A group of people dressed up as Conan characters, and I guaranteed the Black Team's advancement

Inside the banquet hall, Iori Muga kept glancing towards another exit. Because of the strange waiter he'd encountered earlier that day, he was worried something might have happened.

Moreover, the young lady and Ms. Kazuha have indeed been gone for far too long.

Sonoko noticed Iori Muga's worried expression and reassured her, "Butler Iori, you don't need to worry so much, do you? My family's hotel wouldn't let any dangerous people in."

But didn't someone just send a threatening letter? Iori Muga thought to himself, but out of courtesy, he didn't say it aloud, only saying, "I'd better go and greet them."

After watching Iori Muga walk quickly out of the banquet hall, Sonoko turned to listen to Conan and the other two discussing the threatening letter.

In the corridor of the Suzuki Hotel, Iori Muga left the banquet hall alone to search for Ooka Momiji because she hadn't returned for a long time.

Unexpectedly, after walking only a dozen steps, he saw the waiter he had suspected earlier, and his young mistress was following behind him.

“Ladies, this gentleman must be your companion.” Jiang Jin stepped aside, allowing Ooka Momiji to see Iori Muga. “Iori, you’ve come to find us.”

Iori Muga nodded to the waiter in front of her and thanked him: "Thank you for bringing them back."

at the same time--

"The Suzuki Hotel Opening Celebration and Miss Japan Award Ceremony, hosted by the Suzuki Foundation, is now beginning!" The stage lights began to flash, and as the host introduced the first and second runners-up of the Miss Japan pageant, they entered one after another. "Finally, let's welcome the winner of this pageant, Ms. Kotobuki Kaoru!"

The crowd applauded and looked toward the center of the stage, where dry ice created a mist that filled the air, and then the lift slowly rose.

Everyone saw Shou Xianglian, dressed in a red dress, slowly appear on the rising platform with her head down. Below the stage, Conan and the others frowned slightly, feeling that Shou Xianglian on stage was acting strangely.

As the smoke cleared, people could see more clearly that the woman on the stage slowly and stiffly raised her arms, then her head, and then her whole body twisted and swayed like a marionette.

Only after Shou Xianglian stood up completely did people see that a sharp blade was stuck in her abdomen!

The people below the stage immediately screamed in surprise, and Conan, Heiji Hattori, and Kogoro Mouri all changed their expressions.

"Call the police immediately, and don't let anyone leave the banquet hall!"

Tai Qin Gongyue looked at the corpse hanging on the platform, sighed, and muttered to herself, "Fortunately, this hotel isn't mine."

To leave the hotel, Jiang Jin had to walk through the banquet hall and take the elevator down to the hotel lobby from the other end of the corridor. When Jiang Jin and his group returned to the banquet hall, it was in complete chaos.

Jiang Jin turned his head and saw the suspended female corpse. He then looked at the other side of the banquet hall and saw that the door was blocked by Kogoro Mouri and Heiji Hattori.

"What bad luck." Taking advantage of the chaos, Jiang Jin backed away, opened the door behind him, and left the banquet hall. As he walked, he connected to the communication channel in his earpiece, "There's been a murder at the hotel. I probably won't be able to leave for a while. What about you guys?"

Binga had already left after the transaction was completed, and Gin and Vodka had safely evacuated because the fight took place on the other side of the banquet hall. Only Jiang Jin was temporarily trapped.

"What's the situation now?" Gin asked.

“A female model is dead, but the police should be here soon.” Jiang Jin turned into a room. “Miss Chris, I’ll have to trouble you to bring me a police uniform.”

Vermouth replied, "I understand. Where are you now?"

"The changing room on the other side of the banquet hall on the fourth floor."

The Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division arrived quickly, and everyone in the banquet hall was ordered to remain temporarily, commencing the investigation. As Conan and Heiji Hattori examined the body, a sudden, intense pain surged through Conan's body.

This pain was the same as the pain he felt when he took the antidote.

What's going on? Conan was shocked and immediately tried to recall what he had just done. Could it be... that cake?

"What's wrong?" Heiji Hattori noticed Conan's unusual behavior and leaned down to ask. Conan's expression was one of great pain. "I think... I'm about to revert to my adult form."

"What!" Hattori Heiji exclaimed in shock. "What do we do then?"

Without saying a word, Conan turned and ran out of the banquet hall through one of the doors.

Vermouth's clothes arrived quickly; all she needed to do was choose a suitable forensic officer and find the right moment to knock him unconscious.

She disguised herself as a cleaner, pushed a cleaning cart, left her clothes in an empty locker in the changing room, and placed the locker's magnetic card on a stool.

After everyone left, Jiang Jin came out from the back and started changing his clothes. He thought no one would come to the changing room at this time, but halfway through changing, he heard someone suddenly push open the changing room door.

Jiang Jin didn't have time to worry about the waiter's clothes that had been taken off; he grabbed the remaining clothes and hid in the inner dressing room.

The person who barged in was Conan. He slammed the door shut, the pain making his vision blur. Conan stumbled and fell in front of the bench, instinctively clutching the clothes on it, desperately trying to stifle any sound.

After one last excruciating pain, Conan reverted to his Shinichi Kudo form. He let out a long sigh of relief and, just then, noticed a waiter's uniform in front of him, and was overjoyed.

Jiang Jin quickly put on his clothes, loosened his police uniform tie, and then cautiously walked out of the inner room of the changing room. He noticed that the waiter's uniform, which he hadn't had time to take away, was gone from the bench.

What does that mean? Are they here to steal clothes?

Just as Jiang Jin was about to leave, he made eye contact with Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing the same waiter uniform that Jiang Jin had changed out of.

The atmosphere in the changing room froze for a moment. Shinichi Kudo stared blankly at Jiang Jin's police uniform, initially assuming he was a police officer from the banquet hall. But then he realized that no one else had come in since Jiang Jin entered.

Then the policeman must have been in the locker room all along, but why would the policeman be here? Shinichi Kudo immediately thought of the clothes he was wearing, which had been discarded on the bench.

"Could this outfit be...?" Kudo Shinichi tensed up immediately. The person in front of him probably wasn't a real policeman.

Jiang Jin never expected that arriving late would bring such an unexpected reward. His eyes were filled with the look of someone eyeing prey, which sent chills down Kudo Shinichi's spine.

"Excuse me, officer, have you taken the wrong road? There's been a murder at the banquet hall." Shinichi Kudo tried to remain calm, pretending not to know the other person's identity, clinging to the hope that this unidentified policeman would leave immediately. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now."