Jiang Xia: "!"
Right. Didn't someone who was good at dressing live next door?
Thinking about it carefully, before Haibara Ai had shrunk, although she always wandered around in a lab coat, the clothes underneath had seemed pretty nice too.
With that thought, he stood up, intending to go next door and borrow a few reference books from Haibara Ai.
But after taking only two steps, Jiang Xia silently retreated. "..." In the middle of the night, a male high school student asking a female elementary school student to borrow pretty women's fashion magazines sounded like something a pervert would do. It would be the same even without the "elementary school student" qualifier.
Rather than going himself...
Jiang Xia recalled something and turned to look at the Eating Cat by the bed.
Noticing his gaze, the cat raised its head and stared back blankly. "Meow?"
"You'll do." Jiang Xia tossed the cat into the Puppet Clay and possessed it.
Professor Agasa's house.
Inside the miniature laboratory converted from the basement.
Haibara Ai tapped away at the keyboard. Halfway through, she looked at the densely packed chemical formulas on the screen, paused her work, took a sip from the coffee beside her, and sank into thought.
A few seconds later, she still had not figured out how to solve the problem before her when she suddenly heard something thump dully against the basement door several times.
Though it sounded in the dead of night, it was not very loud and did not seem threatening.
Haibara Ai paused slightly, then quickly guessed what it was.
She set down her coffee, hopped down from the chair that was too tall for her, walked to the door, and pulled it open.
Looking down, she indeed found Black Cat with White Paws sitting primly