...

After a few symbolic struggles, Ai gently buried her head in Hanyu Nan's chest, quietly listening to his gradually calming heartbeat.

Just then, Yingying, who had been sleeping peacefully on the other side of Hanyu Nan, suddenly poked out her small head and made two "buyi buyi" sounds, as if protesting that Ai's noise had disturbed her sweet dream.

Ai gently poked Yingying's head and whispered, "Don't make noise, go to sleep."

She whimpered in dissatisfaction and then shrank back inside.

Ai closed her eyes again, her mind replaying the events of the night. Inhaling the comforting scent, she slowly drifted off to sleep.

The gentle moonlight streamed through the window into the bedroom, casting a silvery glow. The entire room felt exceptionally peaceful and serene; everything was so beautiful and warm.

........

The next day.

The morning sunlight streamed through the window into the room. Yuzuru sat leisurely at the dining table, holding a steaming cup of milk, and flipping through the newspaper that had just been delivered that morning with great interest.

Shocking! Explosion at Beikado Music Academy!!!

The Death of Cellist Yosuke Mizuguchi

Violinist Kawabe Utako is seriously injured...

"interesting......"

Yu Shengnan raised an eyebrow as he looked at the eye-catching news reports in the newspaper, confirming that he hadn't misremembered; a big show was about to unfold.

At the dining table, Ai glanced at Yuzuru Nanami, who had been reading the newspaper since the start of the meal with a playful expression, put down her cup, tilted her head, and leaned over to take a look at the contents of the newspaper.

"An explosion occurred at Domoto Music Academy at 3:15 PM yesterday. Isn't that the time you came back yesterday?"

Ai frowned slightly, looking at Yuzuru with a suspicious gaze.

"Don't look at me, it has nothing to do with me." Yu Sheng Nan took a bite of the fried egg that the little maid had kindly picked up for him and said with a disdainful look, "I'm bombing Antarctica, I have no interest in bombing a small Domoto Music Academy."

"You've become arrogant!"

Xiao Ai was speechless; she thought she hadn't been online that morning.

It's still trending on social media. Last night, a huge, bottomless crater appeared in Antarctica, and it's still radiating terrifying heat, which triggered a massive avalanche that buried several nearby research stations.

If the researchers from those research stations hadn't happened to be visiting their neighbor's, they would all have been buried under this snowdrift.

And this was merely something someone did on a whim.

Ai calmed herself down, looked at Yuzuru as if he were a monster, and pointed at the newspaper. "Could this Domoto Music Academy be the Domoto concert we're going to attend in a few days?"

"I don't know, I'm not sure, I don't understand."

Yuzuru quickly denied it three times in a row, claiming ignorance when questioned.

A certain cunning little girl's intuition is too accurate; she can even sense an alien invasion. If she were to say that she knew, then he could forget about enjoying the music at the concert.

"Heh~"

Ai chuckled as she looked at Yuzuru, who seemed completely unfazed.

What do you mean you don't know? Are you trying to fool a little girl?

Does she really think Ai Haibara is some kind of soft-spoken, gentle, easily pushed-over, stupid little girl?

"Then tell me..."

"Ahem, Yuzuru, Ai, what are you talking about? What explosion? What happened in Antarctica? Are polar bears and penguins fighting?"

Akemi, who had prepared breakfast for Yingying and Bobo and sat back down at the table, interrupted Ai's continued questioning and looked at the two of them with great curiosity.

Yuzuru smiled and stuffed a half-eaten fried egg into Ai's mouth, saying, "It's nothing, it's just that the news said there was an explosion at a music academy, and Ai and I found out that it's the academy run by the organizer of the concert we're going to in a few days."

He didn't plan to tell the girls in his family about discovering aliens. It was just too much. Neither the Predator nor the Alien was good-looking, and he didn't want to scare his girls.

Only scientists like Ai Haibara would be so interested in dissecting and studying it.

Ai took a big, fierce bite of the fried egg in her mouth, chewed hard, and looked at her older sister who was staring at the newspaper. She sighed helplessly and mumbled, "Sister, there are only penguins in Antarctica, no polar bears, so they can't fight at all."

"Huh? Aren't polar bears and penguins in the same place?" Mingmei looked up, her face full of disbelief, as if her worldview had been shattered.

Ai nodded: "Yes, they are not from the same place."

As a scientist, I believe in rigor and absolutely cannot allow my sister to be misled by such false information.

"What... " Akemi pouted, feeling a little disappointed. She felt like all those lame jokes about penguins and polar bears she had read before were for nothing.

Yuzuru then laughed and said, "It's alright, I'll arrange for someone to capture the polar bear and take it to Antarctica in a bit, so it can be in the same place as the penguins."

You should cherish your own adorable little maid.

"Young Master Yuzuru is the best!"

Akemi chuckled, reached out with her chopsticks, and transferred the poached egg from Ai's bowl to Hanyu Nan's bowl.

Ai: "..."

Hell is empty, all the devils are here on earth!

Looking at her empty bowl, the little girl opened her mouth, but the words she wanted to say stuck in her throat.

You can be all lovey-dovey, but don't go around destroying the natural environment, you bastards!!!

The average annual temperature in the Arctic is -12°C, and the average annual temperature in the Antarctic is -25°C. Have you asked the polar bears for their opinion before doing this so recklessly?

Did you even consider the polar bears' feelings? You bastards!!!

Both of them are just big jerks who only know how to talk about love!

After breakfast, unable to bear the sight of the two of them feeding each other, Ai jumped off the stool and strode upstairs.

Talking about love is nothing compared to dissecting aliens.

However, the research-oriented little girl had only taken two steps when her older sister grabbed her and pulled her back.

Today is the first day of school. There are classes to attend, and skipping classes is not allowed.

"Ai, have you forgotten? Your teacher called me a few days ago to say that you haven't been doing your homework, and there's a parent-teacher conference coming up soon. So, I..."

Listening to her older sister's earnest admonitions, Ai, feeling utterly hopeless, slung her super-sized backpack over her shoulder and took Hanyu Nan's large hand as they walked out of the villa.