I'm on the scramble

In order to survive under the gossiping eyes of these women, Ah Li decided that it would be the best policy to change the subject urgently.

"By the way, since we met by such a coincidence, Xiaolan and Yuanzi, do you want to go to the hot spring with us?"

Anyway, there are many people and it is lively, so A Li made this invitation to them.

The two pure female high school students seemed to be quite interested in this proposal, they looked at each other and nodded excitedly.

"We just want to go soaking too!"

Just after finishing speaking, the girl with bangs slanting to the point suddenly remembered the responsibility of taking care of the children, and a worried expression appeared on her face.

"But Conan..."

The two men who were walking with them understood the atmosphere very cooperatively in this situation, and Jiang Gu Lingshou showed them a reassuring smile.

"In this case, how about I take Conan to the hot spring? With me taking care of it, you two should feel at ease."

And Conan also wisely made a promise that he would be obedient.

"Sister Xiaolan, don't worry, I will follow Brother Amuro and not run around. It is Sister Li, since people from the detective agency appear here, it means that Mr. Ranpo is also here, right! He is staying at the Is it in the hot spring? Can I meet Ranpo-san?"

A little fan of a famous detective couldn't wait to stand on tiptoe and tug on the sleeves of Ah Li's bathrobe, looking up at her eagerly, trying to be cute with all his strength.

A high school detective wearing the shell of elementary school student Edogawa Conan obviously knows that if he wants to get in close contact with his idol, it is the most accurate and quickest way to find that famous detective Ome.

...Although, if he uses one ten-thousandth of his current emotional intelligence on himself, he won't have to go so long with his childhood sweetheart.

However, Ah Li was very pleased with his performance, squatting down here happily, hugging his head and rubbing around.

"As expected of Ranpo's number one fan! When I got here, he was the first thing I thought of, so cute——"

Ah Li was in a good mood, so he leaned over and kissed Conan's cheek. For some reason, he felt that his whole body was instantly stiffened by the shock.

——It must be shy!

Completely unaware that he had guessed wrongly and unconsciously dug a hole for himself, Ah Li had a happy face, and then turned his head to look at his companions, asking for their opinions.

"I think Ranpo and the others are already in the hot spring. Anyway, we are all traveling together, why don't we all have dinner together tonight? Akiko, what do you think?"

They didn't have any objection to this, as long as Jinghua had soup and tofu, Zhimei with a warm personality put her hands together and said with a smile: "It's okay, it just needs more people to be more lively to make it fun."

And Xie Ye smiled meaningfully: "It's just that I'm afraid that you may not adapt to the atmosphere of getting along with our detective agency."

(Not quite used to their getting along...atmosphere?)

Hearing this advice, Conan and his party couldn't help but become pea-eyed.

There is always a sense of foreboding.

Then, Ali and the others, who had no worries, took the newly joined Xiaolan and Yuanzi to the bathing place together.Crossing a wooden bridge, the entrance to the open-air hot spring is on the opposite side of the bridge. Two pieces of pink and blue curtains with "men and women" printed on them are hung in front of the entrance to block.

Ah Li, who saw this scene, was inexplicably relieved, but at the same time felt a little bit disappointed.

"Fortunately, there is no mixed bath..."

In other words, there is no random step for the time being.

Apart from this, at least not having a mixed bath saved her a lot of trouble.After standing at the entrance of the hot spring for a while, Ah Li was pushed across the curtain by Yingying and Yanyan, and rushed into the dressing room together.

"Anyway, go ahead and enjoy!"

The lighting in the dressing room is a warm yellow color. When you walk in and look around, the most conspicuous thing is the wooden cabinet placed close to the wall. The bathrobes that the guests change can be put into the bamboo basket of the cabinet for storage. .

"Ms. Li and Mr. Ranpo left early, so I didn't hear the waitress explain the thermal facilities and effects in the villa. In addition to healing the pain, the hot spring water here also has the effect of beauty and skin care. As for the mixed bath now It is almost eliminated, and it seems to be the reason why women in mixed baths are easily harassed."

Naomi, who was undoing her belt, said with some regret, "It's a pity that I can't enjoy the hot spring with my brother."

"Could it be that we can't satisfy you? You can't be too greedy, Naomi."

The loose bathrobe was scattered on the ground, Ah Li opened his small canine teeth, and quickly turned into a white shadow and rushed towards Naomi to avenge his previous stripping.

"Ah! Miss Li, don't want it, you are so bad——"

"Heh heh heh, no one will come to save you even if you yell and break your throat!"

The atmosphere of joy seemed to be infinitely contagious. Several girls started to act afterward, and their bathrobes were ripped everywhere. In the end, they quickly threw the bathrobes into the bamboo basket, wrapped themselves in bath towels with a smile, and ran away.

Before entering the hot spring, you must wash your body first. The open-air hot spring has its own shower equipment, so they first sit on the bench and wash each other's backs. The clear water channel came to the edge of the steaming hot spring.

This hot spring villa uses an open-air hot spring. Through the outer wall surrounded by bamboo paper, you can see the jagged rocks outside the wall and the beautiful sky above the current dusk.

According to Sonoko, this hot spring resort is by appointment only, and it seems that today it only received 20 people from the Armed Detective Agency, Sonoko and the others, and the tennis club members who were invited to the neighboring university.As a result, at this point in time, only their group of girls reserved the hot spring pool, no matter how much fun they had, no one would complain, and it was a kind of joy to occupy the entire amusement park.

At this time, the azure-colored sky, which was about to sink in the setting sun, gently sprinkled that piece of tulle on the surface of the steaming quiet water waves, giving off a shimmering brilliance.

Wrapped in a bath towel, Ah Li tried to touch the water surface with her toes. The hotter-than-normal temperature made her shiver her toes at first, but after she got used to it, she slowly submerged in as if she was testing on the edge.

"Huh, it's so comfortable~"

The depth of the hot spring is not high, and the waist is completely submerged when sitting, and the water surface of the hot spring is almost just below the chest.The feeling of peacefully enjoying being surrounded by spring water seems to return to heaven, and sleepiness immediately hits the nerves after relaxing the spirit.

Ah Li brought a lot of things with her this trip. With the palm of her hand, piles of little yellow ducks were put down in the hot spring to swim together in groups. With the rippling of the water, they twisted their buttocks among the girls one by one. wandering.

"Wow, so cute—"

The plastic little yellow duck looks so naive as if it really came to life. The girls' eyes are suddenly aroused by this little thing. Love, even Jinghua couldn't help holding her hands, a little yellow duck swimming around cutely. Into her palm, she stared blankly.

Suddenly, Jinghua noticed that some foreign object seemed to be attached to one side of her cheek, and then squeezed out the air inside, and the foreign object made a "chirp~" sound as if being kissed against her cheek.

Jinghua turned her head, Ah Li, who was playing with her, still didn't take back the hand that was holding the little yellow duck, leaning her back against the edge of the smooth stone wall, and smiled at her.

"Yeah, this is the little yellow duck I specially brought along from Ranpo, it's super cute, isn't it?"

Jinghua, who was kissed by the little yellow duck on the cheek, stared at her for a while, then lowered her eyes, her cheeks were stained with a blush from the steam.

She whispered inaudibly: "...Well, you are very cute."

Ah Li, who was pinching the little yellow duck, blinked for no reason, and slightly relaxed the strength of her fingertips, and the little yellow duck seemed to be as confused as she was and uttered a series of 'chirp' calls.

But soon, the girls next door brought the topic to her because of the name of a certain detective she accidentally mentioned just now.

"By the way, how's Rubble getting on with your bamboo horse? Did you hit home plate?"

Sonoko's explosive words made Ah Li sit up in shock in the hot spring in a dying state.She opened her eyes suddenly, and slapped her arms on the surface of the hot spring water, causing a big splash around her.

"What, what home plate! What are you talking about!"

He never expected that he was only an active jk, but he could say such a thing.Are young girls now so open-minded!

Yuanzi didn't take it seriously, and still swam over to poke her arm in a super gossip way: "Girls, of course what you're interested in is the topic of love. Xiaoli, you know that your family is a famous detective who is famous all over the country." , it is normal for people to be curious about your development!"

You Xie Ye sneered: "But you are probably going to be disappointed, this is a little coward."

"Ugh..."

Ah Li was hit by her knowing blow and sank the battleship, and her whole body was slumped, only her almond eyes were exposed on the surface of the hot spring water, and her gurgling bubbles kept coming out around her face.

Lan looked here curiously: "Miss Li and Mr. Luanbu are childhood sweethearts who grew up together, right?"

"Also?" Zhimei and the others discovered the flower point in Lan's words.

Seeing everyone's doubts, Yuanzi put his arms around his friend's shoulders and said, "Don't look at this guy like this, she actually has a childhood sweetheart boyfriend."

"...What do you mean 'Don't look at me too', really." Lan shoved her shyly.

"Don't be shy, this is something everyone knows, didn't you and that guy kiss on the school trip—"

"Ah, Sonoko!"

As the two of them unilaterally uncovered their secrets, Ah Li suddenly felt that his deep place was in dire straits, and was firmly locked by the eyes of the girls from the detective agency.

"A real childhood sweetheart: Became boyfriend and girlfriend since they were teenagers, and even kissed."

"False childhood sweetheart: He didn't confess in his twenties, and he still quarrels like elementary school students."

Hearing the sarcastic remarks poured into the eardrums of the female friends, Ah Li hurriedly covered his ears and said, "Don't scold me, don't scold me."

In order to divert the flames of war from herself, she made an excuse: "It's hard to have fantasies about someone like a childhood sweetheart after a long time, plus he's always as naive as a child who hasn't grown up, how do I know Did he get the hang of it?"

Speaking of naive bamboo horses, Lan, who had similar experiences, nodded in agreement: "That's right, especially when guys like them find a case they are interested in, they will rush forward without thinking, and no one can stop it. If you solve the case, you will still be complacent."

Ah Li added: "I also like to be in the limelight, so that others will hold it high."

Lan: "I feel that everyone else is stupid, but I am the only one who is smart."

Speaking of this, the two childhood sweethearts who kept complaining about their own bamboo horses couldn't help but look at each other, and there was a sympathy for each other.

"Right, right, you think so too!"

Seeing that the bamboo horses on both sides are both childish ghosts, Ah Li liked the little girl Lan very much on the spot.

It's just that I quietly thought of some beautiful memories. The girl with long hair and horns looked up at the sunset in the sky, and the unconscious smile on her lips was as gentle as an angel.

"However, even though he has various shortcomings like this, I like him very much. Although I will worry and miss him in the days when we can't see each other, but when I see him appearing in front of me, I feel that all the waiting is worth it. This In the world, only that special feeling can be given by him..."

"The feeling of wanting to be with him forever, no matter how embarrassing it is, I want to pass it on to him."

The girl's gentle yet tenacious voice slowly echoed above the hot spring. These words from the heart may appear sincere and moving because of the infusion of sincerity.

Everyone thoughtfully left space for her to miss someone. Lan found that the surroundings had unknowingly become silent, and she couldn't help turning her head to scan. Seeing other people smiling and staring at her, her face turned red.

"I, I'm just talking casually, please don't take it seriously—"

Ah Li took the lead in stroking her corners comfortingly, and was moved: "Xiao Lan, you are a good woman..."

However, within a few seconds of her emotion, the eyes of other people looking at this side changed suddenly, showing the expression of looking at the child without hope.

"Take care of your own problems first and then talk about it!"

Ah Li immediately shrank his head and let her speak.

Soaking in the hot spring, she was lurking underwater like a mermaid, gurgling and bubbling, thinking about something.

The mermaid in the fairy tale is unable to express her sincerity to the prince because her singing voice was taken away by magic, but she is different.

(Do you want to tell him that you want to be with him forever...?)

When Xie Ye and the others saw her appearance, they all raised their lips, and in a blink of an eye, they rushed towards the tangled tea chestnut-haired girl tacitly.

"A mere man, hurry up and take it down with all your might—"

"Don't pounce on them all at once, hey!"

As expected, life had already laid hands on her, an innocent little kitten. There was only a loud splash, and Ah Li turned around and started playing with them, splashing water on each other.

"Hey, Naomi, stand up and take a look, it's more interesting than wearing a sailor suit."

"Damn it, hate it—damn it, watch my counterattack!"

In the chaotic scene, Jinghua silently pressed her young chest, and looked back at their happy faces.

"...Sure enough, it would be better to be bigger."

At this time, Sonoko came over and said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, you are still in the growth period! As long as you try to drink more Musashino milk, you can grow as big as orchid!"

As he said that, Sonoko also had crosses flashing in his eyes, and made a gesture of stretching out his claws to his friend.

"Wait, Sonoko don't—"

Lan was frightened by her and took several steps back, and then fell down with a 'boom' because the bottom of the pool was too slippery.

The sound of soft and playful voices occupied the entire open-air hot spring.In fact, there is only a row of bamboo walls separating this side from the male hot spring on the opposite side, and the opposite side seems to be as lively as this side at some point, and the extraordinarily noisy voices easily drift along the air to the same sky.

Especially the familiar male mother, who might have been irritated by some sentence, roared her partner's voice into the sky: "Shut up, Dazai——!!"

Naturally, such a big movement cannot escape the ears of the girls here, and Ah Li's eyes lit up when he found out that they were also playing games.

"Hey, Kunikida, are you playing next door too? Do you want to play volleyball?"

Kunikida's voice disappeared in an instant, and before they could reply, Ari acquiesced in their agreement as usual, so he took out a round volleyball from behind, put it in his palm and tossed it.

"Then the 33rd annual volleyball competition held three times a year by the Armed Detective Agency has begun—"

Xie Ye and the others were still calm, while Xiaolan and Yuanzi, who didn't know the truth, stared dumbfounded at the petite girl in the middle who started the fight as soon as she said it, and threw the big killer in their hands high.Following the trace of the ball, an upward arc was drawn in the air, and the water droplets splashed in the evening light with a dazzling halo. It fell to the opposite hot spring with the precision of a meteorite.

With a bang, there was a dull sound of being hit, and the movement on the other side became panicked.

"It's not good, Mr. Kunikida was hit in the face by a volleyball! It's not good, Mr. Kunikida's corpse started to float!"

Facing such a result, the murderer Ah Li standing in the hot spring wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and exhaled: "Phew—I can't even catch a serve, and the opponent is still weak."

Naomi smiled awkwardly but politely: "It's Miss Ari, you are too strong!"

Half an hour later, after going through a series of volleyball competitions that turned people on their backs (one-sided abuse), Ali and the others finally had their fun and came out of the hot spring as a team.

From the original shock of the hyper-expansion, to the final immersion in the game, Xiaolan and Yuanzi couldn't help but raise a very concerned question when they walked by.

"Xiaoli, Xiaoli, the bathhouse opposite you just now should be male colleagues from your detective agency, right?" Yuanzi had an occupational disease, and hurriedly grabbed Ali and asked, "How is it? Are there any handsome guys among them?"

Ah Li raised his head and began to think: "Well... If you want to talk about handsome guys, the boys in our detective agency are not bad."

Sonoko's eyes were instantly like light bulbs that had been switched on, exuding fiery brightness.

As a kind reminder, Yosano, who was with him, said meaningfully:

"It's their personalities. I think it's better for you, little sister, not to have too high expectations."

"Eh?" Sonoko blinked.

Just as they were wondering, the group of girls stepped out of the bathing area. After a few steps, they happened to bump into the boys who opened the curtain and came out of the opposite hot spring one after another.

"Ru...Miss Li..."

Atsushi weakly cooperated with Kenji, put Kunikida's arms on each other's shoulders, and dragged people to greet the group of them.

"Wow, it's just a hot spring, how did you make it like this?"

Ah Li opened his eyes in surprise, like an innocent cat who was completely out of the way, and Tanizaki on the opposite side couldn't control his thoughts: "It's not all because of the murderous volleyball you threw over Miss Li, please Miss Li, you are a little self-conscious La……"

"Xiaoli, Xiaoli, are they just..." Yuanzi, who rushed over to hug her elbow, blushed with excitement, and looked expectantly at the handsome men with their own characteristics in front of him.

(Xiao Li was right when he came out, the handsome guys in this armed detective agency are of good quality!)

It's no wonder she's so unreserved, it's true that everyone has a love for beauty, Yuanzi just can't hold back her eager pursuit of beauty!

The high-sounding figure made an excellent excuse for herself, and the chaebol lady wearing a headband saw a rather handsome curly-haired young man on the opposite side greeting 'Miss Gravel' while pushing out of the crowd.After noticing that there were two strange girls on their side who hadn't seen them before, a little sparkle could not help but glow in the depths of his kite eyes.

The bandage-wasting device quickly and viciously judges the woman who fits his ideal.Between the girl who was silly, sweet and obsessed with himself, and the girl who was really beautiful but had smooth muscles and suspected of being a martial arts master, he chose the former without hesitation.

"Ah, what a pure and refined lady, as beautiful as a water lily..."

Dazai flashed in front of Suzuki Sonoko, held her hand as if reciting a hymn, and affectionately narrated the routine template that he did not know to several young ladies.He stared intently at his gaze, and when staring into his intoxicating eyes, most of the women in the world would not want to wake up from this drunken dream.

Such an exaggerated compliment almost made Yuanzi squirt nosebleeds at his face: "Good, so handsome!"

As we all know, Dazai's whole body can only be distinguished by his appearance. For a while, this seductive machine makes Sonoko feel as if he has wings under his feet, and the weight of his body disappears.

But she didn't know that Ah Li and the others who were watching them next door had subtle expressions.

Sure enough, the next second the habitual suicide criminal stared affectionately at the girl and issued an invitation: "So, are you interested in making love with me, beautiful lady?"

Yuanzi, who was about to float into the sky, was mercilessly shot down by the slingshot at this sentence, and the nympho on his face froze instantly: "..."

——What the hell is this guy?

"Get out, don't harm other people's little girls for me!"

"Ow!"

Ah Li rushed forward, punching the prodigal Dazai who invited minors to die in love with his fist.Xiaolan, who was lucky enough to escape the strike-up, stared dumbfounded at the bandage spirit who was blown up to the eaves.

"That man, is he okay..."

Seeing such an ugly side of human nature, and actually caring about the other person's life, Ah Li couldn't help but feel half moved and half ashamed by her pure kindness.

"Xiao Lan, you are so angelic, you don't need to feel too much pity for his residual flowers."

The over-the-top rock chef Jinghua came over and nodded approvingly, trying to add persuasiveness to her personally.

Dun, who was silently watching their side, hadn't discovered the truth yet: "... I always feel that something is wrong with Xiao Jinghua."

In the final analysis, the matter of Dazai was caused by the people in his own detective agency.Ah Li had no choice but to shoulder the duty of appeasing Sonoko's frustrated girlish heart, stroking her back and telling her 'what I saw just now was a hallucination'.And at this time, a youthful voice with a slightly clear texture that she was quite familiar with came from behind.

"Ash!"

For some reason, the other party seemed to be pursuing some kind of grievance, and the volume was raised slightly higher than before.

Ah Li shook his shoulders reflexively, and quickly adjusted his bathrobe at this time, and smoothed the hair on the back of his neck properly. Then he took a deep breath and turned around. Full of girlish affection and apprehension.

"Random steps..."

And that famous detective named 'Edogawa Ranpo' was standing by the boys side, and next to him was Rei Furutani with a helpless expression.The moment they met each other's eyes, she saw her bamboo horse put her hands under the armpit of another smaller Edogawa, and angrily lifted him up and ran in front of Ah Li, with an unhappy expression on her face look.

"Ali, did you do something to this guy before?"

"... what did what?"

Unexpectedly, Luan Bu didn't pay attention to his new image, but pursued this issue endlessly, Ah Li was a little dazed.

Ranpo narrowed her eyes, and confirmed a certain fact through her expression: "You kissed him, right!"

Conan, who is eager to survive, is kicking his legs here: "Mr. Ranpo, listen to my explanation!"

"Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen!"

However, the No. 1 detective in the world who kidnapped him is a hundred times more naive and willful than him.The kid Ranpo left Conan here, and then grabbed Ah Li's sleeve in a grandiose manner.

"I want to kiss too! Otherwise, I will never forgive you!"

The melon-eating crowd watching this scene let out "oh hoo" one after another.

It caused Ah Li's face to overflow with red, as if a colored ball filled with roses split from the middle, and the rosy red falling freely occupied the entire world of consciousness in his mind.

She quickly plunged into Luanbu's arms and covered his mouth with her hands.

"Idiot! There are so many people here, what are you talking about!"