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At Dr. Agasa's house, Conan finally waited for the girl to come back.

"Where's Kong?"

"Just put me down and left." Huibara took off her coat, sat on the sofa, and was met with Conan's face full of confusion.

"So you went to Kong's house for dinner?" Conan already knew the general idea from Ai's previous phone call, but he had a vague feeling about it.

"What's wrong, great detective?" Huibara Ai replied coldly.

Conan was choked up and felt helpless about the character of this new teammate. He could only say directly:

"I felt that you were a little scared before. I thought you and Kong Ge..." We knew each other before and even had a grudge against each other.

"You're talking about him, he's a nice person, and the dinner was delicious." Huibara Ai interrupted the other party's speculation and said directly.

"That's good." Conan didn't say anything else. Seeing that he was getting along well with Sora Natsukawa, he was relieved. He then said, "Call those kids and tell them you're safe. They're all worried about you."

Huiyuan Ai was stunned when she heard this, then turned around and asked, "Are you sure you want to be so close to those kids?"

"If you don't want to be surrounded by a group of them talking nonstop at school tomorrow, then there's no need to call." Conan spread his hands and handed the other party the phone.

Ai Haibara had no choice but to take the phone and start making calls one by one.

Twenty minutes later, Huibara Ai put down her phone and rubbed her temples with a headache. She thought she just wanted to report that she was safe, but before she could open her mouth, the other party anxiously asked her about her physical condition. After briefly explaining that she had rested and had dinner at Noel's house, she was dragged aside to talk about a bunch of things about Kong Ge. If she hadn't taken the initiative to say that she wanted to go to bed early, Huibara Ai doubted that these children could have kept her talking all night.

Speaking of Grappa, is Noel so popular with children?

Haibara Ai turned around, but saw Conan leaning against the sofa and reading a comic book, as if he had expected it.

"You guessed it a long time ago."

Of course, Haibara Ai was talking about that group of children.

"As long as you don't quit, they can keep you chatting." Conan turned another page of the comic, and it was obvious that he had become very skilled at it.

"Comics?"

"Yes, a mystery comic." Conan had already read the new issue several times and knew the plot. Hearing this, he passed it over and asked, "Have you read it?"

“I have no interest in comics.”

"That's such a pity." Conan closed the comic book and said, but saw the girl took the comic book and started reading it again.

It's really hard to guess what women are thinking...Conan sighed.

This story seems to be a separate story, but it is closely connected with the previous story. This time, a girl is being chased by something, and an innocent traveler is involved. The two experience a thrilling chase. However, in the end, the monster that is chasing them is actually a huge and cute cat.

"Why is it chasing you?"

"Because its owner is dead."

"Why did its owner die?"

"Because my parents are dead."

A cycle of hatred is thus created.

Leon's painting style is still warm and lovely. Although the tense and exciting chase is nerve-wracking, the smooth movements in the middle are done in one go. The slightly exaggerated expressions and movements make the girl so lively and cute. The sky blue overalls and orange boots make her look so energetic, and the traveler in white clothes beside her seems to be colored.

Finally, the two waved goodbye, and the traveler walked forward, with the world behind him full of colors.

"If you don't read the dialogues, it'll be like a fairy tale like Alice in Wonderland." Haibara Ai said after reading it.

"But Leon's stories are always realistic." Conan waved his hand and said, "If it is true, how would you understand it?"

"real?"

The real world doesn't have giant cats, talking birds, overly bright and colorful flowers that can sing and dance, or dark and evil shadows like villains.

"Could it be...perspective?" Huiyuan Ai was puzzled for a moment and then confirmed: "This is the girl's perspective, and she herself suffers from mental illness."

"Yes, and this book is the interpretation tool." Conan took out the story from the previous book and told a very warm and ordinary story.

A lame old man with a calico cat saw a lonely traveler in the cold rain and warmly welcomed him into his house.

I have to say that the cartoonist's portrayal of the cat is very vivid, with its soft limbs casually folded into a comfortable posture, its belly exposed without restraint, its eyes narrowed as if it is resting, but its tail quietly raised up, gently wrapped around its owner's wrist, and it hums from time to time.

The whole story is very simple. The uncle strokes the cat while telling some stories about his youth. The colorful wind chimes by the window ring softly, interweaving into a crisp rhythm. In the end, the traveler just leaves alone. But at the end, the uncle's door is knocked again, and it's a girl in black clothes with a dull expression.

It's a very ordinary story, but it's full of doubts.

"This man is a member of a criminal organization. It is obvious from his choice of words and the fact that he covers his arms suspiciously. There are tattoos under his arms. It seems that he has retired from the underworld."

When talking about retiring, Huibara Ai's tone was somewhat sarcastic.

"He has indeed left the criminal organization, and he feels very guilty about what he has done, so he set up a tombstone at home. It should be the person he killed." Conan continued to add details: "And the last girl who knocked on the door came for revenge."

“She succeeded.”

Haibara Ai looked at the girl's comic book with a complicated expression.

Conan sighed and said, "Yes, she succeeded and went crazy."

The drink recipe that the girl hums in the comics contains ingredients that are nicknames for poisons. The black shadow has the same physical features as the uncle, such as a limp and semi-long hair. The animals that speak are overly enthusiastic but hypocritical. They must be relatives or something. The plants that dance and sing are the wind chimes in the uncle's house.

Everything is in front of her. The man who was originally a member of a criminal organization once killed the girl's parents, and the girl chose revenge and ended up going crazy.

"But she doesn't regret it." Huihara Ai looked at the girl's final appearance. In her perspective, her only guilt was directed at the cat.

"This uncle was obviously willing to die at the hands of this girl." Conan sighed: "If it could be stopped in time, such a tragedy would not have happened."

"The girl was already ill before she took revenge. The marks on her arms were the injuries from the electric shock therapy." Xiao Ai looked at it carefully and gave a new explanation: "Revenge actually freed her."

"But revenge in person would only lead to greater chaos in the social order and would be too dangerous for her."

"Do you want a little girl whose family has been torn apart to think about whether her behavior will have a negative impact on society?"

"But this is too much of a mental stress for her, and it has a huge impact on her future..."

"Do you think she will be fine if she doesn't seek revenge?" Huihara Ai said calmly, but then she took the initiative to change the subject: "Let's not talk about this for now. This cartoonist must know a lot about criminal organizations."

"You should have noticed that these words are not something an ordinary cartoonist can know." Haibara Ai pointed at the code words in the comics. If ordinary people can easily know some words, they will lose their meaning as code words.

No, maybe he's just a brother-con who likes to stay at home, Conan's mouth twitched, and he silently complained in his heart, you just came back from his house after dinner.

As for why the other party knows all this so well, if Kong Ge is really Ikaros, then it can be explained.

A top hacker, one who likes to stop people from committing crimes everywhere, understands that this level is not too much.

But if this is true, then Kong Ge is too sensitive to crime. He can infer that the other party wants to commit a crime just by those signs. That means Kong Ge must be a master of reasoning! !

I really want to go over and discuss this topic with Kong Ge right now. Does he also like Sherlock Holmes? !

"What are you thinking about?" Haibara Ai asked the detective who was obviously distracted.

"Kong," Conan replied without hesitation, and then added, "I just wondered if he would like Sherlock Holmes."

"I can see that you like the detective very much."

"I just follow the kids from the detective team and go there often, but when I think about it, we've only known each other for less than a month." Conan scratched his head and tried to explain.

"How do you two know each other?" This question aroused Haibara Ai's curiosity. It was somewhat comical that a member of an organization was friends with a detective who was investigating the organization.

"Ran and his brother often met in the supermarket, and then they gradually became familiar with each other." Conan recalled, but found that the other party listened very seriously, and subconsciously asked: "What's wrong?"

"No, I just feel that he looks...not that easy to approach." Haibara Ai swallowed her original ferocity and madness and found a euphemism to comment.

"Indeed," Conan thought carefully and said, "But don't worry, Kong Ge has no resistance to children. Didn't he take you home the first time he saw you?"

"Bringing home a child you've just met for the first time sounds pretty perverted."

"Not really, mainly because I feel that Kong Ge is too harmless."

"Harmless..." The girl's originally cold tone could no longer be maintained, and her voice clearly carried a hint of urgency and fear.

"He is relatively weak." Conan did not think much about it. After all, Kong Ge's height and appearance did look very impressive. At least no one would associate him with the word otaku.

"The body... is relatively weak?" Haibara Ai repeated herself again as if she had turned into a repeating machine.

Conan was also stunned, wondering if his direct words would have a negative impact on Kong Ge's image, and then added: "But he is very strong, and especially kind and enthusiastic."

"In short, he is a very reliable person."