Ms. Moriarty wants to save Beika Town today too.

Dr. Agasa raised an index finger. He recently made a riddle with a cold joke, which he called: Children will not cherish things if they get them too easily.

"Indeed, Doctor, your appearance is good enough to register at Santa Claus Village... So, what are you going to do with your beer belly?"

"Ai, today is the annual Christmas!" Dr. Agasa said politely.

"Okay, but only gingerbread and no candy."

Santa Claus was defeated.

Professor Agasa led them into the house. As soon as the door opened, Ai lowered her head and covered her eyes with one hand, "..."

Conan, Xiaolan and Sonoko also looked confused. Akemi, who was standing at the door, changed her clothes into red and white, put on a hat like the doctor's, and held a Christmas stocking in her hand.

"This... should be hung on the fireplace, right?" Sonoko complained.

"Maybe?" Xiaolan wondered, "But who is this for?"

Conan looked at Ai.

Xiao Ai stroked his forehead.

"By the way, where is Miss Winnet? Is she also wearing a Christmas dress and planning to surprise us?"

After listening to Sonoko's words, Ai imagined Winnet's Christmas dress. If it was as tight as the doctor's, it would be fine. If not, it would feel like some kind of bad uniform, which would be more frightening than surprising.

"She's still at church, and she said she'd be back after church. She baked a lot of gingerbread—"

Mingmei invited everyone to taste it. After a while, the Teitan trio arrived first, and they exclaimed at the scene and the arrangement. While Mitsuhiko was curious about what gifts he would receive, Genta had already started to fantasize about the running turkey. Clyde helped to set up the grill in advance, but he had other plans. Dinner could be barbecued in the courtyard, and Mingmei also prepared a vegetable salad. Winnett hadn't come back yet, and the anxious Teitan trio began to pull the doctor to start a fire.

Yuanzi rolled up his sleeves and said, "Hehe, today I will show you little brats my skills!"

Xiaolan was shocked by Sonoko's master's skills, which looked like those in a variety show. A bunch of little kids also praised her for being amazing. Mingmei became Sonoko's assistant. Conan was also shocked that Sonoko, a rich girl, could barbecue so wildly. He even wanted to ask her: Did you practice in Hawaii? Winette smelled the aroma from a distance and entered the yard. When Xiaoai saw her, she looked a little unnatural and leaned towards the steps.

Seeing Yuanzi handing the meat to her mouth, Winnet tasted it and praised it frankly, and was also surprised - she brought the grilled skewers to the children's table and distributed them to them. "You have all explained it to your parents, right?" she asked.

Immediately, everyone responded in unison, except for Ai and Conan.

When Xiao Ai saw Winnet's gentle smile, she felt uneasy, but she couldn't speak directly to Winnet in front of everyone. For a moment, the atmosphere seemed a little solemn.

Winette didn't notice this and helped chef Sonoko and Mingmei until the food accumulated to a certain level. Mingmei took out the roast chicken ordered from a K-shop and the customized candies. She originally wanted to prepare dishes, but the number of people was more than expected, so she simply changed to barbecue, so that there would not be a problem of insufficient preparation time. Sonoko's ability to mobilize the atmosphere is unique, and the scene is full of energy. Winette swept away her fatigue and ate meat with him. After the weather turned cooler, everyone came back to the house.

Although there are many vacant rooms, they are not well prepared for living. After experiencing the shock of Dr. Agasa's little joke puzzle, Mitsuhiko and others also received Christmas gifts, which contained game cards, high-end candies and perfumes prepared by Winnet. The logos had been destroyed by her. After all, the Japanese are always terrified when receiving valuables. Before midnight, Akemi took the trio home by car. Sonoko and Xiaolan stayed to help clean up. After a while, they also left with Conan. Winnet finally had time to spend with Xiaoai.

"Hey," Xiao Ai whispered, "Are you angry with me? You haven't come to the doctor's house since I hung up the phone last time. I know it's wrong for a person to make such a decision. I was too careless. Can you--"

Winnet smiled to show that she didn't care. She rubbed Xiao Ai's face from behind to prevent her from saying the next words. She applied a little force with her palm, "I am really unhappy." After saying this, she lifted Xiao Ai up and spun her around again. "I am here, but you only told Kudo Shinichi. This is unacceptable to me."

Are you jealous?

She thought this in her heart, but she couldn't say it out loud. "Okay, I was wrong." She had to continue to soften her attitude, "How about putting me down first?"

"But what I cannot accept the most is that you were in danger and I knew nothing about it."

When Winnett put Ai down, she added another sentence. Her voice sounded less calm than usual. The thrill of that day was just a little bit away from the collapse of the world. She denounced Kudo Shinichi as a bastard and Gin as a pervert. While complaining, she stared at Ai closely, as if she was afraid that she would turn around and leave. Ai gently stroked Winnett's hair. By the warm fire, she felt as if she had returned to the past. They drank hot cocoa with gingerbread and went over things again. Winnett hesitated and told her something that might be related to Mingmei. Ai also decided to be more honest with Winnett, but she was still very scared when she heard the news.

"Is it really okay?"

"Yeah, I can handle that."

"But, Pisco has already..."

"Don't worry. He won't tell you without confirmation."

Of course, she wouldn't give him the chance to speak out.

……

356 Sister Control Mingmei

Skipping the bad topic, the conversation turned to how Ai had grown. At this point, Ai felt that Winnet's cheeks were slightly red, but the probability of an illusion was higher. The room was decorated with Christmas candles, emitting a dim orange-yellow halo that tempted people to have sudden thoughts. There was no light, which gave it a feeling of the common saying of candlelight evening scene. If it were her in the past, she might have gone up to touch Winnet, hugged her, and looked at her shy look, but her body began to hesitate. Perhaps it was the right time to research the antidote.

She couldn't help but think shyly that doing that kind of thing after changing back would also be an uncontrollable variable.

The short-term changes brought about by white dried fruits and colds are just that, at best, even if there is progress in the near future.

Winnet suddenly leaned over, put her hands on the back of Xiaoai's ribs and hugged her.

Ai's grey coat slipped off slightly, "Is the person you're acting like a spoiled child to be a little off?"

Winette didn't respond, but just tightened her arms a little more. Ai felt the slender hand on her back climbing up and finally pressing down. "You're not still worried that something will happen to me, are you?"

"If I hadn't happened to be there—"

Winnet gradually calmed down during the conversation. After calming down, a mixture of worries and regrets churned in her stomach. Although she could not understand those emotional people before, after understanding the consequences of the incident, the deep fear seemed to seep out from the surface of her skin and drown her.

Winnet felt as if her body was paralyzed and she couldn't even move her fingers.

Xiao Ai hugged her neck.

"I promise you that I won't do anything dangerous on my own."

Neck itching from curls.

"You have to stay well too. With so many gunshot wounds, being alive and kicking is more worrying, isn't it?"

Xiao Ai's profile rubbed against her jaw, and then she gently kissed along the surrounding contours——

"Dr. Agasa, he's still in the bathroom."

"Isn't this more exciting?"

Xiao Ai felt Winnet trembling, and said playfully:

"Then treat it as a drill, right? When I become an adult again, this level won't satisfy me. You have to be mentally prepared in advance."

I mean, SAN Qi is not

Winnet slowly loosened her hand. Pulling away a little, she saw that Ai was smiling at her with a hint of arrogance as usual, so she tightened her shoulders, and when she heard the noise coming from the toilet, she began to clean up the table in an orderly manner. Ai also helped to organize the gingerbread, candies and the like, and put the remaining ingredients in foam boxes and stuffed them into a small square refrigerator. "I can do it," Winnet couldn't help but reach out to help, but Ai rolled her eyes in response. Ai said unhappily, "Look, you still treat me like a child. You know I have a chance to change back, but you still do this."

Winnet scratched her cheek, and after a while, she came to Xiao Ai with warm water: "Uh, I have something for you."

Ai was about to complain about why it wasn't ice water, but then she received a Christmas gift package. Although she and Mitsuhiko also received gifts of childish size, she was happy about the atmosphere rather than the gifts themselves, but Winette's gift was different.

She weighed the package and heard a dull sound from inside, "Ah, what is this?"

Winette acted a little uncomfortable.

Ai opened the package and saw the item inside, her expression froze for a moment. Although the ergonomic design and reduced materials gave it an unexpected appearance, Ai could still tell what it was at a glance.

A pocket pistol.

"in case."

This object brought time back to the beginning. It was not that simple. She should have known that Winnet was actually quite insecure, but she was used to relying on herself. When this feeling began to transfer to herself, she became even more embarrassed. Xiao Ai thought, in this way, they were like a system with a mutual relationship, and it was difficult to exist without each other. The advantage was that the feelings were passionate, and the disadvantage was that another kind of passionate feeling was brewing when they were apart. Although she felt that Winnet's feelings were somewhat unhealthy, the evaluation criteria for drawing such an unhealthy conclusion were not applicable to them.

She loves her more than anyone else and is afraid of losing her, and she has a kind of paranoia.

These thoughts made her uncomfortable, but she didn't show it. She just gripped the gun tightly and tightened her fingers. "It's the right size. If there is a dangerous situation, I will carry it with me."

"I'm sorry, I thought about preparing other gifts, but none of them seemed quite suitable."

"Ah, I'd rather receive this, otherwise it would make me look like a materialistic woman."

"Don't you find it annoying?"

"Well, jewelry and luxury goods don't go with children anyway. You always say that the most important thing about a gift is the thought, isn't it? Even so, I won't be satisfied with something that's just for show."

Xiao Ai fixed the safety of the gun and put it in her arms. "Then you have to accept my gift." She said, taking out a receipt.

The wine is delicious.

"match?"

"Although I'm not very interested in it, it's New Year after all. We still have a lot of things to do before we go. Besides, staying with children all the time can get boring sometimes." She avoided his eyes a little, thinking that her performance should not be very funny, but due to money reasons, she couldn't invite Winnett to see the opera or something.

As for asking his girlfriend for money, when did she, a genius scientist, fall to such a state?

Even the organization would rush to give her what she wanted.

"Why, you're really not interested?"

"No, I'm happy."

"But you have no interest in football."

"I do know that it is a sport with thirteen players on each team and they are not allowed to touch the ball with their hands."

It's eleven people.

Xiao Ai thought about it and realized that Winnet had never been to school. The British team was considered top-notch, and there should be some schools in the countryside without a playground.

Xiao Ai didn't expose her, "Then it's a deal."

"Ah."

At this time, Dr. Agasa came out of the toilet and was forced to simplify the conversation. The awkward atmosphere at the beginning returned. Dr. Agasa felt that his timing after going to the toilet was not good. Winnet politely expressed that Dr. Agasa should take Ai back. In fact, she did not sort out her mood. She thought that her performance just now was impulsive, childish and tactless, like a fish stiffened in black smoke. Although nothing can be seen on the surface, there are still dark thoughts swimming in her head.

If her eyes had spirit, they would probably be similar to the eyes of the devil in the picture of hell.

Although Kudo Shinichi was a guy she hated, he was at most a fuse, which actually enlightened her that being passive was always the worst option. But she would not thank him, and keeping him alive was only to provide Xiao Ai with experimental materials.

After seeing Xiao Ai's sad, worried and self-blaming expression, she didn't want her to go through something similar again.

Xiao Ai is too kind.

But it doesn't matter, she likes that about her too.

She needs to plan carefully.

Pisco has lost the vigor of his youth and has become a coward. This omission cost him his life. She saved him because she didn't want him to meet Gin and talk about Shirley. Now that Gin had failed, he would not mention it on his own initiative. Besides, she also secretly reminded him not to get involved in Shirley's affairs, and mentioned Vermouth by the way.

Vermouth's dissatisfaction with drug development is no secret to old men like Pisco.

If he didn't behave himself, she would have to find a way to get rid of him.

"Now, let's take care of Bourbon... and the ball game—"

After Winnett checked the ticket information on the Internet, she found out that this was the Emperor's Cup, which was considered the top event in Japan. She also found out that there were only eleven players on the field. She was a little distressed about her embarrassment. In her previous life, she was still a student on a dirt field, and football was not a very popular sport. In this life, she had not been to school for a few years, and her withdrawn personality made her completely unsuitable for team sports, to the point where she could not even remember common sense.

When Mingmei came back, she felt a little disappointed because she didn't see Ai.

"You didn't let her stay tonight?"

"Yeah. Actually, I don't agree with the custom of spending the night outside on Christmas. I was just kidding, but the misunderstanding between us has been resolved."

Mingmei's unhappiness disappeared when she heard this.

"That's good. Speaking of which...it's almost time for the holidays."

New Year holiday, and spring break. Mingmei saw the tickets in Winnet's hand and said jokingly: "What? You've already prepared a date place. It looks like I won't be included this time!"

Winnett explained that Ai's friends would also be there, and if Mingmei wanted to come, she would get another ticket. Mingmei shook her head and said that she was not very interested in this. Winnett then remembered that Ai's hobbies were indeed somewhat neutral, such as motorcycles and football - football might be influenced by other children. Winnett crossed out Kudo Shinichi in her mind and apologized to Mingmei again.

"You, are you being too polite? I'm just a temporary guest at your house... Haha, even though Ai often talks about you, I still can't figure out what kind of environment you grew up in, Miss Winnet."

"Pretty ordinary?"

Although it can't be called ordinary, it can't be called peculiar either. Maybe her mentality is not right at all. Before she regarded life as her own, she always had an indifferent attitude, and her concept was still inherited from the past, so she felt that there was no need to distinguish these external things too clearly. After all, when she was in the church before, she also ate at many people's homes.

"So I am actually very ordinary?"

"Well, let's take it as that."

"Okay, let's just say that." Mingmei was amused by Winnet's words, "Well, I want to eat sushi for the first time in a long time."

"Ah, you picked an area I have no expertise in. Basically, it's just putting vegetables on rice?"

"The sushi chef will cry when he hears this."

"Then let the sushi chef serve it to us happily."

After this conversation, Mingmei actually took her out to eat sushi the next morning. The first place they arrived at was a small shopping mall. Although it was the weekend after Christmas, the surroundings were not very lively. I'm afraid that the lively atmosphere last night had burned out. There were people with dogs and elderly couples around. They all looked leisurely and didn't seem to be here for shopping. The remaining Christmas lights and signs were still there, but most of the activities had ended.

Akemi took Winette to a restaurant. It was not a fancy sushi restaurant like those in Ginza, but a cheap conveyor belt sushi restaurant. She looked very familiar with the restaurant, probably because she often visited there when she was Akemi Miyano. There was not much business in the sushi restaurant, and the two were led to sit at a large table that could accommodate eight people.

It was Winette's first time to visit such a restaurant. The space inside the restaurant was much larger than it looked from the storefront. There were several chefs at the sushi making table, and there were other cooking tables further inside, as well as three or two waiters. She glanced at the menu on the table. The prices were still a little higher than those of the homely sushi restaurants on the street, which was in line with Mingmei's previous living environment. However, she didn't know much about Mingmei's previous job. She only knew that she had worked in a bank before the robbery.

Although Mingmei also mentioned her own things, most of them were memories of her student days. It seems that after graduation, she was under the control of the organization and did not have many good memories. She even had some bad ones.

Winette wasn't so tactless as to mention a bad man.

"It's a little quiet, maybe the home-style ones would be better?"

Mingmei rested her cheek on one hand and looked at Winnett.

"No, I think this place is nice. It's almost just the two of us, it's pretty relaxing, isn't it?"