Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Eh? Doctor?"

The Kudo family who met in front of the station are now looking at each other, including Akiko who is carrying souvenirs, Yuzuki and Kaori who are holding Rize's hands, Yuji who is playing with his mobile phone with his hands in his pockets, and Miyanoshita who have been looking at him with death eyes.

"Doctor?" Akiko realized that Yuzuki was talking to the younger sister of the Miyanoshita siblings: "Yuzuki, what are you talking about?"

"I mean, this looks like..."

"She means, my aunt!" Miyanoshita Kaoru hurriedly rushed from Akiko to Yuzuki, stared at Rize for a few seconds, and then jumped twice in front of Yuzuki.

"My aunt is a doctor in the hospital. This sister must be talking about her, right?"

"Ugh?" Jie Yue pinched her chin, wondering if this was too much of a coincidence: "But Auntie looks like you?"

"Who says a niece can't look similar to her aunt?"

Miyanoshita Kaoru forced a smile: "Speaking of which, sister, you went to medical school..."

She was unable to finish her words because Yuzuki covered her mouth halfway through and pulled her aside.

"Hey! So you are that old lady!"

"What are you talking about, sister? I don't understand." Miyanoshita Kaoru deliberately glanced at Rize who was held by Kaori, her eyes full of greed for knowledge, as if she was seeing Little Red Riding Hood's Big Bad Wolf grandmother for the first time.

A child with the genetic genes of two people is really worth studying. Unfortunately, the hair that Usami brought was not enough. If we could study the blood directly...

"and many more?"

Miyanoshita Kaoru suddenly realized something was wrong and waved to Usami Yuzuki. When the girl lowered her head, she frowned and asked, "Who are you with?"

"Yuuji."

Miyanoshita Kaoru turned her head mechanically like a robot and noticed Kaori standing next to the boy and acting coquettishly. She opened her mouth and stared straight at Yuuji.

[What's going on with this kid? ]

"Yuji, I think that girl is looking at you weirdly."

Mingzi reminded the boy in a low voice, then raised her wrist to glance at her watch, and urged him: "The train is almost due, let's get in!"

So the two siblings just watched the Kudo family walk into the station, and then snorted at the same time.

"What about that doctor just now?" Yuji took the newspaper handed to him by Akiko, spread it out casually, and said, "Is it the doctor who checked me in the hospital a few days ago?"

"Well, she seems to be the doctor's niece." Jie Yue saw the transfer information on her mobile phone. Because the testing fee was refunded, she didn't think of exposing the other party.

[No, auntie or something, it must be the real person. ]

Yuzuki should have seen it, but she didn't tell him. Yuji immediately realized that the examination at the hospital that day was not simple, so Yuzuki didn't want him to know, so someone else had something like a handle on him.

"Yuzuki."

Yuuji looked at Yuzuki who had stopped talking to Rize, and the curious Kaori, and took a breath: "Remember, you can tell me anything, we are a family."

The boy held the girls' hands with rings on them and said, "We are a family. From now on... I will be the pillar of the family."

"Yuuji..." Yuzuki smiled and nodded.

Kaori hummed a song and scratched the boy's palm. "Then let the pillar take care of half of the housework..." Before Akiko finished her words, the boy quickly pulled out his finger and pressed it against his lips.

"Sister Mingzi, I'll take care of you from now on."

The boy took back his fingers, looked at the light pink lipstick on his nails, and wiped them clean with a napkin.

"But isn't the kid going back to Tokyo with the school?"

Akiko glared at Yuji, then looked at Kuroba Rize who had been fidgeting since a while ago. When she thought about competing for favor with such a young child because of her sister these days, she couldn't help blushing.

"The child's grandmother called Teacher Kobayashi and said that she would be busy for a while recently. She originally hoped to stay at the teacher's house, but we happened to hear it, so we invited her to live with us." Jie Yue blinked at her nervous daughter.

"Well, isn't Mr. Kobayashi living with Officer Shiratori now? It would be inconvenient for students to live there, right?" Kaori also explained.

Of course, they didn't make this up, because Miss Chris called and said that she had a mission and would be away from Tokyo for a while, so she wanted Rize to go back home, to her real home.

"Then stay here, but are there any extra rooms in your house?" Yuji noticed that the two girls opposite him were smiling inexplicably, and he felt a pain in his waist.

"I've asked Grandpa to have the things in our room packed up and sent to Yuji's place. It turns out that our house is still too small."

Yuji heard these words and took them to heart. The reason why he bought a small house was because there were only four people in the Kudo family. As a result, the house was too big and felt very spacious to live in. However, as there would definitely be more family members, the current Yuji house could no longer support the entire family.

[Is it time to consider changing houses? But I still can’t bear to do so…]

"It just so happens that the two of them are back from the United States now. It would be inappropriate for Mr. and Mrs. Okiya to live in our house. Otherwise, let them live here and we can move back to the old house."

"Let's wait a little longer."

While Yuji and the other two were talking, Akiko was also chatting with the little girl.

"I'm sorry, I was acting weird the past few days. I guess I scared you a little."

Akiko clasped her hands together, then took out a candy from her pocket and handed it to Kuroba Rise: "Thank you for being willing to play with Ai at school. That child has had few friends since she was a child. It's rare that she likes you so much."

"Habara-san?" Kuroba Rize ate the bittersweet coffee-flavored candy: "What is your relationship with her?"

"She is my sister." Akiko continued to feed him, and heard the boy who was reading the newspaper next to her start to breathe steadily after finishing the conversation. She took the newspaper from Yuji's hand, helped the boy lie on her knees, and covered him with her coat.

[Based on the current situation, this woman should be the third one mentioned by the hairband aunt. ]

Kuroba Rize sat back between Kaori and Yuzuki, and had a clearer understanding of the family members. She felt that both mothers were holding her hands, and the girl fell into happiness.

"Let's go on an adventure, Rize!"

Kaori tugged at Kuroba Rise's hand and put her face close to the girl's: "There is a limited supply of lychee ice cream in the dining car."

"ice cream!"

"Hey! Kaori! It's almost winter now!" Yuzuki tapped Kaori on the head hard.

Because of Yuji's special habits, the Kudo family does not drink water directly from the tap, and they also drink drinks with ice cubes in winter. After living together for such a long time, the girls in the family have long been accustomed to it. If they rashly eat cold food, they will definitely get sick.

"Hey, you're really strict, Yuzuki-san." Kaori covered the kitten's mouth, and it seemed as if a pair of fluffy ears had appeared on its head. "But my daughter will dislike me in the future, right? After all, it's better to be a mother like me, right? Hey, Rize?"

"I...I like them all." (End of this chapter)