Conan: Naruto

"Okay... okay."

Kudo Shinichi remained in a bent posture without moving, not daring to turn his head to look at Dongfang Haoyue at all, for fear that his lips would accidentally meet and cause irreversible consequences.

Shinichi reached out to pick up the baseball, straightened up, turned around, and threw the baseball at Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya pretending nothing happened.

suddenly!

"Xinyi, look over there."

Dongfang Haoyue stood to the left of Kudeng Shinichi, looking solemnly at the villa that occupies a large area in the far distance in front of the left.

Xinyi was slightly taken aback, followed Haoyue's line of sight to the rightmost window on the second floor of the villa, and found...

A middle-aged man in a brown shirt held binoculars in front of his eyes, peering motionlessly at the trio of elementary school students on the construction site.

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Kudo Shinichi with a confused face, and asked for advice in bewilderment:

"Shinichi, why does that middle-aged man use binoculars to spy on Genta and the others?"

Kudo Shinkan looked at Dongfang Haoyue, and was about to guess.

"It's over!!"

Kojima Motota looked at the baseball flying outside the fence, and shouted eagerly:

"I actually hit the ball into the alley!!!"

"Really..."

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi heard this, put their hands on their foreheads in unison, and sighed deeply at the same time.

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1 minutes later.

In the alley where the group of five elementary school students passed by.

They scattered all over the alley, looking carefully for the baseball, but to no avail.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya stood beside the stone brick fence in the alley, turned around and looked at Kojima Genta who was standing next to the iron fence, and gave up resignedly:

"Can't find a baseball at all..."

"You said... did the baseball fly into the fence on the other side of the alley?"

Yoshida Ayumi stood not far behind Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, and tentatively pointed to the stone brick wall on the left.

Dongfang Haoyue stood behind Yuantai on the small island on the left, looked up at the tall villa far in front of the left, and found that the area covered by the stone brick wall was the courtyard of the villa, and thought in surprise:

"The baseball is in the courtyard of the villa where middle-aged men use it for peeping?"

"Maybe the baseball is really in the villa courtyard."

With his hands in his pockets, Kudo Shinichi walked to the right of Dongfang Haoyue, looking up at the villa thoughtfully.

Yoshida Ayumi turned to look at Shinichi, and seriously suggested:

"Conan, everyone, please ask the owner of the villa to bring out the baseball bat."

"So far, that's the only way."

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Yoshida Ayumi, and nodded in approval.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya looked at the small iron door inlaid in the middle of the stone brick wall, and hesitantly narrated:

"This should be the back door of the courtyard, I think... we'd better visit the owner of the villa from the front door of the courtyard."

"As we were running towards the construction site today, I saw the courtyard main entrance on the inside of the sidewalk."

Kudo Shinichi looked at Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko, and pointed the way seriously:

"We just turn around, run to the end of the alley, turn right onto the sidewalk, and go straight all the way to the courtyard entrance."

Kojima Yuanta looked at Dongfang Haoyue, and guessed worriedly:

"In case the owner is a vicious old man..."

"Don't worry~"

Dongfang Haoyue looked at Kojima Yuanta with a smile, and reassured her with a firm attitude:

"Although a middle-aged man was peeping at us from the second floor of the villa with binoculars just now, as long as I'm here, no one can hurt you!"

"Spy on us?"

Yoshida Ayumi looked at Dongfang Haoyue in surprise.

Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko looked at the villa and boldly guessed:

"Is he a bad guy?"

"Anyway, bad guys can't beat me, so don't think too much~"

Dongfang Haoyue dragged Kudo Shinichi to turn around, glanced at the system panel with rapidly rising energy points, ran to the corner of the alley ahead, and said inexplicably excitedly:

"Rush rush!!!"

"Good~~~!"

The trio of elementary school students looked at each other, and the timidity in their hearts disappeared instantly, and they followed Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi not far away in high spirits.

"Haoyue is a little excited."

Kudo Shinichi looked curiously at Dongfang Haoyue's handsome side face, and whispered thoughtfully:

"Because Haoyue thinks that the middle-aged man he will meet later will be a criminal, so he enjoys the satisfaction of arresting the bad guy in advance?"

"Strictly speaking, I don't enjoy the satisfaction of arresting bad guys.

Rather...the presence of the bad guy usually means that a crime has happened or is about to happen. "

Dongfang Haoyue dragged Kudo Shinichi to turn right into the sidewalk, and used the technique of light and heavy rocks to slightly lower the gravity of each other, so that Shinichi could talk while running effortlessly.

Haoyue looked at Xinyi, and whispered sincerely:

"Although cases often symbolize misfortune, someone has to solve the case, catch the criminal, and deliver justice.

Just now I thought that justice might be done again today, and I couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.

and......"

Dongfang Haoyue confirmed in a gentle whisper:

"Xinyi likes solving various cases the most, right~?"

"Haoyue..."

Kudo Shinichi's handsome face turned red instantly, he turned his head shyly, avoiding Dongfang Haoyue's sight.

Haoyue smiled contentedly, turned her head, looked ahead, and kept running at the speed of a primary school student.

As a result, Kudo Shinichi quickly regained his senses, and the blush on his face gradually dissipated.

He turned his head to look at Dongfang Haoyue, and explained solemnly in a low voice:

"I used to really enjoy solving crimes and looking forward to the satisfaction of catching the prisoner, and always put solving crimes as the most important thing.

But after the case of Asai Chengshi's near-suicide case, my thoughts have changed a bit. "

"I understand Shinichi's thoughts."

Dongfang Haoyue stopped outside the main gate of the courtyard made of more than a dozen iron vertical poles, looked at Kudo Shinichi who also stopped, and whispered earnestly:

"The former Shinichi would desperately solve the case, enjoying the satisfaction of the prisoner's desperation and the joy of the world's attention.

Today's Shinichi will definitely consider the feelings of all the people involved in the case before revealing the truth, and make sure that no one of them will commit suicide because of this. "

"Yes."

Kudo Shinichi moved to the right, shoulder to shoulder with Dongfang Haoyue, and explained in a solemn voice:

"If my reasoning pushes some people in the case to a dead end and commits suicide, then what is the difference between me and the murderer?

I always keep in mind...the purpose of trying to solve the case is to implement justice, so that the criminals will get the punishment they deserve according to the law, not to deprive the criminals of their lives in a high-sounding manner. "