Kisaki Eri looked at Conan by her feet. "..." The child behaved normally, neither crying nor fussing, and looked like nothing more than a well-behaved elementary school student. Yet for some reason, she always felt that this "elementary school student" possessed an aura that did not suit his age.
...In short, he did not feel like a first-grade boy.
So although she knew Conan was only seven, Kisaki Eri still felt somewhat uncomfortable about being alone under the same roof with him at night.
The mother and daughter happened to have some private things to discuss as well. To prevent a child's loose lips from having him blab nonsense to Mouri Kogoro afterward, it would be better to have Conan stay with Jiang Xia first—Conan seemed to like deduction too, so the two of them would surely have plenty to talk about.
Hearing the suggestion out of nowhere, Conan was so guilty his soul nearly fled his body. "?!"
...Why was she suddenly making him sleep with Jiang Xia? Could this sharp Queen of Lawyers have noticed something was off?
The Fake Elementary School Student broke out in a cold sweat. Drawing on every scrap of acting skill he had, he tried hard to keep smiling. "O-okay."
Kisaki Eri: "..." Yes, that was it—that smile looked artificial no matter how she looked at it... Was this child deliberately putting on an act?
Her brows knit slightly, and she briefly grew suspicious. But she soon remembered that Conan had been living under someone else's roof from such a young age, while his parents seemed rather unreliable... It was understandable for a child like that to mature early.
Thinking this, Kisaki Eri sighed sympathetically, then led Conan toward Jiang Xia's room.
They knocked for a while, but no one inside answered.