Conan's other self

Sanjusangen-do is a temple of the Tendai Sect in Japan and the main hall of Rengeo-in Temple. It was also the first stop of yesterday’s study trip to Tedan High School.

After lunch, Fengyuan and Haibara Ai came here together. In fact, yesterday Maplehara visited this place with his classmates as Kudo Shinichi, and today——

Haiyuan Ai, who had returned to her original appearance, stood outside the temple, looked at the rectangular ancient building in front of her, then turned to look at Fengyuan beside her, "Do you like temples very much?"

"So-so, why do you ask?"

"Because you brought me here directly."

"The temples in Kyoto are already very famous, so they are worth visiting. And during the school trip yesterday, the first stop arranged by the school was here..."

He also promised Hui Yuan Ai to accompany her on another walk yesterday.

"It doesn't matter to me," Haihara Ai already knew their itinerary through the detective badge yesterday, "but you have already been here..."

"But you haven't been here yet," Fengyuan replied, "and the feeling back then was different from now."

At that time, he was playing the Kudo Shinichi that Xiaolan and his classmates were familiar with. There was no one around him who wanted to travel with him, so he didn't actually visit seriously.

Similar conversations have happened several times, so Haibara Ai immediately understood what Feng Yuan meant.

However, she still pretended not to understand, and with a straight face, she stretched out her hand in front of Fengyuan to compare his height in a serious manner, then showed a look of surprise and nodded her head.

"That's true," Haiyuan Ai said in a slightly narrow tone, "Yesterday you were so tall, but today you are just a little kid..."

The height is different, and the perspective when traveling is certainly different.

"You too." Feng Yuan argued.

"Anyway..." Hui Yuarai paused slightly, "Taller than you."

Girls at this stage already develop faster than boys, and Haibara Ai is now taller than Maplehara. In fact, even when they look like high school students, they are almost the same height.

Therefore, Maplehara could not refute.

However, as a primary school detective with a good brain and good reasoning ability, Maplehara had other ideas.

"That's great." Fengyuan said in a serious tone, "I like tall girls."

"..."

Haiyuan Ai's earlobes were slightly red, and he rolled his eyes at Fengyuan angrily. Then she noticed that her hand was being held tightly.

The guy even pinched it in a bad way.

Two primary school students held hands like a couple to visit the temple, which was somewhat eye-catching. But this was not the first time, and since he couldn't defeat Fengyuan at this point, Haiyuan Ai had no choice but to admit it.

She squeezed back hard, and then the two of them held hands and started visiting.

Sanjusangendo Hall is famous in Japan for enshrining a thousand statues of Guanyin, and the seated Thousand-Armed Guanyin is a national treasure of Japan.

It is said that every visitor can find a statue of Guanyin with a face similar to his own, and Maplehara also successfully found it, not only a face similar to Kudo Shinichi, but also a face similar to Sora.

But he still felt that every statue here was far from Huihara Ai. Sure enough, his Haiyuan is too cute.

Outside the temple, there were also many tourists dressed up as Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara and taking photos, which made Hui Yuan Ai hesitate for a moment.

"It's okay," Fengyuan felt it immediately, "They are just filming themselves. And I am a detective. If someone is filming us, I can detect it..."

"Really?" Haihara Ai expressed doubt, "Why didn't I know that the detective still has this ability?"

"I am a detective of the new era." Fengyuan took out a hat from his arms, "If you are really worried, just wear this, right?"

That's BIG Osaka's hat.

Huihara Ai did not refuse.

She did not reach out to take it, but leaned slightly and moved her head towards Fengyuan. Fengyuan unfolded the hat, gently put it on the girl's soft hair, and then straightened it for her.

After he arranged his hat for her, Haihara Ai stood up straight again and asked, "Where to go next?"

"Next..."

Next is Luyuan Temple.

Likewise, this was also the second stop of yesterday’s school trip.

In Rukonji Temple, the three-story pavilion building covered with gold leaf inside and outside is also called the Golden Pavilion, so the entire temple is also called Kinkakuji.

The Kinkakuji in front of them was actually rebuilt. Decades ago, the Kinkakuji was deliberately set on fire and burned down.

Haihara Ai also knows this history.

"It's a pity," Haiyuan Ai looked regretful, "The most beautiful time of Kinkakuji Temple was more than half a century ago..."

In the past, many literary works believed that the Golden Pavilion Temple was the most beautiful during the fire. Haihara Ai also had similar thoughts.

"You don't want to set fire to it, do you?" Feng Yuan joked in a low voice.

"Yes," Haiyuan Ai turned her head to look at Feng Yuan and said seriously, "And you have to use a chimney."

"Chimney..."

"Mr. Detective, are you going to arrest me?"

"Forget it, I will definitely be an accomplice." Fengyuan replied, "And I already have many photos of Ms. Irene."

Some of them were even made into memes.

In the story of A Scandal in Bohemia, it was Watson who set the fire with the chimney, but the mastermind was Holmes who wanted to steal the photo of Irene.

It will take some time to reach dusk, so there is no sunset to help bring out the burning feeling. This kind of Kinkakuji is not a good Kinkakuji. Haibara Ai didn't intend to wait here any longer, so the two of them stayed here for a while before heading to the last stop of today's plan.

Kiyomizudera Temple.

It is late autumn, and the red leaves in Kiyomizu Temple are like fire.

The falling red leaves fell on the ground, spreading into a thick carpet. It was almost dusk when they arrived here, and the fiery red rays of the setting sun shone on the ground. Together with the red leaves, it gave people the feeling that the place was burning.

Like a real elementary school girl of this age, Haibara Ai stepped lightly on the fallen leaves and then turned around gracefully.

It had been a long time since she had felt the pressure of an organization.

Although she still has a fear of the organization deep down in her heart, the past few months of getting along with her have convinced her that Kudo can do many things.

The same goes for organizational matters.

Moreover, she believed that no matter what the ending was, he would meet their ending together with her.

There is nothing to be afraid of.

So she is relaxed.

She pressed the brim of her hat, then turned around to look at Feng Yuan, who was looking at her two steps away, and smiled softly at him.

Feng Yuan was slightly in a trance.

At this moment, he clearly realized that in order to protect such a smile, he would do a lot of things that he knew he shouldn't do.

The eyes of the young man in front of her became particularly familiar and soft, which made Haibara Ai feel her cheeks getting a little hot, so the next moment she retracted the smile she had just shown when she was a little complacent, turned around and began to look at the red leaves on the tree. Come.

However, the red leaves here are obviously less likely to reflect the face of the person next to them.

So she looked quietly for a while and then closed her eyes.

As the vision is actively turned off, the other senses of the body also become more sensitive. She could hear his even breathing and feel his soft yet burning gaze.

Red leaves are falling.

The distant wind blows, making the dancing of the red leaves even more intoxicating. She opened her eyes and subconsciously pressed the hat on her head, but it was immediately blown up by the gust of wind.

Haihara Ai tried to reach out and grab the hat, but failed.

Turning back in the direction of the wind, Haiyuan Ai watched as his hat flew past Fengyuan.

But Feng Yuan remained motionless, still looking at her.

"Are you just going to watch my hat blow away?"

Feng Yuan remained silent.

He doesn't look normal,

Hui Yuan Ai was a little worried.

She turned sideways, tilted her head, and stared into his eyes.

There was a look of nostalgia in those eyes.

Hui Yuan Ai was startled for a moment, and then shouted softly in a very low voice: "Kudo?"

"I am here."

Hui Yuan Ai felt relieved.

"I'm not asking you this," Hui Yuan Ai said dissatisfied, "Who were you thinking about just now?"

"Miss you."

"Liar, I'm right in front of you——"

"You thirteen years ago." Feng Yuan said softly.

Another gust of wind came, but this time it only brought a fiery red leaf.

The two men looked at each other quietly as if they were standing in the middle of a fire.

Hui Yuan Ai looked at Feng Yuan's eyes quietly, looking at herself reflected in those eyes, and Feng Yuan reflected in her own eyes...

Then she sank deep into it.

She didn't know how long it took before she came back to her senses, and then she pursed her lips slightly: "You...remembered it all?"

"Yes," Feng Yuan replied softly, and the girl in front of him gradually merged with the figure in his memory, "just now."

…

When a story comes to an end, we always think of its beginning.

Thirteen years ago.

An ordinary afternoon.

The protagonist is Kudo Shinichi.

That afternoon, Kudo Shinichi picked up a very hard paper card near the kindergarten.

There are many cartoon villains drawn with simple lines neatly printed on the card. An irregular number of villains form a group, and each villain looks like he is dancing.

For him who has read the Sherlock Holmes series and likes Sherlock Holmes very much, this is very familiar. He immediately thought of a story in the Sherlock Holmes series.

Dancing little people.

This is a secret code.

Because he had some relationship with Sherlock Holmes, he was originally only interested in secret codes. After calling Kudo Yukiko to talk to him, he started today's adventure.

Unlike ordinary kindergarten children, Kudo Shinichi has always been very reassuring. And even though Kudo Yukiko felt that her son was just pretending to be mature, she had to admit that he was indeed very smart.

So she just casually told Kudo Shinichi to go back early, and reluctantly agreed to his late return. Kudo Shinichi also began to try to unlock the code.

In the original story of "Dancing Little People", each dancing little person represents an English letter. Among the English letters, E is the most frequently occurring letter, so Holmes guessed that the little man appearing most frequently represented the letter E.

In addition, the code in the story is a letter, and the letter may mention the name of the recipient, and he uses this as a basis to decipher the code.

but…

This is Rice Krispies, this is Japan.

On the piece of paper Kudo Shinichi picked up, the text forming the code was not long, and there was no relevant background to base it on.

He didn't even know whether these little people represented English letters, hiragana, romanization or something else.

So he had no idea for a while.

Leaning against the wall outside the kindergarten and staring at the card and thinking for a while, Kudo Shinichi decided to use the code table from the Sherlock Holmes story.

He has a very good memory and has seen the original illustrations in this story, so he quickly matched every dancing figure in the story with a letter, and then he discovered...

This works.

Following the instructions of the secret code, he came to the edge of a forest near Didan Primary School.

As the saying goes, there is no chance of entering the forest, not to mention that he is only a kindergarten child, so he did not break into the woods directly. Instead, he carefully observed the surroundings at the edge before sticking his head and looking into the woods. .

Then he saw a girl.

The little girl looked older than me, but not much, and she could be considered the same age. She was standing in a clearing in the forest at the moment, with her back to herself and her head raised as if she was looking for something.

Kudo Shinichi noticed that she was also holding a card in her right hand, and guessed that it was the same card as the one in his hand. The little girl in front of me probably followed the code to find her here.

She was also wearing a hat.

And just when he was hesitating whether to go up and say hello, there was a gust of wind, and the little girl's hat was blown up by the wind, and then her soft brown hair fluttered in the wind.

She tried to grab the hat, but failed. Then she looked back.

He saw her face too.

Miraculously cute.

He was a little dazed, but after the cute little girl looked over, he immediately came to his senses, helped pick up the hat on the roadside, and then returned it.

"Your hat," he said.

He noticed that the little girl seemed to want to cover her hair with her hands from him for a moment, and then she put her hands down as if she realized that such a thing was impossible.

She lowered her head and whispered thank you before taking the hat.

She put her hat back on, carefully adjusted it so that it covered her hair tightly, and then looked at the little boy she met unexpectedly in front of her.

His reaction seemed a little different from others, so she couldn't help but ask: "Is it weird?"

"What?" Kudo Shinichi asked confused.

"My hair. Don't you think it's weird?"

"I don't think so." Kudo Shinichi replied honestly, and then added, "It looks good."

"..." The little girl looked unconvinced.

"It's really beautiful."

"Many people think I am an alien because of this..."

"It's not like that." Kudo Shinichi said seriously, "And my mother's hair color is similar to yours, and it's even slightly curly..."

"Isn't your mother Japanese?"

"She is Japanese. Her hair is natural, but she sometimes dyes it into other colors..."

While chatting about hair color, the two children, who had just met for the first time, became a little more familiar with each other. However, this topic obviously could not continue forever, and soon Kudo Shinichi brought the topic back to the secret code.

"Did you also follow the secret code to find me here?"

Kong Ai's emotional line has reached its peak, so it's about to end.