Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 251 The Girl Named Asuka
The noise in front of the temple gate alarmed the girl who was watching the cherry blossoms. She looked back at the sky, put her hands in front of her stomach, and bowed to Hattori Heiji and Conan.

"Excuse me, what you sang just now is..."

Taking off his hat, Hattori Heiji shook off Conan's hand and walked slowly onto the lawn.

There was no mistaking it, this song was different from every time he came to Kyoto to inquire about it.

Traditional Kyoto people, they sing the ball song "Sister Liujiao".But this girl sang exactly the same "Bride Hexagon" as Hattori Heiji remembered.

"You said this, this is a song that we Kyoto people often use to remember the way." The girl opposite stared at Hattori in confusion, obviously wary of the boy who came up to her.

Unlike the excited Hattori Heiji, Conan in the back frowned and looked directly at the girl's face.He didn't know why, but he always felt that he had seen this girl somewhere. The face was very familiar, and so was the voice.

"But, sister, your accent doesn't sound like that of a Kyoto native, does it?"

Conan walked to Hattori Heiji's side, raised his head to show cuteness to the girl in kimono, the big eyes made the girl's attitude relax a lot, and she was not as vigilant towards the two of them as before.

"This is because I transferred to Tokyo when I was young, probably after the third grade of elementary school..."

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Hattori Heiji's bleeding arm. The girl was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "Your body is injured. Hurry up to the temple and ask the monk for some medicine."

After the three of them got the medicine, they sat on the stone bench in the courtyard. Seeing that Conan was not tall enough to reach Hattori Heiji's arm, the girl looked at the Osaka boy and gritted her teeth.

"I... let me help you."

Just when he was about to refuse and decide to disinfect and bandage Hattori Heiji himself, Conan was interrupted by his best friend before he could open his mouth.

"Then... I'll leave it to you..."

Eyes fluttered, Hattori Heiji's tone was not as jumpy as usual, it seemed a little calm, which made Conan who was sitting on the side watching the two very upset.

Helping Hattori Heiji take off his coat, the girl inspected the wound scratched by the arrow. She first washed the surface with water, then disinfected it, and then wrapped it with a bandage and anti-inflammatory medicine.

After flexing his arms, Hattori Heiji held the coat in his hand and grinned implicitly.

"Your hand is really clever, big sister..."

"Big... Big sister? You're so rude, I'm only 17 years old!" The girl seemed to be annoyed by the address of the boy in Osaka, and stared at Hattori Heiji displeased.

"No, it's not! How should I put it, we Osaka people like to call girls sisters. It's not right..."

In a hurry, Hattori Heiji was worried that the girl would be angry because of this, and he eagerly defended himself, but he saw the girl opposite covering her mouth and burst out laughing.

"You are... really interesting..."

She...she said I was interesting...

The girl's smiling face stunned the contemplative Conan, it was so beautiful, the youths in full swing blushed and silently followed behind the girl.

Walking to the gate of the Kurama Temple, the girl turned around strangely and asked, "Excuse me, is there anything else you can do?"

"Well, although it's very presumptuous, may I know your name?" Hattori Heiji scratched his head embarrassingly, knowing that his request was a little too much.

"Asuka, my name is Asuka." The girl turned around, and as she walked towards the distance, a gust of wind blew by, untying the ribbon that tied her hair.

Gently catching the red ribbon, Hattori Heiji stared at the girl's back innocently.

"Hey, back to the soul!"

Shaking Hattori Heiji's trousers, Conan looked at his buddy in a daze, and pulled it vigorously. Under the sunset, the sound of the fabric being torn was very clear.

"You are too bad, Yuji..."

Looking at the boy who opened the car door and got in, Kaori quietly raised her head from the back seat and looked at Hattori Heiji behind her.

"Deliberately pretending to be Hattori-senpai's first love, you can think of such a damaging idea."

Taking the can of coffee from Kaori, Yuji stared at the girl speechlessly, took a sip and said, "But, didn't you come up with the plot after the reunion?"

"I was..." After being mute for a while, Kaori faced the boy, hit her head with her fist, and stuck out her tongue.

"Hey!"

"Don't be cute!" Yuji coughed, his face became serious.

They also saw the gangster who attacked Hattori Heiji from a distance, but they were facing each other at that time. Before the car could turn around, the shadow of the motorcycle was invisible.

Genji Hotaru, Hattori Heiji, and Mouri Kogoro who were invited to Kyoto.

Yuji took out his mobile phone, edited a text message and sent it to Xiaolan, asking Nan's driver to drive the car to a place where he can eat first.

"Ah, Miss Xiaolan replied."

Looking at the photos sent together, Yuji frowned, paying attention to the rows of patterns.

The top ones are cicada, tengu and goldfish.The next square is a dot, the next square is chicken and loach, and continuing on is violet, tengu and Mount Fuji.

"I don't understand it at all."

Holding his chin, Yuji felt that Kaori was stuck to his body, so he also showed her the picture on the phone.

"This... feels... very much like the roads in Kyoto."

"Road to Kyoto?" Yuji stared at the painting again, and asked Kaori to open the map on the phone, and searched for it against the riddle.

Holding the pen and writing in the notebook, the young man looked at the information and nodded.

"It turns out that..."

.........

"Conan, why did Hattori-kun sit by the pond as soon as he came back, holding a hair tie in a daze?"

Xiaolan saw that there was no one around, so she quietly leaned into Conan's ear, and asked in a low voice, "And the blood on his coat arm, Shinichi, is something wrong?"

"Yes." Conan looked at the portrait on the table, still reasoning, but his thoughts inexplicably drifted to the girl named Asuka from before.

Why, why does her face feel so familiar, where on earth have I seen it?

Shaking Conan, Xiaolan saw her boyfriend's face flushed and muttering something, she knuckled him on the forehead in displeasure.

"Okay... it hurts!"

Lying on the table, Conan's tears rolled down his face, and he snorted angrily: "What are you doing!"

"Who told you not to answer my words, but also said something about a girl named Asuka!"

Xiaolan folded her chest and raised her head: "Don't tell me that Asuka is a girl with twin ponytails."

That's it, no wonder I think that girl's voice is so familiar, she and He Ye's voice are too similar.

It seems that he has some experience with this plot. Conan remembered the girl's height and had a guess.

"You haven't told me what happened after you went out."

Xiaolan came to Conan's side again, looking at the circles on the draft paper on the table and drawing: "Is there any result?"

In order not to frighten the girl about the attack by gangsters, Conan hesitated for a while, but still did not say that Hattori Heiji had been attacked at Kurama Temple just now, and only answered the second question.

"The puzzle of the portrait is still not progressing."

　There is an exam in the morning, and there is another chapter in the afternoon
　　
　
(End of this chapter)