Conan: The Mechanic

In the darkness of the night, in front of a dilapidated wooden building, Ai Haibara and Ayumi looked at the position of the hidden door from outside the house.

"That's weird," Haibara Ai pointed the flashlight at the lock on the door of the wooden house, and narrowed her eyes slightly. "When we looked here before, it should have been locked."

"Then let's go in and have a look?" Ayumi was about to go in, but was stopped by Haibara Ai.

"Wait a minute, this might be a trap." Haibara begged Ayumi not to act rashly. "Well, I'll go take a look first, and then you... go to the grass next to you to hide and wait for me."

Saying so, Haibara Ai walked to the door first.

"But in that case, if there's a trap in it, you..."

"Better than we all die inside," Haibara Ai turned to look at Ayumi with a sad smile. "After you hide in, start the countdown. If I don't come out after counting 300 numbers, run out quickly. As long as you encounter the lane, if you keep walking, you may be saved." , Haibara Ai's expression suddenly softened.

"Come on, I can only help you get here, the rest will depend on you to earn your own life." Without waiting for Ayumi's response, Haibara Ai walked into the building and closed the door.

【1, 2, 3, 4, 5...】

[By the way, how did things... become like this? 】

……

In the evening, in the main building in a sunny manor.

"Haven't you found that little friend yet?" The black-haired girl gently tapped her hand on her lips, showing a somewhat surprised expression. "If I remember correctly, it should be called... Conan?"

"Yes," Ayumi nodded. "He just disappeared suddenly!"

"Yeah," Haibara Ai also showed an uneasy expression. "He... um, it should be Conan."

Today, the five members of their teenage detective team went out to play under the leadership of Conan, but they encountered such a manor in the wild, so they visited here and stayed here for one night at the invitation of the hospitable host and hostess - this Miss Yingying is the hostess of the manor.

But just now, Conan suddenly disappeared.

"Hotfire, what's wrong?" At this moment, a white-haired young man came out of the aisle, and frowned after seeing the worried expression of Hotaru - this is Fujiwara, Hotaru's husband and the manor owner of .

"Do you remember the guy with glasses among them?" After seeing Fujiwara, Hotaru quickly walked to his side, showing a rather worried expression. "He seems to be missing."

"Is that the kid in blue with glasses? I think maybe he got lost in this big manor, so don't be too—" When he said this, Fujiwara realized something and looked at the two girls who were a little uneasy. "Ah, it's these two little girls who are worried about those two... that child, right?"

"They're still children!" Hotaru gently squeezed Fujiwara's arm, which she was holding in her hands, and made an angry expression. "Anyway, are you sure you don't need to help them find that child? If you run into the woods to the east..."

"In a few more hours, if he doesn't move, let's talk about it. No one will die from starvation in a few hours." Fujiwara shook his head disapprovingly. "In addition, the servants have already prepared the meal, let's go eat first."

……

while eating.

"Son, what's the matter with you?" Hotaru asked with concern when she saw Ayumi's expression a little uneasy.

"Conan hasn't appeared yet. Could it be that he sneaked out to play and got lost in the forest of the manor?" Ayumi said to Yingying worriedly while sitting on a chair. "It was already noon before we ate. He should be hungry now when he is outside?"

"No, ... Edogawa is very strong, so even if something happens, he will be able to return safely." Haibara Ai seemed to want to say something, but she was stopped by her own words. After a moment of hesitation, he said Conan's name. "Uh... Of course, I think we should go out and find him. Although it's not too dangerous, I don't want him to take unnecessary risks."

When they heard this, Hotaru and Fujiwara exchanged a slightly worried look, but didn't say anything.

……

About 20 minutes after the meal, in a clearing in the forest.

"Genta and Mitsuhiko got lost at some point, and now there are only the two of us left." Ayumi said nervously to Haibara Ai. "How to do?"

"Keep walking," Haibara Ai didn't seem to care very much. "If you and I are also separated, that's something to worry about - it's better to walk together than to walk alone."

"Right," Ayumi asked suddenly. "I have a question for you, about Conan."

"What's the problem?" Huiyuan raised an eyebrow. "Do you have to ask at this time?"

"Do you... do you like Conan?" After hesitating for a moment, Ayumi asked in a low voice.

"..." Facing this question, Haibara Ai fell silent~www.readwn.com~ You like Conan, don't you? "Ayumi repeated the question again.

"Maybe," Haibara Ai finally chose a rather ambiguous answer. "Like it, it was originally a matter of liking him from one aspect of him - from this point of view, at least I should still like a certain aspect of him. So I think... If it takes time, I should be able to I like him more."

Behind a bush not far away, the figure of a child was sitting there, and his hands on his knees were already clenched and trembling slightly.

"Yes, is that so..." Ayumi's expression was a little lost. "Then... how much do you like Conan?"

"Me?" Before Haibara Ai could finish speaking, she heard an exclamation from a certain direction that she couldn't tell who it belonged to, but it was certain that it belonged to a child.

"Is it them?" Ayumi responded quickly, and immediately locked the direction of the voice. "Let's go and see!"

Just as Ayumi and Ayumi walked in the direction of the source of the sound, Ai Haibara continued to speak. "My word, it's probably the kind of person who dreams about him in every dream, right? I have a lot of memories of this, dreaming that he and I both became medical intern, and then together with a shaggy old lunatic, we diagnosed patients' various diseases. A kind of intractable disease - although I was bullied by that old madman and was a little embarrassed, I was really happy to be with him, so even in those difficult days, it feels good and it is a very precious memory."

Saying so, they came to the place where the sound came from - it was a dilapidated wooden building.

And that's why Ayumi is now hiding in the grass.

【146, 147, 148, 149, 150...】

Ayumi's silent counting continues.