Once Conan was within her reach, Ran reached out, grabbed him, and pulled him ashore.

"Huff..." Conan lay on the ground, looking at the sky where the rain had stopped sometime ago, his chest heaving as he gasped for breath.

"Conan, are you alright?" Ran and Sonoko walked up to Conan and asked with concern.

"I'm fine," Conan replied, shaking his head after calming his breathing slightly.

"Then quickly take off your wet clothes," Ran said to Conan as she took off her coat, "so you don't catch a cold again."

"Hmm." Conan propped himself up with his hands, took off his already soaked clothes, and put on Ran's coat.

"How are you all?" Uncle Mori caught up at this moment. Seeing that everyone was there, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little more at ease.

"We're alright," Ran said, picking up Conan's soaked clothes. "It's just that Conan fell into the river and his clothes are all wet. We need to find a place to rest first."

"Then let's hurry up and go." Uncle Mori knew what was important and said after hearing this, "Let's go back the way we came, pick up our things, and then see if anyone lives around here."

"Okay, let's go." Everyone nodded in agreement.

The group returned to the spot where they had been fishing, packed up their fishing gear, and went into the forest to look for people who might live nearby.

They didn't know if anyone lived nearby.

Anyway, when they went fishing by the river before, they didn't see a single house along the way.

But what they did know was that there was a tennis court nearby.

If nothing unexpected happens, someone should live near the tennis court.

After all, you can't open a tennis court in some remote, uninhabited mountain forest, can you?

Therefore, they decided to go and take a look around the tennis courts.

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