Conan: I am really a good person

Chapter 406 My Terrible Wife ②
'This is where? '

As this question emerged in Suzuki Sonoko's mind, it was as if the network had finally been successfully connected, and pieces of information that seemed like common sense quickly emerged:
【Common sense 1: She is dead. 】

【Common sense 2: She will 'resurrect' at six o'clock every morning, and disappear when the clock strikes midnight.】

The word "resurrection" should be put in quotation marks, because Suzuki Sonoko is not really resurrected, but... is it [a fragment of memory from the past materialized]? Or [traveled from the past to the future]?

For example, today's Suzuki Sonoko is seventeen years old and in her second year of high school. Her memory ends in her second year of high school. She knows nothing about what happened after that. She has no idea what kind of people she will meet in the future, what kind of stories will happen, why she will die, and she doesn't even know at what age she will die.

She vaguely understood the 'common sense' that emerged in her mind, looked at the bright blue arrow emerging from under her feet, then walked forward a few steps and stopped in front of the door of an apartment.

Suzuki Sonoko's daily 'resurrection' is fixed, but the refresh location of each 'resurrection' is not very certain. Most of the time it is near home. Sometimes you need to walk a few more steps to get home, and sometimes you will be at the door as soon as you open your eyes. Also, because the Suzuki Sonoko that is refreshed every day is from a different period, so in a few cases, such as when the kindergarten-age Suzuki Sonoko is refreshed, she may appear near the kindergarten.

However, no matter where she refreshes, there will be instructions to guide her in the right direction.

The guidance probably refers to those bright blue arrows on the ground that look like those that only appear in games.

Thinking of this, Suzuki Sonoko stood at the tip of the last arrow, looked up at the house number for a while, then looked down at the door handle.

There was a silver rabbit clip on the door handle. The rabbit's four paws were holding the door handle tightly, and its two long ears were hanging low on its back. A bunch of key chains were hung on its small ball tail, and a silver key was hanging below. It was obvious that this key was used to open the door.

Suzuki Sonoko held the rabbit trap in her hand and looked at it. Her brain worked for a while, trying to process and digest a large amount of complex information. She put aside the complex and terrifying information and focused on one point: "home"?
She looked up again, and re-examined the corridor and the apartment in front of her, somewhat surprised: Hey, for her, who didn't know how old she was when she died but was definitely over sixteen, this was actually her home?
it's wired.

Having barely digested the previous information, she took the key to open the door. Just as the key collided with the keyhole, new common sense emerged:
【Common sense 3, she has a boyfriend.】

【Common sense 4, her boyfriend loves her very much, and she loves her boyfriend too.】

【Common Sense 5, Her Boyfriend...】

and many more!

Boyfriend, boy boyfriend?!
Suzuki Sonoko's pupils dilated, and she subconsciously lowered her head to stop opening the door and calm down, but she heard a "click" and the door opened.

She stood there in a daze, replaying the scene in her mind again: boyfriend, boyfriend, boyfriend...

how come!
She won't find a boyfriend, okay?
Suzuki Sonoko was very sure about this, and the reason was very simple: she had someone she liked.

In fact, a more accurate description is that she has a secret crush on the other person, who is older than her. If she were asked to talk about the relationship between them unilaterally, she would hesitate and say that maybe it was a childhood sweetheart.

The reason why she used so many prefixes such as "unilateral", "hesitant" and "perhaps" is because she thought so, but she was not sure whether the other party would agree.

When they first met, she was only four years old. She had just started kindergarten and hadn't even settled the things in the kindergarten yet. She was very unhappy and angry when she came home from school. Then she met the 'bodyguard' hired by her father, a fourteen-year-old 'bodyguard'.

Would anyone hire a child as a bodyguard? Obviously, this identity is an unreal cover identity, but whether Suzuki Sonoko asked her father or her sister, she could only get the answer "really a bodyguard".

In fact, ignoring the age of this bodyguard, ignoring the distant and overly polite attitude of her family towards him, ignoring her father's vague and taboo words like "no way" and "cooperation" when talking to others, and ignoring her sister's hesitant reminder of "Does Sonoko like Mr. Future? However, you should not get too close to him... No, it's okay to get closer", this bodyguard is quite qualified. Suzuki Sonoko has never been injured since she was a child.

Even when she occasionally went out alone with friends and she shouldn't need a bodyguard, every time she encountered a murder, a few seconds after the scream, she would see the bodyguard in various corners who happened to be nearby and refreshed his appearance after hearing the scream.

In response, the bodyguard said, "Perhaps the murderer will be angry and attack other people present indiscriminately. Miss Suzuki, I think this is the moment when you need a bodyguard." He is called a bodyguard, but in addition to protecting Suzuki Sonoko and others, he also has another special identity: a teacher.

Unfortunately for Suzuki Sonoko's sister who once thought "it's better not to get too close", Suzuki Sonoko is a face control, and even more unfortunately, the bodyguard is quite handsome, the kind of handsome with bright eyes and a carefree and unrestrained look. Even if you don't look at his appearance, even if you take a glance at him from a distance, most people can be sure that he is absolutely handsome and unrestrained.

Having watched him since childhood, Suzuki Sonoko can easily outline his appearance with her eyes closed, as well as the pair of red eyes that would occasionally shrink into vertical pupils to scare people.

In her long childhood, she first realized that she was not just attracted to her friends but actually liked Mr. Bodyguard. It was not long ago when she stood with her hands on her hips and laughed wildly because she solved a murder case. She cheered for her greatness to her parents, sister, friends, etc. without any fatigue. She talked so much that even her mouth was tired and others' ears were tired.

When she was marveling at her extraordinary reasoning talent to the bodyguard for the fourth time, the bodyguard listened to her "Great! Great! Wow!!!" and suddenly asked, "Do you want to be a detective?"

"True detective."

As he said this, he was sitting on a tree to avoid Suzuki Sonoko's bombardment. Perhaps because he was looking down, he looked more dangerous than usual, as if he was unhappy.

Suzuki Sonoko sensed a clear sense of danger, and her heart beat faster than usual. She raised her head and said nothing, but the bodyguard continued, "Let me teach you."

"Miss detective, you've solved a case with great success on your first try," he said, more like talking about what would happen next than repeating the fact that Suzuki Sonoko solved the case successfully. "How is it?"

Seeing that Suzuki Sonoko still didn't answer, he changed her address to "Miss Queen of Reasoning?"

"I will teach you to be a detective. After you solve the case, come and announce the good news to me, okay? I promise I will love to hear it. Even if you say it a hundred times, I will listen carefully."

Suddenly, a light joy enveloped Suzuki Sonoko, making her dizzy and disoriented. She didn't even say, "I have solved cases and I am a detective. Although I don't remember the process of solving the cases... but everyone says I am great!" What she said was, "Really?"

After the bodyguard nodded and said he would really teach her to be a detective, she actually asked again, "Really? You won't get annoyed even if I tell you a hundred times?"

Even if it is something happy like "solving a case superbly", the listeners will only be happy the first time it is said. The second and third times, after a little happiness, the listeners will probably become a little impatient. The fourth and fifth times, the listeners will be very annoyed.

If Mr. Bodyguard doesn't get tired of talking about something a hundred times, how happy would that be? This means that he won't get tired of talking about other things, even if they are boring. After all, nothing is more disgusting than repeating one thing a hundred times.

Maybe the progression was very fast, but at the first moment, the joy of 'Mr. Mirai will definitely not hate me' made Suzuki Sonoko feel like a marshmallow. When she was about to fluff up with surprise and rub against Mr. Bodyguard, she realized something: it seemed that she was not just talk, even the excuse she made when they first met, 'I have a naturally fast heartbeat', could not convince herself. She really fell in love with Mirai, and her pounding heartbeat could testify to that.

If you don't like it, why would you be so happy about a sentence that is not even a guarantee and may just be a whim?
But when she realized that she had a crush on the bodyguard, she also realized something: Oh no, it seems that having a crush means losing love.

Mr. Bodyguard doesn't look like a man who would fall in love.

Suzuki Sonoko even secretly doubted his identity as a "human" and wondered if he was a vixen, otherwise why would a group of crow spirits who looked like they had been beaten into submission come over timidly and then quickly slip away from time to time?

There is a high probability that this secret love will end in vain.

So, when she learned that she actually had a boyfriend, Suzuki Sonoko was stunned. Besides disbelief, her first reaction was: How did this "boyfriend" do it?
There was no way he could be better than Mr. Bodyguard, but he became her boyfriend!

...Could it be the so-called 'second best' and 'make do' after the impossible that only adults understand?

She will break up! She really will!
When she pushed the door open, she didn't think, "Is it Mr. Future?", not even for a second, until she walked into the living room, passed the table and chairs, stood in front of the sofa, and saw a future with his eyes closed.

(End of this chapter)