Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Is there anything wrong with the gas station?"

While the policeman was refueling, the Kudo brothers walked around the gas station. Apart from the traces left by cars passing by frequently, they didn't find anything wrong.

"There's a weedman over there."

Yuuji pointed at a man who was lying on the ground not far away, pulling out weeds bit by bit, and then burned the grass roots hidden in the cracks between the ground and other plots of land with a flamethrower.

"I just noticed that there are no plants around the gas station."

The brother's eyes brightened a little and he glanced at Yuji, suggesting that there was indeed something wrong with the gas station.

Judging from the crack marks near the gas station, this kind of grass root removal activity is carried out about once every half a month, but for an ordinary gas station it is too frequent, which made the two brothers pretend nothing happened and return to the car and fall into thought together.

"The most urgent thing is to focus on the sword itself. When I led people to Goryokaku, those masked men were hiding not far away."

Yuji took out a bottle of wolfberries from under the seat and ate it as a snack while instructing the Tokyo policeman who was driving to tear off the camouflage mask on his face to reveal Nana Komachi's face.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Kudo."

Nana Komachi looked at the boy's face curiously: "Is the medicine still useful?"

This was really a direct sarcasm. The brother, who was a little embarrassed, opened his mouth to say something to reprimand the other party, but when he recalled the great progress in his relationship with his girlfriend, his face turned red and he didn't know what to say.

"I knew it was you who sent someone to the hotel last night!"

With no other choice, he had to shift his target of attack to his younger brother. Kudo Shinichi forcefully snatched the dried wolfberries from Yuuji's hand and took a big bite while the other raised his eyebrows.

"You little brat, you only know how to laugh at others."

"Hey! You are wrongly accusing me." Yuji immediately raised his hands and protested: "I just suspected that the masked man would attack the police-free hotel at night for the three swords, and I sent people there just to retrieve them in advance to protect you."

"Then why don't you just tell me clearly? We had a misunderstanding at the beginning."

"Well... actually the misunderstanding didn't last very long. At least it wasn't more than five minutes between Mr. Kudo seeing me and slapping myself." Nanamichi, who was driving, felt it necessary to defend herself now.

"You also slapped yourself?!"

The boy grinned in surprise, and looked at his expensive wolfberries that disappeared quickly with some heartache: "Let's not talk about this. I had expected that you might run into those masks head-on, so I asked Mr. Nana Komachi to bring some medicine for your injuries."

"You dare to mention medicine?!"

Kudo Shinichi clenched his fists. Although what happened last night was a good thing in his eyes, it was still hard for him to accept. In his eyes, this kind of thing should be a natural outcome of mutual affection...

"I didn't expect that. I had someone give Hattori a special medicine and he didn't take any action yet, but you have already hit a home run."

Yuji sighed, and once again lamented that the old Kansai people were useless.

"Stop talking nonsense, do you think everyone is like you?"

Two streams of white air came out of Kudo Shinichi's nostrils.

"Don't slander me, I was just passive." Yuji blushed for the first time, and urged Nanakomachi to drive faster.

"Wait! Isn't this on the way to the address that Fujiang Takuzo mentioned?!" "Of course."

Yuji glanced at his eldest brother as a matter of course, then took out a new mask from under the seat and put it on, confirming that the uncle had locked Xiaolan in the innermost suite on the 15th floor of the Hakodate Hotel.

"Because I want to see a live-action version of Rapunzel."

“…You’re such a bastard!”

Yuji straightened his face and nodded like his older brother: "I, Kudo Shinichi, think what you said makes sense."

Kudo Shinichi gritted his teeth and suppressed the urge to hit his brother, but when he thought about it, he realized that he couldn't beat him, and he felt helpless and disappointed.

[They say it’s better to do it early, but I was just too easy to talk to before. 】

How did you endure him when he was a child?

The great detective snorted and looked up, only to find that his younger brother was staring at him with a teasing look. His eyes were so complicated that they seemed to be talking, as if asking, "Do you really not know that this is a test from your uncle?"

Kogoro Mori thought that the person who came with Xiaolan was really Kaito Kuroba. He had never met his future son-in-law, so he came up with this method to force Shinichi Kudo to meet him. However, he didn't expect that this guy was so timid at the beginning that he pretended not to know.

"Uncle... Uncle won't do anything to Xiaolan..." With his numbing scalp, Kudo Shinichi coughed and whispered, "After all, she is my biological daughter..."

"If it was my daughter, I would beat you to death and make sure you never see my child again."

"How dare you say that?!"

Yuji pretended to sigh sadly: "It is because of my own experience that I don't want my daughter to follow in my footsteps."

"That sounds like something an uncle would say. You two are quite similar."

"... Oh, you are so sweet and you know how to praise people. It's a pity that I can't be your father-in-law anymore."

[How shameless...]

Kudo Shinichi was silent for a while: "Actually, I didn't dare to go at first. Thank you for forcing me once."

He pounded his fist on the seat and nodded seriously: "I've decided. No matter what, at least I have to let the uncle see my determination!"

Raising their hands in the car, the brothers high-fived.

"well."

While Kudo Shinichi was terrified, Yuji took out a pair of stockings from under the seat and hung them on his head, but he chose a semi-permeable one, so Kudo Shinichi's face, which was distorted by the stockings, was clearly visible under the stockings.

"Shinichi, you don't want people to see your face in public, do you?"

"You bastard! Then don't choose the semi-transparent one!"

[Is this the place you are complaining about? ]

The corner of Nana Komachi's mouth twitched, and she felt that the brothers seemed to be abnormal. (End of this chapter)