~
Hattori Heiji gave a light cough and stopped teasing Conan, instead asking, "Has that little girl been settled properly?"
"What little girl?"
Conan looked at him speechlessly. "She is an eighteen-year-old young lady this year, older than you!"
"Huh? Is that so?"
Hattori Heiji rubbed his chin. "Then that makes things tricky... What should I call her? Calling her big sister feels a bit inappropriate, and calling her little sister means she's older than me. But since her body shrank, I'll call her the shorty big sister!"
"Alright, I've already had Professor Agasa take her back to the Fujino residence, so we shouldn't need to worry about whatever comes next."
Conan brought up official business, abandoning any unreliable nonsense. "Right now, the most crucial thing is to disguise my identity as that Haibara person."
With that, she looked at Yukiko Kudo. "Mom, it's up to you now!"
Yukiko Kudo: "..."
What mom, she didn't even call her big sister—is this the attitude of someone asking for a favor?
If it weren't for the fact that you're my cub, I wouldn't even want to help you.
Hattori Heiji glanced over Conan and suddenly proposed, "Since you're going to disguise yourself as that shorty big sister, shouldn't you also wear women's clothing? Like a little skirt or something?"
"???"
Conan was stunned for a moment, looking at Hattori Heiji with a weird expression. "What little skirt? Do you think I'm some kind of pervert? No wait, it should be that you're the pervert! Puh, to actually want to see a grown man in women's clothing, gross!"
"I think Heiji is right!"
Yukiko Kudo and Hattori Heiji had grown familiar with each other not long after meeting.
Hattori Heiji was Kudo's number one best friend, and Yukiko Kudo was Kudo's mother.
The