Conan: After teaching the protagonist, they offered their loyalty.

After school at Teitan Elementary School...

on the way home.

Splash...splash...

The sound of pages turning made a faint noise.

As Conan walked, he kept his head buried in the book, frantically absorbing the knowledge within.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya glanced at the raven symbol on the book... sighed, and adjusted his black top hat.

Ever since the last castle incident... for some reason, Conan has been frantically studying the quotes from the books.

"Conan... I got a few movie tickets at the convenience store. Shall we go see a movie together later?" Ayumi Yoshida, dressed in all black, walked up to Conan with a smile, trying to pique his interest.

"I'm not going..." Conan replied, then buried his head back in his books.

Ayumi lowered her lips in a wronged manner.

"Hey, Conan, how can you talk to Ayumi like that?" Genta rolled up his black sleeves, preparing to show off his muscular arms, but because he did it too big, his black top hat fell off. "Damn it... my hat."

Ai Haibara, the only one not wearing black... only a burgundy sleeveless vest over a purple outfit bought by Shinji, looked somewhat out of place.

Watching the group playfully fighting... Ai had an increasingly ominous premonition.

If Genta wore sunglasses... Mitsuhiko grew his hair long... and Ayumi learned to disguise herself.

Moreover... Genta is a bit of a blabbermouth... Mitsuhiko has a crush on him, and Ayumi... is a bit scheming.

No, it shouldn't be... or at least it shouldn't be.

Ai shook her head...shaking away those unrealistic thoughts.

Instead of speculating here, why not go home and chat with Shen Er for a while?

No... it's not so much dawdling as being overly affectionate... to be precise, it's being overly clingy.

For her, she still prefers to rub against Shen'er when she's bigger, because there's always a strange sense of excitement and fear when...

No... it can't really be called fear.

This fear seems really unfounded, because Shen Er only pressed her head down, and then continued when she said "damn it," and even tied her up... He didn't do anything that really hurt her.

But... that peculiar feeling always made her feel somewhat ethereal.

"Conan, what's the sentence that Jin said the most?" Mitsuhiko suddenly asked.

“It’s simple…” Conan chuckled and immediately replied, “Time is like water in a sponge; you can always squeeze some out.”

The setting sun brought a ray of light... which shone directly onto Conan's glasses.

The glasses reflecting a white light, and the sound of a strange, chuckling laugh...

Mitsuhiko wore a sorrowful expression... Conan has gone mad.

During the conversation... we arrived at the Mouri Detective Agency.

Downstairs at the detective agency... Ran, dressed in black and wearing a black dress, greeted everyone with a smile after school.

"Conan, what are you doing?" Ran, supporting her knees, looked at the quote...

"I'm studying..." Conan didn't even look up, continuing to scan the quotes.

After glancing at what Shen Erge had written on it, Xiao Lan was also puzzled.

Shen Erge... so he writes books too.

"Ran-neechan...would you like to go to the movies with us? I won a movie ticket." Ayumi wanted to use "Ran-neechan" to get Conan to come along.

But unfortunately...

"Okay..." Ran nodded, straightening her hair as if by instinct. "Conan... do you want to come along?"

"I'm not going... I'm still not strong enough. I want to become absolute justice..." Conan muttered something, but Ran didn't understand.

"Okay then... Be careful with your time when you're alone. There's food in the fridge if you get hungry, just cook something for yourself," Xiaolan said, offering a few words of advice.

"Okay~" Conan replied with a smile.

Ayumi's pupils contracted slightly... No, this isn't Conan...

A normal Conan would be clinging to Ran right now, not acting like he's saying, "You guys go away, don't bother me."

The group left the Mouri Detective Agency and headed towards the movie theater.

The Junior Detectives walked ahead... discussing what kind of movie they wanted to watch.

Ran walked behind, glancing at Ai every now and then.

Her mind was once again filled with Shen'erge's words: "Japanese-British mixed-race, serious and calm, with extremely high intelligence."

Looking at the calm and composed tea-haired girl in front of her, Xiaolan couldn't help but have some guesses in her mind.

Could it be that Shen'er-ge... was referring to himself and Ai-xiao at the time?

Because the second half of the sentence... describes Ai... in a highly consistent way.

"What's wrong?" Ai noticed Ran's gaze... her icy blue eyes glanced at her.

"N-nothing...it's nothing." Xiaolan shook her head gently, a serious expression on her face.

The other person's appearance... always gave her the feeling of an adult.

It seems like... for some reason, it suddenly shrank.

It's no wonder she guessed that way... When Shen'erge saved her, he also displayed a power that defied common sense.

So... it's quite reasonable for an adult to turn into a child, right?

If... if that's really the case...

Xiao Lan's eyes glazed over slightly... Shen Erge, how could this be...?

pat...

It seems he was thinking too intently... and lost focus.

pat..

She tripped and almost fell.

"Ah... I really like these shoes." Xiaolan looked at the broken bow on the shoes with heartache.

This was a gift from Shen'erge...

"If you like it... be careful next time." Ai walked over, squatted down... picked up the ribbon, put it back together, and handed it to Ran. "This can be taken apart..."

"Oh, I see..." Xiaolan scratched her cheek shyly and carefully placed the bow on her shoe.

Then... as he stood up, he stopped and stared blankly ahead.

"What's wrong?" Noticing the other person's expression, Ai followed their gaze.

Fuhesh was standing with a...very beautiful woman.