Haibara Ai, however, saw things differently and was rather worried—before coming in, she hadn't expected this Holographic Game to be so realistic.
Remembering what Yoshida Ayumi had just said, she sighed softly. "What 'freedom'? Our sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell are all controlled by the computer. That just makes it more unsettling."
"..." The three Little Partners froze: Ai was being gloomy again...
Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko lowered his voice to comfort her. "You're overthinking it. We just need to enjoy the game—there are so many children of big shots here. Since the organizers dared let them come in and experience it, the game's quality must be guaranteed."
As they spoke, the four children subconsciously looked up at the crowd nearby.
Logically, aside from them, everyone around them should have been the children of powerful figures.
But when they looked, the first person they noticed was a familiar bespectacled boy not far away.
"Conan?" Kojima Genta looked surprised. "How did he get in... No, doesn't he hate playing games?"
"He must be feeling conflicted." Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko stroked his chin and nodded knowingly. "It's that common manga type of tsundere—he says he doesn't like it, but really, it's just because he can't conquer the game. He thinks it'd be embarrassing to become the game's lapdog, so he puts on an indifferent act, but deep down, he really wants to play!"
"That's so complicated." Yoshida Ayumi felt her strange new knowledge increasing. "So that's the kind of Conan he is!"
Haibara Ai: "..." Silently, she lit a candle for Conan's reputation.
Jiang Xia had just dragged her off to serve as a cigarette-lighting laborer for a while, so she had become quite skilled at lighting things...
In any case, since it was an online game, suddenly seeing Little Partners—even plastic friends—didn't stop