Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Wang Wang!"

Leading three dogs, a handsome guy with blond hair and black clothes, wearing a green baseball uniform and a peaked cap, walked slowly and leisurely on the road, looking around from time to time.

"Hello, where do you think Yuji is hiding?"

"Ouch?"

He only learned about Kudo Yuji's return to Japan from Belmode, and didn't know where he was in Tokyo in what capacity. Toru Amuro had no choice but to wander around the streets, hoping that the two fat dogs from Kudo's family could smell him. He picked up the master's scent so that he could tell him that Gin had sent people to search and rescue the cartoonist in England.

"Ouch!"

Shinpachi and Yujiro suddenly stopped on the roadside, then turned their heads together, their noses twitching towards the shop on the roadside.

"it's here!"

Turning around suddenly, Toru Amuro realized that he had taken his dog for a walk to the Rice Krispies Store, next to the Polo Cafe.

"I'm not on duty today."

After finally having a day off and not wanting to make coffee, Toru Amuro simply drove the three dogs into Kogoro's Yakiniku shop.

"Mr. Amuro?!"

Wearing a pink apron, an emerald green shirt with a beige plaid pattern underneath, paired with tight jeans and white shoes, is Sayuri Matsumoto, who works at the tofu shop next door.

[That bandage weirdo is undoubtedly entangled by this junior high school teacher. 】

Nodding slightly to Sayuri Matsumoto, Toru Amuro tied the dog leash at the door. While pushing the butts of the three dogs with his legs, he chuckled: "Ms. Matsumoto."

"Didn't you say you wanted to rest today?"

Sayuri Matsumoto still held a small accounting sheet in her hand. Ever since the tofu shop opened, the roasted bird shop next door has been purchasing tofu from them.

"I just came here out of habit. Miss Matsumoto is here to deliver the tofu for tonight?"

"Yes, tofu is included in oden, mapo tofu rice bowl, tempura, cold tofu side dishes and miso soup. Recently, I don't have enough tofu to sell."

【Are you really going to my home soon...】

"Mr. Amuro, are you here for dinner?"

Sayuri Matsumoto took a wad of bills from Keir's hand, counted them and put them into her pocket: "But I heard that today's private rooms have been booked out by Miss Mizuno."

Is there such a thing? Why is the business so good in broad daylight today? In the past, the number of people gradually increased at nine or ten in the evening. “That’s true. Some people called in advance to reserve a seat today.”

After sorting out the tofu, Hondo Eiyu, who was dressed as a waiter, wiped the sweat from his head: "Mr. Yoshioka called before to make a reservation. Last night, classmate Maori called and said that a friend was coming from Osaka today, so he also made a reservation. Got the location.”

"I remember there was another room..."

"There is another room reserved by Miss Matsumoto." The teacher glanced at the junior high school music teacher beside him.

"Because today is my birthday, I want to have dinner with Kojiro-kun."

"Don't you usually go to some romantic place for your birthday?" Toru Amuro asked in confusion, noticing that the teacher also nodded in agreement with his idea.

"Yeah, because this is the restaurant where Kojiro-kun took me to eat for the first time. The fried dumplings here are very delicious."

He saved her from that hellish home that day. That night, because he was hungry and really didn't want to eat tofu, Fujiwara Kojiro asked a yakiniku restaurant to make fried dumplings.

In fact, they are just ordinary quick-frozen dumplings, but fried to a golden color and paired with sweet and salty soy sauce. She doesn't know why they taste so delicious and she can't get enough of them.

[Perhaps it’s because I never get tired of being with the person I eat with. 】

"In this case, all the private rooms will no longer work."

Kogoro's Yakiniku Restaurant was originally just a small store, at most twice as big as Polo Cafe. It was already quite difficult to separate two private rooms.

"It's okay, I can go to the employee lounge to eat."

Amuro glanced at the menu, casually ordered a fried pork cutlet set meal, and added a small bowl of mango ice cream for dessert, and then walked directly along the aisle into the employee lounge, where she met Okiya who was sorting out her work clothes. Subaru made eye contact.

"What a coincidence, we meet again."

"Is it a coincidence that you came to eat at the shop where I work?" Subaru Okiya was wearing a blue short-sleeved kimono, wooden geta, and a white towel wrapped around his head.

Even though he couldn't see his face under the mask, Toru Amuro easily concluded from Subaru Okiya's eyes and body movements that he didn't get a good rest last night.

"I advise you to take a good rest first. If the fried pork chops get burnt later, I will complain to you."

"you?!"

Damn man! (End of chapter)