"Let's hand it over to Nishimura and Narita. Animals that die from injections of experimental drugs need further autopsy and research."
"W-what!"
Miyuki was the first to be surprised, and even felt a little angry.
"Even if it's a laboratory animal, it's still a life. How can you treat it so indifferently!"
"We...we still need to dissect it..."
Shiho Miyano didn't say anything more, walked past them into the laboratory, and then waved behind her back.
"Whether you hand it over or not is up to you."
The two boys still in the lab stared at her with strange looks.
"Aren't all top students heartless?" Kindaichi said indignantly, having forgotten the girl's kindness in helping him yesterday.
Shiho Miyano walked over unmoved and took the calico cat from Nanami Mitsuki's hands.
"You think so too, right?" She asked the silent Mitsuki.
But before the other person could answer, she had already turned and walked out of the laboratory.
"Ah, wait, wait a minute..."
Mitsuki, who was holding the orange cat, paused for a moment, and was about to chase after it when Kindaichi stopped him again.
"Hey, what do you mean? Are you on the same side as those kinds of people?"
Mitsuki, who was half a head taller than Kindaichi, was far less muscular and therefore could not force his way through.
Miyuki and Shikiriko, who were originally carrying the dead white mouse and heading to the yard, turned back.
"I think we're here to work, so it's better to leave the lab animals to the professionals."
"I'm not feeling very energetic," said Riko Saki.
Although Miyuki's expression was not pleasant, she nodded in agreement.
Kindaichi suddenly felt incredibly embarrassed and scratched his head in frustration.
"Seriously, how did you all become like this..."
"There's nothing we can do, these are the rules!" Miyuki sighed softly as she looked at the rabbits she was in charge of in the cage.
"Since we are just employees, we must abide by the rules of our employers."
"Besides, Professor Fukayama's experiments are researching drugs that are beneficial to humans, aren't they? These little animals didn't die in vain; they contributed to our lives..."
"I don't want to hear your high-sounding principles!" Kindaichi became bolder when dealing with his childhood friend, rolling his eyes and muttering.
"What rules? What employer? I hate all that stuff!"
"We are all human beings, so why do some people have to act superior and spout those grand principles to fool people?"
"I feel sorry for small animals, isn't that reasonable?"
Miyuki, who was not particularly fond of animal experiments to begin with, suddenly became speechless when questioned like this.
However, someone nearby let out a soft laugh.
Turning around, I saw it was Mitsuki Nanagi holding an orange cat.
"Kindaichi-kun seems to be the kind of person who ignores the rules," he said, gently stroking the cat.
The orange cat let out a lazy meow, it was hard to tell whether it agreed or disagreed.
Kindaichi didn't understand what he meant, but after being told that, he became even more smug.
"Exactly! Let me tell you, those who make the rules are the real liars, they just want people to obey..."
“But speaking of which…” Mitsuki Nanami seemed to ignore Kindaichi’s closeness and interrupted directly, “Kindaichi-kun, I think you are the one most restricted by the rules…”
"Because you always want to break the rules, but you don't have the ability, so you have to obediently accept the punishment for breaking the rules!"
Although the last sentence was sarcastic, it was said with a smile.
Miyuki, who knew Kindaichi well, thought for a moment and was the first to laugh out loud.
As a result, everyone took their assigned animals and went back to work, leaving only Kindaichi staring at the Golden Retriever and Akita dog in their cages.
"What? Why are you saying that about me...?"
"Damn it!..."
...
In the following days, the high school students who were acting as assistants were not particularly enthusiastic about eating or resting.
"The thought that more animals might die in the next experiment makes me unable to eat."
Miyuki looked at the braised beef on the plate and said.
Turning around again, he found his childhood friend, Kindaichi, who was most opposed to animal experiments, had almost buried his face in the plate.
Wow! This is so delicious... Please give me another one!
"Hajime-chan!" Feeling embarrassed, Miyuki skillfully pinched Kindaichi's ear.
The boy's strange cries and the girl's scolding voices intertwined to create a lively scene of chaos and confusion.
Shiho Miyano, sitting at another table, looked up, glanced at the table indifferently, and when she looked away, she happened to meet the gaze of Nanako Mitsuki, who was also turning his head across from her.
After a moment of silence, the two of them simultaneously gave polite smiles.
"If you keep sitting with me, you'd better watch out for being ostracized by the others." Shiho Miyano lowered her head again, speaking softly as she continued to put food into her mouth.
The tone was cold, but it actually meant that the speaker cared.
The person born in the seventh month of the fourth lunar month seemed to be taken aback by this reminder.
"'Exclusion' is a thing..."
"What?" Shiho Miyano lowered her gaze and said calmly, "Are you also one of those people who get ostracized?"
Upon hearing the word "also," Si Yueqi's eyebrows twitched, but he then chuckled softly.
"No, I should be different from you..."
"After all, you are just too outstanding, which inevitably puts pressure on others."
"Ordinary people are used to avoiding pressure, just like... that Kindaichi."
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