Conan Moslin

There was a commotion outside the door, with calls and notifications coming one after another.

While the Beika Police Station was receiving an emergency call from the hospital and transferring it to a police officer who happened to be nearby in pursuit of Kid, Kuriyasu and Kaito quickly started communicating with the help of the dim night light.

To be more precise, Li An was writing furiously, and Kaito was replying while reading the words.

"Today's gemstone... is it in Dongdu Tower?" Li An took a piece of paper and twisted the ink on the tip of the pen so that the pen could write more evenly. "How is the situation?"

Kaito thought of something and tutted in disgust: "Except for a certain troublesome guy... nothing special."

Ok.

Maybe it was his classmates who were competing with him in wits and courage?

Li An thought of a boy in a deerstalker hat whom he had met before. However, seeing that Kaito didn't want to talk about it, he didn't ask any more questions.

She turned her pen and changed the subject.

"You coming to the hospital now is a bit conspicuous."

"Don't worry, I've thought about it." Kaito gathered his props and borrowed Kuriyasu's disguise bag to put on a strange face. "Even if Uncle Nakamori is very angry, he won't break into the hospital right away."

Li An looked towards the next room in silence.

……

"Uncle, today, I have to stay in the hospital to take care of Uncle Maori!"

Conan was kneeling on a stool beside the bed, carefully putting away a crumpled piece of paper, and then earnestly assuring the somewhat tired Mouri Kogoro.

"Really... Thank you so much, Conan." Kogoro Mouri responded weakly.

He had just taken medicine and was lying on the hospital bed with his head tilted back, so sleepy that his eyes were almost closed.

Shirai, the attending physician in charge of Kogoro Mori, had just left, and it had become dark outside the window.

When he heard the knock on the door again, he reflexively looked at the electronic alarm clock on the bedside table, then tilted his head and looked outside the door.

Strange, no one should come now.

Are you a nurse?

If it was a nurse, she would have opened the door and come in directly.

Conan also heard the sound, he jumped off the chair and ran to open the door.

It was Kuroba Kuriyasu who saw that Conan's mood suddenly became unhappy.

"Sister Li An... ? Why are you here?" Conan was obviously a little surprised about Li An's visit.

It seems that Huibara didn’t tell him today...that she came to the hospital.

Besides, isn't she recovering soon?

Li An was wearing a striped hospital gown that was a little too big for her. Although she looked a little pale, her smile was as gentle as usual.

If you look closely, there might even be a hint of bitterness.

She greeted Conan, pointed to her throat and shook her head, indicating that she couldn't speak at the moment, and then handed him the notebook.

Conan was stunned for a moment and took the notebook from her.

"Uncle, Sister Li An said that she can't speak now, but she heard that you are here so she came to visit."

Li An walked in, nodded apologetically to Maori Kogoro who stood up, pointed at the notebook, and signaled Conan to turn to the next page.

"Sister Li An lives next door. If you have any questions, you can go to her."

"That's right..."

Conan turned the page and continued to act as a mouthpiece.

"Sister Li An heard from the nurse about what happened recently and wanted to see if there is anything she can do to help."

no respond.

Li An saw that Kogoro Mori's eyelids had completely drooped.

She looked at Conan, silently took back her notebook, and wrote: "Have you checked Mr. Maori's matter?"

Conan nodded and lowered his voice.

"I found some evidence, but I don't know what the man is going to do."

……

"elder sister?"

"Kuroba Kuriyasu! Are you listening?!"

Li An quickly came back to his senses, looking a little apologetic.

"I've been having trouble concentrating lately, sorry."

Kaito quietly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to talk about what he had found out.

"I heard a piece of news from the fight with Snake I met before." Because of the change of clothes, his voice became rougher and he lowered his voice. "Sister, that organization seems to be looking for 'Tiger's Sorrow'."

"Ah."

Li An nodded seriously and drew a circle on the notebook.

"So, how are you going to deal with Tiger's Sorrow?"

"..."

"Do you want to give it to the police?" Kaito looked at the thoughtful expression on her face and pointed at himself. "I can deliver it."

"No."

Li An shook his head affirmatively.

"The whereabouts of the gemstone are special, so it's better for you not to get involved with it."

"Don't worry, I can handle it."

She has indeed been considering sending Tiger's Sorrow away recently.

Need to consider...At that time, she used the name and identity of Hirota Masami to conduct the transaction with Guihu.

This has been implemented by the police.

However, if "Hirota Masami" is dead, then the most likely place for this gemstone is "Hirota Masami's" accomplice, or the accomplice's accomplice, or the accomplice's accomplice's accomplice...

Um...never mind, it's okay.

If we ignore these considerations...there should be one or two other ways.

Destroy, or...

Looking for a “next home”?

"Okay." After receiving Li An's assurance, Kaito nodded trustingly, "As long as you have an idea."

He had no idea that Li An was already planning to throw the gem into the sea to feed the fish.

So the matter came to an end.

Kaito suddenly thought of something and his face wrinkled into a bitter gourd.

"Let's not talk about this, sister. You didn't even tell me that you were sick. Mom even asked me to watch over you and take care of yourself. How can I explain this to her..."

Li An had already started to think about throwing the "stone" route, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but look up and glare at him.

Kaito knew what she wanted to say at a glance, and agreed without much sincerity: "Okay, okay, I won't tell mom..."

It was so insincere that she couldn't bear to watch it.

At this moment, the sound of flapping wings came from outside the window.

Li An gently lifted the curtain and took out a card from the slightly opened window.

She glanced back at her brother who had just finished changing his clothes, thought for a moment, and reached out to roll up his sleeves.

"The hospital-issued hospital gowns are relatively large, so it's better to roll them up."

"Something seems to have happened outside just now. Wait until most people have left before going out. Be careful."

After writing these two sentences and making sure that he had read them, Li An closed the notebook with one hand and put the card inside.

Kaito nodded.

Li An handed the notebook to Kaito and asked him to take it away and destroy it, and was about to go out with the notebook he had used for the whole morning.

"Wait."

Kaito called out to her.

Li An withdrew his hand that had just touched the door handle, looked back and motioned for him to continue speaking.

Although he had an unfamiliar sickly face, his tone softened.

"Sister... you must be very tired recently."

Li An was stunned for a moment.

"Hand out."

Kaito snapped his fingers.

Snapped.

A mint candy fell into her hand from an inconspicuous place on the ceiling.

"A gift to wish you a healthy you in advance." Kaito crossed his arms and grinned, "Same as before, right?"

Li An peeled off the candy wrapper.

She pressed her throat, her voice so weak that it was almost inaudible.

Kaito read her lips.

“Great gift.”