“Ah, yes I am." Of course, no matter how much she hid her face from the media they just had to know her name.
"It’s a pleasure to meet you meet you Hakuba-san though, what brings you here?” she inquired.
Hakuba glanced back to the silent door, lips pursing in a bit of exaggerated despair. He liked children, and while Haibara had always seemed quite mature for her age, he couldn’t resist being just a little more vulnerable around her. “I was hoping to catch Kudou-kun for once… but it appears, as you said, that he’s out. It seems that he always is."
He sighed with a shrug of his shoulders and slipped his hands into the pockets of his jacket, pleasantly helpless. "Tell me, does he ever come home, or do I really just have the worst luck in the country?”