When she arrived it would be to find Ran making a freshly scrubbed Conan, still pink from his bath, stand still while she brushed his damp hair. "--what if you'd got stuck?" she was saying. "We'd have had to take out a wall to get you out."

"I wouldn't have got stuck."

"How do you know? Have you ever climbed through a vent before?"

"Kid does it."

"You're not Kid," Ran said bluntly. "Ah, Aoko-chan. Sorry about that ..."