Blinking at the receiving end of the girl's piercing gaze, Kaito stuttered, "Well, I, uh, I'm... I'm just..." He looked over at Conan, his only possible ally, for a helping hand, but the kid looked too freaked out to be of much use, shooting daggers at the professor with frantic azure eyes.
A sigh escaped Kaito's lips. Turning back to the eyebrow-raising brunette, he said, "I'm... My name's Kuroba Kaito, and I found Conan-kun last night...?"
"Mouri Ran," the girl told him before dubiously saying, "You... found him? This child?" The girl looked down at Conan. "How? Where?"
"Outside of..." Kaito began, but cut himself off as Conan began flapping wildly at him, his eyes screaming, Don't you dare say it!
Perplexed, Kaito looked back at Ran, who was growing more and more suspicious. "I... somewhere...?" At her glare, he added, "...In the universe?"
Looking irate, the girl folded her arms across her chest. "I can tell both of you are hiding something from me, and I'm not in the mood for it. Shinichi -" (Kaito noticed how Conan cringed, looking as if he was in excruciating pain at the mention of whoever Shinichi was) "- left me last night, and I haven't heard about him since! God, that idiot!"
By the end of her sentence, Conan looked ready to die, staring at the floor while grinding his teeth.
Finding his reaction rather interesting, Kaito queried, "Hey, Mouri-san, who's this Shinichi person? You've mentioned him a couple times already."
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