Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

Wen Shui: "Yeah, Hattori and the others are going back tomorrow. We're having a barbecue party with Professor Agasa tonight. Would you like to come too?"

Yukiko looked hesitant.

Wen Shui coaxed, "We have your favorite chilled beer. Taking a break might make your mind clearer and help you come up with some interesting ideas."

Yukiko sighed, "Okay, I'll go over tonight."

"Hmm? Aren't you coming shopping with me?" Wen Shui asked.

Yukiko: "No way, I'm not as free as you. I'm really serious about making this movie comeback."

"You still need to take care of yourself." Wen Shui reached out and pinched her delicate, girlish face twice. "Look, you have dark circles under your eyes. It hurts me to see you working so hard."

Yukiko blushed instantly and backed away, saying, "Don't touch me like that, you little rascal, do you really think I'm that kind of easy woman?"

"She's not a casual woman," Wen Shui said affectionately. "She's my lovely wife, my favorite... Ah, that hurts!"

Before Wen Shui could finish speaking, Kudo Yukiko raised her leg and kicked Wen Shui in the shin.

Then, like a shy little rabbit, she hid in her rented room.

Wen Shui called out a few times, but there was no response from inside, so he had no choice but to turn around and go downstairs to the shopping street in Beika Town.

Inside the rented apartment, Mrs. Kudo leaned against the entrance door, her face flushed, looking just like a high school girl who had just been confessed to by a boy she had a crush on for a long time.

"You brat... don't say things that will be misunderstood."

Yukiko Kudo said something distasteful, but the corners of her lips couldn't help but curve into a smile.

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When Wenshui arrived at the shopping street, Ai Haibara was already standing by the station.

"Why are you so slow?" Ai Haibara asked, her face stern.

Wen Shui patted her head: "I had to tidy up a bit, you see, the shirt you washed for me a few days ago is so comfortable to wear."

Ai Haibara's expression remained unchanged as she calmly said, "That time I went to your house, I was in charge of cooking, and Ran did the laundry."

Warm water: "..."

The two were silent for a moment, then Wen Shui took Ai Haibara's small hand, selectively ignoring the awkward topic from before:

"Let's go, let's buy more meat to take back. Yukiko will be coming over tonight too."

Ai Haibara snorted coldly: "It seems like you and that female celebrity are getting closer and closer."

"It's alright, just average." Wen Shui changed the subject. "By the way, have you chosen a camping spot for our trip in a few days?"

Ai Haibara: "It was Professor Agasa who found it. It seems to be on the top of a mountain."

"The mountaintop."

Wen Shui recalled the cases related to the mountaintop, and several options popped into her mind. Oh well, she'd deal with it later. Anyway, as long as she took Conan with her, there was a high probability that they would encounter a case.

The two spent half a day browsing the shopping street and finally bought the ingredients they would need for dinner.

Originally, Wen Shui was about to take Ai Haibara back, but Ai suddenly received a call from Professor Agasa, who said that he had just made an ice cream machine and asked them to sell some materials so that everyone could have ice cream together that night.

So half an hour later, in addition to meat and vegetables, Wen Shui had added light cream, sweetener, and refrigerant to her hands.

When they returned to Professor Agasa's house, the professor was in the yard hammering something that looked a bit like a round space capsule.

Ai Haibara walked over and asked, "Didn't we say last time that there was a risk of explosion with the design drawings for this ice cream machine? Why are you showing them again?"

"I couldn't sleep last night, and suddenly I had an inspiration, so I modified the circuit to reduce power consumption." Dr. Agasa wiped the smudges off his face. "Now there's no risk of explosion."

Wen Shui looked at the machine in front of her with a suspicious expression.

Dr. Agasa: "It's true, Nukumi, you have to believe me."

"Okay, let's hide in the basement for a bit," Wen Shui said half-jokingly.

Professor Agasa: "That's really hurtful to say that, honestly."

Ai Haibara picked up the design drawings that Professor Agasa was holding, glanced at them for a few moments, and couldn't help but sigh: "While this can avoid the risk of explosion, the ice-making efficiency is too slow. No merchant would buy this kind of thing."

Dr. Agasa scratched his head: "It's still a semi-finished product. Let's try it out first and see how it goes."

With that, Dr. Agasa picked up the hammer and continued working with great excitement.

Warm Water and Ai Haibara took the ingredients into the kitchen. Since they would be having barbecue that evening, they put all the food that needed to be kept fresh into the refrigerator.

The Junior Detective League kids seem to have gone to play soccer with Conan and won't be back until the afternoon.

Wen Shui suddenly found herself with nothing to do, so she looked at Professor Agasa, who was busy in the yard, and hesitated whether she should go over and help him.

Ai Haibara: "Don't even think about it. With that machine's power, I reckon we'll be lucky if we can get ice cream halfway through our barbecue tonight."

Wen Shui: "That's quite an exaggeration. Let's figure out what to have for lunch first."

Ai Haibara hesitated for a moment, then whispered, "But there's still some ice cream in the fridge that we bought last time that we didn't finish. Do you want some?"

"I want to eat it," Wen Shui said.

Ai Haibara walked to the refrigerator, opened the bottom freezer compartment, and rummaged around for a while before taking out a beautifully packaged ice cream cone.

Because it was covered with a plastic lid, the ice cream retained its shape very well.

"Here you go, this is what Ayumi bought but forgot to eat last time," said Ai Haibara.

Warm Water: "Why is there only one? Aren't you going to eat it?"

“There’s only one left,” Ai Haibara said.

Wen Shui opened the plastic packaging, took a bite, and said, "It's so cold! This is too hard. Let's eat it together."

"I don't want to share an ice cream with you," Ai Haibara firmly refused Wen Shui's request.

However, ten minutes later, Ai's pink cheeks and the corners of her mouth were covered with a lot of creamy ice cream.

Warm Water: "It tastes pretty good. I wonder if Professor Agasa's can compare to this."

"Don't get your hopes up too high. The ingredients we used aren't the best, so you'll probably be disappointed." Ai Haibara licked the ice cream from the corner of her lips, seemingly preparing to take a nap.

Although this woman's body shrank after ingesting poison, she still retained some of her habits. In addition to ordering a large number of fashion magazines in Professor Agasa's name, taking afternoon naps was also one of Ai Haibara's ways of restoring her energy.

Wen Shui grabbed her small hand: "Wait a minute, there's still some smudge on your face."

Ai Haibara raised her small face, just about to speak, when she realized that she could no longer speak.

That bastard Wen Shui wasn't wiping her face at all; he was clearly treating her soft, delicate lips like ice cream.

Thinking about it this way, was it premeditated for Wen Shui to deliberately get ice cream on her face?

Ai Haibara's reasoning failed to continue because her mind quickly went blank; the chemical formulas in the genius female scientist's brain were easily shattered by the warm water.

At this moment, Professor Agasa was busy in the yard working on the final stage of the ice cream machine. There was no one in the kitchen, so it wouldn't matter if the warm water was a little too hot.

Ai Haibara's resistance is more about maintaining her cold and aloof queen persona and doesn't really harm Wen Shui.

About half an hour later, Ran and Kazuha Toyama actually arrived at Professor Agasa's house.

The two were also carrying a lot of snacks they had bought from the Mihana shopping street.

Unfortunately, Ran arrived a little late; the midday skit between Wen Shui and Ai Haibara had already ended, so the dramatic love triangle didn't happen.

Wen Shui looked at what Xiao Lan was holding and asked in surprise, "Didn't you say you were going to see a movie this afternoon?"

Ran put her things away: "Kazuha heard Hattori say he's coming to Professor Agasa's house for dinner tonight, and that you're seeing him off, so how can I not come?"

“But that’s in the evening. Hattori said he was going to see some friends, so there’s plenty of time,” Wenshui said.

"In that case, wouldn't all the preparation work fall on Ai's shoulders?" Ran complained.

Then she took a string of dumplings out of the bag and handed it to Ai Haibara: "Ai, you've worked hard, try this."

Although Ai Haibara was somewhat unwilling to be fed, she had no choice but to take the dumplings from Ran's hand and eat them in small bites in order to maintain her persona.

When she first took a bite, even though the sauce was very rich, Ai Haibara still pictured the taste of that bastard Wen Shui's saliva in her mind.

Damn it, he's already hallucinating. I'll have to warn Wen Shui next time so he can tone it down.

As Ai Haibara grumbled as she ate her dumplings, Kazuha Toyama walked over and said with a smile, "Warm Water-kun, thank you for spending money this time. I'll treat you well when you come to Osaka another day."

Wen Shui smiled and said, "You're too kind. We've been partners in catching bad guys together."

Kazuha Toyama imitated Ran's actions, taking out a string of dumplings from a brown paper bag: "These are delicious, hmm... although they're a bit cheap, please be sure to try the dumplings I brought back myself."

Wen Shui was both amused and exasperated: "Bringing it over personally is such an exaggeration."

However, before Wen Shui could even eat, she felt two cold gazes from behind her.

Ran and Ai Haibara immediately turned their attention to them.

Warm Water symbolically ate one dumpling, then shared the rest with Ran and Ai Haibara, temporarily calming the undercurrents within the Wings Group.

Just then, a noisy commotion came from outside the door; it was Conan and his friends returning from playing soccer.

When Genta Kojima saw Professor Agasa's ice cream machine, he immediately clamored for some, only to be greatly disappointed when he heard that he wouldn't be able to eat ice cream until the evening.

Ayumi: "I remember we bought a lot of ice cream last time. If Professor Agasa didn't steal any, there should still be some in the fridge."

The kids immediately ran excitedly to the kitchen, greeted Wen Shui and the others, and then...

Each person took an ice cream cone from the refrigerator.

Wen Shui looked at the ice cream cone that was exactly the same as the "last ice cream" she had just eaten, and couldn't help but look at Haibara Ai beside her.

Ai Haibara blushed and lowered her head without saying a word.

Wen Shui leaned close to Ai and whispered, "The ice cream I just had was the most delicious I've ever eaten in my life. Let's eat it together again next time."

Chapter 328 Taking Mrs. Kudo home to see the stars is a battleground

Faced with lukewarm, cheesy pickup lines, Ai Haibara chose her usual way to express her shyness.

That's the shinbone from kicking the warm water so hard.

"What are you doing? That hurts!" Wen Shui dodged Haibara Ai's follow-up attack with a quick movement.

Ran was about to put the groceries she bought into the refrigerator when she saw the commotion and turned around: "Hey, Ai, what's wrong?"

“I just ate her ice cream,” Wen Shui interrupted.

Ai Haibara rolled her eyes: "Hmph, I'm going to take a nap. Ayumi, wanna come with me?"