"Hey, when are you going to follow me?" The morning passed quickly, and after school, probably because of what happened before, those little ghosts didn't come to pester me again. It's just that I stopped, looked at Conan, who was walking behind me casually, and asked impatiently.

"Huh? Following you? I didn't. It's just that I'm going to a relative's house, and I just happened to be on the way with you. Conan was suddenly asked, paused for a moment, and then replied.

"......" is that? I looked at him in disbelief, forget it, even if he was following me, it didn't matter.

After a few minutes ~ "What exactly do you want to do?" I stood at the door of the house, looking at Conan, who was still following me, and frowned.

Conan was also a little stunned at this time, it turned out that he also lived here? Conan looked at the nameplate that read "Mochizuki Mansion" in a daze, remembering that when he came here a few days ago, this house was still vacant.

"Now, Mochizuki-san, did you just move here recently?" Conan's gaze shifted from the words "Mochizuki House" to the side of "Kudo House", could it be, is it a coincidence? Looking at this child who was so similar to Night Talk, Conan suddenly felt a little uneasy.

"Yes." I replied uncertainly, following his gaze, I glanced at the house next door, was it wrong?

"Ah, I see, haha, I really didn't come with you, I just came here to find one of my relatives, Dr. Asasa, well, that's the house." Conan pointed to the house next to Kudo's house, "Well, you just came, you probably don't know each other, do you want to say hello to me?" ”

I looked at him and didn't speak.

"Ah, that, if you don't go, it's fine, I'm just ......" Seeing that I ignored him, Conan scratched his face in embarrassment.

"Do you want to go to my house and sit down?" I asked suddenly.

"I'm just, that ...... Huh?" Conan seemed surprised by my invitation, and immediately replied, "Yes." ”

"Let's go." I looked at Conan, who was annoyed by his undisguised words and deeds, and couldn't help but sneer in my heart, really, it would be very interesting.

"Ah, that's so bothering."

Mochizuki House~

"Ale? Mochizuki-san, are you the only one in your house? Walking into the living room, Conan asked strangely as he looked at the structure of the house.

"Hmm." I nodded, took the tea from the kitchen, brewed it, then grabbed another glass of juice and walked out of the dining room.

"Huh? What about aunts and uncles? At work? Conan naturally took the black tea in my hand and asked casually.

I paused and put the juice in my hand on the coffee table, "No." ”

"Didn't go to work? What do uncles and aunts do? Conan asked, puzzled.

I glanced at Conan, and although he said that he was acting carelessly, his slightly leaning forward body still revealed his intentions, did he care?

"No, I mean, no parents." I poured another cup of tea, sniffed the flavor, and replied calmly.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't know......" Conan looked at me apologetically. I ignored him, just drank tea without a sip, and the atmosphere was a little dull for a while.

"Ah, yes." After a while, Conan suddenly spoke.

“？” I looked at him to know what he wanted to say.

"The morning's thing, Ayumi and the others are also unintentional, they don't know that you are in this situation. If you care, then I apologize to you on their behalf, you ......"

"Ah, it's okay, I didn't take it to heart." Is it begging for forgiveness for a friend again? I frowned slightly and lowered my eyes, today, am I too sensitive to the word "friend".

"So, can I tell Ayumi about your parents?"

I looked at him and raised an eyebrow.

"Ah, I don't mean anything else, Ayumi they don't know about it after all, I think if I tell them, they will understand. After all, it's a friend, and misunderstandings always have to be solved, right? Conan explained.

"Huh, friend?" Maybe it's because the emotions that have been pent up for a long time suddenly get out of control, today, whether it is Mu Yu's words or what I saw and heard in school, it all stimulated the fragility in my heart little by little, and I finally couldn't help laughing.

"It seems to you that the word friend can be said so easily? No kidding. "What friends, haha, how can there be any real friends? Where is true friendship? Thinking of the friendship I once thought I was strong, what did I end up getting?

"Mochizuki-san?" Conan didn't expect me to explode suddenly, so he could only watch me cautiously. What I don't know is that in Conan's opinion, at this moment, I am like a willful child, with a stubborn face and a sad face.

“…… I'm sorry. "I was silent, really, I was really affected by that stupid guy named Mu Yu, my reason, which I have always been proud of, was shattered by that stupid person. Picking up the black tea in my hand, I took a sip, and I don't know when it started, I fell in love with the taste of this black tea more and more.

"......, Mochizuki-san, although I don't know what you've been through. However, I think that if a person does not even have a friend, then this person must have a very happy life. ”

Conan lowered his head, looked at the black tea in his hand, and suddenly remembered the Kudo Yayu who died many years ago, and remembered that Yeyu's favorite tea at that time was also this kind of tea. Looking up at Mochizuki, who had regained his calm, he suddenly felt that the person in front of him seemed to coincide with the boy in his memory.

"Your current preaching really doesn't look like what a 7-year-old boy can say." I didn't say anything to him, but laughed back.

"Mochizuki-san, no matter what, I want you to see it, friend, but it really exists. Ha, I have a lot of faith in those kids. Conan was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked up at me again.

"Oh? Those kids? This tone is really old-fashioned. I smiled, but this time I had an answer to his words: "Well, I'll wait and see what they say." ”

"Hmph, then, don't underestimate Ayumi and them." Conan laughed.

"......" friends? I looked at Conan's confident smile and was in a trance for a while, this smile was inexplicably familiar.

"Bell Bell Bell ......" rang with a rush of bells, and Conan's confident smile suddenly disappeared. I looked at Conan, whose face had changed drastically, and I was puzzled. Happened, what's going on?

Conan looked at the phone screen with a look of frustration, hesitated for a moment, and then answered the phone as if he were heroic.

"Conan ——!!!" The high-decibel roar could even be heard by me, and I could fully imagine the girl on the other end of the phone gritting her teeth.

"Where did you go? Don't go home so late! What else did you say went to the doctor's house, I called the doctor just now, and the doctor said that you didn't go at all, so you don't know that I will be worried?!!"

Well, if I'm not mistaken, that girl should be called Mao Lilan, right, it's really a person who can't be good-looking, it's obviously such a delicate girl, I didn't expect it to have such a side. I looked at Conan, who was very prescient and kept the phone away from my ears, and was secretly speechless.

"Sister Xiaolan, I really didn't mean to, I'm sorry, I will never do this next time. …… No, there will never be a next time, so forgive me this time. At this time, Conan was looking like a good baby, whispering softly.

I looked at Conan's appearance, and I felt a chill, is this really the same person as Conan who was arguing with me just now?

"Well, got it, I'll go back right away. …… Well, Sister Xiaolan, I'll see you later. ”

Conan hung up the phone cautiously, and then looked at me with a dry smile: "Then, Mochizuki-san, I'll go back first." ”

"Heh, then, good luck." I looked at Conan with a smirk and nodded.

The expression on Conan's face froze, and then, with an aura of resentment, he nodded dejectedly: "I'm leaving, I'll see you tomorrow ......"

"Slow down and don't send it." I leaned against the door of my house, watching the figure fade away in the afterglow of the setting sun, the corners of my mouth curled up in a slight arc that I didn't even notice.

Edogawa Conan? In the future, I will give a lot of advice.