Upon hearing this, Kōyū raised the hand that was holding Ai's and said confidently, "With the relationship between us, I can see it whenever I want."
"Oh," Ai replied with a smile.
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After parting ways with Ai Haibara at Professor Agasa's house, Kousuke went straight back to his agency.
On the way back, Kōyū thought of a very important question: he had to tell Uncle Mori what had happened that day.
On one hand, they wanted to get Uncle Mori to stop the investigation, since one of the two men was dead and the other was in prison, and there was no need to continue the investigation.
On the other hand, there is the issue of the commission fee. Without a doubt, that commission fee should be returned to Kuroki Tetsuya, both morally and logically.
After hearing the whole story, Uncle Mori agreed without hesitation to return the commission fee, saying he would send it back to the client the next day at the address in the letter.
After resolving the matter, Kōyū took a quick shower in the bathroom, then crawled into bed and started texting Ai.
The text messages were about trivial matters, but the two seemed to have endless things to talk about.
The two had just finished exchanging text messages around 10 p.m.
They both had to go to school tomorrow, so after sending the text message, they closed their eyes and drifted off to sleep.
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Inside Kuroki Tetsuya's room on the second floor of the Kuroki residence, the room's owner was slumped over his desk, a wet patch on an open photo album—the result of his tears.
Perhaps because he had been crying for so long, Kuroki Tetsuya had fallen asleep from exhaustion. Even so, he was still muttering his parents' names, and his body would tremble from time to time.
A few glistening drops would even well up from her closed eyes, then trickle down her cheeks, eventually blending into the water stains on the photo album.
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