Before long, a group of one tall person and five short ones headed toward the Cinema showing Gomera. Some walked lightly, while others drooped dejectedly.
Yoshida Ayumi and Kojima Genta's inward wails synchronized in an instant: A sudden day off, and suddenly free movie tickets too—it should have been double the happiness, so why did they have to run into Brother Jiang Xia of all people?!
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko's mind worked quickly, and he understood more than they did. He looked at the tickets in Jiang Xia's hand, then at Haibara Ai, who had given the Detective Boys their tickets.
With the children staring at her, Haibara Ai rarely felt a twinge of conscience. She cleared her throat and said quietly, "The Detective Boys should act together, of course. You said that yourself."
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko looked at her in grief and indignation: You traitor!
—He had wanted to shout it aloud like that, but Haibara Ai was simply too cute. Children this age were already adorable, and Haibara Ai was a mixed-race child with exceptionally good genes. Standing beside her, even the dolls in shop windows paled in comparison.
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko's lips moved for a long while. In the end, he swallowed the cry in his heart and honestly surrendered to her beauty. "...You're right. I love playing with Brother Jiang Xia the most."
"?!" Kojima Genta and Yoshida Ayumi turned to look at him and quietly condemned him. "You traitor!"
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko: "..."
As the children reluctantly made their way toward the Movie Theater as though being driven there,
another child slightly ahead of them was also complaining.
Conan muttered to Jiang Xia, "What's wrong with a detective movie? You finally won for once, so why are we watching Gomera?"
Jiang Xia glanced at him in surprise. "At a