"Don't hold your breath," Conan warns. "Hattori's been here three months."

This is--

Conan lets the words go over his head, trying vaguely to make sense of them. "Yes," he says firmly. "Very much possible." Ran's his best friend. It's impossible to think of him as anything else -- definitely not in the same category as Heiji. He pauses. "So that means you--?"