Didan Primary School.

In the infirmary, Ai Haibara was working on the experimental report for the first APTX-4869 drug test. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door and came in. Ai Haibara looked up and saw Conan.

"Ms. Haibara, could I have a moment of your time?" Conan asked in a very innocent tone.

Ai Haibara put down her pen, sat behind the desk, and replied calmly, "What is it, Edogawa-kun?"

"I wanted to ask..." Conan turned and closed the infirmary door, then changed his tone, "Where did Ms. Haibara buy that cold medicine the other day?"

Since Ai Haibara had given the medicine, she naturally knew that the other party would come looking for her sooner or later. She raised her hand and tucked a strand of short hair behind her ear, her lake-blue eyes slightly upturned: "I made it myself."

"You made this yourself?" Conan's heart skipped a beat, and he pressed, "Why would Haibara-sensei make something like this?"

"Don't you know why I did it, Shinichi Kudo?" Ai Haibara saw Conan's pupils shrink and his expression change slightly. She suddenly understood the feeling that Toyago had when he was trying to scare people. Just now, Ai Haibara had only imitated a few of that guy's tone.

Conan's heart was pounding, and he forced down his fear, trying to keep his expression as subtle as possible.

"Who are you?"

"The only person most likely to help you return to normal."

In the afternoon, the students at Teitan Elementary School had all finished school, and Ai Haibara also went home from the infirmary.

She lived not far from Teitan Elementary School, and walking home wasn't a problem. But lately, she'd felt like someone was following her. Ai Haibara glanced at the rearview mirror of a black Toyota in front of her.

In the mirror, there was no one behind her, but Ai Haibara knew someone was following her; the aura was very much like that of someone from the organization. But she was also puzzled as to why someone from the organization would be tracking her.

Ai Haibara thought for a moment, then took out her phone from her bag as she walked and made a call.

"Hello? What's up?" Jiang Jin's voice came through the phone. Ai Haibara lowered her voice and said, "I feel like someone's been following me lately."

Jiang Jin, holding the phone, was spraying water at the husky with a water sprayer. The husky shook off the water, splashing Jiang Jin all over.

"Hey, you splashed me with water..." Jiang Jin couldn't help but yell at the husky that was frantically shaking off water, while holding his phone. Haibara Ai on the other end of the line asked, "What are you doing?"

"Giving the dog a bath."

Ai Haibara looked speechless: "You even raise dogs?"

"What are you saying? He's the one who's supporting me." Jiang Jin replied matter-of-factly, after all, it was Erha who was always the one cooking.

Haibara Ai:?

Jiang Jin turned off the sprinkler, pointed to the three bottles of pet shampoo on the ground, and gestured with his chin, indicating that he should choose one. The husky raised its paw and pointed to one of the mint-flavored bottles. "That's not important. Someone's been following you, isn't they? Where's the gun I gave you?"

Ai Haibara glanced behind her and said, "At home."

"Then you should go back first. I'll come over after I've finished bathing the dog."

Ai Haibara hung up the phone helplessly. Sometimes she really couldn't understand this guy's thought process. But she could only call Toago, since he was her supervisor.

As dusk fell, the lights came on at 444 Beikacho 2-chome. Outside the house, Shuichi Akai leaned against the wall, a cigarette dangling from his lips, watching the lights on the second floor.

Not long ago, he discovered that Sherry, who had always been under strict surveillance by the organization, had suddenly appeared in Tokyo and become the school doctor at Teitan Elementary School. This greatly surprised Shuichi Akai; given Sherry's importance, why would she be in Tokyo and even become the school doctor at Teitan Elementary School? So he secretly followed Sherry to investigate what she was doing.

Shuichi Akai glanced at his watch; it was already past 8 p.m. He had originally planned to sneak into Sherry's residence to plant a bugging device, but he was worried that someone was watching him, so he hadn't taken any action.

However, after observing for so long, Shuichi Akai felt that Sherry was not being watched, so he planned to make his move tomorrow when she was not at home.

Near Ai Haibara's residence, a young man dressed in a rather respectable light gray coat, with short black hair, wearing sunglasses, and carrying a white cane, walked forward while leading a husky on his right arm, making a banging noise.

"Brother, are you treating me like a guide dog? Besides, what blind person goes out at night?!" If there weren't no one on the street, any passerby would be startled by this talking husky.

Jiang Jin raised his guide cane and poked Mingyuan's head: "What's wrong with you? Can't you speak more gently? That's a blind person. Stop speaking like a human, it'll scare passersby."

Mingyuan: I may not be human now, but you really are a dog!

The white cane made a "tap tap tap" sound on the road. Shuichi Akai heard the noise and turned his head to look back. Under the street lamp, a blind young man was walking alone on the path with a dog, looking very frail.

Shuichi Akai withdrew his gaze, continuing to look up at the commotion on the second floor without paying any attention. However, the sound of the white cane hitting the ground grew closer and closer. Shuichi Akai glanced to the side again and saw the blind young man approaching him.

He couldn't help but glance at the young man a few more times. The young man kept moving closer to where he was standing by the wall, which made Shuichi Akai wary. But before he could do anything, the young man suddenly fell backward in front of him. Shuichi Akai instinctively pulled him back, but couldn't hold on. The young man seemed determined to lie on the ground. Shuichi Akai could only grab the young man and hold him by the waist to prevent him from sitting down.

"Are you alright, sir?" Shuichi Akai was clearly taken aback by this turn of events. "Sir?"

Jiang Jin: You can never wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Shuichi Akai looked around; apart from the young man's dog, no one else was nearby. The other man's husky barked at him and bit Akai's clothes, clearly not wanting him to leave.

At that moment, behind the second-floor window, Ai Haibara, who had been hiding there, heard the dog barking. Looking at Shuichi Akai outside the house, she took out her phone: "Is this the police station? There's a strange man holding a blind person hostage here. The address is 444 Beikacho 2-chome..."

After the phone call was disconnected, Ai Haibara did not leave the window, because she wanted to see who was following her.

Shuichi Akai never expected to end up at the police station, even though the whole thing was a misunderstanding. The patrol officers arrived shortly after the blind young man staged the accident.

The gleaming flashlight shone on him, and Shuichi Akai's deep green eyes swept over him, startling the patrolman who immediately sensed that this man was a dangerous individual.

"Who are you? Release that young man right now!"

Shuichi Akai was speechless. He wanted to let go, but the problem was that it wasn't him who wouldn't let go, but the young man's husky. It was biting his pants tightly, as if it would rip them off if he dared to walk away.

“I didn’t mean to do anything. This young man just suddenly fell on me,” Shuichi Akai explained. “I think you’ve misunderstood.”

The two patrol officers looked at each other, and one of them said, "Someone reported seeing a strange man holding a blind young man hostage."

"Who called the police?"

"It's me." Ai Haibara came out in her pajamas, glanced at Jiang Jin who was pretending to be unconscious, and secretly twitched her lips. She thought to herself, "Duya's way of attracting people is really absurd." "Officer, this man looks fierce and doesn't seem like a good person."

Akai Shuichi:......

Jiang Jin, who was pretending to be unconscious, quickly pinched his thigh to suppress his laughter.

“I was just passing by,” said Shuichi Akai. “I think you should ask the person involved.”

Everyone's attention was focused on Jiang Jin, but Jiang Jin remained oblivious, keeping his eyes closed and not waking up.

"Should we take him to the hospital in this situation?" another patrol officer asked.

"Ahem..." Jiang Jin adjusted his sunglasses and slowly sat up. "Excuse me, what happened..."

When the patrol officer saw that Jiang Jin had woken up, he quickly asked him if he had been taken hostage.

"Kidnapping? No, not at all. It's probably just my old problem acting up again. I'm so sorry for causing you trouble." Jiang Jin's tone was gentle, perfectly portraying the image of a blind and sickly young man.

Although it was just a misunderstanding, the three of them still had to go to the police station to give a statement.

After leaving the police station, Jiang Jin turned around and groped for Akai Shuichi's sleeve. "Sir, may I ask your name? I'd like to thank you."

Ai Haibara glanced at Jiang Jin, then turned her head away, worried that she might burst out laughing.

“No need. I think we probably won’t see each other again.” Shuichi Akai said, glancing at Ai Haibara, but she didn’t look at him. Shuichi Akai then strode away in another direction.

After Shuichi Akai had walked away, Ai Haibara said, "Only someone like you could come up with such a method."

“The process doesn’t matter. We’ve already found out who it is. Now that you know who’s following you, there’s nothing to worry about. That guy is probably investigating what you’re doing. If you see him again, just call the police. I don’t believe he likes going to jail.”

Ai Haibara walked towards home, and Jiang Jin put his sunglasses back on and said to her, "Hey, wait for me, I'm blind."

"You're not really blind," Ai Haibara said without turning her head.

Jiang Jin then lowered his head and asked Mingyuan, "May I ride on you?"

"Be a human being!"

Although he almost got arrested by the police last night, Shuichi Akai sneaked into Ai Haibara's house the next day after Ai Haibara went to Teitan Elementary School.

Shuichi Akai entered through the front door, closed it, and carefully checked the lock to make sure there were no hidden security measures before turning around and going inside.

After confirming that the first floor was just a regular daily activity area, Shuichi Akai turned his attention to the second floor.

The moment his foot stepped onto the stairs, a bullet, sparks flying, struck right in front of Shuichi Akai's feet.

"Akai-kun, trespassing is not a good idea."

Shuichi Akai looked up and saw Jiang Jin standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor, a gun pointed directly at him.

"Are you also the owner of this house?" Shuichi Akai didn't think Jiang Jin would live with Shirley; he probably alerted her yesterday.

As Jiang Jin walked down the stairs with his gun in his hand, he said, "Shirley told me that a pervert has been stalking her lately. The organization put me in charge of her safety, so naturally I had to come and check it out."

Shuichi Akai put his foot down and stepped back, saying, "In that case, I won't disturb you any longer."

"Want to leave? Not so easy." Jiang Jin grinned, and Akai Shuichi raised an eyebrow. "What, planning to silence them here?"

"Who said that? I already called the police before you trespassed on my property," Jiang Jin said with a smile. "The police will arrest you."

Akai Shuichi:......

"When did your problem-solving methods become so civilized?"

Jiang Jin suddenly attacked Akai Shuichi: "I've always been civilized!"

The two men got into a fight in the living room on the first floor, while knocking and the voices of police officers could be heard outside the door.

"Akai-kun, did you bring a gun this time?" Jiang Jin asked with ill intent.

Shuichi Akai narrowed his eyes: "I didn't bring it."

"It's okay, I'll lend it to you." Jiang Jin reached out and threw Akai Shuichi onto the sofa. Akai Shuichi grabbed him and they both fell onto the sofa together.

Jiang Jin suddenly shoved the gun into Akai Shuichi's hand. Akai Shuichi's brow twitched. The next second, the police burst into the room. Akai Shuichi threw the gun under the sofa.

The patrol officers who burst in saw Jiang Jin and Akai Shuichi sitting on the sofa in rather strange positions.

"why is it you again!"

The patrol officer who broke down the door noticed Shuichi Akai and his brow furrowed. This man had been suspected of being a murderer last night, and now he was being reported to the police again. It was hard not to suspect his background.

"Officer, this person has broken into a private residence!" Jiang Jin was a wicked person, so he filed the complaint first.

Shuichi Akai found it hard to refute, but he didn't think Jiang Jin had really gotten in properly.

"Sir, are you just passing by again?" the patrolman asked, looking at the two men. "Or perhaps... this is all a misunderstanding?"

Jiang Jin got up from the sofa and shoved Akai Hideki aside, saying to the patrol officer, "Officer, I came to see my sister today, but this guy broke in."

The patrolman looked at Shuichi Akai warily. The man was tall, with sharp eyes and a fierce gaze... He took out his walkie-talkie and decided to call for backup.

“Okay, I admit I did break in, but…” Shuichi Akai turned to look at Jiang Jin, “Even if there’s a dispute over the loot, you don’t need to call the police right away, do you? It doesn’t do either of us any good.”

Jiang Jin: ?

First, the wicked file a complaint; then, Akai acts like a scoundrel.

The patrolman's gaze changed, from being wary of one person to being wary of two. Jiang Jin suddenly lay down on the ground, and the patrolman asked, quite puzzled, "What are you doing?"

“He’s looking for a gun,” Shuichi Akai said. “We just had a fight and threw the gun under the sofa.”

The patrolman had pressed the call button on his walkie-talkie so many times he was practically wearing it out, and cold sweat broke out on his brow.

"Found it." Jiang Jin got up, dusted himself off, and said, "Officer, I don't want to call the police anymore. I want to assault a police officer now."

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