Out-of-control players in the world of Detective Conan

"What, you're staying to watch my live stream?"

This has left Qi Ming completely bewildered.

"...I was just saying, you must be really lonely."

"You used to be all alone in the organization, right? Now we've released you and let you stay with your sister, what are you lonely about?"

Ai Haibara did not answer immediately, but lowered her head and her lips moved slightly.

"...If only it hadn't been you who was in charge of monitoring me back then."

"Huh? What do you mean? Who did you want to monitor you back then?"

As the subtitles scrolled by, Qi Ming asked curiously.

"..."

Ai Haibara's surging emotions dissipated instantly.

You think you can read lips?

And how did you see me clearly when I was looking down?

Ai Haibara raised her head and squinted at Qi Ming.

Calming herself down, she took a deep breath and spoke earnestly.

"If it weren't you monitoring me back then, or if you weren't the first person I saw when I shrunk and escaped, I wouldn't have felt anything."

"Loneliness is not caused by loss, because you have nothing and therefore are not lonely; it is because you have something that you do not want to lose it."

Qi Ming stared blankly at Ai Haibara, suddenly feeling a little lightheaded.

Come to think of it, I had this feeling when Kogoro Mouri died and when Conan asked me to release him.

Suppressing this strange emotion, Qi Ming spoke to Ai Haibara with a peculiar expression after a while.

"...Starting to get all sentimental late at night?"

Ai Haibara remained silent, her eyes still fixed on Qi Ming.

“I told you last time when you used my medicine to feed Shinichi Kudo medicine that we were accomplices, and now I will share the blame for the crimes you have committed.”

“And…” Ai Haibara suddenly smiled.

“You said you would adopt me, so you can’t give up halfway.”

"Um, oh, so you're staying?"

Qi Ming nodded blankly, seemingly a little slow to process what was happening.

I feel lightheaded.

Coming to his senses, Qi Ming came to speak to Ai Haibara.

"Honestly, maybe you should become an adult before you talk to me."

"...I can't change." Ai Haibara shook her head.

"What, your magic only makes things smaller, not bigger?"

Ai Haibara rolled her eyes at Qi Ming and then frankly admitted it.

"I'm not a magician. I shrunk by taking a drug, the same drug you gave Shinichi Kudo last time. I escaped by taking the drug."

"Potion?"

"It's a product of technology!"

Qi Ming rolled his eyes at Ai Haibara.

Nobody believes in technological products.

You're telling me that technology can turn an adult back into a child?

With that thought in mind, Qi Ming took out a few red and white capsules, APTX4869, from his backpack.

"Is this what you mean?"

Ai Haibara nodded.

"That's right, I was thinking of asking you for the medicine to see if you could make an antidote."

Qi Ming tore open the capsule with a look of incomprehension, and looked at the clump of powder that fell on the ground with extreme disdain.

"Such a tiny pill, filled with some powder, can actually shrink people? Hah, I don't believe it. Besides, didn't you say last time that it was poison?"

"Don't think I don't understand science. I have a basic understanding of things like the law of conservation of energy."

Haiyuan sighed.

"What I told you last time wasn't wrong, it is indeed poison, but it seems to have some very peculiar properties. Anyway, under certain conditions, it's like..."

Ai Haibara thought carefully about how to explain, but the more she spoke, the more confused she became.

This seems to suggest that this whole thing is as unreal as Qi Ming wanting everyone to know that this is a game world.

"...Anyway, there is a chance of it getting smaller. Even if you don't believe it, there's nothing you can do. That's the truth."

Ai Haibara, with a slight headache in her temples, looked up and reached out her hand to Qi Ming.

"By the way, could you give me one? I've been wanting one lately... huh?"

However, what she saw before her eyes made her eyes widen in shock.

Qi Ming simply picked up a pill and popped it into his mouth!

With a slight movement of the Adam's apple, the capsule slid smoothly into the stomach.

"What, what are you trying to do?!"

"Didn't you say it could shrink me? I'll try..."

Qi Ming said with a smile.

But before Qi Ming could finish speaking, he suddenly trembled all over and then fell straight to the ground.

It looks like it.

Ai Haibara remained standing there, motionless, like someone who had been shot and whose nerves didn't immediately react.

A moment later, she trembled and rushed forward to crouch down and check Qi Ming's breathing.

"What, what are you doing...?"

Although I know I can't understand Qi Ming's mind.

But I myself said it's a deadly poison, and shrinking is only a chance!

Why would you eat it?!

However, before Ai Haibara's emotions could fully surface, the door opened in a room on the second floor, footsteps sounded, and then—

The wild Qi Ming has appeared.

"Good heavens, you dare to lie to me?"

Qi Ming jumped down the stairs and said to Ai Haibara with a dark face.

"This is clearly poison!"

"Eh?"

Ai Haibara stared blankly at Qi Ming's corpse on the ground and the living Qi Ming in front of her.

My mind is a bit confused, and I feel like my soul has been greatly impacted.

Didn't he just die right in front of me?

How come it's alive and well again now?

"Hmph, little liar."

Qi Ming came to his own corpse and with a wave of his hand retrieved the fallen props.

He glanced back at Ai Haibara, who was still at a loss, and waved.

"Are you stupid? You're still upset that I exposed your lie?"

"The body on the ground is..."

"It's me."

"what?"

Ai Haibara fell into a long period of confusion.

It's like a child's first conscious observation of the world.

Feeling both curious and bewildered.

"Don't think you can get away with being cute."

Qi Ming pinched Ai Haibara's cheek and waved the medicine in front of her in an annoyed manner.

"I'm saying, how could an ordinary medicine shrink a person? It's a fake drug, isn't it?"

"I already said there's a chance it can shrink."

"Oh, it's a lottery, right? Is there a guaranteed win? How many times do you have to die to win once?"

"..."

Ai Haibara came to her senses and looked at Qi Ming strangely.

Is this a question that a normal living being would ask?

But before Ai Haibara could ask Qi Ming more detailed questions about the corpse on the ground, she didn't.

Qi Ming took out another APTX4869 and swallowed it.

"..."

Qi Ming straightened up, then fell down again.

It looks like it.

However, this time Qi Ming's body gradually disappeared and dissipated.

"Damn it, I don't believe it anymore, let's try again."

Then Qi Ming's voice rang out again from a room on the second floor.

Alive.

Then came the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

It looks like it.

Ai Haibara went mad.

……

A few minutes later.

Qi Ming came out of the room.

Then he went up to Ai Haibara and grabbed her face, kneading it for a while.

"If you can't even guarantee a minimum income, what kind of medicine can you make!"

Ai Haibara let Qi Ming pinch her face, her thoughts still wandering far away.

She looked up at the room upstairs and asked with a strange expression.

"...Are all of those your corpses up there?"

Ai Haibara always felt that what she was saying was outrageous, yet it was the reality right before her eyes.

If it were what Qi Ming did before, it could be explained by alien technology and space technology.

How can this be explained?

"No, I've already stored the props for the later deaths. Look, there's only one body down here."

"...I'm feeling sleepy."

Ai Haibara always felt that everything in front of her was just a mirage.

Actually, they're still inside their cocoons and haven't come out yet, right?