Shared Heavens from Douluo Continent — Chapter 16

"How could you slander my innocence for no reason?"

Dai Changsheng shook his head innocently. "I don't have the ability to make you younger. The reason you look like this now is because the drug your sister developed for the Organization was meant to restore youth to those who took it!"

"..."

Akemi Miyano's expression changed slightly upon hearing that, and she finally realized how ridiculous her earlier actions had been.

A drug capable of restoring youth was something countless rulers could only dream of obtaining.

If Akemi Miyano had known that Shiho Miyano was researching such a drug for the Organization, she never would have believed Gin's lies.

"From what I know, the Organization had long been secretly conducting human experiments with the drug Sherry developed, but all of them ended in failure."

Dai Changsheng half-truthed, half-bluffed, "You should be the first person to take that drug and successfully regain your youth.

If the Organization finds out you're still alive, the BOSS will definitely send people to capture you and study you as a lab rat."

Dai Changsheng had long anticipated that Akemi Miyano might regain her youth after taking APTX4869.

In the original story, three people successfully turned into children after taking APTX4869: Conan, Ai Haibara, and Mary Akai.

There was no need to say much about Conan. The most likely reason he regained his youth was the protagonist's plot armor at work.

As for Ai Haibara and Mary Akai, the reason they could regain their youth was most likely that they shared Elena Miyano's bloodline.

Elena Miyano was Mary Akai's younger sister, Atsushi Miyano's wife, and the mother of Akemi Miyano and Shiho Miyano.

She had originally been an employee of ShiroHato Pharmaceutical, then became a doctor at Miyano Clinic.

Nineteen years ago, Elena Miyano and her husband joined a laboratory under the Karasuma Group—the Black Organization—to conduct pharmaceutical research. They became scientists for the Black Organization and were called "Angels Who Fell into Hell" by the scientific community.

Within the Black Organization, the Miyano couple was responsible for researching a dreamlike mysterious drug—the Silver Bullet—while also working on APTX4869.

Unfortunately, not long after Shiho Miyano was born, it was rumored that the Miyano couple perished in a fire at the laboratory. Much of the experimental data was also destroyed, leaving behind countless unanswered mysteries.

After Shiho Miyano grew up, she took over their former research project and recreated APTX4869.

Considering that both Shiho Miyano and Mary Akai had taken APTX4869 and successfully regained their youth, Dai Changsheng had reason to suspect that the Miyano couple had long since developed a drug capable of restoring youth.

It was just that the Miyano couple understood very clearly how much upheaval such a drug would cause once it entered the world, so they deliberately added certain restrictions to it, making it effective only on people with specific genes.

It was like the enhancement serum developed by Spider-Man's father. Only those with genes similar to his could become Spider-Man without side effects.

That was why Dai Changsheng had prompted Gin to give Akemi Miyano APTX4869 when he was preparing to execute her.

The result was much as Dai Changsheng had expected. Akemi Miyano had not been poisoned to death like the others, but had instead turned into a child.

After recovering from her shock, Akemi Miyano suddenly thought of something. She turned to Dai Changsheng and said, "It seems you aren't as loyal to the BOSS as the rumors say. Otherwise, I should be in the Organization's laboratory by now."

"You're right. I do have my own plans. But looking across the entire world, how many people could refuse something like regaining their youth?"

Dai Changsheng could share the lifespans of his other selves in other worlds, thereby gaining immortality, but his friends and family did not have that ability. That was why he also hoped Shiho Miyano could develop an APTX4869 without side effects.

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Shy Shiho Miyano

"Akemi Miyano, cooperate with me!"

Dai Changsheng extended his right hand toward Akemi Miyano and said in a seductive tone, "I'll conceal the fact that you're still alive and find a way to rescue Shiho Miyano from the Organization.

From then on, all you need to do is work for me. I'll ensure your safety while giving you enough freedom.

If Shiho Miyano can help me develop a youth-restoring drug without side effects, I can even give you new identities, let you move to another country, and live the lives of ordinary people."

"..."

Akemi Miyano pondered for a while before finally reaching out with her soft little hand and grasping Dai Changsheng's large hand.

Dai Changsheng might have seemed to be asking for Akemi Miyano's opinion, but in reality, he had given her no room to choose.

After all, restoring youth was enough to drive the upper echelons of every nation mad.

If word got out that Akemi Miyano had regained her youth, it would not only be the Black Organization trying to capture her for research as a lab rat. The higher-ups of other countries would never let her go either.

Therefore, Akemi Miyano could only choose to trust Dai Changsheng. With his abilities, perhaps he really could rescue Shiho Miyano.

"Pleasure doing business with you!"

Dai Changsheng shook Akemi Miyano's little hand, then smiled. "From now on, your new name will be Akai Shuichi!"

"Akai Shuichi?"

Akemi Miyano subconsciously repeated the name. It felt rather natural on the tongue, and she accepted the new name as well.

The reason Dai Changsheng had named Akemi Miyano Akai Shuichi was because "Shuichi" sounded like "anger."

Following the order of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, wasn't Akai Shuichi—anger—Ai Haibara's older sister?

A few days later

After learning of Akemi Miyano's death, Shiho Miyano felt as though the sky had collapsed. She immediately stopped all pharmaceutical research.

Gin naturally did not indulge Shiho Miyano. He had her locked in the isolation room to reflect on her actions.

With her heart utterly dead, Shiho Miyano had no intention of yielding as she usually did. Instead, she secretly took out the APTX4869 she had hidden in advance and swallowed it, preparing to poison herself to death.

However, contrary to Shiho Miyano's expectations, she was not poisoned to death. Instead, she turned into a little girl of seven or eight and escaped the laboratory through the isolation room's garbage chute.

"Splash..."

After finally escaping the laboratory, Shiho Miyano sadly discovered that she had nowhere to go. All she could do was stand in the heavy rain until she was drenched like a drowned rat.

Shinichi Kudo! He's like me. He'll definitely understand me...

After standing in the rain for a while, a name finally surfaced in Shiho Miyano's mind. She hurried toward the Kudo residence.

Unfortunately, Shiho Miyano had overestimated her current physical condition. By the time she finally reached the vicinity of the Kudo home, she collapsed from exhaustion.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Just as Shiho Miyano was about to lose consciousness, a set of footsteps suddenly approached from afar, followed by a somewhat familiar voice. "Yo~ Look what I found. A wild little girl!"

Marula! It's that bastard Snowflake...

After recognizing the owner of the voice, Shiho Miyano fell into boundless despair and slowly closed her heavy eyelids.

When the groggy Shiho Miyano hazily opened her lake-blue eyes, a small face that was both unfamiliar and familiar appeared before her. "Shiho, you're awake?"

Hearing that familiar tone and seeing a little face so similar to Akemi Miyano's, Shiho Miyano asked in disbelief, "Sis... Sister?"

"It's your sister, Shiho."

Akemi Miyano smiled and nodded.

"Sis, you're not dead? That's wonderful! I thought you didn't want me anymore. Sob, sob, sob..."

After confirming that the little girl before her was truly her sister, Shiho Miyano's dead heart came back to life. She could not help throwing herself into her embrace and bursting into tears.

"There, there. It's okay now, Shiho."

Akemi Miyano comforted Shiho Miyano while tears also streamed down her face.

Once Shiho Miyano had gradually calmed down, she asked curiously, "Sis, what exactly happened? Didn't Gin say you were dead?"

Faced with Shiho Miyano's question, Akemi Miyano roughly recounted everything that had happened over the past few days.

"That bastard Snowflake is truly too vicious!"

After learning that Dai Changsheng had actually urged Gin to make Akemi Miyano take APTX4869, Shiho Miyano could not help feeling a chill run through her heart.

"Hey, hey! Talking bad about someone behind their back will make your mouth rot. Besides, if not for my suggestion, you two sisters would have been separated by life and death already."

As soon as Shiho Miyano finished speaking, a magnetic voice suddenly rang out. Dai Changsheng then strolled in from outside the bedroom, bare-chested, with only a white bath towel wrapped around his lower body.

"Gulp!"

Seeing Dai Changsheng's sharply defined eight-pack abs, as though they had been carved from marble, Akemi Miyano could not help swallowing.

(ω)

Shiho Miyano's pretty face reddened slightly as she snapped in embarrassment, "Are you a pervert? You actually came in dressed like that!"

"Pervert, my ass! I just got out of the shower. Isn't it perfectly normal for me to be dressed like this?"

Dai Changsheng curled his lip. "Besides, you've both turned into little brats now. What's there to be shy about? When I helped bathe you just now, what haven't I seen?"

"Y-You... What did you say? You... you were the one who bathed me?"

Shiho Miyano's eyes widened as she turned to Akemi Miyano with a questioning look.

Akemi Miyano smiled awkwardly. "Shiho, I originally wanted to bathe you, but you were too heavy. I really couldn't carry you."

"Ahhh..."

Upon learning that Dai Changsheng had seen her naked, Shiho Miyano was so embarrassed that her head seemed ready to steam. She hurriedly covered her head with the blanket and turned into a turtle hiding in its shell!

"Is that really necessary? What a little brat!"

Seeing this, Dai Changsheng's lips curled upward. Then, under Akemi Miyano's somewhat reluctant gaze, he left the bedroom and returned to his own room to get dressed.

Only after quite a while did Shiho Miyano poke her head out from under the covers at Akemi Miyano's urging, her little face full of barely concealed embarrassment.

After spending more than half an hour preparing dinner, Dai Changsheng called out to the two sisters still chatting in the bedroom, "Dinner's ready. We can talk about anything after we eat. You two, come out and have dinner!"

The Golden Generation of Spirit Hall

Led by Akemi Miyano, Shiho Miyano, dressed in children's pajamas, slowly shuffled out of the bedroom.

"Um..."

Shiho Miyano walked up to Dai Changsheng in pink slippers and said somewhat awkwardly, "Thank you for saving my sister."

No matter what Dai Changsheng's original intentions had been, he had ultimately saved Akemi Miyano, so Shiho Miyano was still very grateful to him.

"If you really want to thank me, then hurry up and develop an APTX4869 without side effects!"

Halfway through, Dai Changsheng suddenly changed his tone. "If you dare slack off, be careful or I'll give you a Thousand Years of Death."

(ω)

Shiho Miyano's pretty face flushed crimson with anger. She wanted nothing more than to open her little mouth and bite Dai Changsheng hard.

Annoying jerk! Stupid Snowflake!

Seeing this, Akemi Miyano asked curiously, "Shiho, what's a Thousand Years of Death?"

"..."

Facing Akemi Miyano's curious gaze, Shiho Miyano's lips twitched. She answered perfunctorily, "It's adult business. Children shouldn't interrupt."

???

Akemi Miyano froze for a moment when she saw Shiho Miyano actually turn the tables and lecture her. Then she shook her head with an amused smile.

Sure enough, Shiho was the cutest when she was little!

"Alright, alright, let's eat first! I haven't eaten all day. I'm starving to death."

To stop Dai Changsheng from saying anything even more outrageous, Shiho Miyano hurriedly changed the subject and pulled Akemi Miyano over to sit beside the dining table.

When Shiho Miyano saw that the spread on the table included peanut butter and blueberry jam sandwiches, her favorite food, her lovely lips unconsciously curled upward.

Actually, this stupid Snowflake isn't always so annoying~

The next morning

Just as Professor Agasa finished breakfast and was about to head out for a walk, he suddenly discovered, to his surprise, a dirty little girl with short brown hair lying at his doorstep.

"Whose child is this? Could she be lost?"

Professor Agasa hurriedly carried the seemingly unconscious Ai Haibara into his home.

Watching from the shadows, Akemi Miyano could not help asking worriedly, "Changsheng, is that bald man really a good person?"

"Don't worry. Professor Agasa is a very kind man, and he's very tolerant toward children. When it comes to little Ai, he'll be the one getting managed."

The reason Dai Changsheng had Ai Haibara move into Professor Agasa's home under the same pretext as in the original story—that she had nowhere to go—was because that would make Conan actively cooperate with her research.