Detective Conan: The Literary Genius is Actually a Great Scientist

Xiao Lan nodded in agreement, "Yeah, Lin, let's go together? It's good to relax your brain once in a while."

Seeing the expectant looks in the two girls' eyes, Lin Ran thought for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "Okay, that sounds interesting. Let's go check it out. It's good to change your mind once in a while."

He took out his phone and sent a text message to Akemi Miyano: "Akemi-neechan, I'm going to Teitan University's anniversary celebration with some classmates after school, so I'll be back late. Don't wait for me for dinner."

Soon, I received a reply: 【Okay, Lin Jun, have fun and be careful ^_^】

Looking at the cute emoticon, Lin Ran smiled slightly and put away her phone.

Let's go!

Sonoko happily linked arms with Ran, and instinctively reached for Lin Ran with the other, but then thought it might be too intimate, so she patted his shoulder instead. "Let's go! Our destination: Teitan University!"

……

"Speaking of which, Lin Ran, after reading your book, besides being shocked, I was also a little sad."

Walking down the street, Sonoko, unusually, put away her playful demeanor, her tone tinged with a hint of melancholy, "It's that homeless man in the book who was killed by Ishigami. I feel so sorry for him. Nobody paid attention to him, and nobody cared even when he died, as if... as if he had never existed."

"...So I told my mom and asked her to set up a charitable foundation specifically to help and support homeless people. Although it may not change much, at least... I wanted to do something."

Lin Ran raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Impressive. As expected of the eldest daughter of the Suzuki family, she is both efficient and kind-hearted."

Hehe~

Sonoko was a little embarrassed by the praise and waved her hand, "You flatter me. Anyway, my family has a lot of money. It would just be sitting in the bank and getting moldy. It's only right to do some good deeds. Consider it an act of good karma."

Yes, money talks.

Moreover, the direction of this willful behavior is actually quite positive.

"By the way, Xiaolan, speaking of which, where's your arrogant detective? I haven't seen him for days. Where has he gone to solve some difficult case this time?"

Sonoko nudged her friend with her elbow.

When Shinichi Kudo was mentioned, Ran, who had been listening to their conversation with a smile, suddenly dimmed in her eyes.

"I don't know either... I haven't seen Shinichi in a long time, and I can't get in touch with him. He just calls occasionally, saying he's dealing with a very complicated case..."

"I...I have a bad feeling, a feeling...a feeling that I might never see him again..."

This unpleasant feeling lingered in Xiaolan's heart, but she usually didn't want to show it to others.

Upon hearing this, Sonoko's eyes lit up: "That's great news, Ran!"

She had long been dissatisfied with Shinichi Kudo, who always talked about deduction, would occasionally leave Ran to investigate cases, and often showed off his superiority in front of Ran.

In her opinion, a boy who only cares about cases and the truth is not worthy of her gentle and kind Lan.

"You can take this opportunity to dump that deductive maniac!"

Sonoko grabbed Lin Ran's arm, who was quietly watching the drama unfold, and said, "Look, isn't there a perfectly good guy right here beside us? He's handsome, has a great personality, and is a genius writer. Isn't he a million times better than that Kudo who's always nowhere to be seen?"

He's practically a perfect male protagonist straight out of an anime!

Lin Ran, suddenly caught up in a "best friend advising her to break up" situation: "???"

Is this for real?

Ran burst out laughing when she saw Sonoko's enthusiastic sales pitch.

"Sonoko, don't talk nonsense."

The girl sighed and rubbed her forehead, her cheeks slightly flushed.

She was well aware of her best friend's little scheme.

Ever since Lin Ran transferred to our school, especially after his identity as "Xia Mo" was exposed, when Sonoko chatted with him, almost every three sentences revolved around "Lin Ran today...", "Lin Ran said...", "Lin Ran again...", and she never mentioned any other boys again. Even her favorite idol, Kid, had fallen out of favor.

Sonoko blushed slightly under Ran's gaze, released Lin Ran's arm, and tried to remain calm as she changed the subject: "Oh dear, we're almost at Teitan University, let's hurry! I heard they have a limited-time mystery-solving event at their mystery theater, we'll miss it if we're late!"

As she spoke, she quickened her pace.

Xiao Lan and Lin Ran exchanged a smile and followed.

……

Teitan University.

Because it was the school festival, when Lin Ran and her two friends arrived, there was already a long queue at the entrance, bustling with noise and full of youthful energy.

While they were queuing to enter.

A sharp screech of brakes suddenly rang out at the school gate, accompanied by a child's scream.

When Lin Ran turned around, he saw a scene that even he, a future great scientist, found very "Scientific".

An ordinary-looking skateboard, carrying three children, sped through the gaps in the crowd from behind like a fish, moving at a speed no less than that of the cars next to it, creating a gust of wind.

The little boy standing at the front of the skateboard, wearing a miniature children's suit, performed a spectacular stunt that completely defied the laws of physics and was comparable to a stunt show.

Before the skateboard, traveling at 40 mph, had even come to a complete stop, the other person had already leaped down, their small body nimbly twisting in the air, kicking at the hand of a young man who was already stunned... a motorcycle helmet?

"Whoosh~"

"Bang!"

A whooshing sound followed by the sound of something hitting its target.

The man who had just pulled a little girl out of the trunk of the car ahead, looking completely bewildered, didn't even utter a sound. His eyes rolled back, and he collapsed to the ground, his body twitching twice.

In this life... I've finally become straight.

"Hiss~"

Lin Ran's lips twitched slightly.

Professor Agasa, look what you've done!

Even if Lord Bull came, he'd cry and go back to his coffin to tear up and rewrite the laws of mechanics!

"Ayumi, Ayumi!"

"I'm so glad you're okay!"

The other two kids on the skateboard—Genta and Mitsuhiko—quickly ran over and successfully reunited with Ayumi, who had been "kidnapped."

Having completed the shot, Conan stood in front of the three children, looking at their bewildered "accomplices," and put his hands on his hips: "Alright, you'd better prepare yourselves, you serial kidnappers and murderers!"

"murderer?"

"Even if you're pretending, it's useless."

"Because we overheard your conversation in the car, saying that you could kill even a child without batting an eye..."

Listening to the conversation outside, Lin Ran remembered what kind of plot this was.

It seems that Ayumi and Conan hid in the trunk of someone's car while playing hide-and-seek.

Then they found props such as a "bloodstained saw" and a "model of a girl's head" inside. In addition, they overheard the conversation between the two people driving. Through a series of coincidences, they mistook the other person for the serial killer of girls who was being hunted by the police.

Hostage Wang Bumei thus began her legendary life.

Since I wasn't very familiar with the process the first time, I practiced using a fake one.