Chapter 529 Where is that silly ball?

Seeing the boy nod with a smile, Katsuragi Tateko opened her mouth, then said remorsefully, "I'm so sorry you got such a bad injury. If I had been more careful, this wouldn't have happened..."

Qianzhu paused for a moment, then smiled helplessly and gently comforted her, "You don't need to apologize, because it's not your fault. You don't have to take all the blame on yourself."

Katsura Tatsuko's eyes were a little moist. She wiped her eyes haphazardly, nodded, and said in a slightly choked voice, "Thank you."

Qianzhu slightly curved her eyes, a smile playing in them, as if she had absorbed Yueze's gentleness.

Even so, Katsura Tatsuko still felt somewhat guilty.

She accompanied Qianzhu for his second day of check-ups, and she has been taking good care of him these past few days.

Perhaps she felt guilty, or perhaps she saw a reflection of Qingmu in him.

Qianzhu rested in the hospital for almost a month before recovering and being discharged.

Accompanied by Kogoro Mouri and his two companions, he returned to Beika City with them.

I've been away for almost two months, and... nothing has changed here.

Upon returning to the Chino residence, Professor Agasa and Ai Haibara, having received the news, immediately came to visit him.

But Liu Qingyao was closer, so she arrived here before them.

Because they lived very close by, they knew each other, and Ai Haibara and the other woman had a pretty good impression of him.

Just as they were talking, a bell rang at the door.

Liu Qingyao got up to open the door, and a woman dressed as a maid was standing outside.

Percy smiled slightly at him, "Hello, I am Young Master Dai Yinwu, here to visit Mr. Chino."

Liu Qingyao blinked. After all, he didn't know Bei Lingyinwu and assumed that the young master Yinwu she mentioned was a friend of Qianzhu. So he nodded, stepped aside to let her in, and said, "Please come in."

When Percy came into Ai Haibara's line of sight, her gaze paused slightly, she hid her wariness, and looked at her calmly.

Ignoring the gazes of others, Percy smiled and met Qianzhu's eyes, placing the gift bag in his hand on the table in front of him.

"This is a gift prepared for you by Young Master Yinwu. Since he was unable to come in person, I delivered it to you on his behalf. It has now been delivered, so I will take my leave now. Have a good time."

After saying that, Percy bowed slightly to him and turned to leave.

Qianzhu glanced casually at the gift bag on the table and ignored it.

Seeing this, Liu Qingyao smoothly changed the subject.

Immediately, Ai Haibara's imagination ran even deeper.

After taking away some more emotional points from the main characters, Qianzhu sent them away from the mansion.

A cooing sound rang out.

The little white dove, which hadn't been seen for a long time, flew back. It landed on Qianzhu's shoulder, gently nuzzled his cheek, and cooed softly.

"Coo coo?" Where's that silly ball?

Upon hearing this, Qianzhu chuckled softly.

01, who had been holed up in the system space, suddenly jumped out, huffing and puffing as it hopped a few times on the little pigeon's head. [You're the silly pigeon! Long time no see, and you're still as silly as ever!]

The little white dove turned its head arrogantly and said, "Coo coo." Hmph, a good pigeon doesn't bother arguing with a silly ball.

01: [...]

Qianzhu left the two outside to continue bickering and went back inside to open the gift bag that Percy had just brought over.

There was another box inside.

Upon opening the box, one finds a glass bottle filled with colorful star-shaped gemstones.

The gems inside are all magical gems that have been soaked in magic potions.