Conan Moslin

Shoe cabinets are neatly arranged at the entrance of the school.

It's time to go home from school with all the laughter.

Haibara Ai was carefully looking for her locker. Just as she found it, she heard a friendly call from the corner.

"Haihara-san!"

She turned her head and saw the girl named Ayumi.

"Excuse me, where is your home? You just moved here, right?" Facing Haibara, a classmate who had just transferred to the school, Ayumi seemed very enthusiastic.

Mitsuhiko poked his head out from the other direction and smiled: "It's okay. If you are not familiar with the area, we can take you home!"

Because he had been ignored before, Yuan Tai, who was sitting across a row of shoe cabinets, grumbled unhappily while opening his own shoe cabinet: "Really... why are you putting on so much airs?"

There is a picture on the shoe cabinet that shows the Junior Detective Team accepting commissions, but no students have ever come to take on any commissions.

"Yuta...you can't treat new classmates like this." Ayumi was a little dissatisfied.

"Yes...I'm sorry..."

Hearing what they said, Huibara Ai raised the corners of her lips slightly.

She turned around, facing the group of energetic children in front of her, and Conan who was standing silently at the back and seemed a little helpless. She put her hands behind her back and gently spit out an address.

"Number 23, Beika-cho 2nd Street."

“This is where I live now.”

"Hey? Wait a minute..." Conan, who had been silent, was a little surprised. "Your home is in... Muma Village?"

Because of some past blunders, Conan is extremely sensitive to this address.

Muma Manor is the home of Kuroba Kuriyasu.

"Oh?" Huiyuan opened the closet door and stood on tiptoe to take out her shoes. "It sounds like you are very familiar with that place."

Conan rolled his eyes internally.

Of course, not to mention that it was near his home, he was picked up there as soon as he became small.

"Strange, I haven't heard that Sister Li An has moved... Why are you living there?"

"This..." Haibara Ai raised her head slightly, as if recalling something.

"Hey! Everyone from the Junior Detective Team! I found a letter of commission in the shoe cabinet!"

The abrupt conversation interrupted her thoughts.

……

That rainy night a few days ago.

The familiar night, the familiar rain, the familiar feeling of returning to the living room of Trojan Manor with an umbrella and a child in hand.

After picking up the shrunken Kudo Shinichi, Soraki Yuko, who had just visited Dr. Agasa, once again successfully picked up the shrunken Miyano Shiho.

The girl, who was completely exhausted, collapsed at the door of Dr. Agasa's house.

After preparing a hair dryer, a blanket, some ill-fitting clothes and warming hot tea with ease, Yuko Sora took the time to send a message to Kurian.

[I said, are you planning to open a kindergarten? ]

Why do you always ask her to pick up the kids and take them home?

Hearing the noise upstairs, Jun Aso walked out of the bedroom and looked down from the railing.

There was absolutely no special reaction when seeing yet another child being brought home.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Aso Jun went back to sleep indifferently.

When the warm tea slowly cooled down, the child sleeping on the sofa had not yet woken up, and Li An still did not respond.

Apparently, she was not in a good condition.

Youko yawned, but instead of forcing herself to wait for someone despite feeling sleepy, she went upstairs to rest first.

Well, she would get the answer eventually.

Halfway up the stairs, she thought about it and decided to go downstairs and carry the girl wrapped in a blanket to the third empty bedroom upstairs.

Sister Li An probably won’t be able to come back tonight, and she will catch a cold if she stays here alone.

Because it was once a rental apartment, there are four rooms upstairs in Mumazhuang. Except for the innermost room which is used to store sundries, the other three are bedrooms and are connected to the huge balcony on the second floor.

Although it sounds cramped, there is actually plenty of space in each room.

Because it has been vacant for a long time, the curtains of this bedroom are drawn and there is nothing decent inside, only an ordinary soft bed, a desk, a bookshelf and a small dressing room.

After taking a quilt from the cloakroom and covering the sleeping child, Youko went back to her room to rest.

I don’t know how long it was, but Miyano Shiho, who was curled up in the corner of the big bed, suddenly opened her eyes as if frightened.

The unfamiliar ceiling and the somewhat cold room, she sat up and looked around in a daze.

In front of me was a clean bedroom, and no one was in the room.

But that terrifying feeling still exists.

I stepped carefully on the cold floor with my bare feet, pushed the door open and looked downstairs through the railing.

There seemed to be a sound downstairs.

……

When Li An returned to Trojan Horse Village, the sky was already turning white.

The rain had stopped for a while, but her brand new raincoat was still wet.

Entering from the entrance hall, you will see the stairs leading to the second floor. The corridor next to the stairs is divided into two paths, one leading to the living room, and the other longer corridor leads to Li An's bedroom.

It is a relatively independent space.

There is also a door in the living room leading to the study, from which you can also return to the bedroom. However, the study is usually locked.

In addition, the rooms on the first floor include a living room, kitchen, and bathroom. There is a garage behind the house, which is used by Li An to store some normal magic props.

This is Mu Ma Manor, where she has lived for the past year.

Last night, after confirming that Miyano Shiho was missing, Kurian and Smino received orders to change their addresses immediately, and soon received news from the person in charge of the action team.

[I will take over the rest of the work. - Piske]

Smino didn't say much when he left for the new institute.

Even if he is about to receive some punishment, Blanco needs to continue to be under his supervision.

But what he meant was that Kasi might be implicated and investigated because he passively provided the car that Shirley used to escape.

Although Kasi said he didn't care without any hesitation, he turned around and immediately set fire to the research institute behind him.

Smirnoff: ...

Fires caused by short circuits in electrical wiring are difficult to extinguish immediately.

The blazing flames collided with the gradually stopping rain, and the rising mist spread far and wide.

Smino, who got on the car sent by Pisk to pick him up, saw Kasi standing alone outside the gate, smiling brightly, just like last time.

Does she really...not care?

……

Of course Li An didn't care.

After refusing the car sent by Pisco to pick him up, Li An carefully cleaned up all traces of himself in the vicinity, shook off the people sent by Pisco to track him, walked through the streets and alleys to avoid every surveillance camera nearby, changed his appearance twice, and took three taxis before he returned to the vicinity of Trojan Village.

Pisco and Vermouth don't have a good relationship. In order to avoid being angered, it would be safer for her to stay away from this person.

Li An walked through the alley near his home, went to a convenience store to buy some things, and finally returned home.

After pushing the door open and entering the house, Li An did not go directly back to the bedroom to rest, but went through the living room to the kitchen and stuffed the purchased food and some fruits into the refrigerator.

When she came out of the kitchen, she saw Miyano Shiho walking down the stairs to the living room.