Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 344: Xiaolan invites Yingsheng to sleep with her!
Hotaru smiled and said, "The Megure family has already planned to send Conan to elementary school. That smart kid will definitely become the leader of the kids and dominate that school."

"Eh? Ying, do you have someone watching them?" Xiaolan asked.

"I couldn't hear anything useful. Officer Megure's wife was over there, just chatting about family matters. But Kudo left, and I don't know what he's going to do."

The two chatted casually as dusk gradually turned into night.

At around 8:30 in the evening, a Sumiyoshi-kai official called to report that the move from Mori's residence to Ian Apartment had been completed.

Yingsheng put away his phone and said, "Let's go home."

Xiaolan nodded, called Haibara Ai, got up and pushed Yingsheng's wheelchair to the corridor outside the teahouse, moved him down to the courtyard and went out.

"Aren't you going to say goodbye to Ms. Chiyo?" Xiaolan asked.

"I don't like saying goodbye, and neither does she," Yingsheng said.

"Have you thought about what to do next?"

“I never think about what’s going to happen three days from now.”

"Don't say anything about mono no aware."

"Okay, I'm a scumbag, that's all." Yingsheng raised his hand and waved it back, "What can I do about this? Maybe after we get married, she will wake up and realize that this is just an illusion."

Xiaolan also felt a vague gaze, but she did not look back or wave goodbye.

Xiaolan sighed softly, "You probably won't say that kind of rhetoric anymore, right? Emotional experience or something like that."

"Feel sorry."

"Well, you still think you are not wrong, even if you have let down so many lovers, hehe~~"

"Then I can blame myself, okay? Alas, how can I repay so many debts of love? I'm afraid I can only commit suicide to apologize."

"...Not sincere. Forget it. Let's not talk about this anymore." Xiaolan saw Huiyuan Ai waiting in front and said, "According to Xiaoai, he had a case of Aptx-4869 taken away by Vermouth. In your hypothesis, would she have saved Shinichi?"

"I plan to use Kudo's hair and Ai's hair to test DNA to see if they are related." said Yingsheng.

"actually……"

Xiaolan pondered and said, "Even if this is confirmed, it doesn't seem to matter. At most, you can draw Conan's blood for Xiaoai to study. He has nothing to do with you, right?"

"No, he doesn't know much to begin with, and as time goes by, that information will become less and less useful." Yingsheng tapped the armrest, "But if he continues to investigate, who knows what will happen."

"Are you worried that he will ruin your current life?"

"You can say that."

"But there are some things that we did wrong, right? Even if we are discovered, it seems that we can't blame others."

"So there is only one choice."

"Forget it, Ying, you are so smart, there must be other ways, but if there really isn't one..."

"Don't think too much, Lan. It's still a long way to go before that happens. We can just run away together when the time comes."

"Eh? Running away?"

"What else? What do you think I said?"

"...You're lying." Xiaolan paused, shook her head and laughed, "But I'm quite happy. I hope it won't come to that. Otherwise, there's nothing we can do about it."

Yingsheng curled his lips, "I dare not wait until that day. What if you, the angel, come to me with a just judgment?"

Xiaolan snorted, "Hey, hey, have some faith in me, okay? What you said is really sad."

"Morning Star, you will ascend the throne."

"Sorry, I'm not an Angel."

The wheelchair came in front of Huihara Ai, but Huihara Ai did not move aside. "You two are having a really happy chat. Can you share it with a little kid like me?"

"You can't talk to a child about adult matters." Yingsheng looked around, "Where's Akechi?"

"Ian's apartment doesn't have the research facilities. He has basically equipped himself with all the equipment here, but he doesn't want to go over there." Huihara Ai lifted her hair, "Come on, try to look nicer, she's a girl."

"Hey, Xiao Ai, did you take the wrong medicine?"

Hotaru took out the slime again, stretched it into a mask style, covered it on Haibara Ai's face, and kept adjusting it.

"Why, this doesn't sound like something I would say?" Huiyuan Ai pouted, "Excuse me, what image do you think of me in Suigetsu-kun's mind? What should I have said?"

"I see. You must have overheard me talking about Conan going to elementary school. Don't worry, you're a genius. There's no way I'd let you waste your time in a place like that."

“…It’s boring.”

"Then you are an iceberg beauty, okay."

Huiyuan Ai tilted her head slightly, "What? It's meaningless..."

The head was held down from both sides.

"Don't move, or you'll become really ugly." Yingsheng carefully adjusted his disguise, "Well...how about adding a few freckles to you?"

"Come on, Asians rarely have freckles."

"You are a mixed-race, so you are an exception."

"I don't like that."

"Where's the tear mole?"

"...You're too slow. Look at Vermouth. She finished in less than a second."

"So I always thought that she had learned Sichuan Opera face-changing."

"...You are not allowed to speak."

Yingsheng raised his hand and zipped his mouth.

Xiaolan smiled softly and said with regret: "It's a pity that Vermouth escaped. Otherwise, not only could I get the disguise technique, but I could also let you, Xiaoai, take revenge."

Huiyuan Ai shook her head...

He was held down again.

She looked at Yingsheng angrily, and Yingsheng glared back at her without any hesitation. In the end, she surrendered first and pouted unhappily.

Huihara Ai raised her eyes and said, "Sister Xiaolan, can the ocean buoy really find anyone in Japan?"

Xiaolan nodded, "That's what Vermouth said, and that's what's advertised on the Internet, so it should be okay."

Huiyuan Ai was silent for a moment, "Do you think it can help me find my sister?"

"I haven't used it myself, but if Miss Mingmei is still in Japan, maybe she can use it," Xiaolan said, "but it can only connect to the police surveillance system, it's not omniscient."

Haibara Ai also understood this logic. After thinking for a moment, she still wanted to give it a try.

pity.

She thought for a moment and found that it was really difficult to use the ocean buoy. Just like what Yingsheng had said before, their social status was too low now.

Vermouth uses the ocean buoy relying on the power of the organization and her own disguise skills, but they currently lack these two abilities.

"Oh my god, that's amazing!"

Ok?
Xiaolan suddenly exclaimed in surprise, and Huibara Ai looked over and found that she was looking at her own face.

Huiyuan Ai suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart, and looked at Yingsheng hurriedly, "You are not really turning me into a monster, are you?"

Yingsheng remained silent.

"..."

Huihara Ai raised her little hand and unzipped the non-existent zipper on Yingsheng's mouth, "Please let me play your music."

Yingsheng chuckled: "With your foundation, even if I do something wrong, it won't be too ugly." After gently pressing on Haibara Ai's chin, Yingsheng withdrew his hand, looked at her carefully for a few times, and nodded with satisfaction.

Haibara Ai felt like there was a soft veil wrapped around her face, and she wouldn't notice its presence if she wasn't paying attention.

But facing the strange gazes from Yingsheng and Xiaolan, she still felt uncomfortable and immediately took out the small mirror she had specially prepared from her bag.

As soon as he saw it, he was stunned.

The person in the mirror has flawless white skin, as translucent as first snow, eyebrows as slender as willow leaves, and a small, delicate nose, which is exceptionally pretty.

The eyes are still the same as before, but that clarity blends in harmoniously with the current disguise. The lips are a light pink, adding a different kind of vitality to this cold scene, like flower petals blooming on the top of ice and snow.

“Is this… me?”

Huibara Ai couldn't help but murmur.

Although she is a scientist, she is a woman after all. In the past, she loved buying fashion magazines and luxury goods, and naturally paid attention to some things related to appearance.

After many comparisons, she was actually quite confident about her appearance, but now after seeing this disguise, she had to admit that she was slightly inferior.

If she had to find a flaw, it would be that she felt the face was too delicate and she didn't like it.

But good-looking is good-looking, and it exists objectively.

Just, why?
Does it feel vaguely familiar?

Huiyuan Ai came back from her trance. Just as she was wondering, she saw Yingsheng's expression change slightly. He stretched out his hand towards her and kept shaking his head.
"This disguise is not good, we need to change it."

Snapped--!
Yingsheng's hand stopped in mid-air.

Caught by Xiaolan.

Haibara Ai vaguely felt something and looked back at the mirror again. Where had she seen this familiar cold feeling?

Almost at the same moment she remembered it, she heard Xiaolan smile softly and said, "This face is the most beautiful I have ever seen. Is there anything else Ying is not satisfied with?"

Kiyoko cedar!

Haibara Ai finally discovered that the disguise on her face was the childhood version of Yuzuki Kiyoko's face. No wonder her temperament was so cold and familiar.

Haibara Ai immediately felt uncomfortable on her face. From her perspective, Yuzuki Kiyoko was her enemy. Now, with such a face on her face, she felt uncomfortable all over.

and……

Haibara Ai put down the mirror and looked straight at Hotaru with a gloomy look in her eyes.

In front of Sister Xiaolan, you pinched out a face of Xuesong Qingzi for me, Mizuki-kun, you really can do it. This is far from the level of Liuying.

why?

Could it be that you are thinking about her at this moment?

Xiaolan lowered her eyebrows slightly, "Ying, tell me, am I too ignorant of myself?"

Obviously, Xiaolan and Haibara Ai thought the same thing.

Yingsheng was silent for a few breaths. "If I say that I have only done Qingzi's imitation makeup for other people, so I am very familiar with her face, will anyone believe it?"

Huiyuan Ai nodded seriously, "I believe it."

Xiaolan sighed softly, "Because of Xuesong's fake death twice? It is indeed a good reason."

Yingsheng shook his head, "This face is not suitable. It might make people think that Qingzi took drug A, which would cause other troubles. Xiao Ai, I will change it for you. Do you have any request?"

"Just an ordinary person, with freckles."

Xiao Ai gently peeled off the disguise from the edge of her jaw and handed the mask to Yingsheng, "With your level of disguise skills, it is not impossible for you to blend into the ocean buoy."

"Don't rush to change the subject. I'm actually telling the truth."

Yingsheng used potion to melt the disguise mask into slime and handed it to Xiaolan.

"Lan, you can give it a try. I think it's not very difficult to simply pinch the face. The gap between us and the Thousand Faces Witch lies in other aspects, such as the speed of disguise and acting skills."

Xiaolan pushed Hotaru's wheelchair aside, took the slime, and squatted down to change Haibara Ai's appearance.

Yingsheng looked for a few seconds and then looked up at the sky.

At this time, the night was getting darker, and a crescent moon was rising under the dim sky.

Although the moonlight is not bright, it is still the only one in the sky as the sun has just set and the stars have not yet appeared.

"Ying, are you worried that if you disguise yourself, you will end up with her face again?" Xiaolan asked suddenly.

"I don't know, but I don't think so."

Yingsheng slowly closed his eyes and recited in a low voice: "The road is full of forks and the sheep is lost. The wise man uses his heart like a mirror. Why not always be kind to saving others, so as not to let great confusion change one's nature..."

Huiyuan Ai suddenly spoke up: "What you mean is that Xuesong Qingzi has provided you with too much love. Although you have always treated her as a tool, it is inevitable that you will think of her because of this?"

"Oh, do you also have a clever mind?" Yingsheng said.

"You are not a sage." Huibara Ai continued.

"I'm not." Yingsheng said.

"Him, really?" Xiaolan interrupted.

The "he" she was referring to was naturally Tianshu.

"About that."

Yingsheng never opened his eyes. He raised his hands and pressed his temples, kneading them gently.

To be honest, he has a lot of distracting thoughts in his mind right now.

Xiaolan suddenly smiled and said, "Then what are you worried about? Ying? Are you starting to resist the arrival of the border?"

Yingsheng was suddenly stunned.

After a long time, until Xiaolan stood up, he came back to his senses and opened his eyes. The world he saw was clear and bright.

"Well, my cooking skills are pretty good."

Xiaolan looked at Haibara Ai with a satisfied expression.

Hotaru also cast his gaze towards Haibara Ai. Well...how should I put it, you can tell that she is a little girl, and the rest is...quite artistic.

“Not bad, very good… Puchi——” Yingsheng finally couldn’t help laughing out loud, “Hahahaha, Lan, did you make Ai’s face based on a doll? To be honest, this is almost triggering the uncanny valley.”

Xiaolan snorted coldly, "I don't have any talent. I need to practice slowly. I'm not like you, Ying, whose first move is a masterpiece of master level."

"Well, that's definitely just a coincidence."

"Really?"

"I promise, it's just dust."

"Hmph, that's better." Xiaolan walked over and pushed Yingsheng's wheelchair, "Let's go, we've been delayed for too long."

Haibara Ai looked at her new face in the mirror with a strange look in her eyes. After hearing the conversation between Xiaolan and Hotaru, she was completely speechless and didn't know how to complain.

Sister Xiaolan, are you going to forgive him just like that?

That’s too generous.

And what does “border” mean, and who is “he”?

With a lot of doubts in her little head, Huiyuan Ai quickly followed and vaguely heard a sentence:
"He's dying, and my rationality is going to decline."

Huiyuan Ai didn't understand what was going on, and then she heard Xiaolan speak:
"Let's sleep together tonight, Hotaru."

(End of this chapter)