He still hadn't quite estimated the time. There were no students left at the school gate. The PE teacher saw him and scolded him a few times, urging him to hurry up.

Chen Nuo quickly crossed the playground.

By this time, the bell for the first class had already rung.

Pushing open the glass door of the teaching building, Chen Nuo opened his schoolbag, found the brochure, and searched for the location of Class 2B classroom.

Boom! !

Because he was so focused on what he was looking at, Chen Nuo accidentally bumped into someone at the corner of the stairs.

His body had been enhanced, and he knocked the other person to the ground, scattering their belongings everywhere.

His schoolbag also fell to the ground, and his books, stationery, and lunchbox all fell out.

Chen Nuo looked down and saw that the person who had been knocked down was a senior student with long hair. She looked very charismatic and was probably the kind of girl who worked in the student council.

Could it be that I offended the student council president on my first day of school?

The items in her backpack were also knocked to the ground, and there were many more kinds of things than Chen Nuo's, including a small mirror, bread, and even a small hair dryer...

"Sorry, sorry."

While apologizing, Chen Nuo squatted down to help the other person tidy up, and at the same time put the books and lunch boxes that had fallen out of his bag back into his backpack.

Eh?

Chen Nuo's hand suddenly reached under the bread and grabbed a soft black fabric. He pulled it out and, if he wasn't mistaken, it was a woman's stocking.

The senior student snatched the stockings away and hurriedly stuffed them into her bag, saying, "I just washed them this morning, and they're still not dry."

Chen Nuo thought to himself, "No wonder it feels a little damp to the touch."

"Hey, what year and class are you in? Don't you know you can't... huh?" The senior squinted at Chen Nuo's face. "Shinichi Kudo? When did you get back? Why are you still so reckless?"

Chen Nuo: "I'm not Shinichi Kudo, senior, you've mistaken me for someone else."

The senior student kept squinting as she spoke, and Chen Nuo thought she might be nearsighted: "Your hair is different, and your temperament seems a bit different too... You're really not Shinichi Kudo?"

Chen Nuo was in a hurry, so he just showed her his student ID.

Only then did the senior student believe Chen Nuo's words.

However, the problem that followed was that Chen Nuo accidentally broke her glasses, and she had a student council meeting to chair in the afternoon, so she couldn't do without her glasses.

"What should we do then?" Chen Nuo was also a little embarrassed, after all, he was the one who bumped into the person because he wasn't looking where he was going.

The senior student's eyes lit up: "By the way, do me a favor, and I'll consider it compensation."

Chen Nuo nodded: "Okay, but I'll pay you for the glasses first."

Upon hearing this, the senior student's impression of Chen Nuo improved significantly, and she said with a smile, "Those are all minor matters. By the way, since you look so much like Shinichi Kudo, are you interested in mystery?"

Chen Nuo wondered why someone who looked like Shinichi Kudo would be interested in mystery.

Is he synonymous with reasoning?

But then he thought that someone at school might notice him as a newly emerged high school detective, so he nodded: "It's alright, I sometimes help the police solve some cases."

The senior student paused for a moment, then asked, "Help the police solve cases? Like Shinichi Kudo?"

Chen Nuo hesitated for a moment: "Uh... I'm faster than him."

"That's great!" The senior student jumped up happily, then took out a club application form from her bag. "Then join our school's mystery club? You're so good, you'll definitely be fine. Plus, there are two beautiful girls in the club, who might be able to help you with your love life. Oh, right, I haven't asked you if you have a girlfriend yet."

The senior's rapid-fire dialogue reminded Chen Nuo of Ai Haibara's instructions to him that morning.

Senior student: "Since it's a newly applied club, the activity room hasn't been decided yet. Why don't you come to the library to meet the club leader after lunch?"

The senior student carefully put away Chen Nuo's signed application for joining the club, and then ran away in a hurry, without even leaving Chen Nuo's name.

Chen Nuo actually wanted to join the karate club so that he could have more opportunities to interact with Ran, and most importantly, it would be easier to deal with Gin.

In order to get Ran Mouri to join the karate club, they can probably stall Gin for quite a while.

However, he remembered that he could join several clubs at the same time, so he would just consider this mystery club as a nominal one.

Because of this little incident, Chen Nuo arrived at the classroom after class had already started. The math teacher was very dissatisfied with Chen Nuo's lateness and didn't even let him introduce himself before telling him to go back to his seat and continue the class.

Quite a few classmates cast curious glances at Chen Nuo, as if they noticed that he looked a bit like Shinichi Kudo.

Chen Nuo's seat was far back.

However, it wasn't a "window seat" reserved for the male protagonist in anime, which made him feel a little disappointed.

After returning to his seat, Chen Nuo first scanned the classroom, but couldn't find Xiao Lan anywhere. There were several empty desks in the classroom, and Chen Nuo didn't know which one belonged to Xiao Lan.

However, Sonoko Suzuki was in the class.

Instead, Sonoko sat by the window. She only made eye contact with Chen Nuo at first, then rested her chin on her hand and gazed at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window.

Sunlight streamed through the window, casting a golden glow on Yuanzi's short, light brown hair that fluttered in the breeze, making her fair forehead appear even more captivating.

It seems Xiaolan didn't come to school today. Is she sick?

As Chen Nuo pondered this, he took out his books from his bag.

Ok?

His hand froze in mid-air because between the books lay a pair of slightly damp black stockings.

It must be that senior student from earlier, right?

It probably got stuck inside when the books were being packed and we didn't notice.

Chen Nuo was speechless and a little scared. Because he looked a lot like Shinichi Kudo, there were at least five people observing him, the new transfer student.

If you accidentally pull your stockings out when you take out a book.

I'm afraid the company will be destroyed.

Chen Nuo quickly stuffed the black stockings inside her clothes before taking out her books and placing them on the desk.

The senior student seemed to have told him to come to the library to find her after lunch, and he could return it to her when he had the chance. I feel insecure keeping this thing in my bag, as I might be considered a pervert at any time.

Just as Chen Nuo was about to focus on his book—he had to pretend for the sake of the mission—he noticed a note flying past him and hitting Suzuki Sonoko on the head.

At the same time, the boy sitting behind Sonoko turned pale and immediately buried his face in his book, pretending not to know anything.

Sonoko Suzuki turned her head and met Chen Nuo's gaze.

Then she opened the note, glanced at it, and frowned. It seemed she had misunderstood and thought Chen Nuo had lost the note.

After looking at the garden, Yuanzi turned around and wrote a small note for Chen Nuo, which she then tossed over.

Chen Nuo opened it and took a look—

"No way. Who invites someone to a place like that right off the bat? Your dating skills are terrible."

It seems there was a misunderstanding, but the person who left the note seems to be afraid of offending Sonoko, so they pretended not to know anything.

Chen Nuo had no choice but to write another note to explain.

Chen Nuo: [You misunderstood. I didn't drop that note. By the way, why didn't Xiao Lan come to school?]

Sonoko: [I heard she took leave, but she didn't reply to my text message. By the way, your attempt to cover it up is worse than just admitting it openly; it's a serious turn-off.]

After reading it, Chen Nuo was preparing to write another note to explain.

Just then, a crisp sound of chalk breaking came from the front of the podium.

The portly, slightly balding math teacher turned around and roared, "You two, are you ever going to stop?!?"

The classroom fell silent instantly.

The physical education students on the playground also stopped what they were doing and looked towards the window of Class 2B.

In the end, Chen Nuo and Yuan Zi were punished for disrupting classroom discipline by having to clean the swimming pool after school.

Afterwards, the student who dropped the note kept apologizing to Suzuki Sonoko and Chen Nuo, almost to the point of kneeling down and doing a dogeza (a traditional Chinese kowtow).

Sonoko waved her hand: "Never mind, you can just help me clean the swimming pool."

The student who left the note looked embarrassed: "Um... I have to go to club practice after school, the competition is coming up soon..."

Chen Nuo was speechless when he heard this, thinking that Yuanzi would explode if she heard this.

Unexpectedly, Sonoko merely frowned and let the guy go.

It seems that although Sonoko may look like a big sister, she has a soft heart.

But why do I have to clean the swimming pool too? Chen Nuo thought to himself.

At noon, Yuanzi invited Chen Nuo to lunch at a restaurant, saying that it was her treat and he could eat whatever he wanted.

However, Chen Nuo declined, because Ai Haibara had brought him a lunchbox.

Sonoko didn't say anything and left the classroom alone.

After finishing his lunchbox, Chen Nuo remembered that he needed to go to the library to report to that senior student, so he could return the socks to her.

Having this on my person makes me feel like I could die at any moment.

While the people in the classroom weren't paying attention, Chen Nuo secretly took the stockings out of her bag and stuffed them into her pocket.

Then I walked toward the library.

.

Sonoko Suzuki likes to rest at the library after meals. Usually, she goes with Ran, but Ran didn't come today, so Sonoko took over two chairs by herself and could lie down on them.

No one usually comes here.

So Sonoko was very relaxed. She took off her black stockings, rolled them up, and put them in her white indoor shoes. Then she leaned back in her chair, holding a large bag of potato chips in her hand.

Yuanzi was eating potato chips while texting with one hand.

Sonoko: "Sakurajima-senpai, have we found our club members yet?"

Sakurajima-senpai: "We've found him. He's a junior who's very interested in mystery."

Sonoko: "That's great! When can he join the club?"

Sakurajima-senpai: "The paperwork is already being processed. I'll take some people to the library in a bit. Wait for my call."

Sonoko put down her phone with a smug smile on her face.

Suddenly, a wave of drowsiness washed over me.

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