As soon as Haihara Ai walked into this high-end restaurant, a waiter immediately greeted her.
"This kid, you..."
Haiyuan Ai interrupted her: "I have already made a reservation with a gentleman named Yuan. Please take me to the seat he reserved."
"Mr. Yuan? Please come with me."
With a friendly smile on his face, the waiter bowed sideways and led Haihara Ai towards the restaurant.
After walking a few steps, Haiyuan Ai saw Yuan Huaiyu standing by the transparent floor-to-ceiling window, leaning on the table with his arms and looking out the window.
He was still wearing casual clothes, and looked out of place compared to the customers around him who were often wearing suits and ties.
Hui Yuan Ai keenly discovered that Yuanhuaiyu seemed a little different today.
It was a subtle change in temperament. At the moment when Yuanhuaiyu looked sideways at the lights of thousands of houses outside the window, she seemed to feel a touch of loneliness from this man.
Soon, Yuan Huaiyu realized her arrival.
"You're here."
The feeling of loneliness quickly disappeared, and he once again became the incomprehensible person who couldn't express his emotions or anger.
Haiyuan Ai sat down opposite him, took off his hat and sunglasses and put them aside, looking at him quietly without saying a word.
"I haven't ordered yet. What would you like to eat?"
Yuan Huaiyu asked with a smile.
"I don't care, you decide." Haiyuan Ai said expressionlessly, "I heard that the consumption level here is very high... but this doesn't seem to be a problem for you."
"Although I really want to order a children's meal for you...but let's forget it."
Yuan Huaiyu took the menu handed over by the waiter and ordered a few times on it with ease.
"This, this, and this, take one each. Give her a glass of juice..."
He glanced at Haiyuan Ai, and then said to the waiter: "My word... have a glass of Sherry bar."
The waiter took down the dishes and turned to leave.
The atmosphere on the table began to become subtle. A white tablecloth was spread on the dining table, and a candle was placed near the floor-to-ceiling window, and the flames reflected a hazy light.
"So skilled, it seems you come here often." Haiyuan Ai took the initiative to say.
She found that she talked a lot more than usual. She didn't know if it was because of the nervousness in her heart.
Yuan Huaiyu smiled and shook his head: "No, the last time I came here was twenty years ago. I hope the skills of the chefs here have not deteriorated."
Twenty years ago? You were still a child at that time, right?
Seemingly sensing the doubts in Hui Yuan Ai's heart, Yuan Huaiyu continued: "That day, a rising star in the world of mystery novels was in this restaurant, preparing to propose to a female star."
Hui Yuan Ai frowned, feeling something familiar.
"But a case happened at that time. After helping the police solve the case, the mystery novelist returned to the restaurant and expressed his feelings to the female star."
"What do you mean by this?"
Hui Yuan Ai stared into Yuan Huaiyu's eyes and suddenly remembered something.
"Wait a minute... Mystery novelist and female star, could this be..."
She once heard Kudo Shinichi talk about his parents, and she immediately made some connections.
Yuan Huaiyu nodded: "Yes, those two people are Kudo Yusaku and Fujimine Yukiko, Kudo Shinichi's father and mother."
At this time, a familiar voice came from the door of the restaurant.
"Hello, I'm Kudo who made a reservation before."
"Shinichi, this place looks so expensive..."
Haihara Ai suddenly turned around and saw Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan chatting and laughing, following a waiter and sitting down on the other side of the restaurant.
The two of them seemed to only have each other in their eyes.
She turned her head sharply: "Did you know they would come here?"
Only then did Haihara Ai realize that Xiaolan had told her that she wanted to go out with Shinichi, but she actually came to this restaurant.
"Of course." Yuan Huaiyu shrugged, "It's not difficult to guess what that guy is thinking. He definitely wants to take advantage of his recovery into a high school student's body to drag his childhood sweetheart to the place where his parents have settled down for life.
Come."
"If I'm not mistaken, he wants to confess tonight."
Haibara Ai's breathing became a little heavier. After a moment of psychological struggle, he asked straight to the point: "You said you knew that Edogawa Conan was Kudo Shinichi?"
Yuan Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect that she would get straight to the point.
"That's right."
He nodded in admission.
"When did you know about it? Why, why didn't you kill him?"
If you are a cadre of the organization, why do you keep me and him, two guys with hidden dangers?
"I've known it from the beginning. I don't quite understand why it took so long for the young lady from the Mori family to discover something unusual about Edogawa Conan."
Yuan Huaiyu shook his head helplessly: "I think as long as you have contact with him, you can understand that this child is not a normal first-grade primary school student."
"In addition, after Kudo Shinichi was drugged by gin and disappeared, a little boy who was closely related to Dr. Agasa suddenly appeared in the Mori Detective Agency. I think this is not difficult to associate."
"After all, the great detective he respected most, Sherlock Holmes, once said that except for the impossible, no matter how incredible the rest is, it is all the truth."
"And when you were later transferred to Class B in the first year, you could quickly guess your identity."
"Gin probably never dreamed that Shirley, who disappeared under his eyes, turned into a little girl and left that solitary room."
Only then did Haihara Ai realize that her and Conan's worries about their identities being revealed were a complete joke. The man in front of her already knew the truth.
"As for why I didn't kill him secretly, and why I protected you in Aido City Hotel... I think this may be the biggest doubt in your mind right now."
Yuan Huaiyu said softly.
Hui Yuan Ai nodded subconsciously.
"Why..." Yuan Huaiyu smiled, "If you really want an answer, I will tell you because I am happy."
"?" This answer greatly exceeded Hui Yuan Ai's expectations. She opened her eyes wide, filled with confusion.
"Ha... you always thought that I was a member of the organization and a high-ranking cadre in the organization, right?"
Hui Yuan Ai nodded.
"That's why I said, you may have some misunderstandings about me." Yuan Huaiyu spread his hands.
"Could it be that you..." Hui Yuan'ai looked at the man in front of him in confusion.
"Actually, I'm not a member of the organization, and I don't have a code name like a wine name."
After Yuan Huaiyu said this, he quietly waited for Hui Yuan Ai's reaction.
"What?" Haiyuan Ai felt that his brain was not enough.
Since you are not a member of the organization, why does Gin have that attitude towards you? Why can you kill Pisco easily and skillfully? Why does even the BOSS of the organization have to accommodate your behavior?