Chapter 11: Conan's Reasoning
Conan easily hooked up with Qi Xiao, who was caught up in Xiaolan's matter, and he was not interested in digging out the secrets of Qi Xiao's body for the time being, so he just buried his head in his mind and rummaged through the men related to Xiaolan, wanting to use his reasoning skills to find the truth of the matter.
Let me think about it, when Lai Qixiao first arrived, Xiaolan ran to him to ask for news of a man, then this man should have contact with both Xiaolan and Lai Qixiao.
A man who is familiar with Xiaolan...... No, since Xiaolan wants to ask about the news from Qi Xiao, it means that Xiaolan is not familiar with that man. In this way, it is necessary to check the relationship network from Qixiao.
Maybe it's a classmate? No, no, no, if it was a boy in the class, Xiaolan would be more likely to go to the garden to inquire about the news, rather than to find Qixiao, a transfer student. Damn, I still know too little about Lai Qixiao!
Could it be an acquaintance from Qi Xiao outside the school? But as a conservation observer who has just transferred here and has a criminal record, what friends does he have in Tokyo? At least I didn't get any information from Dr. Asasa.
Wait, Dr. Asasa? Didn't Dr. Asa know both Lai Qixiao and Xiaolan! However, the odds of this mysterious man being Dr. Asasa are too slim. But Dr. Asasa is the only intersection of the two of them's network, so Dr. Asasa should know the man as well...... Eh, the boy Xiaolan wants to inquire about, could it be me?
No, I guess I'm right, there are no other candidates at the moment. Xiaolan went to find Qi Xiao because he is now living in Dr. Asasa's house, next door to me, that is, Kudo Shinichi.
After a brief thought, Conan quickly sorted out the whole picture, but as a detective, he knew that even reasonable reasoning needed evidence to test. Before he found the evidence, he was still skeptical, and he was not completely sure that the person Xiao Lan asked to inquire about was himself.
A few minutes later, Lai Qixiao took Conan to the downstairs of the Maori Detective Agency, and happened to meet Maorilan, who had just gone downstairs.
"I'm really bothering you, Laiqi-san, I still need you to help send Conan back so late." Mao Lilan took Conan's hand and thanked Qi Xiao, "I just received a call from Dr. Asasa, so I hurriedly went downstairs to pick you up." ”
"It's okay, this kid is a relative of Dr. Asasa! Dr. Asa took me in when I had nowhere else to go, and I should have done him a little favor! ”
"Besides," Lai Qixiao put his palm on Conan's head and rubbed it vigorously, "This kid is still quite cute!" ”
This is not a perfunctory remark used by Lai Qixiao, he really thinks Conan is funny when he is teased...... Ah no, it's cute.
"That's right, Laiqi-san." Xiaolan's smile was not as bright as just now, but seemed a little reluctant, "Shinichi, is he home today?" ”
"No, it's still dark at Kudo's house today. Mori-san, I think that if Kudo-san, I will definitely notify you first! ”
“…… I hope so. Laiqi, thank you for your willingness to help me with this. ”
Sure enough, the man Xiaolan wanted to inquire about was me. Conan, who was secretly listening from the sidelines, smiled heartily and was glad that his reasoning had been confirmed. But as soon as he looked up, he saw Xiaolan's lonely face again.
In the blink of an eye, the excitement of reasoning correctly dissipated, and Conan's heart was overwhelmed by the sorrow on Xiaolan's face, and he twitched in pain.
After bidding farewell to Qi Xiao, Conan was led by Xiaolan back to the office upstairs. He looked at the lonely and lonely back of his childhood sweetheart, and secretly vowed in his heart that he must bring the black-clothed organization to justice as soon as possible and change back to its original appearance!
After swearing an oath, Conan's overly active mind still did not stop, but shifted to Lai Qixiao's body again.
Laiqi Xiao...... Why do I always feel that there is some ulterior secret in this conservation observer? Could it be because he was burdened with a criminal record, and I subconsciously wore colored glasses?
Maybe it's really my personal prejudice, but at the moment, there is really nothing suspicious about Lai Qixiao. It is indeed a little strange that he returned late for two consecutive days, but as a former bad boy, Lai Qixiao may not have changed the habit of returning late, or it is possible that he is indeed looking for a part-time job.
Thinking about it carefully, the three times I met with Lai Qixiao, he showed a normal attitude, nothing suspicious...... Speaking of which, when I first met him, he behaved too normal from time to time?
At that time, I had just become smaller, and I ran into the doctor's house with Kudo Shinichi's clothes on my body, and there were still blood stains on my forehead, but Lai Qixiao didn't doubt me much, and even immediately believed the doctor's clumsy lie. I was a kid with a wound on his forehead and dressed in adult clothes, was he such a nervous person?
Could it be that the words I said to the doctor that night were heard by him upstairs!? If that's the case, then it's likely that Lai Qixiao already knew my identity, but he has been acting all the time and doesn't want to debunk the lies and identities that Dr. Asa and I have made.
In that case, maybe he suddenly told me about Xiaolan tonight just to distract me? If you think about it, isn't it strange to suddenly talk to a child about such a thing? Maybe Qi Xiao just wanted to use Xiaolan's matter to make me divert my attention from him, so that I wouldn't show my feet!
However, if Ryaki really knows that I am Kudo Shinichi, then why don't you expose me? He doesn't have the slightest friendship with Kudo Shinichi, so there's no reason to help me keep it a secret. The only contact between me and Lai Qixiao is Dr. Asasa, could it be that he chose to help me keep my secret because of Dr. Asasa?
I remember that Lai Qixiao just said that Dr. Asa took him in and had nowhere else to go. This should not be a lie, he is a poor man with a criminal record and was swept away by his parents, and it is reasonable to be grateful to Dr. Asasa for taking him in kindly. Perhaps it was because of Dr. Asa that he was willing to cooperate with me in the play of "Conan".
But at the end of the day, this is just my reasoning, and it's not a well-founded reasoning. Do you know that I'm Shinichi Kudo? At present, there is a possibility of this, but there is a lack of evidence......
The detective with an active mind gradually clears the fog and approaches the truth step by step. But the truth he got close to was only the truth about "Lai Qi Xiao", and as for the cunning thief hiding under the mask, the detective still couldn't detect his existence after all.