Secrets of the Shrunken Ones

Chapter 4: Hardships and Promises

It was horrible. She almost started crying upon seeing the too familiar apartment building. She had tried. Tried hard to find it to prevent the suicide. Searching the net for Yoko-san. Nothing had come up. It was just horrible to know the man had killed himself due to many misunderstandings that could have been cleared up if she had been fast enough. Her time had stopped when the idol had come to the Mouri agency. She had simply frozen to place ignoring the strange antics of one hopeless adult named Mouri Kogoro.

Conan had tried to guess what was wrong and asked when they were left alone. Marie knew she couldn’t lie too well so she covered it up with a ‘I have a bad feeling’ -comment to which Conan had said nothing. Only threw some worried glances at her.

Marie’s anxiety grew by the second as the elevator stopped at the twenty-fifth floor. She left herself walk behind watching quietly as everyone admired views and walked towards the room where the dead man lied. She didn’t like this. Not at all.

“What’s wrong?”, the words made her head snap back up to stare into Conan’s eyes.

“I’m just getting a really bad feeling about this”, which was true, but not in the way the boy got it.

That was when Okino Yoko opened the door backing away. The scene she must be seeing flashed in Marie’s mind making her shudder. At this point everyone but her were looking shocked at the scene in front of them. She wanted to back away. Not see the man that had stabbed himself in the back. Her feet still carried her forward towards the door where everyone was looking at the body and some of the watchers screaming.

Seeing the body was a whole other thing. It made her eyes sting and tears form in her eyes. Kogoro sent Ran to call the police but she barely noticed anything of what was happening when falling to her knees and covering her mouth. Tears finally rolled down and she closed her eyes from the scene.

I tried so hard! Why couldn’t I prevent this?

A hand appeared on her shoulder.

“Hey, It’s okay! Things like these happen all the time”, Conan whispered in her ear.

No it’s not! He died! It’s sad! I couldn’t do anything to stop it!

The hand brushed her back reassuringly and in a little while she got control over herself again.

“I knew something bad was going to happen!”, Marie whispered silently only so Conan could hear.

It was true, but understood differently. The hand stopped and Conan whispered to her again.

“Don’t worry. I’ll solve it”

That struck her. He’ll solve it. She knew he would. He would uncover the truth. It didn’t stop it being sad and wrong, but it somehow it helped her to know everyone else would know the truth too. She nodded her head silently and heard small footsteps go and inspect the crime scene. Wiping her cheeks Marie stood up shakily and watched the great detective work. It still stung for not being able to stop it, but having it solved and letting everyone else know the victim’s grief made it ease up a little. She probably wouldn’t be able to stop any of them in the future either because really, what could a child do? But she would try. She would and if she couldn’t then he could uncover the truth like normally. He would catch the murderers. It wouldn’t be the best option for her, but it would help deal with it. Conan was right. She didn’t need to worry so much.

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“Conan-kun! Marie-chan! Breakfast is ready!”, Ran called for the siblings on a Saturday morning.