Conan: Goodbye, Brewery, I'm running away

After a brief conversation, the two fell into silence again.

Akikawa Sarana now had only one thought in her mind, that is, what you fear will come true. She just refused to go upstairs with the little detective mainly to avoid running into Matsuda Jinpei again, but she never expected that she would run into him just when she turned around. She might as well have gone upstairs with him to see the excitement.

Of course, she also didn't think that Matsuda Jinpei was ambushing her here. Based on her understanding of Matsuda Makima and his location, she thought that Matsuda Makima must have accidentally seen her while working hard.

Just as she was complaining in her heart, Jinpei Matsuda handed his own cell phone to Akikawa Sarina. His meaning was very clear, and Akikawa Sarina couldn't play dumb.

Akikawa Sarina glanced at Koujunran, who was faintly emitting dark aura under the light in front of her, and obediently took his phone, entered her own phone number on it, and handed it back.

Seeing that she was still struggling, Jinpei Matsuda raised his eyebrows slightly, took the phone and pressed the dial button directly. After seeing Akikawa Sarina take out her phone from her handbag, he hung up the call.

"I have something else to do today, so I'll let you go for now."

Matsuda Jinpei tapped his fingers quickly on his phone screen and saved Akikawa Sarina's contact information. "You shouldn't work overtime during the weekend, right?"

Akikawa Sarina, knowing that she couldn't escape at all, continued to nod honestly, "No overtime."

He left such a long time in between just to make it so that even if he had to work overtime, it would not be as effective as before.

Matsuda Jinpei said he was quite satisfied with her attitude, and that she had passed today. "Very good, I think you should have figured out how to explain it to me and Hagi by then."

"Can you please not explain?"

Akikawa Sarana finally looked up and met Matsuda Jinpei's eyes, "Let the past be the past."

......Realizing the hidden meaning in her words, Jinpei Matsuda looked at Kotaniran in front of him in silence.

Has Sarina never smiled since he met her again?

No, not only did she not smile, it seemed that... her face had not shown any other big emotions except calmness. Even when she met him again, the surprise in her eyes when she looked at him just now was not obvious.

Jinpei Matsuda vaguely remembers that when Sarina was a child, although she didn't like to talk all day, her facial expressions were always very rich.

This also led to him and Hagi always being able to guess what bad idea she had in mind from her overly rich facial expressions.

Now that they were standing face to face, Sarina no longer avoided his gaze, which made Matsuda Jinpei unable to ignore her calm eyes...

"it is good."

Jinpei Matsuda finally spoke. He raised his hand and patted Yukunran on the head twice.

Just like when he was a child and was tricked by his childhood friends, he patted Sarina's head out of habit, "I'll let you off this time."

Akikawa Sarina looked at the softened eyes of Matsuda Jinpei in front of her, and she felt as if she had returned to her childhood.

The boy's face was not rebellious as when facing outsiders. When he looked at her and Hagi, his eyes were always soft. No matter how bad the two of them did, as long as they apologized to him, they would get a gentle pat and a word of forgiveness.

"I'll spare you two this time."

The deep voice of Jinpei Matsuda as an adult and the clear voice of his youth seemed to overlap across time and space, causing Akikawa Sarana to lose her defense for a moment.

She lowered her head in panic, "I knew you were the best, Matsuda Maki."

As soon as the words came out, Akikawa Sarana felt bad in her heart, and she still couldn't control her emotions.

However, she really couldn't deal with Jinpei Matsuda the same way she dealt with Rei Furuya. Lovers and family are different.

In front of her former lover, she can maintain all her reserve and pride, control her emotions and not let them leak out, and remind herself at all times not to show emotions in front of him. Even because most of Amuro Toru's external behaviors are different from those of her favorite Furutani Rei, she can rely on this to keep herself as calm as possible and show her best side in front of him.

But facing the childhood influence that was basically like a family, she couldn't even keep calm. She wanted to tell them what she had encountered and what kind of hell she had faced after leaving them, just like she did when she was a child.

She wanted to say that she missed them very much... When she was struggling on the brink of life and death, when she was facing the organization's rigorous training, when her inner justice clashed with the organization, when she was punished for deliberately failing to complete the organization's tasks, and when she had to break up with her lover, she would think of them, and their encouragement and companionship to her when she was young.

After she began to have a nominally "free" life, she did think about secretly going to see them, but she forced herself to hold back. Even when she was able to avoid all supervision later, she did not go to see them.

Because she knew that once it happened the first time, she would definitely not be able to resist doing it the second time, the third time... She couldn't gamble and couldn't afford to gamble.

She couldn't say any of these emotions, not even a single word. Even after meeting today, all she could think of was to use this kind of joking method to get by.

Akikawa Sarana shifted her eyes slightly, but actually...she still couldn't get away with it.

Although he had just deduced that Sarina must have had a hard time in recent years, it was really hard for Jinpei Matsuda to let her leave alone when he heard her voice that she was about to cry.

"Forget it, you'd better come upstairs with me. I'm really worried about leaving you alone like this." Unfortunately, Hagi was not here today, otherwise, with Hagi's ability, he would definitely be able to get Sarina to tell him about her experiences over the years.

Matsuda Jinpei's words directly interrupted all the sadness in Akikawa Sarina's heart, and she shuddered for a moment.

No, she couldn't follow Matsuda, especially today.

After meeting with Matsuda and Hagiwara, she could still think of some other excuse to deal with the organization, but not today.

I don't know if Matsuda heard the conversation between her and the young detective...

Forget it. With Matsuda's ability, he will sooner or later discover the relationship between her and Toru Amuro.

After figuring all this out, Akikawa Sarina raised her eyes and quickly glanced at Matsuda Jinpei, then quickly lowered her head, "There's someone upstairs that I don't want to see, so I won't go with you. I'll go back after the banquet hall is over."

After saying this, she added: "I should be relatively free recently. As for meeting you and Hagi later, it depends on your schedule."

Hearing the first half of what she said, Matsuda Jinpei's face suddenly became a little strange, combined with the conversation between Sarina and Conan that he just accidentally overheard, the Amuro they mentioned... and what he said after he fought with the blond bastard on the rooftop when he was in the police academy...

Matsuda Jinpei originally wanted to ask Sarina about the relationship between her and Amuro Toru... but then he thought of the blond bastard's special status and couldn't expose it. He could only suppress his doubts and planned to ask the blond bastard first before continuing to communicate with Sarina.

"Okay, since there are people you don't want to see, I won't force you."

Matsuda Jinpei looked at Sarina who had adjusted her emotions in front of him, "Hagi and I are back, and we won't let anyone take you away again."

Hearing his words, Akikawa Sarina bit her cheek and held back the tears that were about to burst out again.

She punched Matsuda Jinpei in the chest, and her eyes, which had been calm at first, finally showed the joy of meeting Matsuda Jinpei after a long separation. "Matsuda Juanjuan, I don't want my makeup to be ruined, so don't make me cry!"

It was obviously her who left, she was the one who left them, but he said that he and Hagi came back.

Jinpei Matsuda did not dodge Sarina's harmless punch. There was a gentle smile on his face. No matter why Sarina didn't want to say it, they had seen it after all. He and Hagi would always have the opportunity to investigate the things she didn't want to say.

For example, let's start with the blond bastard upstairs...