Chapter 255: Talk about the Day After ④

Huibara Ai paced back and forth in the living room anxiously, totally unlike her usual calm self.

After countless fruitless persuasions, Dr. Agasa sighed helplessly: "Aijun, you must be very tired, why don't you sit down and wait?"

Huihara Ai paused for a moment, then shook her head: "No, Doctor, I can't do it."

Ever since the call with Edogawa Conan ended, Haibara Ai could no longer completely rest assured and stop thinking about the developments over there. She was too concerned about the situation of Akae Nazuki, especially after Conan mentioned that she was taken away by Rum.

The little girl with brown hair frowned, but when the doorbell rang at the entrance, she raised her head and ran over, quickly opening the door: "Then Brother Yue——"

Then when he saw Conan Edogawa outside the door, the expectation on his face suddenly turned into indifference: "It's you."

Conan had long been accustomed to his friend's inconsistency and his ability to change his face, so he squeezed into the crack of the door without changing his expression: "It's me, it's me, please let me in, Haibara, the next door is not very convenient..."

"What about Yue brother?" Huiyuan Aisi did not give in. She crossed her arms and asked quietly. When she just stuck her head out, she confirmed that there was only Edogawa Conan outside the door. "You didn't come back with him?"

Speaking of this, Edogawa Conan showed a toothache expression: "How should I put it... well... of course we came back together, but the form is a little different."

"?"

While Huibara was stunned for a few seconds with a look of "what on earth are you talking about" written all over her face, the little detective swiftly sneaked into the door, propped up his knees and breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally I got in - that's why I said the next door is inconvenient!"

As he spoke, Conan Edogawa first put down the bulging bag on his back, and then carefully took out a light red capsule toy from his pocket.

Looking at this image that she had only heard of from Conan's narration, Haibara Ai's mind went blank, and she and the doctor instantly connected something.

"That's right." Edogawa Conan said solemnly, staring at the capsule toy he held in his hands with a serious look, "This is Na Yue brother."

Huiyuan Ai: “…”

She fell into a suspicious silence.

Originally, Conan was still thinking about how to avoid Officer Hagiwara and others who might go to Kudo's house next door to look for someone. This is why he mentioned the inconvenience.

But as Haibara Ai's silence got longer, Edogawa Conan came back to his senses and looked over in confusion: "What's wrong, Haibara? Don't you know that Yue Ge is Gachapon Brother?"

He thought his friends couldn’t accept the surreal event of their brother turning into a gashapon, but in reality—

The researcher never took her eyes off the capsule for a second, and said in a casual tone, "Edogawa, go to the bathroom and run some water now. It's best to use warm water. If it's too hot, it will hurt Brother Yue. If it's cold, he'll catch a cold... I'll go sew some clothes for him."

The process of acceptance was so smooth that I even started to think about what would happen next!

Conan Edogawa couldn't hold back his urge to complain, and he complained in one breath: "...Calm down, Haibara, the Gachapon can't feel the water temperature. And even if it's hot water, it will turn cold after 24 hours. Hey, you don't want to change the water in the middle, do you? Are you raising a goldfish?! And what's that seam? The Gachapon brother is in adult form when he comes out, not a real Gachapon."

However, the one being ridiculed, Haibara Ai, seemed not to hear what he was saying at all, and turned around and ran upstairs.

The young detective who was left behind looked at the doctor, then resigned himself to his fate and turned to the bathroom on the first floor holding the capsule toy: "Sorry, doctor, I'll explain the rest to you later."

Forget it, Huibara is right. The sooner we can turn Yue back into a human, the better.

Without saying anything, Dr. Agasa was alone in the living room again in the blink of an eye. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he stroked his quivering beard, feeling a little depressed: "Oh, why is there no 'Gachapon Grandpa' or something..."

After the water was ready, the beautiful (Gray's original language) capsule toy was put into the bathtub under the three people's solemn gaze. It soon sank to the bottom just like the first time Conan soaked the capsule toy in it. Only a faint aqua-red shadow could be seen on the water surface.

Conan Edogawa used his eyes to signal the professor to quickly pull Haibara Ai away. She looked so anxious that she really wanted to pick up the capsule toy that had sunk to the bottom...

I'll say it again, what on earth do you think that Yue Ge is? He is really a goldfish, right?

After returning to the living room, Conan Edogawa wiped his sweat and finally had the chance to tell the two what had happened. He refined his words as much as possible, but Haibara was distracted while listening, and no one knew what she was thinking about.

"So, for the time being, Na Yue and I will probably have to stay at the doctor's house for a while. If the doctor has no problem with that, Huihara, you--Huihara?" Conan looked at his friend in confusion, "Why are you staring at my bag?"

"If I understand correctly, you are not the first one to get Yue Ge." Huiyuan Ai narrowed her eyes, "So, the package should contain other capsule toys."

"I'm sorry for my bad luck." Conan said unhappily.

"What I mean is," Huiyuan Ai asked seriously, "Those aren't Yue Ge's gashapon. Can I take them apart and see their structure?"

Conan Edogawa and Professor Agasa both took a half step back:?!

"The organization won't waste technology on unnecessary people, so I think the other gashapon probably doesn't contain humans like Yue Ge." Ai Haibara explained with half-moon eyes under the horror stares of the two men, "and the gashapon is just a packaging, even if there is really a person inside, there will be no problem."

She thought about it and added: "Probably."

"Ah, that's not what I'm worried about..."

Conan Edogawa muttered, and reluctantly took out a Q version clay figurine from another pocket: "Actually, when I was taking the capsule toy, I accidentally slipped and dropped one, and it broke open, and this fell out."

Haibara Ai looked closely and saw a person with long black hair tied in a high ponytail, wearing a cat paw apron, and with water-red eyes curved with a smile. She looked extremely familiar.

——The one that fell out of the extra gashapon was an exquisite custom-made figure of Akae Nazuki?

Conan Edogawa stepped back a few steps cautiously: "Habara, your eyes are scary, is this because I twisted my eye?"

"If I remember correctly, you should be going on a school trip at the end of this month." Huiyuan Ai said calmly, "I have developed a temporary recovery antidote, and I can provide it to you so that you can go on the school trip."

Conan Edogawa was puzzled: "Why would I need that? Anyway, there will be a formal antidote later."

"Oh, you didn't know yet?" Huihara Ai smiled, "It is said that Dr. Shinde will also be there, and that Miss Suzuki you know seems to be keen on bringing Dr. Shinde and your sister Xiaolan together recently."

The final result was that Haibara Ai successfully took away nearly one-half of the capsule toys in the bag without mercy under the reluctant gaze of Edogawa Conan.

—

Toru Amuro walked out of the interrogation room with a gloomy look on his face. When he noticed that Koujinran was looking at him worriedly, he calmed down and walked towards Morobushi Kagemitsu.

Just now, Toru Amuro was in charge of asking Rum about detective matters inside, while Kagemitsu Morofushi was watching the whole process outside. Both of them had unhappy expressions at this time.

Obviously, after being handed over to the public security by the detective, Rum, who felt betrayed, did not hesitate to expose all the detective's secrets when Amuro Toru interrogated him through the one-way glass of the interrogation room with a voice changer.

Only when it comes to the whereabouts of the detective, Rum snorts coldly. No matter how he is threatened or tempted, he will only say one thing: "I will not fall into the same pit twice, nor will I make the same mistake twice and let the same person escape."

But the issue that Amuro Toru is more concerned about now is...

The one that Rum was talking about was entangled with a handsome policeman with black hair and purple eyes, and was voluntarily imprisoned in the organization's base as an experimental subject for the sake of two women. He had a bad personality, was cold and indifferent, did not understand human nature, was cruel by nature and would kill without blinking an eye, and was good at using his appearance to gain benefits.

…Who on earth is this! ?

Toru Amuro gasped on the spot and was stunned for a long time.

Just as Chijiang Nayue expected, he was really shocked, and so was Zhufu Jingguang who was listening in from outside. The two of them were completely confused and lost for words after reading Rum's script.

The young infected group looked at each other and saw similar weakness in each other's eyes.

"...Did Hagiwara and the others invite us to a party tonight?" Amuro Toru suddenly asked.

Morofushi Jingguang immediately understood what Yuenran was thinking: "Yeah, I remember it was 8 o'clock in the evening, in the apartment shared by Hagiwara and Matsuda."

The two reached a consensus silently without saying a word.

[How can they be the only ones to bear this pain!!]

So that night, three men who were suspicious of life and coughing madly appeared at the dining table in Kenichi Hagiwara and Jinpei Matsuda's apartment.

…

A week has passed since the amusement park incident, and the public security department still has no clues about the whereabouts of the detective. Not only is Amuro Toru increasingly anxious, but Hagiwara and the other two who know the whole story of the detective's disappearance are also uneasy. Whenever they have free time, they make appointments to collect possible information from the detective, trying to find such a big friend of theirs who was lost inexplicably.

Toru Amuro also tried to contact Vermouth, but unfortunately, perhaps because the organization suffered another heavy blow after Rum was arrested, it caused turmoil. Even though Toru Amuro returned to the organization as Bourbon as if nothing had happened, he never met Vermouth again.

But he believed that the witch had not gone far and was probably still hiding somewhere in Tokyo.

After all, Bermode had made an appointment with the detective to listen to the detective playing the guitar.

"It's not right. It's so not right." When the five of them had another small gathering in the cafe, Kenichi Hagiwara said solemnly, "The Mazda has a big bow on its head. I don't know when it was put there. I only found it when I got off work, and ended up driving the bow-tied Mazda all the way home..."

Matsuda Jinpei's fist hardened and hit You Xunran on the head: "Your car is your car, don't say things that can be easily misunderstood. Who has a bow on his hair?"

Ignoring the crying Yu Jinran, Matsuda Jinpei took out his lighter and fiddled with it impatiently, saying, "Anyway, I have cigarettes here..."

"Yesterday, during the department party, Xiao Zhenping had an argument with his bad-tempered boss from the department next door. After the argument, he said he was going out to smoke a cigarette to calm down, but he ended up lighting up in front of everyone... lighting up..."

Hagiwara Kenichi, who was trying to explain it to him, was so stifling that his face twisted: "I lit... a stick of chocolate!"

Now everyone in the mobile team knows that the fierce-looking Officer Matsuda is actually a chocolate man with a sweet tooth. Even the cigarette he usually holds in his mouth is made of chocolate in disguise!

…

Jinpei Matsuda chased after Kenichi Hagiwara and ran away.

Of the three people who stayed, Yi Dahang touched his chin and said, "There's nothing strange about me. If I must say, I don't know who bought 999 roses for Xiaona in my name and airlifted them to the elementary school where she works..."

And similar to what happened with Jinpei Matsuda, the whole school now knows that Teacher Natalie has a passionate, unrestrained and generous police fiancé.

Seeing that Date Kou didn't realize this was a prank at all, Amuro Toru and Morofushi Kagemitsu exchanged glances again.

"My words..." Morobushi Jingguang's smile became forced, and his tone was a little weak, as if he was not going to say it, "My brother suddenly tried to test my sexual orientation, and told me that he didn't mind whether his future siblings were boys or girls... Do you have any ideas?"

This kind of thing... who on earth is so bored as to play a prank on them?

Amuro Toru also became gloomy: "I don't have anything to say here--"

Morobushi Kagemitsu stared at him sharply with a smile on his face.

What a joke! He has already said it, how can Zero escape from the battlefield?

Amuro Toru: “…”

Amuro Toru: "The mobile phone number I used for detective work was posted on a gay dating website. I've been receiving calls like that lately. Does this count?"

He heard Matsuda Jinpei's laughter behind him. He turned around and saw that the two people who had run away earlier had just run back and heard everything he said clearly.

In recent days, the five of them have all encountered pranks like the one described in the conversation, and they don't know who did it - although they all have some intuition about the identity of the mastermind behind it - in order to catch the prankster, the five of them gathered here.

However, their alliance had not even started to be formed before it collapsed due to Matsuda Jinpei's thunderous laughter. Amuro Toru looked like he wanted to punch Matsuda Jinpei on the spot.

Morofushi Kagemitsu and Hagiwara Kenichi looked at each other and resigned themselves to step forward to separate the two. Only Date Kou remained silent for some reason.

"Is that person outside..." Yi Dahang suddenly said.

Following his line of sight, the other four also quieted down and looked over.

On a bench in the small park across the street, a black-haired young man had his back to them, holding a guitar in his arms, and seemed to be talking to the person in front of him who was enjoying his music.

The five of them looked at each other, and the next second, they all rushed out the door and ran away.

After getting a little closer, they were able to hear two people talking over there.

"My current name..." The black-haired young man had a clear and pleasant voice. He spoke softly after hesitating for a moment.

"Well, my name is Akae Nazuki." He should have said with a smile, "An ordinary detective - as you can see, I've been practicing guitar recently. Thanks for your support?"

Opposite him, the blonde female star pulled down the brim of her cap and said with a helpless look: "Really... you really like them."

I even came to this place specifically to play guitar at this time.

"There's nothing we can do."

The person who claimed to be Chijiang Nayue was holding a guitar and turned to look at the people who had just run over from behind.

"After all, they are very important to me."