Conan: I'm really not the mastermind behind the scenes

11:43 am, Mika Pharmacy Hospital.

"How is Xiaolan?"

After receiving the news, Megure Juzo came to the hospital. He saw Mouri Kogoro and Kisaki Eri at the door of the operating room. Both of them looked bad, and he had a bad premonition.

"It's not clear yet."

Maori Kogoro looked anxious. While talking to Megure Jusan, he would glance at the door of the operating room from time to time: "She went into the emergency operating room as soon as she arrived. The doctor came out once just now and said that she didn't have enough blood of the same blood type..."

Megure Jusan's face changed drastically: "Did they contact the nearby hospital to send blood urgently?!"

Kisaki Eri beside her shook her head and sighed softly, "When they heard that there was not enough blood, the police officers who kindly accompanied Xiaolan asked about the blood type needed, and two of them donated blood to her."

Only then did Megure Juzo notice that there were a few of his men who were sent to Beika-cho 3-chome sitting not far away. They were not injured. Two of them had their sleeves rolled up and were pressing the needle holes on their arms with their fingers. When they saw him coming, they quickly stood up and greeted him.

"Thank you very much." Hibiki bowed to them and expressed her gratitude again, "I don't know what I would have done without you."

Maori Kogoro also bowed deeply and thanked: "Thank you all for helping my daughter."

"Hey, Maori brother, you don't have to be so serious, these are just small favors..."

As a policeman, Megure Juzo felt that this was just his job. He helped the couple up who were thanking him sincerely, and suddenly caught a glimpse of another small figure on the bench out of the corner of his eye.

Conan Edogawa was sitting there with his head down, his hands on his knees. Megure Jusan was shocked to see a large patch of red on his shirt.

"What's wrong with Conan-kun? Is he injured too?"

Kogoro Mouri stood up again and glanced at Conan Edogawa who was keeping his head down and saying nothing.

"Xiaolan used her body to protect him, so he wasn't hurt." He said unhappily.

Every word of this was heard by Edogawa Conan. His fingers on his knees trembled, then he tightened them even harder, and his knuckles began to shake.

……

Edogawa Conan didn't expect things to turn out like this.

When he heard the sound of "beep...beep...", he immediately realized that there was a bomb nearby, but before he could find where it was, the bomb exploded.

At that critical moment, Xiaolan appeared out of nowhere. She also heard the sound, but did not run away. Instead, she rushed over to hug him and held him tightly in her arms, using her body to block the shock wave of the explosion and the flying debris for him.

Miraculously he was safe and sound, but Ran Maoli, who turned into a shield, was seriously injured.

not only that.

Just now when the doctor said that the last seriously injured patient had used too much blood of the same blood type and Xiaolan was short of blood, he jumped out and said that they had the same blood type.

However, the doctor just looked at him regretfully and shook his head. Maori Kogoro even grabbed his collar rudely and threw him heavily back onto the bench.

"Don't cause trouble for others! What can a little brat like you do with your body?!"

Edogawa Conan froze on the spot.

...Yeah, what can he do?
There are health requirements for donating blood. He is no longer a 17-year-old boy, but a child who looks seven years old. Even if he is willing, no medical staff dares to let him donate blood.

In his current state, he can’t even provide the most basic help to Xiaolan, let alone protect her.

"Conan?"

When Edogawa Conan lowered his head and blamed himself, a familiar male voice sounded above him.

He was stunned for a moment and looked up.

It’s Aoyagi Binkou who’s here.

……

"...So that's it."

Aoyagi Akimitsu, who rushed to the hospital from Yokosuka military base because of the sudden explosion, quickly figured out the cause and effect and sighed.

He didn't say a word of accusation, but Edogawa Conan's body trembled, and then he buried his head even lower.

"It's my fault..." he muttered under his breath.

Aoyagi Binguang looked at him.

"It's all because of my impulsiveness. If I had avoided it in time... No, if I had paid more attention to Xiaolan's movements and realized that she was also running towards me, I wouldn't have..."

"I won't..."

The corridor was very quiet, with only the occasional sound of Kogoro Mouri's nervous pacing, which completely drowned out the shrunken detective's words of regret.

Conan Edogawa looked at his hands, which had shrunk into the size of a child, through the thick lenses of his glasses with complicated functions.

——"Hide your identity well, and never forget it."

——"Even if my teammates are prone to problems and hold us back, they have the right to know, especially since I brought the danger to them this time."

Completely different words were intertwined in his ears, and he slowly clenched his fists.

In the silence, it seemed as if something was changing, and as if someone had made up their mind.

I don’t know how long I waited, but the door of the operating room finally opened and several medical staff came out. The people waiting outside all looked up.

The leading doctor was thinner than Kogoro Maori. In order to make it easier to talk, the doctor temporarily took off her mask. She was a female doctor, and a foreigner.

The nurse next to him introduced: "This is an expert invited from the United States to our hospital. He is very experienced in burn treatment and surgical operations..."

However, Maori Kogoro didn't wait for her to finish her words, and rushed over to grab the doctor: "Doctor, doctor, how is my daughter?!"

His inner anxiety made him unable to hold back his voice, and the volume was so loud that the whole corridor could hear it. Seeing him grabbing the female doctor, Kisaki Eri frowned, but this time she didn't speak back like she did in the past, and they looked at each other anxiously. Edogawa Conan also jumped off the bench and tried to run over and squeeze next to their legs.

He even looked up to find Aoyagi Binguang, wanting to go with him: "Mr. Aoyagi, we..."

The rest of the words got stuck in his throat.

Aoyagi Binkou stood beside the bench, staring at the scene of family members surrounding the female doctor. At this moment, he had a blank expression on his face, only a flash of icy light in his light brown eyes.

But in the next second, Edogawa Conan saw Aoyagi Akimitsu lowered his head and looked at him, with the usual smile on his face.

"The medical staff were not nervous when they came out. It seems that Miss Maori's operation was successful."

Edogawa Conan stared at him blankly, and it took him a while to come back to his senses. He nodded belatedly: "...Yeah."

...Is it an illusion?
Why did he feel that Mr. Qingliu seemed to be...

anger?
Not far ahead, the female doctor who was held by the arm by the family member smiled at everyone soothingly. Although she looked like a foreigner, she spoke fluent Japanese.

"Don't worry, Mr. Maori," the doctor said, "your daughter's operation went very smoothly. As long as you rest well, you will be able to be discharged from the hospital in a month."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and finally felt relieved.

Hibiki Eri covered her chest, feeling her pounding heart calm down. She suddenly thought of the injuries that Mao Lilan had suffered when she was brought in, and asked with a frown, "Will she have a scar on her back?"

The female doctor thought about it and shook her head, "Everyone's physique is different, so this cannot be determined for the time being."

Suzuki Sonoko arrived at the hospital an hour ago, and she was sweating from waiting.

When she heard this, she felt sorry for her best friend lying inside for a few seconds, then clenched her fist firmly: "This is the wound Xiaolan left to protect others! If anyone dares to despise it, I will beat... scold him to death!!"

Edogawa Conan walked to their legs and nodded seriously, rarely agreeing with the words of his childhood friend who was always noisy.

The joy of the family group infected the doctor in front of her. She looked down at Edogawa Conan, who was only as tall as her waist, and gave a friendly smile.

Conan Edogawa also smiled back at the doctor who tried hard to save Xiaolan, and then he noticed that the female doctor had a pair of water green eyes.

……

At the same time, somewhere in Beika Town.

"…Alas, that guy Mao Li suddenly stood me up, so this party can't be held."

In a corner of the Colombo restaurant, a black-haired man with a beard on his chin leaned on the table, chugging his aperitif while complaining to the person in front of him.

"Tokyo hasn't been very peaceful recently. Perhaps you can invite him again after the case is over." The other party suggested kindly.

The black-haired man waved his hand and said, "Hatsune is going on a business trip next week and will be gone for a month. You may not know that since you are a foreigner, the Tokyo police are not very effective and may not be able to solve the case in a month."

"Hatsune is...?" the other party asked in confusion.

"Oh, that's my sister." The man paused, then changed his words, "Maybe it's my older sister. We are twins."

At this point, Banba Lai Tai sighed.

He is 37 years old this year. His peers who got married early have children in high school. Not long ago, he learned that he had a twin sister who was separated in a fire.

Don’t think he is relaxed now, the situation was actually very dangerous at that time - when he first met Hatsune Miku, he was immediately attracted to her and thought he had met his soulmate, so he asked for her contact information... But that night, he received an anonymous email saying that they were twins.

The girl of destiny is a sister, and Banjo Raita almost threw his phone on the spot, but strangely, he didn't think that this strange email was a prank, but immediately contacted Hatsune Kane to do a DNA test.

The results came out very quickly, and everything said in the email turned out to be true.

Banba Lai Tai is very grateful to the other party for helping him find his relatives. Although he is still single, he has a twin who can know what he is thinking even if they don’t talk and are thousands of miles apart.

They bleed the same blood.

But he didn't know who sent the email. He sent the identification results and the two people's thanks to each other to the other party, and even asked someone to check the email address, but nothing was found.

Unable to find his benefactor, he had to look for his former bad friends to celebrate, but his friends also stood him up...

"twin……"

As Lai Tai sighed, the man sitting opposite him repeated the word in a low voice.

Although a major case happened in Tokyo, the locals have long been accustomed to it. Some stores are worried about affecting their business and have launched discounts. He and the strange man in front of him sat at the same table because there were too many people in the store and they had to share the table.

This strange man was very friendly. After sitting at the same table with Mrs. Chang for a few minutes, he told him everything about how he was stood up and had to come to the restaurant alone, and that he had a twin sister.

The host Lai Tai looked at the other person's appearance. The strange man in front of him was a mixed-race Asian with short black hair with a subtle curl.

He was just trying to assess the other person's age when he heard the other person ask:

"Is Mr. Maori stuck with something important?"

The strange man suddenly changed the subject. Banba Raita didn't think much about it and answered directly: "There was an explosion in 3-chome just now. His daughter was injured. He had to take her to the hospital, so he didn't come."

The other party was silent for a few seconds, then nodded slowly.

"Well, when a child is hurt, a father does feel bad."

The host, Lai Tai, felt that his tone had a hint of empathy, and under the influence of alcohol, he curiously asked some offensive questions.

"You should be married, right? How old is your child? Middle school?"

"Do not."

The man opposite blinked his emerald green eyes.

"My child has been working for several years. This time I came to Japan to visit him." (End of this chapter)