Conan: I won’t clean up my innocence after joining the organization

'This...'

Tanihara Ai's eyes gradually became dull.

How long did it take for the party to end?

She couldn't remember clearly.

All I know is that when I walked out, I was already numb.

What happened was so shocking.

So much so that when she gets home, Tanihara Ai habitually takes out her diary.

Then I looked at the diary in a daze.

[Host, phone number]

I don’t know how long it took before Tanihara Ai came back to her senses after being prompted by the system.

"Do you miss me? Xueshu~"

"No."

Tanihara Ai answered decisively.

"I brought you a gift~it's right at the door."

"Doorway?"

Tanihara Ai subconsciously walked towards the door. As soon as she opened the door, she was thrown to the ground by Apero in a bear hug.

He expected to be hurt by the fall, but Apello's hand consciously protected Tanihara Ai.

Although it didn't hurt, I was so hugged that I couldn't breathe.

"Snow tree~" Apello kept rubbing his face, as if he was being coquettish.

But Ai Tanihara, who was on the ground, grabbed her collar and threw her aside.

"Really, my hair is messed up." Ai Tanihara got up from the ground helplessly. As soon as she dusted herself off, she noticed the messy hair at the visible corner.

Who would have known that the most time I spend every day is on my hair.

In the past, she was not used to combing her hair, so she always wore it. After that, it became even more difficult to control her body to comb her hair, which was in a different state every morning.

She casually pulled at her twice with her hands to straighten it out, and saw Apello getting up from the ground again and hugging her.

"Snow tree~"

"What's wrong with you?"

Apello rubbed Tanihara Ai's face, "It seems that Yuki is not surprised that I arrived in Japan."

"Should I be surprised?"

Appello looked at Tanihara Ai whose expression remained unchanged and let go.

"Yes, Xueshu should have seen me already, how could he be surprised."

Ai Tanihara's eyes changed slightly, but she was not surprised that Apello noticed her.

At the party just now, Apello secretly glanced at her several times with his peripheral vision.

Watching Apello go to the wine cabinet, Tanihara Ai also sat on a chair and supported her head.

"Your wine isn't there, don't look for it."

Apello's gaze stopped at one place, and as she flipped her fingers, she took out a bottle of wine from the wine cabinet.

"Why is his here?" Apello's voice was a little cold, but Ai Tanihara couldn't judge her emotions from hearing.

Ai Tanihara glanced at the wine in Apero's hand.

"Gin?" Ai Tanihara thought about it for a moment, "Gin should have put it there himself. He would come here to drink every time he couldn't find a place to drink."

Ai Tanihara's mouth twitched when she thought of the person who talked to herself like a second uncle every time she came to her house.

"If you want to drink it, just pour it yourself. It's a waste to put so much anyway."

"Has he been here?" Apello smiled and took out bottles of wine from the wine cabinet.

Taking a closer look, it was all gin.

"Yes, I always like to come in late at night after finishing my tasks, and just sit and drink without doing anything."

Tanihara Ai thought for a while.

It’s not like I’m just doing nothing when I get up.

Not only does he come here to drink, but he also likes to make sarcastic remarks from time to time.

"Is it still late at night?"

Apello's smile grew even wider.

With her actions, all the gin in the wine cabinet was taken out and placed on the bar.

There are more than a dozen bottles.

Tanihara Ai took a look.

"Drink so much?"

Doesn't she want to stay drunk at my house?

"Yeah, do you need some atmosphere if you don't want to drink? I'm going to find some atmosphere." Apello looked around the living room.

"Xue Shu, lend me a box."

"Wait a minute." Ai Tanihara turned around and handed the box that previously contained the small water pump to Apero from the utility room, and saw Apero put all the wine in it.

Carrying the box, Apello smiled at Tanihara Ai again.

"I'm leaving first, Xueshu."

The door is closed.

Ai Tanihara looked at the wine cabinet that was almost half empty.

"Xiao Bai, do you think she came here just to order a drink from me?"

[Host, please correct me, she took more than a little]

He looked at the wine cabinet and then at his door.

"Just because I saw the dark history of their party?"

Thinking of this Tanihara Ai felt aggrieved.

She was obviously the one who wanted to go home the most when she saw the party.

……

Go into the bathroom.

She washed away her fatigue and looked up at the incandescent light.

Water ran down her body.

The narrow bathroom seemed to make her feel at home.

It's just that this light is too bright.

After washing, Ai Tanihara took out a towel and wiped her hair.

From that day on, she rarely used a hair dryer to dry her hair.

It is too difficult to control the direction of the wind.

After trying a few times to get her hair mixed in, she gave up.

Anyway, for her, wet or dry hair is not that important.

There are much more important things than this.

Her wet hair hung behind her back, soaking wet.

A strand of fallen hair was tucked behind her ear, and Ai Tanihara sat at the desk.

Pick up the pen.

—

(partly cloudy)

Humans are perhaps the animals that can best feel time.

Subtly, they changed too much.

But there is no way of knowing whether the change is good or bad.

—

Tanihara Ai lowered her eyes, holding a photo in her hand.

There used to be only pictures of that man in her pictures.

And now, in the photo, Chisuke Hagiwara's head is on her head, and she is also being hugged.

On the left and right are Kenji Hagiwara, who is smiling gently at the camera, and Jinpei Matsuda, who is looking away from the camera.

"Perhaps I am the one who has changed the most."

Ai Tanihara looked at the photo and smiled.

The spiritual sustenance that once appeared due to losing everything left her with only herself in the world except for that person.

And now, without realizing it, there are so many people around her.

Two black shadows flashed before her eyes, and Tanihara Ai lowered her eyes.

"I miss you..."

……

safe house.

The sound of sudden footsteps was particularly clear in the safe house late at night.

Gin frowned and looked over. His face, which was extremely cold due to overtime work, made Vodka, who was about to walk into the safe house, retract his feet.

"Apero?"

The Russian woman with blond hair in front of her eyes walked up to Gin step by step. She let go of her hand and slammed the box in her hand to the ground.