Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Ayanokouji-kun, it seems that this is the most famous Kanto high school detective."

A man who looked to be in his sixties also walked into the restaurant surrounded by a group of senior officials. When he noticed Hattori Heiji next to Kudo Shinichi, his face turned ugly.

"Hey, uncle, what's your expression?"

Hattori Heiji rolled his eyes in dissatisfaction and felt Kudo coming closer.

"Hattori, do you know this person?"

Kudo Shinichi noticed the man's gaze passing through him vaguely, and seemed to glance behind him several times: "It looks like he is a high-ranking police officer here in Kyoto."

"What a high-ranking police officer." Hattori Heiji snorted: "He is the top leader in Kyoto like my father, Ito Daisuke."

Didn't it say that the police minister was waiting for news? Why did he come in person?
"Don't get me wrong, I just heard that the younger generation in the family has returned recently, so I temporarily postponed the meeting and came here." Minister Ito did not look back, but asked later: "Minamada, where are the three children?"

"The two young ladies and the young master just answered the phone and are already on their way here."

The butler wearing a black kimono appeared at the door of the restaurant, and looked directly at Kuroba Rise next to Mao Lilan with an eager look.

"In this case, we will leave this place to the front-line police for the time being. Please ask the hotel to prepare some rooms for us. All senior police officers are not allowed to disturb the progress of the case until the results come out."

Ito looked back and forth on the faces of Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji, but he turned to the subordinates behind him: "This time it's not just Tokyo and Osaka, Kyoto is also among them. The commander just arrested a Russian international criminal, and there are people in Tokyo Three neighborhoods were in ruins due to the explosion. If you are confused by the inaction of the Kyoto police, you might as well go home and commit seppuku.”

A group of people came and left quickly. Only the students in the restaurant didn't understand what these guys said just now. Kudo Shinichi took out his mobile phone seriously, but found that there was nothing about the Tokyo explosion on the Internet. It seemed that Was pressed down.

"It looks like there were a lot of casualties this time, otherwise it would be impossible for the situation not to be spread at all."

"Tokyo is not what we need to pay attention to now." Hattori Heiji pointed at himself and the big detective: "The uncle made it very clear. The big version, Tokyo, is undoubtedly a reasoning competition."

"Then the representative of Kyoto is..."

"This reasoning competition is really troublesome."

A familiar voice sounded at the door of the restaurant, and a resentful Kudo Yuji appeared, followed by two excited girls. The moment they saw Kuroba Rise, they rushed over.

"I told him to forget about it. Why is Heiji-senpai here too?"

The young man with a ring of plaster on his neck looked at Hattori Heiji with dead fish eyes: "Don't you know that Chairman Ooka is collecting information about you everywhere now? How dare you come to Kyoto, their base camp, without fear of anyone around you?" This aristocratic police officer kidnapped you and took you to Ooka’s house for a raise in salary?”

After the boy's words came out, Officer Ayanokouji felt something was wrong with the way the two high school students around him looked at him. They seemed to be considering striking him unconscious first, so he hurriedly raised his hand: "I have admired Police Chief Hattori for a long time. Besides, I am a true Yamato warrior and would never do such a thing?"

"A samurai with a rat pet..." Hattori Heiji emphasized, and then became more sure of his decision to advance his confession plan.

"No matter what kind of reasoning competition it is, I just want to go home and sleep."

The boy with severe dark circles under his eyes aroused Kudo Shinichi's concern, but he hesitated when asking him, so he had to tell the story of the case and the reasoning behind the code.

"Haven't you all finished your reasoning? Is there anything else you can't figure out? All that's left is to wait for the prisoner to send the warning letter again, and it will be clear, right?"

"The problem is that the second person who was attacked did not receive the code message." Kudo Shinichi pinched his chin: "I suspect that the prisoner knew that we had unlocked the code message."

"Well said, come on, put Officer Ayanokouji into solitary confinement." Yuji said with a teasing smile: "Since you all told him not to reveal this matter, it must be his fault now." It was obviously just It was a joke, but when several policemen in black came in from the door, took up Ayanokouji Fumimaro's arms and dragged him out, even Yuji who spoke was stunned.

Ayanokouji Fumimaro's face was dazed as he was being dragged away. He turned to look in the direction of Kuroba Rise, only to find that the rat pet that was holding the girl's face and being fed glanced at him, and then opened his mouth to eat nuts without hesitation. .

"No, I'm just joking..."

"Of course, Master Yuji, they are just joking with Ayanokouji-kun." Mr. Butler walked to the boy's side with his hands behind his back and whispered: "Actually, we just asked him to go down and check himself."

"Then why drag it on?"

Mr. Butler took a breath and pointed to the two girls holding Kuroba Rise over there, as well as Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko who were standing next to them in confusion.

"Of course it's because the lady likes his mice. If he is allowed to go down directly, the mice will run away with him."

[No, that's not a mouse...]

"Mr. Butler, actually you can tell me the truth." Yuji half-opened his eyes, as if he was really asking the other party if he looked like a fool?

"So, the police chief of Kyoto knew that his subordinates not only failed to make any merit in solving the case, but even helped him, so he got a little angry and deliberately made him look embarrassed." Mr. Butler bent his waist a little: "What do you think? How about the words?"

"That's pretty much it, but it makes Mr. Minister a bit stingy. I still prefer the reason just now."

Yuji left the restaurant alone after saying "Go and have a look", while Mr. Butler greeted the police at the door after his back disappeared.

"Students' travel activities are still carried out normally, but the police must take protective measures to prevent any further troubles."

After that, he stared at Hattori Heiji again: "Master Hattori should be 18 years old."

"...It will be just right after next month."

"Well, if you don't have someone you like, please consider Miss Hongye. In fact, she is a very good girl and is definitely suitable as a wife."

"I…"

"He has someone he likes." Kudo Shinichi couldn't stand Hattori Heiji's coquettish look: "And it's a girl who has to be her. She goes crazy thinking about that person every day."

"I understand, and I will explain it to the lord." Mr. Nantian bowed slightly: "But it is better to make a decision early. For a family like ours, a protracted romantic comedy is not suitable."

"Been taught a lesson."

Hattori Heiji bowed respectfully: "But the minister uncle said before that the younger generation of the family..."

"Oh, I forgot to mention it." Mr. Nantian blinked: "Minister Ito's biological sister is the eldest lady's grandmother, but he takes his mother's surname."

"So that's it... Yuji has a lot of relatives."

"Of course, if those beyond the third generation are included, 60% of the old nobles are relatives of the Nan family."

Kudo Shinichi was silent. (End of chapter)