"Now……"

Ai slowly ruffled the Ragdoll cat's fluffy head, her pink lips slightly parted: "The experiment begins."

The little girl's voice was like a devil's whisper, full of evil. As she spoke, she gently put the cat on the ground, then jumped onto the sink, swinging her legs to watch the show.

Meow~

The cat meowed sweetly, but to the three "mice," it sounded like the call of death.

Holy crap!

Kaito turned and ran, yelling, "What the hell is going on?!"

Conan and Heiji Hattori moved even faster. The three of them, who had been at each other's throats just moments before, now formed an escape team in perfect unison and ran wildly along the edge of the sink.

"Hey, Kid!" Conan shouted, "Where are your magic props?"

"What the hell do you need now that you've turned into a rat?!"

Kaito was on the verge of tears.

The Ragdoll cat followed leisurely behind, looking at the three little ones with a human-like playful expression. It stretched out its paw and gently nudged them, causing Kaito to be flipped over and roll around a few times like a little toy.

"Meow~" The cat tilted its head, seemingly considering where to start its bite.

"Good...good kitty..." Kaito forced a smile, trying to soothe it with his pigeon-training skills, "I'm a good person..."

"Smack!"

The cat's paw slapped down mercilessly.

This cat can tell who is loyal and who is treacherous.

Kaito narrowly escaped being smashed into a meat patty.

"It's no use!" Conan pulled him along as they continued running. "It's in a feline's nature to toy with its prey!"

The three fled in a sorry state, while the ragdoll cat had a great time—it would deliberately let them run for a while, then block their path with its paws; or it would gently push them, making them roll around in a heap.

"This guy is way more troublesome than that idiot Inspector Nakamori!"

Kaito complained, panting heavily.

He never imagined that he, the dignified Phantom Thief Kid, who could easily escape the police's pursuit and toy with them like it was nothing, would one day fall into the hands of a little girl and a cat, being played like a mouse.

Heiji Hattori tried to use a method he'd found online to deal with animals—playing dead—but the cat swatted him away with a paw, sending him tumbling a considerable distance, making him howl in pain.

"Oh! What you see online is all lies!"

(Yesterday, a scammer in the group pretended to have a birthday and no one wished him a happy birthday, then played the victim and asked for red envelopes. Some readers were swayed and fell for it. I'd like to remind everyone to be wary of kindness online.)

Conan tried to use his shrunk size to slip away through the crack in the bathroom door, but was swatted back by a sweeping slash from the cat's tail.

With a "smack," the great detective was hit hard by the cat's tail and rolled several times on the ground like a small marble, making him cry out in pain.

"Meow~" The Ragdoll cat was having a great time, tossing the three of them around like living toys.

Ai sat on the sink, leisurely swinging her fair legs, holding a notebook in her hand, recording data and commenting: "As expected, even humans with superior intelligence are powerless against felines when shrunk."

In the past, this scene was just like a routine scientific observation in her eyes, and she felt no sympathy for the three people's miserable situation.

"Haibara! Help!" Conan was being chased by the cat, jumping up and down.

"Grandma, I was wrong! I'll never mess with Yuzuru again!" Hattori Heiji swore with a mournful face, determined to survive this ordeal first.

Kaito, quick-witted as ever, instantly joined the fray: "Meow meow meow?"

(Translation: The sacred flame shines brightly, the sacred flame is radiant.)

All my disciples, meow meow meow meow.

"Smack!"

The cat's paw fell mercilessly.

The Meow Meow Cult never accepts mice.

Kaito narrowly avoided the attack, but a tuft of his hair was pulled out in the process.

"This cat has no sportsmanship!"

For the next ten minutes, the three experienced the most humiliating moment of their lives—being chased around the bathroom by a Ragdoll cat, sometimes playing dead, sometimes begging for mercy, and even trying to fight back together, but the cat easily thwarted their attempts.

Cats have a habit of playing with their prey before killing it, and this Ragdoll cat was clearly having a lot of fun.

"I can't... I can't run anymore..."

Hattori Heiji collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

Conan wasn't in much better shape. Leaning against the wall, he weakly said, "I never thought that I, a renowned detective... would actually die under a cat's claws..."

Kaito stared at the toilet in the bathroom, then a brilliant idea flashed into his mind: "Everyone! I have an idea!"

"What?" The two looked at him weakly.

"There!" Kaito pointed to the toilet. "We can escape through the sewers!"

Conan and Hattori followed his gaze and saw that the toilet seat was slightly lifted not far away, and the water surface was shimmering with an alluring light.

However, the thought of escaping through a sewage-filled toilet drain made the two of them look disgusted: "Are you crazy?"

"It's better than getting killed by a cat!" Kaito rushed to the toilet; the Pandora's Gem was still waiting for him, and he couldn't give up like this. "I'm off!"

As he spoke, he plunged into the toilet water.

Conan and Hattori exchanged a glance, then looked at the approaching cat, and finally gritted their teeth—

"Splash!" "Splash!"

Two "mice" followed closely behind and jumped into the toilet.

The icy water instantly soaked their entire bodies, and a pungent stench hit them, almost suffocating them.

The three of them struggled to swim despite their nausea. Through the water, they saw the Ragdoll cat lying confusedly by the toilet, its head tilted, seemingly not understanding why its prey was courting death.

Following the current, the three were swept into the sewer pipes. In the darkness, they could only drift with the current, not knowing where they would be taken.

Ai jumped off the sink, looked at the water surface gradually returning to calm, and nodded in satisfaction: "Experimental data collection complete."

She picked up the still-entertaining Ragdoll cat and said with equal relish, "It seems mice really can't beat cats... even the smartest mice."

...

Meanwhile, in the sewers.

Three wet "rats" are struggling to swim in the sewage.

Sewage from other places constantly washed over them, making their movements extremely difficult.

"I've never been so humiliated in my entire life..." Hattori Heiji said, vomiting and drinking as he swam.

Conan, utterly despondent, declared, "I'm going to erase this memory from my brain..."

They've all been through the wringer, so to speak.

In the future, their children can openly say, "My dad dares to eat shit, does your dad dare?"

Kaito suddenly realized something and stopped in alarm: "Wait! We're only the size of mice now... what if we encounter a real mouse?"

"Shut up! Go swim!"

Conan and Hattori shouted in unison.

And so, Phantom Thief Kid and the two famous detectives completed their first escape together in the most humiliating way.