Before Conan and Haibara transferred, Mitsuhiko had always been the smartest; now he was always far behind in third place.
It bothered him.
Not that Mitsuhiko had a problem with others being more academically gifted then he was. It was just that, they were odd.
The strangest thing wasn't their intelligence, however, despite being unfeasibly gifted, it was that he got the impression that they were holding back.
Trying to hide their intelligence.
Frankly he got the impression that they weren't trying, in fact, he sometimes felt as if they were holding back.
Whenever they did a test at school the three of them always got the same scores: the best scores.
However, the kanji that Conan claimed he didn't know, in the tests, were the same ones that barely fazed him when he read one of his Holmes' books for the 300th time. Haibara was less obvious, her scores were the highest to begin with, but sometimes Mitsuhiko would hear her muttering about biochemistry.
The professor treated them differently. Whenever he had one of his quizzes he'd tell Conan and Haibara not to answer, Conan in particular.
The professor gave Conan the coolest gadgets.
What could be cooler than a voice changer and a tranquilliser dart?
(Other then Kamen Yaiba.)
The detective boys were equal, weren't they?
They were a team who solved mysteries together, right?
Except they weren't. Conan always solved the cases; the rest of the detective boys just gathered evidence. No wonder Ayumi liked him, Conan always knew what to do and, Mitsuhiko couldn't compare.
While Haibara never seemed interested in the cases it was her who stoped them getting into trouble, getting hurt.
The two of them made a great team; Mitsuhiko and the rest were just burdens.
They were burdens.
He was a a burden.
They didn't need him. But, he could make them need him.
He'd have to get better at solving mysteries, read up on Holmes and Conan's distant relative Shinichi, gain knowledge in all sorts of areas; find out how criminals think, so that he'd finally be on a more even footing to the two geniuses.
So that he wouldn't always be far behind in third place.