After that, I returned ho, washed up, and was about to go to sleep when Haibara knocked on my door. I opened it, and she was holding a pillow.
"Sleep with today."
She seed afraid of having nightmares after seeing Gin of the Black Organization. So I just agreed.
"Alright, let's do that."
We were sleeping together like that when I heard sniffling from beside . I looked at Haibara; she was crying in her sleep, as if she had seen her sister in a dream.
"Sister..."
Seeing that, her sister, the spirit Miyano Akemi who was attached to Haibara, looked at her pitifully as well.
'This is a problem... Her PTSD seems to be getting worse.'
So I gently stroked sleeping Haibara's head and fell asleep.
The next morning, when I opened my eyes, Haibara had her feet on again. So this ti, I took an instant cara out of my inventory and took plenty of pictures.
I got out of bed, took a cup of coffee, went out to the living room, and turned on the TV. A special news report was on about the assassination of Masuyama Kenzo, the chairman of an automobile company. Masuyama Kenzo was also a mber of the Black Organization, but it seems he was eliminated by the organization due to a mistake. The events were unfolding not much differently from the original.
I checked roughly where Gin and Vodka of the organization were. Since I had secretly attached shadow soldiers yesterday, I could determine their approximate location. Even though their business was finished, they hadn't left town. Given the early hour and that they weren't moving, they seed to be staying at a hotel in the city.
'Are they looking for the car? They haven't left yet?'
It was too early to conclude, but that seed to be the reason.
Anyway, I began preparing breakfast while watching TV. Just as I was almost finished setting the table, I saw Haibara coming out of her room rubbing her eyes.
"You really wake up early. I'm starting to doubt whether you actually sleep."
Since awakening my Ga Life, my stamina had increased significantly, and I slept less.
"I do sleep, don't worry. Hurry up and eat."
When Haibara sat at the table, I placed the photos I had taken on it. The photos clearly showed Haibara sleeping with her feet on .
"To think I really slept like this..."
"You see from the photos? I'm the victim here."
Haibara looked at the photos for a mont, then started eating as if it were nothing.
"... Well~ I suppose that could happen."
She seed to have decided to boldly accept it now.
"Good grief. If I had done that, you'd be causing a fuss, but now you're just letting it slide."
Then Haibara pointed to her own feet.
"I'm different from you. These tiny feet, how heavy could they be for you to complain?"
"Huh... That's ridiculous."
After we finished eating, when I was about to pack a lunchbox, Haibara said as she went to wash up.
"Don't pack one for . I'm not going to school today."
"Really? Okay. Then should I call the school for you?"
"Yeah."
I packed only my lunchbox, then called Haibara's school and vaguely made an excuse that she was absent due to a broadcast schedule. Haibara was practically a celebrity now, already well-known at school, and her grades were good, so there was no particular problem with such an absence. After finishing the call, I got ready for school and went.
When I arrived at school and was sitting blankly resting, Ran approached with a bright face and delivered the news.
"Jin! Conan is back."
"Really?"
"He ca back from Arica. I guess he couldn't adapt there. So he decided to stay in Japan until he gets a bit older."
From what she said, it didn't seem Conan had told her directly. Probably Kudo Yukiko helped.
"So where is he staying now? Like before, at the detective agency?"
"No, he's staying at Shinichi's house with Auntie Yukiko now."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Auntie Yukiko said since he's her friend's son, she'll take care of him."
"Ah, I see."
I'd have to ask directly, but it seed he couldn't find a way in Arica and just ca back to Japan. Yukiko followed out of concern. So today I decided to go to the Mori Detective Agency to hear the details.
After school, while riding my bike with Ran toward the detective agency, I spotted Gin and Vodka in a black Porsche 911. Since that wasn't a car you often see around here, I recognized them at a glance. Gin of the organization seed to be a huge Porsche fan.
'Good grief... Where did they get that car?'
We passed by briefly and arrived at the detective agency. When we went inside, Kogoro was sitting in a chair reading the newspaper, and Conan was playing a ga on TV.
"Detective Mori, we're here. Long ti no see, Conan."
"Yeah, long ti no see."
I quietly asked Conan what had happened so far.
"So, did you find a way?"
"Hoo... Well... My parents were treated like lunatics in Arica. Nothing showed up in my body. My body was just that of a child. So the researchers thought my parents were ntally unstable. You have no idea how much I suffered to prove otherwise..."
"I see. That must have been hard."
"Yeah... So I have no choice but to sohow get the drug that changed my body and analyze it. Because of that, my parents worried a lot, and my mother followed all the way here from Arica."
"So you're staying at your original house."
"Yeah... Hoo... I really don't know what the future holds. Haibara is still the only hint I have about that organization, and she doesn't seem to know much either..."
Conan unloaded everything that had happened, as if venting to . Probably because I was one of the few people who knew the truth.
"I don't know if this will help you, but since two days ago, I've seen mbers of the Black Organization in our town. Haibara saw them and was really surprised."
"What??? Is that true???"
Conan's eyes widened in surprise as he asked . Since this was sothing Haibara also knew, I decided to tell him.
"Yeah. I don't know why, or how long they'll be here, but I saw them driving around today too. In a black Porsche 911."
As soon as he heard that, Conan jumped up from his seat and tried to go outside. Seeing this, Ran said to him.
"Conan, are you leaving already? Since you ca after so long, at least eat sothing..."
"I'll eat next ti~"
And he just left.
"Does he have so urgent business?"
"It's his first ti back after so long, he probably wants to see his friends too."
"I see. Jin, are you going to eat before you leave?"
"I have to go too, unfortunately. My little sister is waiting for . I'll eat with you next ti."
"Okay. Then see you tomorrow~"
"Yeah, see you tomorrow. Detective, see you next ti."
After saying goodbye, I rode my bike, did so quick grocery shopping, and returned ho.
"I'm back~"
Then the housekeeper ca out first to greet .
"Welco ho, young master. The young lady is in her room."
"I see, thank you. You've worked hard again today. You're dismissed."
I let the housekeepers leave, knocked on Haibara's door, and went in. Haibara was reading a paper on her computer.
"What paper are you so absorbed in?"
I peeked and saw it was a paper about 'telorase'. There is a setting that APTX4869 (the drug Conan took) activates telorase to increase cell proliferation while disrupting cell apoptosis.
"Hmm... Do you want to go back to your original body?"
"I'm just reading it because it ca out. I don't intend to research again. If I went back to my original body and beca a target of the organization, that would be troubleso."
"Really?"
She said that, but it seed she had so desire to go back. If Haibara wanted to research, I didn't particularly plan to stop her. I wanted to let her do what she wants. Conan can't return to his original body anyway, and the organization is no longer a threat to .
"Let's eat dinner first."
"Okay."
After dinner, we rested separately. Haibara seed to go back to her room to read papers, and I watched TV. Then a surprising news report ca on. The Porsche 911 that Gin of the Black Organization had been driving was broadcast as having crashed into a utility pole near central Tokyo. According to the news, the driver had abandoned the car and fled.
'Those guys aren't the type to make such mistakes. What on earth happened?'
The shadow soldiers I had attached to them were low-level, and I had only instructed them to signal if they ca near our house, so they hadn't reported anything. So I used [Stealth] without Haibara knowing and teleported to the accident scene to see for myself.
When I teleported to the traffic accident scene, police were controlling the area, and the Porsche was smashed against a utility pole. Looking closely at the car, besides being embedded in the pole, the left side had clear marks of being strongly struck by sothing.
'This is Conan's doing.'
The only one who could do such a thing was Conan. When I checked Gin and Vodka's location, they were already leaving the country by plane. So I went to Shinichi's house to check if Conan was okay. He was just grumbling and eating with Yukiko.
'This guy... He tried but seems to have failed.'
After confirming Conan was safe, I teleported ho, washed up, and was about to go to bed when Haibara ca and asked to sleep together again. So we ended up sleeping together again.
The next day, Haibara said she would go to school. So I packed her lunchbox and helped her get ready for school. Soon the housekeeper would arrive and take her to school.
That day, I stopped by the detective agency with Ran again, and Conan was there too.
"I saw the TV yesterday. You really went for it."
At my words, Conan sighed and said.
"Yeah... Yesterday I ran around town and finally found them. For so reason, they were looking around near a tow lot. So I hid and tried to follow them. But a problem arose. Running around town had drained my skateboard's battery, and I felt like I was going to lose them. I had no choice but to do that."
"I can roughly imagine what happened next. The car stopped, but in the end, they got away, and you just ca back."
Conan continued, disappointed.
"Right. Those guys, tough as they are, even after crashing that hard, they didn't lose consciousness. They got out of the car while being wary of their surroundings, took a taxi, and left. So I couldn't follow them any further."
"I see."
"I thought there might be sothing in the crashed Porsche, so I searched it thoroughly, but there was nothing."
"Weren't you acting too rashly? What if soone had died?"
"There was no one else around, and they were just turning a corner, so I thought it was an opportunity. And they're not the kind of guys to die from sothing like that. I was hoping they'd both be seriously injured or lose consciousness, but..."
This guy seems to think only of his own convenience. No matter how you look at it, the accident was quite severe, and it was a miracle they survived. Perhaps he acted that way out of a desire for revenge.
'This shinigami, now he's even trying to commit assassinations...'
As I was thinking that, Ran said.
"You probably have a lot to talk about after so long, but do it after you eat."
"Okay."
While we were talking, Ran had sohow prepared my al as well, so we ate together. Ran seed curious about how Conan had fared in Arica and kept asking. I thought Conan would be quite flustered, but it seed he had already prepared his excuses. He handled the various questions well. He vaguely explained it as 'I lived at an international school in Arica.'
"Is that so? Then you must have made a lot of friends there, Conan?"
"No. My stay was too short to do that."
"Th-That's too bad..."
Ran had heard from Yukiko that Conan hadn't adapted well, so she couldn't ask further.
I listened to their conversation for a while, then said goodbye and returned ho. Haibara had been waiting without eating.
"You're a bit late today? Did sothing happen?"
"Ah, Conan ca back. So I was talking with him."
"Really? Did he find a way to return to his original body?"
"No, he said he couldn't."
Then Haibara said, as if she expected it.
"As expected... I predicted it wouldn't be easy to find because that drug breaks down imdiately in the body. That was originally the intent, to create a poison for perfect cris. Let's eat first, I'm hungry."
"Okay."
Haibara doesn't know that the real reason they couldn't find anything was because he really had beco younger. If they had closely examined Conan's body without my [Nothingness Transformation], I think they would have noticed sothing strange. But I had no intention of telling her that story.
Several days passed like that. There were various cases, but after Conan returned, I decided to step away from the cases Kogoro took on for a while.
'Now that Kogoro has developed so deductive skill, it should be fine.'
So I was doing Onmyōji work with Haibara when suddenly Vermouth appeared, guided in by my manager.
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