The Genius Runner

Chapter 4 | The Shin Principle!!!

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Conan kept an eye on the mystery that was Gintoki Jinsoku. After school ended the boy went towards him.

"Hey Conan-kun," said Gintoki smiling like it was Christmas. Conan looked at him as analytically as possible, he tried to find anything, any little thing that would allow him to prove that Gintoki Jinsoku was indeed someone who was shrunk like he was. He got some hints from the recess earlier today and now needed to find concrete proof.

"Yes, Gintoki?" asked Conan with a fake smile on his face, to unmask someone hiding the true intentions you have to get closer to them, get in their comfort circle before finding more about them, Conan planned to do the same thing with the boy in front of him. 

"Please tell Ran-san that I'll be late today," he said with a smile, "I wanna run around some more," he explained. Conan nodded and waited for Gintoki to leave the class before getting up and slowly walking outside.

"What are you doing Conan-Kun?" asked Ayumi, following the detective's gaze. 

"Why are you looking at Gintoki-kun?" she asked. Conan sighed and looked at her.

"It's probably nothing," he said, glancing at the boy slowly leave the school.

"You think he's suspicious!" declared Mitsuhiko, taking out a notepad, "Me too," he said with a smile, making Conan nervously smile, "No one that fast is innocent!" declared the boy.

'Oi oi are you calling all the professional runners guilty of something?' questioned Conan in his head, turning around only to look at Genta who smirked with his arms crossed.

"That's it! The next mission of the Detective Boys is to investigate Gintoki-kun and find out what he is hiding!" he declared, the detective sighed. Haibara, who was next to the detective grinned and walked towards the detective before whispering in his ear, "Isn't this what you wanted Tantei-kun?" 

Conan couldn't help but deadpan at her sarcasm,  but at the same time he could hear the worry in her voice, the way she walked away from him, tense and holding her left arm made him understand just how worried Haibara was. 

"Let's go!" yelled Ayumi making Genta and Mitsuhiko raise their fists and yell, "YES!"

Conan didn't say anything and instead started making conjectures in his mind, not only of who Gintoki Jinsoku might be, but also how he could be acquainted with the black organization.

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The detective boys started following Gintoki, the first thing he did was go inside a hardware shop. The detective boys stayed outside and waited for the boy to come out. 

Gintoki came out of the shop with a cart and car tires so big they were almost twice his size, the detective boys huddled and looked at one another. 

"He got car tires! What for!" questioned Mitsuhiko, noting down several different things in his flip notebook. 

"Maybe he is helping someone fix a car?" said Ayumi, making Conan narrow his eyes as he put a hand on his chin, not even the genius detective Shinichi Kudo could figure out why someone would need car tires that size if it was to drive a vehicle wouldn't he use smaller tires?

He shook his head and looked at Gintoki slowly push the cart.

"Let's keep following him!" said Genta with a grin on his face as he slowly followed the boy and hid behind walls so the boy wouldn't spot him if he turned around.