Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Hey, Heita, what's with those squinty eyes?"

In the groom's rest room, best man number one Xiang poked best man number two Heita next to him. Their father or grandfather was the former director of the Metropolitan Police Department, and they were forced to volunteer to be the best men of the new vice minister's son.

"He must be an acquaintance of the vice minister, otherwise he probably wouldn't be the best man." Ping Tai clenched his fists excitedly: "Do you know that guy's wife is super beautiful!"

"Don't say such things in this situation!"

Xiang grabbed a piece of apple and stuffed it into Heita's mouth. He secretly glanced at Okiya Subaru who was helping Haneda Hideyoshi put on makeup at the dressing table. He found that he was also peeking at him, so he quickly retracted his gaze.

"He seemed to have heard what you just said."

"No way?"

After finally swallowing the apple, Heita stole a glance at Okiya Subaru and smiled at him sheepishly.

"We are so far apart, this is impossible."

Before he could finish his words, Xiang punched his friend hard: "You forgot about the guys under Dad. Although there are many good-for-nothings, there are also a few capable ones."

"Yep."

The two were talking secretly, and on the other side, Haneda Hideyoshi, who didn't know that this was his brother, smiled embarrassedly at Okiya Subaru in the mirror.

"I didn't expect that not only are you a delicious cook, but you're also really good at putting on makeup."

After receiving the compliment, Okiya Subaru, who was applying foundation to his brother, raised his lips slightly, and then said in a didactic tone: "After all, my income is not high, and my wife rarely goes to the beauty salon. She is obviously a girl, but her makeup skills are very poor."

"Hey, Yumi-tan never lets me put makeup on her, saying that I'm sloppy myself."

This also made the two people over there laugh. When he noticed that the two people at the dressing table were looking at him, Pingtai waved his hand.

"Ah, to our surprise, he still had a full beard and greasy hair when he got married. Mr. Haneda is indeed a little sloppy."

Subaru Okiya loosened his hands from the makeup so that his brother could turn around and talk to the two of them face to face. Hearing that the two of them had no intention of mocking or ridiculing him, Haneda Hideyoshi showed the appearance of a shy boy.

"My family has a lot of hair. Not only me, but my brother also..."

He stopped talking, noticing something was wrong, and Heita winked at Xiang.

"Oh, I suddenly remembered that Dad said he prepared an extra gift for you, but I forgot to bring it. Pingtai, let's go get it."

So the two of them hurriedly left the room, and before leaving, they signaled to Okiya Subaru to find an excuse not to stay here when the groom was unhappy.

"It would be nice if my brother was here."

Hideyoshi Haneda sighed. After his biological father passed away, although Shuichi Akai didn't meet him much, he had more or less taken over some of his father's place.

"When I was little, there was a time when I hated washing my hair."

Haneda Hideyoshi lowered his head and looked at his hands, and it was unclear whether he was talking to himself or to Okiya Subaru.

"Because I was quite delicate when I was little, my father and mother treated me like a girl and didn't require me to wash my hair. At this time, my brother would definitely pull me into the bathroom with disgust and wash my hair himself."

Haneda Hideyoshi finally raised his head, covered his face with embarrassment and smiled: "At first I really hated it and resisted, but he pressed me in the bathroom and beat me. Later I felt comfortable when he washed my hair, and sometimes I would deliberately not wash my hair when taking a bath."

On the one hand, this incident happened too long ago, and on the other hand, Haneda Hideyoshi was adopted and Akai Shuichi studied in the United States, so the two met very rarely, but Okiya Subaru actually knew about it all along.

What changed the fate of the two brothers was the death of Hiroshi Haneda 17 years ago.

"What a touching brotherhood." Okiya Subaru felt his glasses slipping down, so he adjusted them: "Next is applying hair oil. I'll spray it with spray and then wipe it clean for you, but you have to wear a visor first." "Can you please help me wash it?"

"Ok?"

Subaru Okiya discovered that his brother was observing him through the mirror.

"In that case, it's just a simple wipe of the hair. I think it's better to wash it. Can you please?"

Haneda Hideyoshi smiled and said, "You want to wash my hair too, right?"

Otherwise, I would have reminded him that his hair was greasy before he started putting on makeup, to prevent the makeup that he had worked so hard to complete from getting wet. Since Okiya Subaru is very good at dressing up, it is impossible for him to make such a mistake. He did it on purpose.

Although he didn't know why he changed his mind and decided to use the wiping method, Haneda Hideyoshi didn't want to miss the opportunity to confirm.

During this period, Sayuri Matsumoto lived in the Beika Shopping Street, and Yumi Miyamoto and her friends always gathered at that Yakitori restaurant. He had long noticed that this waiter looked familiar.

Okiya Subaru was brought by Yoshioka, and he also arranged the best man, so does that mean...

[Father, he also knows who Okiya Subaru is. 】

"I don't know what happened, but it's only today, can I ask you for help?"

Patting his brother's shoulder, Okiya Subaru sighed helplessly: "Go lie down on the hair washing sofa over there."

A smile immediately appeared on the groom's face. When he lay down and Okiya Subaru turned on the hot water shower to wet his brother, the door of the room was opened, which made Haneda Hideyoshi, who had originally recognized his brother's identity because of his technique, a little unhappy.

[Are those two people back? ]

Fortunately, Hideyoshi Haneda was not an unreasonable person. No matter what the reason was for someone to be his best man, he should be grateful to him.

The sound of locking the door came from the room. Haneda Hideyoshi was a little confused, while Okiya Subaru kept scratching his brother, but he looked at Yoshioka who came in.

"Is it Sho-kun and Heita-kun?"

The two looked at each other for a while, and the air became more silent. Just when Haneda Hideyoshi wanted to give up his makeup and open his eyes, Amuro Toru spoke.

"Hideyoshi, it's me."

"Father!"

After spending some time together, he had become very familiar with the new member of the family. Although he didn't know why his sister would smile awkwardly and his mother would look disgusted every time he called him father, Hideyoshi Haneda thought that this person was still a good person.

Subaru Okiya's expression at this moment was so stinky. Before coming here, when he saw Yoshioka standing in front of him and taking off his mask, revealing Toru Amuro's face, he was almost dumbfounded.

Inevitably recalling the sound that he overheard at the window that night of his mother and Yoshioka in bed, which could easily lead to misleading thoughts, Akai Shuichi immediately became furious and had a man-to-man duel with Amuro Toru.

Fortunately, after Toru Amuro assured with a stern face that he absolutely did not want to become Shuichi Akai's stepfather, the two of them sat down and talked calmly.

"Brother...Mr. Okiya, do you remember? This is my stepfather. You met him when you delivered food that night."

"Of course." Okiya Subaru's tone remained unchanged, but he used lip language to greet Amuro Toru fiercely.

"There's no one else here, and I've turned off the surveillance."

Toru Amuro walked to the sofa and sat down, then crossed his legs. As he smiled strangely, Subaru Okiya also had a bad feeling.

"Okiya Subaru, you can also call me like Hideyoshi." (End of this chapter)