Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Akai Marie in his arms didn't speak. Yuji looked at the living room where they were alone. He could still vaguely hear voices in the dining room, so he had to cough.

"Akai... Auntie? Well, Hideyoshi-nii and the others are already waiting. Although I don't have any objection to you hugging me, it's still not good to leave the guests alone."

"Stop talking! You sullen little devil, this is your punishment for doing what you did on London Bridge."

Akai Marie hummed and hugged the boy's neck tighter.

【London bridge? What did I do? No……】

It's still unclear whether Akai Marie mistakenly thought he was the "Belmod" who forcibly kissed her. Yuji thought of the hungry group of people at home and whether Akai Marie had let go of him, so he had to take out his phone from his pocket and click on it. takeout.

"Who is that silver-haired woman?"

After a while, Akai Mari, who had returned to normal, looked at Amami Yuki who was walking next to Haneda Hideyoshi. She frowned and took a step back. Her hands relaxed, but they were still around Yuuji's neck.

"Kid, now is the critical moment to improve a woman's favorability. You should be able to tell me the correct answer."

Her right hand moved to Yuji's chest and tugged on the tie. Akai Mari's eyes looked directly into the boy's eyes, and her left hand slowly touched his temple along his ear, gently pulling his eyelids against it.

"I...if I lie, will you blind my eyeballs?" Yuji swallowed and adjusted the muscles around his eyes, wishing that his eyes could be farther away from this woman's hand, even if it was just a centimeter.

"Are you really...do I have such a violent image in your eyes?"

Vaguely remembering that the first time he met Akai Shuichi was because Akai Mari smashed his son's eye, Yuji hesitated for a long time, but still shook his head against his conscience.

"That woman is actually a code-named member of the organization, called Curaçao."

Noticing that Akai Marie immediately tensed up, Yuji quickly explained: "She has lost her memory now, so I brought her back."

"What?" Akai Marie was stunned for a moment: "Amnesia?"

"Well, otherwise I wouldn't have brought her to our home."

Seeing that Akai Marie didn't speak, Yuji felt relieved that he had avoided a severe beating.

"I told her that I am a friend of her parents. Just remember this setting."

Yuji pointed at the restaurant, and the two of them adjusted their mentality at the same time. When they took the first step, Yuji's right hand was violently hugged, and he had to try hard to control his expression so as not to behave strangely.

"I've kept you waiting."

Entering the restaurant, Mr. Yoshioka returned to his calm demeanor. He noticed that Haneda Hideyoshi was sitting at the end, and let the other three people sit in front of him. Mr. Yoshioka patted his "stepson" as he passed by. On his shoulders, he and his wife sat on the main seat.

"Sorry, I didn't have time to cook at home today, so I ordered a takeaway."

Mr. Yoshioka smiled apologetically at Yumi Miyamoto, which made the traffic police lady's hair go up in anger. She quickly stood up and bent down and said, "I followed you rashly."

Just kidding, my boyfriend's mother knew she had a good relationship with her stepfather at first sight. If she really carelessly sat on a chair and said it didn't matter, I guess the future mother-in-law would definitely have a gloomy look on her face.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Miss Miyamoto, I didn't introduce you two to each other just now. I am next to my wife, Hideyoshi's mother."

Spreading his left hand flat in front of Akai Marie, Mr. Yoshioka stood next to his wife and said with a smile: "This is Miss Miyamoto, a police officer at the Traffic Police Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

"It turned out to be the police."

Akai Marie also stood up and bent down and said, "This useless son of mine is under your care."

"No...no, actually he has always been taking care of me." After talking, both parties sat down together and temporarily focused their attention on Amami Yuki. Akai Marie did not notice Miyamoto Yumi's embarrassment and exchanged pleasantries with this woman from the darkness. stand up.

"Has Miss Tianhai lost her memory?"

The straightforward words shocked everyone in the restaurant. After tugging on Haneda Hideyoshi's clothes, Miyamoto Yumi whispered in her boyfriend's ear: "Your mother seems to dislike Miss Amami's appearance."

"No one likes their husband and his ex-wife's daughter."

Haneda Hideyoshi's face turned bitter. He knew that as an adopted son and an adult, Mr. Yoshioka, as his stepfather, wouldn't have much resentment, but if he still lived here, he probably wouldn't feel well either.

[I wonder how Majun is doing on a daily basis, and how well he gets along with the brothers and sisters in his new family...]

"Well, I really can't remember what happened in the past, so I followed... came back with him."

Naturally, Curaçao noticed the look in Akai Marie's eyes, and quickly pretended to have a splitting headache, and then turned his face away.

"Well, actually, we don't have many rooms at home, so I'll arrange another place for you later, okay?"

Although it was a question, the undeniable meaning in Akai Marie's mouth was very clear, forcing Amami Yuki to look directly at Mr. Yoshioka and noticed that he nodded.

"That's it, but you have lost your memory and can't do anything too difficult. Start working with me tomorrow and help me handle the schedule in the small room at the door of my office."

Mr. Yoshioka took out his phone and nodded when he saw the location three blocks away.

"As for salary, don't worry, the Metropolitan Police Department will pay you."

He seemed to have remembered something and continued to look at Miyamoto Yumi: "Ms. Miyamoto is the same. After working in the traffic department for so long, she is just a supplement to the police department. She should be promoted."

Holding her forehead in embarrassment, Miyamoto Yumi said sheepishly: "Because I am not in the professional group, I can only rely on time to slowly rise up."

It was because Miwako Sato, her best friend since high school, wanted to be a detective that she followed her into the Metropolitan Police and became a traffic policeman.

"It's better to focus on studying. You will also have to take the next exam. There is still a huge difference between the professional group and the non-professional group."

Mr. Yoshioka picked up the black tea on the dining table, and from the corner of his eye he caught sight of Conan clasping his fingers boredly. In fact, he had been observing him and Curacao and didn't pay attention.

"But I shouldn't be able to take the exam again..."

"I'm just giving you a chance to take the exam. I think I can still do it." Mr. Yoshioka waved his hand: "But the exam requires your own efforts, and I won't help you through the back door."

To be honest, even if Miyamoto Yumi could really get into the professional group, she wouldn't be able to get promoted much, because most of the professional groups are people with connections, and Miyamoto Yumi doesn't have any particularly outstanding connections in Tokyo.

If his fake father-in-law is not counted...

"Okay, the delivery I ordered should have arrived. Boys, please come with me to carry the ingredients." Mr. Yoshioka stood up first and winked at Conan.

“It’s freshly cooked and eaten.”

"Hey, I'm really looking forward to it. What kind of store is it?"

Conan followed Mr. Hideyoshi Yoshioka and Haneda out of the restaurant and stood at the door of the mansion. He looked at the white figure after the door opened, as well as a bicycle and the box of ingredients in the back seat, and raised his eyebrows.

"Kogoro Yakiniku Restaurant, Okiya Subaru is at your service."

(End of this chapter)