make the matter clear?
Be more confident, Edogawa, this guy is the FBI, don't doubt it!

Finally, Huibara sighed, "Kudo, just tell me what you suspect?"

"I suspect he has something to do with that organization." Conan looked at Huihara Ai speechlessly, "Didn't you say before that you sensed someone from the organization in that car? And at the memorial service... I found that you've been acting really strange lately."

Conan was a little depressed.

There's a kind of depressing feeling when your former revolutionary comrades suddenly give up one day and don't want to work anymore, and you're left alone to fight.

"……Have it?"

Haibara Ai blinked her eyes and reflected seriously, and found that she seemed to have been too inactive recently and didn't care about the organization at all. No wonder Conan became suspicious.

After thinking for a while, Huiyuan Ai pretended to be serious: "Actually, I haven't felt any activities from those people recently... Besides, I always feel like there is a pair of eyes watching me in secret, so I don't really want to go out."

(Secretly observe the mirror through which Noah hears all the conversations: ...)
Her words immediately alerted Conan: "Someone is watching you? When did it start?"

“…After that bus ride.”

Haibara Ai didn't expect Conan to be so excited after hearing something about the organization. Looking at the spilled juice, she silently handed him a tissue.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that someone seemed to have told her that she could reveal some information about the organization to Conan appropriately, but she had been concentrating on chatting and playing games with her sister recently and had forgotten about it.

So, Huiyuan Ai coughed guiltily, her eyes wandering for a moment, "By the way, don't you think that old man named James is... a little suspicious?"

Conan blinked, "Mr. James? I think he should be a good person."

Haibara Ai:"……"

They are all FBI, why do you treat them differently... So Kudo suspected Akai Shuichi because he said that there might be people from the organization on the bus?

Haibara Ai reflected on herself again, and then her eyes became a little complicated.

I didn't expect that this silly detective actually trusted her.

Then she really...

Let it down.

"In fact, that organization is very deep." Huiyuan Ai said seriously, "I still don't recommend you to continue pursuing it."

Conan also sat up straight, and said in a deep tone: "I don't want to follow your advice."

Haibara Ai:"……"

...Okay, actually Conan didn't say that, but when translated, that's what Haibara Ai meant.

What can Huihara Ai do?

She could only satisfy Conan's curiosity appropriately, otherwise she was worried that this famous detective would have to argue with her all day.

Looking at Conan's eager eyes, Huihara Ai put down the magazine and said, "I remember you seemed to have heard many code names of the organization's members?"

"Yeah, yes..." Conan thought carefully, "I heard it on the Shinkansen when I attended the wedding of Uncle Maori's classmate. I remember Rum, Vermouth, and you..."

Haibara Ai:"……"

Wow, it turns out Gin exposed himself to Conan so early?
"Anyway, I can only say that the code names you know are only part of it." Haibara Ai brewed her emotions, trying her best to synchronize her fear of the Black Organization with Conan. "These are the only code names I know. Although I have heard of Rum, I don't know who he is specifically. As for Vermouth..."

"Vermouth?" Conan stretched his neck.

"Vermouth is a very scary woman." Huihara Ai remembered some information she had seen on Gin's computer before, "She has a special name in the organization... the Thousand-Faced Witch."

Conan's eyes widened slightly, "Hey, you're not going to say..."

"Yes, I heard that she can disguise herself as anyone without any flaws, and few people know her true appearance."

With such a big clue in mind, Conan's clever little brain immediately started working and he came to a very reliable conclusion.

Then, he looked at Huiyuan Ai solemnly: "Doesn't that mean that she might have disguised herself as another person on the bus last time..."

Huiyuan Ai nodded: "It's possible, so I haven't told you this."

"…Shouldn't you have told me this earlier about something so important?"

"I'm just afraid that if you knew this news, you'd be discovered by mistake one day and get killed." Huihara Ai said with an air of 'I'm doing this for your own good', and said in a very mature manner, "You're just a kid, so don't spend all your time trying to find traces of this criminal organization..."

"...Hey, you're still a child now, okay!"

"I'm actually older than you."

"You are only two years older than me..."

“I graduated with a PhD when I was fourteen.”

Conan: "..."

I can't afford it, I can't afford it.

(End of this chapter)