[Slice of Life] [One Heroine: Ai Haibara] [Lighthearted] [Mutual Devotion] [Healing Each Other] [On the Side of the Good Guys]
“Camus, have you ever thought about leaving the Organization?” One day, Miyano Shiho lowered her eyes. Her voice was as soft as falling dust, seemingly a casual question, yet concealing a trace of sorrow that was hard to detect.
A breeze drifted in through the window, carrying the warmth of an afternoon in a foreign land and lifting the sheer curtains like fluttering butterflies. Flecks of sunlight broke through the clouds and fell on the girl’s light brown hair, tinting it with layers of warm color that flowed down each strand to her shoulders and mingled with the soft glow around her. Her features were bathed in shifting light and shadow. As her lashes trembled, they cast tiny patches of light; the soft glow traced her profile, clean and almost holy, yet touched with a fragile brightness. She was like a star suddenly kindled in the dark, shattering the silence of the room.
Years later, whenever people asked him when he had fallen for her, he would always think back to that distant afternoon in a foreign land: the warmth of the breeze, the curve of the curtains, and the girl glowing in the shifting light. That moment became the unforgettable opening chapter of his life.
