[This will be enough, right Akemi?]
[Yes, thank you very much!] Miyano Akemi had wiped her tears and she looked at Haibara Ai's vibrant look. They will reunite in the future and at that time, they will live together for a long time.
Hikari Yuki was about to leave when she saw Inspector Megure coming with Megumi Aiko trailing behind him. From the way Megumi Aiko looked like, she was very unwilling and didn't want to approach this place in the slightest bit.
Hikari Yuki's lips twitched.
It was quite miraculous that she managed to survive as a police officer for such a long time.
'Hmm, should I greet her?'
After all, Hikari Yuki will be staying in Tokyo for a while and she sincerely hopes that the organization will not give her unreasonable missions again. She still has a lot of work to do even without the organization giving her missions.
"Sister Yuki, you're still here?" Conan saw Hikari Yuki looking at the police officers and called her.
'What is it, Conan?" Hikari Yuki asked with a confused tone.
"Ah, can Sister Yuki bring the children away from the crime scene?" Conan felt a headache since they were not willing to listen to him.
"I'm not very good at facing children, but I can try." Hikari Yuki looked helpless.
"Thank you, Sister Yuki!" Conan smiled sweetly.
Even though Hikari Yuki knew that Conan was Shinichi, it was still quite endearing to see him act cute. Hikari Yuki rubbed the boy's head helplessly before releasing him after messing with his hair.
"Prof. Agasa, let Sister Yuki bring the children back home," Conan said, tugging at Prof. Agasa sleeve.
"Ah, yes." Prof. Agasa looked at Hikari Yuki apologetically. "I'm sorry to trouble you."
"It's fine. I'm rather free anyway." Hikari Yuki smiled brightly and sweetly.
"Wow, pretty sister!"
"Hello sister, I am Conan's friend Ayumi Yoshida."
"I am Kojima Genta."
"I am Mitsuhiko."
"Haibara Ai." At this time, Haibara Ai had calmed down. Even if there was some restraint, it would be obvious that she felt closer to Hikari Yuki after that short conversation.
Hikari Yuki bent down to look at them at eye level. "Hello."
Her beautiful blue eyes curved slightly, bright but not scorching, giving people a warm and comfortable feeling.
Genta and Mitsuhiko looked at Hikari Yuki's smile and stood up straighter, while Yoshida Ayumi's eyes sparkled, thinking that the older sister in front of them was really beautiful.
Haibara Ai didn't show any expression, but her eyes didn't move away from Hikari Yuki's face.
Haibara Ai watched as Hikari Yuki directly increased her favorability value in front of the children in just a few minutes. And then, Prof. Agasa agreed to bring them back to his house where they were all playing together.
Haibara Ai: "..." This is a top notch acting!
Little did she know that Hikari Yuki was basically imitating someone else. After all, she was actually not good at facing children.
With Prof. Agasa help, Hikari Yuki brings the children away from the crime scene. She had the feeling that Conan still trusted her identity at this point of time.
It seemed her effort to be an ordinary neighbour paid off.
…a little too much in fact.
While the children were preoccupied, Ai went to the basement and opened the camera. There was only one video inside, the video of Miyano Akemi in the hospital. She smiled brightly and sweetly, telling her that she's fine and gave a few reminders for Miyano Shiho.
Hikari Yuki didn't disturb Ai and played various video games with the children. She always wore a pair of gloves, which would prevent her from leaving fingerprints behind.
When it's time for dinner, Haibara Ai dragged Hikari Yuki to eat together.
"So Ai likes Sister Yuki too?" Ayumi looked happy with this.
"Um." Haibara Ai nodded coolly while eating.
Hikari Yuki was invited for dinner together and she felt amused by Haibara Ai's reaction. It seemed that she was back in this state. But she could still detect a hint of happiness around Haibara Ai.
"That's great, you're all good kids." Hikari Yuki smiled brightly. "By the way, it's already late and I have to go back."
"I'll take you out."
"Okay."
The two walked to the gate and Hikari Yuki smiled at Haibara Ai gently. "Even though I'm not her, if you want to see me, I'm staying in the apartment beside Mouri Ran place. He knows where I live."
"Yes." Haibara Ai nodded and then asked, "Will my presence trouble you?"
"No. I have enough freedom to befriend children and to reject tasks I don't want to do." Hikari Yuki chuckled.
This meant, even if there's a mission to hunt Sherry, Hikari Yuki could reject it.
Haibara Ai trembled slightly at the mention of the organisation, but she calmed down soon enough. The confidence and calmness that Hikari Yuki showed to her comforted her.
"Thank you."
Hikari Yuki waved and left unhurriedly. She had sensed that Conan was coming back, but she had no intention of talking with the other party.
There was no need to get so involved with Conan.
He's indeed a good kid, but he's involved in too many cases. Hikari Yuki didn't want to imagine how miserable her life would be if she got closer to Conan.
It's too terrifying.
Besides, her identity was not suitable to solve cases. It's better to let other people experience it instead.
While Hikari Yuki went back, Conan also came back and the children had already returned.
Haibara Ai glanced at Conan. "Why are you here again?"
"Ah, I was worried about you, okay!" Conan thought about it again after the case was done and felt that Haibara Ai's reaction to Hikari Yuki was not right.
He had known Hikari Yuki for nearly four years even though there were a lot of times they couldn't even see each other because Hikari Yuki was staying overseas. From what he had seen so far, Hikari Yuki is a good student, had a bit of a clean freak judging by how she didn't like eating in most restaurants and always wore gloves.
Her family seemed to be well off from her clothing. She was quite meticulous in her actions and also very warm and kind on a daily basis.
But he never saw her getting close to children.
"I'm fine," Haibara Ai said sternly.
"That… Is Hikari Yuki a suspicious person?" Conan asked.
"No!" Haibara Ai almost yelled.
This made Conan stunned. He had never seen Ai lost her composure so much before.
"She… she looks like my sister," Haibara Ai said after a while.
To be honest, appearance wise, Hikari Yuki looks like a teenager at most. Moreover, Hikari Yuki is also shorter than her sister.
But she has long hair and the vibe she gave was indeed similar to her sister.
So gentle and reassuring….
"Ah…" Conan let out a dry laugh when he heard that. He didn't dare to talk when it was about Miyano Akemi because he knew how much Haibara Ai cared for her.
"She didn't seem to look that alike." Conan tilted his head. Hikari Yuki's long black hair was more similar to Ran than Miyano Akemi. And their appearance was not that similar to each other.
"She just gives me that gentle feeling… you won't understand." Haibara Ai gave a disdainful look and then walked away without hesitation.
It was indeed because Hikari Yuki was good at concealing her aura that Haibara Ai felt close to the other party. Even though she could still feel the dangerous feeling beneath the warm appearance, it was very faint.
So much so that Haibara Ai felt her reaction to her would be unnoticeable.
Besides…
Someone whom her sister trusted and even saved her couldn't be a bad person.
Except for that guy.
Conan looked at Haibara Ai with an unbelievable look, but he really couldn't get anything else out of her.
Prof. Agasa couldn't help and only looked back with a helpless look.
Well, at least he tried.
…
Kurokawa Saki went home and rested for the night.
Playing with children was really tiring.
And the result of playing all day is that her work piled up and Kurokawa Saki had no other choice but to work all morning the next day to finish everything and slumped on the table.
'Why do I still have to work so hard in a game?'
Sometimes, Kurokawa Saki even doubted her life.
*Sigh*
Kurokawa Saki struggled to pull her body up and she looked at the plan made by no. 5 and nodded secretly when she saw the step by step plans that he had made.
No. 5 is really meticulous.
He seemed to be very suitable for office work.
No wonder he received a promotion in his work as public security officer.
'Let's take a look at this place.'
Seeing that the transaction was going to be held in a deserted alley, Kurokawa Saki decided to take a look. There was a convenience store right opposite of the alleyway where she could see it directly.
She calculated the time and then departed from her home at the precise moment so that it would not look deliberate.
The others didn't know what Kurokawa Saki was planning.
Only that she wanted to walk around after finishing her work.
"You can let your team work too," Morofushi Hiromitsu said helplessly.
"They didn't have all the necessary information," Kurokawa Saki said with a shrug. Even if she wanted to give it to them, most of them wouldn't be able to complete it.