Shizuka Hiratsuka doesn't understand love!

"There's one thing. I didn't pay attention when I went to bed last night, and I caught a cold. Cough, cough, cough."

"Really? Although there's nothing wrong with your body turning into a child's, your brain isn't. How come you don't know how to take care of yourself at all? You don't want to let Xiaolan worry about everything, do you?" Shaking her head helplessly, Shizuka Hiratsuka said with a look of disappointment.

"I covered myself with a blanket properly. Who knew the temperature would change so suddenly? There's nothing I can do." Conan defended himself somewhat aggrievedly. He felt that he was really wronged. Who knew the temperature would suddenly change by more than ten degrees in two days? He was just a child. What could he do?

"Okay, go home quickly and take some cold medicine, don't be stubborn." Shizuka Hiratsuka frowned. She didn't have any good ideas about Conan's attitude towards life. After all, he was just a high school boy, a fool who devoted most of his brain capacity to reasoning. It was not easy for him to live at home alone before.

"I heard you're still outside? You have a cold, why are you out here instead of staying home?"

"Ahem, I want to call Xiaolan. I can't use the current mobile phone, and it's not convenient to use my own mobile phone. I can only find a public phone." Conan blinked helplessly. He also felt that his approach was very troublesome, but there was no other way.

Conan hadn't contacted Xiaolan for a long time. Whenever he was in the detective agency, he could see with his own eyes Xiaolan's resentment towards him. He was panicked.

"You're thinking about Xiaolan now. I don't know what you were doing before?" Shizuka Hiratsuka said teasingly, shaking her head in amusement.

"Ahem, what's going on? Ahem, it's Xiaolan who keeps nagging me at home, and I had no choice but to call her." His face flushed a little. Although Conan himself knew what was going on, it was another matter when his elder Shizuka Hiratsuka said it out loud.

"Okay, okay, you know what you think, go ahead and call." After hanging up the phone with a smirk, Shizuka Hiratsuka finally felt a little bit of the joy of being an elder.

As expected, the younger ones are fun only when they are teased.

"So, what should I do today?"

The time that Yono and herself agreed to meet was tomorrow, and no one else contacted her today to ask her to go out and play. Since arriving in Tokyo, Shizuka Hiratsuka felt a quiet weekend for the first time in a long time.

"Let's have a good rest at home for a day, or find a gym to exercise?" Shizuka Hiratsuka twisted her neck. The morning exercise during the day was just a warm-up. She didn't enjoy it completely and her hands were itching badly.

"But there aren't any good gyms in Tokyo. How about we go to a pub?" He scratched his hair in a somewhat conflicted manner. Going to a pub could indeed ensure a thrilling battle, after all, everyone in the pub had decent skills. But if you go to a pub, it's impossible not to drink.

Shizuka Hiratsuka could imagine that scene.

After a good fight, he picked up the bottle of wine and drank with a group of bruised guys while shouting.

"Let's talk about it later. I'd better read some comics first." Shizuka Hiratsuka was a little worried that if she drank too much, it would affect her trip with Haruno tomorrow. After hesitating for a moment, she decided to stay at home quietly for a while.

She took out her tablet and held Shuai Shuai to her side. While touching Shuai Shuai, Shizuka Hiratsuka selected the comics that interested her on the Internet.

"Dingling bell~"

"Huh?" The ringing of a phone suddenly interrupted Shizuka Hiratsuka's joyful viewing. She subconsciously glanced at the clock in the living room and found that an hour and a half had passed without her realizing it.

"Hmm!~" Stretching slightly, Shizuka Hiratsuka reached out and took her cell phone.

"Xiaolan, what's wrong?"

"Huh? Okay, I got it. Give me an address and I'll go there now." Shizuka Hiratsuka blinked after hanging up the phone with a helpless expression.

It turned out that I was dreaming if I expected Conan to take care of his own body.

. . .

"Ran, I'm here. Where's that kid Conan?" After driving quickly to the location given by Ran, Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes twitched subconsciously when she saw the police car parked outside the room.

"Auntie Shizuka, Conan is in the house." Xiaolan, who was standing at the door waiting for Shizuka Hiratsuka to come, was a little anxious.

"Conan is not in good condition. I thought he just had a cold at first, but he looked worse and worse. I had no choice but to call you, Aunt Jing."

"Well, don't worry. It's normal for children to get sick. It's okay." After rubbing Xiaolan's head, Shizuka Hiratsuka looked at the police officer standing at the door, and then walked into the house naturally.

"Where are the Conan people?"

"I put him in this bedroom to rest. Eh, Conan?!" Standing in front of the open door in surprise, Xiaolan blinked blankly at the empty bed.

"He's probably gone running around again. Let's go look for him." Scratching her hair helplessly, when she saw the police car at the door, Shizuka Hiratsuka guessed that she might not be able to take Conan to the hospital so smoothly.

"Okay!" Worried about Conan catching a cold, Xiaolan quickly turned around and ran upstairs while calling Conan's name.

"Huh?" Looking at Xiaolan who was running away in a hurry, Shizuka Hiratsuka shook her head and was about to take out her cell phone to call Conan.

Her gaze shifted slightly, and behind the door next to the bedroom door, Shizuka Hiratsuka seemed to hear some heavy breathing.

"Hey, Conan, you're not hiding here...are you?" Shizuka Hiratsuka stood there with her eyes wide open in surprise, watching the familiar figure push the door and walk out.

"Oh, Aunt Jing, you're here."

Chapter 219:215 Don’t you have someone you like?

"Peng!"

The door was slammed shut, and Kudo Shinichi looked at Shizuka Hiratsuka in a daze as she ran into the bathroom holding her collar.

"Aunt Jing, what's wrong?"

"What else did you say happened?" Looking at Kudo Shinichi in surprise, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but reach out and pat his shoulder, and then pinched his face.

"How come you suddenly changed back?" After confirming that what her hands were touching was real skin, Shizuka Hiratsuka couldn't help but raise her voice slightly.

Although he was still a child when I saw him before, the person who appeared in front of me now was definitely the high school student Shinichi Kudo.

"What's going on? Have you found the antidote? Or is it that the effect of the drug has a time limit, and when the time is up, it will change back to normal?"

"It's not like that. My ability to grow bigger was an accident." Although his face looked very pale, the smile on Kudo Shinichi's mouth showed how happy he was.

"Wait a moment, Aunt Jing, we can talk about what happens next slowly. I have something important to do now." After straightening his collar, Kudo Shinichi walked past Hiratsuka Shizuka and went to open the door.

"What important thing? The most important thing now is that you grow up again, okay!" Shizuka Hiratsuka impatiently slapped Kudo Shinichi's hand away and looked at Kudo Shinichi with a frown.

"It's really important, Aunt Jing, I'm right here and won't disappear suddenly. If I don't go there, an innocent person might be wrongly accused in the case above!" Shaking his head seriously, it was rare for Kudo Shinichi to be so firm in front of Hiratsuka Shizuka.

"Tsk, okay, just finish it as soon as possible and then come with me." Looking at Kudo Shinichi's serious eyes, Hiratsuka Shizuka shook her head helplessly and slightly turned her body to the side.

"Well, don't worry, Aunt Jing, I have figured out everything." Kudo Shinichi nodded with a smile and took two deep breaths weakly.

Standing at the door of the bathroom, Shizuka Hiratsuka watched Kudo Shinichi's figure slowly disappear as he went upstairs. After a moment of silence, she reached out and scratched her hair.

"At this time, it's probably midnight over there, so let's call her in the evening."

"However, if Shinichi changes back, there shouldn't be any problem, right?" Thinking of the drugged organization that appeared in the previous discussion with Kudo Yusaku and others, Shizuka Hiratsuka's eyes flickered slightly.

"Really? Why are these previously unknown organizations appearing together lately? Where have the people sent by the village gone?"

. . .

"So, Xiaojing, you came over first?"

Dr. Agasa handed the instant coffee in his hand to Shizuka Hiratsuka, and sat down opposite Shizuka Hiratsuka with his quilt.

"Yeah, it's all because of what happened today." Putting the cup on the coffee table in front of her, Shizuka Hiratsuka shook her head helplessly.

"I used to think my education was sufficient, but now I feel like I've been disadvantaged by my lack of education."

Her eyes looked a little subtle. Thinking of the scene she had seen with her own eyes that day, Shizuka Hiratsuka pursed her lips and took out a cigarette from her pocket.

"Doctor, do you think that with the current level of science, we can already develop a drug that can make people grow or shrink at will? I'm just a teacher, I don't know much about these things. Ah, do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?"

"Don't mind, Xiaojing, just do whatever you want." Dr. Agasa scratched his head awkwardly, and his expression was not very natural.

"Well, I'm just an ordinary doctor. I don't know much about this kind of magical thing. But since you saw it with your own eyes, Xiaojing, it means that this should be possible."

"Huh~ Is that so." After exhaling a long puff of smoke, Shizuka Hiratsuka recalled Kudo Shinichi who was shrinking in front of her, and felt that the three views she had cultivated over the past twenty-seven years were being challenged.

"But why did Shinichi change so suddenly?"

"I don't know about this either. Let's wait until Shinichi comes over." Shizuka Hiratsuka put out the cigarette in the ashtray that Dr. Agasa specially prepared for her and glanced at the clock on the wall.

"Even though I said I'd come over tonight, Shinichi is a bit slow. I was planning on going out for a bite to eat together."

"I guess Xiaolan invited him home for dinner." Rubbing his stomach, Dr. Agasa also felt a little hungry after hearing what Shizuka Hiratsuka said.

"Really? Never mind. Dr. Ali, do you have anything to eat at home? We'll have to wait if we order takeout now, so let's just have something simple to eat."

"I just finished my food and snacks yesterday. I was planning to buy some today, but I didn't go out after receiving your call, Xiaojing." Dr. Agasa stood up and walked to his small food warehouse, looking around casually.

"Oh, there are some noodles in a bucket, Xiaojing, do you want some?"

"Bucket noodles, I haven't eaten them for a long time. Okay, let's have this." After taking the bucket noodles from Dr. Agasa's hand, both of them skillfully tore open the package, boiled water, and made instant noodles.

"Ran, you must be very happy to see Shinichi today, right?" After waiting for the noodles in the bucket to be soaked, Dr. Agasa couldn't sit still and started chatting with Shizuka Hiratsuka.

"Happy? I guess so, after all, I haven't seen him for a long time. But I'm probably more worried, after all, Shinichi has a cold and looks sick." Shizuka Hiratsuka tilted her head and blinked. Today, she was also attracted by the grown-up Shinichi Kudo, and didn't pay much attention to Xiaolan.

"But now that I think about it, Xiaolan would probably be even more disappointed. It's been a long time since we last met, and before we even had a chance to exchange a few words, that brat has become smaller again."

"It's not easy for the two of them. They have always been a mess since they were young." Dr. Agasa took a sip of coffee and felt a little emotional.

Obviously, all of Shinichi and Xiaolan's elders are waiting for them to officially confirm their relationship, but only the two of them seem to think that they have successfully concealed the important feelings they have for each other in their hearts. It's really worrying.

Maori Kogoro? There's no need to bother with that stubborn guy.

"That's Shinichi's fault. I feel sorry for that girl Xiaolan." Shaking her head helplessly, Shizuka Hiratsuka tore open the paper lid of the bucket.

"Shinichi, you two are childhood sweethearts and each other's first love. As a boy, you should take the initiative!"

"Don't say that. Shinichi is just a child after all. It's normal for him to feel embarrassed." Dr. Agasa smiled and waved his hand, speaking nicely to Shinichi as usual.

"Come to think of it, Dr. Agasa, you're already over fifty years old. Don't you have anyone you've ever liked?"

"Eh?"

Chapter 220: It's a bit hard to start

"Eh?"

Looking at Shizuka Hiratsuka opposite him with some surprise, Dr. Agasa never expected that the topic would suddenly turn to himself.

"Yes, even Dr. Agasa, you only engaged in research after graduation. You weren't that busy when you were in school, right?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka asked with a grin, looking at Dr. Agasa and holding up the bucket of noodles.

"When you were little, Dr. Agasa, was there anyone you found unforgettable or heart-warming?"

"An unforgettable person." As if Hiratsuka Shizuka's words touched his heart, Dr. Agasa fell into inexplicable contemplation before he had time to feel shy.

"Uh, that can't be true!?" Seeing the silent Dr. Agasa's mouth corners suddenly curled up warmly, Hiratsuka Shizuka's eyes lit up instantly.

"Who is it? Who is it? How old are you? Are you still in touch?"

"What? Don't be so excited, Shizuka." Maybe Hiratsuka Shizuka was a little too excited. Dr. Agasa recovered from his memories and picked up the bucket of noodles shyly.

"I just thought about some things in the past. Isn't it normal for old people to like reminiscing?"

"I didn't say much, I'm just a little curious." She smiled and shook her head. Although her curiosity was not satisfied, Shizuka Hiratsuka was not the kind of person who would force others to explain things clearly.

"Don't be anxious, eat noodles, eat noodles."

"Yeah." Looking back at the back of his hand, Dr. Agasa picked up the plastic fork placed aside.

"However, Dr. Agasa, if you want to find someone, I might be able to help. My father's men, although sometimes clumsy, are first-class at finding things~"

"Xiao Jing!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say anymore!" She smiled and waved her hand. Seeing that Dr. Agasa's face was flushed, Shizuka Hiratsuka also shut up obediently.

"Oh, it should be Shinichi. I'll go open the door." The doorbell that rang at that time saved Shizuka Hiratsuka. Putting down the bucket noodles in her hand, Shizuka Hiratsuka quickly walked to the door and opened it.

"Auntie Jing, you're here." Looking up at the condescending Hiratsuka Jing, Conan's expression was a little depressed.

"You're too late. The doctor and I have been waiting for you for a long time." After moving aside to let Conan in, Shizuka Hiratsuka walked back to the sofa.

"Doctor, I'm here."

"Oh, Shinichi, you're here!" Dr. Agasa nodded to Conan, and his attention was smoothly diverted.

"Xiao Jing said before that you changed back to your original form today, right?"

"Yes, this is what I wanted to discuss with you today." Nodding seriously, Conan looked at the instant noodles in Shizuka Hiratsuka and Dr. Agasa's hands and swallowed his saliva.

. . .

"Slurp~ So, Conan, you suspect that you grew bigger because of that Chinese liquor called 'Laobaigan'?" Dr. Agasa asked his question vaguely, and kept putting noodles into his mouth.

"Well, slurp~ Because apart from that wine, I haven't encountered any other strange things." Holding a cup of bucket noodles in his hand, Conan nodded seriously.

"Can drinking make you bigger? What's the principle behind this?" Shizuka Hiratsuka, who wanted to eat faster, leaned on the sofa and looked at Dr. Agasa with some confusion.

"Maybe it's the result of some special reaction between the ingredients." Dr. Agasa said thoughtfully after taking a sip of the soup.

Strictly speaking, he is only a doctor of engineering, and his knowledge of medical matters is limited.

"If you can't explain it clearly, why don't we just try it and find out?" Shizuka Hiratsuka said tentatively, touching her chin.