Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Chapter 27 Fireworks Festival
"Fireworks festival? But isn't summer vacation over long ago?"

On Friday, on the way home from school, Yuji stood at the school gate looking at the posters on the wall.Usami Yuzuki held her bag and stroked her hair a little.

"Will Kudo-san be there too? I heard it's by the river and there will be a lot of stalls."

By the river, I remember there seems to be a shrine there.

"Maybe go."

Yuji remembered that there was a temple fair scene in his manga next week, so he changed his bag from his left shoulder to his right shoulder, and Yuji decided to take his notebook with him to collect information.

Since I was a child, I don’t seem to have participated in a few fireworks festivals, because Kudo’s house is quite far from the river, so how could children go so far to watch the fireworks?

"Doctor! Hurry up! If you go late, you won't be able to see the fireworks!" At the door of Agasa's house, Yuji eagerly urged the doctor who was talking on the phone.

"I see, let's go."

The yellow Beetle stopped at a shopping mall parking lot near the river, and Yuji and the doctor decided to walk the rest of the way.

The two walked slowly towards the river, and Yuji noticed that the doctor's recent clothes seemed to be younger, and the clothes seemed to be Fusa-e's brand.Is this also characteristic of love?

"Hey, Yuuji. Come to think of it, Shinichi seems to be taking Ran to America!"

"Ah~ there is such a thing." Yuji looked at the side of the road, trying to put himself into the youth adventure group: "It's too troublesome to run around, if it wasn't for Miss Xiaolan who was willing to go, brother wouldn't go to the United States to make such a fuss It’s just a trip.”

While talking, the two found that there were already police patrolling here.The Fireworks Festival in Japan is different from the gatherings in other countries. It is organized by the government, and the Metropolitan Police Department will naturally send some ordinary police to maintain law and order.

"It's Officer Matsuda and Officer Sato!" Yuji waved at Matsuda Jinpei across a few police cars, and was a little strange: "Aren't they responsible for the violence? Why are they here?"

"When there are no homicide or kidnapping cases, the police of the three departments are indeed the most idle, and it is not surprising to send them here." Dr. A Li also nodded to the police who were looking at this side.

Entering from the closed road near the riverside shrine intersection, there are vendors with colorful lanterns on both sides.Genius is slightly dark, and there are few mask sellers who play Waka tapes next to their stalls, so that they can be heard everywhere in the stall.

Yuji bought a Kamen Rider mask to wear on his head, holding a candy apple in his hand.He gnawed on it bit by bit, feeling that it wasn't very tasty.

"Doctor, let's have dinner here today, what would you like to eat?"

Dr. Ali smelled the fragrance in the air, swallowed his saliva, and stared straight at the barbecue stall.

"No, no! You can't eat that!" Yuji knew at a glance that the doctor was so greedy that he couldn't move: "Today, you are allowed to eat a portion of fried noodles and a box of takoyaki as an exception."

The young man dragged the doctor to the fried noodle stand, just as he was about to take out his wallet, but in front of him was an old acquaintance.

"Mr. Amuro! Why are you here?"

Wearing white short-sleeves, with a towel rolled into long strips tied on his head, Toru Amuro was frying yakisoba with two shovels.He quickly picked out two transparent plastic boxes, put them into the boxes with a shovel and compacted them, and then piled them on the wooden table beside them.

Amuro took the water handed by the young man and took a sip before he spoke to the two of them.

"I'm here to work for someone I know well! Do Mr. Kudo and Dr. Agasa want to eat fried noodles?"

Yuji pinched out [-] yen and put it on the table, waiting for Toru Amuro to pack it for him.

"It's dinner today, please give me two portions, Mr. Amuro."

Toru Amuro took out a hundred yen from the coin box and gave it to Yuji. Then he took out two boxes of fried noodles that were placed on the table and handed them to Dr. Agasa.

"By the way, I used to work part-time at the third takoyaki shop. Their takoyaki is delicious!"

Yuji and Dr. Agasa continued to move forward. They found a bench to sit down and prepared to enjoy fried noodles.

"Oh! It's delicious." The doctor ate quickly, and smiled on his originally calm face.

Yuji picked one up with chopsticks and put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly. Whether it was fried noodles or fried rice, the secret to delicious food is to add more oil, but such things are not suitable for old people like the doctor, but today is special. Yuji also acquiesced.

The crowd gradually increased, and Yuji and the doctor stopped sitting, because in this kind of place where the view is not good, it is easy for someone to sit on them without looking.

"Let's go see the takoyaki Mr. Amuro mentioned, doctor. Doctor?"

As expected, Yuji got separated from Dr. Agasa, so he had to walk forward slowly to see if he could find the doctor in front of the takoyaki restaurant Amuro Toru mentioned.

"Mr. Matsumoto, there are so many people here."

Usami Yuzuki patted a water polo with his left hand, and held Sayuri Matsumoto's hand with his right hand.

"Yueyue, didn't I tell you that you can just call me Sayuri-nee outside of school?"

"No, if I let my classmates know that you are my cousin, I will be in the limelight." Usami pulled her yukata and tried to stand on tiptoe, trying to see if she could see Kudo-san.

"If you really want to find him, you might as well just call him and ask if he's here."

Sayuri Matsumoto opened the handbag they brought, took out Usami Yuzuki's cell phone from it, and started looking for Kudo-san's phone number.

"Hey, Yuzuki, don't you have Kudo-san's number?" Sayuri Matsumoto looked at her sister suspiciously.

"Impossible, I obviously have the number of Kaito-san." Usami Yuzuki was stunned for a moment, but seemed to remember something, and hurried to grab the phone from Sayuri Matsumoto's hand.

"Oh! Is this the person whose name is Yu Erqin? Yuzuki really is, my sister is blushing!"

The girl's shy face became redder by the teasing, she stomped her feet and took a step back, but collided with Yuji who was looking for someone.

"Hey! Kudo-kun!"

"Ah, it's Usami-san. Why is Matsumoto-sensei here too?"

Yuji found Sayuri Matsumoto, who was also wearing a yukata, and she handed him the bag in her hand, and then ran away.The boy looked at the completely dark sky, so he proposed to Usami Yuzuki: "The fireworks are going to go off soon, Usami-san, let's go to the shrine over there to see it."

The girl pulled the boy's sleeve, and the two of them walked in the opposite direction of the flow of people.

In front of the Okonomiyaki stall, Sayuri Matsumoto put her hand on her chin and pouted, not knowing who she was showing this cuteness to.

"Yuzuki ran away with Kudo-san, so what am I going to do now?"

Saiduri Matsumoto ate the marshmallow in her hand while wandering around like this.At this moment, she really wanted to call Jieyue and ask about the battle situation there, but she held back.

She was still looking around boredly, but someone suddenly spoke to her behind her. It was a woman with long hair. The other person's expression seemed to be very anxious, so she came up to her.

"Excuse me, did you see my sister? She is about 17 years old, with short brown wavy hair. I got separated from her!"

(End of this chapter)