The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 133: The Pointer of Decision

For Conan, when he opened his eyes, what he saw was the white ceiling and the warm light above his head.

Along with the smell of disinfectant, there is also a quiet atmosphere in the air.

The small wounds on his body had been carefully bandaged.

When Conan looked at the clock hanging on the wall, the clock told him that it was already past nine in the evening.

I am currently lying in a hospital bed.

The first image that came to Conan's mind was Xiaolan hugging himself to protect herself.

As a feeling of anxiety surged in his heart, the famous detective, who had been put into sleep for an hour by his own anesthetic injection, immediately jumped down from the bed in the children's ward.

After rushing out of the ward and dodging the nurse's "chase" while she shouted "Don't run around", he ran to the front desk of the inpatient department.

The anxiety on Conan's face and in his tone was obvious. He glanced anxiously at the nurses on duty and ran to the head nurse.

"Sister Nurse! Excuse me, do you know which ward Mao Lilan is in? I'm his younger brother!"

After the head nurse in charge briefly confirmed that Conan was not seriously injured and that Conan was indeed a relative of a patient in the VIP ward, the head nurse finally agreed to let Conan leave.

"It should be Ward 54, Section B, on the third floor. But kid, if you're okay, don't make too much noise!"

After running to Area B, Conan's footsteps became softer as he got closer to the ward, but Conan's heartbeat couldn't help but start to speed up.

Then, the moment he pushed open the door of the ward, Conan's eyes immediately ignored Sonoko beside him and locked onto Xiaolan who was looking out the window in a trance.

Seeing that Xiaolan was not seriously injured as Kidd said, Conan finally felt relieved. He couldn't help but shout, "Sister Xiaolan!"

"Conan!"

Hearing the voice, Xiaolan turned her head, and there was a warm look in her eyes.

Conan couldn't bear it anymore, he suddenly threw himself into Xiaolan's arms, his voice even choked with sobs.

"I'm so glad you're okay, Sister Xiaolan!"

Xiaolan patted Conan's back gently, her voice carrying a hint of gentle smile.
"Yeah, it should be that Kaito Kidd who protected us."

Then, Xiaolan's tone took on an inexplicable meaning, "I didn't expect Kaito Kidd to be a kendo master!"

Looking at the scene of "deep sisterly love" beside her, Suzuki Sonoko, who was lying beside her, turned over with some resentment and rolled her eyes.

But then, she couldn't help but reveal a longing look when Xiaolan mentioned Kidd.

"Yeah! It's a pity that I didn't get to see Mr. Kidd's handsome sword swinging moves!"

Yuanzi couldn't help but sigh.

"I didn't expect that in the end it was you, Xiaolan, who handed the sword to Mr. Kidd QAQ."

She twisted her body on the bed and buried her head under the pillow. A muffled voice came out from under the pillow.

"I also want to be a servant who is protected by Kidd-sama and hands him the sword in a critical moment!"

Xiaolan was stunned for a moment. She felt a little ashamed of Sonoko's sudden change from wanting to become a princess to wanting to become Kidd's servant, and even a hint of embarrassment appeared on her face.

She really didn't know what to say about Yuanzi.

However, the key point is not this. Looking down, Xiaolan could clearly feel that Conan's body in her arms tensed up for a moment because of Sonoko's words.

This made Xiaolan feel a little funny, but at the same time, she felt helpless.

She gently rested her head on Conan's head, put her arms around Conan's neck, and said in an uncertain tone:
"Actually, I'm not too sure. The flashbang prevented me from seeing anything, and the doctor said the concussion might have blurred my memory!"

Then she added, "But if we look at it from a reasoning point of view—"

"The only one who could pick up the sword on the ground and split the operating console in the cab at the moment of the explosion is probably Kidd."

"You're right, aren't you?" Xiaolan's tone took on an imperceptible playfulness, "Conan?"

The body in his arms, which had just been tense, immediately relaxed.

Conan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. He almost thought he was going to be exposed!

"It seems that Xiaolan really didn't notice that it was the sword I kicked out."

Then, Conan tried to dispel his last bit of suspicion with his innocent tone.

His words made the character "井" appear on Xiaolan's forehead.

"Sister Xiaolan, I think it's a good idea to forget about the explosion! I heard from Brother Kudo that this is a self-defense mechanism when the human body encounters danger!"

"After all, otherwise, you'll probably have nightmares for several nights!"

I have to say that what Kudo Shinichi said really works in a sense.

The sadness and melancholy that had been lingering in Xiaolan's heart was instantly replaced by a sudden burst of anger.

She used her arms to hold Conan tighter, so tight that even Sonoko noticed Conan's struggle.

"Ran! Let go of Conan! You're holding him too tightly!"

"Ah! I'm sorry, Conan! I was just really scared. After all, at that time..."

Xiaolan's tone was full of apology. She then turned her eyes to the three things placed on the cabinet next to the bed and began to change the subject.

"By the way, I didn't expect that what Kidd stole in the end was actually the jeweled hand on the sculpture..."

"Yes."

Thinking of the anger Uncle Jirokichi showed after he woke up and learned that the Twilight Wedge he had worked so hard to obtain was not at all favored by Kid - Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but shrink back.

"I never thought Kidd would actually be interested in that gemstone pointer. After all, Uncle spent so much effort to get that gemstone, and the result is..."

Sonoko's words reminded Conan.

Turning his head to glance at the statue of the goddess of fate with a missing hand on the cabinet next to the bed, Conan hesitated for a moment. Should he secretly keep the hand that Kidd had slipped to him?
But as a detective...

Conan was torn between heaven and man in his mind, but finally he decided to tell the truth.

At worst, I can find an opportunity to "borrow" the sculpture from the garden later.

"Ah! Actually, the pointer is in my hand!"

Running to the bedside table, Conan put on an innocent smile and said, "After all, doesn't Kaito Kid always return the gems he steals?"

Conan carefully put the pointer in his hand back into the palm of the goddess of fate. Under the smile of the goddess of fate, the gem pointer immediately began to move slowly.

"The pointer must have fallen to the ground! But I saw it and secretly picked it up!"

"So that means Kaito Kid didn't steal anything this time?" Sonoko's eyes lit up.

"After all, wasn't there a huge explosion? Even for Kidd, it would be hard to see in the dark which one he was supposed to steal!"

"I'll go tell Uncle Jiroji right away!" Suzuki Sonoko jumped out of bed, "Otherwise, I think he might be angry for a long time!"

With Sonoko's departure, the ward returned to its quiet atmosphere.

"Should we take this opportunity to secretly take the hands back and put them back into the watch to have a look?"

Conan was really reluctant to give up the opportunity he had given away. He really put the pointer back to its original position with blood in his heart.

After all... after all, this is the pointer he had worked so hard to obtain!
Not to mention what Dr. Agasa told him—

"Conan! From this perspective, the first pointer is the most important. The clues to the subsequent pointers can only be obtained from the first pointer."

"Conan?"

Xiaolan's words broke Conan's thoughts, and she seemed to remember something.

Xiaolan took out a broken hilt from under the pillow and gently placed it in Conan's hand as he stared at the statue of the goddess of fate.

"Your sister Sonoko said the knife broke after it was stuck into the watch dial. But, I saw you loved that sword before. Although the broken blade is too dangerous, I'll give you this hilt as a souvenir!"

The first moment Conan touched the hilt of the sword, he was stunned.

In the pointer-shaped gap near the handle of the sword, the filling carved from gemstones was shaking slightly in the enlarged crack due to the deformation of the sword.

As Xiaolan moved, the pointer-shaped gem filling rolled into Conan's palm.

It was neither too big nor too small, just the same size as one of the six dials of the black watch.

This made Conan mutter.

"So this is what the notice means?"

I was wrong from the beginning.

The key to the first sentence is "cutting through time". The first sentence of the preview letter indicates that what Kidd is going to steal is a sharp weapon.

"The Second Shadowless Knight" demonstrates this again.

"Knight" represents something related to weapons, and "second" simply means that the thief's target is in carriage number two.

After telling the location and what the gem to be stolen is related to, the next step is to tell the pointer which specific gem it is.

"The Decision of Destiny" refers to the auction item in carriage No. 2, the Sword of Decision.

The "interweaving of truth and illusion" refers to the gaps in the sword that are filled with gems.

"The seventh step" refers to the seventh crack from the bottom up, which is the one I have in my hand now.

The last sentence means that this time Kidd will not steal a direct gem, because other pointers including the compass are "lies"!
"Conan?" Xiaolan was a little confused as to why Conan was standing there in a daze again. After all, she hadn't given any hints this time. "Don't you like this gift?"

"No! I just suddenly figured out something!"

"Really? That's good."

Under the moonlight, Xiaolan showed a gentle smile.

"Actually, I figured out a lot of things today. And, you know what? Kidd gave me a gift!"

"When I woke up, Kidd had placed the statue of the goddess of fate on my chest!"

"He must have been in a hurry to escape so he just left it there!"

Conan immediately put aside the thought that just popped up in his mind. He knew that——

That’s not a gift from Kidd to Xiaolan at all!

Seeing Conan's sudden reaction, Xiaolan suddenly burst out laughing.

"Is that so? It sounds reasonable."

but--

The "gift" Xiaolan wanted to talk about was not this.

In the trash can next to the bedside table, a torn piece of paper lay quietly inside.

Xiaolan hopes that she will always remember the words she saw on the note stuck behind the sculpture -

“If you don’t show that you know, you won’t forget.”

For Conan, the shrunken high school detective's pursuit of the "truth" has just begun.

But for Xiaolan, although this kind high school student doesn't know whether she will forget again in the future for some reason.

But Xiaolan knew that she had already found the "truth" in advance.

With long-lost joy and a touch of sadness, the little man in Xiaolan's heart jumped up and shouted towards the bright moonlight outside the window and the image of the high school detective:
"Shinichi, maybe you don't know... I won the reasoning this time!"

(End of this chapter)