Chapter 34: Chapter 34
Ran said a bit sadly, "A good part of the afternoon was ruined by him."
"It's not the first time!"
As a father, Kogoro Mouri hit the nail on the head: "Didn't he stand you up before, making you wait all day until night? And you, silly girl, still waited for him in the same place..."
"If it were me, if my date doesn't show up in half an hour, I'd consider it a lost cause... He doesn't even have the most basic sense of time; it's not worth maintaining a relationship with someone like that!"
After Kogoro Mouri touched an open wound, Ran couldn't help but remember her relationship with Shinichi.
Over the years, Ran and Shinichi had created many memories, both happy and unhappy.
She just looked closely, and Ran realized that the unhappy memories were the majority.
The main reason for these unhappy moments was that whenever Shinichi encountered a case, he would get involved in it and ruin the date plans that Ran had carefully prepared.
Ran used to meticulously organize her time to have a date, researching and planning everything on the Internet, etc.
Despite her meticulous preparations, they often went unused, and that broke her heart.
If it were just once or twice, it wouldn't be so bad, but it was a constant.
This made Ran feel very unhappy, as she felt that for Shinichi, murder cases were much more important than her; every time a case came up, he put her aside.
At first, she didn't think much of it.
But after that afternoon, Lin Yi's behavior made Ran realize something.
She actually didn't like that situation. Compared to Shinichi's habit of intervening in murder cases to investigate, she preferred Lin Yi's approach of doing what he was supposed to and then leaving the rest to the police.
They were normal people, and murder cases should be handled by the police; they just needed to live their lives peacefully.
Suddenly, Ran had a strange thought.
If she married Shinichi in the future... would he still get involved in murder cases every time one came up?
With what Ran knew about Shinichi, she quickly came to the answer: yes.
Thinking about a future like that made her feel a sudden sense of fear and anxiety.
Unconsciously, she looked at Kogoro Mouri and thought:
As a detective, he can't even understand his wife's heart.
He's really useless.
This made Ran start to dislike the profession of detective.
After thinking about all this, Ran began to question her feelings for Shinichi.
That afternoon, when Sonoko asked her if she liked someone, Ran answered yes.
But if she were asked to respond now, Ran could only say she didn't know.
Friendship? Love?
Ran didn't understand, and she scratched her head in frustration, crying out sadly: "I don't understand~~~~!"
Kogoro Mouri was surprised and couldn't help but look at his daughter with concern, saying, "Ran, are you okay?"
"I'm! I'm! Fine!"
After yelling at Kogoro Mouri in a bad mood, Ran got up from the sofa, said, "I'm going to take a shower," and headed to the third floor.
Kogoro Mouri looked on in astonishment as Ran walked away and murmured, "Isn't it obvious something's wrong? Why does she say she's fine?"
Recalling that Eri used to be like this too, Kogoro Mouri expressed his dissatisfaction: "This girl is becoming more and more like her mother... Or are all girls like this?"
Watching the vibrant Okino Yoko on television, Kogoro Mouri felt satisfied: "Miss Yoko is so cute; she definitely doesn't resemble them."
On the third floor, after showering, Ran flopped onto the soft bed.
"Ah... I'm so annoyed, I should talk to Sonoko."
Ran felt that her thoughts were complicated, and she needed to vent to someone.
She sent Sonoko a message asking if she was free, but didn't receive a response.
Ran was very disappointed, but at that moment, she received a call from Shinichi.
As she was in a bad mood, she didn't feel like answering the phone, so she hung up immediately.
Shinichi tried calling her two or three more times, but Ran hung up each time.
Finally, Shinichi sent her a message asking if she wanted to go to the amusement park the next day, fulfilling a previous promise.
Ran replied: [Do you know what you did wrong?]
Shinichi responded: [I shouldn't have talked about murder cases at the table.]
Seeing this, Ran got angry again, as she had begun to calm down: [I won't go to the amusement park with you until you understand what you did wrong.]
After sending the message, Ran stopped paying attention to Shinichi.
Seeing that Sonoko hadn't replied, she murmured: "Hurry up and respond, Sonoko…"
Excusing herself to take a walk, Lin Yi went out alone with Sonoko from the restaurant.
As for Shinichi, there was nothing to worry about; with his upright character, he knew he wasn't interested in Ran. Once the crisis was resolved, he would return to his usual behavior.
Of course, it wasn't that Lin Yi understood everything about Shinichi, but over the years, Shinichi had gotten used to interacting with Ran in this way; it wasn't something that could change overnight.
As the saying goes, it's easier to change a nation than to change a person's nature.
After leaving the restaurant, the air suddenly became much cooler.
Of course, the most important thing was that he no longer had to listen to Shinichi talk incessantly about the process of solving his cases.
Sonoko felt that her ears were quite at peace.
She took a deep breath of the fresh air, stretched her body, and said, "Finally, I can stop listening to the detective talk about how they solve cases!"
Lin Yi nodded and said, "Although saying this may seem unkind to student Kudo, the truth is like this... If I could, I wouldn't want to deal with corpses my whole life."
"Yeah, yeah... any normal person would think the same, right? Only a detective like Shinichi would be willing to deal with corpses... Forget it, let's not talk about him anymore; just thinking about it annoys me."