They were standing near the game where the corpse had once been. Gabe listened to the police officers talking and the culprit trying to lead the conversation to somewhere else, but Gabe wasn't fooled and, she knew, neither was her new-found apprentice. She stood up straight from her position, lazily leaning against the racing game's seat, and clapped her hands.

Once she knew she had everyone's attention she smirked devilishly "It seems, hannin-san, that you have moved your game-pieces into "check", but I, in just three moves, shall move mine into "check mate". I shall show you, ladies and gentlemen, how this murder really took place." she said theatrically, enjoying every minute "First, I'd like to borrow Takagi-keiji and Ran-san, to demonstrate the victim's last game."

After a moment's hesitation the two moved to do as they were asked, Gabe gave Conan a nod to signal that he should go and tell Ran to pick a male character and Takagi to not only pick a female character but also use his necktie as a blindfold, making sure that he wouldn't be able to counterattack Ran. With these things done, the game started, showing everyone what actually happened. The female character was getting brutally beaten by the male character and everyone thought it was Takagi-keiji winning, but once the game was over and Megure-keibu took off the helmet the truth was shown to them.

"This is what happened, in a manner of speaking, the victim, Bito Kengo was not the one playing as Beika Ceasar, but as Haido Lucas. The one who played as Beika Ceasar was the murderer, Shimizu Takayasu!" Gabe said, staring at him imploringly.

The man scoffed and backed away, waving his hands "Stop joking. Show me some proof."

Gabe smiled "Iiwa, you stuck Bito-san under the arm with a poison-tipped needle, stuffed in a cigarette to make it easier to handle, you also attached it to a gum-wrapper with gum you most likely found in the ash tray and then set it on the ground, this can be proven by the fact that said murder weapon is stuck on the underside of this worker's shoe." she said, pointing at the worker in question, making him look at the bottoms of his shoes and finally take it off and handing it to Megure, who peeled the wrapper off, exposing the cigarette equipped with a needle "After poisoning Bito you ended his game, started a new one, made him choose Haido Lucas, put that on the floor and went to the other station, choosing Beika Ceasar and making it seem like you lost the game, this was not noticed since you didn't end the game, because then Bito's screen would've shown "YOU LOSE". But, there was an element you did not count on... inside the coinbox there are only three coins at the moment, one from Bito, one from Takagi-keiji... and one from you. If a coin with your fingerprints is found in that box, then it will be hard evidence that you killed Bito-san. Well? Am I wrong?"

The man was silent for a moment before smiling bitterly "My fingerprints are there... because I tightly gripped that coin before I put it in. Because I wanted this to be my last game."

With this, Gabe turned away, breathed in, exhaled and crouched down, drained from her performance. Her eyes were closed as she rested the back of her hand on her forehead, her head bent forwards. At the sound of footsteps she opened her left eye and glanced in the same direction, catching sight of Conan, who was looking at her curiously. With a smile she opened her eyes, lifted her head, took off her cap and put it on the child's head.

"Thank you, little Watson." she said as the cap slid to rest crookedly on his head, too big for him.

Conan blinked at her before smiling again, letting out one of those childish half-laughs which were a trademark of his, she'd noticed. She smiled before standing up, patting her pants free of imaginary dirt.

"Well, let's go ask if Ran-san needs a babysitter for you, neh?"

Neither of them really knew how they'd gotten Ran to agree, but Gabe had become Ran's go-to person when she wanted to go out and not drag Conan along, she was a teenager after all, even if she was a very nice, kindhearted girl she was still a teenager at the core. Ran had also started to hang out with Mielikki and had reacted like any other female with maternal instincts to the fact that she was pregnant. There was much squealing. Both Gabe and Conan had covered their ears at the sounds coming from the living room. While they were outside. On the opposite side of the house. It was ridiculous.

Conan had been surprised the first time Hakuba had made a call to the house, since he hadn't thought Gabe and he were friends. He had been even more surprised when Gabe told him that the detective called because of her sister, not her. Gabe-san had admitted to him that she'd done a little match-making and so far both Hakuba and Mielikki seemed like they would most likely start dating, even if they didn't admit it to anyone, even themselves. Conan, too had been surprised by the fact that Mielikki was pregnant but didn't judge, since he found it impossible to dislike the energetic mother-to-be, even though he much preferred Gabe's company.

Gabe was teaching him all sorts of things about being a detective, some he knew, some he didn't, other things were from a whole other perspective which for some reason made sense, even though he was still sure she was somewhat insane. Though that might be their cultures clashing. Though he had to give her some credit, she was much more polite and knowledgeable about Japanese things than most tourists were, or even some of the foreigners currently living in Japan. Though a lot of things she taught him made him truly stop and stare at her, because there was just no good reason for her to be teaching, what she thought was, a seven-year-old how to disarm bombs. Never mind that he already knew how to do this. Times like that made him wonder if she somehow knew, but then there would be moments that made him dismiss the thought. Like how she would feed him treats made by her sister, moments such as those told him that the woman still thought he was a kid, though a very smart one. He'd even tried to eavesdrop on her when she spoke with her sister about him, but he understood nothing of the language she was speaking. It made him wonder where they were from. He knew that she spoke three other languages besides Japanese and one of those three was English, he wondered what the other two were.

But all in all, Gabe-san was a somewhat responsible adult, which was why Conan had suggested she switch with Hakase to bring him and the other kids skiing when the man caught a cold. Haibara hadn't been happy about it but she could find nothing wrong with the woman once they met up that morning. Conan had been slightly speechless when he noticed Gabe-san had dyed her hair a vibrant blue since she'd last babysat him.

Oy, oy. He thought with his eyebrow twitching, did she have to be so extreme?

"Yo, Conan-kun." she greeted him.

"Ohayo, Gabe-neechan." Conan answered automatically, before introducing Haibara "This is Haibara Ai."

Gabe turned to look at the girl "Ohayo, Haibara-chan."

"Ohayo, Ojanen-san." Haibara answered in her normal tone, which resembled monotone.

Gabe nodded before asking "Alright, do you have everything you need? Any allergies or illnesses I need to know about? Asthma, for example?"

"We have everything and no one has an illness you should worry about." Conan answered.

Gabe nodded and spun around on her heel "Yosh, we're picking up the others now, both of you in front so I can see you."

Conan and Haibara went in front of her while she carried Haibara's bag, Conan had to carry his own because as Gabe had said "You're a guy, deal with it." when he'd pointed out that she was a woman she'd responded "In gender only, my personality says otherwise."

Once they'd picked up the others they boarded the bus they were using, since Gabe's sister needed their car and Gabe couldn't take them on her motorcycle, besides, Gabe had yet to buy a car that she could use in Japan. They got seats far back on the children's insistence and because there were three free benches near each other.

"Nee, Gabe-neechan?" Ayumi began as the bus started rolling again "Why did you pick us up at our houses instead of having us come to Hakase's place?" she asked when the woman turned to look at her.

Conan and the others also wanted to know, the real kids because they usually always gathered at Agasa's and the two false children because they wanted to know her motives.

Gabe blinked at her before answering the question "I am paranoid, I am the adult and thus you five are my responsibility, at least at the moment, I can't let anything happen to you on my watch, whether or not I have laid eyes on you yet. Because I picked you up I could make sure nothing happened to you on the journey, but if I had had you come to the professor's and something had happened to you on the way, I would be the one responsible. It is an adult's responsibility to keep children safe." she ended with a serious face.

Conan blinked, not sure what to make of the speech. At that moment a couple of familiar faces entered the bus and Haibara demanded to switch seats with him, he didn't notice who'd climbed on until the two were right in front of them and he heard the kids exclaim "Dr. Araide!"

Gabe looked up from her Terry Pratchett book at the sound of the kids exclaiming a name she was sure she'd heard before. When she spotted the man, and the woman behind him, she couldn't say she recognized him, the woman was a different story.

"Jodie!" Gabe said with a smile.

"Hi, Partner." the woman said in English, "Partner" was a nickname the woman had given Gabe since they were gaming partners, Gabe had even invited Jodie to her house to play console games but Jodie had yet to take her up on her offer.

Unfortunately, Gabe didn't have a nickname for the woman, she was never good at coming up any nicknames that made sense to the person she'd nicknamed.

She was shaken out of her musings when Jodie hugged Araide's arm and said "Hi, Cool Kid. We meet again~!" oh, right, her sister had said once that Jodie nicknamed Conan "Cool Kid", she had no idea why, but she could see where it came from. The kid was hella cool, after all.

Gabe put away her book and leaned on her left arm "How's teaching working out for ya?"

"I'm doing great, today I'm on a date with Dr. Araide to the Ueno Art Museum!" the woman said, as energetic as always.

Araide denied this, embarrassed, as he sat down in front of Haibara and Conan "Uh, I ran into her at the bus stop."

"You shouldn't embarrass a lady!" Jodie said to him before sitting down beside him.

"We wouldn't want weird rumors going around the school, would we?"

"Oh! Yes."