Conan: I don't do anything? If I really do it, you won't be happy.

Chapter 119 The Problem with Conan

"Cuckoo..."

At this moment, the pigeon was very calm. Although it was injured, it accepted Ai's superb bandaging skills calmly, as if it understood human nature, without making a single struggle.

Ran stood to the side with her hands behind her back, a gentle smile on her face. Looking at Ai, whose eyes were shining, she happily clasped her hands together and said to Ai, "Ai, you're amazing! You're so skilled. This pigeon didn't even struggle!"

Hearing Ran's praise, Ai was taken aback for a moment, then said calmly, "That's because it's naturally very well-behaved!"

The pigeons also made comfortable sounds as Ai gently stroked them.

Upon hearing Ran's words, Teruyuki immediately retorted with a smile, "Really? I think it's just that Ai is too skilled!"

Hearing Huijie's sabotage, Ai looked at Huijie with some confusion, wondering what he was trying to do.

Xiaolan, however, seemed somewhat surprised and asked in confusion, "Skilled?"

"At school, Ai and Ayumi often take care of the animals, and for that, she was even able to heartlessly abandon me!"

Seeing that the atmosphere had reached a certain point, Huijie crossed his arms, snorted coldly, and made a somewhat angry sound, as if Ai was someone who had abandoned her wife and children to go out and indulge in debauchery.

Ai looked speechlessly at Keisuke, who looked like a wronged wife, and continued stroking the pigeon in her hand. She said to Keisuke with some helplessness, "Isn't it because it's too early? You can't get up at all."

"Sis, look at her!" Hui Jie complained to Ran, somewhat displeased, as he watched Ai still taking care of the pigeons.

Ran watched the two playing and joking around, a hint of envy in her eyes. She wished she and Shinichi could be like that someday.

Thinking of this, Xiaolan reached into her pocket, touched the fortune slip she had drawn from the shrine yesterday, and couldn't help but sigh. Let alone getting along like this, it was even difficult to find out where Shinichi Kudo was normally.

Just then, Conan knocked on the door and said, "Ran-neechan, Uncle Mori asked me to come and get you. It's almost time, we can leave now!"

Upon hearing Conan's words, Ran turned around to open the door for Conan, her back to Kosuke and Ai. She patted her face, trying to suppress her bad mood.

"Yuanzi? You're here too!" Xiaolan looked at Yuanzi in front of her and smiled.

"I came here especially to pick you up." Sonoko then poked her head into Ran's room, where she saw Keisuke and Ai embracing each other.

"Ah!" Sonoko suddenly covered her eyes, as if she had seen something dirty.

When Xiaolan saw Sonoko's condition, she immediately hugged Sonoko anxiously and asked, "Sonoko, what's wrong?"

"Ran..." Sonoko pointed at Keisuke and Ai in the room with some resentment and said bitterly, "It was those two who caused me, a temporary single person, so much harm. My young heart has suffered a severe blow!"

Huijie looked at this drama queen speechlessly and rolled his eyes. He had finally managed to get Ai to put down that annoying pigeon, and just when he was able to spend some time with Ai, Sonoko came to bother them.

Sonoko watched the two separate and smiled with satisfaction.

Suddenly, she looked at the pigeon wrapped up inside the house with some doubt and asked Xiaolan, "Did you find that pigeon? It looks kind of familiar."

Hearing Sonoko's words, Conan frowned and immediately asked, "That was found where Kaito Kid fell, right? When did you see it, Sonoko-neechan?" "Oh, it's Kaito Kid's pigeon!" Sonoko suddenly realized and then explained to Conan, "We found it yesterday at the art museum with Keisuke and the others. At that time, the pigeon had a listening device tied to its leg."

Upon hearing Sonoko's words, Conan immediately questioned, "What! Why didn't you say something like this sooner?!"

"I forgot!" Sonoko wiped away her cold sweat, but looking at the calm and collected Keisuke and Ai beside her, she shrugged and said weakly and without much conviction:

"I was going to say that, but it's all your fault for leaving too early, and Ran and the others came to urge me again..."

Conan glanced at Keisuke and Ai, who were still unresponsive, and gritted his teeth. If he had known earlier that Kid had been eavesdropping on everything, they would have been able to turn the tables and ambush Kid nearby beforehand, and Kid's fate would not be unknown now!

……

Even after boarding the ship, Conan still looked unable to let go of his worries.

"Kudo? What's wrong?"

Suddenly, Conan heard a familiar Osaka accent behind him. He instinctively turned around and, sure enough, it was Heiji Hattori.

Looking at Heiji Hattori in front of him, Conan sighed and told him the information he had just received from Sonoko.

"I don't understand!" Conan said through gritted teeth, head down. "I even suspect that Scorpion is..."

"Kudo!" Heiji Hattori stared at Conan, shook his head, and said, "I know you're very confused right now, but as a detective, I think instead of speculating here, we should gather clues and let the evidence speak for itself!"

"If you are truly exhausted, then my advice is to have an open and honest talk with him!"

"I understand, let me think about it some more!" Conan finally calmed down after hearing Heiji Hattori's words and slowly walked towards his room.

Watching Conan's retreating figure, Hattori Heiji sighed. He never imagined that the spirited Kudo would turn out like this.

After careful consideration, Hattori Heiji finally figured out where the problem lay.

Conan assumes from the outset that Keisuke has already obtained the real answer, so during the investigation, out of his detective confidence, he subconsciously excludes Keisuke and resists obtaining information from him.

Knowing Keisuke and Ai's personalities, Conan could have anticipated their inaction. Since he never had any hope, he wouldn't be disappointed, so Conan didn't choose to question them.

What truly angered Conan was not so much his own failure to discover clues like Keisuke.

Therefore, there are two ways to solve Conan's problem.

First, it breaks the invincible image of Keisuke in Conan's eyes, letting him know that no one is perfect and there is no need to use such high standards to persuade himself.

Secondly, it makes Conan clearly realize the gap between him and Keisuke, and accept that he cannot solve cases as quickly as Keisuke.

But is it really possible for someone to get the correct answer that early on?
Heiji Hattori was skeptical of this, wondering how someone could know the truth from the perspective of an observer without being a participant.

(End of this chapter)