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

The hotel had just opened and was occupied by people related to the beauty pageant. As the finals were about to begin, the guests had basically completed registration and gathered in the banquet hall on the 20th floor.

Dr. Agasa didn't dare to take the two children with physical abnormalities to the normal floors, so he could only take them all the way down to the negative third floor.

This was the lowest floor of the entire hotel and also the underground parking garage, with only a few cars parked there. He quickly found a room that met his requirements - the laundry room in the hotel.

Edogawa Conan and Haibara Ai walked in alone with their last bit of strength and closed the door.

Dr. Agasa stood at the door and kept watch. He looked around anxiously, afraid that some employees or guests might suddenly come over, and worried about the health of his two children.

Through the door, he could only barely hear the sounds inside. The two of them were gasping for breath and trying hard to suppress their cries of pain... The more he listened, the more distressed he became.

"I'd better send you to the hospital." Dr. Agasa pressed against the door and advised, "Your condition is really too bad. What if it's the side effect of the drug? If you don't get timely treatment, you might..."

"No, Doc, I can't go."

Huihara Ai's voice came out muffled, "If this is a second attack of the poison and we become smaller again or die in the hospital, we will be in big trouble."

"But if we were in a hotel..."

Dr. Agasa is worried about the little hair he has left becoming bald. If he becomes smaller or... in the hotel, he will be in big trouble!

"Doctor." Edogawa Conan laughed softly, "If we really... you can use my phone to call Mr. Aoyagi. He knows my true identity and can, can..."

The rest of the words disappeared.

Dr. Agasa was startled and almost lay against the door, putting his ear close to the crack, trying hard to hear the sounds in the room.

"Shinichi? Shinichi? Ai, how are you guys?!"

"what--!!"

A sharp, uncontrollable scream of pain came from inside!

"Shinichi! Ai!!"

Dr. Agasa was horrified and didn't even bother to look around to see if there was anyone else coming. He wanted to open the door and break in.

"…No, wait, Doctor! I'm fine! Don't come in yet!"

A clear young voice sounded from behind the door.

Dr. Agasa stood there in a daze.

He was so familiar with this voice. He heard it every morning when he left, heard it in news interviews after every case was solved, heard it complain after an experiment failed and exploded...

This is the voice that he grew up watching, it belongs to Kudo Shinichi!
After a few minutes, the door finally opened.

From the moment he heard that voice, Dr. Agasa was completely dazed. He didn't react even when the door opened until he saw a familiar face of a high school detective.

"Long time no see, Doctor."

Kudo Shinichi leaned against the door frame, wearing an unfamiliar suit, which might be the clothes of other guests in the laundry room. He wiped the sweat off his face and said weakly and helplessly: "You are too impatient. I was taking off my clothes before, but you almost broke in..."

Dr. Agasa glanced at his face and saw a red mark belatedly: "What's wrong with your face?"

"This..."

Kudo Shinichi, with a red slap mark on his face, looked away in embarrassment. "Habara has also turned into an adult. She reacted even more violently. She didn't have time to take off her dress. Her dress was stretched open. She happened to be sitting opposite me at the time. I almost saw..."

Dr. A Li: "..."

Kudo Shinichi felt his subtle gaze and quickly explained: "No, I didn't see it! Really! I still had my underwear on at the time, and it was so uncomfortable after it got bigger and stuck in my body! Just when I was busy taking it off, she..."

Dr. Agasa: “…………”

Shinichi, please stop talking...

Dr. Agasa, who had watched Kudo Shinichi grow up and understood him as a person, couldn't bear to say anything. He looked towards the room but didn't go in directly: "Ai, are you okay?"

Not long after, a young girl in trousers also came out.

She looked about the same age as Kudo Shinichi, and had a similar hairstyle to Haibara Ai, but her facial features were more three-dimensional and mature. She glanced coldly at Kudo Shinichi, who was scratching his head, and obviously heard what he had just said.

Death stared at the detective for a few seconds before Miyano Shiho retracted her gaze and said to Dr. Agasa in a gentle tone: "Doctor, it's our first meeting. This is my true self."

"Oh, oh...Okay."

Dr. Agasa nodded stupidly.

He looked at Kudo Shinichi, then at Miyano Shiho, and they let him look at them. After a few seconds, he murmured, "Are you...really back to normal?"

Kudo Shinichi clenched his fists, thinking that this was not enough, and jumped up and down a few times. After stopping, he said excitedly: "Yeah! I didn't expect that!"

Miyano Shiho looked at her slender fingers that had been used for countless drug experiments, her brows slightly frowned, and her expression was far less happy than Kudo Shinichi.

Dr. Agasa was also very happy, but he soon noticed Miyano Shiho's expression: "Ai?"

Miyano Shiho came back to her senses and accepted the title, pouring cold water on Kudo Shinichi: "Don't be too happy too soon, Edogawa. It's impossible to be sure now whether it's temporary or whether he has really changed back."

Kudo Shinichi's expression froze: "For the time being...? You mean, we might..."

"It's just a possibility." Miyano Shiho said calmly, "It's also possible that all this is just the last bit of tenderness before death, and we will die of the poison soon."

Kudo Shinichi fell silent and touched his heart.

Indeed, he was completely overwhelmed by joy just now. Now that he calmed down and felt it, his heart rate and body temperature were indeed not normal...

His silence frightened Dr. Agasa, who was frightened tonight. He asked dryly, "What should we do? Should I take you to the hospital now?"

"No, wait a minute."

Kudo Shinichi put down his hand, "I think we should now look for something that can change us back - I don't think we will die, even if it is only a temporary effect, as long as we study the ingredients, we should be able to make a real antidote!"

The latter sentence was directed to Miyano Shiho.

“……” Miyano Shiho glanced at his persistent expression and stopped talking.

Dr. Agasa looked at them one by one again: "You all grew bigger together. You must have eaten something with the same ingredients. Just now..."

"Cake." Kudo Shinichi said quickly, "I didn't drink black tea."

Huiyuan Ai ate both, but she agreed with Kudo Shinichi's opinion: "The cake has a strong smell of alcohol, which masks the taste of other ingredients, so we'd better ask for the recipe directly." (End of this chapter)