Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"It's just us today."

After dinner, the mother and daughter returned to Xiaolan's room and sat on the sofa in the room, watching TV. Because Sonoko and Xiaolan probably wouldn't come back at night, tonight was a touching family pajamas time.

In fact, this was suggested by Kuroba Rize. After all, the three of them were wearing casual clothes, which always seemed a bit serious. It would be better to change into cute pajamas, at least the girls would not feel nervous.

"No, that nightgown..."

They really didn't expect that Yuuji would disappear in the afternoon. Yuzuki and Kaori, who originally thought that Kuroba Rise would probably not choose to sleep with them, now decided to fight to the death and brought the box containing clothes for strict protection.

If I let my daughter see the transparent pajamas with pink lace, my dignity as a mother would be gone.

The two people confirmed this without a doubt, and in an instant they were sure that the other person thought the same thing as they did, so one of them took the bag to the door, and the other called the hotel front desk to buy cute pajamas.

Kurohane Rize took out a pair of ordinary light yellow pajamas from her small bag and stood still: "But I have pajamas?"

【My grandma bought it for me. 】

"Even though Rise-chan is cute, it would be better if she wore cute pajamas."

Yuzuki Usami took three pink one-piece bunny pajamas of the right size from the waiter. Seeing that her daughter was still struggling and seemed to want to wear the light yellow pajamas, she said calmly, "I remember Yuji seemed to have bought one for Miss Chris. It looks very cute when she wears it."

"I wear."

Simple and direct, Kuroba Rize carefully folded her slightly scattered light yellow pajamas and put them back into the box, then took the pink rabbit and walked into the bathroom in the room with the two of them.

It was indeed Yuanzi's private room. In order to make it less conspicuous, she asked the waiter to prepare a slightly larger room. However, the bathtub in the hotel's private room bathroom could seat three people and still have room for them, which meant that the extra money was probably spent on the bathroom.

"So comfortable."

Kaori watched as Kuroba Rize sat on the edge of the bathtub, wetting a towel and gently wiping her body. She wanted to reach out her hand to ask the girl to get down and take a bath, but after hesitating, she pushed Yuzuki.

"Do you think the water is hot?"

Of course, Yuzuki knew what Kaori wanted to ask. She didn't understand why Kaori, who didn't know that Rize was her daughter (Usami didn't know that Kaori knew, and she was sleeping when she called), would pay so much attention to an elementary school girl. After all, she didn't see her pay much attention to Yoshida Ayumi, but she was still a little happy.

"It's just... I don't like the feeling of water reaching over my neck." Kuroba Rize looked at Yuzuki reaching out to her and shrank her neck in fear.

Will she be beaten? I heard from the long-haired uncle that if a child does something that the mother doesn't like, she will be beaten severely.

"That way it won't go over your neck."

Yuzuki looked at the girl with her eyes closed, put her in her arms, and gently stroked Rize's head.

"Very comfortable."

Because she was sitting sideways on Yuzuki's legs, Kuroba Rize's right cheek was pressed against a huge tenderness, like a mother's call, and she was hugged tighter by Usami Yuzuki.

It was strange. She was obviously very happy that her daughter and Yuzuki had a good relationship, but it made Kaori feel a little uncomfortable. However, she was quickly awakened by the scolding in her heart.

She is too greedy. She already had a daughter before Yuzuki, so she is the one who is being overly greedy.

So the girl... the young woman squatted in front of Muzuki, stroking the head of the girl who was gradually breathing regularly, and then said: "Rise-chan, she is Yuuji's daughter. I know everything."

"Xiaori..."

"Yuzuki probably hasn't received the test report yet. After all, the genetic test hospital takes about a week."

Kaori never expected that a doctor from a big hospital would take private jobs to test this.

"Ah... um." Usami Yuzuki lowered her head and her eyes fell on Kuroba Rize's face: "I don't plan to get it."

"I... don't intend to dwell on this kind of thing."

A huge wave of guilt surged in the hearts of both people at the same time.

"Whether it's mine or Kaori's, it belongs to both of us." Yuzuki said somewhat against his will. "That's right, we treat her as our own daughter and love her dearly."

[I'm sorry, Kaori, Rize is my daughter, so I will make it up to you... Yuuji is here. ]

[I'm sorry, Yuzuki. I will let Yuuji make it up to you.]

……

"The temple fair. It seems like the last time we went there together was a year ago."

"Yes, my sister got lost. I remember meeting an old man with a white beard who was particularly greedy, but I don't remember much now."

[Could it be the doctor? ]

Akiko Okiya held her sister's hand and walked slowly along the river, looking at her puzzledly.

"Why did you suddenly become what you were before after taking the medicine?"

Her sister should be afraid of the organization and it is unlikely that she would change back on her own initiative.

“…Someone sent me a warning.”

Miyano Shiho held the phone in her arms, on which was still a conversation with Hiroki.

"It was clearly a great opportunity, but I didn't cherish it at the time. Now it's too late to regret it."

Turning around, she found Akiko looking at her blankly. Miyano Shiho inexplicably felt like she was the older sister: "No, sister doesn't need to know this feeling in her life."

Because my sister is a fool, I just need to be with her forever and don't need to care about that man named Moroboshi anymore. My foolish sister doesn't need love.

Miyano Shiho does not think that she is a selfless person. Rather, she is a very selfish woman with a flexible sense of justice.

When she thought that her sister might lie in the arms of another man in the future and have a home of her own, and that when she went to interview her sister would say "welcome to visit" instead of "welcome back", that strong possessive desire began to burn through Miyano Shiho's body.

"This feeling is so familiar..."

When did it come?

Miyano Shiho watched her junior high school sister squatting in front of the goldfish stall playfully. She held up her skirt, squatted down, and took out two big bills. She stuck out her tongue in grievance because there was not a single fish in the bowl, and raised her eyebrows.

[It was when Kuroba Rize found the letter in her own shoe cabinet yesterday. ]

It's really outrageous. She is obviously just a girl of about four years old. She just looks like six years old because of her good development. Yet a first-grade boy actually confessed his love to her.

She will never forget the horrified expressions on the three little ones' faces as they hugged each other and watched her beat up the boy, as well as Teacher Kobayashi's helpless sigh.

[What would happen if Yuuji knew about this? ]

Miyano Shiho watched her sister hand over two more bills, intending to continue the challenge.

"My cabbage! There's a pig drooling over my cabbage! Bastard!"

Even though Yuji wasn't around, Miyano Shiho could imagine what he would say.

"Don't continue?"

"The owner gave me two as consolation."

Mingzi was holding a transparent bag with two small red and white fish swimming inside. After hitting the plastic bag, they turned 180 degrees.

"Shiho! Look, there seems to be a child lost over there!"

(End of this chapter)