Little Ai Tried to Get By on Cuteness

Before Vodka could understand what Gin meant, Guchuan came out again, this time with a rope in his hand.

"Guchuan, what are you trying to do?" Vodka asked in panic.

"I'm teaching you a lesson so you'll stop disturbing my private life." The low pressure around Guchuan nearly suffocated Vodka.

He wanted to run, but there was no way he could escape Guchuan's hand chop.

Vodka fell into a baby-like sleep, and Guchuan wrapped him tightly in rope before dragging him into his basement.

Still unsatisfied, he gave Vodka's face two more hits.

Idiot. Who told you to come to my house, you bastard? Don't you know showing up out of nowhere could scare Little Ai?

"Haibara, would you like to join our Junior Detective League?" Ayumi eagerly invited Little Ai to join their organization.

"The Junior Detective League? Is Edogawa in it too?" Little Ai asked.

"Yeah! Conan's basically my little brother!" Genta threw an arm around Conan's shoulders.

"Our Junior Detective League is dedicated to solving difficult problems for our classmates. If anyone has a request, they write us a letter. Genta's shoe locker is where we collect them." Ayumi pointed at the shoe locker in front of her.

A note was stuck to the shoe locker. It read: "Difficult Cases Wanted!! Junior Detective League, Class 1-B."

Little Ai was speechless. They had actually made it look pretty convincing.

Genta opened the shoe locker, only to find not a single letter inside, making the three idiots rather embarrassed.

"Alright, let's hurry to the park and play soccer," Conan said.

Although he was exhausted, Haibara was Guchuan's younger sister. I need to help her fit into the group as soon as possible.

"Okay, okay!"

Vodka, in the Guchuan family basement, slowly regained consciousness. Once he saw his situation, he panicked and struggled against the cross.

Fortunately, the cross was extremely sturdy. Even Vodka's weight could not shake it in the slightest.

"Whew."

The bonfire hanging on the wall was lit, and Guchuan descended the stairs from upstairs.

"Mmph! Mmph!"

"Vodka, what was your purpose in coming to my house?" Guchuan took out a red whip, dipped it in chili water, and cracked it through the air beside Vodka.

"Mmph! Mmph!"

Guchuan removed the rag from Vodka's mouth.

"I came on behalf of Gin to assign you a mission, and he told me to assist you with it. If you do a good job on this mission, the boss will apply for a codename for you!" Vodka said excitedly.

Why was this lunatic Guchuan treating a colleague like this?

"You came to my house just to assign a mission?" Guchuan was very displeased.

Being disturbed in his private life by a colleague felt awful, especially when that colleague was from a criminal organization.

That damned Vodka had no sense of boundaries. If I report you people in the future, will the police follow the trail back to me?

Besides, there was an organization-member detector living in his house. This idiot's arrival had definitely made Little Ai nervous.

"I didn't have your contact information." Vodka felt terribly wronged.

"Couldn't you, idiot, have asked... Forget it."

Guchuan could not be bothered to pursue the matter. He had already called Vodka an idiot, so what more could he expect from him?

"What's the mission?" Guchuan asked.

"A woman codenamed Silver Fox used counterfeit bills during a deal with the organization. Gin told you to take care of her," Vodka said.

"You said earlier that you'd stay by my side and assist me?" Guchuan smiled.

"Yeah." Vodka swallowed.

He always felt that Guchuan's smile was strange. It was the smile of someone up to no good.

"I don't like underlings who look this cool."

Black trench coat, huge sunglasses, and Vodka's build—he looked more like the boss than Guchuan did.

"Take off the sunglasses."

"No way!" Vodka shouted excitedly.

His sunglasses were his life. Vodka would never take them off.

But Guchuan gave him no right to refuse.

After removing Vodka's sunglasses, the cold-looking organization killer became rather strange because of his honest, wide eyes. Then Guchuan took off the hat Vodka had never removed.

"Ahahaha!"

He laughed without the slightest regard for Vodka's feelings.

Vodka clenched his fists, wanting to punch Guchuan back into his mother's womb.

"Vodka, no wonder Gin always keeps you around. You look like such an honest person. Someone as honest as you definitely wouldn't betray the organization." Guchuan patted Vodka's shoulder.

That face of pure honesty was completely out of place in the organization.

Vodka felt utterly humiliated. He was a codenamed member of an evil criminal organization, yet someone had called him honest?

But looking at Guchuan's sinister face, Vodka felt that he really could be considered honest.

Little Ai: I'm playing with some new friends. I'll be home later.

Conan: Guchuan, I've found a member of that organization. The location is...

Guchuan turned off the television and set out with Vodka, who had changed into a pink suit.

Little Ai was playing detective games with the other children.

"This little situation scared you out of your wits? You're useless. Tell the police everything, including that huge organization behind you."

Conan looked confidently at the captured Silver Fox, while Little Ai looked at him as though he were an idiot.

"Organization?" Silver Fox froze for a moment.

"Stop playing dumb. You must have some mysterious codename too, like Gin and Vodka," Conan said with great confidence.

After so long, he had finally caught a member of the organization. It had not been easy.

"Sorry, but I don't know any of the people you're talking about."

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you even talking about? This woman is a repeat offender who makes counterfeit money, known as Silver Fox. She may have had plastic surgery, but we'd never forget that face." Inspector Megure's words left Conan completely dumbfounded.

"Besides printing counterfeit bills this time, you also violated the firearms and ammunition control regulations. You'll be staying in prison for quite a while."

"Please, I wasn't the one who fired the gun this time. It was that brown-haired girl." Silver Fox glanced at Little Ai.

"What!?"

Inspector Megure walked past Silver Fox, who was bound in handcuffs, and approached Little Ai.

"How could you do something so dangerous?"

"But, but... Waaah!" Little Ai tried to get by on cuteness. Covering her eyes, she began to cry, tears streaming down like they cost nothing.

Her Oscar-worthy acting instantly left Inspector Megure at a loss.

"Sorry, I'm sorry!" Inspector Megure apologized in a cold sweat, but Little Ai showed no sign of stopping.

"Little Ai! Are you alright?"

Guchuan heard Little Ai crying from the stairway. Only after laughing to his heart's content did he shove past the police and rush inside.

"Wah... uh!" Little Ai's crying abruptly stopped.

Oh no, I'm going to embarrass myself in front of Guchuan.