Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

"We're back!" Standing at the door, Yuji hammered his shoulders and carried the souvenirs and clothes he brought back into the house.

Akiko wanted to help, but the boy insisted on taking all the luggage for the two of them, so she had to agree.

"We're back."

Looking at the empty house, Yuji remembered that Hiroki was now at Dr. Agasa's house.

"Sister Akiko, let's go in first." The boy made room so that Akiko could go in first, but when he saw her stop by the mailbox, he walked over.

"Is there anything?"

Opening the mailbox behind him, Yuji took out a paper package with a check and a strange letter inside.

"This person's name is... the phantom of God's abandoned child?" Pinching his chin, the boy chuckled and took out his cell phone to make a call.

"Hello, this is Kuroba Kaito."

"What new tricks do you want to play? Or do you have too much money and don't know where to put it?" Yuji picked up the check worth one million yen and swung it: "If the money is too much, my house is quite big!"

"What do you mean? Are you calling me to provoke me?"

Kaito was obviously a little angry. It was not easy for his younger brother to call, but he ended up saying something incomprehensible.

"Eh... It seems that someone wants to use the name of Kaito Kid again."

Yuji smiled smugly: "Or it's not bad to say."

The phone was hung up, and Yuji took Akiko into the house and started to clean up the room. When he took three cups of coffee and put them on the coffee table in the living room, the doorbell rang.

"I knew you would come." Yuji opened the door, threw a pair of cat-claw slippers on the ground, and handed the letter to Kaito the moment he sat on the sofa.

"Damn! Who is it again?" Kaito rubbed his head and suddenly found that Yuji was holding his phone and looking at it.

"It seems that Uncle Maori has received it too." The boy put the text message he was chatting with Conan in front of Kaito: "It seems that it is not directed at you."

Kaito's face was gloomy at the moment. He stared at the letter and made another decision.

"Okay, I'll go and take a look too."

………

The sun was in the sky. It was only about five o'clock in the afternoon, but the sky was already dark. The closer to the mountain, the darker it was.

On a small road in the mountains of Tottori Prefecture, a white car was speeding. At the moment of turning, the tire hit something and slid forward for a distance before stopping.

In the driver's seat, Maori Kogoro woke up Conan who was sleeping in the back seat: "Conan, can you help me see if the tire over there is flat?"

The sleepy elementary school student leaned his head out of the car window. He leaned on the car door and looked down, and found that the tire on the left side of the back was indeed flat.

Maori Kogoro, who was holding the steering wheel, suddenly became depressed. He unbuckled his seat belt and opened the car door.

"Really? Why am I so unlucky every time I rent a car!"

He got out of the car and opened the trunk. Looking at the empty interior, he closed the hood tightly: "What's going on? Didn't the rental company prepare a spare tire? I'm obviously their regular customer?"

Maybe that's why they didn't prepare one...

Xiaolan and Conan looked at each other and sighed together.

"Oh! There's a gas station ahead. How lucky!"

Mouri Kogoro put his hands in his trouser pockets and touched his hair with his back to the two children: "This is what is called a new hope after a dark period!"

After about fifteen minutes, Maori Kogoro came back carrying a tire. Looking at the increasingly gloomy sky, he quickly changed the tire and sat back in the driver's seat.

"The clerk just told me that there is a shortcut. Let's get to the villa quickly, otherwise we will have to drive in the rain later, which is unsafe."

Fastening his seat belt, he drove the car to the country road, bumping back and forth in the mud and water. Finally, at the moment of rain, Maori Kogoro drove the car back to the road.

"Really, it's a good thing that the clerk didn't lie to me. I paid for a very expensive map."

Conan looked out the window at the villa on the top of the mountain. Half of it was covered in clouds and mist, and the lower half was blocked by the woods. It could only be seen vaguely.

Mauri Kogoro and Xiaolan also saw it. They both shuddered. The uncle smacked his lips and held the steering wheel more tightly.

"It feels like a weird annex. What kind of twilight annex is it? It might as well be called a vampire annex."

The next second, in Maori Kogoro's sight, an old lady holding an umbrella suddenly appeared in front of the car. He stepped on the brakes suddenly. Under the influence of the previous topic, Xiaolan screamed loudly.

"Ah, it's the old monster in the mountains!" Maori Kogoro leaned against the seat and shouted suddenly.

The old lady slowly walked to the window of the cab. She knocked gently. The glasses on her nose reflected white light in the residual light of the car lights, making it difficult to see her face.

"It's too rude to call a lady you just met like this..."

Knowing that it was not an old monster in the mountains, Maori Kogoro rolled down the window and apologized embarrassedly.

"As you can see, my precious Beetle just broke down. Can you give me a ride? You guys are going to Twilight Villa, too."

So there was a strange old lady in the Maori family's car. After looking at the old man sitting in the passenger seat, Xiaolan held Conan's hand and she slightly clamped her legs.

"Dad, how long will it take to get there? I need to go to the bathroom."

"It's almost there, about ten minutes left, just bear with me."

Although he looked a little impatient, Maori Kogoro stepped on the accelerator a little harder.

"Miss, don't blame me for being nosy. The principal of the elementary school in our town used to tell others that a successful person is one who never gives up any opportunity.

People who always wait for the same opportunity will never succeed. Why didn't you go to the gas station just now?"

Surprised by the old lady's words, Xiaolan looked at Conan in confusion and found that he pointed to the ashtray in the middle of the car.

"This old lady deduced it from the empty ashtray."

Conan pointed to the car ashtray with ash still in it: "Because, uncle can't just dump the ashes on the roadside in front of us, and there is only one gas station along the way, and there are no other buildings."

"That's right, I think the famous Sleeping Kogoro, a gentleman who is willing to lend a hand to a strange old lady on the roadside, will never dump ashes in this beautiful forest in front of his daughter."

The old lady glanced at Maori Kogoro in the driver's seat, and saw that he didn't react, so she laughed.

"It seems that you already know who I am."

There is still the last section of the road, and you can relax. Maori Kogoro answered her: "You are the famous Chikan Kyoudai who claims to be able to solve the case just by sitting in an easy chair and listening to others tell the case, right?"

Ran and Conan tilted their heads strangely, and looked at Uncle Maori with a little thoughtfulness at this time.

Why do I feel that my father (uncle) seems to be a little smarter today?

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