Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away

Japan, Dr. Agasa's home.

Conan looked at the email he had just received on his phone with confusion. The email was sent to him by Akikawa Sarina, asking him not to contact her and Mr. Amuro for a while...

What happened?

Ai Huihara, who was passing by with a cup of coffee, looked at Conan, who was suddenly staring at his phone with a frown in thought, "What's wrong?"

Hearing her question, Conan put away his phone, "Nothing, it's just that Ms. Akikawa told me not to contact her and Mr. Amuro. Most likely, they haven't completed their mission yet, right?"

His tone was relaxed and there was a smile on his face, as if this matter was really nothing to worry about.

Haibara Ai looked at Conan again, without any response to his answer, and continued walking towards the basement with her coffee.

Neither the great detective nor those two people were people she needed to worry about. Each of them had big ideas and were capable of protecting themselves.

Instead of worrying about these people, she might as well spend more time on her two current key research projects.

She has temporarily reached a dead end with the current antidote for APTX-4869, and this holiday she is busy trying to find a way to continue strengthening Akikawa's physique.

After someone comes back, she still has to ask her for another physical examination report at this stage. She needs to see how effective the last medication was.

After Haibara Ai returned to the basement, Conan took out his mobile phone again. He looked at the short line of words on the phone and fell into deep thought again.

"Shinichi?" Dr. Agasa put down the welding tools in his hand, took off his goggles and looked at Conan, "What happened?"

Based on his understanding of Shinichi, Shinichi must have sensed something was wrong which is why he had this expression.

Conan's face was expressionless. He looked at Dr. Agasa and said solemnly, "Yesterday when I was at home, I accidentally heard Mr. Okiya making a phone call. He said something that concerned me. I suspect that something big must have happened to Ms. Akikawa and Mr. Amuro..."

Dr. Agasa glanced in the direction of the basement and said, "No wonder I didn't tell Ai. If she knew that something happened to Akikawa-san..."

Conan also looked in the direction of the basement, then jumped off the chair and said to Dr. Agasa: "I'll go home and ask Mr. Okiya."

Maybe we can get some news.

Dr. Agasa looked at the back of the man who ran away with a worried look in his eyes, but finally he sighed, picked up his tools again and continued to work.

Akikawa Sarana stopped on the side of a street and sent an email to Conan. After sending it, she turned around and stared at the bustling crowd coming and going outside.

Christmas had just passed, and the streets and alleys here still retained the festive atmosphere. If it weren't for this sudden change, she and Ling had originally planned to celebrate their first Christmas and New Year after their reunion, but now...

Thinking of the events that had happened in recent days, Akikawa Sarina's misty blue eyes were tinged with gloom. She was completely different from the harmless person she appeared in front of her lover, relatives and friends. At this moment, she was like a snowy mountain stained with ink.

Having been immersed in the organization for many years, she has more or less learned a lot of its methods. It is impossible for a person to not be corrupted at all.

The organization's behavior this time really touched her bottom line. They actually conducted experiments on her lover. This was more unacceptable to her than anything that had happened to her before, especially when she knew that the original experimental subject was her, not Zero...

Akikawa Sarana still doesn't dare to think about what would have happened if she had done nothing yesterday.

There was a flash of determination in her eyes. It seemed that the plan she had abandoned after reuniting with Zero could be restarted.

In the hotel parking lot, Zhu Fujingguang looked at the passenger seat, who looked surprised and a little scared. He asked with a little confusion, "Did you forget to take something?"

Natsuho Arano, who saw for the first time what her host looked like when she was really angry, was brought back to her senses by the voice of Keimitsu Morobushi.

She swallowed and turned to look at Zhu Fu Jingguang who was looking at her with concern, "No, I took them all. I just thought of something else that has nothing to do with this mission."

If it were any other time, she might have asked her host in her consciousness, but now seeing that her host really looked like he was going to kill someone... Tongzi was a little afraid to speak.

Zhu Fu Jingguang looked at Niino Xiasui again, and thought of what You Xunran had said before, so he didn't ask any more questions.

He is not a fool, and because they are all behind the scenes, he has collaborated with Niino Natsuho many times and has long discovered that she is sometimes strange. But Zero once hinted to him not to explore it. Adhering to his trust in Zero, he just pretended that he didn't notice anything.

......

In the supermarket, Akikawa Sarana and Amuro Toru, who had already picked out snacks and drinks, came to the seasoning area.

Akikawa Sarina looked at Amuro Toru who was choosing mayonnaise. After blowing up the kitchen a few more times, Akikawa Sarina stopped challenging herself and asked curiously, "So what is the difference between them?"

She was asking about the two different types of mayonnaise in Toru Amuro's hand.

Amuro Toru seemed to still have an impression of his girlfriend's cooking skills. He suppressed his laughter and said, "The one on the left will taste more mellow, and the one on the right will taste sweeter..."

As he spoke, he put the mayonnaise in his right hand into the shopping cart. As if he was not confident in his memory, Amuro Toru put the seasoning bottle into the shopping cart and asked, "Sarina prefers sweeter flavors, right?"

Akikawa Sarina nodded, and when he bent down to put something away, she kissed him on the side of his face, "Yes, this is a reward for kissing your boyfriend."

Noticing his slightly shining eyes, Akikawa Sarana looked at him with a smile, "Don't worry, the me in your memory is me. What I like and dislike, as long as you still remember, is correct."

Her preferences have always been very fixed, and have hardly changed since she was a child, whether it's people or anything else...

Looking at the man who had bright eyes and pretended to be calm, but was actually shy if you looked closely, Akikawa Sarana moved closer to him and tilted her head slightly, "Apart from the influence of your memories, now you...would you dislike me like this?"

She could see from his learning memory that Bourbon was at ease with relationships between men and women.

Akikawa Sarana guessed that when Zero used the honey trap on someone for the first time after receiving undercover training, he was probably in this state of seemingly being able to do it with ease, but actually being completely at a loss.

Amuro Toru pursed his lips, he looked down at his girlfriend, thinking of his girlfriend trying to be honest with him, "I like... I like the intimacy between you, Sarina."

Whether it was his physical instinct or the emotions in his memory, they all urged him to hold the person in front of him in his arms and not reject any intimate contact with her...

But he felt that it was a little bit strange. People like them who were in the underworld... was it really right to value feelings so much?

Whether it was him or the girlfriend in front of him, the two of them really looked like people who had accidentally walked into the wrong place from the Pure Love set next door and ended up on the Gangster Storm set where they were now.

Hearing his frank answer, Akikawa Sarina's smile unconsciously deepened a little. She looked at Amuro Toru with a smile, who answered her question and then became distracted because he suddenly thought of something.

"Are you distracted again?"

Akikawa Sarana waved her hand in front of his eyes, and after seeing him come to his senses, she lowered her voice and said, "If you have any questions, you can ask me directly. Don't make it too hard on yourself."

"I was just thinking..."

Toru Amuro had a gentle expression. He raised his hand to tuck his girlfriend's hair, which was a little scattered due to the previous action, behind her ears. Then he lowered his head to her ear and told Akikawa Sarana what he had just been thinking about in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"Pfft~" Upon hearing what he was thinking just now, Akikawa Sarina couldn't help laughing out loud, and threw herself into his arms.

Amuro Toru put his arm around his girlfriend. When he heard the laughter of the person in his arms, his eyes shifted slightly. After saying it, he also felt that what he just thought was a little funny...

After Akikawa Sarina had laughed enough, she nodded seriously and said, "But what you said makes sense. It seems we did go to the wrong set."

As she spoke, she looked up and winked at her boyfriend, with the teasing look in her eyes very obvious.

Amuro Toru's eyes wandered for a moment, "By the way, I also need to buy basil sauce..."

Seeing that he was deliberately changing the subject, Akikawa Sarana stopped teasing him and took a step back, signaling her boyfriend to continue choosing condiments.

After watching Toru Amuro continue to immerse himself in selecting condiments, Akikawa Sarana glanced at the condiments on the shelf and found some that looked familiar, as if she had seen them in her kitchen at home in Japan.

She sighed in her heart. Although Ling used to cook Western food, he would refuse if he could. Today, the seasonings were lying next to him, and he just glanced at them casually...

Can hypnosis and brainwashing really change a person's taste? Akikawa Sarana was scratching her head anxiously.

The two of them didn't have too many things to buy. They wouldn't stay here for too long this time. They would leave in three or four days at most. They bought things because they didn't want to spend the New Year outside and wanted to spend it at home. So, there weren't too many things to buy, mainly because Akikawa Sarina's kitchen had nothing in it except tableware.

The two of them picked and chose, and after choosing the seasonings, they bought some ingredients and fruits, and finally selected the pots and pans.

Finally, the two who didn't plan to buy too much at first pushed four full shopping carts to the checkout counter to check out. Although they could also choose to wait for the delivery at home, they still preferred the atmosphere of shopping in the supermarket with each other.

......

Two days later, early in the morning.

"do not want!"

Akikawa Sarina, who was awakened from a nightmare, sat up suddenly. She raised her eyes to look at the space around her, with a hint of fear still in her eyes. The room was so quiet at this time that the only sound she could hear was her own heartbeat.

After realizing that all the previous horrific experiences were just dreams and that she was now at home in Los Angeles, Akikawa Sarina heaved a long sigh of relief and raised her hand to casually push back her sweat-soaked hair.

She touched the place beside her out of habit. It was still warm, not completely cold. She calculated the time and thought her boyfriend should still be doing morning exercises.

After a while, Akikawa Sarana reached out for the mobile phone on the bedside table. In addition to the time, she saw an unread email from Vermouth.

Akikawa Sarana opened the email. There was nothing else in the email from Vermouth. It just said that she had brought people to the United States and reminded her not to forget to bring Bourbon to the base for inspection tomorrow.

After casually replying "OK" to Vermouth, Akikawa Sarina threw her phone aside.

She got out of bed barefoot and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, then opened the curtains and looked outside.

The sky outside was gray and the clouds were very low, as if they would fall on everyone's head in the next second, making it difficult to breathe.

It looks like it's going to rain today. It's rare to have precipitation in Los Angeles in this season... Akikawa Sarana looked at the sky outside. There was no light in her eyes, and they gradually became empty.

She just dreamed...it seemed to be such weather, but the sky in the dream was darker than it is now, the air was also colder, and it was not raining but snowing in the dream.

Blood spilled on the snow, and the smell of blood mixed with the air after the snow...

Akikawa Sarana lowered her eyes, no longer looking at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and no longer thinking about the nightmare. She took a deep breath and turned to walk towards the bathroom.

What you think about during the day you will dream about at night. The reason she had this dream must be because she was too nervous recently, so she had such a nightmare without a beginning or an end.

Moreover, in her dream, she didn't even know whose blood was on the snow.

Akikawa Sarina, who had already promised her boyfriend and made an agreement with him, promised her dear boyfriend that she would try her best not to be stubborn and wasteful in the future, proved her progress with practical actions.

Walking into the bathroom, Akikawa Sarana turned on the shower, thinking to herself, maybe the blood in the dream was Unigu's...

She had cut two wounds on the other person a few days ago, and a lot of blood was seen at that time. The bloody smell in the dream should be this...

Or to take a step back, it could also be the blood of Karasuma Renya or the blood of Rum. She wanted to kill these two people so much that she couldn't wait to dream of such a scene.

In short, it is impossible, and it cannot be the blood of someone from their side.

There was no need for Natsuho Arano to find any way to comfort her, as Sarana Akikawa had already comforted herself and even planned to take a comfortable bath.