009. Months.
It was three months after the Black Organization had been taken down, a mere day after he had been thinking wistfully of Kaitou Kid, that Conan finally got the call from Haibara that he'd been waiting for. He had just gotten back to the Mouri Detective Agency with Ran and Kogorou after yet another particularly long murder investigation, and Conan was more than ready to just collapse on his bed when his cell phone rang, the screen brightly displaying her number. Sighing and knowing she wouldn't call so late without a good reason, he answered the call with a dull sounding, "Moshi moshi."
"Kudo-kun," Haibara's voice sounded strained through the phone. "Can you sneak out and come over to the professor's house?"
"Haibara, I'm tired, really, really tired," Conan grumbled. "It's been a really long day. Can this wait until morning?"
"It's something you'll want to know right away," she answered. Conan sighed again and told her he would be there soon before hanging up. He didn't have to wait very long for the Mouris to go to bed; they had been just as tired as the miniature detective. Once he heard snoring from both father and daughter, the shrunken teen slipped out of the detective agency and headed over to the professor's house.
Once he got there, he found Ai sitting on a stool in her lab surrounded by glowing monitors, stacks of notebooks and paper, and individual test areas for each trial or temporary cure. When she heard the door open, Ai had turned her attention on him, beckoning Conan inside.
"Kudo-kun," she had said with total seriousness in both her eyes and tone. "I've checked and rechecked the results over a dozen times o make sure I was absolutely correct. I've been working non-stop during all my free time for these past months, and Kudo-kun, this is my final answer."
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