The only thing Conan was grateful for was that Ai Haibara was a responsible person.
Even with an incredibly tempting offer right in front of her, Ai hadn't forced Conan to "come clean" to Ran in his current form.
Honestly, coming clean right at the start would have been fine, but at this point, Conan really didn't want to say anything.
The reason? During his time as a little kid, he'd done quite a few things using his... "child privileges."
Like sleeping with Ran, taking baths with Ran, and going with Ran to...
Ahem. In short, Conan had done plenty of things during this time that, if he tried to "explain" and "confess" in this form, would genuinely put him at risk of being beaten to death by Ran's karate.
Actually, Ai hadn't made this choice out of concern for Conan's safety. After all, a certain shameless high school boy had taken advantage of his shrunken body to cop plenty of feels, and Ai thought he deserved whatever consequences came his way.
It was just that she had developed APTX4869, the drug that had shrunk Shinichi Kudo into Conan. That was her sin.
Even with all the "unscientific factors" interfering, Ai felt she had to take responsibility-Conan was a victim of the drug. How could she ask him to do something so difficult just to fulfill her own wish?
So Ai had decided to grit her teeth and stay up late researching the antidote.
Fortunately, Aikawa Kaze wasn't that unreasonable. After setting his conditions, he had genuinely helped her.
He had killed that boss, Renya Karasuma, right inside a secret room on an isolated island.
The man had been extremely suspicious and controlling, but his personal protection had been thorough-perhaps he had thought that island, which couldn't even be found