Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 20 The Two of Bai Xue

"It's already eight o'clock. Obviously we gathered at six o'clock, but now we have dinner. I'm starving to death." Heiji raised his hand to check the time and complained.

Carrying the dinner she received, Kazuha sat next to Heiji. She looked at the crowded hotel cafeteria and said, "I heard that students from other schools also live in this hotel. In order to prevent the restaurant from being too crowded, we That’s why we miss meals.”

"How are your feet compared to this?"

"No... no problem."

There was a sudden commotion in the back. Some students recognized the person at the door of the restaurant as the actor Minawa Saibei. The already small restaurant became even more crowded.

He was introducing the movie he shot to the students, and said that the deceased person in the movie was his friend, and he was in this hotel when he died.

"Wait a minute, Minawa, it's better not to let too many people know about Minamijiro's death." A fat man wearing a hat dissuaded him.

"You didn't make a movie based on your dead friend, and you said it was for the purpose of mourning. It's ridiculous."

Minawa Saibei seemed to have no regard for his reputation as an actor and actually said such a thing publicly.If he was angry because of the fat man's disrespect for his dead friend, it didn't make sense that he used Jiro Minakami as a joke to talk to girls just now.

"Forget it, what's wrong, as long as you write 'Dedicated to Mizukami Jiro' at the end of the movie, you can still earn a wave of tears from the audience. Anyway, the dead will not come back to settle accounts with us."

A short-haired man came from a distance, he avoided the crowd, and he was not polite to Mizukami Jiro.After speaking, he looked at a woman behind him.

The woman just sneered at the short-haired man: "Don't forget, you have to take over Minami's stand-in job, so don't be tempted by the snow girl."

The fat man looked at the ground lonelyly: "But I still can't figure out why Shui Shui would let go of such a loving fiancée like you and end his own life?"

"Because that's not suicide, it's homicide."

At this time, all the students in the restaurant were listening to the conversation between the five people. When this new person said that the murderer was among these four people, everyone couldn't help but whisper.

"I remember that you were a criminal policeman at the time, and you became a detective after you were fired, right? But at that time, this incident looked like suicide?" The woman asked the former policeman who participated in the investigation of the death of her fiancé again.

"It is indeed like that. Four years ago, Mizunami Jiro, who was sitting alone on the cable car of this ski resort, was found shot in the head when the cable car went down the mountain. He died of gas.

He held a gun in his right hand, and there was smoke reaction in his hand. Most people would think it was suicide.The suspicious point is, why is the bag next to this man filled with snow? "

"So, he committed suicide based on the legend here." The fat man stood up and confronted the detective.

The detective stared at the four men with disdain.He was said to be a friend, or even his fiancée, but he didn't even know that Minamijiro was a person who had no interest in ghost stories at all, and it was no wonder that he suspected that the murderer was among these four people.

"This is what happened four years ago. What did Kudo-sensei think?"

In the hot spring, Toru Amuro and Yuji Kudo are enjoying the comfortable hot spring. Under the beautiful snow scene, Toru Amuro tells the case that matches the local legend.

Matsuda Jinpei went to bed directly because he was drunk, while Sato Miwako stayed in the villa to take care of him.The only people who came to the hot spring to take a bath were Usami Yuzuki, Minami Kaori, Amuro Toru and Kudo Yuuji.

"What do you think? No matter how you look at it, it's a murder. It's just because the police couldn't solve the case that they concluded it was a suicide. How pitiful is this former policeman who was fired after struggling to find the truth!"

"Does Kudo-sensei already know who the murderer is?"

"How is it possible! I don't even know what happened. Guessing at this time will only lead to preconceived reasoning, which is of no benefit."

Amuro looked at the snowflakes falling above his head, showing an inexplicable expression.

Obviously you have only been gone for less than a month, I really want to take a bath with you again...

In the women's hot spring, Usami Yuzuki and Minami Kaori sat facing each other, probably because both schools were active here, and no other guests came here to ski, and the hot spring was reserved by four of them today.

"What does Yuzuki think of Yuji? Do you still like him?" Minami Kaori looked at the rabbit hairpin on Usami's head, which she gave to her when she was in the first grade.

"Of course, why? Kaori will also..."

"Although I also feel sorry, if Jieyue confessed to him earlier, I might not be tempted."

Usami stood up from the hot spring: "It's me, it's me first, it's obviously me who came first... whether it's in the same class, deskmate, or in love with Kudo-san."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."

Under Usami's surprised gaze, Nan Kaori curled up in the water, crying silently: "I don't want to either.

Why did it become like this... For the first time, I have someone I like.There are people who can be friends for life.Two happy things coincide.Two joys brought me more joy.What we got was supposed to be happiness like a dream...but why did it become like this..."

"So, are you giving up?" Usami suddenly hugged Kaori tightly.

"No, I want to be with Yuuji-san. Even if it's Yuzuki, I don't want to give it to you."

Yuzuki wiped Kaori's tear-filled face and put his forehead against hers: "Me too, Kudo-san, and Kaori, I want both love and friendship. So... let's take a look. , whose prince is he?"

After soaking for half an hour and drinking coffee bought from the vending machine, Yuji sat on the sofa in the hot spring and watched TV.Toru Amuro was still taking a bath, which made Yuji sigh that the other person's body was so good, a normal person would have fainted long ago!
"Yuji-san, the hot springs here are very comfortable. It's worthy of being in Hokkaido."

"Ah."

Minami Kaori was standing next to the boy in a pink yukata, she bent slightly so that her face was facing Yuji's tired and lifeless eyes.

"My hair is a little wet, can you please dry it for me?"

Yuji agreed and put five hundred yen in front of the coin-operated hair dryer, and then gently combed Kaori's hair while drying her hair.

"Have you and Usami-san reconciled?"

"It's been reconciled."

"That's good."

Yuji reached out to Kaori's face and pushed back the hair stuck to both sides of her cheeks.

But the hair dryer kept blowing, and the action of stroking her hair kept repeating. Several times, Yuji's hand would gently touch Kaori's ear inadvertently, causing the girl to moan strangely.

After finishing blowing his hair, Yuji sat back on the sofa, put a bottle of coffee milk in front of Kaori, and reopened a can of coffee for himself.

The girl's face was slightly red, and she couldn't tell whether it was because of the hot spring or something else.Holding the coffee milk, she tried hard to take back the smile she couldn't hide.

Usami also came out wearing a yukata: "Kudo-san, could you please help me blow dry my hair?"

So why don’t you brag about each other? Sure enough, there’s still no reconciliation, right?

(End of this chapter)