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Chapter 373 I'll leave Aoko to you too.

Lake Locke Museum.

at the opening ceremony.

Jirokichi Suzuki delivered a speech: "Hello everyone, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to come to the Sunflower Exhibition, which I have always admired in Japan..."

Miyatai Natsumi and others stood behind him.

This includes Vermouth, who is disguised as Keiko, and Chikage Kuroba, who is disguised as Kumiko Kishi.

Among the hundred lucky winners in the audience, Kaito Kuroba adjusted the brim of his hat.

"Kaito, why are we wearing baseball caps?"

Kaito Kuroba thought to himself that he should definitely cover himself up; he didn't want to be discovered by Chikage Kuroba too early.

He casually replied, "That's not important."

Then, he looked at Conan not far ahead. This art exhibition was really lively!

If he weren't afraid of turning against Kuroba Chikage, he really wouldn't have been able to resist appearing as Kaito Kid!

Conan was also looking around, searching for suspicious people.

Of course, he didn't get there by luck.

Conan originally wanted to come with Ran, but Ran was persuaded to leave by Kitagawa Taki, who said that the Kaito Kid Association would cause chaos and was unsafe, since the art exhibition was going to last for a month anyway.

He had no choice but to shamelessly beg Sonoko for a ticket.

"I hereby declare the Sunflower Exhibition, a tribute to Japan, officially open!"

As Jirokichi Suzuki's voice faded, the doors of the Recrock Museum opened, and ticket checks began.

Kitagawa Taki and his group then went to the monitoring room.

Here you can not only see the surveillance footage of each exhibition hall, but also the identity information of visitors entering the venue.

Suzuki Jirokichi stared at the screen and asked, "Anything unusual so far?"

Goto replied, "There are no abnormalities in the exhibited equipment and security system!"

Jirokichi Suzuki was satisfied and nodded, saying, "Except for Goto, everyone else, return to your posts!"

"Yes!"

The other bodyguards responded and left the monitoring room.

"Wait a minute," Kogoro Mouri asked doubtfully, "Can he manage this all by himself?"

Jirokichi Suzuki said, "Don't worry, these are all automated devices, and the fewer people in here, the better, so as not to give Kidd any opportunity."

“That makes sense,” Nakamori Ginzo agreed.

In dealing with Kidd, the old man finally did one right thing.

At this moment, Kuroba Chikage, who was standing behind, suddenly noticed something.

It was all because of the two names that appeared on the screen—Kaito Kuroba and Aoko Nakamori.

She clenched her fists involuntarily; this brat had actually come to the art exhibition without telling her.

And they even brought Aoko along!

"Kaito and Aoko?!" Nakamori Ginzo also noticed.

All he knew was that Aoko had come to Tokyo with Kuroba Chikage and Kuroba Kaito.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Nakamori Ginzo explained, "Aoko is my daughter."

Jirokichi Suzuki laughed and said, "Inspector Nakamori, if you had told me your daughter was interested in the art exhibition, I would have just given you two tickets."

Nakamori Ginzo's lips twitched. He didn't want Aoko to come to the art exhibition; if she was going to come, he wanted her to come later.

Because of Kidd, this art exhibition might run into some trouble.

Kuroba Chikage pulled Kitagawa Taki outside. Vermouth looked at the two of them, then at the boy and girl on the screen, lost in thought.

His surname is actually Kuroba...

interesting.

……

Kuroba Chikage looked around, then asked in a low voice, "Is that person Keiko, or Higashi Koji?"

"You noticed?" Kitagawa Taki raised an eyebrow.

Kuroba Chikage pursed her lips and said, "I feel like they're all a bit suspicious, but I'm not sure who they are."

"That person is Higashi Koji."

Kitagawa Taki discovered the fake Kid, but didn't see Gin and the others, so he guessed they hadn't entered the venue.

Kuroba Chikage narrowed her eyes: "Could Keiko be someone from the brewery?"

Kitagawa Taki laughed and said, "You're quite perceptive, but she's one of us, so you don't need to worry."

Kuroba Chikage looked at Kitagawa Taki for two seconds, then nodded and said, "Okay."

She didn't ask about the man's specific identity, but she assumed he was one of Kitagawa Taki's people at the brewery.

"That's all for now, I have something to take care of."

After saying that, she walked towards the entrance of the art museum.

Kitagawa Taki stopped Kuroba Chikage and asked, "Are you going to find Kuroba Kaito and the other guy?"

"Of course! I told that brat not to come, but he still brought Aoko along!" Kuroba Chikage said angrily.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of Aoko too."

Feeling something was off, Kitagawa Taki added, "I'll keep an eye on Kuroba too."

Kuroba Chikage hesitated, "You...can you do it?"

She was a little worried that Kitagawa Taki wouldn't be able to handle everything.

"What did you say!?"

Kitagawa Taki patted her bottom. "Besides, he came here secretly without telling you. Are you going to go over there now to have a fight with him?"

"You!" Kuroba Chikage jumped away, filled with shame and indignation.

She hadn't expected that confronting Kitagawa Taki directly would have the opposite effect; now he was even getting physical with her.

Kitagawa Taki acted as if nothing had happened: "Let's go. If we stay outside any longer, they'll think we're having an affair."

Kuroba Chikage took a deep breath; she endured it!

……

Back in the monitoring room.

With her arms crossed, Vermouth asked with a smile, "Kumiko, what did you and Mr. Kitagawa do together?"

These words drew everyone's attention.

Kuroba Chikage said calmly, "What could I have done? I just asked Mr. Kitagawa a few questions."

But she couldn't help but mentally complain about Kitagawa Taki, feeling that this woman from the brewery was probably involved in another of his romantic entanglements.

Then, she looked at Jirokichi Suzuki: "Advisor Suzuki, let's proceed according to plan!"

"Alright!" Suzuki Jirokichi nodded. "Then I'll leave it to you!"

The group pulled out Bluetooth earphones and put them on. As planned, they would be scattered in different exhibition halls to deal with various situations.

As soon as he entered the building, Kitagawa Taki smelled an unpleasant odor.

It's somewhat like rosin, but very spicy and pungent.

He took a sniff and confirmed that the scent came from the sunflowers used for decoration, but when he scanned them with his divine sense, he found nothing wrong.

These sunflowers added a lot of color to the art museum, but they were all artificial flowers.

Seeing Kitagawa Taki stop, Kuroba Chikage asked, "What's wrong, Mr. Kitagawa?"

Kitagawa Taki asked, "There's a strange smell. Can you smell it?"

Kuroba Chikage sniffed carefully and said, "Now that you mention it, it does seem a bit like that."

Miyatai Natsumi's gaze sharpened, then she smiled and said, "It's because Mr. Kitagawa's sense of smell is too keen. It's probably the smell of those fake sunflowers. Plastic products inevitably have some odor."

Chapter 374 Shameless Person

After Miyatai Natsumi's words, everyone stopped worrying and went to their respective areas of responsibility.

What exactly does it taste like?

Vermouth, however, moved closer to Kitagawa Taki.

Kitagawa Takido: "It smells like pine, and it's a bit spicy and pungent."

“Rosin…” Vermouth narrowed her eyes slightly, glanced at the artificial sunflowers scattered throughout the venue, and parted her red lips slightly: “That’s probably turpentine, which can be used to dilute paint and clean brushes and tools in oil painting.”

She looked at Kitagawa Taki: "Most importantly, it is volatile and flammable."

Kitagawa Taki exclaimed, "Good heavens! As Vermouth said, all those fake sunflowers in the museum, plus turpentine, would be destroyed if they were lit with an open flame!"

Vermouth looked at Natsumi's figure on the palace platform ahead and said, "Keep an eye on that woman."

If this woman were to start a fire at the art museum, everyone would have to evacuate.

Kitagawa Taki nodded. Unlike the others, he didn't have a fixed area to be responsible for.

I just checked with my divine sense and found that Miyatai Natsumi didn't have a lighter or matches on her, so she probably hid them in the building beforehand.

Little did I expect that this seemingly delicate girl with glasses would harbor such malicious intentions.

……

First exhibition hall.

Conan's attention was completely elsewhere than on the world-famous painting.