But Conan was unaware that there seemed to be some misunderstanding between the two.

They were a bit far away from the two of them, so they didn't hear their conversation clearly.

As soon as they got closer, they heard Fusae saying goodbye to Professor Agasa:

"Then, I'll take my leave now."

See you again sometime!

"My husband seems to be getting impatient."

"I'm so sorry." Dr. Agasa forced a smile, and as he said this, he felt a sudden pang in his heart.

A wave of bitterness and pain spread through my heart.

But he didn't know that Fusae was feeling the same way at that moment.

Everyone was over fifty years old. Fusae thought that Professor Agasa had a house full of children and grandchildren, and Professor Agasa thought that Fusae had a happy family.

They didn't call each other by name, nor did they offer any explanation.

Deep down, however, she knew perfectly well that the other person was the one who had been in her heart for twenty years.

Neither of them wanted to bring the matter up, so as not to affect the other's life.

If there was a bond between them over the past forty years, then at this moment, that bond seems to have been broken.

Watching Fusae walk towards the car, Professor Agasa opened his mouth, but then closed it again.

He felt he could shout it out.

But they're already married, is it really okay for him to bother them?

He didn't notice that Fusae was walking slowly, as if she was waiting for something.

...

Seeing that Fusae was about to leave, Conan and the others ran up to Professor Agasa to find out what was going on:

"Doctor, what's the situation?"

"We haven't picked the wrong person, have we?"

"She must be the doctor's first love, right?"

Faced with these questions from the children, Dr. Agasa looked down at the ground, remained silent, and did not offer any answers.

Ai turned around and glanced at the car.

She didn't know what the two had just talked about, but she could tell that their conversation wasn't going in the direction she expected.

It doesn't seem to be going very smoothly.

Otherwise, Fusae wouldn't have chosen to leave at this point.

Speaking of which, where did Guangyou go?

She had been here for a while, but she hadn't seen Guangyou.

Now that Fusae is leaving, where are the others?

...

"Doctor! What's the situation?" Genta pressed.

“...”

There has still been no response.

Dr. Agasa glanced up at the white sedan and saw Fusae open the back door and get in.

He was stunned for a moment.

He then pinched his chin with his hand, seemingly lost in thought.

...

As soon as I got into the car, the man wearing sunglasses asked:

Is that all?

"Miss Fusae?"

If someone were here, they could guess the relationship between the two from this way of addressing each other.

The two are not husband and wife as Fusae told Professor Agasa.

At most, we're just friends.

The man held the steering wheel but did not start the car.

"After waiting for so long, you've finally met the man you've waited for forty years. Is that all there is to it?"

"That's enough, I'm very satisfied."

Despite giving an affirmative answer, a hint of disappointment lingered in Kofusa's eyes. She said:

"In the end, I did not reveal my identity."

She turned around and looked back through the rear window of the car.

The scene of Professor Agasa talking to Ayumi and the others was reflected in his black pupils.

"However, it's what I should do."

"Because he seems to have a happy and fulfilling family."

"If he knew that a foolish woman had waited for him for forty years, he would be heartbroken."

The two hadn't seen each other for forty years, but Fusa seemed to still know Professor Agasa quite well.

This surprised the man in sunglasses, who asked:

"You really know so much about a man you haven't seen in forty years?"

“Because that person was here when my hat was blown away by the wind…” Fusa recounted the events of that year.

...

That day, she and Professor Agasa were heading home after school.

As they walked along the road lined with ginkgo trees, a sudden gust of wind blew her hat off.

Her past experience of being ostracized because of her blonde hair meant that the first thing she did after all this happened wasn't to pick up her hat that had been blown off by the wind, but to crouch down with her head in her hands.

She didn't want anyone to see her blonde hair.

But she knew it was useless, so she shouted loudly at Professor Agasa:

"No, don't look at me!"

"My hair is strange; it's different from everyone else's!"

Remembering how some of her friends started to distance themselves from her after seeing her hair color, and how some even ostracized her, she worried that Professor Agasa would be the same way.

This is a good friend she finally managed to make!

Thinking of this, the grievances in my heart turned into tears that kept flowing from my eyes.

"But I like it very much!"

Such a sentence is like a touch of green in the dead of winter, a ray of light in the darkness.

She looked up at Professor Agasa, who had said those words.

She saw that Professor Agasa was still smiling at her as usual.

Under her gaze, he picked up a ginkgo leaf that had turned golden from the ground, then smiled and said to her:

"Look, it's just like a ginkgo leaf, such a beautiful color!"

She later made a point of remembering the date.

November 24th.

...

When Fusa talked about this past event, her face became a little flushed, and a smile appeared on her lips.

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