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"Really?" Haibara Ai looked at the three innocent children, and the haze that had been weighing on her heart seemed to lift a little. "Actually, I'd already pretty much recovered a long time ago. We've seen each other, haven't we? It's just that the weather's been changing a lot lately, so my cold relapsed a little."
"Then it won't relapse again today, right?" Yoshida Ayumi looked worried. "Being sick for this long is way too pitiful, Ai."
"It probably won't." Haibara Ai smiled at her. "I went to the hospital for a checkup yesterday. The doctor said there was no problem anymore."
The three children let out a sigh of relief in unison. "That's good."
After confirming their friend was fine, they became cheerful again, chattering away as they walked.
Conan walked a few steps forward and muttered quietly to Haibara Ai, "I thought that with your personality, you'd stay shut up at home from now on and never go out. I didn't expect..."
He didn't expect that before he and Professor Agasa had even finished discussing what to say to persuade her, Haibara Ai would return to normal life on her own, going to school in an ordinary way just like before.
Haibara Ai understood what he had left unsaid. She awkwardly adjusted the hat on her head. "..." Wasn't it because when they parted yesterday, she had asked Jiang Xia what she should do next, and Jiang Xia had casually replied, "Do what you should do"?
Although the person who said it looked very casual, Haibara Ai didn't dare take it casually with him.
She had seriously pondered those words for one night, then solemnly decided to walk out of the house today and return to school.
But there was, of course, no need to tell Conan