Ground floor, Mouri Detective Agency, 5-chome, No. 39, Beika Town.
Ran Mouri, whose hair was slightly pointed and who wore a white face mask, coughed a few times, then thanked the girl before her, who carried a lunch box and had dark blue hair styled to cover part of her face:
"Cough... Thank you, Touka. If it weren't for you, we really might not have had any lunch today."
"It's fine. All I had to do was make a little extra lunch."
Touka Kirishima explained in an even tone, then changed the subject:
"But Ran, if you have a bad cold, you should stay home and rest. Mr. Mouri won't starve to death if he misses a day of meals."
As she spoke, Touka Kirishima handed the lunch box to Ran Mouri.
"That may be true..." Ran Mouri smiled awkwardly, accepted the lunch box, and thanked her again. "Anyway, Touka, thank you for making lunch for me."
"I'll prepare dinner too. Um, just pay me a little for the ingredients when the time comes."
Touka Kirishima offered help in a way Ran Mouri could accept as readily as possible.
"Well..."
Ran Mouri was about to politely decline, but Touka Kirishima waved a hand.
"There's still work to do in the shop, so I'll go now. Remember to wash the lunch box when you finish eating. I'll come up to collect it in an hour."
"All right."
Ran Mouri quickly answered, then watched Touka Kirishima enter the ground-floor coffee shop. After coughing a few times, she carried the lunch box upstairs using the staircase at the side.
Touka Kirishima entered the shop and glanced at the customers still eating. Her expression paused, then she quickly approached the counter and sat opposite the manager, Yoshimura, who was behind it polishing a