In response to Conan's reaction, Jerry took out a small piece of paper that had been prepared in advance and handed it to him.
Conan, who already had a bit of a cold, felt even more light-headed after drinking the liquor.
However, the amount of liquor was not much, so it wasn't enough to make him pass out drunk. Therefore, he could still understand what Jerry meant.
He opened the note. On it was a line of printed text, making it impossible to identify the handwriting.
The content of the note was very simple. It just told him to go back to his room and have a good sleep. The cold should be gone by the time he woke up tomorrow. If he was lucky, his body would also undergo some pleasant and surprising changes.
Pleasant and surprising changes?
Conan frowned slightly. He had heard of medicated liquor, but he had never heard that a cold could be treated by drinking alcohol.
However, since it was that Tom's decision, he would just do as he said for now. By the time he woke up tomorrow morning, he should be able to figure out what changes would occur to him.
At the same time, he did not forget to put away the bottle. After all, there was still a little bit of liquor left inside. He could find Dr. Agasa later to help him test it.
After putting the bottle away, Conan returned inside the house.
He wasn't worried about Ran discovering that he had just been drinking. After all, Uncle Mouri was currently drinking in his room to celebrate the ten-million-yen check his mother had stuffed him. The room itself was already full of the smell of alcohol. A little bit of the smell on him probably wouldn't attract Ran's attention.
Ran's side indeed did not notice anything unusual about Conan. She was still nagging her father about drinking too much today, and then she took Conan to take a bath with her.
Originally, Conan had wanted to refuse, but in the end, he gave in.
Half an hour later, Conan, who had come out of the bathroom, was still flushed, looking as if the water temperature had been a little too high.
To this, Ran didn't notice any problem, but Conan vaguely felt a strange stirring in his body.
Could it be that the effect of the medicated liquor has already begun to take effect?
Conan returned to Ran's bedroom a little nervously—he usually slept in the same bedroom as Uncle Mouri, but today Uncle Mouri had drunk too much, so Ran had let him sleep in her room for one night.
Conan had originally just wanted to lie on the futon laid out on the floor, to think about and feel what that stirring he had just felt was.
But after having a "brief separation" from Conan, Ran was now quite interested in his parents' situation and kept asking him about his family.
Conan could only tell Ran what he had discussed with his parents before, with some embellishments.
Ran did not become suspicious, just simply felt that this child, Conan, really didn't have it easy. She also didn't notice at all that the temperature in the room seemed to have risen a little.
Right now, she was still thinking about how to improve the relationship between Conan and his parents.
But on Conan's side, he had no such thoughts at all at this moment.
He could feel the situation of his body most clearly.
When he was taking a bath, his heart had been beating fast because of nervousness. He hadn't thought too much about it at that time.
But as he finished his bath and his mood gradually calmed down, he could feel that his heartbeat seemed to have no tendency to slow down at all, and was still constantly speeding up.
Even his body temperature was constantly rising. At this moment, a lot of sweat had already broken out on his body. If he were to take his temperature with a thermometer now, he felt that his body temperature should have already exceeded 40 degrees.
Is this the effect of the medicated liquor? For such a small bottle, the effect is a bit too significant!
Conan gritted his teeth to prevent himself from making a sound, but his gradually heavy breathing still caught the attention of Ran on the bed.
Ran had been talking to Conan about his parents, but suddenly she felt that something was not right with him on the floor.
She poked her head over with a puzzled look and saw Conan, who was already drenched in sweat, pressing on his heart, panting for breath, his gaze already somewhat unfocused.
"Hey, Conan, what's wrong with you?" Ran only thought that Conan had some kind of sudden illness. She hurriedly reached out and touched his forehead, and immediately noticed that his entire body was burning hot.
So hot! This is definitely more than 40 degrees, right? Even the hot water when we were showering just now wasn't as hot as Conan's body is now!
This situation had completely exceeded the scope of knowledge of an ordinary high school student like Ran. She hurriedly wanted to take out her phone to call for an ambulance.
But for some reason, the emergency line was constantly busy tonight. She had dialed it several times in a row without success.
"Conan, I'll go find a doctor for you nearby right now!" Ran said, and hurriedly got up to go to a nearby clinic to find a doctor.
Conan had originally wanted to stop Ran, but now he couldn't even say a complete sentence. He could only watch as Ran changed her clothes on the side, preparing to go out.
At this moment, he even thought he had seemed to have returned to the day he was fed poison by that man named Gin.
Wait?
The feeling of being fed poison?!
Don't tell me that Tom fed me another dose of that APTX4869? If my body were to regress once more, then wouldn't I turn into a newborn baby?
Conan felt that Tom probably wouldn't do such a thing, but in the next moment, he suddenly felt the soaked pajamas on his body suddenly become tight.
This change made his eyes widen, and then an unimaginable emotion arose in his heart.
Could it be that my current situation is not shrinking, but changing back to my original form?
What on earth did that Tom give me to drink?
If it were before, this could indeed be considered a pleasant surprise.
But now Ran was right beside him. If he were to change back to his original form at this time, then wouldn't his identity be completely exposed?
But what was more important now was that he absolutely could not let Ran go out to call a doctor. Otherwise, if those doctors saw him restored to his original form, then everything would be impossible to cover up!
Under these circumstances, his restoration to his original form was a completely frightening change!
Thinking of this, Conan himself didn't know where he had gotten the strength from, but he actually reached out directly and grabbed the pant leg of Ran, who was preparing to go out, forcing her to stop her original action.
"Conan, what are you doing..." Ran, who had been full of anxiety, was also a little angry at being suddenly pulled like this. She turned her head and was about to scold him, telling him to lie down properly and not to move around.
But it wasn't until this moment that she suddenly noticed that Conan's appearance at this moment seemed to have changed quite a bit from before.
If the previous Conan was a child less than a meter tall, then the current Conan looked like a big kid in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school.
The set of originally quite loose pajamas on his body now looked a bit comical because it was too tight on him?
But what was even more unbelievable was the look in his eyes as he looked at her. It made her instantly think of the boy who had disappeared from her sight for a month or two.
"Shin... Shinichi?" she asked, somewhat stunned, looking at the boy in front of her, feeling that her brain was completely insufficient.