"Sister Xiaolan, I'm going out."

"Be careful on the road."

"Okay~"

After saying goodbye to his beloved childhood sweetheart, Conan's expression immediately became serious.

The Mori Detective Agency is located at No. 39, 5-chome, Yoneka Town, and Okino's dumpling shop is also at 5-chome, but it is located at 16, so the distance is quite close. The Edogawa children's destination this time is Okino.

Ye lost the dumpling shop.

On the other side, around seven o'clock, Okino Shi opened the store door and started to open for business. At this time, he was carefully putting the prepared dumplings into the steamer, then sat down and took out an ancient book from his arms and slowly read through it.

Got up.

Okino, who has just become a magician, is basically a novice. In addition to passively accumulating magic power every day, he can only read this book about magic to enrich his knowledge of magic. Even if he travels through time

If you don't know much about magic, you must study it carefully.

But this seemingly inconspicuous book recorded nearly a hundred kinds of magic, large and small, ranging from simple movement magic to more powerful ancient spells. When he saw this, Okino Shiya was surprised.

It's been a while.

In fact, some magic looks like magic at first glance, but in the definition of Xingyue World, modern human civilization can do it through different means. Magic is something that modern civilization cannot do anyway.

For example, the dead are resurrected and the soul becomes material.

But in general, the boundaries between magic and magic are very blurred. For example, is black magic magic or magic? But sometimes, black magic is also called black magic.

In this way, Okino Shi was studying various magic tricks while waiting for new customers.

Not long after, Okino Shi suddenly heard the sound of the door being opened. He subconsciously raised his head and looked up, but unexpectedly found that the person who came was actually a child, a little boy in a blue suit.

"Why is he here?" Okino was wondering.

"Welcome, what would you like to eat?"

"Hello, Brother Okino, please bring me a plate of steamed dumplings." With the expression of an innocent child, Conan sat on the chair.

Okino pointed to the steaming steamer next to him and said with a smile: "No problem, but you still need to wait for five minutes."

"Okay~"

Conan responded innocently, then secretly looked at everything in the store, giving full play to what it means to be an excellent detective.

This scene was naturally seen by Okino Shi. After all, he knew what this kid was doing, and he couldn't help but laugh.

Conan was stunned for a moment.

What's this? He smiled so suddenly. He must not be thinking of something bad.

"Sorry, sorry, I thought of something interesting."

This insincere apology made Conan twitch the corner of his mouth, but he quickly adjusted his emotions.

"By the way, Brother Okino, are you always alone?"

"yes."

"Why don't you ask someone to help you? It must be very hard for one person to run this store."

Okino shook his head, "Fortunately, not many people patronize my store anyway. It's a complete waste of money to hire someone. And since my grandfather's generation, he has been alone and too lazy to hire someone. Okay, this is

Please use the dumplings you ordered slowly."

"Thank you, Brother Okino." After taking the dumplings, Conan couldn't ask any more questions.

Okino pointed to the small bottle and jar next to him and said, "Eat slowly. If it's too bland, there's soy sauce and vinegar on the side."

"good."

‘Well, maybe I’m overthinking it, I’m not a bad person if I can make such delicious dumplings.’ Looking at the crystal dumplings on the plate, Conan, who had just eaten, couldn’t help but feel an appetite again.

Then, Conan decisively picked up the chopsticks and said "I'm starting", then picked up a dumpling and slowly put it into his mouth.

After taking one bite, Conan's eyes suddenly lit up. He couldn't wait to put the remaining half of the dumpling into his mouth, and then showed a satisfied smile.

"Mmm! It's so delicious!"

"How is it? It's delicious. This is special Chinese cuisine. It's absolutely authentic." Okino smiled, very satisfied with Conan's performance.

"Special?"

"Of course, the dumplings I make are different from the ones you make here. The fillings are secretly made."

"Yeah, it tastes really delicious. I didn't expect dumplings to have such a taste. It's really great. I will definitely ask Sister Xiaolan and Uncle Maoli to come over to eat together next time." Conan nodded repeatedly and couldn't help but think again.

I ate a few dumplings.

"That's really good."

"Uh-huh."

Soon, Conan ate all the dumplings on the plate, and even showed a look of unfinished expression, but...

‘Forget it, let’s eat it next time.’ Touching his bulging belly, Conan sighed in disappointment.

"How is it? Are the survey results satisfactory?"

"Pfft! What, what kind of investigation?" Okino's sudden words made Conan so frightened that he almost spit out the water he just drank.

"Really, you asked so many questions just now, and I told you all out of kindness, detective." Okino tilted his chin and looked at the panic-stricken Conan kid playfully. Out of fun, he also

Decided to give this guy a good scare.

"You, what on earth are you talking about? I'm just curious about Brother Okino's dumplings and came here to eat them, haha~~" Conan smiled reluctantly, but his heart was already filled with turmoil.

'What's going on? What's going on with this guy? Maybe he saw something!'

At this moment, Conan was panicking.

"Detective, you are really curious. Sometimes being too curious may put you in a dangerous situation. You have to keep this in mind."

"What are you talking about, Brother Okino, I'm just a primary school student, not a famous detective anymore." Conan continued to act stupid.

"It's nothing, just think I'm talking to myself, and...it's three hundred yen in total. Thank you for your patronage."

"ha?"

"What, you want to default on the bill?" Okino narrowed his eyes in confusion and glanced at him gently.

"How, how is it possible?"

"Huh, I guess you wouldn't dare either."

In the end, I might have to quietly take out my small amount of pocket money and give it to Okino Misaki.

...

After leaving the dumpling shop, Conan's expression suddenly changed, as if he had changed from an innocent primary school student to a mature detective.

"Damn it, what is going on with this guy? He must know something, it blocks my intuition as a detective!"

"Looking back now, his attitude towards me was too strange. It was not the attitude towards a child at all, but..."

Suddenly, Conan couldn't help but think of a terrifying guess, and his expression suddenly changed.

"Is it possible that he knows about my shrinkage? Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, no one can know about this kind of thing. If not, I will have to discuss it with Dr. A Li."

I have to say that detectives are really scary. Okino Shi just said a few words casually, and the famous detective discovered so many clues. At the same time, Okino Shi's unknown also made him, the detective, feel uneasy.

Detective is really a scary profession.

Soon, the kid Conan hurried to Dr. Ali's house.

"Doctor, doctor!"

"Oh, it's Shinichi, why do you have time to come over to me?"

"Doctor, there is something I want to discuss with the doctor."

"Why are you so anxious?" The doctor put down the coffee in his hand and looked at Conan, who was sweating profusely, strangely.

"Doctor, this is what happened..."

Ten minutes later, Conan, who had told everything, sat on the sofa helplessly and looked at the doctor beside him.

"Doctor, can you help me think of a way? That person named Okino Shimizu is really strange. Please think of a way to help me try out that person's tone."

"Shinichi, according to what you said, he is probably an accomplice of those people. Do you have the heart to let an old man like me die?"

"No, doctor, I just had this idea, and..." Conan touched his chin and frowned gradually.

"That guy shouldn't be an accomplice of those men in black. If he really knew that I was Kudo Shinichi who became smaller after taking medicine, I'm afraid he would have taken action long ago, just like he did at that time."

Later, Conan couldn't help but think of the moment when Gin drank poison to himself in the tropical paradise, and his face became even more ugly.

"Shinichi..."

"It's okay, Doctor." Conan shook his head, and then thought of something, and suddenly a car appeared in front of him.

"Doctor, why don't we go there again tonight? The dumplings there happen to be really delicious. Doctor can also try it. By the way, help me look at the person named Okino Shiro. I think with the doctor's eyesight

You must be able to see something."
To be continued...