Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Fight it!"

Holding the Xiongba in her hand, Kuroba Rize carefully fiddled with the model's limbs, feeling an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.

"It's amazing! It was just a bunch of plastic, but it was pieced together into something so cool."

The girl has no interest in the handsome models on the cabinet in her father's room, but she can't resist the cute ones.

"That's not all. This is a new model that Yuuji recently collected. There's a surprise inside."

"surprise?"

Kuroba Rize watched as Minami Kaori took a green model from the top shelf in the living room, and then pointed the phone at the soles of the model's feet.

"There's a weird stripe?"

"This is called Stripe Code, and it's the latest series from the model company."

Minami Kaori walked to the TV and squatted down, plugged in the boy's game console that had been gathering dust for a while, selected a game with Xiong Ba as the avatar, and sat back on the sofa with two controllers in her hand.

"Just scan the barcode on the sole of the foot and you can use it in the battle game."

Looking at the KO that appeared on the TV screen, Kuroba Rise clenched the handle and glanced at Minami Kaori carefully: "Bear, can you win?"

"Well, that probably requires very good skills."

"Mom, is it okay?" Kuroba Rize didn't need to hear the answer, Minami Kaori's somewhat stiff face had already told her the answer.

"Mom is so weak."

"What? It's just a game. I can win in a minute!"

Three minutes later, the second failure completely eliminated the warmth between the mother and daughter. Looking at Minami Kaori who buried her head in the sofa and kept muttering, Usami Yuzuki sighed and turned to stare at Rize who was playing games.

"The meal will be ready in a while, you can go play first." The girl in the apron opened and closed her mouth, but couldn't say the words of criticism, so she could only persuade her gently.

[No, the women in the family are useless in this regard, so Yuuji has to play the serious role.]

"But if I don't play games, I don't have anything to do."

Yuzuki hesitated, and suddenly remembered something: "I remember that the three guys were later sent back to the Mori family by Mr. Amuro. How about this, Rize, you go to the Mori Detective Agency and bring them back."

"Are they the dog and cat in the photo on the TV cabinet?"

As soon as Kuroba Rize entered the living room, she noticed that there were quite a few photos on the TV cabinet. Most of them were photos of Kudo Yuji, Yuzuki, and Kaori, and there were also landscape photos. However, the one on the far right was the current family portrait, which included the three of them, as well as Akiko, Hiroki, and three pets.

"It's a good opportunity to take this opportunity to reshoot the family portrait."

After telling her daughter that she could see the rice flower shopping street if she went straight along the street, Yuzuki watched her leave the house, then returned to the living room and flicked Kaori on the head.

"Really? I told you to take care of the child, why are you playing by yourself?"

"Well, I didn't expect it to be so fun, even though I haven't completed the game..." Kaori poked her chest with her finger.

"Well, it's just right that I'm cooking. The room in the basement probably hasn't been cleaned in a while, so go check it out."

"I have to work as soon as I get back..." Kaori's mumbling did not dispel Yuzuki's idea. She had no choice but to walk to the basement with the broom and mop in her hand under the deathly gaze of her best friend.

"Hey, I wanted you to act more fierce."

Yuzuki held the spatula and decided to put the confession on the agenda.

[How will Yuuji react after knowing that he has a daughter? 】

(End of this chapter)