She went by at some place in Orchidia, seemingly a park, to meet someone who had requested for help. Knowing that this guy isn’t attractive at all in Shinko’s eyes, she was not excited to meet him and had forced herself to go. Shinko is more interested in the reward than helping him, she needs more excitement. The sun has started setting and Shinko sees Dex from afar. She called him and she waved her hand as she ran towards him with a smile. Shinko knew that this man wasn’t entirely sane, and would give her a hard time to confront him and his delusion of being a detective. But as optimistic as Shinko is, she had made her think that Dex is a child that needed to be taught well. And so Shinko had started thinking that she is with Detective Conan rather than a delusional man.
“What’s the matter?” with joy, Shinko asked. Dex shuddered, touching his point finger with the other while looking at different directions. He made a ball shape with his hand and pointed at it, “There’s this ball… that’s as big as this one…” Shinko kept her phase and continues to smile, “What about it?”
Dex’s voice has a hint of fear in it, and Shinko felt it. But she described this as a weird feeling because she knew that Dex isn’t mentally healthy. Though Shinko brushed this thought off and continued to talk to Dex about this “ball” that he is talking about. She has been expecting this ball to be a plastic, play toy. After all, Dex has been acting like a child for the past few years, a rumor coming from the others who lived in Orchidia with him.
Shinko chuckled, “So the culprit is a ball, huh?” she whispered, making sure that Dex did not hear her so that he wouldn’t be offended or would feel violated. They waited for the night to completely show up, and now they started their case. Shinko has been expecting this case to be an easy task, easy enough for even a kid to finish this. But the requester asked helped from a mage, and Shinko would gladly take this request and be rewarded in the end.
They could see the ball from afar, floating in the river because it emits a glow. And from a distance, Shinko was entertained by it. Unlike Dex, Shinko wasn’t afraid at all. In fact, she was excited like a child and her walking speed increased; she was eager to know what that ball was. The more she moves towards it, the more she assumes that it’s just a glowing toy ball, though she wanted to make sure what that was. From behind, Dex follows her quietly, though slower in movement.