[Conan/Through Her] Fairy's Indus

Before we parted, Matsuda, who always liked to be straightforward, rarely spoke for a long time. I was a little nervous for no reason. Toru Amuro, who was standing next to me, seemed to be aware of it and raised his hand to rub my hair.

Matsuda took a deep breath, took off his sunglasses, and stared straight at Toru Amuro with his sharp eyes. He said angrily: "If you dare to make this child sad one day, I will Beat you up."

I was touched by their friendship.

I sniffed my clogged nose top-heavy and answered loudly with a thick nasal voice: "Don't worry, Brother Jinpei! I will absolutely never make Zero sad! So please feel free to leave him to me!"

After saying that, I decided to make a deep bow that could express my determination and sincerity, but I almost fell into the snow.

Toru Amuro quickly caught me as I was spinning around. Matsuda glanced at me sadly: "Isn't she burned out?"

Toru Amuro took my shoulder and touched my forehead worriedly.

I felt that the cold wind had physically lowered my body temperature a lot. Although my mind seemed a little unclear and my vision was a little out of focus, I still gave a thumbs up very confidently: "I'm fine!"

"Whether you have a problem or not is up to you." Toru Amuro frowned, still pressing his cool hand on my forehead, and spoke to me in an unusually harsh tone.

I was stunned, my chaotic brain failed to realize what he was suddenly angry about, and I blinked blankly.

Matsuda waved his hands with an expression on his face like he was chasing flies away: "Okay, okay, take this child to the car quickly, don't let her be exposed to the cold wind here."?

When I came back to my senses, I had been stuffed into the back seat of the familiar Mazda. Toru Amuro helped me adjust to a comfortable lying position, pinched my face gently, and bought it from the drugstore. Something was taken out of the packaging bag, "Good boy, just take a nap and we'll be home."

"Hey -" I struggled to get up, "I don't want to sleep, I'm not sleepy..."

Toru Amuro pressed me back mercilessly, "No. If you have a fever, you should take a good rest. The antipyretic medicine you just took contains sleeping ingredients. It should take effect after a while."

I looked at him dissatisfied, but couldn't help but yawn. It seemed that the medicine was really taking effect, and my eyelids were indeed a little heavy.

My vision was getting blurry, but I couldn't sleep yet. I tried to open my eyes wide and try to see his face clearly, "Zero...are you angry?"

He tore open the packaging bag of the fever-reducing patch and paused, "Huh? Why do you ask?"

"Zero was mean to me just now." I started to feel aggrieved after realizing it, "Zero is angry with me..."

"I'm not angry with Ruri." He sighed, and his voice became softer. "I'm just angry with myself...I'm angry with myself for not taking good care of you, and not even noticing that you had a fever in the first place."

"What? But, but it's not Zero's fault." I became anxious, but I couldn't find the words in my mushy brain. After thinking for a long time, I had to emphasize my central idea again, "Zero can't give birth to himself. gas."

He was careful not to let the fever-reducing patch stick to my bangs on my forehead, and said with a faint smile, "Why not?"

My brain is stuck again.

I thought hard and confused for a long time, and finally an idea flashed through my chaotic thoughts, and I figured out a piece of logic that I thought could be explained: "If I say no, it means no, and you can't ask why, because there is no reason. Because I am the domineering president and Zero wants to listen to me.”

I immediately felt good about myself and thought, As expected of me, I am so awesome.

Toru Amuro seemed to be laughing uncontrollably.

"Okay, I understand, your habit of talking nonsense when you have a fever hasn't changed after all these years..." He said in a low voice, and then coaxed me with a smile, "I'm not angry with anyone. La, go to sleep, my President."

Toru Amuro closed the back seat door and seemed to say something briefly to Matsuda outside the car. Matsuda raised his chin and nodded reservedly, and Toru Amuro opened the driver's door and got in.

I couldn't see him from the angle I was lying on, and I wanted to get up again. He turned his head to look at me, stretched out his long arm and patted me gently, "I'm here, go to sleep."

No matter how superb and smooth Amuro Toru's driving skills are, and no matter how comfortable and pleasant the temperature inside the car is, sleeping in the car is not as secure as sleeping in the bed.

When I opened my eyes in confusion, the Mazda was still driving. I sat up and looked at Toru Amuro, who was driving in the front seat, and then out the window.Under the clear blue sky are large areas of farmland, and further away are vast forests. We are obviously still some distance away from the city.

I stared at the scenery outside the window and let my mind wander for a while. It wasn't until the memory of the dream flowed away like an ebbing tide that I retracted my distracted gaze, took out the electronic thermometer from the storage bag behind the car seat, and tried it. own body temperature.

Amuro Toru asked me with concern: "Are you still burning?"

I said "Yeah" and said with a nasal voice, "But it's much better." While slowly moving to an angle where I could see him, I moved forward and reached the hem of his sweater to hold it tightly. Then I stared at the soft woolen cloth in my hand and started to be in a daze again.

Toru Amuro slowed down his voice, "What's wrong, are you having a nightmare?"

I sucked in my clogged nose and was stunned for a moment before I muttered a vague "hmm" again.

"What did you dream about?"

I whispered, "I don't remember."

Maybe it’s because fever makes people fragile. Even though I have forgotten the specific plot, the fear brought by the bad dream still weighs heavily on my heart and lingers.

"Can you bear with it a little longer? In about an hour and a half's drive, we'll be home." Amuro comforted her voice, "How about I cook your favorite bonito porridge for you when we get home?"

I curled my lips, not satisfied with this proposal, "No porridge... I don't want to eat it."

"Okay, so what do you want to eat?"

"I don't want to eat anything..." I whispered, "I just want...you to stay with me and not go anywhere..."

Toru Amuro smiled softly and responded to me indulgently: "Okay."

I still held on to the hem of his clothes and stared at his overly handsome side face for a while, before speaking in a low voice: "Yesterday, I had a chat with Xiao Ai."

Amuro Toru said "Hmm", "What did you talk about?"

"She said...she believed in me." I said without any clue.

Fortunately, Toru Amuro has always had the skill to automatically help me complete my unfinished words, "So you were so moved that you cried because of it, and you also caught a cold because of it, causing you to have a fever today?"

I was stunned: "Ah, it may be because of this reason..." I decided to change the subject with a guilty conscience, "Ah, by the way, have the bombs in the town been resolved?"

"As for that, we have already dealt with it." Toru Amuro smiled, "Don't worry, all the bombs have been recovered and the prisoners have been arrested. The town and the reservoir are intact."

I was a little surprised: "Eh? When did this happen?"

"Probably when you bruised your knee again while clumsy in the skating pool, so you decided to follow the Miyano family's youngest daughter for a drink."

"..." Tasting the resentment that came from nowhere in his words, I decided to change the focus this time, "Speaking of which... I've almost learned how to skate this time!"

He took my words calmly, "Oh? To what extent does 'almost' mean?"

"Well...if no one pushed me, there's more than half a chance that I wouldn't have fallen...!" I tightened my hand on his clothes. If it weren't for the restrictions of the venue, I would have kicked him. "Hey, this is so funny!"

After he finally stopped his unbridled laughter, he suddenly changed his demeanor and lowered his voice, "...I should have been with you."

Fortunately, this time my IQ was finally on the line, and I put on a 'don't be unreasonable' expression, "If you had stayed with me all this time, the town or the reservoir might have been blown up by now."

He laughed, "But I didn't get to see you grow up from not knowing how to skate at all to... barely being able to stand on the ice? I always feel a bit regretful when I think about it."

"...No, you misunderstood. I'm not just barely able to stand firm on the ice," I corrected him seriously, "I can already skate without falling!...If I'm lucky."

He laughed again.

I like the way he smiles, his beautiful droopy eyes are slightly narrowed, and the carefree and warm purple-gray color flows between his long eyelashes.

I was lost in thought for a while.

"But..." I said suddenly, "A child with a swimming ring on his body will never learn to swim."

"Huh?" Toru Amuro glanced at me in the rearview mirror, "Is it a famous quote from Ruri?"

I ignored his teasing and continued hesitantly, "I have always been wearing the swimming ring you gave me. So I am not afraid of the sea. I have never experienced the fear of drowning, so I can't imagine the environment they are in. I can't imagine the darkness that drowned them... Although Brother Jing, Sister Mingmei, and Xiao Ai sank before, at least they have been fished out of the sea by you now. But there may be more people that we don't know about. Either I am forced to become a part of the sea that drowns others, or I am drowned in the sea... But I am just floating around, unable to do anything, standing and talking without pain in my back..."

Amuro Toru sighed, "Are you feeling guilty about this?"

I looked at him blankly, and he continued, "Pick more people out of the sea, or put swimming rings on them, until we completely eliminate this sea, this is the meaning of my existence - you don't have to learn to Swimming in the sea, you have never experienced the fear of drowning. You can live a life like an ordinary little girl, which is the meaning of my existence. Do you understand? The suffering of others is not something you need to feel guilty about. "

I was stunned for a while, "But...but I also want to do something for them."

"I know you have a group of great friends, you care about them, and they trust you." Toru Amuro smiled and looked at me deeply in the rearview mirror, "Don't worry, I won't let them down. This trust in you."