Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

The police arrived quickly.

Accompanying Inspector Megure and the others were Kogoro Mouri and Ran, who had been searching for Conan and the others for a long time without success.

After some investigation, the only thing everyone could be sure of was that the culprit was an insider, and that after killing screenwriter Chikaishi, he also took the disk with the script for "Edo Boys" written on it.

With no other option, Inspector Megure could only take Ito Tamanosuke, who seemed to be behaving somewhat suspiciously, back to the Metropolitan Police Department to ask him some questions.

It was already night, so Kudo Kazuma went back to sleep.

Conan and the three little ones clearly had no intention of leaving, so they stayed at the hotel where the theater troupe was staying, keeping the frightened Ito Megumi company.

The following evening, Kazuma Kudo received a message from Conan on Bond.

[Something's happened! Ito Tamanosuke was struck on the back of the head and seriously injured, while Ogiwara Ikee fell to her death into the stage lift pit! Ito Tamanosuke has been taken to the hospital, but there are many suspicious points, and I haven't figured out what happened yet. Do you want to come over?]

Kudo Kazuma was already in bed. Since the spirit wouldn't dissipate overnight anyway, he simply ignored the message.

He sent Conan a message after waking up the next morning.

What's going on? There's actually a follow-up to the case from two days ago? Has the killer been found?

No, I'm still at school. See you at the office after school this afternoon.

Kudo Kazuma tilted his head and casually replied to another message.

[It's been two days and you still haven't solved it. Has your reasoning ability really declined?]

Conan didn't say anything, only replied with a kicking emoji...

In the afternoon, when Kudo Kazuma strolled to the Mouri Detective Agency, he ran into Conan and the three little ones who had run out of the agency, so he became their driver and drove the four of them to the Beika Theater.

Because Conan said he needed to go over there to find some more clues.

As for Kudo Kazuma, he has to go there to absorb the soul.

Upon arriving at the Miho Theater, the group headed straight for the stage where the incident had occurred the previous night.

While Conan and the three kids were running around looking for clues, Kudo Kazuma took a serious look at the pool of the stage lift for the first time.

After absorbing the wisp of spiritual energy at the bottom, he clicked his tongue in amazement: "This pit is quite deep; no wonder people can fall to their deaths."

"Look what I found!"

Conan ran over from a dark corner carrying two thin pieces of plywood and placed them next to the pool on the lift platform.

"This is about the size of a pool, and the color is similar to the stage floor, but the board is only about 0.3 centimeters thick, and it has been cut several times in the middle to make it easy to break. I'm afraid this is a trap set by the murderer."

Mitsuhiko asked curiously, "Could it be that Tamanosuke killed Itoie-san using this method, and then knocked himself unconscious?"

Conan shook his head: "No, Megumi and I were following Tamanosuke last night. By the time we saw him, he was already unconscious. I don't think he had a chance to set up a trap, so the culprit shouldn't be him..."

Kazuma Kudo tilted his head: "If he's not the murderer, then he was knocked unconscious by the murderer. So, he might know who the murderer is."

Conan's expression changed upon hearing this: "Oh no! Tamanosuke is in danger!"

On the way to the hospital, Kazuma Kudo called Inspector Megure and asked him to make some arrangements, as Conan had suggested.

Conan arranged for the three children to stay at the hotel where the troupe members were staying, and to keep an eye on the troupe members to see who might leave halfway through the trip.

The Mihana Theater is not far from Mihana Hospital; it's just a few minutes' drive away.

When Kazuma Kudo and Conan arrived, the police had just finished setting up. Tamanosuke Ito had been moved to another ward, where Takagi impersonated Tamanosuke to prevent the culprit from silencing him.

Sure enough, a short while later, someone disguised as a doctor entered the ward and attempted to harm the person in the bed.

With a loud bang, the ward door was flung open, and Inspector Megure rushed in with a group of people. Takagi also threw off the blanket, his eyes fixed intently on the masked killer.

They all thought the murderer couldn't escape, but to their surprise, the murderer rushed to the window, smashed it, jumped out, and then swung a rope in mid-air, which got tangled in the water pipe outside the wall. He then jumped down the rope.

The murderer thought he had successfully escaped, but little did he know that another figure had jumped down right after him.

What's even more terrifying is that the other person was even faster than him, and he couldn't shake them off at all.

With a "whoosh," a stone flew from who-knows-where straight toward the murderer. Feeling the force and speed of the stone, the murderer was almost scared out of his wits and quickly dodged it.

As a result, when he dodged, he ran right into a kick coming from behind, and was kicked so hard that he flew sideways and crashed to the ground.

Before the culprit could get up, he was tackled to the ground by Kudo Kazuma, who rushed up. A moment later, Conan, who had just helped his brother, and a bunch of police officers surrounded him and handcuffed the culprit.

It turns out that the murderer this time was the real Edo Boy, namely Kenzo Tajima, an actor in the theater troupe.

Ito Tamanosuke accidentally learns that Edo Kid is in their theater troupe and tries to persuade him to turn himself in by using the script.

Unfortunately, the screenwriter, Chikashi, had other ideas. After guessing that Tajima was the Edo boy, he deliberately used the identity issue to blackmail him and try to extort money from him. Tajima was furious and turned around and killed Chikashi.

Unaware of who Edo-kun was, Ito Tamanosuke resorted to a desperate measure: he wrote notes to each member of the troupe, implying that he knew Edo-kun was in his troupe and inviting them to meet him on stage.

Ogiwara Keie, believing that her embezzlement of the theater troupe's funds had been discovered, went to the stage to meet Ito Tamanosuke. Tajima, however, mistakenly believed the note was from Ogiwara Keie and set a trap to kill her.

No sooner had Tajima finished killing someone than Ito Tamanosuke, who had come to see the Edo boy, saw him. In a moment of panic, Tajima knocked Ito unconscious and then came specifically to kill him to silence him.

"Thank goodness Edogawa is amazing." Inspector Megure patted Kudo Kazuma's shoulder hard. "If it weren't for you, we might not have been able to catch Edo kid."

Kazuma Kudo didn't say anything, but winked at Conan.

That Edo kid is really fast. If Conan hadn't kicked the rock to help him out, he might have been cheating.

Well, compared to this, Edo Kid is nothing; Edogawa Kid is truly amazing!

With such a major change in Tamanosuke's troupe, resulting in the loss of three members, the performance two days later naturally underwent significant changes.

Not only has the plot been drastically changed, but even the cast has been... a whole bunch of actors have been added.

In addition to the original cast members, Conan and his three children, Ran, Sonoko Suzuki, Kogoro Mouri, Inspector Megure, and Takagi all participated in the filming.

In the VIP seats in the very center of the audience, Ai Haibara looked curiously at Kazuma Kudo beside her: "Why didn't you go up and perform a scene?"

Kudo Kazuma, with a camera in his hand, took pictures while sneering, "Are you kidding me? I'm not going to act like that kind of idiot. And you're talking about me? Didn't they invite you too? Why aren't you on stage?"

Ai Haibara paused for a moment: "Ahem... I just didn't want the people in the organization to see it..."

It's definitely not that I didn't want to act silly.

No, that's not how it works.