Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Oh, there are no seats left? But we made a reservation in advance. Mr. Kudo reserved the seat."

After getting out of the elevator, Kudo Yuji, holding Rize's hand, looked at the waiter who was stopping customers at the door of the Vista Hotel. He held his chin with a distressed look on his hand, and did not pay any attention to his daughter who was almost burying her head in his chest.

"Because it has been an hour since the restaurant opened and the person who made the reservation has not shown up, we have given the seat to someone else in advance. Madam, you will have to wait until other guests have finished eating before there will be a vacancy." The waiter took out a queue card from his pocket, and it clearly showed number five.

"Number five? Does that mean there are four more tables ahead?! Do I still have to queue after I make a reservation?"

Yuji opened his mouth slightly, then sighed and handed the queue card back to the waiter.

“That’s really bad… huh?”

The waiter stared blankly at Fukuzawa Yukichi covered under the queue card, and his expression changed instantly. He smiled and bowed to Kudo Yuji, motioning her to wait for him at the door, then turned and walked into the restaurant.

"bribe."

The girl next to him suddenly blurted out a word, which scared Kudo Yuuji, who was the "mother" at the moment.

"Where did you learn that word?"

"My grandma taught me." Rize sold Vermouth decisively.

After the waiter came out of the restaurant, the two noticed the guests who had packed up and were ready to leave, as well as the cleared table, and sat down very naturally.

"Wouldn't that be a bit bad?"

In order to observe the man and woman at the windowsill more easily, and because the girl's face was not disguised, Kudo Yuji sat with his back to the hotel door, while Rize sat facing the door.

The girl saw a family come to the door holding up queue cards after she and her father sat down, and talked to the waiter with helpless looks on their faces. The father then left with his family. Lise felt that this was not okay.

"They were supposed to come in and eat."

"Rise, this seat was originally supposed to be ours." Yuuji looked at the girl opposite him and said, "It was the hotel that gave our seat to someone else."

"Then why do you still need to give money to that person..." Li Ze looked at the person opposite carefully...

"Mother?"

"If Shinichi and the others weren't already eating inside, I wouldn't really care." Yuji held his chin up and looked at his daughter: "Does Rize feel guilty about those people queuing?"

"Of course." The girl's attitude became serious: "It's obviously us who are wrong, mom is the one who is wrong, why do you act so indifferent."

This kind of person... is completely different from the father she imagined. When they were in the hot spring town in Kyoto, the father she chatted with at the foot of the mountain was obviously very gentle.

"You know, Rize, the only thing a person cannot choose in this world is where they are born." Yuji narrowed his eyes: "If I don't care, what will Rize do? Aren't you going to play mother and daughter with me today?"

Seeing that the girl opposite was shocked, Yuuji suddenly realized that this was his daughter and that he had overacted. He had to put his hand on Rize's head and took out his cell phone.

"I asked the driver to reserve four tables at the western restaurant next door. The four people in line just now are all on my watch for dinner today."

“Huh?!” Li Ze’s eyes widened, and he suddenly realized, “So what was that just now, a test?”

If she also thinks it is right to spend money to come in early, what will her father do? He will definitely think she is a bad child, and she will no longer be a child of the Kudo family.

Rize breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that whether it was Kaori, Yuzuki, or Haibara Ai, who was suspected to be her sister, their influence on her was mostly positive, which was really great.

"Rise is such a good girl, I really like you. But remember one thing, the reason I can compensate them is because mom makes a lot of money. If I didn't have money, we would have to wait outside together."

As his hand continued to stroke the girl's head, Yuuji heard the girl across from him suddenly snort, knowing that she was angry, so he clapped his hands and said to his daughter, "I'm sorry, Rize-sama, you can ask for compensation, I will agree to anything."

"You'll agree to anything?" The girl's ears twitched: "Really?"

"Really, I'm not lying to you." Yuji nodded.

"Then... can we still play the game of pretending to be mother and daughter later?"

Actually, I wanted to ask whether Haibara Ai is Kudo Yuji's daughter, but given Rize's current relationship, it seems inappropriate to ask such a question, so I changed it to this.

"Okay, of course no problem." Yuji coughed and started to act like a lady again.

"Mom likes Rize a lot, too. Please be my daughter from now on."

"Hi!" The girl nodded hurriedly in agreement, then realized that she was too excited and lowered her head shyly.

"But you can't eat cold food in a Japanese restaurant."

Yuji glanced at the menu and raised his hand to ask the waiter to come and take the order. He noticed that the two people by the window were just eating and not talking. He guessed that his brother was not planning to make trouble in the restaurant, so he enjoyed dinner with his daughter with peace of mind.

"Shinichi, you've been staring at the lady with the child since a while ago. Do you want me to go over and get her phone number for you?"

Xiaolan's angry voice drew Kudo Shinichi's attention away from the mother and daughter not far away. He hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no, I just thought that woman looked familiar."

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"Look familiar?" Xiaolan put her hands on the table and said, "Dad always says that."

"Don't compare me with the uncle here, it's so presumptuous."

Shinichi rolled his eyes, "You can tell that woman is Yuuji no matter how you look at her."

"Yeah, really." Xiaolan narrowed her eyes and saw the woman's true identity: "Well, anyway, you and Hattori-kun have been attracted to Yuuji in women's clothing, so it doesn't matter."

"What kind of words are you talking about..." Shinichi sighed, "Aren't you worried at all, Xiaolan?"

"Why worry? I'm sure you two like girls."

Mao Lilan blushed after she finished speaking, and then glanced at Shinichi: "Dinner... dinner is almost over, if you are okay, I will go back to the hotel."

"Wait, I'll take you somewhere." Shinichi called out to his girlfriend who wanted to put on her clothes. He asked the waiter to pay the bill, then took Xiaolan out of the hotel, went downstairs and got into a taxi.

"Mom, Sister Xiaolan and the others are gone!"

While eating the pudding in front of her, Rize lowered her head to avoid her seeing her face when Mouri Ran walked past her, and hurriedly reminded Yuji who was still eating stew opposite her.

"I asked the driver to catch up first."

When Yuji saw the half caramel pudding left in Rize's small bowl, he felt a little greedy. In order to maintain his father's dignity, he did not order the caramel pudding that children loved, but he felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of the sweet taste.

"Rise, is the pudding delicious?"

"good to eat."

The girl nodded, remembering that when Vermouth was coaxing her to sleep, she said that if she didn't sleep well, her father would take away her dessert in the future.

[How could that be? He must be lying to me.]

Rize scooped a spoonful of pudding into her mouth, raised her head and met Yuji's eager eyes opposite her.

"Mom...you won't steal my pudding, will you?" (End of this chapter)