[Comprehensive] IQ is not a problem

So... Could it be that she can automatically trigger the side task of "helping the cat find its owner" whenever she walks on the road?

Xinzi looked helplessly at the Himalayan pig, who looked very cute but was obviously hostile to her... Ah, I'm sorry, it's the Himalayan cat.

Tsk, isn’t it just that you are fat and then I saw your (beep——), as for such a blow-up?Sure enough, cats are narrow-minded, huh.

...and it is a fact that you are fat, your master really raised you like a pig.

"There is no one looking for a cat nearby, did this kitten get lost by itself?" Yuan Tai looked around again, but there was no owner who seemed to be in a hurry or shouted the name of the cat.

Ayumi also looked worried, "This kitten is so clean and cute, the owner must have treated it very well, and it was definitely not abandoned."

"Yeah, being fed so fat, the owner must be very fond of it. After all, it is also a cat made of banknotes." Although Xinzi said so, he still squatted down and carefully observed the cat in front of him. Little Fat Cat, "It doesn't look injured, its fur is not dirty, and it's so soft and shiny, which means that it's not long away from home in terms of time and distance, and...do you smell it? There is still a faint smell of incense on my body, in this kind of city, where can you get the smell of incense, where do you think it would be?"

Among the three brats, Mitsuhiko, the smartest, thought out the answer first, "Ah, I see! It's a temple in the city, right?"

"That's right, the owner of this cat should live in a monastery or a place near the monastery, and since it hasn't been out for a long time, let's focus on this place and search for monasteries nearby, and then Go ask. And, once you get close to where home is, this little pig... ah, I mean this kitty probably responds with a 'meow' too." With that said, the new The son has already taken out his mobile phone and used the mobile phone map to search for nearby temples.

Ayumi looked at Xinzi with a look of admiration, "Conan-chan, you are so amazing! Besides, you really like kittens too!"

Xinzi turned his head away, "Not really."

In fact, she would still have such a little pink heart for cute cats and dogs, but ever since she went to pay tribute to the gods, she happened to meet that orange cat An Pu who often visits Qi Mu's house , and after the Lord Shenming told her the true inner thoughts of this big orange under the cute appearance... Sorry, it will be difficult for her to face up to cats from now on.

... So now this is Fatty's heart, maybe he is saying "quickly help me find my golden nest, you stupid human beings! Also, prepare small dried fish for me along the way Snacks like that, meow!"

The Himalayan cat stared at the little girl with eyes full of black holes, and tilted its head for some unknown reason: Meow meow?

……

In the end, the four of them and one cat headed towards the nearest temple first.

This Himalayan cat is held by Kojima Motota, who is the strongest... After all, he is really fat!It is indeed a bit difficult for a seven-year-old child with a normal body size to hold him all the way.

As for why this Himalayan cat, who doesn't seem to like being hugged by strangers, is obediently willing to nest in Yuantai's arms... Could it be because Yuantai has a strong smell of eel rice?

"Haha, it's really cute! But after running for so long, will you be hungry?" Ayumi stared at the little cutie without blinking along the way.

Mitsuhiko also liked it very much, "Ah, there is a supermarket right in front of it, should we buy some cat food for it?"

Xinzi: Hey, hey, have you become a group pet so soon!

...Uh, what the hell is this feeling that she has somehow fallen out of favor? !

……

The time to visit the temple has long passed, and there are no people on the road leading to the temple at this time.

Seeing this familiar way home, the Himalayan cat also uttered a few "meows" excitedly.

"Ah, look, it reacted, which means it must be the temple in this direction! Great!" Ayumi said excitedly.

at this time……

"Carubin—!"

A voice suddenly sounded, and everyone subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound.

A young man in a floral shirt with yellow hair dyed came over. Seeing the cat in Yuantai's arms, he waved at it while calling its name repeatedly.

And this Himalayan cat named "Karubin" jumped out of Yuantai's arms after being stunned for a moment, and ran towards the man.

Yuan Tai: "Eh? Is this big brother the owner of the cat?"

Ayumi: "So it's called 'Carubin', what a cute name!"

Mitsuhiko: "It's great that Karubin can find his master!"

Only Xinzi didn't say anything, just looked at the person and cat in front of him without saying a word.

Carubin, who was running towards the yellow-haired young man, struggled with his chubby body and jumped up on the spot, but it didn't look like he was asking for a hug. Instead, the cat's paws aimed at the young man's pants pocket.

Then, with a smile on his face, the young man took out a tennis ball from his pocket and threw it at Karubin, "Ah, don't worry, I brought your toy with me."

After receiving the thrown tennis ball, Karubin didn't start playing immediately, but used his four little paws to protect the tennis ball tightly, as if afraid of being snatched away.Afterwards, he didn't get close to the yellow-haired young man, instead he looked vigilant while guarding the little ball.

The yellow-haired young man immediately put on a smile of "I really can't do anything about you", "Oh, don't be so nervous, no one will snatch your toys. Come on, let's go home, Karubin~"

While speaking, the yellow-haired young man bent down to hug Karubin, but saw Karubin back again and again.

However, Karubin did not forget to protect the tennis ball when he retreated, and the little guy stumbled into a mess.

Just when the hand of the yellow-haired youth was about to touch Karubin, Xinzi who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke, showing a cute and innocent look:

"Hey, big brother, I smell the incense on Karubin's body, and Karubin gets excited as soon as he walks towards the monastery, so... Big brother, are you a monk living in the monastery?"

I didn't expect to be asked by a primary school student suddenly, the yellow-haired youth was stunned for a moment, and then responded:

"Uh... no, no, it's just that I'm more religious, so I come to the temple here every day to pay homage. Because I was worried about leaving Karubin at home alone, I brought it together. And the cat This kind of creature is super afraid of water, and it doesn't like bathing the most, so it must have been smelling of the incense in the monastery all the time."

Xinzi continued to carry his innocent face to the end, and asked questions that sounded too naive to do:

"Hey~ It turns out that Karubin is often taken to the monastery by you, big brother. It's so pitiful...Because there must be no air conditioning in the monastery, right? The weather is so hot, Karubin must have been overheated long ago."

Hearing Xinzi's innocent childish words, the yellow-haired youth immediately laughed:

"Haha, of course not. Cats like basking in the sun very much. They can sleep in the sun for a whole day. Every time I visit the temple, Karubin waits for me in the yard. Today Originally, it was the same as usual, but when I came out, I found that it was no longer in the yard, which made it easier for me to find it.”

"Ah, really..." When he said this, Xinzi's childlike voice gradually became deeper, and with the flash of the glasses lens stuck on the bridge of his nose, the next second...

A football was thrown towards the man!

Because the distance between the man and Karubin is too close at this moment, Xinzi is afraid of accidentally hurting Karubin, so he just lets the football gallop past the man's side with sparks of lightning, which is regarded as a warning.

Even so, the man was trembling with fright from the sudden and fierce blow.

Karubin, who was also frightened, screamed and hid aside.

And the three brats of the Boy Detective Team were also shocked by Xinzi's sudden attack... It's the first time I think Conan sauce is so scary!

When he came back to his senses, the yellow-haired young man stared at Xinzi with wide eyes, spitting wildly and saying:

"Hey! Brat, what were you doing just now! Do you know that's dangerous!"

The corner of Xinzi's mouth twitched the iconic sneer of seeing through everything and telling the prisoner you're an idiot:

"You are not Carubin's master at all, are you?"

"Eh--?!"

The yellow-haired youth and the boy detective team made surprise voices at the same time. Of course, the latter was pure surprise, while the former was surprised with punctured panic.

"It is true that the most comfortable temperature for cats is much higher than that of humans, so they like to bask in the sun very much. However, Himalayan cats are long-haired cats, and this kind of cat is most afraid of heat. If you want him to feel comfortable on a hot day, you need to provide him with an air-conditioned room at the right temperature. Obviously, you don’t know how to raise a Himalayan cat.”

Xinzi unhurriedly exposed the lies of the man in front of him, and continued to press on step by step under the panicked look of the man:

"Actually, from the moment you first appeared, I suspected that you were not the owner of Carubin. Among the cat's five senses, the most sensitive is hearing. Human ears can hear sounds within [-] Hz. But cats can hear sounds with a frequency of up to [-] Hz, and they are even more sensitive than dogs in terms of hearing alone. And cats have a high ability to distinguish sounds, and they can remember the footsteps of their owners. Before you saw the master, you could tell that the master was approaching through the sound. However, just now, when you approached, Karubin didn't respond to you... No, it was not so much a reaction to you , It’s more like a reaction to the tennis ball in your pocket. Cats like to leave their own scent on the owner and things related to the owner. Karubin smells the owner in your pocket after you approach The smell of your tennis ball, that's why you ran towards you, trying to get back the master's tennis ball, you can tell by the way it was protecting that tennis ball just now. I have been coveting it for a long time, and then tried to use Karubin’s master’s tennis ball to lure it out of the temple, but I didn’t expect Karubin to sneak away halfway.”

Hearing what Xinzi said, the young detective team immediately looked at the yellow-haired young man in front of them with contempt for the bad guys.

Ayumi clenched her fists in anger: "It's too bad! You actually stole such a cute kitten!"

Xinzi looked at Karubin, raised his eyebrows and said, "I guess this guy probably wants to steal Karubin and sell it. Karubin looks like a purebred Himalayan cat, a purebred Himalayan cat. Cats can sell for more than 30 yen in the market.”

...Well, the owner of this lump of gold bricks probably also has a mine at home.

"Three... 30 yen!" Yuantai exclaimed, habitually using the equivalent ratio of eel rice to convert in his mind... How many servings of eel rice do you need? !

At this time, Mitsuhiko also remembered the news he saw today, and immediately pointed to the yellow-haired young man in front of him and said:

"Ah, I remembered. The news said that many cats in this area have disappeared during this period! This guy must be the cat dealer! Should we call the police as soon as possible!"

Seeing that the matter was brought to light and fell into the hands of a few brats, the man also showed a fierce look angrily, and directly took out a shiny knife from his pocket to threaten:

"Smelly brats! If you don't want to die, just get the hell out of here!"

Seeing this scene, Xinzi also subconsciously blocked the three brats behind him, and kept calculating in his brain the angle of the football to be shot for a while in order to achieve a fatal blow.

However, at this moment, Karubin, who had just been frightened, came back to his senses, and after blinking his round cat eyes, he suddenly took small steps and ran towards the yellow-haired youth...in order to chase back the tennis ball!

"Hey—! Don't chase—!" Xinzi subconsciously shouted at the twisting little body, ignoring the communication barrier between human language and meow language.

Seeing this golden opportunity, the yellow-haired young man also picked up Karubin, and put the knife in his other hand on Karubin's neck!

"You guys, get the hell out of here! Otherwise, I'll kill this brat right now!" the yellow-haired man roared angrily.

"Carubin——!!!" The Detective Boys yelled in panic as they watched Karubin being held hostage.

Xinzi was also a little anxious for a while, the knife in the man's hand was too close to Karubin, and the football was too big, if she threw the football rashly, it might hurt Karubin.

How to do how to do……

Carubin, who felt that his life was under great threat, also meowed hoarsely, and the one who broke the stalemate was...

"boom!"

"Ow—!"

I saw a yellow light strike like lightning, a tennis ball that came suddenly accompanied by the scream of the yellow-haired young man knocked the knife away, and Karubin finally got rid of the yellow-haired young man's grip. Imprisonment.

After flying the dagger, the tennis ball landed heavily on the lawn beside it with a golden light like special effects, and directly smashed the lawn into a big hole!

The whole place was silent.

Xinzi feels that since she has seen Japanese middle school students play tennis, she has already experienced enough. No matter how fantasy tennis appears, she can still eat melons calmly, but this ball, um... this is really not the case. Gaia energy cannon?

...and, although this yellow-haired man has a bad personality and is not worthy of sympathy, but at this moment she really can't help but want to ask, buddy, is your hand still there?

As for the person who suddenly hit this shocking goal in the style of fighting comics...

"It was really dangerous just now."

A voice sounded.

The moment she heard this voice, Xinzi suddenly had the feeling of her brain stepping on a switch... That's right, it was the kind of stepping on the switch that she usually only had when she got through all the reasoning ideas at the scene of the case!

The whole person froze in place, the blood in his body seemed to be rushing straight to the Tianling Gai who was stepping on the electric switch, and his heart beat violently subconsciously.

This voice, this voice is... Could it be...!

"Long time no see, do you remember me?"

Xinzi had already turned around stiffly to face that person, but when he heard the other person's words, the blood that had been rushing straight to the top of the sky was about to explode at this moment... What, what do you mean, what did he say? What do words mean!Did he recognize who she was? !He recognized her even though she was smaller? !

No, it would be bad if he recognized it!What to do, if he interrogates her later, how can she fool her? !

"You're still so cute."

Eh... eh? !Cute, cute or something, no matter how flattering you are, I will never admit that I am Kudo Shinko!

Also, I have seen your blustery skills and thick skin when you were in Hawaii!You won't just drop your IQ to the Mariana Trench in front of you casually!

Xinzi raised her head slowly with some difficulty, and looked at the boy in front of her who was about her age... no, to be precise, it was a boy about the same age as her when she was "Kudou Xinzi".

Compared with his memory, he seems to be a bit taller, but the temperament exuding from the whole person is still so unrestrained, like the sea breeze in the morning, free and easy, as if nothing can restrain him.

He took off the hood of the sports hoodie he was wearing, his dark green hair was swaying gently in the evening breeze, and a pair of clear cat eyes exuded a frightening brilliance in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Then, just listen to him continue to say slowly:

"...Carubin."

Eh... eh——? !

"Meow~" After hearing Karubin's joyful cry, a fat cat threw itself into the boy's arms.

Compared with the happy scene of one person and one cat, Xinzi was completely dumbfounded.

What... what do you mean?Those nasty things this guy said just now... Could it be that they were all for cats? !Temiao's has nothing to do with her. Is she acting affectionate here? !

"Hey, Conan sauce...what's the matter?" Yuan Tai looked at Xin Zi who was just like a stone in the same place suddenly with a confused look on his face.

Mitsuhiko also looked at Xinzi curiously, "...it feels like petrification?"

Ayumi stretched out her little finger and poked Xinzi lightly, "Conan sauce, are you okay?"

And over there, after reuniting with Karubin for a long time, Echizen Ryuya finally concentrated his energy to look at the children over there. The first thing that catches his eyes was naturally surrounded by other children with concerned expressions on their faces. New child.

Echizen Ryuya walked over with Carubin in his arms, walked up to Xinzi and squatted down, raised a handsome and handsome smile that was very lethal to the girl's heart and asked:

"What's the matter with you, Miss? Do you need my help... Well, have I seen you somewhere?"

The moment he was facing the face of "Edogawa Conan", Echizen Ryuya felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen this face somewhere before.

Xinzi put on a bad face habitually:

"Let me tell you, your way of striking up a conversation is very old-fashioned."

And at this moment, Echizen Ryuya was in a trance from his eyes to his brain, and the immature face in front of him overlapped with the face in his memory——

[I said, your way of striking up a conversation is very old-fashioned. 】

... Even the arrogant and stinky face he put on is exactly the same.

The atmosphere was a little inexplicably weird for a while, but what broke the atmosphere was—"Karubin—!"

"Meow!" Hearing his master's call, Karubin immediately ran out of Echizen Ryuya's arms and ran towards his dear little master.

Echizen Ryoma hurried over and immediately hugged his lost pet. Today, he also found that Karubin was gone after returning home from school in the afternoon, and he was in a hurry.

Seeing this great reunion of one person and one cat, Echizen Ryuya stood up, teased his younger brother with a hurt expression:

"It's really sad, little one, can't you spare some energy for your elder brother whom you haven't seen for a long time?"

And Ryoma really seemed to realize the existence of this person at this moment, and blinked the cat's eyes of the same style in confusion:

"Hey... when did you go back to Japan?"

Long Ya: "...", so the phone call I made at home before boarding the plane was superfluous, it really hurt your elder brother's heart too much, okay!

"Hey—brat, wait for me—!"

There was another shout from behind, and an uncle with a beard and a scumbag in a monk's costume came running wildly.

This honor... Probably no one would have guessed that this person is none other than Echizen Minamijiro who was the all-powerful tennis player in the world ten years ago and became a legend in the hearts of countless younger generations.

...Now he's just a good-for-nothing daddy who made his son cry because he accidentally didn't pay attention to the cat at home.

After seeing his careless cat finally come back, Echizen Nanjiro finally heaved a sigh of relief, and after seeing Long Ya who also appeared here, after being surprised, he stepped forward and slapped Long Ya On the back of the head:

"You boy, didn't I tell you about the plane and make a phone call, so I can drive to pick you up!"

"Haha, no, no, I'm not a child anymore." Echizen Ryuya said with a smile.

And in the context of the return of beloved pets and the joyful family reunion right now... Did you forget something?

"Aw—" It wasn't until the yellow-haired young man who had been left out after eating a tennis ball let out bursts of painful screams like killing a pig, that he finally attracted the attention of the Echizen family.

Karubin, who had found his master, was also yelling "meow meow", waving his little paw towards the yellow fur like a complaint.

"What, what's going on here?" Long Ma, who was already somewhat natural, was even more confused by the current situation.

And after the young detective team explained the ins and outs of the incident and the whole process in a friendly manner...

The men of the Echizen family turned black.

Long Ya, who had already given the man a tennis ball, thought... Well, it's better to be kind, and then handed the two rackets in the tennis bag to the old man and the young brother respectively.

There is no need to go into details about the fighting power of the Echizen father and son holding a tennis racket. The following scenes are too brutal, clean the screen, and the world is at peace.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Xinzi couldn't help sighing... What kind of gods are this family? !

……

After the police came to the scene and took away the habitual criminal who often abducted cats and dogs, the matter was finally settled.

"Okay, Karubin, come home with me. Remember, you can't just follow others away casually in the future." Ryoma picked up Karubin, looked at each other with cat eyes, and taught solemnly.

After Karubin let out a "meow~", he shook his fat body and jumped out of Ryoma's arms.

Ryoma: "Hey, Karubin..."

At this time, Mitsuhiko handed over the tennis ball, "Karubin is looking for this."

Ayumi also said, "The reason Karubin followed the stranger was to get back the toy you gave him, brother. He cherishes what you gave him."

Seeing Carubin's little paw holding the tennis ball that he used as a cat's toy after he practiced it, Ryoma's heart was also touched by the satisfied expression on his face.

"...Karubin." Ryoma squatted down, hugged Karubin together with the tennis ball in its arms, and murmured against its fluffy fur.

Long Ya at the side also stretched out her hand and lightly flicked her younger brother's head:

"Although it's unreliable for the old man to be too busy reading bad magazines not to take a good look at Karubin, but you are the owner of Karubin, you little one. You have to take responsibility for your pet. Also... Karubin is Shouldn't it be time to lose weight? It feels fatter than the last time I saw it, what do you feed it every day?"

Finally someone had the same opinion as my hero, and Xinzi also had a sense of agreement and subconsciously said:

"That's right, that's right, if the cat is too obese, it will cause a series of health problems such as dyspnea, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and so on. Cut the food in half and play with it outdoors, shut up and open your legs, understand?"

... When she said "Cat food is halved", she saw this mature cat grinning at her and growling.

Tsk, at this time, God should be invited to appear on the stage, and tell this little thing in animal language, the law that a dead fat house can only be used as a spare tire is also applicable in the world of cats!

"Hey~ Elementary school students today know so much." Long Ya looked at the little girl in front of her with a somewhat mysterious smile on her lips.

Xinzi's heart skipped a beat, and she wondered if she had let herself go too much just now, but at this time, her teammates had already helped her out.

Yuan Tai: "Conan sauce is the boss of our young detective team!"

Mitsuhiko: "That's right, Conan-chan is super smart and knows everything!"

Ayumi: "Hmm! Mmm! And Conan-chan is the first in every exam...except music class!"

Xinzi with black hair: ... Ayumi, your last sentence is redundant.

"It's really similar..." Longya murmured to himself in an elusive tone, then squatted down, and looked at Xinzi again, "Hey, Conan sauce, you know..." Kudo Xinzi '?"

"Ah...is it the beautiful, elegant, smart, and intelligent high school female detective Shinko Kudo who often appears in newspapers?" Shinko said with a smile without any psychological barriers.

Long Ya: "...", I didn't add so many attributives.

Xinzi continued to boast naively: "Newspapers often report that sister Kudo Xinko has solved various difficult perverted cases, so of course I know."

"So...you don't have any relationship with her, not your relative's sister?" Long Ya raised her brows.

Xinzi: "Of course not."

"That's it..." Long Ya had already stood up while speaking, although her tone sounded relaxed, there was a hint of disappointment faintly.

In an instant, Xinzi rarely had a bad heart, narrowed his eyes and asked:

"Hey, big brother, do you like sister Kudo Shinko?"

Long Ya turned her head back, with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Well, I came back to Japan this time because of her. I have paid attention to the reports in the newspapers about her reasoning and solving the case. I just want to see her when I go back to Japan this time." .”

Hearing this, Xinzi inexplicably felt his heart beat violently... Is this the feeling of being bathed in the white moonlight?

But the next second...

"Huh? Why didn't I know that you are for women? Didn't you return to Japan this time because your Japanese passport is about to expire, so you need to get a new one?" Echizen Minamijiro mercilessly exposed the truth.

Xinzi: "...", what the hell, from today on you are my black moonlight, you soulless!

"Don't expose me like this in front of the little lady, it's too embarrassing, it will destroy my affectionate and good man in the little lady's heart." Long Ya laughed.

In this regard, Xinzi said, ah... Bah!

……

In order to thank the Boy Detectives for helping to find Karubin, and they were almost at the door, the Echizen family invited the four children to their home and entertained them with snacks.

... However, because the hostess Rinko Echizen was away on a business trip during this period, the father and son, who depended on the convenience store for their livelihood, could not provide any decent treats at all, and the whole Echizen house was full of the sour smell of a single man. .

Ryoma hugged Carubin and silently shrank aside to reduce his sense of presence: ...It's so embarrassing.

And when Echizen Nanjiro took out a plate of exquisite snacks, Long Ya couldn't help leaning into his father's ear and asking:

"Old man, it's not like you secretly took the snacks that others paid tribute to the Buddha statues in the temple? You will be punished by heaven."

"That's not true, you can't expect me to be better if you come back once in a while!" Echizen Nanjiro retorted immediately, and explained in a low voice, "It was the editor Inoue from the tennis magazine who always wanted to find news about me. I gave it when I was playing, and I was going to use it as an emergency ration."

However, in the next second, he was met with Ryoma's death stare who heard every word... Don't look for high-sounding reasons, the stinky old man actually wants to monopolize it!

At this moment, when An An was sitting down to eat snacks, Xinzi finally calmed down and thought about a question... She, did she really reunite with the white moonlight in her heart? !

...sorry, it is now redefined as Black Moonlight.

Since that day two years ago, when she rejected his proposal to elope and wander the world together, after parting on the beach in Hawaii, she thought that she would never see each other again in this lifetime.After all, the world is so big and there are so many people, once you let go, it may be a farewell... I never thought that now she and Long Ya would meet again because of a cat.

...Ah, it's not because she has such a close relationship with him that she directly called him "Long Ya". She didn't know his full name until she saw the sign of "Echizen House" hanging on the door when she just entered the door. Echizen Ryuya.

[If I tell you my last name, you will definitely call me 'xx-jun' in a polite way, so please continue to call me 'Longya (Ryoga)', I like to hear you call me that . 】

That's right, when she asked his full name back then, this guy answered her in this way with a bit of arrogance.

Silently watching this young man who is more mature than before...well, and a little more handsome than before, Xinzi unconsciously raised a slightly bitter smile.

This "reunion" is actually only for her. After all, in his eyes, the one standing in front of him is only "Conan Edogawa" whom he has never met before.

This is the so-called I am in front of you, but you don't know that I am watching you.

"What's the matter, Miss, have you been staring at me since just now?" Long Ya asked with her elbows on the table, one hand clenched and her cheek propped up.

Xinzi turned his head away, "The only male creature in this room is you, except for the uncle and the puny elementary school students. Don't stare at you."

Uncle Nanjiro: ...You brat who doesn't know how to appreciate uncle's charm!

Ryoma, classified as an elementary school student: ...Where is my tennis racket!

"Hahahaha!" Long Ya was amused and laughed, and took Xinzi's words as compliments and accepted them all, "Mmm, um, I have vision, but..."

"But what?" Xinzi narrowed his half-moon eyes.

I saw Long Ya picked up Karubin who was depressed because the cat food was halved from today, "But you missed Karubin, Karubin is also a male creature."

Karubin the male cat: "Meow~"

Xinzi: "..."

……

Seeing that it was getting late, Echizen Nanjiro sent the four children away.

"What are you looking at?" Ryoma, who was holding Carubin, looked at Long Ya, who was standing leaning against the door frame and looking at the elementary school students.

To be precise, Long Ya kept her gaze on Xin Zi's body, and subconsciously murmured to herself: "It's really similar... But, she's much cuter than that girl who just shakes her face at every turn and doesn't have any romantic cells. .”

Ryoma frowned: "Huh?"

Karubin tilted his head: "Meow?"

"It's nothing. As a child, you won't understand the world of adults. Come discuss this issue with your elder brother and me when you receive the first love letter in your life." Long Ya finally withdrew her gaze and raised her hand indiscriminately. Rubbing Ryoma's dark green hair.

Then, he yawned and went back to the house.

Ryoma stared at the cat's eyes in dissatisfaction, and muttered: "...you are still underage."

Karubin continued to tilt his head: "Meow?"

……

In the middle of the night, the moonlight shone into the quiet room, and Long Ya, who was lying on the bed in the bedroom, took out her mobile phone and dug out an old photo from two years ago.

The girl in the photo put on a stinky face arrogantly, as if a bunch of angry words could come out of her mouth in a second, so angry that you could doubt your life.

However, it was such a photo that could be used as a material picture for various emoticons, but Long Ya just stared at it intently for a long time, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth when he looked at it.

Different from his usual confident, unrestrained and unrestrained smile, there is a rare feeling called "tenderness" in his smile at this moment.

The main purpose of his return to Japan this time is indeed to renew his Japanese passport that is about to expire, but he still has a faint expectation in his heart... If there is a chance, he wants to see her again.

I remember that two years ago, his confession was rejected by this girl with such a weird reason as "We detectives don't have any feelings! Feelings deceive me!"... Now thinking about it, I still feel a little sad.

However, he and she are not the kind of people who can't afford to take it and can't let it go, so even if their lives become two lines that will never intersect again, it's not a heartbreaking thing. Let out a sigh of regret.

Moreover, although she and he are engaged in different fields, they are both the kind of people who are full of yearning for "pursuing bigger and farther goals"... I don't know, what are you doing on the road of pursuing bigger and farther goals? How is it, my dear Miss Holmes?

I don't know if you will occasionally think of me like this when you stop to rest in the dead of night on this road?

At this moment, Mori Detective Agency——

Xin Zitu, who was originally lying flat on the bed,