Stay Away from Tangze, or Your Reputation Will Suffer

"After being away from class for so long, don't you find it hard to understand the lessons?"

After the first class ended, Ran Mouri leaned over beside Shinichi Kudo. Looking at the practically brand-new textbook in his hands, she asked curiously.

"Hm?" Shinichi Kudo followed her gaze and looked at the book he had just closed, scratching his head. "It's not too bad. I wasn't gone for that long... was I?"

"Is this what being smart is like? So unfair." Sonoko Suzuki, who had been watching them with her chin in her hands, shook her head. "Then again, if your memory were bad, you couldn't be a detective."

"Uh, ahahaha..." Shinichi Kudo gave an awkward laugh. Not knowing how to answer for a moment, he could only silently switch to the textbook for the next class.

How was he supposed to explain this?

His intelligence was indeed above average. Because of his career interests and plans, he had read all kinds of material since childhood to broaden his knowledge.

So the high school material, which could be handled through memorization and basic logical calculations, did not put much pressure on him.

But the main reason he had been able to slip back into things so seamlessly today...

Was that during the time he had disappeared, he had still been able to roughly keep track of Teitan's teaching progress through Ran Mouri's and Tangze's homework and study situations.

Apart from feeling rusty for the first few minutes, as he continued listening to the lesson, he even felt a little moved.

This was what a seventeen-year-old was supposed to be learning!

If he stayed among elementary school students any longer, learning basic listening, speaking, reading, writing, and arithmetic, he would be forced to blend into their level.

"The next class is English,