The Corpse Collector in Conan
Chapter 730

Why Was It Valentine's Day Again?

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However, Haibara Ai looked over warily and found that it was different from what she had imagined.

Standing at the courtyard gate was not some suspicious man in black, but a young girl in a beige trench coat. Startled by the noise from the metal mailbox herself, she darted away before Jiang Xia could say anything, fleeing the scene.

By the time Jiang Xia and Haibara Ai reached the courtyard gate, the figure had already run far away, swiftly vanishing around the corner.

"...?" Jiang Xia looked at her retreating figure, which carried no killing intent and had no Ghosts hanging from its calves. After puzzling over it for a moment, he remembered. His memory had always been excellent. "She's a former coworker from when I worked at Burger House... The employee registration form there required our addresses. She was the senior employee who helped us fill it out, so she must have remembered mine then."

Haibara Ai: "..."

She took out a handkerchief and secretly wiped away the cold sweat she had broken out in earlier, while casting Jiang Xia a disapproving look. Jiang Xia worked for the Organization, and his identity was already sensitive. On top of that, he was a public figure. It would have been safer to put down a fake address. Or at least his work address, like that Detective Agency. Otherwise, if he ran into bad people...

Wait, everyone in the Organization Jiang Xia belonged to seemed to be bad people. He probably wasn't afraid of that...

As she thought, Haibara Ai's slightly speechless gaze shifted toward the mailbox beside them. While that girl had been lingering outside the gate just now, Haibara Ai had vaguely seen her fiddling with it, as though she had put something down.

Soon, Haibara Ai walked out

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