Shirley has never been a person with fighting spirit, and is even the complete opposite - when faced with a fatal crisis, her mentality will become very depressed and she lacks the desire to survive.
Now, suddenly thrown into a strange place, coupled with the threat of the unknown organization behind Xiaobai, Shirley did not try to escape, and never even showed any similar intention.
After she woke up, she calmly ate her meal, calmly gave herself a new name "Haihara Ai", and calmly looked at the doctor's invention at his invitation...
Just when Haiyuan Ai was staring at the weird props and thinking about how to give a less hurtful impression, there was a knock on the door of the doctor's house and someone walked in.
Hui Yuan Ai turned around and glanced, then suddenly froze.
...Jiang Xia?!
She secretly hid behind the doctor, pulled up the hood of her clothes, and covered her head.
Why is Jiang Xia here? Did the organization send him to search for him?
...must not be recognized. Otherwise, everyone here will die, including Jiang Xia who discovered the side effects of APTX4869.
Fortunately, Shirley took a closer look and found that the situation seemed to be okay.
As soon as Jiang Xia entered the door just now, she walked towards the doctor with a clear purpose. This means that he may have only discovered traces of "Shirley", but he has not yet discovered that she has turned into a child.
With this in mind, Haiyuan Ai took advantage of Jiang Xia's conversation with Dr. A Li and crept away, hoping to hide first.
However, just after taking a few steps, there were footsteps approaching behind her, and immediately after, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed.
——Jiang Xia walked up behind her.
Hui Yuan Ai stared at the shadow on the ground, and her whole body froze. She gritted her teeth, slowly raised her hand, and clenched her hood with a desperate struggle.
Jiang Xia walked around to her, looked down at her for a while, and then stretched out his hand towards her.
Hui Yuan Ai closed his eyes tightly, foreseeing a tragic future in which he would be picked up by the neck and questioned.
The next second, she suddenly jumped into the air.
…but my neck doesn’t hurt at all.
Haiyuan Ai was startled, then slowly opened his eyes, and was surprised to find that he was being held up by his armpits.
Jiang Xia looked at her with interest for a while, then suddenly threw her up.
Hui Yuan Ai let out a short scream and subconsciously grabbed Jiang Xia's wrist, and then he caught her firmly. Jiang Xia picked her up and weighed her several times like a toy.
Hui Yuan Ai gradually went from panic to numbness: "...?" What are you doing?
... Could it be that Jiang Xia actually vaguely associated her with "Shirley", but couldn't accept this situation that violated the law of conservation of matter for a while, so he suddenly weighed her to see how much she weighed?
Jiang Xia weighed it a few more times. After finding that Hui Yuan Ai was no longer so startled, he put her down without any interest.
The shrunken version of Shirley is quite cute, and her reaction just now is much more interesting than Conan's. It's just that the effect is a bit short.
Jiang Xia touched Hui Yuan Ai's head with regret.
Haiyuan Ai shivered like an electric shock, and "want to run" was written all over his body, but in the end he stood stiffly and did not move, trying hard to pretend to be an ordinary child.
Soon, Hui Yuan Ai discovered that she seemed to have successfully concealed it - Jiang Xia did not suddenly lean down and whisper something like "I found you".
He just put down his hands and looked at the doctor: "Who is this child?"
"She..." Dr. Ali originally wanted to tell Jiang Xia the truth, because according to Conan, Jiang Xia had already observed "Conan = Kudo Shinichi" and was considered an insider.
However, before speaking, the doctor had second thoughts and felt that it was not feasible - Jiang Xia didn't seem to know about the black organization, and if he introduced Haihara Ai to Jiang Xia, it would be difficult to avoid that mysterious organization.
If Jiang Xia learns about the existence of the black organization and goes to investigate without authorization, he will undoubtedly be in danger. In fact, the fact that he "knows that there is a black organization in the world" itself can easily lead to silence.
Thinking of this, the doctor rationally predicted the outcome of "his lying ability vs. Jiang Xia's insight", silently took back what he was about to say, and changed his words: "She is my friend's child."
As for whether or not to tell Jiang Xia Haiyuan Ai's true identity, and how to tell Jiang Xia specifically, let's discuss it with Conan later...
Haihara Ai had been keeping his ears open, nervously eavesdropping on the conversation between the two people.
After hearing this, she breathed a sigh of relief, but she was also a little worried - the twist in the doctor's words was too blunt. Once Jiang Xia asked...
Fortunately, Jiang Xia did not ask further questions.
He didn't seem to care about this and left quickly.
Hui Yuan Ai looked at the closed door: "..."
Are things... a little too smooth?
Moreover, it seems that it is not her illusion - Dr. A Li looks like he is very familiar with Jiang Xia...
After realizing this blind spot, Haiyuan Ai recalled what happened before and suddenly realized - Jiang Xia walked straight to Dr. Ali after entering the door. He did not want to ask the adults in the family for questioning, but he came to see the doctor at all!
Thinking of this, Hui Yuan Ai suddenly realized something.
She quickly ran to the door and looked out.
When his eyes fell on the neighbor's house across the street, Hui Yuan Ai froze in place as if he had been struck by lightning.
...That's Jiang Xia's home.
Although neither she nor her couriers have ever been able to enter Jiang Xia's home. But a while ago, Shirley passed by this neighborhood when she was investigating Kudo Shinichi, and she was very impressed by the exquisitely designed single-family house.
Wait, let's put it this way...
Hui Yuan Ai turned her head and looked to the other side.
What she saw was a more familiar house that she had sneaked into twice before - Kudo Shinichi's home.
Haibara Ai:"……"
She looked left and right, feeling more confused than ever.
...Anonymous placed her in such a delicate place. What's the conspiracy?
…
Jiang Xia didn't stay with the doctor for too long.
He played with Shirley for a while to satisfy his curiosity, then left Miyano Akemi behind and returned to his home.
Jiang Xia sat on the sofa and rolled a few boxes of ghost mints.
After a while, Miyano Akemi, who had had enough of her sister, floated back with satisfaction.