I'm on the scramble

If Conan's struggle to survive is released to others, they may think that their armed detective agency is going to perform a show of eating children.

Ah Li grabbed him from behind, feeling like he had caught a goldfish out of a fish tank, jumping so alive in the air that he almost lost his hand.In desperation, she had no choice but to tell the truth.

"Okay, okay, I'm just scaring you, I won't chop you up with a hatchet."

Although the members of their armed detective agency don't look like good people, they still won't abuse ordinary people by lynching... should they?Seeing that Xie Ye had no chance to express himself, he immediately got bored and went back to his infirmary.

However, Ah Li still decided to adopt a more gentle way of dealing with it as he had originally thought—that is, to call Yezi to come over.

Of course, this time she must be let through the front door.

Luanbu did not express any dissatisfaction during the period, as if he had expected this to happen.He turned his head while eating potato chips, and told the part of the truth that Conan had concealed.

"You said that you broke through the trading site of the dark organization, so you were poured the latest poison developed by their organization, and turned into the child you are now, right? Then before that, I think your identity should be that 'Missing High School Student Detective' Kudo Shinichi."

Looking at the famous detective who also looked like a child, Conan was still awed by his sharp deduction, and he said, "Why, Mr. Ranpo will know..."

"Because I paid attention to you after seeing you for the first time, don't think I can hide from the eyes of the world's No.1 detective."

Luanbu put down the bag of potato chips in his hand, casually took out a roll of old newspapers from the cardboard box under the table, and waved it triumphantly in front of everyone.

Ah Li went to take the old newspaper in his hand, and the front page on it was the "well-known high school student detective" Kudo Shinichi, with a picture of him posing in a handsome pose.

"I have a little impression of this person... Do you remember that Xiaolan was a bamboo horse who grew up together?"

Could it be that Luanbu guessed right through following the clues?

Ah Li rubbed his chin and tilted his head, the hair held down by the cat ear headband hung down into a smooth arc around his shoulders.

"Well, if we increase his age by another ten years, it's not difficult to find that his appearance is exactly the same as the person above." Speaking of this, Ranbu lightly mentioned a digression: "By the way, when Da Cang comes over let By the way, she will restore you to your original body."

Ah Li blinked and said 'oh'.After so many days of wandering, I still have to return to reality.

She doesn't have any objections, but she feels a little strange that Ranpo specifically mentions this, and it's okay to call Dazai to solve it...

Ah Li, who just thought of this, missed a certain detail for a while. There is an essential difference between "from big to small" and "from small to big"—that is, clothes will not be able to cover the body when getting bigger.

How could the jealous Ranpo kid let her body be seen by other men!

After suppressing Conan and waiting for about an hour, Yezi arrived as scheduled and kicked open the gate of the Armed Detective Agency, cursing and helping Ari to turn back into a beautiful girl. At her request, he had to give another child a bigger package as a gift .

"What are you? When the great Lord Yezi is a tool man on call? What's going on with this brat?"

"Don't complain, I'll explain it to you later."

Ah Li slapped the girl next door with a single ponytail to shut her mouth, causing even more sparks of anger to erupt from her eyes protruding from her palm.

However, Ah Li, who has been transformed into a beautiful girl, has been with her for so many years, and there are some ways to restrain her.Under the influence of Yezi's ability, Conan also turned back to the best youthful age of 17 years old.

He took off his rustic glasses, put on the uniform that the detective agency clerk prepared to wear in the workshop, and was staring down at his palm in a daze.The shirt was not fully buttoned, but part of the front was loosely opened, giving the young man a dashing and unrestrained temperament for no apparent reason.

Kudo Shinichi is 174cm tall, and only 168cm tall, walking in front of him with random steps, his face was slightly unhappy.

Ranbu narrowed his long and narrow red phoenix eyes and asked him: "'The savior of the Japanese police', the protruding 'hair' on the back of your head should not be counted in your height, right?"

"The savior of the Japanese police" is precisely because Kudo Shinichi helped the police solve too many difficult cases, and public opinion gave him a praiseworthy title.

The young man who regained his original body suddenly heard his idol pointing out this matter, and his exceptionally young face suddenly showed a slightly embarrassed but uncontrollable flamboyant expression.

"Oh, this, no..."

I guess this is the real him, and he can't learn how to hide his edge.

He is a 17-year-old boy who is unexpectedly impulsive, full of vigor, courageous and passionate about reasoning.

But... the protruding 'hair' on the back of his head is referring to his hairstyle?

Xin subconsciously touched the back of his head to confirm.

Taking advantage of the spare time in the conversation, other members of the detective agency could not help but surround him in amazement.

"So this is what Conan looks like when he 'grows up'? I didn't expect him to be so handsome—"

It was Ah Li who came out to correct this.

"No, it should be said that this is his original age."

She took the newspaper and compared it with the face of the current Shinichi, and found that it was exactly the same.It seems that what he said in the zoo earlier is true.

"Ke... No, I should call you 'Xinyi', right?" A Li threw away the old newspapers that had lost their value, and dropped them into an open cardboard box on the ground, and then came to the boy , looking up at him.

"Now you should understand what I and Ranpo said that you can solve this 'trouble' at any time, right? I remember you said earlier that in order to change back to the original body, I tried many methods, and several of them were able to temporarily back to—"

"The same is true for Yezi's abilities. The end result is to keep your body in this state. If you want to recover completely, you must find a real antidote."

This is actually a state between stable and unstable. Without an antidote, he will never be able to grow up.The body maintained by the ability is also easily dispelled by unknown accidents, causing him to return to his original appearance as a child.

"So you want to entrust us with our armed detective agency?"

Ah Li tilted his head, and there was a smile on his lips.

"Since you are willing to entrust us with your trust for the safety of me and Ranpo, then we will never betray your trust."

Rationally speaking, it is impossible for one person to destroy such a huge transnational criminal organization. Now that he has returned to his original appearance, it is the best way to return to his peaceful life in the past.

Moreover, there is one thing in the world that is worthy of rejoicing that no matter where you go, there are people silently waiting for you when you turn back.

He has such a special existence.

Kudo Shin must be staring at the girl with cat ears and bells who brought him back to the detective agency, his eyes were focused and calm, and he never wavered for a moment.The surrounding seemed to be waiting for his answer, so quiet that even the fall of every broken branch outside the window could be heard.

Finally, there was a slight movement of a branch cracking a gap somewhere, and he opened his mouth to say a word.

……

Too many things happened on this day, visiting the zoo, subduing the prisoner, Conan blew himself up, took him back to the detective agency and asked Yezi to come over and transform... By the time I bid farewell to all my colleagues and left the detective agency, it was already The evening sun is approaching.

The president needs to deal with the affairs of the zoo and the police first, as well as some heavy work, and said that he will go back later.

So Ah Li had no choice but to go home first with Luanbu.

As soon as he returned to the warm environment surrounded by familiarity, Luanbu immediately walked to the edge of the courtyard to spread out a piece of cat cake like a cat crawling back to his nest.

I'm so tired, Mr. Ranpo's soft cat mat is almost blistered!

While the life of the detective was unrequited, Ah Li went back to his room and changed into some dry clothes, then walked out to the kitchen, poured two glasses of ice-cold fruit juice, and took out a popsicle from the refrigerator , served on a tray and brought to the garden.

Looking out through the half-opened shoji door, the black-haired young man was lying on his side on the wooden floor of the porch.The gathered stray cats kept climbing on him, and he tapped the heads of those cats with his fingertips one by one, poking them down when they were about to climb to the top.

"Hmph~ Not everyone can climb the 'World's No. [-] Peak', my real name detective." The big devil who created difficulties for the cats smiled innocently.

He even cares about cats, children are so naughty like him.

Ah Li put the tray within reach behind him, came to him and sat down, opened the plastic bag of the popsicles, divided the double row of popsicles into two, handed half to Luanbu, and put the other half into the bag. into his own mouth.

"I didn't expect Conan... Ah, that Shinichi would refuse in the end. Obviously, the black organization he said is so dangerous. Wouldn't it be more efficient to entrust our detective agency to help?"

What she said was exactly the answer Kudo Shinichi gave her when he was in the detective agency.

"Well... a person with a character like him must have his own persistence. He will feel that the protagonist in that story is himself, and he must solve it by himself."

Ranbu, who was also biting a popsicle, spoke similarly to her, slurring his words because of the foreign object in his mouth.As he spoke, he took a mouthful of the melted ice water, took out the popsicle and shook it in the air, and concluded with a drawn out tone: "After all, I'm still a child—"

The adults are all like him, Mr. Ranpo. No matter what difficult and miscellaneous cases, it is the wisest decision to entrust him, the No.1 detective in the world, because he will solve them all easily.

"But letting him solve it by himself is always a little worrying."

Also, is it really right to help him change back to his original form?

Ah Li let go of his state to think.

In her heart, Conan is probably still the child who needs to be watched.Even though she turned back into a teenager, that impression still lingers in her.

Ranbu didn't take it seriously: "You're not her mother, so don't worry about it. There are so many cases that happen every day in this world, it's impossible for our armed detective agency to solve every one of them."

"Also, you should have more confidence in his strength."

Hearing the words that Ranbu casually said, Ah Li looked sideways slightly.

His side face was still calm, as if what he said was just an insignificant sentence.

After a while, Ah Li's mood returned to calm, and his brows and eyes softened.

"That's true." She smiled and bit the popsicle that was about to drop, as if the shadows in her heart were dispelled with the coldness in her mouth.

"Compared to this, play with me!"

Luanbu bit off the last half of the popsicle in one bite, and threw the stick aside.He picked up the Meow Little Rock that was holding on to the wooden board under the corridor, curiously smelling the sweetness left on the wooden stick, and put it on Ah Li's head.

The little tabby cat almost slipped off its head because it couldn't maintain its balance. Ah Li quickly ate the remaining popsicles and used his free hands to stabilize it.

"Wait, it's dangerous!"

But Luanbu was so playful, and even one was not enough, he picked up the cats one after another and played Jenga on Ah Li's head, as if he wanted to see how many cats she could withstand.

"One, two, three...five!"

In the end, he even added himself to it, and embraced Ah Li's head with his arms wide open.

The cat rushed away immediately, leaving only the last one who still hugged him tightly.The black hair hanging on the side of the face is as soft as a cat, and it is very similar to his own voice. It gently brushes against Ah Li's ears, making it impossible to tell whether it is the slightly curled hair tip, or the The soft and slow ending made my heart itch.

"...You are not allowed to mention other men in front of your real detective."

Being embraced in his arms, Ah Li subconsciously opened and closed his lips, feeling that his whole body was soaked in the aura that belonged to him.

Because of the previous thumping action, the juice in the cups on the tray beside the two of them vibrated slightly, shaking away thin ripples.The surface of the lake in her heart seemed to follow that scene, with ripples rippling round after round.

"With you by my side, how could I still think about others..." Ah Li whispered as if he wanted to bury his little head in his neck, "You know, the thing I can't do the most, It’s just that I can’t turn a blind eye to the feeling of liking you.”

These words seemed to make the detective laugh, and his contented and natural chuckle seemed to light up the world like the star dust falling on his shoulders, "Hmph, I knew——"

In this atmosphere surrounded by the bright and sweet sunset, Ah Li was also drawn to smile.She raised her head and cupped the cheeks of the lovers who were expressing their hearts with her hands.

"Random steps..."

Ah Li tried to call his name, and it felt a little sweeter than every time he called it before.The eyes of the dark-haired young man were completely reflected, shining, and only when all the candies were crushed could they reflect such a sweet brightness.

The distance between the two of them was very close, so close that the tips of their noses touched each other.

Ranbu seemed to have a feeling, anticipating what was about to happen next, and fixed his upper body in place.

With his acquiescence and pampering, the girlish fragrance greeted her gently.The moment they touched each other's lips, it seemed that the surrounding air was trembling.

This tense kiss seemed very young, but it was also because of this that the two were able to devote themselves to it.It's like tasting a bottle of green plum wine. The greenness and sweetness of the brewing are entwined between the lips and tongue, and every unskilled twist makes people feel drunk.

Especially when they realize what they are doing with each other, the factor of shy transformation makes the sentiment in the air more intense.

It felt as if they had spent an entire century together before they slowly left each other's lips, their cheeks flushed due to lack of oxygen and other reasons.The eyes of the two flickered, and there was a subtle shame of 'afterthought' here, and they looked away from each other.

But after a while, Ah Li, who was holding his face, came back to meet his gaze. Because of the previous kiss, his eyes were covered with a layer of physiological moisture, and reflected beautifully and brightly by the light.

"...Ranbu, do you hate this?"

She was referring to the thing about two people kissing.

The black-haired young man muttered in front of her: "How could you hate me?"

"As long as it is you, everything in this world will become better because of you. You are such an existence to me."

He raised his hand to caress the side of Ah Li's face, and without waiting for her consent, he leaned in and kissed again, feeling as if he had been touched by cotton candy.

"Sure enough, it's better to change back to the original form to attack you."

"...Did you originally say that you want to switch back and fight like this!"

Unexpectedly, Luanbu would play such a trick in advance, Ah Li couldn't help but raise the back of his hand to cover half of his face that was about to be familiar.

But then he was grabbed by the wrist by Ranbu and moved away.

"I haven't kissed enough yet!" he yelled, "A detective has no weaknesses! If you let Master Ranpo practice a few more times, your kissing skills will definitely be a hundred times better than now—"

"Wait a minute, Dad will be back almost at this time... um..."

In fact, Ah Li doesn't mind whether his skills are good or not, but the detective's subtle self-esteem doesn't seem to allow such a thing to happen.

The face was gently held up with a very precious strength, and the black-haired young man's hand rested next to her ear, every inch that the fingertips passed was as gentle as the cherry blossoms falling in the garden.

Can't refuse.

Along with the pressure felt by the lips, the whole body lost control and became light and soft like flower petals, floating in mid-air lightly.In the end, she let her emotions flow freely and immersed herself in this sweet brew that would make her drunk.

I like you, I like you the most.

Language is something created for people to understand each other, but for them, there is already a way to convey this emotion better than language.

It would be nice if time could stay in this moment forever without being disturbed.

Suddenly, the sound of opening and closing the door came from the entrance.A burst of steady footsteps brought the man's words to the living room connected to the courtyard.

"Li, I need to talk to you about something..."

bang——

Something heavy hit the floor.