Conan walked along the street with the new transfer student.
It is now past dusk, the sun has set, and the street lights on both sides of the street are on, so that pedestrians will not bump into something in the dark and fall.
Conan felt that it was a bit awkward for the two of them to walk like this, so he started talking to each other.
"Lane 22, Section 2, Mihua Road."
Hui Yuan Ai said.
[Eh? It’s strange... Isn’t Lane 22, Section 2, Mihua Road, right near my home? But there aren’t any apartments or buildings there. Is there anyone named Haiyuan? 】
The "my house" he was thinking of naturally meant Kudo's house.
Maybe this is the so-called "Soseki Pillow Style", and he subconsciously ignored Dr. Agasa's house, which was right next door to his house.
This is similar to the dark hiding place under the lights of the "Silver Fox" gang in today's case.
"Goodbye, will you leave by yourself next?"
Conan felt that after all the way here, this girl couldn't get lost, right?
He waved goodbye to Haibara Ai and prepared to go directly back to the Maori Detective Agency.
When he just turned around, Hui Yuan Ai's voice suddenly came from behind him.
"APTX-4869..."
"Ah?" He turned back to look at Haiyuan Ai, wondering what the other person was talking about.
"Do you know what this is?"
Before Conan could speak, she asked and answered herself: "That's the name of the drug you were given."
"What are you talking about? What kind of medicine?" Conan was a little confused.
"The name of the medicine should be correct."
Hui Yuan Ai stood with his hands behind his hands, closed his eyes, and then slowly opened them.
"Because this medicine was ordered by the organization."
Conan was stunned for a moment: "Group, organization? Did you do it?"
"Haha... How could you, a child, possibly..."
And what Huihara Ai said next made his hair stand on end.
"Like you, I also drank that medicine. Due to the sudden action of the self-destruction program of cells, except for nerve tissue, all cells in bones, muscles, internal organs, body hair, etc. degenerated back to childhood."
"This is a mysterious poison..."
"Haiyuan...could it be that you..." A terrifying possibility emerged in Conan's mind.
"My name is not Haiyuan."
She gently lifted her hair from her ears, and her expression and movements could not tell that she looked like a child.
"Sherry."
"That's my code name."
"How is it? Are you surprised?"
"Kudo Shinichi?"
With a mysterious smile on her face, Hui Yuan Ai looked directly into the eyes of the boy opposite.
As his body shrunk, Kudo Shinichi felt like a thunder exploded in his mind, making him dizzy.
He stood there, staring blankly at the transfer student who had just arrived at the school today.
"Are you an accomplice of the men in black?"
Finally, he recovered slightly from the shock and shouted loudly.
"You don't have time to eat up, slow detective..."
She sneered and said: "I told you, I live in Lane 22, Section 2, Mihua Road..."
"This is near your home. You should know where it is, right?"
Conan was struck by lightning.
【Dr. Agasa!】
…
"I'm back!" Haiyuan Ai walked into the room, took off the schoolbag from his back and put it on the table.
Conan was speechless as he watched her move smoothly as if she were at home.
"Welcome back, Xiao Ai!" Dr. Ali greeted with a smile, "How was school?"
"It's quite fun."
This is what she says sincerely. She has not experienced the feeling of going to school with her classmates for a long time. She is actually quite happy at school today.
Not to mention experiencing a thrilling case after school.
"By the way, doctor, who is she?"
While Haibara Ai picked up a fashion magazine and looked at it, Conan asked Dr. Agasa in a low voice.
"I was sent here by a man."
Hui Yuan Ai spoke softly.
"I betrayed the organization, passed out in the pouring rain, and was finally sent to Dr. A Li's house by that person."
Looking at Conan's confused and shocked eyes, she slowly explained to him that as a drug developer, she discovered that Kudo Shinichi, whose life and death were unknown, could turn back into a child.
"Thank me. I filled in [confirmed death] in your information."
Then, she talked about the reason and process of defecting from the organization.
When she said, "My sister was... killed by people from the organization," she looked calm on the outside, but her heart was as painful as a knife.
"With nowhere to go, I thought to myself that I could only rely on you, Kudo Shinichi... At that time, I felt that we were in the same boat, and you would definitely understand me..."
"But now it seems that you don't think so..."
She looked at Edogawa Conan's angry face and turned her attention back to the fashion magazine in her hand.
Conan kept taking deep breaths, and when he thought about how many people had been killed by the medicine made by this woman, his heart ignited with raging anger.
"...So, who is the person who sent you here?"
Rather than blaming the girl, his reason told him that the person who sent the girl to Dr. A Li's house was more worthy of his attention.
What if it's someone from the black organization...
Then both he and the doctor may be in potential danger!
"Ah... you are talking about that person." Haiyuan Ai was startled, and his thoughts returned to that rainy day.
"You also know that person, he is Teacher Yuan in our class."
"What!!"
Conan was probably more shocked and frightened today than he had been in the past few months.
"That's right, I escaped from the organization that day. I was so exhausted that I bumped into him and fainted."
"I said your name before I lost consciousness, and he brought me to this place. There was no one at home, so he carried me to Dr. Ali's house."
She paused.
"It's just that I feel a little suspicious... According to my investigation, the home of Mr. Yuan is quite far away from the place where I bumped into him..."
She said no more. She knew that the clever detective would understand what she meant.
"Impossible! Teacher Yuan is definitely not a bad person..."
Conan blurted out.
In his heart, anyone who likes Sherlock Holmes is not a bad person.
Not to mention that Yuan Huaiyu also gave him a signed copy of "A Study in Scarlet". He planned to treasure that book as a family heirloom.
But when he recalled the first meeting with Yuan Huaiyu until Yuan Huaiyu became the science teacher of their class, he did seem to have a deliberately close feeling.
"I first met him after I transferred here, but I always felt that there was something vaguely familiar about him."
Hui Yuan Ai looked at him.
"So can you tell me about Mr. Yuan in detail?"
"Judging from your reaction, you seem to know Mr. Yuan very well?"