Conan looked at the closed door, rubbed his ears, still buzzing from the clerk's booming voice, and sighed gloomily.
...At times like this, I really miss Jiang Xia's inexplicable affinity talent. Although his neighbor often accidentally revealed a ferocious side, at least he looked like a good person. And being close to an adult made it harder for people to shut him out of conversations... Tch, damn Noah. When he couldn't beat Jiang Xia, he just sent him away. No sense of fair play at all. And he even pinned the blame on the game developer.
The plan to trigger an Easter egg had failed miserably.
Conan retreated to the alley in mixed spirits and regrouped with the players. Then he raised his head again and looked toward the café window.
When he got a clear look, he froze slightly.
—The young Asian man was already gone. Conan had no idea when he had disappeared.
"When you got thrown out just now, that man seemed to finish the drink in his cup, hand the glass to a waiter, and leave the window."
Haibara Ai did not play games often either, but she was at least better at them than Conan.
She tried to analyze the situation with a gamer's mindset. "Maybe it's not time to find the 'helper' yet. Key characters always appear at critical moments. We know nothing about the main storyline right now, so it's normal that we can't meet the helper.
"Besides, there's another, more likely possibility—
"This really was one of the opportunities to contact the helper, but unfortunately, you chose the wrong approach, so he left. I hear the more talented someone is, the colder they tend to be. Back in the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei had to make Three Visits to the Thatched