Ms. Moriarty wants to save Beika Town today too.

"What if I say yes?"

"That's not okay."

Ayumi said it hurriedly without much thought. If she was asked why it wasn't possible, she probably wouldn't be able to answer.

Ai just smiled it off and whispered into Ayumi's ear.

"Don't worry, I already have someone I like. I don't have any feelings for that boy at all, as you think."

"That's great!"

Ayumi laughed excitedly and confirmed again. "Are you telling the truth?"

Ai nodded expressionlessly. It's not that she doesn't support Ayumi, but the strong opponent is not here, and this kind of relationship is almost doomed to end in vain. Winette is willing to wait for her, and the girl will wait for him, even if he can't become Kudo Shinichi, she will probably wait for him to tell her the truth.

The doctor at the side complained: "Children nowadays are really smart."

Winnet, who had sensitive ears, naturally also heard the conversation between Ai and Ayumi.

Genta and Mitsuhiko called them from behind to prevent them from standing in the rain for too long and catching a cold.

When Ai returned to the roof of the castle, she saw Winette take out a handkerchief and wipe Ayumi's face. She stared at this scene in a daze for a moment, feeling very strange.

She thought:

"She obviously did it on purpose for herself. It seems that what she just said made her feel very jealous. She is just like a jealous little girl. She is cute, but Ayumi is obviously trying to piss her off."

After finishing wiping Ayumi, Winette came to Ai's side.

Just as she was about to switch to the other side, Xiao Ai dodged her.

Xiao Ai pulled Winnet's clothes and wiped the edge of her hair.

Seeing her like this, Winnett blinked her left eye cheerfully and asked tentatively:

"Are you jealous?"

Xiao Ai glared at her unhappily, thinking that she couldn't be so proud, and said nonchalantly:

"I won't be jealous of children."

"is it?"

"Of course," she said, "but children who look like adults don't get treated so well. Get out of the way. I need to go back to the castle."

"You always keep mentioning Edogawa, Edogawa, as if you know him very well..."

Winnet felt a little aggrieved. Although she knew that Ai had no feelings beyond friendship for Edogawa, she seemed to pay more attention to him than she did. Now she understood the women mentioned in the picture books. They would be jealous of small animals or flowers and plants, and Edogawa, a "little white mouse", was almost the same. She gradually realized that the soft spot in her heart needed warmth and care to fill it - from her.

"I know you well, too."

Seeing Winnett in a bad mood, Xiao Ai breathed a sigh of relief and looked at her with a gentle expression. If there was no one watching, she would have wanted to touch her head.

But there are always other people around, and even if there are no other people, there are still many concerns if you want to do this naturally. Sometimes she is even afraid that her relationship with Winnett will be discovered by others, but she can admit it frankly in front of people who know her inside out. Contradiction, she thought, humans are a collection of contradictions, and they each have many contradictions and concerns.

"If you say so, I will take it seriously."

"Silly, it's true."

Seeing Winnet's appearance that resembled a little animal, she really wanted to say "good boy" and then caress her gently, but in the end she just stood beside her, without saying any tender or cheesy words, and followed quietly behind her.

"Okay, let's go back quickly."

The two of them and the Doctor fell behind.

After entering the castle, Dr. Agasa said optimistically: "According to what you said, Shinichi should be fine. As the saying goes, no news is the best news, right?"

"Dr. Agasa," Winnett's voice was cold, "the situation is not so optimistic."

Xiao Ai also turned her head and said to him: "That's just words used to coax children. What nonsense are you, an adult, talking about? Think about it, he has disappeared for several hours and there is no contact. Would he be bored enough to play hide-and-seek games and make us worry so much?"

"So……"

Winnet added: "Something must have happened to him now, which prevented him from contacting us. Maybe he was trapped somewhere, or captured by someone in the castle, or worse -"

"He has been killed." Xiao Ai added.

Dr. Agasa broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this.

"No way?"

Ai put her hands in her pockets, turned around coolly, and said in a tone that she couldn't do anything to you: "In short, don't attract the attention of the people here now. Contact the police first and ask them to conduct a thorough investigation here. And don't investigate in the woods, but in this castle."

"We have an idea now," Xiao Ai smiled at Winnet, "right?"

"Ah."

"But you have to work harder, Doctor." Xiao Ai said, "Now that he is gone, the only one we can rely on here is a healthy adult like you. You can't rely on a woman who is restricted in her movements in an unfamiliar environment, right?"

Winnet smiled awkwardly. Actually, you can count on her!

Having said that, she still can't stand out too much. At critical moments, her own abilities can serve as an unexpected trump card.

Seeing Ai walking towards the room, Winnet narrowed her eyes.

There was the sound of wheels in the corridor.

It only started to sound after they started to move, which means that the eldest lady was peeking at here.

Speaking of which...

Winnet suddenly thought of the conversation at the dinner table. Master Aman once said that the first wife had not left the castle for ten years, but in the hall, she mentioned the changes in passports and banknotes.

The passport change was made exactly six years ago, and she had completed the immigration procedures not long before, so her memory was particularly clear. It made sense that Fukuzawa Yukichi replaced Prince Shotoku as the image on the banknotes in 1984.

Winnet rubbed her eyebrows and thought to herself:

"Maybe I'm too sensitive."

After all, Edogawa could knock an adult man unconscious with a football, so what could an old lady with limited mobility do to him?

……

381 Little but smart

Judging from Ai's plan, she was not in a hurry to search for Conan, and did not even mention the mechanism in the room upstairs.

Winette thought about it for a moment. Since he had been missing for several hours, the difference in a short period of time would not be that big. Judging from Master Aman's story, the possibility that the possible murderer would repeat the same trick was higher.

It usually takes more than seven days for a living person to starve to death, she thought. It was for this reason that Xiao Ai asked the doctor to call the police to search.

Although they would not be able to survive without water for about three days, the other party would not be so stupid as to die of thirst in the forest, and the police would be aware of something wrong even if they were slow to act.

Dew and the stems of herbs can provide water, and it is raining now. Even if you want to die of thirst, your instinct will not allow it.

When passing the fork in the corridor, Dr. Agasa stopped; there was a telephone stand at the corner of the corridor, which just met the requirements for calling the police. Although Winnett brought a mobile phone, this place was deep in the mountains and the screen would most likely say "No Signal". She was not very familiar with the police, so she left the matter to the doctor.

She caught up with Xiao Ai and planned to help make the bed.

If we just leave it to the children, the adults' position will be in jeopardy.

After all, Winnett doesn't like being treated as an object without the ability to act independently. Although such a disguise is sometimes necessary, there is no need to maintain such an image all the time.

She entered the room and ran into the Junior Detectives making their beds.

Xiao Ai helped Ayumi and picked up the pillow.

Seeing this scene, Winette naturally understood that Ai was planning to sleep in the same bed with Ayumi.

There were only four beds in the whole room. If she and Professor Agasa each had one, the boys would have to squeeze in. But Conan suddenly disappeared, leaving Mitsuhiko and Genta alone.

Of course, Winnett didn't mind sharing a bed with Ai, but it would be a bit weird to say it out loud. It seemed spacious for two little girls to sleep in one bed, so there was no room for her as an adult.

Three is fine too.

Miss Winnett doesn't mind being "huggled left and right".

But it's just a thought, otherwise it would seem like he's a guy with some weird fetish.

Seeing that Ayumi was almost dressed, Xiao Ai put down the pillow; she looked a little dazed, obviously thinking about something, and then turned towards the door.

"There's something I forgot to tell the doctor."

Xiao Ai stopped in front of the door and turned around to tell them where they were going. However, her eyes were directed at Winnet. This was normal, as the children regarded Winnet as an adult. Whether she was reliable or not was another matter.

"Well," she said, then turned to the other children, "it's getting late, get ready for bed."

"it is good."

The Junior Detective Team verbally agreed, but Winnett felt it was a bit perfunctory. Of course, they were worried about Conan, but their past "bad deeds" always made her feel that they had other plans; Winnett knew what Ai was thinking, and coaxed them to the bathroom. Mitsuhiko and Genta were a little dissatisfied with being treated like children, while Ayumi was quiet, like a kitten waiting to be fed, glancing at her from time to time.

Men and women wash separately. Winette found through the mirror that Ayumi was always staring at her.

"Is there anything you want to say to me, Ayumi?"

Winette took on the attitude of a caring older sister and asked Ayumi.

"Ah."

Ayumi nodded, but didn't say anything immediately.

Winette knew that the child was precocious, so she squatted down and put her ear close to Ayumi's mouth, as if listening to a secret.

Maybe it has something to do with what Xiao Ai said before.

In fact, Winnett did not hear what Ai whispered to Ayumi, she only heard the part where she denied liking Conan.

This is also what Winnet was jealous of.

Why would anyone have such a guess?

Although she knew very well that Ai and Conan were of similar age and that some things could not be said directly in front of children, Winnet still felt uncomfortable.

Ayumi didn't know what Winnet was thinking at the moment. She cared about Ai's whispers and felt that Winnet and Ai had a particularly close relationship, so she thought about trying to ask.

"Sister Winnet, do you know who Huibara-san likes?"

She looked at Winnet with some worry, her little white nose wrinkled slightly.

Winnet's face froze. This little brat is really a smart kid. Even with Xiaoai's personal assurance, she was still worried.

"Yeah, I know."

Winette hesitated for a moment, but decided to say so. She was no different, and it was unreasonable for the person she liked to have gossips about others.

"Who is he?"

Ayumi swallowed, feeling a little uneasy in her anticipation.

In Winnet's opinion, there is also a bit of gossip.

"I have to keep this a secret. For matters involving privacy, you should ask the person concerned."

You can't just smile and point your thumb at yourself, right?

Miss Winnett wanted to do this, but she was afraid that she would be severely punished by Ai afterwards.

She couldn't be tough in front of Xiao Ai, simply because she loved her too much. If she wasn't there, everything that was happening right now would be a fleeting shadow, instantly eclipsed, as if it wouldn't be a big deal if it was destroyed in an instant.

"Habara-san...she doesn't like Conan, right?"

Bu Mei's true intentions are revealed.

"I can guarantee this. She definitely doesn't have that kind of feeling towards that boy. Don't worry. I'm a pastor. How could I lie?"

Winnett became serious in the second half of her speech and even made a swearing gesture.

Well, no lie this time.

Also, most of the time, she tells white lies, which don’t count.

Winette didn't care about these things. She even took the initiative to make a pinky promise with Ayumi, and said like in movies and TV dramas that lying is like swallowing a thousand needles.

"Great."

Ayumi said softly with a blushing face.

Winnett is not optimistic about this.

"Okay, now that we've finished washing up, let's go back quickly. We still have to look for Conan early tomorrow morning, right?"

"Ah."

After Winnet coaxed Ayumi and sent her back to her room, she did not go in herself; when she found that Ai had not returned yet, she walked to the corner where there was a telephone.

There is a call sound.