"So, between that older sister Reiko Akitani and friendship with these kids, which is more important?"
"No way, Conan can't let a pretty face make him forget his friends!"
"That's right, that's right, if you forget your good friends just because you see a pretty older sister, we aren't going to be friends with Conan anymore!"
"Alright, I get it!"
Conan looked at the little kids crazily mocking him right in front of him, twitched his brow, and finally let out a sigh as he spoke, "Is it really not enough for me to just go with you guys?"
"Yay!"
"Conan has finally seen the light!"
"Yeah, it's all thanks to our earnest teachings!"
Conan looked at the little kids who were acting like they had just successfully persuaded a friend to give up women and looked thoroughly full of themselves, feeling like right now he wanted to sink his teeth into a cigarette and take a hard drag just to make his aching head forget about this bunch of brats.
How on earth did I end up knowing this bunch of scumbags?
In the mountain forest near Reiko Akitani's house.
Reiko Akitani sat in Fujino's car, heading up the mountain under the escort of the two of them. Amidst the mountain woods, she abruptly blurted out to Sato Miwako:
"Sorry about what I said last night, just pretend I didn't say it."
"Oh..."
Sato Miwako was taken aback upon hearing this, somewhat not expecting this woman to actually apologize.
Still, her tone when apologizing was still so stiff...
She really was an old tsundere.
The anger in her heart smoothed out a good deal.
However, what she cared about at the moment wasn't this, but rather...
"So I mean, the performance is right around the corner, why on