I'm in Detective Conan, but it's a chaotic battlefield.

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The two walked along the sidewalk toward the school.

"I have no interest in making friends with kids. I'm mainly here to observe Conan... Why are you holding my hand?!" Ai Haibara looked up at Chen Nuo, her big, watery eyes flashing with confusion and embarrassment.

Chen Nuo: "Look, all the other kids are like this."

Ai Haibara looked around.

I did find several children walking hand in hand with adults on the sidewalk, and a little girl who loved to act cute was riding on the shoulders of a man who looked like her father, and she would kiss him from time to time.

"Do you like that kind of thing?" Chen Nuo asked curiously.

"No, no, holding hands is fine." Ai Haibara quickly stated, afraid that this guy with no sense of boundaries would pick her up and put her on his neck.

Chen Nuo held Ai Haibara's soft little hand and walked towards the school.

Suddenly, the high school girl next to me said, "Hey? Have you guys noticed that the brother and sister look like a couple?"

The companion next to her glanced at it and said, "Really? With such a big age gap, how can they have such strong chemistry?"

High school girl: "I think it might be the little girl's problem; she seems so mature."

"Really...!"

The voices of the high school girls talking gradually faded into the distance.

Ai Haibara quickened her pace, wanting to end this journey as soon as possible.

This damn guy with no sense of boundaries is really troublesome. Maybe I should just take a different route to school tomorrow, Ai Haibara thought to herself.

She herself didn't even realize it.

She has gradually become the guinea pig, and Chen Nuo has taken the initiative and turned the tables on her.

My first day of school.

Having grown up under the organization's surveillance and never attended elementary school, Shiho Miyano found it somewhat novel.

She met some interesting people.

A sweet-looking little girl named Ayumi Yoshida strikes up a conversation with her and invites her to join some kind of "Junior Detective Club".

Besides Conan, there are two other boys in the Detective Boys.

The detective club member named Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya always avoids eye contact and blushes when he looks at her. He also has a similar reaction when he gets close to Ayumi. He's a precocious kid.

Genta Kojima, a chubby boy, complained at noon that his lunch wasn't eel rice, and was punished by his teacher by having to copy his homework twenty times. Mitsuhiko mocked him and was chased and beaten by him for a long time.

Overall, it's a small but energetic group.

In addition, it's also quite amusing to see Conan, the first guinea pig, forced to mingle with children.

After school in the afternoon.

Ai Haibara was also dragged along by them to investigate a missing person case.

As soon as Conan hears about a case, his eyes light up, and he even stops eating the food Ran made.

It seems that even though its body has shrunk, the number one mouse is still just as smart and as reckless as ever.

Ai Haibara clearly noted this in her observation diary.

However, what Ai Haibara found somewhat difficult to adapt to was that she didn't have much in common with the children and couldn't connect with them.

He could only exchange a few words with Ayumi.

As for the investigation...

Ai Haibara initially thought the Junior Detective League was just a game among children, but she never expected that they would actually encounter a real case.

After investigating, the group found a gang of counterfeiters and infiltrated their hideout.

Because of their recklessness, the detective team was accidentally taken hostage by criminals. Ai Haibara fired a shot, which frightened the female criminals into incapacitating themselves.

Then it dawned on me.

It seems very strange for a little girl to do this.

Fortunately, she managed to get away with it by faking tears, and the chubby Inspector Megure even asked Conan to take her home.

It seems I need to be more careful in the future and avoid doing things that are inappropriate for a child.

Walking side by side with Conan on the dimly lit path, the streetlights on both sides of the path emitted a cold white light. There were very few people here, and it was very quiet.

Ai Haibara felt that this place was perfect for confronting Conan, both in terms of timing and atmosphere.

Conan, on the other hand, is walking forward with his head in his hands, just like Nobita Nobi.

He wasn't happy at all.

They thought they had found the whereabouts of the black-clad organization, but it turned out to be just a group of counterfeiters. Not only did they get their hopes up for nothing, but they also had to take this somewhat strange little girl home that night.

Honestly, I can't even eat Xiaolan's hot curry anymore.

"Hey, where exactly do you live?" Conan asked, somewhat annoyed.

"It's nearby."

"I don't recall any houses around here with the surname Haibara," Conan asked, puzzled.

“My surname isn’t Haibara.” Haibara Ai brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “Sherry, that’s my code name.”

Conan: "What weird stuff are you talking about?"

Ai Haibara chuckled, "So, it's the organization that fed you that poison that shrinks your body, huh? Do you still like those Kamen Rider cards?"

Conan was struck dumb.

Later, Ai Haibara deliberately scared him again, saying that Professor Agasa had been killed by her.

Conan ran to Professor Agasa's house like a madman.

They found the doctor sitting at the dining table with Chen Nuo, like cats waiting to be fed by their owner.

While Conan breathed a sigh of relief, he also became intensely curious about the identities of Ai Haibara and Chen Nuo.

However, Ai Haibara, who followed closely behind, quickly "explained" the situation for him.

Ai Haibara did not tell Conan Chen Nuo's identity.

She was a little worried about Conan's reckless nature; it would be troublesome if he impulsively exposed Chen Nuo one day.

Ai Haibara only told Conan that Chen Nuo was a victim of human experimentation by the organization, and after she found him, he fell in love with her without hesitation and volunteered to become a guinea pig for her research.

The character who stands by her side without hesitation after learning that she has shrunk.

After hearing this, Conan immediately looked at Chen Nuo with pity.

He thought to himself, "If I fall for this kind of woman, I'll be torn to pieces."

As for Ai Haibara's claim of "voluntary liking," he didn't believe it at all. He was certain that this terrifying woman had used some kind of trick, probably something like how villains in movies manipulate humans.

Although Conan was somewhat reluctant and didn't want to cooperate with the woman from the Black Organization.

But there doesn't seem to be a good solution right now.

Moreover, if he wanted to return to his original body, cooperating with Ai Haibara would be far more reliable than finding that group of men in black.

Therefore, Conan reluctantly agreed to Ai Haibara's request to cooperate.

After finishing the meal.

Conan couldn't wait to ask, "How long will it take to develop the antidote?"

Ai Haibara shook her head: "The situation is not very optimistic. Most of the data I brought out has been destroyed, and I can only remember a small part of it, so the progress will be very slow."

Conan: "Isn't there any other place to find a backup?"

Ai Haibara: "No, because it happened so suddenly, I could only copy some from the research institute temporarily, and I didn't expect it to get wet and damaged by the rain."

"Then tell me the location of the research institute." Conan was still persistent.

"It's no use. The research institute burned down that very night. Besides, my temporary shelter and my sister's apartment were also cleared out by the organization. Nothing was left, not even our precious childhood photos..."

Ai Haibara suddenly stopped halfway through her sentence.

Then, as if she had just remembered something, she said quickly, "Oh, right, I just remembered something. Once, when my sister was traveling, she saved the photos she took on a software and sent them to me. After browsing them on my computer, I sent them back to her."

Then, the software I used to store drug information disappeared.

Chen Nuo cooperated, saying, "In other words, you may have made a mistake with the soft disk. The disk you sent to your sister contained drug information."

Ai Haibara nodded.

At this moment, Professor Agasa interjected, "But didn't that thing disappear along with your sister's personal belongings?"

Ai Haibara: "My sister mentioned before that during that trip, she asked her university professor to save the hard drive to her computer. Maybe that professor has a backup at home."

Conan quickly asked, "What's that professor's name?"

"Professor Hirota Masami of Nanyang University."

Then everyone discussed it.

Dr. Agasa immediately called Professor Hirota's house, saying he was a friend of Akemi Miyano and would be visiting her soon.

Conan looked excited, as if he would soon recover his body.

Chen Nuo was also somewhat surprised, thinking that he hadn't expected this storyline to exist, and it seemed that he could gain another free miner.

As for the risk that Gin and Vodka might also appear in this case in the original story, there's not much to worry about.

Because Gin and Vodka went to Europe and haven't returned yet.

If Ai Haibara is hidden well, a little girl shouldn't arouse suspicion.

It's raining outside, a light drizzle, but the thunder is quite loud.

Professor Agasa went out early to start the car.

Conan also secretly followed them out, probably hoping to get some information out of Professor Agasa.