[Conan/Through Her] Fairy's Indus

When Xiao Ai found me, I was in the skating pool, rolling around in a ball with two rookies, Xiao Lan Yuanzi, pecking at each other.

Ms. Takeuchi Ayame, who came with them, stopped next to us very calmly on her skates. She leaned down and looked at us worriedly: "Are you okay? Did you feel any pain from the fall?"

"Ah! It hurts so much!" Sonoko howled first, "Really! Ruri, you guy! If you want to throw me, don't drag me!"

"Sonoko, you're still talking about Ruri!" Xiaolan held her butt that fell and couldn't laugh or cry, "You pulled me when you were about to fall!"

Yuanzi retorted unconvinced: "I just subconsciously pulled him aside."

I spoke weakly: "I just subconsciously pulled to my side..."

"Hey! It's not Ruri, I'm talking about you!" Sonoko looked at me angrily again, "You fell the most today! Your sense of balance is really bad!"

As soon as I opened my mouth, Xiaolan had already spoken before me: "Sonoko, don't laugh at the fifty steps and the hundred steps. You haven't even learned how to skate yet, and you already know how to bully Ruri."

Sonoko turned around in shock: "Why are you like this? It was obviously Ruri who was trying to throw you, so I pulled you and threw you! Did I bully her when I just said a few words to her?"

I raised my hands helplessly and said, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. I'm sorry."

Miss Takeuchi was overjoyed.

In order to save our precarious plastic friendship and my really sore butt, I decided to quit.

Sonoko also tried to persuade me to stay: "Hey Ruri, you know I'm just joking, don't take it seriously..."

"I didn't take it seriously." I said sadly but firmly, "It's just that sometimes having the courage to give up is also part of courage."

When I was struggling towards the edge of the skating pool, I heard Yuanzi behind me saying to Xiaolan: "She is messing around with those middle school students who at first glance sound like they are very powerful. In fact, I think she is just tired." ”

Then Xiaolan responded to her: "It's not the first day you've known about Ruri's poor physical strength. Don't complain about her all the time. Save some face for our sisters."

I think Xiaolan is right.

In fact, it’s not just because I no longer want to splash around in the ice pool. The main reason is because I noticed Xiao Ai, who was watching me silently outside the skating pool. His eyes were complicated and he obviously wanted to talk to me. .

When I returned the rented skates, Xiao Ai had already come to my side, looking up at me silently with her cute little face.

"Let's go." I smiled at her, "I'll treat you to whatever you want to eat."

When we found a coffee shop with the heating on and each of us had a cup of hot coffee, Xiao Ai finally started chatting.

"You really taste like a child," she said.

"Well, I really don't like bitter black coffee." I took a sip of the sweet caramel macchiato and scattered the cute little snowman painted on the milk foam. "But actually, there is a saying that children Disliking pungent tastes such as spicy ones is an instinct engraved in human genes, because most plants with these tastes in nature are poisonous - so to me, those of you who like It’s strange for humans to drink bitter black coffee.”

She rubbed the side of the cup and said thoughtfully, "Is that so?"

I chuckled: "No, I'm just talking nonsense."

After being stunned for a moment, she relaxed her expression and slightly curved her mouth.

"That man yesterday," she said, "do you think he is really a credible and good person?"

"That person... I think he is quite nice, and his temperament is very gentle. He doesn't look like a bad person." I thought for a while, "Do you still think he is suspicious?"

"Because just being a policeman's brother doesn't necessarily prove that he is also a good person. In fact, there are no bad people that can make people think that he is not a good person at a glance. It is better to say that there are many serial killers. Before being exposed, he gave the impression to people around him that he was a trustworthy existence like a good gentleman." Xiao Ai's tone was cold, "Besides, even in the police force itself, there are still characters such as gangsters."

"Hey," I became a little more interested in this topic, "Do you think that in the organization you escaped from, would there be any unscrupulous police officers who had infiltrated the Metropolitan Police Department, or even the Police Department?"

The little girl's expression tightened again: "I don't know, but this possibility is very high... After all, according to the information I know, the organization is already infiltrating the top leaders of Japanese politics - so you absolutely, absolutely Don’t underestimate them.”

She looked into my eyes seriously and warned me, "As an ordinary person, you accidentally learned important confidential information that would endanger your own life. This is definitely not a good thing for you, Ruri, so you You must never let down your guard, those guys are really all-pervasive, and their hands and eyes are all over the place."

"Yeah, don't worry." I lowered my voice with the same serious expression, "You don't have to be so afraid, I will protect you."

She blinked and said "Yeah" lightly, her nonchalant and perfunctory tone more like reassuring me, "I know."

"Speaking of which," she brought up another topic, "do you know Miss Takeuchi who came with us this time?"

"Eh... As for Miss Takeuchi, I met her before with Xiaolan and the others. I only met her once and I'm not very familiar with her. I'm quite surprised that she will come with her this time." I finished truthfully, curious. He asked, "What's the matter? Is there anything you care about about that young lady?"

Xiao Ai thought for a moment, shook her head with a complicated expression, and said vaguely, "Bumi and the others all like her... Maybe I'm too worried."

I took another sip of the sweet drink that could no longer be classified as coffee. Xiao Ai seemed to remember something and looked up at me: "By the way, I heard Edogawa say that you are with your adoptive father?"

I nodded: "Yes."

"Is it okay?" She frowned, worry written in her eyes, "What kind of man is that?"

"Did you think of some bad uncle?" I laughed, "Actually, it's not accurate to say that he is my adoptive father. He was just a man who kindly took me in and raised me when I was young. He is not very old, he is only 29 years old this year. If you want to ask him what kind of person he is..."

I thought about it and said, "He is a person with a very sense of justice. Generally speaking, he is an overly serious guy in essence... However, he is also a very gentle person with high emotional intelligence and mature thinking. But I I’m too familiar with him and have too much favorable impression of him, so it would be unfair to evaluate him, so if I have the chance, I’d like you to get to know him too.”

I concluded by saying, "All in all, he's a very, very sweet guy."

"Men probably don't like to be described with words like 'cute'..." Xiao Ai supported her head with a helpless smile on her face, "You, it's like you were blinded by love. Girl."

I shook my head and admitted shamelessly, "I am just a girl blinded by love."

"Forget it," she sighed helplessly, "Although you look silly on the outside, you should still know how to deal with important matters. I won't worry about this for you."

"...No, wait a minute," my proud expression froze, "Do I look stupid on the surface?"

"Oh?" The little girl took a cool sip of black coffee and gave a fake smile, "You didn't even realize it?"

"...It's too much, Xiao Ai."

"Aha, thank you."

She seemed to have something to say.

I stirred the cold sweet coffee and stared at the goose feather snow outside the window in a daze, waiting for her to speak.

After about a while, she finally made up her mind, and her hesitant eyes turned determined: "Hey, Ruri."

I retracted my wandering thoughts and looked at her, "What?"

"There are too many coincidences that have happened to you, you know." She said expressionlessly, "You happened to know Kudo, and you happened to know me when I was young. It seems like As an outsider who has nothing to do with that world, you happened to appear at the place where we had our respective accidents, and met us when we were both young - but it just so happens that neither I nor Edogawa believe in coincidences."

"And in addition, you also have a subtle relationship with the FBI. Teacher Judy has also asked us about you several times, intentionally or unintentionally, and she is also digging for information about you. So we have reached a consensus on this point. That is, there are indeed many mysteries about you that we can’t see clearly yet, and they are probably related to that organization.”

"So when Edogawa and I reviewed what happened together to try to find clues and flaws in the organization, we doubted you countless times, and wanted to test you and use you countless times."

She lowered her gaze: "But your situation is unknown, and we are also worried that if we act rashly, it will break some dangerous balance and put you in some dangerous situation. We cannot ignore that possibility... because You are our friend."

"So, Edogawa chose to stand still. He gave up the option of actively testing and using you, and instead chose to secretly investigate the mystery behind you."

I lowered my voice: "What about... you?"

"I..." She laughed self-deprecatingly, "You don't know how I grew up, do you? I grew up in an organization. I have seen too much death and betrayal. Blind and wrong trust will It will lead to unbearable consequences, and it will even kill people - including my sister. In the final analysis, she died because she believed in the wrong promise that the bad guys in the organization could not fulfill... For a long time, I couldn't even trust this peaceful, just, legal system. society."

I stared at her silently and listened quietly.

She looked at me with scorching eyes, "But Ruri Amuro. You are my friend."

"I want to believe you - even if I have witnessed countless people killed by my own gullibility, even if the mystery in you is there, we can't ignore it and we can't see it clearly... But I still want to believe you. "?

"If my trust will kill me...then I admit it, then count me...I'm willing to admit defeat."

Her originally scorching gaze had become extremely soft at some point.

"You guy, what are you crying about...you big idiot."