Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 357 So, love will disappear, right? (Please give me a monthly ticket!)

At night, at the Maori Detective Agency.

Maori Kogoro, who was already drunk, was lying on the ground hugging a pillow and sleeping soundly, talking in his sleep from time to time: "I am the famous detective, Maori Kogoro..."

In the kitchen not far from him, Mao Lilan was holding a book on how to make chocolate. She was reading it while shaking the small iron pan in her hand evenly.

Seeing her so focused and serious, Conan blinked in confusion and asked, "What are you doing, Xiaolan?"

Mao Lilan stared at the small iron pot in her hand with full concentration, and said perfunctorily, "Ah, something happened."

This is the first Valentine's Day she spends with her boyfriend, so she must make a perfect birthday chocolate!

So, at this critical moment, she really didn't want to be distracted by other things.

"This scent is chocolate."

Seeing that her attitude was a bit perfunctory, Conan didn't care. Instead, he closed his eyes and sniffed the air with his nose.

Soon, a rich fragrance came to his nose.

That's the sour smell of love... no, the scent of chocolate!
Mao Lilan continued to cook chocolate while reading the book in her hand, "Tomorrow is the annual Valentine's Day."

In fact, if it wasn't for Valentine's Day, she wouldn't have come to her father's house to borrow the kitchen to make handmade chocolates for Valentine's Day.

Of course, this doesn't mean that her mother, Eri Kisaki, doesn't have a kitchen or the tools to make chocolate.

As a "dark cuisine master" who thinks she has extraordinary cooking skills, how could there be a lack of cooking tools in Hibari Eri's home?

However, due to some concerns in her heart, she did not want to let her mother know that she would spend Valentine's Day with her boyfriend tomorrow, nor did she want the other party to have too much contact with her!
There's nothing she can do about it. It was because of the "nightmare" she had last time when she went to her mother Eri Kisaki to celebrate her successful victory that left such a huge shadow on her.

——I don’t know if it was her illusion, but that night, she always felt that when she was being intimate with her boyfriend, not only did her good friend Suzuki Sonoko appear on her boyfriend’s bed, but even her mother Kissing Eri seemed to be involved and played Jenga with her.

But when she woke up, she found nothing and couldn't see anything wrong with her mother.

For a moment, she didn't know whether she was too concerned about her boyfriend and was a little suspicious, or whether she was hallucinating because she drank too much...

Although she didn't want to doubt her mother or question her boyfriend's feelings for her, with this shadow, she didn't dare let her boyfriend have more contact with her mother.

Conan looked up in surprise, "Ah, Xiaolan, do you have a date to give chocolates to?"

As we all know, so-called handmade chocolate is to melt other people's chocolate, then pour it into a template and solidify it!

What his childhood sweetheart is doing now is to melt the chocolate bought from the store into cocoa paste, and then pour the melted cocoa paste into the prepared template. After it cools and solidifies, a piece of handmade chocolate can be freshly baked.

Moreover, judging from the other party’s caring and focused look, it is obvious that what he made is not ordinary Valentine’s Day chocolate, but most likely his birthday chocolate!

I just don’t know to whom the other party will give this carefully prepared gift on Valentine’s Day tomorrow!

Could it be his childhood sweetheart?

Thinking of this, a hint of joy flashed inadvertently in Conan's eyes.

You know, since he was four years old, when he first met Mao Li Ran, he fell in love with this gentle and kind girl.

——One of the characteristics of "Detective Conan" is that there are a lot of childhood sweethearts. Most of the main characters have a childhood sweetheart. And because the author Gosho Aoyama is obsessed with childhood sweethearts, most people who have childhood sweethearts will eventually date their childhood sweethearts.

What’s more worth mentioning is that these people were not very old when they fell in love with their childhood sweethearts.

For example, Shiratori Jinzaburo and Kobayashi Sumiko were in elementary school, as were Chiba and Naeko.

Another example is Hattori Heiji.

Hattori Heiji fell in love with his childhood sweetheart Toyama Kazuha when he was seven years old.

Although he didn't know this at first, he thought he had fallen in love with someone else.

When Heiji was seven years old, he went to Kyoto for a trip and met a young lady with heavy makeup singing "The Ball Song" with wrong lyrics under a cherry tree. He was deeply moved by her.

Heiji always thought that it was a girl two years older than him, but in fact it was not, and he was very familiar with that person, it was his childhood sweetheart Toyama Kazuha.

Although later on, Heiji was unable to escape the author's "curse" and fell in love with his childhood sweetheart, Kazuha, he was still unable to let go of the matter.

His childhood sweetheart Toyama Kazuha also cares a lot about this.

After all, unlike a stupid straight guy who has yet to realize his own feelings, she knew who she liked very early on. But the boy she liked actually had another woman in his heart. Which girl could tolerate this?

It was not until the end of "Crossroads in the Labyrinth" that Heiji discovered that his first love was actually his childhood sweetheart, Toyama Kazuha. He had fallen in love with his childhood sweetheart when he was only seven years old!

However, although it was already very early for Heiji to fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Toyama Kazuha when he was seven years old, there was someone who fell in love with him earlier than him!

That is Kudo Shinichi, the protagonist of "Detective Conan".

Kudo Shinichi fell in love with Mouri Ran when he was four years old.

This age is a little surprising, but it is true.

At that time, he had just transferred to the Mika Kindergarten, where he met the crybaby Mao Lilan.

When they were in kindergarten, all the children were taking a nap. At this time, Shinichi saw Xiaolan crying and cutting paper. It turned out that Xiaolan's cherry blossom name tag was taken away by someone, so she made a new one.

After seeing this, Shinichi began to reason, thinking that if he told Xiaolan his reasoning, Xiaolan would admire him very much and say that Xiaolan was a crybaby.

As a result, she not only failed to gain Ran's admiring gaze, but also received Ran's angry expression. Later, Mao Lilan was ridiculed by others for wearing the paper name tag she made. Others said she was not sociable and excluded her. Mao Lilan did not have the karate skills she would later have. She was so angry that she was about to cry and had no idea what to do.

At this time, Kudo Shinichi, who was much more mature than his peers and was already a master at flirting with girls while others were still in diapers, stepped forward and coolly solved the problem for Xiaolan.

——At the beginning, Shinichi was still concerned about reasoning. He looked at Xiaolan who was cutting paper, and based on the shape of Xiaolan's paper cutting, he guessed that she was making a business card. Originally, Shinichi just wanted to show off his reasoning ability, but when he saw Xiaolan's appearance, he blushed all of a sudden. He didn't know where his original intention of showing off went immediately. Thinking of the fact that Xiaolan was ridiculed before, Shinichi immediately understood the problem.

So, he deliberately put away his own brand name, and then pretended to casually ask Xiaolan to help make one for him. In this way, Xiaolan would not be an outsider, but would have a partner like him.

That was not only the first time that Kudo Shinichi made a deduction in his life, but also the first time that he took the initiative to help a girl out of trouble, preventing her from being laughed at by her classmates, and protecting her from being "kidnapped by a kindergarten teacher."

Later, in an episode of Detective Conan, Kudo Shinichi recalled the past and said: "From the day we first met, I fell in love with your smile from the bottom of my heart."

In fact, the reason why he stood up fearlessly when Mouri Ran was bullied was because he had a sense of justice, but the real reason why he helped Mouri Ran was that he had fallen in love with her at first sight. Otherwise, why would he ask Xiaolan to make a paper name tag for him in advance?
It is precisely because he had realized his own feelings early on that, in the original work, when visiting Dorobiga Land, Kudo Shinichi was planning to confess his feelings to his childhood sweetheart Mouri Ran.

After all, how could a single man and a single woman meet at an amusement park if they didn't have any feelings for each other? Moreover, having liked Mouri Ran for so many years, he couldn't wait to officially get married with his childhood sweetheart.

Even when he was waiting in line, when he saw a couple kissing next to him, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but imagine a lot of embarrassing scenes.

And if everything goes well, the two of them might really be able to be together at that time, achieve their goal, and become boyfriend and girlfriend.

Unfortunately, the "Roller Coaster Murder Case" happened later, and Kudo Shinichi, who was too curious, ran into the man in black who was trading...

Then, the high school detective Kudo Shinichi disappeared, and was replaced by the elementary school student Conan.

Finally, after being shrunk, Kudo Shinichi could only find a way to live in the home of his childhood sweetheart Mao Lilan. Then, the long and sadistic love between the two, one far away and the other close at hand, but unable to recognize each other, began...

Thinking back on these things, the joy in Conan's eyes faded gradually until it disappeared completely.

Because he suddenly thought of a key question.

That is, now, because he met the two men in black wearing sunglasses and was force-fed "poison" by them, he is no longer the original high school detective Shinichi Kudo, but just a child of six or seven years old.

In other words, even if the chocolate that Mao Lilan is making now is for him, he himself cannot receive it!

For a moment, Conan couldn't help but feel quite distressed.

He was a little conflicted about whether he should confess his identity to his childhood sweetheart, Mouri Ran, and tell her that he was her childhood sweetheart, the high school detective Shinichi Kudo who had been missing for a long time.

After all, this was the first time that his Xiaolan responded to his feelings, and it was also the first time that she gave him her natal chocolate. It would be a pity if he missed it.

Moreover, given how thin-skinned his daughter Xiaolan is, if he missed this opportunity, he wouldn't know how long he would have to wait for the other party to muster up the courage to give him his life-long chocolate!

But if he confessed his identity, it would inevitably bring trouble and danger to his Xiaolan.

After all, neither the two men in black nor the powerful organization behind them are people to be trifled with.

His Xiaolan is just an ordinary girl who knows karate. If she really goes against such a group of people and such a terrible organization, in the end, nothing good will happen to her.

As for what if all this was just a misunderstanding and the chocolate was not prepared for him?
Oh, if it’s not for his childhood sweetheart, could it be for the gorilla named Wakamatsu?

It's not that he looks down on a certain gorilla and thinks that the other party is just a small fry and is not worthy of competing with him.

The main thing is that as childhood sweethearts for many years, he thought he knew Xiaolan quite well.

His daughter Xiaolan only hates and resists the man named Wakamatsu Toshihide, so how could she possibly give him her own signature chocolate?

Of course, the possibility of a private detective cannot be ruled out.

After all, no normal man would not like an ideal human being like his Xiaolan, who is capable of both being a lady in the living room and cooking in the kitchen, saving others and beating up hooligans.

It is not surprising that a private detective would launch an offensive against Xiaolan.

But he also knew that Bai Ye was the boy that he, his other childhood sweetheart and also his daughter Xiaolan's best friend Suzuki Sonoko liked!

Even if Bai Ye fell in love with his Xiaolan, there was no way his Xiaolan would snatch the boy that her best friend liked!

In other words, there is absolutely no hope between the two of them, and that life chocolate can definitely not be given to that guy Bai Ye!
Hearing this, Mao Lilan's smile seemed a little forced.

What does it mean that she has a partner and can give her chocolates?
Is she, Mao Lilan, so bad?
This little guy Conan is so uncute!
It can be said that if she had not been well-educated, she would have almost followed the example of her best friend and taught that impolite kid a lesson with her fists.

"You are very rude. How can you make chocolate by yourself if you don't have a partner?"

"Really? If I'm not mistaken, it could be that Shinichi-nii is coming back."

Conan put his hands behind his head and raised them as if casually.

After hearing this, Mao Lilan was stunned for a moment, looked up at the cupboard, and said to herself, "Shinichi, after hearing what you said, I just remembered that guy..."

If a certain elementary school student hadn't suddenly mentioned someone, she would have almost forgotten that she had another childhood sweetheart.

After hearing this, Conan fell to the ground.

Hey, hey, hey, he’s only been gone for less than a month, and his childhood sweetheart has already forgotten about him?

This hurts his heart too much!
Also, if his Xiaolan has forgotten his existence, doesn’t that mean that this natal chocolate is not prepared for him?

He had thought it was a gift for him and was even considering whether to reveal his identity. But, it turned out that he was the one who was being sentimental?

(End of this chapter)