"What, magic?" A few days later, having recovered from a fever, I sat down in my seat and tilted my head slightly as I listened to Conan's questioning.

"Ahem, yes, yes. I don't know if Mochizuki is interested in magic?" Conan coughed, I don't know if I was infected with a cold, and looked at me in a not very good spirit.

"It's okay, it's not too interested, and it's not completely uninterested. I pulled out a tissue and handed it to him, then asked, "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

"Well, it's not too important, it's just that we were invited to a party about magic tomorrow, and Xiaolan wants to ask you if you want to go. "In the past few days, Conan, who has confessed everything to me, no longer hides it in front of me, and the name of Xiaolan has directly changed to a direct name, and she is no longer called Sister Xiaolan.

"Me?" I shook my head in disinterest, "Forget it, I'm not going." ”

"Eh, why don't you go? Ahem, Mochizuki didn't say you, every time something happens, you can avoid it, and you don't participate in group activities, and you're usually silent, so if you are careful that you will become a little old man for a long time, it's not welcome. Conan looked back at me, pouted, and then muttered in a voice that he thought I couldn't hear, "Although it looks like it now." ”

"Well, it doesn't matter. I saw that Conan's cough was quite serious, so I handed him the water and shook my head indifferently, "And with a big detective like you, Sister Xiaolan probably won't be in danger, anyway, you will definitely protect your little girlfriend." ”

"Poof, cough, cough, what are you talking about, don't talk nonsense. Conan squirted out all the sip of water, and his cough became worse because he was choked by the water, and his face suddenly turned red. I looked at Conan's appearance and laughed a little in my heart, I didn't expect this detective to be so surprisingly innocent.

"Night-chan, Conan, what are you two talking about?" Little Lori leaned over curiously, tilted her head to look at me and Conan, looking at Conan with a flushed face, she felt that she had just missed something, and it was rare to see Conan blushing.

"Ahh

"Huh?" Ayumi thought Conan's answer seemed strange, and she turned her head to look at me with wide, ignorant eyes.

"Well, it's nothing. It's just that Conan just said that he wet the bed today, and he was scolded by Sister Xiaolan, so he was a little shy. "I knew that Conan's words just now must have been said about Xiaolan's incident, and I didn't debunk him, and calmly made up lies in the face of Ayumi with a blank face.

"Ah~?Conan, you're so old that you can wet the bed, it's a shame. "When Yuanta, who had just come over, heard my words, the sense of superiority that he had stopped wetting the bed since he was very young instantly exploded, and he looked at Conan with disdain, who didn't know if he was choked or because he was shy.

"The book says that if a child is still wetting the bed at this age, there must be something wrong with the body. Conan, I suggest you go to the hospital and have a look. Mitsuhiko also walked over and looked at Conan with a serious face, but after all, he was a child, and he couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes. Look at Ayumi, at least compared to Conan, I'm not completely compared.

"Ahh The simple Ayumi listened to Mitsuhiko's words, and immediately looked at Conan with an anxious face, and her face became more and more red.

"Hey...... I really don't have anything to do, don't listen to Mochizuki's nonsense. Conan listened to the conversation between these three children, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, glaring at me viciously: Are you trying to relieve me or are you deliberately causing trouble for me?

"......" I pretended not to see his eyes, turned around casually, and took out the book for the next lesson.

"If it's not true, then why are you blushing?" Motota clearly didn't believe Conan's explanation.

"Yes, Mom said to Dad that explanation is a cover-up, and a cover-up is the truth, and facts speak louder than words. Conan, you don't have to explain it anymore, really, there's no shame in wetting the bed, hehe. Mitsuhiko's words sounded decent on the whole, if you ignored the weird smile at the end.

Hey, what did your father do that would make your mother say that, and don't you want to make it up for yourself? Conan opened his half-moon eyes and looked weakly at Mitsuhiko who had fallen into conjecture. Before the three children who fell into various brain supplements, it was obvious that any explanation would be pale, so Conan changed his strategy and turned his head to look at Shirley, who knew the whole process as if asking for help: "Na, Gray Plains, you should say a word." ”

"Well, Edogawa, it's already like this, you don't have to struggle anymore. Shirley, who was pinned on hope, lived up to expectations and said the above words.

The meaningful end note of "Oh~~" comes from three children.

"Hey!!" Conan looked at Shirley with a sad look in his eyes, and Conan was desperate. Did I provoke someone today, and why did I do this?

"Bell~" The ringing of the class bell saved Conan, and the three children hurried back to their seats.

After school, the three children were not ready to let go of Conan, and they kept chattering all the way, Conan walked slowly behind, and there was a strange black smoke emitting from three meters around.

"I'm here, you guys go, I'll go first. "When we reached the fork in the road, I greeted the four Conan symbolically as a farewell.

"Well, goodbye then, Ya-chan, Ashbara-san. Ayumi said the same thing to Shirley and me, and we parted.

“……”

“……”

Along the way, there was silence. Shirley wouldn't talk to me, and I wouldn't talk to her either. It's been many days since we met again as children, and every time I go home, Shirley and I are silent with each other, I don't have much to say, and as for Shirley, well, what does it have to do with what she thinks.

"You seem to hate me. "When I walked to the door of Dr. Asasa's house, unexpectedly, Shirley spoke up today.

"Yes?" I turned and stopped.

"You don't even bother to talk to me these days, and you don't even bother to look at me, do you really hate me that much?" Shirley asked, looking directly into me as she took a few steps forward.

"Oh, that's just your delusion, I'm like that to everyone. I took my gaze back from the side, looked at Shirley, and repeated Conan's previous words: "'It's not that I said you, you can avoid anything like this, and you don't participate in group activities, and you are usually silent, be careful that if you do this for a long time, you will become a little old man, which is not welcome." 'Didn't Conan say that before?'

"No, that's different. You are not very enthusiastic about others, but you have a more disregard for me. Why?, have I offended you in any way?" Shirley said in a resolute tone, and she looked at me tightly, as if she wanted to see something in my eyes.

"Hmph," I snorted briefly, and didn't avoid Shirley's eyes, just looked at her directly, "I thought that people like Ashbara-san wouldn't care about other people's attitudes towards you, but it turns out that you also care, it's really strange." "Shirley, tell me, even a little bit, do you really care about the little bits and pieces we have between us?

"What do you mean?" Shirley frowned, picking out the sarcasm in my words.

"It's nothing, I don't think most people have any affection for a person who thinks of himself as a different person when they first meet. As for me, well, you can understand that I am a stingy person. I shrugged my shoulders and said nonchalantly.

"Is that really the only way?" Shirley looked at me in disbelief.

"Oh, you just understand that. I sneered, turned around, and waved my hand without looking back, "Well, I'll go back first if I have something to do, see you later." ”

“……”

There was no response, and I don't know what Shirley was thinking right now. All I know is that the relationship I once thought was intimate was a bubble, shattered and disappeared without a trace the moment I touched the truth. In my mind, there will always be a high wall between me and Shirley, separating us between two worlds on opposite sides, which cannot be touched by each other, and which I do not want to touch.

When I got home, I took off my shoes, put my bag aside, and I habitually walked to the kitchen to make tea.

Cointreau, no, no, Dark Fox. Remember, you are not Cointreau, you are a dark fox, a bloody fox walking alone in the dark night, everything about Cointreau has nothing to do with your dark fox, so don't be affected by anything and lose your mind, you are a dark fox with nothing, a dark fox with cold reason.

Smelling the fragrance of tea in the air, I closed my eyes.