4/3: Soulmates: the first time they meet, a red thread appears
The first time Kudo Shinichi met Miyano Shiho, Edogawa Conan met Haibara Ai. He watched her move from the front of the class to the seat beside him, giving him just a single word of greeting, barely glancing or sparing a thought at anyone else.
That was how he knew they weren't soulmates.
Because in this world, the moment two people who had somehow been deigned to be two parts of a soul—that is, soulmates—meet, a red thread would appear to the two of them, connecting them together. At least, that's what the rumors say.
He hadn't seen it then.
So, they weren't.
Truthfully, he hadn't even considered it. Why would he when he first met her as an elementary school kid with an attitude?
When Shinichi felt this strange tug at certain moments, he chucked it all to his detective instincts. It made him feel heady during the hotel case, though during the train station case, it tapered into an unsettling feeling instead. Since then, he had felt it only once more during the case in the cabin in the campsite, and it had been stronger than any moment before.
But right now, at the exact moment he locked eyes with her, the pull is so indescribable that it shocked his mind into instantaneously putting the pieces together, ending his mental flashback with a side-by-side freeze-frame of the moment Edogawa Conan first met Haibara Ai in Teitan Elementary's Class 1-B, and the moment Edogawa Conan first met Miyano Shiho at the campgrounds in Gunma.
And right now it all makes sense.
Because he can clearly see the red thread tied on his pinky to hers right now, the first time Kudo Shinichi meets Miyano Shiho.