Conan: The Mechanic

"Have you been here before?" Yuma asked after calming down and the height of the water curtain jet slowly dropping. "You told me before that you never came here?"

"It was my idea," Fujiwara said lightly. "I've come here to play before."

"With your ex-girlfriend?" Ying said angrily with her hands on her hips. "I don't remember us coming here to play together."

"It's like you haven't been here with your ex-boyfriend," Fujiwara glanced at her. "I don't know who was so adept when shopping at that store just now."

"I really haven't been here before," Ying pouted. "It's true that I've been here before, but my boyfriend at the time only cared about taking me to play facilities, and he never came here to see this - by the way, how did you find out about this place?"

"Someone has performed," Fujiwara said. "It was supposed to be April and I saw high school kids - there was a boy who looked like he was supposed to be a high school kid trying this with his girlfriend and we were around so we learned - that day actually Something happened, it is said that there was a murder on the roller coaster later."

"A roller coaster?" Takeda thought for a moment and then reacted. "Is it the case that high school student detective Kudo Shinichi solved?"

Chiyu and Haibara Ai raised their eyebrows at the same time, showing some subtle expressions.

"What is that?" Yuma asked curiously. "I seem to have heard my classmates talk about it before, but I didn't ask what was going on.

"Uh," Takeda hesitated, because as far as he knew, the case was quite bloody. "this……"

"Someone was murdered on a roller coaster, that's all," said Fujiwara. "The only thing special about it is the murder on the roller coaster."

"A roller coaster..." Yuzhen thought for a moment. "I wanted to go there and play, but if this happens, it's better to play with another one."

"How about the aquarium?" Takeda suggested. "Or the Ferris wheel—forget it, maybe it's better to sit on it during the performance at night. It would be better to watch the performance from there."

"Then let's go to the aquarium," Yuzhen nodded. "Go over there and see if there are any good-looking fish."

……

"Hey? Can I feed it?" Yuzhen asked in surprise as she looked at the breeder who handed her a glove and a small pot of meat, and then glanced at the pool with an unknown number of dolphins in front of her.

"Of course," the breeder nodded with a smile. "As long as the meat we get from us can be fed to the dolphins, we have carefully planned the amount of meat we distribute to make sure they don't overeat!"

"Hmm," Yuzhen glanced at the meat bowl in her hand, and then glanced at Ying, Qianyu, and Haibara Ai beside her. "Are you coming first?"

"I don't need it." Qianyu shook her head.

"I'm not strong enough to throw it, and the gloves are too big for us." Ai Haibara also shook her head.

"I've played it before," Ying shook his head. "So, it's your turn~"

"Well," Yuma suddenly remembered something, and then looked at Takeda in the eyes of Hotaru and Fujiwara who "finally reacted". "Are we tossing half of it each?"

"Well, may I ask if there is—" Before Takeda finished asking, the breeder handed over another glove with a smile. "Here you are, we've prepared specifically for this situation."

After a while, Takeda and Yuma were already standing in the special feeding area in front of the pool. Takeda, who was standing on the left, held the meat bowl with his right hand, while both of them had gloves on their left hands.

"Hey!" With such a voice, Yuma threw a small piece of meat into the water—probably because she was a girl, her strength was not very strong.

A few seconds later, the figure of a dolphin appeared in everyone's field of vision - and several dolphins appeared in the field of vision of Takeda, Yuma, and the breeder near the edge of the pool.

"A lot of them!" Yuma was surprised to see the dolphins swimming in the water. "It seems that one piece is not enough!"

Saying so, she grabbed two more pieces of meat and threw them in.

"Hmm-" After aiming for a short distance, Takeda also threw a piece of meat-with the help of his basketball skills, he controlled the force and angle of the throw, so that the piece of meat he threw also just landed on the ground. Near the place where Yuma threw it.

Laughter and laughter echoed in the hearts of everyone present, rendering happy arcs on the corners of everyone's mouths.

"Hmm—" Hotaru made an inexplicable voice.

"What, itchy?" Fujiwara asked, looking away from Takeda's face.

"A little bit," Ying said noncommittally. "If you have time tomorrow, come with me?"

"No problem." Fujiwara nodded.

"Why didn't it grab it!" Seeing that a dolphin she had been following was unable to grab the meat, Yuzhen looked a little annoyed. "Come on, dolphin!"

"Are you talking about the one on the left?" Takeda asked, looking at one of the dolphins~www.readwn.com~. "That dolphin with a Band-Aid on its forehead?"

Among all the dolphins, this one is the most conspicuous, because only it has a red Band-Aid on its head.

"Yes!" Yuzhen nodded. "Every time the meat is not taken away by other dolphins, it can't eat it!"

"Well..." Takeda narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the dolphin. "I'll try..." Saying this, he gently tossed a piece of meat. After this piece of meat crossed an arc in the air, it landed on the far left of the entire group of dolphins.

Yuma watched the dolphin swallow the piece of meat in front of her with a happy expression on her face. "Eat, eat, eat!"

As a successful feeder, Takeda just stared blankly at Yujin's face, as if he was completely obsessed with it.

"Why is it a piece of meat?" Haibara Ai suddenly asked. "I thought dolphins would prefer to eat fish..."

"We will feed them sardines," the breeder next to him said with a smile. "But there are many requirements for feeding dolphins, so if it is a tourist, it is impossible to go into the water and can only be thrown on the shore. But if you throw fish, the dolphins may be stabbed when eating the fish, so I changed it to Small pieces of meat. And the small pieces of meat are thrown more often, so you can interact with the dolphins for a long time.”

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Dolphins are still relatively unsuitable for contact with inexperienced feeders, because humans have so many ways to hurt them. Flash photography, various chemicals such as insect repellent, perfume, and infectious diseases such as colds can harm their bodies, and even the slightest touch can make many dolphins uncomfortable.