When Moriran returned to the passenger compartment with a heavy heart, she happened to meet Officer Nakamori with a solemn face.

"Miss Xiaolan," Officer Nakamori asked as soon as he saw her. "Excuse me, do you know where Mr. Maori has gone?"

"Father?" Mori Lan was a little stunned, and looked at the hatch of Mori Kogoro's cabin not far away. "He's not there?"

"Not there." Officer Nakamori shook his head. "I've been looking for him once before, and this time when I came to him, he was still gone."

"It shouldn't be," Mao Lilan's expression was also a little confused. "Is it a drink at a bar?"

"I've been looking for it too," Officer Nakamori continued to shake his head. "Not there."

"What do you have to do with me?" With a sudden sound of inquiry, Mori Kogoro walked through the passage behind Mori Lan. "Officer Nakamori, are you looking for me?"

"Mr. Maori, we're looking for you," Officer Nakamori breathed a sigh of relief. "Let's go, let's go ahead and take a look at our plans."

"Seriously, I feel like this plan is already very detailed, is there really a need to continue to do it?" Mori Kogoro sighed and asked. "How many days have we been talking?"

"Anyway, Kidd should be out of place for a while after this operation is over," Officer Nakamori said with a helpless expression on his face. "I'm going to have to take a good vacation."

"I can't help it," Mori Kogoro shook his head with a wry smile. "Really, it's been a long time since I've worked so hard."

"Dad, where have you been?" Mao Lilan asked with some curiosity. "Officer Nakamori didn't find you at the bar just now."

"I just went shopping, and it's nothing." Kogoro Mori shook his head. "Officer Nakamori, let's go."

"Hmm." Officer Nakamori nodded, and the two walked off together.

When Mori Kogoro and Mori Ran passed by, Mori Kogoro's sleeve rubbed against Mori Ran's forearm.

The clothes were so cold that Maoliran's arms trembled. I don't know why, Mori Lan always felt that something was wrong, so she just stood there and looked a little distracted in the direction of Mori Kogoro's departure.

She didn't know how long it took for her to suddenly hear what seemed to be someone calling his name.

"Sister Xiaolan?"

"Hey......" Mao Lilan still didn't come back to his senses, but just answered blankly.

"Sister Xiaolan?" This time, the voices of those calling her name were more resolute. "Sister Xiaolan!?"

"Ahh Mao Lilan woke up and looked in the direction where the voice came from - it was Conan with a confused face, and Ayumi was following behind Conan, just looking at Conan a little stupidly.

"Sister Xiaolan, why are you here?" Conan asked. "Thinking about something?"

"Ah......h It's fine, just thinking about something...... Why is Ayumi with you, though? ”

"Uh......" Conan glanced at Ayumi behind him, and then realized that Ayumi's eyes were a little ...... A feeding frenzy? "Uh, Ayumi?"

"What's wrong?" Ayumi replied immediately.

"The ......," Conan asked, rather awkwardly. You...... Don't look at me like that, I'm a little nervous. ”

"Ah, okay!" Ayumi nodded, and then immediately changed to a very serious expression, but her eyes were still staring intently into Conan's eyes.

"Now, Conan," Moriran had already crouched down, looking at Conan with a rather playful expression. "What's your relationship with Ayumi?"

"It doesn't matter!" Conan immediately shook his head, and after hearing this answer, Maoliran immediately turned her gaze in the direction of Ayumi as if she had a premonition that she could see something interesting, and then she saw Ayumi's gaze dim without the slightest surprise, but it quickly returned to normal.

"Ayumi?" Maoliran looked at Ayumi and asked again.

"......" Ayumi hesitated for a moment before nodding. Yes, nothing to do with it. ”

"Hmm......" Mao Lilan's expression was quite subtle, and he clasped his hands on his chest and stood up again. Is that so? With that, her gaze swept over Conan's face, and she looked at Ayumi without scanning any valuable information.

Compared to Conan, a little guy with a big ghost and a frank face, Mao Lilan still thinks that Ayumi's expression is easier to read.

What kind of expression is this? Maolilan couldn't tell, but she might have guessed - she had seen such a look before.

It was a look that her former best friend often showed.

She met the girl at the cheering area of a school-level football game that Kudo Shinichi participated in when she was in junior high school, and the girl was holding Kudo Shinichi's cheering slogan like her. Since then, they have become good friends who talk about everything, and they often cheer for Kudo Shinichi at competitions in which Kudo Shinichi participates.

But later, Maolilan noticed that the girl seemed to have encountered something wrong, and became a little depressed, and she often lost interest even when talking to her. Moreover, if Shinichi Kudo stayed at the training ground after school to practice football, and Moriran went to see him after self-study, the girl could sometimes be seen often - she was just quietly leaning against the barbed wire fence outside the training ground, standing still for a long time looking in the direction of Kudo Shinichi.

After that, the relationship between her and Mao Lilan gradually became delicate, although she would still say hello when she met her, but she no longer cheered hard when she cheered for Kudo Shinichi in the arena, but just sat quietly in a corner of the audience area, her eyes quietly followed Kudo Shinichi's figure, and she would not take the initiative to chat with Mao Lilan again.

Mao Lilan didn't know exactly what was going on at the time, but as she entered high school, she probably guessed what was going on after occasionally meeting some female fans of Kudo Shinichi.

If she wasn't mistaken, it was an expression of looking at her sweetheart—with the added condition that that sweetheart might not like her.

So, who is Conan's heart?

Moriran once heard an answer from Ayumi's mouth, although she didn't accept it at the time - at the time, Ayumi said that the person Conan liked was her, Moriran. Because of this, Conan could no longer live in a second person in his heart.

But...... Maoliran glanced at Conan, who was looking at her curiously at this time.

If at the time she thought it was impossible, now she seems to feel that the situation is a little delicate.

Conan does pay more attention to himself than the average child, and often takes risks for his own sake—more than once, ever since Conan came to live with them.