Comprehensive Manga: The Master is not here today.

"One more person..."

After understanding the current situation, Nakamori Ginzo pondered and naturally glanced at the people in the hall.

"——If my guess is correct, that person should be the journalist Fujioka Takamichi, right?"

At this moment, Dr. Agasa's voice was heard, immediately attracting everyone's attention.

"The reporter?"

Hearing this, the faces of several sober bandits changed slightly, but Suzuki Jikichiro said in confusion:

"No way, wasn't that person sent to the treatment room? And in order to prevent them from running around, the door was locked."

"That's right, in theory."

Dr. Agasa smiled, then looked at the waitress who was tied up in the hall and said:

"But if you think about it a little, you should be able to remember that the waiter who sent them to the clinic was their accomplice!"

"!"

After the other party reminded them, everyone present reacted at once.

However, Nakamori Ginzo still had some doubts:

"But the other party has been infected with the killer bacteria. If the other party is really a member of the Red Siamese Cat, is it necessary to do this?"

Of course, he did not deny that there were terrorists who were fearless and even dared to launch suicide attacks, but at least judging from the actions of the "Red Siamese Cats" who were subdued by them, they were not such extremists and seemed to have other intentions.

“That brings me to another speculation of mine.”

Dr. Agasa mentioned this, but did not explain it directly. Instead, he mentioned another thing:

"But before that, I thought I could go to the clinic and see if those two are still there, and then bring them back here."

Hearing this, Maori Kogoro on the side said dissatisfiedly:

"Why are you keeping me in suspense, Dr. Agasa? Can't you just say it directly?!"

Dr. Agasa said helplessly:

"Of course, but their words can better prove my speculation. Besides, I am a little worried about the waiter who is locked up with the other party."

Indeed, if Fujioka Takamichi was really a member of the Red Siamese Cat, then the waitress might be in danger.

Ginzo Nakamori and Jikichiro Suzuki looked at each other and nodded. Then, Ginzo Nakamori carefully left the hall with his two men.

Ritsuka Fujimaru and others accepted the commission and sat around Dr. Agasa, blocking the space on both sides of him tightly so that people could not see Conan behind him, who was using the butterfly voice changer to imitate Dr. Agasa's speech.

During this gap, Pest looked at Conan strangely, and then asked Fujimaru Ritsuka:

"What does this mean? A special performance?"

"Hey——"

Fujimaru Ritsuka signaled her to keep her voice down so that others wouldn't hear her, and then said jokingly:

"If you call it a performance, it's a rare event, right?"

After all, Conan usually stabs Kogoro Mouri unconscious and then pretends to be him. It is indeed rare to use Professor Agasa to conduct reasoning like this.

Matthew, young Da Vinci, Moriarty and others were also observing this scene with some curiosity. This was the first time they had seen such a situation and it was quite strange.

It's not a performance!

On the other side, Conan was very confused when he heard the conversation between Fujimaru Ritsuka and Pest, but he didn't dare to say anything for fear of being exposed.

He was a little helpless about this. Generally speaking, he was more accustomed to using Kogoro Mori's identity to make inferences, but this time the other party had been sleeping for a long time and had not seen some things at all.

That's why he reluctantly went to Professor Agasa and asked him to lip-sync to make inferences, and since there were too many people in the hall, he could only ask Fujimaru Ritsuka and others to help him block them.

Back to the point.

After a while, Nakamori Ginzo and others came back, but they only brought back the infected waitress.

As soon as he entered the door, he said in a deep voice:

"Dr. Agasa's guess was correct. Fujioka Takamichi is indeed from the Red Siamese Cat!"

As soon as they arrived at the clinic, they saw that the waitress' hands and feet were tied up and her mouth was blocked. After rescuing her, she immediately told them the relationship between Fujioka Takamichi and the traitor waitress.

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the hall, and everyone turned their eyes to Dr. Agasa again. At the same time, Maori Kogoro frowned and said:

"If that's true, that guy is too cruel, isn't he? He's willing to get infected with bacteria..."

"No, he doesn't have a bacterial infection."

"Eh?"

"Dr. Agasa's" words made Maori Kogoro stunned for a moment, and then he heard him laugh:

"In fact, I don't think anyone was infected with the killer bacteria. Or, in other words, the other party didn't bring the killer bacteria out of the laboratory at all."

"What——?!"

This statement was too contrary to their perception. Everyone's first reaction was to disbelieve it. Suzuki Jikichiro frowned and looked at the infected waitress and producer and said:

"But they all have obvious prickly heat rash on their bodies. Isn't this a symptom of infection?"

"Indeed not."

Dr. Agasa answered confidently, then looked at the two of them and said:

"Let me confirm first. When you were smoking in the smoking room, one of you rested your elbow on the back of the sofa, and the other rested his hand on the sofa cushion, right?"

"Yes, it is."

The two nodded in surprise, not knowing that Dr. Agasa knew it so clearly, but then they seemed to have discovered something and suddenly showed surprised expressions.

At the same time, the onlookers also quickly discovered the clues -

The places where the two people got prickly heat were exactly the same as the parts of the body surface that touched the sofa, and there were no abnormalities in other places!

"If it's a bacterial infection, it shouldn't show up like this. Their condition is more like a skin allergy."

Dr. Agasa said:

"I guess what they sprayed in the smoking room was not killer bacteria, but some kind of substance that can cause skin allergies, such as raw lacquer or something like that."

Nakamori Ginzo also reacted and suddenly realized:

"Come to think of it, Fujioka Takamichi was the only one who had prickly heat all over his body, and it was very exaggerated. Wasn't that just a deliberate fake?!"

"I think so too, so there is only one truth—"

"The Red Siamese Cat just lied that they stole the killer bacteria, but in fact they didn't! That's why they blew up the lab so that the police couldn't make any judgment!"

"As for the evidence, once the airship lands and the solution of the so-called killer bacteria is tested, we should be able to get the answer."

After saying that, Dr. Agasa looked at the subdued criminals and said with a smile:

"I guess what I said is correct, right?"

The other party's face was gloomy at this time. Although he did not speak, he gave a silent answer.

Although Conan, who was behind Dr. Agasa, could not see their expressions, he raised the corners of his mouth confidently and was very sure of his own reasoning.

This was the inspiration he got from what Ritsuka Fujimaru said before.

If the other party has killer bacteria, then many of their behaviors would be difficult to explain. On the contrary, after accepting the point of view that "killer bacteria do not exist", the entire chain of reasoning suddenly becomes smooth.

But there is one thing he hasn't figured out yet, and that is the other party's purpose.

He lied that he had stolen the lethal bacteria, causing panic among the people across the country and making such a big fuss. What exactly did he want to achieve?

...It can't really be just for stealing, right?