The next second, Conan’s smile disappeared. A sudden, excruciating pain shot through his head.
Conan couldn’t help but squat down. Damn it! What was going on? Was his cold getting worse?
Yu Quan’s gaze fell upon Conan, acutely sensing a significant change in the boy. He quickly retracted Tsujimura Isshun’s soul.
“Mr. Tsujimura’s soul, I will guide it to enlightenment. However...” Yu Quan’s expression didn’t change as he spoke, but Tsujimura Koei’s eyes widened with anxiety.
“Mr. Tsujimura was murdered. Ran, we need to call the police.”
“Ah? Yes!” Ran subconsciously nodded, immediately pulling out her phone.
Tsujimura Koei’s pupils contracted. He opened his mouth, but no words came out.
“Ah!” Conan suddenly screamed in agony.
“Conan, are you okay?” Ran turned her head to look.
Yu Quan directly reached out and touched Conan’s head. “Your cold has worsened. I’ll take Conan down to rest.”
“The guest room is downstairs.” Tsujimura Koei let out a barely perceptible sigh of relief and pointed towards the door.
Whew – thankfully, he only mentioned murder. As long as Yu Quan wasn’t around, the detective wouldn’t be able to discover his methods!
“Okay, thank you, Yu Quan.” Ran trusted Yu Quan completely.
Yu Quan directly lifted Conan in one hand and walked towards the stairs. Yu Shi Ya quickly followed.
“Yu Quan, this guy...” Yu Shi Ya hesitated, glancing at Conan. As a spider spirit, Yu Shi Ya naturally sensed Conan’s abnormality.
“Yeah, he’s about to recover.” Yu Quan nodded, directly asking Yu Shi Ya to stay outside.
Closing the door, Yu Quan tossed Conan onto the bed. Conan was already in a semi-conscious state and couldn’t sense his surroundings.
He was only immersed in the excruciating pain, as if his bones were being shattered and then reassembled...
Conan, of course, couldn’t see that Yu Quan, sitting on the chair opposite the bed, had quietly activated the camera function on his phone.
“Ah!”
With a piercing scream, Conan grew larger right before Yu Quan’s eyes.
Yu Quan remembered that in the Conan anime, although Conan’s weight during physical exams never changed, it was still within the normal range for a first-grader.
It had to be said, it wasn’t magic or didn’t follow the law of conservation of energy! But it was very "Conan-esque".
“Yu...Yu Quan brother.” Conan, or rather, Kudo Shinichi, hadn’t realized that he had already returned to his high schooler physique and subconsciously called out to Yu Quan, who wasn’t far away.
“Did I faint?” Thinking about the case upstairs, Conan felt a bit anxious.
However, Yu Quan’s next words put Conan’s anxiety to rest.
“Well… Edoagawa Conan, or should I call you Kudo Shinichi?” Yu Quan retracted his phone with a smirk.
“Yu...Yu Quan brother, what are you talking about? I’m just a kid, I don’t understand.” Conan instinctively retorted.
The next second, Conan noticed his clearly not-child-sized palm. After examining his body, Conan’s pupils constricted.
This…how did he revert back?
Thinking about Yu Quan’s identity, Conan blurted out, “Yu Quan, did you help me change back?”
“I’m an exorcist, not a magician.” Yu Quan glanced at Conan, then looked away.
Mainly because Kudo Shinichi was practically naked after suddenly growing larger, which was quite an eyesore.
“Oh.” Conan was a little disappointed.
Then, his heart jumped again. “Yu Quan, you…”
“Don’t worry, only I saw it.” Yu Quan said, seemingly in a good mood.
Conan’s mouth twitched. He felt like something was off. Was Yu Quan too calm? It was like… he already knew that Edoagawa Conan was Kudo Shinichi.
However, considering Yu Quan’s exorcist identity, Conan didn’t know what to doubt. In the end, he could only ask tentatively, “When did you find out?”
When did he find out that Conan was Kudo Shinichi…?
“Ah? You know that exorcists can see souls, right?” Yu Quan said with a knowing smile.
Conan silently nodded. He didn’t believe it before, but now he did. Naturally, Conan also knew that Yu Quan could actually see and even capture souls.
“A soul that looks like an adult, but squeezed into a child’s body…” Yu Quan shrugged.
“You should be grateful that it’s your own body, and the compatibility with your soul is high. Otherwise, I almost thought you were possessed.”
These words were half-truth. He had known about Conan being Kudo Shinichi from the start. After all, Yu Quan had watched Conan.
But the truth was that Conan’s soul and body were in different states.
After all, Conan had only shrunk, not regrown…
Conan’s pupils contracted. It was the first time he had considered his shrinking situation from the perspective of souls, which made his scalp tingle.
“So…I’m okay now, right?” Conan pursed his lips, feeling a hint of anticipation.
“What are you thinking about?” Yu Quan raised an eyebrow. “Although I don’t know how you shrunk, but…”
“I can feel that your current body is very unstable. Your body could revert back to a child’s form at any time.”