Stay away from Conan.

"How's it going, female detective? I heard from that kid that you seem to have solved a case on your own!"

Just as they finished buying things at the convenience store and were preparing to go to Teacher Judy's house together, Xiaolan received a call from an unknown number that could not display the caller ID. After answering the call, Kudo Shinichi's voice came from the other end of the phone. Xiaolan's eyes became a little red with excitement for a moment——

"S-Shinichi!"

At this time, I heard Kudo Shinichi's voice. Because I had just contacted Conan, he...

  Realizing something, Xiaolan was extremely moved by the fact that "Kudo Shinichi" would call her at this moment:

"You...how come you are free at this time..."

Trying her best to suppress her excitement, Xiaolan pretended to be normal and said this to Shinichi.

At the same time, when Sonoko heard that it was Kudo Shinichi calling next to Xiaolan and noticed Xiaolan's expression, she couldn't help but reveal a helpless expression. She felt a little helpless about Xiaolan's excited reaction just because of a phone call from the other party.

On the contrary, Teacher Judy was watching Xiaolan's phone conversation with Kudo Shinichi with some interest -

After all, I was a little curious about the famous high school detective.

At this time, Kudo Shinichi called, apparently because Xiaolan solved a case on her own, so he came to congratulate her. It seems that their relationship is really good...

So, when Teacher Judy was thinking this, Xiaolan couldn't help but blush with shyness after hearing Shinichi call her "female detective". She complained to him a few clichéd words like "Why don't you come back yet?" as if to vent her anger, covering up her own inner nervousness.

So, Shinichi on the other end of the phone followed Xiaolan's words and said with deep apology that he indeed couldn't come back temporarily because he had to deal with an incident, and that he called back this time because Conan told him that Sister Xiaolan actually solved the case alone.

In this way, Xiaolan became even more shy.

"How is it, Xiaolan? Is it a great pleasure to solve a mystery as a detective?"

"Oh, it's okay!"

  Ran responded to Shinichi's words in a somewhat stubborn manner, and then couldn't help asking:

"By the way, you called here specifically because of this, right?"

"Why? You can't? It's worth celebrating that you want to solve the case on your own! After all, you weren't interested in this kind of thing before!"

Shinichi said this, it seemed that he had come to talk to Xiaolan specifically about this.

Xiaolan snorted slightly in frustration and complained in a spoiled way:

"What? You finally thought of contacting me because of the reasoning? You usually..."

Speaking of this, Xiaolan looked a little depressed, as if she hoped that Shinichi could contact her more often in the future.

After hearing this, Shinichi also understood what Xiaolan meant, so he replied to Xiaolan without much hesitation:

"This...I will contact you often when I have time in the future, as long as you don't mind me being long-winded."

"okay!"

After hearing this, although I know that Shinichi has always been by my side, if Shinichi could contact me with his original identity, at least...

There is no need to keep pretending so painfully.

So, after exchanging a few pleasantries with Shinichi after such a long time, when she was about to hang up the phone reluctantly, Shinichi on the other end of the phone seemed to have just remembered something and said to Xiaolan: "Hey! Wait a minute! I almost forgot, that kid Conan said he would stay at the doctor's house to play games today and would not go back to the office. He forgot to tell you about this just now and you hung up the phone, so I'm telling you!"

"Good good!"

  Hearing this, Xiaolan couldn't help but smile and said:

"Then tell Conan for me that Sonoko and I are staying at Judy's house tonight, so we won't be going back."

In this way, the call between Xiaolan and Shinichi ended with a new agreement.

  After listening to the conversation between Xiaolan and Shinichi, Sonoko couldn't help but come up and tease:

"How is it? Are you satisfied this time? Shinichi will contact you often in the future! You finally don't have to wait for him with resentment like before."

"Garden!"

In this way, Xiaolan and Sonoko teased each other and followed Teacher Judy to her residence.

……

At the same time, in Dr. Agasa's residence, Conan hung up the call with Xiaolan with a relieved smile on his face, and his expression changed from the warmth just now to a serious and solemn one -

For Xiaolan, I will never give up so easily!

Vermouth, I don't know what you guys are up to, but...

Thinking of this, Conan looked at the Akechi house next door, and couldn't help thinking in his heart -

It's already come to this, if Mr. Mingzhi and the others had received the invitation, they should have responded, but they haven't tried to contact me yet...

  So, are they planning to continue taking action without telling me?

"In that case, let me handle it myself this time!"

Conan judged with certainty.

After all, based on past experience, if I ask Mr. Mingzhi and the others to do this kind of thing again, they will probably continue to hide the information related to the organization from me, and in the end, I won't make any progress.

And it's not just this reason. I have been relying too much on Mr. Mingzhi and the others. I will lose my self-judgment ability when facing the organization in the future. I will need to face these things by myself in the end. So this time, I will treat it as my first attempt to handle organization-related events on my own!

Of course, the first prerequisite is to ensure your own safety and protect the safety of others. For this reason, with only one day left, I need to make more careful arrangements...

"But... Shinichi, didn't the invitation say 'Kudo Shinichi'? How would you have gone to the party without Gao Yuan and the others' help? You can't really go with your current identity!"

Dr. Agasa, who was standing by, heard Conan's words and learned that Conan didn't want to rely on Akechi Takato at all this time, so he couldn't help but worry and pointed out the problem -

This is something that must be resolved given Conan's current physical condition...

Conan did not explain this to Dr. Agasa in detail, but just said:

"Isn't the name of this party clear? 'Unseasonable Halloween Party'. Since it's Halloween, isn't it obvious what you need to do to attend this party?"

So, Conan gave an explanation, and in his mind, he couldn't help but think -

At this time, it must be daytime in the United States... (End of this chapter)