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Kyoko Kirigiri, the Ultimate Detective was tired. It was currently two in the afternoon and she hadn’t slept for three days. Anyone who entered her Ultimate Lab would definitely be worried for her, multiple instant noodles packs thrown in the corner of the wall, the room had a strong stench of coffee, all the blinds were closed shut, her body not so subtly fidgeting, and her eyes wide open from all the coffee she had been drinking.
Kirigiri didn’t usually stay up this long for any case, at most she’d go a day without sleep and once she was done, she’d make up for lost time. But this one was different, it was a simple murder case, nothing too complicated, but she just couldn’t seem to wrap her head around it. She did solve some other cases in her sleepless three days, but she just couldn’t solve this one.
She was reviewing the case once more. When she heard a knock on the door, she walked towards the door and opened it up revealing a certain luckster.
“Hey, Kirigi-” Makoto Naegi promptly cut himself off once he saw the lavender haired girl. “Are you okay?”
“I’m perfectly fine, in face I’ve never felt better.” she said the words far too quickly for it to be convincing.
“Kirigiri, when was the last time you slept?”
“I slept this morning,” she lied, still talking quickly due to the coffee. “You don’t need to worry it’s only two pm.”
“Kirigiri…” Naegi trailed off not sure how to break the news to the detective. “It’s ten pm.”
Her eyes opened in shock for a second before looking at the clock in her lab, confirming that Naegi’s words were true. How did she miss eight hours?
“I was merely testing your abilities…” Kirigiri said in an unconvincing manner.
Naegi stared at the fidgeting girl. The boy was definitely naïve, but he wasn’t stupid. “Kirigiri, you need to sleep.”
“I appreciate the effort, but I am fully capable of staying up late.”
“That’s not the problem…” the hopeful boy stared at the girl with a look of care on his face. “Kirigiri, you need to sleep.”
“I need to solve this case first.”
Naegi let out a small sigh before entering her lab, he knew he wouldn’t be able to talk her out of this. “Do you need help?”
Kirigiri lead him towards the table where the case she was solving currently was. She discussed the case with him where he proposed theories that she had already thought of. When she yawned and stretched her hands.
“If you don’t mind, I am going to get some coffee.” she said getting up from the chair when Naegi pulled her back down.
“Wouldn’t it be better if we solve this case first?” Naegi suggested it. “I can feel it, we’re really close.”
Kirigiri looked at Naegi and then and the case and sat back down. There was no harm in reviewing it one more time, Naegi would probably be tuckered out in a few more minutes and she would be able to get some coffee and look at the case again.
She was wrong, she had tried to excuse herself a few times in order to get some coffee but the luckster stopped her with a surprising amount of determination. She looked at the case once more, while her eyes started to get heavy. She could rest her eyes for a while, maybe a few minutes. Freshen up her mind a bit.
She rested her head on the table while Naegi looked at the case file one more. Her consciousness slowly drifting away as she went to the dream world.
Naegi carefully put the case file on the table making sure not to wake her up. He hadn’t really been reading it for the twenty minutes just holding it close to his face hoping the sleep deprived detective would fall asleep soon.
Naegi left the room before returning a few minutes later and draping a blanket on the sleeping girl. He looked at the purple haired girl and couldn’t help but admire her beauty as she was sound asleep. Naegi looked at the clock in the room, it was one am, he had been trying to get Kyoko to sleep for about three hours and he’d finally done it.
Naegi smiled to himself happy with his work. He was too tired to go back to his room and his sleep deprived thought that sleeping in the lab wouldn’t be too bad. He slid his stool closer to Kirigiri and lifted up the blanket covering the both of them. Kirigiri’s mouth turned into a smile even though she was asleep.
They both fell asleep in the Ultimate Detective’s Lab, snuggled together under a blanket, and with smiles on their face. She might’ve not solved the case yet but she had to admit it was a pretty good night.