Chapter 138 I don't know anything about secret love
Kudo Shinichi still remembers what happened on his first day in kindergarten.
The person who opened the door was the teacher. He was asked to stand in front of a podium painted like a big mushroom and give a self-introduction that met the public's definition of "cute standards".
To a precocious male child, this seemed foolish and stupid, so Kudo Shinichi naturally tried to do two things at once.
The little boy in overalls kept his hands behind his back for the sake of appearance and gave a meaningless self-introduction, but in his mind he naturally looked around the entire classroom, trying to use the detective skills he learned from Sherlock Holmes (mainly from movies, as he didn't know many words at the time and couldn't understand the novels) to use the people in the room as material for analysis exercises.
Then, as expected, he spotted Suzuki Sonoko sitting in the middle of the last row.
The main thing was that the girl kept staring at him.
She stares intently, even if the teacher doesn't pay attention to her. Wherever he goes, she looks at him. Her eyes are like those of a sparrow staring at an insect in a science and education program, with a lively feeling that makes the back of your head tingle.
Four-year-old Kudo Shinichi had never seen this kind of expression on anyone, so generally speaking, his feeling at the time was one of friendly curiosity.
Let's go say hello to her after class...
As a result, just as this thought flashed through his mind, Kudo Shinichi hadn't even sat down yet, when the bird-like girl openly (actually Sonoko herself thought she did it very covertly) hooked his stool away with her foot.
Kudo Shinichi looked up at her expressionlessly: Are you serious?
The girl had neatly short hair and a huge pink and blue bow pinned behind her head, with the hanging ribbon almost touching the ground.
She turned her face away unnaturally, and the two "tails" swung out in an arc that was astonishingly noticeable.
Good, she did it on purpose.
So while pulling the stool back, Kudo Shinichi used a not-so-clever (after all, he was only three heads tall) fake fall move to step on her foot wearing red leather shoes.
Things don't end there.
Just before the little boy actually sat down, Butterfly stood up again and kicked over the mushroom stool belonging to Kudo Shinichi without saying a word.
He still used the posture of a bird staring at an insect.
Kudo Shinichi squatted in the air with his butt sticking up, looking at the familiar little stool that had flipped over three meters away, and thought to himself, am I being bullied?
The little girl with long hair next to her, also four years old, Mao Lilan, tugged at the sleeve of "Bow Tie" and whispered, "Sonoko, stop bullying me!"
Kudo Shinichi discovered that the look in "Butterfly"'s eyes as she stared at him suddenly became brighter the moment Xiaolan opened her mouth. She even pursed her lips, and at such a young age, she had a wrinkle between her eyebrows.
The next second, the frowning girl grabbed his water cup and slammed it to the ground.
After smashing it, she even snorted.
Kudo Shinichi: ...How come this is getting even worse?!
Because Suzuki Sonoko's character at the time was mentally retarded - and a mentally retarded person whose parents had donated property to the kindergarten - the teacher did not criticize her for her reasons, but chose to separate the two children first, and then comfort the new boy alone.
So in the other classes that morning, Kudo Shinichi sat with Xiaolan, and Sonoko was arranged on the other side, with a gentle female teacher to accompany her.
On the other side, the new kid, Kudo Shinichi, was looking at a pile of new textbooks and strange tools, and thought to himself, what a mess, it doesn't match?
Teitan's educational curriculum is very comprehensive, and even parents are inevitably at a loss, let alone children. So the understanding Xiaolan took the file card belonging to Kudo Shinichi and began to teach him according to his schedule.
Mao Lilan remembered her mother's teaching of "taking good care of Shinichi" and said after teaching him, "We can go to eat together at noon. I will accompany you to get the materials after school. You will need them for the handicraft class tomorrow."
Kudo Shinichi looked up and was about to say yes, when he happened to see those familiar, straight eyes whizzing towards him from another corner behind the little girl.
Such a strong presence...
During the third break of the day, which was the longest break period in kindergarten, Kudo Shinichi refused Mori Ran's company and prepared to explore the new environment on his own.
Generally speaking, the place where the crime occurred must be sparsely populated and extremely concealed. He recalled what the detectives said on TV, and his steps naturally moved to the corners of the mountain behind the kindergarten.
Then he saw the familiar powder blue bow again.
He now knew her name was Suzuki Sonoko.
Suzuki Sonoko had a clear goal and went straight to the sewer behind the park - children were generally not allowed to come here - but Suzuki Sonoko ignored the warning sign, and Kudo Shinichi was obviously not someone who could be stopped by such a thing.
As a result, before he had taken two steps, he found that Suzuki Sonoko stopped not far from the corner of the wall, then took out her file card with an expressionless face and threw it into the sewer without any reluctance.
Although this action looked wrong, and even weird considering the surrounding environment, Kudo Shinichi thought about it again and again and didn't feel that this was directed at him in any way.
So he turned and left.
After school that day, Suzuki Sonoko ran to Kudo Shinichi's desk, swinging her long bow ribbon, and grabbed Mouri Ran's sleeve, claiming that she had lost her card as well and it would take three days to get a new one, so she had to go with Ran to get the materials today.
Anyway, we have to go together.
While Xiaolan was looking for the teacher, Kudo Shinichi originally wanted to warn her, saying, "Actually, I know what you want to do. Don't go on. No matter what you are planning, I have seen through it!", but he was just thinking about whether he should imitate Sherlock Holmes and hold a pipe (lollipop) in his mouth before speaking, so that he would look more impressive...
As a result, the other party was more powerful than him, refused to repent and had no guilt at all, and yelled at him with confidence:
"You are not allowed to say Xiaolan's name!"
Kudo Shinichi: ...
Kudo Shinichi: "Huh?"
"You are not allowed to look at her, talk to her casually, or have anything to do with her!"
Suzuki Sonoko was almost shouting at the top of her lungs, the bow behind her head swinging up and down.
"She was the one who approached me—"
"Even if she comes to you, you are not allowed to talk to her!"
The way he jumped up and down looked like a typical child whose toy was taken away.
Kudo Shinichi felt that he was probably unlucky to have met such a childish guy. Normally, his high IQ meant that he could not understand the behavior of children of the same age, but luckily he had encountered such a textbook-like thing.
What followed was a period of mutual targeting that lasted throughout kindergarten.
Sometimes, when Kudo Shinichi is bored, he will deliberately talk to Xiaolan, especially saying bad things about Suzuki Sonoko to her, such as before the handicraft class, he said: "Team up with me, Suzuki Sonoko is clumsy."
You have to speak loudly enough to ensure that Suzuki Sonoko can hear you.
As soon as the words were spoken, the single cell was guaranteed to explode on the spot, and then a physical conflict at the childish level would naturally occur. After that, the teacher would ask both of them to go out of the classroom.
After leaving the classroom, Kudo Shinichi can say goodbye to origami and go play football happily.
As for what Suzuki Sonoko does...
Once, driven by curiosity, Kudo Shinichi watched her from afar with a football and found that once Suzuki Sonoko was asked to leave the classroom, she would go back to the small garden.
She planted a tulip bush there.
In fact, the flowers in the garden were all planted by children, but the subsequent care is the responsibility of the teachers. After all, you can't expect a group of three or five-year-old children to have much perseverance. However, Suzuki Sonoko is very diligent in watering the tulips, spending a lot of time taking care of them, and even staring at them when she has nothing to do.
Later, when Kudo Shinichi was preparing to kick the ball for the umpteenth time, he turned his head back inexplicably and saw her squatting in front of the flowers again.
After about three months, the tulips had slowly blossomed, and the color that shone through the buds was the same cobalt blue as his clothes.
The little girl, still wearing the pink and blue bow, squatted in front of the flowers. From a distance, she looked like a ceramic sculpture. Kudo Shinichi quarreled with her so often that he occasionally felt that she was magical - Suzuki Sonoko's mood was something that could be perceived and tangible. As long as her emotions fluctuated big enough, he could instantly share that wonderful feeling even across such a long distance.
The intuitive creature probably noticed his gaze, and its aura instantly became sharp. Suzuki Sonoko seemed to be stabbed and staggered a little on the spot. She pursed her lips as if she was angry with someone, or as if she was simply in a bad mood and was sulking with herself.
But once he sees him, Kudo Shinichi already has experience with this. No matter what he is angry about, once he sees him, the anger will instantly change its target and make him the first target of attack.
The amazing thing is that this time she was a beat slower.
Kudo Shinichi clearly saw that Suzuki Sonoko seemed to first lower her head and look at the flower that seemed to be about to bloom blue for a long time before looking up at him.
Then she looked at the flowers again before finally settling her gaze on his blue suit shorts.
The presence of that look was always very strong, so strong that Kudo Shinichi suspected that there was a hole in his pants where it shouldn't be torn, which made her successfully laugh at the joke - but who knew that after watching for a while, Suzuki Sonoko actually looked aggrieved, and the whole person curled up into an even smaller ball on the spot, and then without saying a word, picked up a small shovel and knocked down the flower in front of her.
As if she noticed that he was still watching, she was still a little indignant after she knocked the flower down. In the end, she simply dug out the flower and buried it in a sand pit on the spot.
This behavior should make her very sad.
The young Kudo Shinichi didn't quite understand why she did all these actions, but he was still shocked by her aura. When he came to his senses, all that was left in the distance was Suzuki Sonoko's unhappy back as she walked away.
There is also the familiar bow, and the long "tail" of the bow that swings back and forth.
One of the outstanding qualities of a detective is to maintain a long-lasting and strong curiosity.
So after realizing that he really cared about this matter, Kudo Shinichi did not go home directly after playing football, but went back to the small garden to re-examine the crime scene.
Suzuki Sonoko left in a huff, leaving the cartoon shovel with her name on it lying there. The sandpit wasn't buried very carefully, but when I pulled it out and took a look, I realized it wasn't an illusion...
The flowers are really blue.
For so long, he had never noticed that the tulips that Suzuki Sonoko had been so obsessed with planting were actually blue.
Clutching the tragically murdered flower, the young detective felt something was amiss.
The next day they continued to quarrel.
After Kudo Shinichi threw a trash basket at the other party, he realized belatedly that once he spoke to Xiaolan in a familiar way, Suzuki Sonoko would get angry, spend a lot of time looking at him, and plant blue flowers.
If he sees it, he might even get angry and embarrassed.
Five-year-old Kudo Shinichi thought at the time: Suzuki Sonoko, is she secretly in love with me?
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