[Conan/Through Her] Fairy's Indus

So weird.

Although they are all students, why do these protagonists never seem to have to worry about their grades?

I held my terrible English paper and was heartbroken.

My classmate Sera, who is from the UK, still exclaimed lightly: "Wow, Ruri, your score is not good, isn't it?"

I covered the paper with a snap and whispered, "No, it wasn't like this before. It's just that I did worse this time."

"Ah! I know the reason! It's because Teacher Judy transferred away!" Our reasoning queen classmate Sonoko provided an idea, "After that, Ruri became obviously more relaxed about the English course!"

As soon as she finished speaking, everyone looked at me with sharp eyes.

I covered my face and let out a "whimper".

Xiaolan frowned: "That's not okay, Ruri."

"Woo, I know..."

"Studying is something like this. If you fall behind, it will be difficult to catch up. You have to work harder than your classmates." Sera touched his chin, "So at this time, as Ruri's friends, we It’s time to set up a study group to help each other! How about we go help Ruri with her English lessons after school today?”

Xiaolan's eyes lit up: "What a great idea! I have no problem!"

Yuanzi said with a smile, "I agree too!", his tone was full of gloating.

My eyes widened in shock, and I felt very resistant to having to study after school. I struggled to evade: "Isn't this bad? It would be too troublesome for you..."

"What are you talking about, Ruri! You see, your grades are so bad. Aren't you upset?" Sera interrupted me, smiled heartily and patted me on the shoulder, "But it doesn't matter, you see, it's not because of me. Yeah! I'm very good at English! You don't have to be polite to me! It's settled then! Let's go to Ruri's house together after school today?"

Huh - my scalp was numb, Xiaolan quickly pulled Serang: "It's better not to do it. It must be inconvenient at Ruri's house, right?"

Seriang blinked: "Why is it inconvenient?"

Xiaolan was a little confused, "Because we have never been to Ruri's house since we were young...right?"

Sonoko opened her eyes wide, "Yes, so to speak, we have been to my house, Xiaolan's house, and Kudo's house many times since we were young, but we have never been to Ruri's house. I have not even been to Ruri's house." I still don’t know…how this could happen!”

Xiaolan nodded: "So I always thought that it would be inconvenient to bring outsiders to Ruri's house, right?"

Yuanzi shouted aggrievedly: "That's too much! Are we outsiders?"

Shiliang helped: "That's it!"

I held my head and said, "Ahhh! I didn't say that!!"

So after informing Zero and getting his readily agreed, after school that day, I took my sisters and little Conan classmate who appeared out of nowhere home.

Zero greeted us with a refreshing and bright smile.

My depressed mood because I was about to face the tutoring hell was successfully cured by him.

If I hadn't considered that my friends were still there, I would have rushed over and buried his chest(?) in tears.

We sat around the dining table, and the virtuous Ling put out exquisite tea snacks. "The snacks at home are always made according to Ruri's preferences. I don't know if you are used to it."

Shimei stared at him curiously: "Are you Ruri's boyfriend?"

"Yes, I am her boyfriend." Zero said, "Hello, Sera-san, this is the first time we meet. My name is Toru Amuro."

"Oh? Hello." Sera narrowed his eyes, "Your surname is Amuro too? Are you related? Do you know me?"

"Haha, the surname issue is a long story. In short, Ruri and I are not related by blood." Zero said with a smile, "Of course I know you, I know each of you. Ruri often talks to me about you, you are all A good friend she cherished.”

Sera was probably stunned, and I yelled "Ahhhhh", grabbed a macaron and stuffed it into Zero's mouth, and sent him a condemnation signal of "You talk too much!" with my eyes.

He puffed up his cheeks, smiled and rolled his eyes while chewing obediently, and rubbed my head with his backhand.

"Speaking of which, I have always been curious -" Conan launched an attack with an innocent look, "Brother Amuro and sister Ruri, if I understand correctly, you are an adoptive father and an adopted daughter, right? But I remember Japan The law stipulates that you must be 30 years old or older to adopt an adopted child, right? When did Brother Amuro adopt Sister Ruri? Were you 30 years old at that time?"

"Conan knows a lot." Zero praised him as if he meant it, and explained, "Actually, Ruri and I do not have an adoption relationship in a legal sense. Her real adoptive parents are my distant cousins. , the couple had an accident in their business seven years ago, when Ruri was ten years old, and lost the financial ability to continue raising her, so after consulting the child's wishes, they verbally She was adopted to me, and I will continue to raise her."

Appeared!Distant cousin who is indecisive in trouble!

I nodded and explained for him: "Actually, Tou-kun and I are only 12 years apart."

Sera said "Ouch", her half-smiling expression was a bit like her elder brother's, "So, Mr. Amuro adopted a ten-year-old girl when he was only 22 years old?"

Ling sighed in a pretentious manner, "Yes, I had just graduated from college at that time. It was not easy to support a child... Now that I think back to those days of struggle, I don't know how I survived. Fortunately, Ruri has been a sensible and good child since she was a child."

"Ah, speaking of Mr. Amuro, do you still remember me?" Sera smiled, "Four years ago, my eldest brother..."

"I remember you." Zero interrupted her, and her smile disappeared instantly. "As for your brother, I haven't contacted him for a long time. If you want to inquire about his current situation, please forgive me for having no comment."

Shiliang was stunned for a moment, then doubted: "How do you know that I want to ask you about him?"

Ling sneered: "Didn't he have a quarrel with your mother, so he ran away from home and cut off contact with his family? That's why when he saw you that day, he told you to leave quickly and don't follow him so fiercely - he was yelling at his young age like that My sister’s quality is really poor.”

I suspect he was using the topic to insult someone, but I have no evidence.

Sera said "Huh?" blankly.

Zero shrugged and continued: "Actually, that person and I briefly planned to form an underground band together, but because we really didn't get along with our personalities, we had a big fight before we even debuted and broke up. I The only intersection in my life with that irritating guy was a few short months four years ago. Since then, I haven’t heard any news about him. I only know that he probably has no intention of continuing to be an artist.”

Seriang's face was full of shock that "my elder brother had done such a thing": "Yes, is that so..."

"That's it." Zero's attitude changed, and he gave her a comforting smile, "Ah, but your brother is your brother, and you are you. I won't project my dissatisfaction with your brother onto you. You are my Ruri’s good friend, and I very much welcome you to come and play at our house.”

He stood up and said, "Then it's time for me to prepare the ingredients for dinner, so I won't disturb your studies."

Finally, he smiled and patted me on the head, who was listening to his story with great interest: "Come on, Ruri." "..." I immediately became gray.

"So - because A, C, and D are all wrong, I chose B for this question." Sera patiently said useless nonsense, and I was distracted with my eyes wide open.

The aroma of dinner is very tempting. I can already smell it. Today’s dinner has hamburger meat that I like very much.

Although I had just had tea an hour ago, my hunger was becoming more and more unbearable.

Xiaolan looked over from my left hand side: "Ah - this question is about fixed combinations." She took out a piece of paper and wrote a series of short sentences with a translation and pushed them to me, "This is it, this is In conjunction with what the teacher said last week, be sure to memorize it."

Sera and I looked over together and said in unison: "That's it!"

"..." I pointed out keenly, "So Sera's good English is of no use at all."

Seriang seemed a little unable to bear it: "How do I know this is how you learn English!"

"It's so difficult -" I covered my face, "There are so many fixed combinations, I can't memorize them anymore, my life is going to be over -"

"...No! Don't give up!" Sera quickly cheered up again and encouraged me loudly, "I think Japanese is much more difficult than English! You see, I have learned Japanese so well!"

Tears were about to burst out of my eyes: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuacupuuuuuuu[-]udd[-]dd[-] Shut up, you're jealous of this cute Japanese-English half-breed bastard who has such a brilliant brain but has such a good memory..."

"..." Sera was greatly shocked, "Ruri, are you praising me or scolding me...?"

Yuanzi, who was eating melon and watching the show, was laughing so hard that he almost lost his breath.

I threw down my pen while pretending to cry, and declared in a state of collapse: "I won't study anymore! Damn it! I want to eat!"

Xiaolan looked at her watch: "Ah, it's already this time, I should go back and cook for dad."

The next second, a loud scream came from downstairs.

Rei, who was leaning against the kitchen counter and holding back his laughter, Sera who was studying the English grammar reference book next to me, and Conan, who used my house as a library and was sitting under Rei's bookcase to read quietly, moved together.

As I watched their backs rushing downstairs, I thought in a daze that Xiaolan's cry of "Conan! Where are you going! It's time for us to go home!" would really work.

It’s not easy for you either, Xiaolan.

After Xiaolan and Yuanzi said goodbye, the house that was bustling just now suddenly became deserted.The aroma of food floated in the air, but the guy who was supposed to eat with me was taken away by the case.

I put the food prepared by Zero into the pot to keep it warm, cleared the dining table covered with draft paper, picked out a few highlights that Xiaolan and Seriang had written for me, and carried the small stool to the balcony.

Even if I don’t want to, I still have to memorize the books I need to memorize. I plan to take the college entrance examination seriously.

There is a row of potted plants on the balcony, which is lush and green and very healing. The small fruits of the small tomatoes we planted together have begun to turn red. The color of the sky is gradually darkening from beautiful orange to yellow, and the lights from the building opposite are dotted. The lights came on, and the evening breeze brought the faint sound of sirens, but it did not affect the daily lives of ordinary people in thousands of households.

After waiting for the long year to end and the darkness to be eliminated, I wonder if the people I love can also start to enjoy these daily routines that belong to ordinary people?

It didn't take the three detectives a long time to solve this case. When Zero returned home, the sky had not completely darkened. I could still vaguely see the writing on the paper from the balcony.

"I'm sorry, Ruri, for keeping you waiting." He walked towards me, "Why don't you turn on the light? It will hurt your eyes."

"Zero! Let me tell you! I have roughly memorized the progress I made when I was lazy and fell behind!" I pounced on him, "If I work harder this week, I will definitely be able to catch up!"

"Yeah! You're awesome!" He smiled, touched my head, and lowered his voice, "Ruri, are you feeling guilty?"

I was stunned, "What? To whom?"

"To the FBI and to Sera Masumi." He looked directly into my eyes. "Because you hid the information that Akai Shuichi was still alive from them, you could only watch them feel sad for his fake death. Do you feel guilty for this? ?”

"..." I couldn't answer, so I had to lower my head.

"You are too gentle, Ruri." He sighed and said calmly, "The bad things Jing Zeng and I did are a thousand times worse than your selective concealment from those people."

I lowered my voice, "I know."

"I know you know, I just want to know, what do you think about this?"

I bit my lower lip, "Zero... and Brother Jing are both very kind and gentle people..."

"So, you think the guilt we carry is a thousand times heavier than the guilt you carry, right?" he said. "You have always been sad about this, right?"

I couldn't answer again, so I tightened my clothes uneasily.

"You are so gentle..." He repeated it gently and slowly.

Why can he understand this?

"Although I'm glad that you care about me and care about me so much, I don't want you to be so sad. If Ruri is happy, I will also be happy, so don't let yourself be immersed in sad emotions. I want to see more of you. Smile, okay?”

I was stunned for a moment and raised my head.

Zero stood under the warm yellow light, his eyes shining and his smile gentle.

My ears started to feel hot.I muttered.

"I understand... Hurry up and start dinner!"