"Alright, you can eat now."
"I'm going to the restroom. If there's any emergency, please ask Yukiko to call Ai."
"No problem, leave it to me!" Yukiko Kudo adjusted the settings on her camera and readily agreed.
After relieving himself in the restroom, Kōyū came out and saw Ai still sitting on the sofa reading a magazine, so he casually asked her:
"Hey, Ai, aren't you going to observe his reaction?"
Ai looked up from behind the magazine at Kousuke and replied:
"Isn't it you who's here?"
"Although we cannot guarantee that the antidote will be 100% effective, theoretically, the chances of success are very high."
After she finished speaking, she thought for a moment and put down the magazine in her hand.
"Let's go take a look."
As the two walked towards the research lab, Kwang-yu asked her:
"Ai, have you decided what to do after this is over?"
“Next, I want to study you.” Ai’s tone was completely flat. “I’m quite interested in your body.”
Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks.
Realizing there was ambiguity in her words, she explained as if nothing had happened:
“I’m curious how you ended up like this if you’ve never taken APTX4869.”
Although he knew that was what Ai was thinking, Kousuke still teased her in a low voice, which was quite unkind:
Hehe~
Believe it or not.
Without paying much attention to Kousuke's teasing, Ai left those words and quickened her pace towards the research lab.
Guangyou chuckled and then chased after him.
...
Fortunately, it's a detached house, meaning a single-family home.
If you lived in a high-rise apartment, your neighbors would definitely complain about the disturbance if they heard Conan's screams, and they might even call the police.
The process went relatively smoothly, and Conan successfully transformed back into Shinichi Kudo.
Just as Conan was looking around, pleased with his transformation, Kōsuke tossed him a pre-prepared set of clothes, saying:
"Get dressed before you get excited."
"Oh." Shinichi Kudo realized that he was almost naked.
Fortunately, before the transformation process was completed, Ai pulled Yukiko Kudo, who didn't want to leave at all and looked full of regret, out of the research room.
After Shinichi Kudo changed his clothes, Mitsuyu picked up the equipment to examine his physical condition, asking questions as he did so:
"Do you feel any discomfort in your body?"
"Aside from some pain, there's nothing else that's bothering me." Shinichi Kudo cooperated fully as Mitsuyu examined him and answered his questions.
The examination results were good; there were no abnormalities.
He told Shinichi the results, and then Kouyu called in Yukiko Kudo and the others.
If it were an ordinary mother in this situation, she would most likely say:
"Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
She would first be concerned about her son, after all, he had screamed so pitifully just now.
But Yukiko Kudo is clearly not an ordinary mother.
The first thing she said when she entered the room and saw her son, who had turned back into his original form, was:
"Looking at it this way, Conan is cuter."
She looked down at Ai and asked:
"Ai, do you still have that 4869 thing over there?"
"There should be." Ai nodded in agreement.
"I'll go get it." Guangyou made a move to leave the research lab.
"Hey, hey, hey, that's enough!" Shinichi Kudo looked at the three of them with a face full of black lines.
"I'm just kidding."
Retracting his half-taken step, Kōyū told Shinichi Kudo the important points:
"Although you have now turned back into Shinichi Kudo, it is not yet certain that the antidote was successful."
"So you'll have to stay away from here for the next couple of days..."
"Then I..."
Before Shinichi Kudo could finish speaking, Mitsuyu interrupted him:
"I can't stay at your house."
"You'll be staying at a hotel for the next few days."
Let's observe for three days first.
"Come back when everything is alright."
"Alright." Shinichi Kudo suppressed his urge to tell everyone he was back and decided to obediently follow Mitsuyu's arrangements.
...
During his stay at the hotel, Shinichi Kudo pondered a question.
Should we tell Xiaolan the truth, or keep it a secret?
For the first two days, he was more inclined to keep the matter a secret.
Now that Conan has left, Ran has no suspicions. As long as no one tells her, she won't know.
Whether she knows or not, she won't worry about him.
Isn't it good to live a peaceful life like this for a while?
But when Guangyou came to see him after school on the third day, something Guangyou said made him change his mind:
"If I tell her, she might... no, she definitely will be angry."
"However, I can confirm that although she is angry, it will not affect the relationship between the two of you."
"You didn't say anything before because you were worried she would get involved in these things."
"Now that everything is over, there's no need to worry about it."
"You can tell her or not, but I can only say that if it were me, I would tell her."
"Of course, it depends on how you decide and what she thinks."
"If she wants to know..."
On this issue, Shinichi Kudo was wavering.
Sometimes I want to just keep it a secret, but the next second I want to confess.
Guangyou's words today are like a finger gently pressing on the "confess" side of a scale, making him more inclined to choose "confess".
"Then I'll test the waters first." Shinichi Kudo thought for a few seconds and made his decision.
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