Chapter 727 Why is Valentine's Day coming again?

However, Haibara Ai looked over warily and found that it was different from what she had imagined.

The person at the gate was not a suspicious man in black, but a young girl in a beige windbreaker. She was startled when she heard the sound of the iron mailbox, and before Jiang Xia could speak, she jumped out and fled the scene.

By the time Jiang Xia and Huihara Ai reached the gate of the courtyard, the figure had already run away for a long distance and disappeared around the corner at a rapid speed.

"......?" Jiang Xia looked at the back of the man who had no murderous intent and no ghost hanging on his calf. After a moment of confusion, he remembered. He always had a good memory. "It was a colleague I met when I was working at the hamburger house before... The employee registration form there required filling in the address. She was the senior who took us to fill in the form. She must have remembered the address at that time."

Huiyuan Ai: “…”

She took out her handkerchief and secretly wiped the cold sweat from her body. At the same time, she looked at Jiang Xia disapprovingly: Jiang Xia works in the organization, and her identity is sensitive. She is also a public figure, so it is safer to fill in a fake address. Or at least fill in the work address, such as the detective agency. Otherwise, if you run into a bad guy...

Wait, it seems that everyone in Jiang Xia's organization is a bad guy. He probably isn't afraid of this...

While thinking, Huibara Ai looked at the mailbox next to her with a speechless look - when the girl was wandering outside the door just now, Huibara Ai vaguely saw her fiddling with something there, and it seemed that she put something down.

…

Soon, Haibara Ai walked out of the yard, squatted down, and picked up a gift box from the ground.

The box was the size of two palms, with a light pink package and a golden ribbon crisscrossed. The girl seemed to want to put it into the mailbox, but the mailbox was full, and there was no room even on the top of the mailbox. In the end, the flat gift box could only fall to the ground.

Think about what just happened in the context of today.

Huihara Ai suddenly understood: "Today is Valentine's Day... I wanted to make chocolates in the morning, but something happened last night and I forgot to do it."

Jiang Xia: “……?”

He took out his phone, turned it on, and looked at the date. He found that Valentine's Day had come again without him noticing. Time really flies. What about other holidays in between? Those should also be the peak periods for cases...

Jiang Xia sighed slightly with a hint of sadness and looked at the pile of chocolates at the door of his house.

These were secretly released after midnight. The gift-givers were probably a group of girls or women who didn't have any murderous intent. They stopped at the door for a while and then left. They didn't enter the house, so the ghosts didn't notice. Or maybe they noticed but didn't think it was necessary to say anything.

If this continues, by next Valentine's Day, I'll have to put up a sign outside my house stating that they don't accept chocolates, and that if I want to give something as a gift, I can send it to the Amuro Detective Agency - that way, when the boss goes there, I can grab a laborer to help carry the chocolate bricks.

…

Chocolates can’t always be piled up at doorsteps and in mailboxes.

Huiyuan Ai helped Jiang Xia move the chocolates at the door into the house. In addition, considering that it was only morning and Valentine's Day had not yet fully begun, she and Jiang Xia made a small sign indicating where the chocolates were stored, and stuck it on the door and pressed it firmly.

After helping with the work instinctively, Haibara Ai finally remembered the important business she was doing.

She wanted to find out about the man in black last night.

However, just as he opened his mouth, there was movement at the door again.

——This time, it was not the sound of the mailbox lid opening and closing, but someone ringing the doorbell.

The person who came was an acquaintance.

While ringing the doorbell, he tiptoed to the courtyard door and found that it was not locked, so he pushed the door open and came in.

Huihara Ai silently looked at Conan who was approaching: "..."

Conan looked at her in confusion, then looked at Jiang Xia. For some reason, he felt that he had come at the wrong time.

He looked at Huiyuan Ai in surprise, who was wearing a child's outfit that was very different from her usual outfit. He thought she was here to show Jiang Xia her new clothes, so he politely complimented her, "You look really good today."

“…”

One second later.

For some reason, Haibara Ai pressed her fluffy skirt and looked at him with an even more fierce look.

Conan: “……?”

He touched the back of his head in confusion, feeling that women's thoughts were very difficult to guess, so he simply gave up guessing.

Conan looked at Jiang Xia, his expression solemn and a little embarrassed: "Um, are you free today?"

"Yes." Jiang Xia nodded quickly.

Conan looked at him with a touch of emotion: Jiang Xia was dressed like this, and it was obvious that he was going out. But he must have realized that he needed help, so he immediately said he was free... Jiang Xia was really nice to his friends.

Haibara Ai next to him also secretly pricked up her ears: Conan does have some serious work occasionally, and he has a strong event physique, always encountering things related to the organization... Now he suddenly comes, could it be related to the man in black last night?

Haibara Ai pinched her chin and fell into deep thought: If the man in black knew that Haibara Ai = Shirley, then after mastering the extremely important information that "adults can become small", it would be no problem for him to deduce that "Kudo Shinichi = Conan". It just depends on whether he pays attention to those high school detectives.

Under the gaze of Jiang Xia and Huihara Ai.

Conan looked conflicted, and hesitated for a long time before finally speaking through gritted teeth: "It's like this - last night, Xiaolan made some handmade chocolates in the kitchen."

The keyword "last night" immediately aroused Haibara Ai's vigilance.

She nodded and prepared to continue listening - could it be that while making chocolate, Mouri Ran ran out of materials, so she went to a 24-hour convenience store with Conan to buy some, and happened to meet the mysterious man in black who exuded the aura of an organization?

...But wait. In Conan's eyes, Jiang Xia seems to have nothing to do with the Black Organization. Huiyuan Ai frowned, thinking that she had guessed the direction of things, but at the same time she felt that something was wrong.

Then she heard Conan lower his voice and say in a serious tone:

"She made chocolates on Valentine's Day, and she was definitely planning to give them to someone, but when I asked her, she said they weren't for 'Kudo Shinichi'. So I, ahem, used a little bit of technology..." Conan fiddled with the voice-changing bow in his pocket guiltily, "and went to find Sonoko to find out the situation - and then I learned that they were actually going to attend a social gathering hosted by someone else on Valentine's Day. The chocolates were prepared for that."

Huiyuan Ai: “……?”

…That’s it?

"..." She thought of her previous speculation and felt that things should not be so simple, because Conan's expression looked very serious.

Huiyuan Ai confirmed without giving up: "And then?"

(End of this chapter)