The next day, the temperature suddenly dropped again.
Chi Feichi went to the pet hospital in the morning. After returning to Araide Clinic for lunch, he didn't go out again, staying in the sickroom next to the consultation room to look at models.
Feichi huddled under Chi Feichi's clothes, too lazy to even stick his head out. "Master, is winter coming soon?"
Chi Feichi: "..."
This question was no different from asking him what date it was tomorrow.
He remembered winter had arrived some time ago, and then it returned to autumn...
"Forget it, you definitely don't know either," Feichi realized on his own. "I'll endure a bit longer..."
"If you really can't, just hibernate," Chi Feichi said. "I'll prepare a warm nest for you."
"No, no, no," Feichi said firmly. "Hibernating is so boring. I can still hold on!"
Chi Feichi shook his head. Whatever, let him hold on. Maybe it will warm up again tomorrow.
Click.
Araide Tomoaki pushed open the door, entering with a cup of hot water. "Is it okay not to go to the pet hospital?"
Chi Feichi put down the book in his hand. "Admission starts the day after tomorrow. Nothing much recently."
"True. You're going there to record surgeries for your thesis. If there are no surgeries, you don't need to stay there every day," Araide Tomoaki handed the hot water and medicine to Chi Feichi, smiling. "It's time for your medicine!"
Chi Feichi looked at Araide Tomoaki's smiling face, took it calmly, continued to use sleight of hand to hide the pills, pretended to swallow them, and drank a mouthful of hot water.
Sometimes magic is as useful as disguise... Thanks to Teacher Toichi!
Next door, hurried footsteps and a child's crying sound suddenly came.
A woman said: "Doctor, it's like this... this child suddenly couldn't breathe through his nose."
Araide Yoshiaki: "Has it been going on for long? Let me see..."
Woman: "Started yesterday."
Araide Yoshiaki: "Hmm... there are cherry pits stuck in both nostrils. Didn't you notice?"
Woman: "Cherry... pits?"
Araide Yoshiaki: "Did he choke while eating cherries? Very lucky, only coughed into the nostrils, not the trachea, otherwise it would be dangerous."
Child sobbing: "N-No... I put them in on purpose, but then I forgot... didn't take them out."
Chi Feichi: "..."
Are kids these days so naughty?
Araide Tomoaki: "..."
The sickroom on this side was quiet for a while. Araide Tomoaki smiled. "There will always be situations like this..."
Chi Feichi nodded and put down the water cup.
"Sometimes animals are like children too, right?" Araide Tomoaki had learned to find topics himself when chatting with Chi Feichi. He smiled and asked, "Comparatively speaking, cats and dogs are more likely to swallow foreign objects. Are most of your surgeries about removing foreign objects?"
"No," Chi Feichi glanced at Araide Tomoaki. "Mostly sterilization surgeries."
Araide Tomoaki was speechless for a moment, once again feeling that veterinarians and human doctors were indeed different. But why did Chi Feichi's glance make him feel a bit creepy? "Y-Yeah, I forgot about pet sterilization. Um... do you want to come with me to Teitan High School later?"
Chi Feichi looked at the models. He still wanted to continue understanding the human locomotor system...
"I promised a friend to be the temporary coach for the Teitan High School basketball club for a while," Araide Tomoaki didn't forget to involve Chi Feichi in sports. He smiled and said, "Do you play basketball? Since there's nothing much today anyway, let's go check it out together. We can be back in about two hours."
Basketball...
Chi Feichi thought about how he hadn't played basketball for a long time. Exercising a bit wasn't bad. "Okay."
Araide Tomoaki looked at Chi Feichi's white coat and smiled. "Then I'll wait for you at the back door. You can leave your clothes in the consultation room. Miss Hikaru can wash them later."
After the two separated, Araide Tomoaki secretly called Fukuyama Chiaki to report. After getting along, he felt Chi Feichi was very normal. It was just his personality that confused him a bit.
Uncle Fukuyama's diagnosis wouldn't be wrong, right?
But getting closer, making friends, guiding exercise—he had done it all!
Very successful!
At the entrance of Araide Clinic, a disheveled famous detective entered, heading for the consultation room.
Chi Feichi came out of the sickroom and found that the mother and son in the consultation room had left. Seeing Araide Yoshiaki looking over, he explained, "Uncle Yoshiaki, Tomoaki and I are going to Teitan High School. I'll leave my clothes here for now."
Araide Yoshiaki smiled and nodded. "Going to play basketball? I'll ask Hikaru to take the clothes to wash later. Remember to come back for dinner..."
"Doctor..." Mouri Kogoro walked into the consultation room, looked up, and saw Araide Yoshiaki in a white coat and Chi Feichi also in a white coat. He was stunned.
Why did he meet Chi Feichi again?
Wait, he remembered this guy Chi Feichi is a veterinarian, right?
Did he walk into the wrong clinic?
Is there something wrong with his memory? Or his eyes?
The next second, Mouri Kogoro silently turned around and left.
Araide Yoshiaki, who was just about to greet him: "???"
Why are today's patients a bit hallucinatory?
Chi Feichi was also stunned for a moment. After snapping back to reality, he took off his white coat. "Probably a misunderstanding. He knows I'm from the veterinary medicine department..."
A moment later, Mouri Kogoro entered again with black lines on his forehead. "Has this place also been acquired by the Zhenchi Group and turned into a pet hospital? Really, if so, you should put up a sign to notify people. Made me think I remembered wrongly!"
"Uh, no," Araide Yoshiaki quickly explained. "Feichi is just staying at my house temporarily. This place hasn't been turned into a pet hospital."
"Is that so?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Araide Yoshiaki skeptically. He suspected this was an unscrupulous doctor trying to make a quick buck before turning it into a pet hospital.
"I've been practicing at Araide Clinic for over ten years," Araide Yoshiaki was helpless. "And I've seen more than one or two patients..."
"Fine..." Mouri Kogoro was too lazy to change hospitals. He stepped forward, sat down, and turned to ask Chi Feichi, "You're going out?"
"I'm going to Teitan High School with a friend," Chi Feichi hung his clothes on the coat rack. "Didn't Conan and Ran accompany you?"
Hearing Chi Feichi's calm tone, Mouri Kogoro looked a bit more serious. Mainly because he hadn't drunk alcohol, he felt less resistant to the cold. "Ran has school, and that brat Conan went to participate in a puppet show training organized by the school. I just felt a bit weak recently and came to see the doctor. Shouldn't be a big problem, so I didn't tell them. By the way, I received a commission. I'm going to Tottori Prefecture tomorrow, probably for two or three days. Do you want to come along?"
"Are Conan and the others going too?"
"Yeah, their holiday starts tomorrow..."
Chi Feichi recalled. There were no valuable wanted criminals in recent cases. He refused, "I won't go. Next time."
"Alright, I'll call you next time," Mouri Kogoro felt a bit regretful. It was rare to have a decent commission that wasn't finding cats or dogs, but he missed the chance to show off in front of his disciple. But on second thought, his performance at Ryusuitei was not bad either, although he didn't remember how he solved the case. "By the way, you're going to Teitan High School? Recently, Ran hasn't been home after school, saying she had to go back to school for karate club training. Did she agree to meet you at school?"
"I'm only going to Teitan High School today. I didn't go in the past few days," Chi Feichi ignored Mouri Kogoro's increasingly strange gaze and left the consultation room. "Then I'll go out first."
Bang.
The door closed.
"Still that lukewarm attitude, this kid..." Mouri Kogoro muttered. But since Chi Feichi explained, he believed it. Chi Feichi looked like someone who wouldn't lie.
Outside, Chi Feichi took out his phone and dialed Professor Agasa's number.
Since Conan was going to Tottori tomorrow and wouldn't be in Tokyo, then...
"Hello... Ai? Is the Professor not in? No... I wanted him to contact the children to help me with a favor tomorrow..."