Tokyo, a pitch-black night.
Jiang Xia was riding his Motorcycle around aimlessly, hoping to stumble across a case—or perhaps some colleagues who also prowled the night.
Halfway through his ride, he suddenly felt the phone tucked close to his body vibrate.
Judging by the length of the vibration, the sender was probably one of those prolific case magnets.
Jiang Xia paused and immediately pulled over, taking out his phone to check it. "..." Had some acquaintance run into a case in the middle of the night and wanted to call him over for help?
But when he lit up the screen, the email contained only a dull, ordinary message from the shrunken Student Kudo:
[Heard you went to school today. Did anything unusual happen there? Like Ran meeting some interesting male classmates or teachers or something.]
Jiang Xia: "..."
Bored out of his mind, he deleted the message with its zero case content, tossed his phone back into his pocket, pretended he was already sound asleep and unable to reply, then continued focusing on speeding along on his Motorcycle.
The next day, Conan showed up to meet them with enormous dark circles under his eyes.
Even by the time they reached Izu Beach, Conan still had not fully woken up.
The sea breeze swept past, and Conan yawned. Raising his head, he gave Jiang Xia a gloomy look and found that Jiang Xia had no dark circles at all. Instead, he looked refreshed and full of energy.
So Conan could only guess that this Detective Little Partner who loved traveling had gone to bed early and never seen his email.
When Jiang Xia got a clear look at Conan, he indeed appeared surprised and teased him in a low voice, "You're not actually an elementary school student. Don't tell