Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"It's really boring."

After participating in the group match, Souji Okita, who was kneeling in the rest area of ​​Izumishin High School, took off his protective gear. He had been paying attention to the competition area of ​​Osaka Kaikata Gakuen since just now, but he didn't see Hattori Heiji at all.

"Why on earth would I come to Hakodate if Hattori wasn't here?"

"It's too loud."

Tetsumoha, who handed him the handkerchief, caught a glimpse of Toyama Kazuha pulling the boy's ear, and pushed Okita Souji to signal him to look over.

"It hurts so much!"

Yuji took a deep breath and begged for mercy from Yuanshan and Ye: "I was wrong."

Knowing that Yuuji's purpose was to discourage others from having a favorable impression of him in order to help Heiji, Toyama Kazuha put more force in his hands and said dissatisfiedly, "What are you thinking about all day long, kid?"

She didn't even know the man's name from beginning to end, let alone any romance.

"You thought it was a romance anime, where a handsome guy falls in love at first sight with a pretty girl, but you don't even know her name..."

"Beauty?" Youji was stunned for a moment. The stinging pain from his ears made his expression distorted: "It hurts, it hurts."

"Your attitude just now, don't tell me that you think I don't deserve to be called a beauty?"

The boy very tactfully denied this, and then pointed to the man with a sword drawn who came on stage after the game. He was holding a practice sword in his hand and waiting for the host to speak.

"Now, please watch a special martial arts performance. The performer is..."

The microphone was snatched away by the other party, and the playing brother and sister showed the same silly expression, and found that the man with the drawn sword seemed to be looking at them and talking.

"Fucheng Sheng, my name is Fucheng Sheng." The man with the sword drawn had eyes that seemed to be dripping with tears, attracting many female students in the audience to become aroused.

"Please remember me..."

The martial arts performance with Japanese swords is of course very interesting to those who learn kendo, but in the eyes of a boy who learns archery, looking at the straw mat with a sword in hand is indeed a bit boring.

The idea of ​​shooting the straw mat suddenly popped into Yuuji's head, and he suddenly realized it.

"So I'm an A-Cha."

"Eh?!" The girl's snort suddenly sounded in Yuuji's ears. He turned his stiff head to look over, coughed twice, and faced Toyama Kazuha with a very interesting smile.

"No, I just felt that when I put away the knife just now..."

"What happened to the knife?"

Okita Souji and Tetsu Moroha, who had been watching the fun on the side, came over again. After observing for such a long time, even these two people who didn't know what was going on began to notice Fukushiro Sei's little affection.

"This is really troublesome. If you dump Hattori now, Kazuha-chan, he won't refuse to compete with me because of the blow!" Okita Souji clasped his hands together: "Please, let's delay the breakup until we return to Osaka."

"What do you mean by dumping her or breaking up? It seems like she hasn't started dating that guy you mentioned yet, right?"

Yuji felt a slight resemblance to Shiho Miyano from Tetsumoha's helpless complaints. The two of them were indeed somewhat similar in character. "I seem to have heard some important news."

While the four of them were chatting and laughing, Fukushiro Seiya appeared beside them. Hearing Tetsumoha's words and Toyama Kazuha's attitude of not refuting, the man with the drawn sword felt a little secretly happy.

[It turns out that we haven’t been in a relationship yet…]

"For me, there is no better news than this."

Fukushiro Sei narrowed his eyes and smiled, ignoring Yuuji who was being intimate with Toyama Kazuha.

"The thought that you might be watching me from somewhere gives me more motivation to swing the knife."

"..." Toyama Kazuha forced a smile. She regretted not cooperating with Kudo Yuuji and continuing the performance.

"I'm a student at the Medical Department of Hachimanzaka University. From what I heard from you just now, your name is Kazuha-chan, right?" Fukushiro Sei said cheerfully while holding a Japanese sword: "What a cute and nice name."

"Asshole, who do you think is my little brother? Why don't you try it yourself to see if it's small or not... mmm..."

Even though the boy who was dragged to the side by Okita Souji and Tetsu Moroha had his mouth covered, the dissatisfaction in his tone was well conveyed to the people around him.

"Hmm... I've calmed down a bit."

Yuuji rubbed his face, which was pinched red by Okita Souji, and found that Fukushiro Sei seemed to reach out his hand to Toyama Kazuha. So, in the face of Tetsumoha's happy smile, he pushed the kendo man towards Kazuha and successfully replaced the girl to stand opposite Fukushiro Sei.

"Oh, do you want to shake hands?"

Carelessly grabbing the hand of the man with the sword drawn, Okita Souji grinned and shook his arm up and down.

"Okita Souji, right? What is your relationship with Kazuha-chan?"

"Relationship? Yeah, just ordinary friends."

Fucheng Sheng smiled, said goodbye to Yuanshan and Ye, and left the scene.

"Hehe, I really want Hattori to see this scene..."

"Yes, yes..."

Kuroba Kaito and Conan, who covered their mouths and watched the whole process, performed the same actions in tacit understanding, and walked towards Yuuji amid the helplessness of Mouri Ran and Hakuba.

"Really, they're just like brothers, the three of them."

Xiaolan sighed helplessly, while Baiba fell into deep thought because of this sentence.

"Brother...?"

(End of this chapter)