@Antmrm Maybe he doesn't want us readers to know what he is thinking. There is an unusual circumstance that characters know something we don't. Behind the scenes, they might possibly suspect something or someone but that kind of knowledge was intentionally didn't reveal it for now. Everything you see at first may not what it seems like, after all. Just like Conan is a child at first glance, but he has hidden potential and Vermouth saw that in him... that he is someone whose capable to outsmart and plan with a g**-like mindset.
On the flip side, we readers know what the characters don't. Obviously, it's given Rum's identity is revealed to us but not to the characters. A unique element of narrative style that Gosho pulled, that made me intrigued.
So I'm sure you have also began noticing it, don't you? What I'm saying that could've make sense? Well, the author had a reason why he deliberately hid that from us and why he revealed that key info to us without the characters knowing.
Either way, we gained something in this chapter same as how this storyline had made significant progress. I'm sure Conan did somehow realized, yet didn't told his deductions to us... because he is silently observing. And him being like that shows he is cunning and careful in his approach.
On the flip side, we readers know what the characters don't. Obviously, it's given Rum's identity is revealed to us but not to the characters. A unique element of narrative style that Gosho pulled, that made me intrigued.
So I'm sure you have also began noticing it, don't you? What I'm saying that could've make sense? Well, the author had a reason why he deliberately hid that from us and why he revealed that key info to us without the characters knowing.
Either way, we gained something in this chapter same as how this storyline had made significant progress. I'm sure Conan did somehow realized, yet didn't told his deductions to us... because he is silently observing. And him being like that shows he is cunning and careful in his approach.