age is not a problem

Italy--

On the country road, a convertible off-road vehicle was speeding.

Wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, Qingmei was sitting in the passenger seat, with her elbows resting on the car door, and Bai Lai looked at the scenery along the road outside the car boredly.

"What are you thinking?" Nicole in the driver's seat asked with one hand on the car door and the other hand controlling the steering wheel.

Qingmei's tone was very flat, "Italy's summer is really annoying...it's hot and dry."

"As far as I know, the temperature in Japan is not low in summer." While speaking, Nicole took out a bottle of mineral water from the car with his free hand and threw it to Kiyomi next to him, "You Do you hate going back to Italy so much, or...the life in Japan as a junior high school student really makes you miss it so much?"

Qingmei didn't answer directly, but instead asked, "Where are we going now?"

When she got off the plane in Rome, Nicole was already waiting to pick her up at the airport.After confirming that Nicole had indeed come alone and that no one else from the Italian Military Security Intelligence Service was involved, she followed him.

After all, now, as long as there are factors of mutual benefit, she and he are in a cooperative relationship.

"We are going to Naples now, and then take a boat from the port of Naples to the Lipari Islands." Nicole replied.

Qingmei frowned, "Lipari Islands? What are you doing there?"

The Lipari Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea that belongs to Italy.Consisting of seven large islands and several small islands, the resident population is only [-] to [-].

"The photo I sent you, I looked it up, and the church in the background is on an island in the Lipari archipelago. If you want to find out what's going on, you have to go to Look for clues there. If you don’t find out who the person in the photo is, you won’t feel at ease anyway.”

After listening to Nicole's explanation, Qingmei did not continue to discuss this matter with him, but instead asked: "How did you find out that my body has become smaller?"

"Last time at the hotel, the woman involved in the case said that she had met a mixed-race woman when she made an alibi for herself. According to her description, I thought of you at first, but she said ...Looking like a middle school student? No matter how you dress yourself up, you can't pretend to be a young girl who is underage, you are obviously in the third year..."

Before he finished speaking... he felt that his temple was being pressed against the muzzle of a pistol.

"...No, even Ben San is still as beautiful as a flower." In order not to explode his head in the next second, Nicole felt that sometimes it was necessary to say something against his will.

"Continue to talk... You shouldn't have thought of these things just based on the few words of that woman. Otherwise, I really admire your brain. You might as well change careers and become a screenwriter." talking.

"Of course it won't be so direct... At that time, I was just a little confused. But later, when the hotel exploded, I saw a brown-haired boy running out with you on his back, and saw the little girl's appearance. you……"

"Wait! Did you recognize me at that time?!" Qingmei interrupted the other party's words in surprise, and asked: "At that time, I obviously..."

"Indeed, you lay on that boy's back and buried your face. I didn't pay much attention at first, after all, the situation was so chaotic and there were so many people... But the moment I passed by, I Saw that shallow scar on the back of your right hand just below the little finger...do you think I'll forget that scar?"

Qingmei didn't answer, but just signaled the other party to continue talking with silence.

"Although it feels incredible, I did have such a bold hypothesis. After you told me that your current name is 'Asakawa Kiyomi', I originally planned to investigate...but the name 'Qimei' is popular among Japanese women. The usage rate is too high. "Asakawa" is also a common surname, and it is too much work to check. But after that day, in order to verify this conjecture in my mind, I narrowed down the scope and searched hundreds of middle schools in Tokyo. All the girls named 'Asakawa Kiyomi'... Finally, I found a girl named 'Asakawa Kiyomi' who looks so similar to you at Teiko Middle School. It's really a gift from that day, otherwise I would fall into a misunderstanding I'm afraid I would never think of investigating junior high school students."

"So that's it... Then, why didn't you report this matter to the Italian Military Security Intelligence Agency? As the director, you are the one who can do it."

"Of course I have my plan... However, if you are troubled by physical problems and don't want to come back, you can ask the relevant scientific research institutions for help through the bureau. The director appreciates you so much. When I heard that you were arrested After subin was fired, I couldn't wait to recruit you..."

"Forget it, I think this is fine now... Nicole, if you sincerely want to cooperate with me, then please continue to keep this secret for me." Qingmei directly rejected the other party's proposal.

On the one hand, it is because she still believes in the technology of the drug developer, Huiyuan, more than various scientific research institutions. She believes that Huiyuan will be able to fully grasp the secret of this mysterious drug one day.Moreover, once some scientific research institutes find out about this situation, they might arrest her and treat her as a guinea pig for human experiments. Then blood will be drawn, sliced ​​and dissected...

On the other hand, successfully developing a full version of Drug A seems to be one of the ultimate goals of the distillery, and it seems that even the high-level executives like Gin still don't know the true function of Drug A.Once the secret that this drug has the potential to shrink a person's body is exposed, the entire winery may cause a big turmoil, and the situation of Conan and Haibara will become very dangerous.

What to do, she had a mind to weigh.

"Okay, after such a long journey, let's have some food and rest. By the way, I also have some very important information to tell you."

When passing a small town, Nicole stopped the car.

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"Hamburger?"

Sitting in the car waiting for Nicole to buy food, Qingmei finally received the two hamburgers thrown over by the other party after a while.

Seeing Kiyomi's frown, Nicole, who was also chewing on a hamburger, said before being questioned:

"There's no pasta for sale...you just make do with it."

"Huh? How dare you open a restaurant in Italy without selling pasta?" Qingmei chewed the burger in her hand with a dissatisfied expression.

Nicole: "...", the restaurant owner will cry, hello.

Kiyomi: "So, what is the important information you want to tell me?"

While speaking, Nicole had already dug out a laptop from the back seat of the car, typing on the keyboard while saying:

"This is the information you passed on to me from Bingsheng Middle School. Among the graduates of those classes, I found a very interesting guy..."

When she saw the photo called out by Nicole, Qingmei was so shocked that she almost jumped out of the passenger seat!

"That's right, the graduate of Bingsheng Middle School ten years ago looks exactly like the boy who carried you out in the hotel that day. And... this graduate, except for this photo, all his files are blank , not even a name. If this is not a system bug, it means... this person's identity is very special and important, so important that you can't leave too much information. And those two photos you sent me , it can be basically concluded that the Bingsheng Middle School is the base of Yunque Kyouya, the guardian of the clouds of the Pengo Lie family, and there is no information about Hibari Kyouya in these system data. That means that the mysterious graduate is at least the same as Hibari Kyouya. Mi's status in Pengo Lie is at the same level... maybe even higher, and the one with a higher status than the guardian is..."

"Vongola Tenth Generation." Staring at the photo, Qingmei said slowly.

Nicole nodded: "That's right, it can indeed be inferred. However, although the outside world knows little about the leader of the tenth generation of Pengelie, one thing is certain. The family has been together for almost ten years. So there are two possibilities... that boy is the same person as this graduate ten years ago, and like you, his body has shrunk."

Qingmei thought for a while, "I haven't heard from the inventor of that drug that there are other survivors who have shrunken bodies among those who have taken this drug."

Of course, it is also possible that she has fallen into a misunderstanding of thinking. The method in this world that can make people smaller may not be the only way to take medicine A.

"Another possibility... these two people are not the same person, but there must be a very important connection between them, there is no doubt about it." After putting away his laptop, Nicole prepared to start the car and continue Hurry up.

Qingmei rubbed her chin and said analytically: "Could it be that Tsunayoshi Sawada is a clone of the mysterious graduate from ten years ago..."

Hearing such wild guesses... Nicole almost stepped on the wrong pedal when he started the car.

Nicole: "... I think you are the one who is suitable to be a screenwriter."

"This kind of brainstorming is so-so... The boss of a certain organization is greedy for the power in his hands but is afraid that one day his body will have problems, so he creates a clone. It's not like it hasn't appeared in science fiction novels and movies... Of course, the above speculation is purely my own." Qingmei yawned sleepily when she finished speaking.

Sighing helplessly, Nicole warned himself that he must maintain diamond-like patience when facing Qingmei, "So... what is your opinion?"

"The eyes are different..." Qingmei said slowly with no expression on her face.

"What do you mean?"

"The eyes of this mysterious graduate in the photo are youthful. But Tsunayoshi Sawada's eyes are not like that...more like the peace and indifference forged after a lot of tempering..."

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