Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

【This is my home.】

After Kudo Yuji went to pick someone up and Akiko went out to deliver gifts, Kuroba Rize finally started to act like a child again, groping around and playing a treasure hunt game at home.

“There are a lot of toys.”

The cabinet in the living room was filled with various toys and dolls, which made some kind of sound to attract Rize to reach out and touch them. However, the girl was obviously not the kind of naughty child who would touch them. After pulling Yuzuki to the cabinet and asking, she got an unopened assembly model.

"Is this okay? You haven't told dad yet."

The girl's intention was written directly on her face, but she tried to restrain herself: "Otherwise, I'll put it back..."

"Really? Mom does have some rights." Yuzuki put her hands on her hips and said, "As long as it's not spelled out, Dad won't care."

"Really?"

"Really?" Yuzuki took an apron from the shelf in the dining room and shouted upstairs, "I'm going to bake a cake, Kaori, come down quickly and accompany Rize."

"Huh?" Kaori, wearing plain glasses and holding a tablet and a paintbrush, poked her head out from the stairs. There was a slightly strange smile on the corner of her mouth, which allowed Yuzuki to tell at a glance what this person was drawing.

"Let me make it clear first. If you draw that kind of comic in front of Rize, you won't have any dinner tonight."

"I wouldn't do that." Kaori quickly cleared the background of her tablet, then looked at Rize who was sitting on the sofa holding Xiong Ba, then walked down the stairs and sat next to Rize.

"Xiong Ba, it's really cute."

Kaori put down the tablet, took out a hairband from her pocket and tied her and Rize into two ponytails, then she found a complete set of assembly tools for the head of the family from the drawer under the cabinet in the living room.

"Well, forget about spraying or anything like that."

Kaori placed the pliers and pen knife on the table, and then carefully taught her daughter how to hold them.

"Hey, Mom? If I can spell well, will Dad be happy?"

"Eh? They'll probably praise you, saying Rize is amazing or something." Kaori looked at Rize's eyes that were sparkling with stars: "But let's take it slow."

"Hi!"

……

[You really are... thirsty, Officer Chisu...]

Yuji looked at the beautiful woman in front of him who was chatting with him. Even though she was wearing a mask, he recognized her as Chisawa Hagiwara at a glance.

"Excuse me, young lady, what is this?"

"Let's chat, let's chat."

"Can I understand that you hope to take this opportunity to establish some kind of unusual relationship with me? For example, as lovers?"

Yuji placed his hands on his chest and slightly changed his voice to make him sound more mature.

"No, no, there is a deep reason for this."

Hagiwara Chisaku scratched his face a little: "Actually, I have to attend my brother's wedding tomorrow, so I have to find a male companion today."

Yuji raised his eyebrows, teasing her deliberately.

"I don't think he's just an ordinary brother. The situation you described sounds like he wants to prove that he's doing better before his ex-boyfriend gets married."

"Don't just make random guesses."

When Chisu Hagiwara thought about the "ex-boyfriend" the man in front of her was referring to, he chuckled, "It's just that this little brother always feels that he owes me, so I want to prove to him that he doesn't have to think that way."

"So that's how it is. Can I ask why you chose me?"

Yuji put away his joking thoughts and began to help Hagiwara Chisuku find a partner.

"It's just because you seem to be what I like. I was the tallest person in my class when I was in school, so I'm sure I'll find a boyfriend who's shorter than me." The boy felt hurt and stared at Hagiwara Chisuka speechlessly.

"Of course, it's interesting to see you wearing a baseball uniform in this kind of situation, so I just came over to chat and see what you're like."

Before he could finish his words, the host in the venue turned on the flashing lights and announced the official start of the blind date conference.

"First, each table has six seats, so ladies please take your seats, three to a table."

The host noticed that Chisu Hagiwara was reluctant to move, and after asking the lighting technician to focus the light on her, he urged the woman to take a seat.

"No, if he's still okay, we're already planning to leave..."

"Hey, this is too unfair, Miss!"

A man in the crowd shouted in dissatisfaction. Everyone was not blind. They could not see the woman's face, but judging from her long hair and posture, she was definitely a peerless beauty.

Men who go on blind dates know that they have no chance. Haven’t you seen that at the beginning of the blind date, people are planning to hold hands and leave? But that doesn’t stop them from making a fuss.

Men who start to make noise naturally have their ratings severely reduced in the eyes of women. Hagiwara Chisura also shut up. If she was the one talking all the time, it meant that this man was not very...

"Go sit down."

"Eh?"

Hagiwara Chisu was indeed a little disappointed. She was about to sigh impatiently, but she found that the other party took out a candy from his pocket and put it in her hand.

"Just stay there and eat some candy while you wait for me to come over." Yuji raised his right hand and stretched: "Although I can't accept your invitation, I can still check it out."

“Oh…oh…”

Chisaku Hagiwara was holding a piece of candy, searching for his friends and mumbling to himself.

"I'm not a child, do you really need to coax me with candy?"

"That being said, you are obviously very happy, Chisu."

"Ah Shinobi!" Hagiwara Chisaku looked at his colleague and friend who was also a traffic policeman, and turned his head away uncomfortably: "Don't you see any men who are interesting?"

"Well, I'm just interested in the blind date convention. It's impossible to find a boyfriend in a place like this." Shinobu, who looked like a fox, covered his mouth. "But the possibility of meeting true love cannot be ruled out."

"Stop teasing me."

Hagiwara Chisaku looked at his friend who was holding his arm and said, "The man just now was wearing a ring on his hand."

Although Kudo Yuji rarely took his ring-wearing hand out of his pocket, Chisawa Hagiwara still saw it on the few occasions. If he just asked her to go to Jinpei Matsuda's wedding with her, she could accept it, but how could she really treat him as her boyfriend?

"You idiot, how can a married person come to a blind date? This is definitely intentional. He wants to use this method to discourage those women who don't know their own limits. This is a rare man."

Miss Shinobu's lips formed a fox smile: "It seems that our Chisoo may be freed from the curse of being single."

"Really? What are you talking about?" Hagiwara Chisu patted his friend's shoulder and said, "I don't plan to get married right now. I have to wait at least..."

"What are you waiting for?"

"nothing."

Hagiwara Chisaku thought of Kojiro, and felt that the man she had chosen was somewhat familiar. The way he spoke also seemed familiar to her, but she had no impression of him at all.

[Could it be Kojiro's old friend? ]

If the other person wasn't wearing a mask, she would definitely recognize him.

(End of this chapter)