The things Jiang Xia had taught her surfaced again, and Haibara Ai repeated them quietly in her heart: "If you run into Miss Shirai and really can't avoid her, then try smiling at her the way Conan does. She probably won't bother you anymore."
"Smile... the way Kudo does?"
After coming out of the woods, Curacao saw the police who had come looking for people, and her first reaction was actually to let out a sigh of relief.
After she came to her senses, she was speechless at her own actions. But things had already come to this, so she could only pretend to be an ordinary lawyer innocently passing by and force herself to get through this heart-stopping day.
When she reached the edge of the wire fence and was waiting for the police to clean up the scene, Curacao's gaze shifted, and she suddenly noticed something.
—That little girl who had "gone missing" with Uzo, for some reason, looked a little familiar.
She couldn't help taking a few more looks, and just as she was about to recall where exactly she had seen her before, the exquisitely cute little girl, as pretty as a doll, stared ahead, the corners of her lips curving slightly to reveal an indescribably sinister smile.
Curacao: "?!!"
The extreme contrast made her heart instinctively jolt, and the ghost children she had once seen in horror movies seemed to come howling at her from every direction.
"No wonder she looked familiar. That's exactly how that little glasses brat looks when he smiles!" Curacao abruptly moved her gaze away, feeling as if she had seen something terribly filthy. Still shaken, she moved a little farther from Uzo's little gang and stood on the hunters' side.
—People said children's hearts were like blank sheets of