At that moment, Chikada Yumi, who had been standing quietly to the side the whole time, suddenly lowered her head and spoke softly. "Are you working so hard because you're planning to apply to a national university?"
"Yeah. Which means you bringing this whole group here has caused me quite a bit of trouble." Kariya Hayato glanced at her, his tone turning inexplicably cutting. "Can you disappear? You're really annoying."
"..."
It was as though Chikada Yumi had been struck through the heart by an arrow. She said nothing more, merely gave a bitter smile, lowered her head, and walked out.
"What do you mean, 'Can you disappear'? What do you mean, 'You're really annoying'?!"
Even after leaving the library room, Suzuki Sonoko was still quietly grumbling to her two classmates. "How could he say something like that to a youthful, adorable beauty like me? Doesn't his conscience hurt at all?!—If you ask me, there's only one truth: he has no conscience, so he's the culprit!"
Jiang Xia nodded along. "...Mm-hmm, makes sense."
Unlike Suzuki Sonoko, who had rarely been scolded, Conan had been cursed at by all sorts of people plenty of times—by criminals back in high school, and after turning into a child, by hot-tempered murderers, victims, and suspects alike. After all that, he had developed a remarkably strong heart.
So the moment they left the library, Conan forgot all about being treated coldly earlier. Suddenly recalling something, he moved closer to Chikada Yumi. "Yumi, did you also write a confession letter to 'Romeo'?"
Chikada Yumi had been standing by the library room window, looking at Kariya Hayato inside. Hearing that, she froze. "W-What?"
Jiang Xia was passing by them, but he stopped when he heard it. "The first two girls who were attacked had both written