#erathewitchybirdkid
Three weeks have past since Dani came to Beika. I solved ten murders, stopped three kidnappings, and ended up in the middle of the robbery that wasn’t a KID heist. A surprisingly slow month for crime all and all. I can’t help but think as I head down to Haibara’s lab as Conan. Ai called me earlier to come over right away because she figured something out and she want to talk to me face to face.
Reaching the bottom step brings me face to face with Ai, and she quick tries to drag me into her lab. Thank goodness I’m so good at floating on a dime in human from or I would have tripped and fell on my face.
“Good your here.” Ai says, “I finally figured out why Dani is so unstable,” as we pass by the caged and de-aged rats she that survived her little test with APTX and ectoplasm, heading towards the table on the far side that is heavily layed down with various notes and papers.
I look at the cages and ask, “Hey Ai, why are you missing a few rats? I only count fifty rats here, didn’t you say you were going to keep them to help check for potential long term side effects for the de-aging from APTX?”
Ai stops walking and gives me an annoyed look but she does reply with, “The missing five escaped because they joined the ranks of half-ghost Rats after I accidentally dropped one of your blood samples into the cage they were in, but we didn’t come down here to talk about my experiments, remember?”
I really want to ask which version of my blood sample did it, but Ai’s right Dani is more important right now… though I feel I have to add, “It’s probably a good thing that you used only one gender for the rats tests. Thinking about it I mean, or all of Tokyo would be dealing with a Half ghost rat infestation by now. Your right though Dani is more important… So what did you figure out.” I ask while sitting in the air because there is no free chairs, since Ai has already sit down in the one chair in this room.
Ai gains this annoyed twitch in her eyes at my compete defiance of physics but in honestly she should be used to it by now… I’m not exactly shy about what I am after all… even when I should be like at school. Thank Kami the other detective boys and Ran help out when I inevitably mess up.
Ai grabs some of the papers off the desk and passing some to me, and I don’t bother trying to read them now, because she’s likely about to explain the basics right now. “From what I can tell, Danielle a.k.a Dani his prefect healthy on the human side its her ghost half that the issue. I had a hard time narrowing down the issues at first but once the least batch of Fenton tech came I found something.” Ai pauses to take a breathe, “The vast majority of Dani’s ectoplasm doesn’t count as her own, it counts as Danny’s and has Danny’s Ectosignature not Dani’s. Which is different from Danny’s by the way though it is related, if Ectosignatures are the ghost equivalent of DNA then Dani counts as Danny’s close genetic Sibling on the ghost side of things-”
“Ai focus, this is fascinating and all but what wrong with Dani and how do we fix it. We can go over the weird, wild world of Yūrei Hanyou biology after Dani stops trying to melt into a puddle of green goo.” I interrupt Ai as she was starting to get sidetracked.
Ai startles and gains a very near undetectable flush of red in her cheeks and leans back in her chair. “Right… so to make a long sorry short, Dani’s Core is rejecting the Ectoplasm in her body that counts as Danny’s, basically just like an improperly matched organ donation among humans, this fact is made even worse by the fact the percentage of the ectoplasm in her body that counts as Danny’s is as high as 85%, though almost all of that is bound up in her cells thank the Kami.”
“Why is it being bound up in her cells is a good thing?” I ask honestly curious.
“Its why she’s almost stable if she doesn’t use her powers and she takes care of her human needs, in fact if she stays human 24/7 and doesn’t use powers ever, she will naturally replace Danny’s ectoplasm with her own in about an estimated five years going by the samples I’ve taken. The only ectoplasm that regularly passes though the core as a human is in the blood and looking at Dani’s blood 99% of the ectoplasm in the blood counts as hers.” Ai states, “Granted relying on a slow natural processes is completely unnecessary when I’ve already figured out how to speed it up and doing so is likely as detrimental to her mental health as forcing you to stay in your attic for so long was for you.”
I internally wince at the mention of my attic. “Right… so what do you need me to do to help you get started? You need me for some reason right? That’s why you called me?”
“I need some of your blood.” Ai flatly states
“Um why? also which age and state?” I ask confused
“Teen and human for blood type, and as for why? Remember that accident I mentioned with the rats? Some of your blood also got into the samples I was studying for Dani’s case back then and surprisingly it caused the two ectosignatures to play nice for a little while. There’s something in your blood that acts like a ghostly immune suppressant and I hope if I have more of it I can find it and either synthesize it or failing that extract it for my use in the future cure.” Ai explains
That makes a lot of sense actually, and in lieu of an answer I simply became my teenaged self right then and their and start sanitizing my arms as Ai was blinking the spots out her eyes. The transformation is quite bright after all.
Things get done quickly after Ai recovers from the blue flash of the change age transformation, and as my blood got added to a blood bag, Ai is going to need as much blood as possible to find the unknown chemicals in my blood, I ask. “So Ai, what’s the next step after you get my blood?”
Ai seems to think the question over as she watches the bag fill with my green tinged blood while tapping her gloved hand against the blood bag. “Well… the next step is coming up with a chemical regimen designed to slowly strip the ectosignature from ectoplasm making it neutral enough to be taken in by any ghost and making it target the ectoplasm that matches Danny’s over Dani’s. The finished product is probably going to be something like a chemotherapy regimen with likely similar risks and side effects. Agasa is looking into picking up a decent movable bed that can work as a makeshift hospital bed for when the time comes…” at this Ai stops talking to focus on stopping the flow of blood and bandaged up my arm until my fast healing takes care of it.
I rub my arm because my arms always seems to be sore after Ai extracts any amount of blood from them, and as Ai regathers her thoughts. I turn back to Conan with a bit of relief. I’m thankfully not as bad as I was, where I got full on panic attacks if I stayed a teenager for to long, but I’m still extremely uncomfortable to be a teenager in Japan.
Ai gives me an annoyed look once more, as she is rapidly blinking the spots away, and I give a sheepish look as I regret not warning her I was going to transform again. Ai sighs, “Well… now that’s done. I will continue with what I was saying. I hope by finding what is in your blood I can make the future regimen more efficient as well as hopefully make a suppressant that can tide her over until my research is complete. Thankful some of Danny’s parent’s research is looking very promising for this, though I haven’t looked at it in full detail yet…” Ai pauses
“I also hope to figure why Dani’s is a girl as that shouldn’t have happened in a proper clone… I bet Vlad did something stupid…” the last part was angrily grumbled.
I give Ai a big smile and say, “Ai I know you got this, you’ll figure out the answer eventually. Plus until you finish with the cure Dani is the best hands with Ran, Agasa, you, and I working together as a team.”
Ai gives me a hesitant smile and pulls me into a hug. I know this is important to Ai because this gives her a chance to use her skills to save a life, opposed to making things that take it away. It never was Ai’s fault as she was practically born into the Black Organization and never really had a choice about working for them, but I know APTX weighs heavily on her mind. In the end though… I just know everything is going to turn out fine, the road to get there might be long and treacherous but if we all stand together we’ll make it through.
this snip takes place before Dani, and even before Shinichi/Conan ever meets Danny… Its where the rats in the Dani snip come form though
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“Hey Ai, you texted me to came over right?” I heard from right behind me. I whip around clipboard out in front of me smacking the board into something invisible. Why Kudo-kun, Conan-kun, whatever his name is at the moment, insists on sneaking up on me invisible. I have no clue, but I blame the ghost part of him for him enjoyingit.
As Kudo-san drops his invisibility I see the fact he is in his ‘Conan’ form and I apparently accidentally smacked him in the face with my clipboard giving the fact he was rubbing his face. “… I probably deserved that.” Conan-kun says “but you make it way to easy for me and I can’t exactly surprise Ran. I still don’t know how she always knows where I am”
I scoff at him with, “Maybe your just getting predictable, Conan-kun.”
Conan rolls his eyes at me with a small grin, and floats closer. Gah! Why does he insist on using his powers all the time. I frustratingly think as Conan asks me, “So did you need me for something?”
“Well yes I do, I’m getting ready to test what happens when I add ectoplasm to my attempted recreation of the poison that did this.” I say while pointing out Conan’s floating and the implied part of his other half that comes with it, “to you, and seems to have either shrunk or de-aged me. I have blindfolds and earmuffs if you don’t want to hear or see what’s going on while the tests are happening but I thought you might want to know the results right when I get them, but you can also head back up to the rest of the house and wait until I call you down if you wish as well.”
The look of thankfulness and curiosity on his face was very apparent. And Conan grabs one of the noise cancelling headphones and iPod set, and grabs one of the blindfolds I have out at the same time and goes sit down in the single chair I have down here in my lab and basically starts setting up to ignore everything for a while.
I take a deep breath steeling myself for next step. I walk towards the 20 cages set up on a table on the far wall each cage having five nearly three year old male rats inside. Not far away from the cages are four vials. Two are containing my recreation of APTX in liquid form. I know better then to try to feed the rats the poison in the form of a pill from my time under the thumbs of THEM. The other two vials have the glowing green, bloodlike, liquidly-goo that makes up Kudo-kun’s ghost shape/form… whatever he wants to call it.
Beside the vials is a box of medical syringes with removable needles. When I reach the table I place down my clipboard which contains the papers I plan to point both my notes and the experiment results on. I also pull out a non-toxic permanent marker from my lab coat pocket I plan to mark the ears of the rats I give the doses to so there are no repeat doses… I really don’t want to repeat this experiment if I don’t have to.
Half a milliliter of my imperfect recreation of ATPX, and one full milliliter of goo per Rat. Just this, and then I hopefully never have to touch my poison again. My hands are shaking, Kami why is this so hard. I’ve done this before to hundreds no thousands of rats before this while I was prototyping APTX 4869, but that thought of doing this again is making me sick to my stomach now.
Shinichi needs answers, though. I need answers, no, We both need answers on how and why Shinichi became what he is now. Answers that I simply can’t get any other way, there’s only so much I can learn by studying the long term side effects, or his blood, and I don’t even know how to start studying the green goo stuff.
I take another deep breath and after putting on the set of arm length latex gloves. I fall into the old pattern.
Extract the proper dose, remove needle, tap the side a few times to mix things a bit, grab a rat, check for dots on ears, if dots are found put back in cage and find a new rat, when a dot-less rat is found force fed the prepped dose down the rats throat, mark ears with dots with the marker, return to cage, repeat.
I remember that it always took at least 30 seconds for the poison to start kicking in with the liquid stuff, but because this isn’t the proper version it took more like 38 seconds so by the time the first rat I dosed start to feel the effects I was already on rat number 52. I have to slow down the dosing now to observe the rats.
Watching the rats squirm in pain makes me feel sick to my stomach, as it brings to mind my personal experiences with the poison. The feeling of bones melting and full body painful cramps coupled with a heavy fever. Waking up after passing out briefly to the feeling of vertigo as everything is so much bigger then before.
I shake my head at the memories to dispel them and continue dosing the rest of the rats. Kami almost all the rats have something weird happening to them, from what I can tell if they don’t have what looks like steam raising from them, they instead are slowly being covered in what looks like a glowing white electric net.
What I can tell from this location only three rats have died so far. Oh the first net has dispelled… Is that a ghost?… Fuck
I hurriedly but carefully finish dosing the last few rats, and start recording what’s going on. Fuck a little over half of the rats seem to have de-aged/shrunk like me, Forty rats have those nets that seem to indicate they’re becoming half ghost, and out of one hundred rats only five died in total… and four of those five seem to have died for reasons other then my poison, given that boils that ooze the same green goo I gave them with the poison cover a majority of their body.
40% chance to became a half ghost, 55% chance to de-age, and most importantly only a 5% chance of death. Kami if They figure what I truly accidentally created they wouldn’t want to kill Shinichi they’ll try to capture him so they can harvest his blood to create super soldiers, and these are rats! The results are highly likely going to be shifted into the Yūrei Hanyou’s favor when dealing with humans! or even just more advanced mammals like dogs and monkeys!
Shaking with fear and worry for my friend I finish collecting the data. Organize it into a somewhat comprehensible manner, and go to tap Conan-kun’s shoulder so I can tell him I’m done.
Conan removes both the blindfold and the headset, that seems to be reciting a Sherlock Holmes audiobook… How did? Nevermind… not important. I all but shove the experiment notes into his hands, still shaking like a leaf from the results.
I watch as Conan reads my notes and I can tell he reached the same conclusion as me, when I see his blood drain from his face leaving him even paler than he usually is as a fucking ghost.
“We can’t let them find out.” we end up reciting to each other at the same time, which brought a smile to both of our faces despite the seriousness of the situation.
“We also should also keep this from Ran and Agasa. Kami knows Ran worries about me enough… and Agasa is not much better.” Conan says
“Maybe the both of them would worry less if you where a little better at not using your powers? hmm, Ever thought of that Mister, I-can’t-go-two-hours-without-using-ghost-powers?” I say while poking his chest. “Didn’t the Shounen Tantei-dan figure you out because you kept accidentally using your powers in the school classroom. It’s an honest miracle that you haven’t used your powers yet when trying to catch KID. You being a Murder Magnet doesn’t help matters either.”
“I’m not a Murder Magnet!” Conan calls out with a honest to Kami pout. “I just run into cases okay, it’s normal it happens to Hattori too.”
“Shinichi, Shinichi, Shinichi normal detectives have to be called into a case, and yes even Hattori get called to cases more often then not, you on the other hand always seem to find yourself in the middle of it every single time. I’ve read the papers, and you’ve been like this since you we’re seven the first time even. It’s a problem. I’ve seen more dead bodies in the last month alone with the Shounen Tantei-dan then the whole time I was under their thumb.” I say with an eye roll.
Conan mumbles something under his breath, and I was about to ask what he said, but he pipes up with, “What do you plan to do with the rats? Now that the experiment is over and done with at least.”
“Well… I plan to keep the shrunken ones at least, I would keep the half-ghost ones as well but I don’t think I will be able to contain them, not without hurting them even more at least.” I say remembering the case were we found out spirit defenses actually work against half-ghosts… Kami his screams! I shudder at the memories. “we both need information about later side effect’s of both of our conditions and the rats would be prefect study material to figure that out now.”
I end my idea with, “I also plan to try to figure out why those four rats with the boils died, because the boils are weird and I don’t like implications of their presence.”
Conan nods, “makes since, thought you might be able to keep the rats around to same general area of you leave food out for them. Now come on and lets get this cleaned up some. oh! I forgot Ran said to ask you to come over the agency later. She wants to make dinner for you and Professor Agasa both today.”
I smile Ran and Shinichi always seem to try to make me feel included in their friendship… its nice. I think as I help clean the lab up.
Ran is holding a large pot of fresh soup and carefully watches as Conan carefully floats up to ring the door bell for her, and thankfully Agasa opens the door to the his house quite quickly.
“Come in, come in and oh is that some of Ran’s famous noodle soup I see. I’m sure Ai-chan is going to appreciate it while she’s down with the flu.” Agasa says as he leads both of the guests inside, grabbing the soup pot from Ran at the same time.
“Ai’s going to be all right, right?” Conan asks starting to shift his weight with his barely contained energy (kami why does her friend act like a real seven year old all the time), “This is the first time she’s been sick since she’s been poisoned, and who knows what it did to her immune system.”
“Yes well… While she does seem to have a more extreme case then your mutual friends but her fever is still in the safe range and I’m keeping and eye on her.” Agasa side eyes Conan as he heats up the pot of soup, “Can you even get sick anymore, Conan-kun?”
Conan stops shifting his weight, tilting his head in thought, “You know I’m not sure, I don’t think so though… or at least all I have to do to prevent myself from getting sick is switch to a ghost and back… or I think that’s how it works, so in the end I don’t know.” Conan ends with a shrug of his shoulders and going over to one of the cabinets around and pulling out a football to play with mostly by bouncing it on his head.
Ran pierced her lips in thought. Her de-aged best friend’s sure nonchalance about his Yūrei Hanyou state and the consequences that come from it worry her sometimes… but in all honestly him accepting every part of it is probably healthier mentally for him in the long run… and honestly he’s been like this for almost six months at this point. and It’s not like this is something that can just go away either… though his acting seven even in private worries her sometimes.
… And at least their hasn’t seemed to be a repeat of him starting to forget himself… Granted none of them let him settle into the Conan mindset for more then a few days anymore. Ai is a big help there not that they told her about it since this happen before she showed up. but Kami Ran will never forget the honest confusion on her friend’s face when she called him Shinichi almost a month ago and especially not the follow-up “Who’s that Ran nii-chan? Is that your boyfriend? can I meet him?” like she wasn’t talking too him.
Shinichi/Conan still doesn’t seem to remember that fact either so it can easily happen again if they let it… they could tell him the risk… but honestly Ran doesn’t want to brake his smile. And while his calling Conan ‘Kudo’ in semi-pubic places is annoying she thinks she will forever be thankful for Hattori-san bringing Shinichi back out again, waking him up.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Speaking of Hattori that must be him now. Shinichi has been Conan for several days now, and yesterday Hattori texted me asking to drag Shinichi on a case the next day, but I texted him we were going to spend some time at Agasa’s tomorrow because Ai is sick with the a case of the flu. After I shared that he texted back he was going to take an overnight train and meet us at Agasa’s place.
Agasa let Hattori in easily. He’s holding a bottle of something I’m not sure what and once the door to the outside is closed he loudly calls out “Oi, Kudo! Do you want to walk around town together after we help the little nee-chan feel better?”
The mental shift to Shinichi is faster then even she can track. One second he was the very intelligent seven year old Conan, the next Shinichi was stiffening his seven-year-old body, and faster the she can blink the ball Conan was playing with is now kicked at Hattori’s face.
The ball given that Shinichi didn’t use either the power kick shoes or his ghostly strength was easily dodged though it still hit Hattori in the back on the rebound. pushing him forward a bit. “OI! what was that for!” Hattori calls out to Shinichi but I can tell he’s hiding a grin, and once again I’m disturbed on how easy it is to hold the wool over Shinichi’s eyes with this matter.
Shinichi looks down right vindictive as he says in a sickly sweet voice, “ Heiji, Heiji, Heiji how many time have I’ve told you to NOT call me that, so of course I’m going to take it into my own hands to re-educate you.” His glowing green eyes as he glares Hattori down makes Heiji sweat bullets and his eyes bore into mine as he silently begs me to save him from my pissed boyfriend.
Yeah no, he got himself into this mess he can get himself out again, it’s his own dam fault he used the subtle as a brick method for pulling Shinichi out from Conan… granted most of the subtle methods need prep times and deep knowledge of the subtle differences between the Conan persona and Shinichi himself… like the coffee method, Conan prefers sour grapefruit juice with pulp in the morning and if you manage to convince Conan he is getting it and switch it for black coffee at the last second Shinichi comes right out… so maybe Hattori had no choice.
I watch Agasa leave to get Ai while also half listening to Shinichi dress down Hattori on why his secret identity is supposed to remainsecret and how he’s putting everyone in danger if he doesn’t get his act together. I’m not going to lie and say it wasn’t entertaining especially the betrayed look in Hattori’s eyes when I turn back where the two boys were standing. Thankfully for Hattori, Shinichi is forced to stop when Agasa comes down with the very sick Ai.
Ai in a word looks awful. Her face is extremely flushed with fever, and she has frequent, extremely wet sounding coughs. Her hair is think with sweat, and she looks absolutely miserable. Shinichi seeing the shape Ai is in flies/floats over to Ai in Agasa’s arms.
“Hey Ai, I came to visit. How are you doing?” Shinichi asks with and extremely worried look on his face.
Shinichi is forced to dodge a sneeze before Ai is able to answer. “I’m fine. It’s just the flu… and stop floating! Your supposed to be controlling your powers not using them every chance you get!” the effect of the reasonable reprimand was ruined when Ai broke out into heavy coughs.
Agasa shoos Shinichi away so he can bring Ai to the couch, and once she is brought to the couch and wrapped in a blanket and given a bowl of hot soup Hattori comes over still holding the unlabeled bottle in his hands.
“Yo, little nee-chan you look like shit.” Hattori says bluntly much to Ai’s glares. “I heard yesterday that you were sick from Ran so I brought some of my dad’s flu medicine. It always seems to help with the symptoms with him so it could work with you.” he ends with while bringing out one of those little plastic cups and pouring a large dose of whatever is in that bottle, and handing it over to Ai.
Before I can interject because that dosage looks way to large for Ai’s size, Ai has already downed it like alcohol from a shot glass… but going by the look on her face it likely wasn’t what she was expecting going by the taste. Ai gives Hattori a contemplating look and asks. “Does your father store the drinking alcohol in the medicine cabinet with the flu medicine?”
Let it be known that while I’m not a detective like Shinichi or Hattori-san, I’m not an idiot, and once Hattori confirmed that his father did store his alcohol in the medicine cabinet. I figure out quiet quickly that Hattori just gave Ai alcohol instead of actual medicine, and while I’m pissed at this. Shinichi who figured out the facts a little but faster then me was already chewing out Hattori for not checking the bottle first.
Instead of joining my boyfriend in the chewing out, I head towards Agasa’s sink to get a glass of water for Ai, so hopefully once the alcohol hit her system it isn’t to bad. Ai downs it just as fast as the alcohol before and eats some more soup.
Both of these things will hopefully prevent her from becoming too drunk, and both of us watch the floating Shinichi chew out Hattori while I rub her back in soothing motions.
That’s when things start to go weird. Ai whimpers in pain as I feel what feels like writhing snakes underneath my fingertips. unwrapping her from her blanket reveals writhing muscles all over her body… and she seems to be growing. Fuck
I pick her up while calling out, “Conan can you get one of my dresses from my house?”
My seemingly random question brings him out of his dressing down and makes him turn to me so fast that it’s highly likely that if he wasn’t a Yūrei Hanyou, he would have gotten whiplash. “Sure, but Why?” he asks
“I think something it that alcohol has counteracted the poison in her system, because she is starting to rapidly grow. I’m going to bring her to another room and watch to make sure she’s safe but she’s going to need some clothes if she does turn back to her original age.” while I was explaining this to Shinichi, Ai’s whimpers are getting louder and louder and I was quickly starting to feel the weight increase, “Please hurry.” I add on the the end.
Shinichi is clearly stunned but worried and runs to the nearest completely enclosed room and closes the door behind him. The sequential flash of white I can see from under the door reveals Shinichi’s plans to use his ghost shape to get to my house fast. I enter the same room that Shinichi used to change between human and ghost for my own purposes in helping Ai.
The first thing I do is take off all her clothes as they are already starting to strain because of her growth. I’m thankful I didn’t have to cut them off her. I got to her fast enough. The whimpers are already starting to turn into screams… this must be horrifically painful… and if this only temporary she’s going to have to feel this again when she turns back.
I lay her completely naked on the floor… their isn’t much else I can do for her now that the clothes are off. Kami the transformation looks so painful and her screams hurt my ears and my heart but I’ve done all I can for now.
I watch as slowly over ten minutes Ai’s body grows to my height, and Kami did watching it make me sick to my stomach. The writhing muscles are extremely distressing to watch though they strangely remind me of the lights that covered Shinichi when he first became Conan… only you know with muscle and skin instead of a supernatural lightshow…
hum, maybe Hattori’s theory that the Conan form is based on the form Shinichi would have taken if he was shrunk like Ai holds more weight than we originally thought, and as Ai’s screams taper off, and the rapid growth stops. A mop of white hair with glowing green eyes pokes itself though the wall.
Shinichi yelps and hides his face in the dress he’s holding, still hovering halfway though the wall. “… I got the dress Ran… I’m just going to go became human again… somewhere else… one that doesn’t have naked teenage girls in it.” Shinichi says with a massive green blush that cover his entire seven year old face, before dropping the still folded dress on the floor and escaping to another room. Its definitely still Shinichi as Conan wouldn’t have cared as he is, to reiterate, seven.
Kami, its way to easy to view Conan as a real person and not just a persona Shinichi can end up so lost in that he forgets who he is. Not for the first time or likely last time since we all meet Ai, I wonder how things would have gone if Shinichi shrunk instead of becoming a Yūrei Hanyou that day in Tropical Land. Would he still struggle with losing himself? Would he still have told me? I don’t know and I still not sure if I want those questions answered.
“Ran?” I hear in a more mature but still familiar voice, “What happened?”
Ai must have recovered from the pain from the transformation so I throw my dress to her after picking it off the floor while saying, “Something in the alcohol made you unshrunk not sure what I’m not a scientist, I also don’t know if this is permanent or only temporary.”
Ai looks her hand rubbing her chest with the other, “It… feels temporary to me, I’m not sure how I know, might be because of the chest pain I fe-” Ai words were cut off with a particularly violent series of coughs.
“Looks like your still sick on top of all this” I say, “Go on, and put on my dress you need some clothes that fit for now. Try not to stress yourself out to much don’t worry we’ll take care of you. I’m going to help close off the windows”
When Ai nods at me I leave the room to let her put on her clothes in relative peace, and I come out to see Agasa, Hattori-san, and the still a ghost Shinichi helping close of the windows from the outside.
All of them turn to me when I enter the main living area, but Hattori is the first to break the silence with, “How’s the Little nee-chan doing me and Agasa heard the screams, It did not sound pleasant whatever it is.”
“Well whatever this is Ai thinks its temporary, all I know is Ai is a teen once more. whatever the alcohol did it unshrunk her at least, but neither of us have any idea for how long and it doesn’t help that Ai is still extremely sick. She really didn’t need this stress today” I end up saying and ending with a sigh
In the end, Hattori and Shinichi spent all day helping Ai with her sickness as she got a lot worse after her growth spurt and subsequent shrinking three hours later, and weren’t able to explore Bieka and basically poking around until a case finds them.
Ai did end up asking for the alcohol that did it to be left behind to study. She wants to try to figure out how something like a herbal alcohol was able to temporary reverse the effects of her poison. She did end up saying that if she bothered she could probably come up with a permanent cure from it, but she has nothing to go back to and she likes being Ai so she isn’t going to bother, and its not like curing her poison would help Shinichi at all. She wants to study it just for her professional curiosity about the how of it and that’s it.
