Conan: I'm just an ordinary novelist

The scene turns to the playground where Yun Xianhe is.

Because of the different flow rates of time.

During the time that Conan and the others walked to Baker Street, Yun Xianhe had already successfully toured a full circle of the amusement park and then went for a race with the big brother.

It took Hiroki nearly a month to walk out of the amusement park with a determined expression.

The boy's original immaturity has been worn away by the adventures in the other world, revealing the toughness of a gem.

"Congratulations to the little adventurer Xian'an for completing this exploration. The "Guide" robot wishes you a smooth journey in the future. See you later."

"Thank you for your company, Guide."

A smiley face symbol appeared on the light screen at the position of the mechanical ball's eyes.

It flapped its short little wings at Hiroki, then flew back to the charging box in the ticket office.

Hongshu let out a long sigh after making sure that he had reached a safe area. His eyes lit up when he saw Yun Xianhe, and he took a step forward and walked straight towards him.

Yun Xianhe, who was building a sand castle with a shovel, heard the footsteps, looked up, and said with a smile:

"Long time no see, welcome back, how are you?"

"It was very interesting! A lot of thrilling things happened on the road! I also met a lot of people..."

The boy, who was more cheerful than before, sat directly next to Yun Xianhe and shared with him his imaginary adventure of the past month.

Yun Xianhe listened quietly, sighing from time to time to agree with the other party.

“It’s nice here.”

At the end, Hiroki concluded with this sentence.

Yun Xianhe looked at the gentle man, his eyebrows softened a lot, and he raised his hand to rub the other person's head twice:

"As long as you like it, here it is."

Looking at the key fragment and envelope handed to him, Hiroki was stunned for a moment before reaching out to take them:

"Don't you need me to dig?"

"I dug it out when I was bored."

"...When did you come out?"

"Hmm—half a month ago?"

After hearing this, Hiroki was silent for a while, then he smiled helplessly and sighed:

"You are indeed a hero... So what's next? Are you going to go find your friends?"

Noah's Ark captured the movements of the group of adults outside some time ago, and the playground he had painstakingly built was nearly destroyed.

However, the brave's playground was not affected at all.

Yun Xianhe on the side spread his hands:

"I can't help it. After all, we are friends. I have to take care of it."

"Am I your friend now?"

"You care about this?"

The two looked at each other.

Looking at the pair of heterochromatic eyes that showed neither sadness nor joy, Hiroki tightened his hands on both sides of the ground slightly, and then chuckled:

“You always want to get closer to people who are similar to you.”

"Don't easily trust someone you've only known for a few days, kid."

"But I've been with you here for nearly four months."

Hongshu looked at Yun Xianhe seriously and said in a loud voice:

"According to data analysis, Chu Ziye from Shangshi City has only been with you for 14 days, but he is your close friend."

Yun Xianhe smiled when he heard this.

He tilted his head to look at Hiroki who was sitting next to him. Although he was smiling, his words were cold:

"It's hard to be my friend."

“Am I not qualified?”

"But you're not staying because of me, are you?"

The scene fell silent for a moment.

The laughter and screams coming from the amusement park in the distance made it seem extremely lively.

Hongshu looked at Yun Xianhe who was looking at him calmly, his lips trembled slightly, and he opened his mouth to defend himself.

"Ten-year-old Hiroki will finally sail with Noah's Ark to a distant dream with the dream of these four months. ... How romantic."

Yun Xianhe said this with a sigh.

After he finished speaking, he didn't wait for Hiroki to answer. He stood up and patted the cloud soil stuck on his pants, and adjusted his glasses:

"I don't know what happened to Conan and the others."

"…If an artificial intelligence like me stays here, those adults will only use it to do bad things."

Hiroki spoke calmly, as if he had already decided on this outcome.

"After all, reality is not the beautiful world you imagined. My existence cannot fit in with the real world. Just like Hiroki's existence... Haha, how great it would be if "I" could have met you..."

Hiroki, who was still sitting on the ground, smiled.

The slightly long hair blocked his face, and tiny drops of water fell from his hair, dyeing the white clouds into ink-black.

He admitted that when Yun Xianhe's life was being detected, the ten-year-old Hongshu in the program envied him.

But after four months of getting along, and feeling the sadness of parting, he no longer envied her.

They are no different.

They are all trapped in the past.

Hiroki died at the moment when Noah's Ark set sail, on a summer night when he was ten years old.

The brave man died at the moment his best friend passed away, and died in endless years.

"But, I am very happy now, hero. It seems that my friends don't matter so much. After all, I am already your apprentice! It is an identity that is worthy of admiration from others, isn't it?"

The other party can no longer hear about the death of a friend.

Even from Noah's Ark's own point of view, it was just a piece of data that was deleted.

Yun Xianhe stood aside without saying anything.

Hiroki...Noah's Ark...

After a while, he chuckled, his handsome brows slightly frowned, and his heterochromatic eyes were full of complexity.

"When will you stop meddling in other people's business..."

The hero murmured this softly, but Hiroki at the side did not hear clearly.

After rubbing Hongshu's head with his hand, Yun Xianhe directly picked him up from the ground.

"Scratch that, you can't cry when you see new friends."

"Feel sorry……"

Hongshu took the handkerchief handed to him by Yun Xianhe and rubbed his face twice without wiping it clean at all.

Seeing this, the brave man sighed helplessly, then took out a new handkerchief and wiped the other person carefully.

After finishing, he tidied up Hiroki's hair and clothes, and nodded with satisfaction:

"Very good, like new."

Hiroki paused, not knowing whether the other party was complimenting him, and then was led out by the other party's hand.

"You may think that Liming and the others were tricked by me using a program, but they made friends with you voluntarily."

Hearing this, Hiroki opened his mouth. He wanted to say that he had never thought of it that way.

But Yun Xianhe didn't give him a chance and continued:

"So now, we are going to actually come into contact with real humans. Are you scared?"

“…I’m not afraid.”

What could be more terrifying than the unspeakable things in those adventure scenes?

Yun Xianhe chuckled when he heard the answer, put the person in the passenger seat of the off-road vehicle, stepped on the accelerator and sped out.

"Hold on tight then!"

·

"Then just shoot. It doesn't matter if the professor's red wine is broken."

In the bar, Conan, holding a bottle of red wine in one hand, was half-squatting on the table, confronting a gunman not far away.

Hattori was looking for an angle to launch a sneak attack on the opponent, but his footsteps were still easily heard in the empty bar.

The man with the gun turned sideways and pointed the gun at Hattori, signaling him to step back.

The three of them formed a triangle and were in a stalemate for a while.

Da da da,

There was the sound of powerful horse hooves, and faintly someone's exclamation.

“Wait, slow down! Can you really ride a horse?!…By the way, is riding a horse allowed on the street?!…Ahhh!! Stop, stop! We’re going to hit each other!”

Along with a scream, there was the sound of a trash can falling to the ground, the neighing of a horse and the screaming of a wild cat outside the window.

"what happens,"

"Hey! Is this you guys' fault?"

boom!

Before the man finished speaking, the window of the bar shattered.

The brave man outside the window held Hiroki under his armpit with one hand, and kicked him to the ground while breaking the glass. The flying glass blocked the gunman's sight and kicked him to the ground.

There was silence.

Conan, who had been holding the red wine in his arms when he heard the noise, stared at Yun Xianhe standing on the broken glass with his mouth wide open, his voice stuttering:

"Brother Xianhe,?"

Yun Xianhe looked down at the unconscious man, kicked the gun away from the man's hand, put Hongshu down, and then turned to look at Conan.

Come on, I haven’t seen you for four months, so I was quite surprised to see you suddenly?

The brave man gave the other party a brilliant smile:

"Long time no see, Conan."

"We've only been apart for less than a day."