Conan's other self

The case was successfully resolved, and Maplehara and Haibara Ai, who had little interest in tennis matches, left Wimbledon directly and headed to Baker Street.

So they failed to notice the abnormal performance of Minerva Glass, nor did they see the eye-catching performance of a certain Holmes disciple, nor did they hear the referee's words at the end of the game——

"The winner is Miss. Glass."

However, none of this matters.

What matters is that they tour Baker Street, two people together.

They did not go directly to the Sherlock Holmes Museum, but first went to the subway entrance on Baker Street, where there was a statue of Sherlock Holmes.

For a fictional character who cannot appear in reality, the statue represents the enthusiasm and yearning of countless fans for him.

but…

"He looked lonely."

"Eh?" Hui Yuan Ai was stunned for a moment and looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion.

She didn't notice the statue's lonely expression at all.

"I think," Fengyuan looked into the eyes of the statue, "he must really hope that a statue of Watson can be erected next to him..."

"...Where is the evidence?" Haihara Aixu glanced at Fengyuan, "You are the great detective who just solved the case, so you have to talk about evidence."

"The evidence is what I think," Fengyuan said seriously, "Although the sense of accomplishment of cracking the criminal's plan and uncovering the truth of the incident will make you want to stop after experiencing it once..."

After a pause, he continued, "But if no one can understand this feeling, you will only feel lonely..."

"So Mr. Detective thoughtfully explained his plan to the guy named Hades?"

"no…"

Feng Yuan tried to argue, but then chose to give up, "Well, looking at his expression at that time, I did feel a little bit satisfied...but just a little bit..."

"No matter how much you use reason to suppress it, the desire to perform that you inherited from your mother is still deep in your bones..." Haibara Ai said, "But Holmes also said that emotions and calm thinking are contradictory..."

"The original words are about love. As an emotional thing, it is contradictory to the calm thinking that he thinks is the most important..."

"But this sentence can also be understood to mean that all emotions are contradictory to calm thinking, right?"

"It's uncool to think that you can put aside all your emotions..."

Haiyuan Ai turned to look at Fengyuan, with an inexplicable and playful smile in the corner of her eyes, "Aren't you a fan of Sherlock Holmes?"

"Of course I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan."

Maplehara said, "But when it comes to treating the opponent as a perfect person...this factor is very fatal - by the way, there is a similar saying in tennis."

"What?"

"Love is 0."

Haibara Ai just thought about it for a moment and understood the meaning of Feng Yuan's words, "That's because the pronunciation of "0" in French is similar to the pronunciation of "love" in English. It has nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes... But, you should know this... So then Woolen cloth?"

"Then...on the other hand, 0 is the beginning of everything. If you don't start from 0, nothing will happen...so 0 is start..."

"What happens next?" After waiting for a while and not hearing Feng Yuan continue speaking, Hai Yuan Ai continued to ask.

"...There is no more."

Haiyuan Ai looked at Fengyuan for half a month, "I said, you must have learned from the doctor and come up with a cold joke-style puzzle, right?"

"Guess then?"

"What about the options?"

"There is no option." Feng Yuan quickly replied.

"The doctor always gives several options..."

"I'm not a doctor, I'm just a primary school student."

Giving Feng Yuan an annoyed look, Hai Yuan Ai put her right index finger against her chin and began to think. However, this puzzle was obviously not as easy to figure out as the doctor's cold joke.

After a while, Huihara Ai came back to her senses, "I don't want to think about it anymore... I have to go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum..."

They plan to rush back to Japan before the Doctor and Conan, and their tickets have been booked, so there isn't much time left.

The two headed towards the Sherlock Holmes Museum located at 221B Baker Street.

Although it is a museum, it is actually constructed to imitate the scene in the novel, and it looks, even down to the details, almost exactly the same as what they experienced in the cocoon last time.

After obtaining the staff's consent, Fengyuan sat on the sofa in front of the fireplace for a while. In the last game, he slept here for a night, while Haibara Ai slept on the sofa next to him...

Happy time always passes quickly. Fengyuan glanced at his watch and realized that his time seemed to have been stolen.

"It's almost time, shall we go back?"

"Won't you stay a little longer?" Haiyuan Ai asked curiously, "Don't you want to come here for a long time?"

"I am a Sherlock Holmes fan, not a Sherlock Holmes museum fan..."

If Holmes himself were here, it would be perfectly fine to stay a few more days, but no. Haiyuan Ai was not as interested in this place as Feng Yuan, so she didn't insist and followed him out.

Next door to the museum is a place selling related gifts.

"Ah, by the way..." Fengyuan said and walked towards the store, "Wait for me for a while..."

Hui Yuan Ai did not follow, but raised his head and glanced at the sky in the distance. Of course, in reality, there are no chimneys that breathe out magic mist like in the game...

After a while, she saw Feng Yuan walking out.

"So fast?" Haiyuan Ai asked curiously, "Did you tell the clerk to get a copy of everything and send it to your home?"

"How could it be possible? It's so exaggerated..."

Fengyuan said, reaching out and taking off the hat on Haiyuan Ai's head, and then in her daze, he took out the hat he had just bought hidden behind her back and put it on for her.

This is a deerstalker hat.

"Sent to you." Feng Yuan said.

Haiyuan Ai reached out and touched the new hat on her head, then pulled it down and looked up.

"Holmes' hat? Not Watson's?"

"Why do you always want to be Watson? No one wants to be Sherlock Holmes..."

"Excluding Watson himself," Huihara Ai retorted, "Watson definitely doesn't want to be Sherlock Holmes, he just wants to be Watson..."

"Where's the evidence?"

"The proof is that I think so."

Being pushed back by what he had said not long ago, Fengyuan found it difficult to refute, "But it's not bad to play a great detective once in a while, isn't it? Let's go, Miss Holmes..."

Haibara Ai adjusted the hat on her head, "I feel like you're a little weird today... Could it be that you did something too extreme?"

"No way! I'm always by your side..."

"Really?" Haiyuan glanced at Fengyuan suspiciously, "Then why are you acting like the Riddler today..."

…

Vauxhall Bridge.

The beautiful older woman that Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai met yesterday was still wearing a gray coat and a gray hat. She was lying on the railing and quietly looking at the river under the bridge.

It was afternoon now, the water surface was rippled, and the flowing river water seemed to have a huge attraction to draw her consciousness into it. It took a while for her to come back to her senses.

Akai Marie took a sip from the water glass in her hand.

She has been waiting here for a long time.

Just when she was about to take the last sip of water, she noticed from the corner of her eye a middle-aged man who also wore a gray hat and looked a little haggard walking towards her.

That was the person she had wanted to meet for a long time.

"Eh... you're probably too late, Wu Wu..."

"I'm sorry, Mary." The man who was called Wu Wu stopped two steps away, "It's been so long since we last met, I can't even remember where the old place we met was."

As he spoke, the man raised his head and glanced at a building not far away, "Directly in front of the SIS headquarters, Vauxhall Bridge, I completely forgot that this is the railing of the bridge."

"Then what?" Akai Marie asked, "Do you know who is the criminal who killed Haneda Koji?"

"No, I only know that it is a very huge organization. As a result, I was targeted by them and I had no choice but to escape desperately."

"Then why haven't you contacted me for more than ten years?"

"Didn't I tell you about the time we met on the street by chance before? When I escaped from those guys, I suffered a serious head injury. I lost my memory for a long time and wandered on the street..."

The man showed a nostalgic expression, "Thanks to meeting you, I finally recalled everything and returned to MI6 after a year. By the way, have my sons come to London too?"

"No, I came with my daughter."

"Daughter?" The man was stunned for a moment.

"Oh, have you forgotten the daughter you hugged yourself?"

"Ah, the child...has grown up?"

"..."

The atmosphere on the court suddenly changed.

Akai Marie remained silent and did not respond, tears streaming down her eyes uncontrollably.

"What's wrong, Mary...why are you crying?"

The man asked her puzzledly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Akai Marie suddenly took out a pistol and pointed it at his head, "When Wu Wu and I separated, my daughter was still in my belly! Who are you?"

Then the next moment, two men dressed in black from top to bottom were behind her and pointed guns at her.

"That's right..."

The "man" slowly took off his disguise, revealing Belmode's face. She also held a red and white capsule in her hand, "I am not Akai Mutake, I am using this medicine to poison you." woman."

The situation reversed in an instant, and Akai Mari allowed the man behind her to take away her pistol and made a gesture of surrender.

"Intelligence agent of MI6, I finally caught you." Belmore showed off the mask he had just torn off, "Since a long time ago, I have been wandering around this street regularly, wearing your husband's face. "

"That's it. You specifically asked my colleagues to see you and send a message to me to lure me to this country to confirm whether it was you. In order to prevent me from finding out that this was a trap, you pretended to meet me by chance. God, it took you three full years."

"Yes, we want to bring the dead Akai Mutake back to MI6, but his suddenly missing wife has become an obstacle to achieving this."

"Indeed, if it were me, like today, I could tell whether it was my husband or not, and whether it was the Thousand Faced Witch in disguise..."

Akai Marie paused, "But, it's really a pity. I have already told MI6 that if I don't go back when the time comes, Akai Takeru will be a fake. I also told my daughter to let her leave London."

"Then how about pretending to be you and going to see your daughter?"

"Hmph, it's as if you know where my daughter is. You don't even know my daughter exists, how could you possibly know it."

"That's right..." Belmore put the capsule in his mouth, "It seems that infiltrating MI6 will have to wait until another opportunity."

Belmode grabbed Akai Marie's chin.

"Then, let me achieve another goal first..."

She said and suddenly kissed Akai Marie.

The capsule that was originally in her mouth was put into Akai Marie's mouth. Akai Marie, who could not recover for a while, swallowed the capsule subconsciously.

Akai Marie covered her throat, but it was too late.

"Erase the existence of Akai Marie... As long as you are alive, we will find it inconvenient." Belmore looked at Akai Marie with a smile, showing a slightly curious expression, "How about being killed by the poison made by your sister? a feeling of…"

After Belmode's words fell, Akai Marie in front of her felt her heart suddenly beat violently, and then it seemed as if it was being held tightly.

She felt intense pain that seemed to be melting all over her body, and she couldn't help shouting. This kind of pain made her unable to support her body anymore, and she fell into the river.

…

Meanwhile, in the hotel suite.

The trip to London was coming to an end, and Maplehara knew it clearly.

He and Haibara Ai's luggage was simple, and there was nothing to pack. However, before leaving for the airport, they needed to take the antidote again to look like high school students, and then cross-dress.

Fengyuan checked for the last time that nothing was left behind. Haiyuan Ai took out the small box containing the antidote from his arms, took out two blue and white capsules, and closed the suitcase with his other hand, "Your solution medicine--"

"Haihara," Fengyuan was slightly startled, "Are you going to change back in the bathroom... and then directly change your clothes?"

"Yes, there is a mirror there," Hui Yuan Ai replied casually, and then looked at Feng Yuan suspiciously again, "What, do you want to come together?"

Although he really wanted to, after suffering the loss last time, Fengyuan still confessed honestly: "No...but..."

"Pervert." Hui Yuan Ai protected his chest, looking wary.

"..."

Although he still couldn't avoid it, Haiyuan's appearance was too cute, so Fengyuan didn't feel depressed.

only…

If Haibara changes clothes directly in the bathroom, it means that she will look like Kudo Yukiko again when she comes out...

In this case, he still couldn't see Miyano Shiho.

"but what?"

Hui Yuan Ai put down her suitcase and moved closer, seeming to be very interested.

Fengyuan hesitated for a moment, feeling that he could not miss this rare opportunity just because of embarrassment, so after doing some quick psychological preparation for himself, he spoke: "I want to see your true self."

"oh."

"Hey, hey, you promised before..."

"Ah," Haiyuan Ai showed a hint of cunning, "Does Mr. Detective really want to see my true form?"

Feng Yuan felt his heartbeat begin to speed up.

He really wanted to see her, wanted to see her in her entirety - from Haihara Ai to Miyano Shiho.

"I do, I really do," Fengyuan admitted frankly. But he felt that his voice was not like his own and became erratic.

He originally just wanted to get a chance to see Miyano Shiho, but as he asked questions and Haibara Ai gradually came closer, he felt that things were a little out of control.

"Then...why?"

Haiyuan Ai leaned in front of Fengyuan, and the tips of their noses were almost touching.

She looked into his eyes seriously and found it very interesting. She could read a hint of panic in it... This was the first time she saw him with such an expression...

Feng Yuan was slightly lost in thought as he looked at those ice blue eyes.

Why do I want to see what Miyano Shiho looks like...

He knows very well.

"I--"

Feng Yuan spoke, then swallowed his words.

He had trouble controlling himself.

He once thought that in order to be able to look at her unscrupulously again, he would do a lot of things that he knew he shouldn't do...

Like now...

He had never wanted to express his feelings so urgently. Haihara Ai's breath seemed to be blowing directly on his heart, making it difficult for him to maintain that delicate balance.

The string is broken.

Really broken.

In Feng Yuan's view, all events have three elements, namely people, time and place.

It's an ordinary afternoon now... The location is just in a hotel room... It's neither Tsutsugawa nor the doctor's doorstep...

Not commemorative at all.

But as long as you are with the right person, the time and place are always right.

Maplehara tried to speak again.

A hint of panic flashed in Haiyuan Ai's icy blue eyes.

She just wanted to tease him, just like she did before, when the expression he showed inadvertently made it clear to her that he was not very good at hiding his thoughts...

Like now, he has never been so easy to understand.

Just like Masked Superman has long known that the female spy has fallen in love with him, the female spy has also known that Masked Superman has fallen in love with her.

However, she obviously underestimated his desire to see her true appearance...

She played off.

Hui Yuan Ai couldn't help but clenched her hands slightly, remembering that she still held two blue and white capsules in her hands.

Who are you talking to?

Is it Haiyuan Ai? Or Miyano Shiho?

Hui Yuan Ai bit her lips and lowered her eyes.

"Because I like-"

Feng Yuan's words stopped abruptly.

The touch on his lips caused his mind to go blank for a moment.

It’s different than expected…

This feeling is not cold, but extremely hot...

This is of course, because at this time, Haiyuan Ai's body is exuding scalding heat, and his whole body is like a furnace.

He could clearly see the cunning, nervousness and pain mixed in her eyes...

And myself.

Time seemed to have stopped flowing.

If he didn't subconsciously swallow the thing that was put into his mouth.

My heart, which I had forgotten to beat, trembled violently, as if it was being clenched tightly. His whole body seemed to be steaming, and there was severe pain deep in every bone...

Haiyuan Ai lowered his head, and under his soft brown hair, his head rested on Feng Yuan's chin. Her body was shaking because of the severe pain that was about to change back, and her hands were holding Feng Yuan's clothes tightly.

This is just great…

Although the time and place are different, even if several lifetimes pass by, he will probably never forget today...

Inexplicable thoughts emerged from his mind, and Kaedehara's brain was in a mess. He couldn't even confirm whether he was Kaedehara Sora or Kudou Shinichi, or whether the girl in front of him was Haibara Ai or Miyano Shiho, before he started again. Finished.

or…

He is both Kaedehara Sora and Kudo Shinichi.

She is both Ai Haihara and Shiho Miyano.

so--

"I love you, Haiyuan."

"I love you, Shiho."