The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Wow, it's really you..."

"Shirley."

Chiyoko appeared silently behind Haibara Ai, with a black pistol pointed at the back of her head.

Haibara Ai paused, and the good mood she had just had after successfully playing a prank on the little detective disappeared in an instant, replaced by a heart full of fear and a hint of relief.

"The guy called Kudo Shinichi, did he survive the organization's hands?"

Haibara Ai hurriedly distanced herself from him as she didn't want to implicate innocent people because of herself.

"He's just a first-grade elementary school student. He has nothing to do with Kudo Shinichi!"

"Shirley, what made you so stupid and incoherent?" Chiyomi laughed sarcastically and pushed the gun in her hand a little harder.

"Look at what you look like now?"

Huihara Ai was speechless.

I'm sorry, Kudo, Doctor, you guys have to die with me...

"Goodbye, Shirley." Chiyoko put her index finger on the trigger and counted down three, two, one softly.

As he counted down, Haibara Ai's trembling body slowly stopped.

Instead, she prepared herself to die.

"Two, one..."

"Hahaha, I'm Kamen Rider!"

The weird transformation music sounded, but the expected explosion from the pistol did not come, and Haibara Ai opened her eyes hesitantly.

Chiyoko walked up to her, pointed the gun at her, and pulled the trigger again.

"Hahaha, I'm Kamen Rider!"

Waving her wrist to indicate that this was a toy gun, Chiyoko ignored Haibara Ai who was standing there in a daze, and walked towards the direction Conan left while licking her ice cream.

Only then did Haibara Ai come to her senses and chase after him.

But she didn't know how to react for a moment.

It seemed that the child heard the entire conversation between her and Conan, but she couldn't tell whether this person was a real child who was just trying to scare her for fun, or was really related to the organization.

After a long and tormenting journey, she still hadn't figured out how to start the conversation.

In a blink of an eye, we arrived at the doctor's house.

"I'm back." Haibara Ai nodded to the doctor, walked to the sofa and put down her schoolbag.

"Welcome back, Ai." Dr. Agasa greeted with a smile.

Conan looked dumbfounded.

He ran to the doctor's house with a sad heart, and saw the old man playing computer games enthusiastically.

"Hello, Dr. Agasa, I'm Chiyoko." The little silver-haired boy greeted politely, which would have been even better if he wasn't licking ice cream.

"Oh, hello." The doctor replied kindly.

"How was school?" he asked Haibara Ai who was packing her schoolbag.

"It's quite fun."

Conan squeezed out a pair of dead fish eyes and complained: "She played me around."

"You don't even know my address. You're really confused." The doctor complained.

"How would I know? I haven't sent you anything. I only sent you New Year's cards in person!"

Conan defended himself and then turned his attention to Haibara Ai who was sitting on the sofa reading a fashion magazine.

"By the way, Doctor, who is she?"

"Huh, you haven't asked her yet?" The doctor was surprised and glanced at Chiyoko who was staring at them intently, seeming a little embarrassed.

Chiyoko tactfully raised her hand and went to the bathroom: "Actually, you don't have to worry about me. After she's done, it'll be my turn."

Although he didn't understand what he meant, the doctor was relieved when he saw Chiyoko leave. He said, "She is an accomplice of the men in black. She became smaller by taking medicine just like you. If she didn't tell me, I wouldn't have known that it was a magical medicine that caused you to become smaller."

"Strange, she asked me not to tell you, saying she would tell you herself..."

"Wait, Doctor, how did she..."

Dr. Agasa began to show off the pseudonym he gave to Huihara Ai in a serious tone: "By the way, the name Huihara Ai was thought up by her and me by taking the name of a female detective."

"The "灰" in "灰原" comes from Cordelia Grey, and the "艾" in "艾" comes from V.I. Osiuski!"

He felt a little regretful: "Originally I suggested that she use 'love', it would be cuter..."

"That's not what I'm asking!" Conan yelled, "I'm asking why she's in your house!"

"I was picked up by the Doctor."

On the sofa, Huibara Ai spoke lightly, as if the person they were talking about was not herself.

The doctor wiped his sweat and said, "To be precise, it was Xiaolin who picked it up."

"I was found when I collapsed at your doorstep in the heavy rain."

Conan seemed to calm down a little, "You mean at my doorstep?"

Haibara Ai looked away from the magazine and glanced at Conan.

"Did you know that the organization once sent people to your home to investigate?"

"As the inventor of the drug, I was asked to take charge of this matter. The house was covered in dust and there was no sign of anyone living there, so I began to think that you were really dead."

Her tone became somewhat scary and she put down the magazine in her hand, as if she was recalling what happened that day.

"But at this moment, I just noticed something strange in the closet, it was creepy..."

“Those places where your childhood clothes were stored clearly showed signs of having been stored for a long time, but they were empty.”

"When I was doing animal experiments a long time ago, there was a little white mouse that did not die and successfully degenerated into a baby mouse. I was deeply impressed."

"So I guess that after taking APTX4869, Kudo Shinichi may have regressed into a child."

Conan's heart couldn't help but tremble when he heard this conclusion.

"The organization already knows that I've become smaller?"

"Thank me. I filled in the confirmation of death on your information."

She picked up the magazine again and said lightly, "You are a subject of great interest to me, so I want to keep you alive."

"If you report this to the organization, you will probably be killed before you get to me."

"But you are not completely safe. If they suddenly decide to recheck, they will find that the data was rewritten by me who betrayed the organization. So we cannot rule out the possibility that they will recheck your life or death."

Conan keenly caught a word.

"betray?"

Haibara Ai turned to a page about Fusa's limited edition bags and answered casually, like a question-answering robot.

"Yes, they arbitrarily used semi-finished drugs on humans during the experimental stage. This is one of the reasons why I am dissatisfied with the organization."

“But the biggest reason is my sister.”

"Sister?" Conan's eyes became sharp.

"My sister was killed by someone in the organization."

"A horrific explosion, no one was left alive..."

Her knuckles turned white from holding the magazine, leaving deep marks on the paper.

"After witnessing my sister's death, I didn't want to research drugs for them anymore. As a result, I was locked in the gas chamber of the research center to reflect on myself."

"At that time, I was completely hopeless and had no desire to live, so I swallowed the APTX4869 clipped in my collar..."

As she was talking, she suddenly froze.

Where did that medicine come from?

The image of Glenfiddich conjuring a lollipop from behind her collar appeared before her eyes.

It's him......

After a moment of trance, she continued as if nothing had happened: "I thought I would die, but fortunately, I also degenerated into a child."

She was then able to break free from the handcuffs and escape through a garbage chute.

"I have nowhere to go, so I can only rely on the so-called savior, Kudo Shinichi, that is you."

"Since we are in the same boat, I think you can understand me."

Conan was silent for a long time, digesting the large amount of information.

After a long while, he raised his head: "Your sister..."

"It was the explosion at the port, wasn't it?"

Huihara Ai nodded with dim eyes.

really.

Conan clenched his fists. The case of Miss Yamei had been filled with an unusual atmosphere from the very beginning, and the exaggerated explosion at the end directly declared that there was a big secret behind it.

Turns out it's related to those guys.

"Habara, as the inventor of this medicine, you must know how to make its antidote, right?"

Haibara Ai looked at Conan in surprise. The little detective was unusually calm at this moment.

"I thought you would rush up to me and call me a murderer, or accuse me of inventing a drug that ruined your life."

Conan took off his glasses and rubbed them hard, but he couldn't wipe away the tiny burn marks on them.

"I failed to save your sister, so I'm probably not in a position to blame you, right?"

"From another perspective, maybe I should thank you. Before I passed out, I saw Gin pull out a gun. Although I don't know why he gave up using the gun, if it weren't for the medicine you invented, I would probably have died in other ways, such as being strangled or something.

"Besides, you said it yourself, didn't you?"

"The purpose of the drug you invented should not be to kill people, otherwise we wouldn't have become smaller. It's just that the people in the organization took the half-finished failed product and used it as poison without authorization."

"If this was worth a trial, Oppenheimer would have cried."

Huibara Ai looked at him intently and couldn't help but put on a beautiful smile.

"The great detective is much more mature than I thought. I thought you were the type of childish, hot-blooded fool?"

"But the antidote can't be done in a short period of time."

She stood up and walked to the side, pulling out a newspaper from a few days ago.

There was a big headline about the fire that destroyed the pharmaceutical company, and a few sentences describing a gunfight.

"All data about APTX4869 has been destroyed."

"It's hard to say."

Chiyoko walked out holding the ice cream. The ice cream had been eaten up, leaving only a crispy shell. He bit off a piece of it.

"If the FBI acted quickly enough, they might have retained some of the data. After all, Gin and his team waited until they were completely evacuated before detonating the bomb."

Conan had an expression of "Who are you?" and he subconsciously looked at Haibara Ai, seeking her answer.

Haibara Ai just shook her head. She had no idea where this person came from.

As for whether he was related to the organization, her premonition didn't work.

But he knew gin.

Chiyoko spread her arms and said, "You two have finished your quarrel, right? It's my turn now."

"I am Subject No. 37. I have been kept in the research center for various experiments."

"These include, but are not limited to, developing brain potential, stimulating the body to promote growth and development, etc."

Facing the two people's strange looks, he continued, "On the day when the FBI stormed the research center, I happened to be conducting a resistance test for APTX4869. As a result, I was mistakenly diagnosed as dead and thrown into the morgue."

"As you know, I didn't die. Instead, I became smaller. I took advantage of the chaos between them to escape from the sewer. After I escaped, I saw a small figure running in front of me, so I followed it and ended up here."

"After Mr. Lin picked up Shirley, he turned around and saw me again. However, I was much stronger than Shirley and did not faint. So he took me in and stayed at his house."

"In order not to arouse his suspicion, I pretended that I had amnesia due to the shock, and kept saying things like 'Mom and Dad are dead'. He kept me and gave me the name Chiyoko."

"I originally planned to live my whole life in a daze, but since all of you are here to recognize your relatives, I decided to join in the fun."

Conan rubbed his temple, feeling like his brain was being raped.

Haibara Ai accepted this statement very easily.

"So overall, it can be considered a help, Great Detective?"

Chiyoko finished the remaining crispy shell in two bites and clapped her hands.

"Speaking of assistance, I can indeed help you in some ways."

He sat down on the sofa, looking at Conan and Haibara Ai, his eyes full of seriousness.

“I can predict the future.”