Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

The sound in front of the temple gate alarmed the girl who was admiring the cherry blossoms. She looked back at the sky, put her hand in front of her belly, and saluted to Hattori Heiji and Conan.

"Excuse me, what you just sang was..."

Taking off his hat, Hattori Heiji shook off Conan's hand and walked slowly onto the lawn.

It was unmistakable. This song was different from every time he came to Kyoto to inquire about it.

Traditional Kyoto people sing a ball song called "Sister Rokkaku". But this girl sang "Bride's Rokkaku" exactly as Hattori Heiji remembered it.

"You said this, this is a song we Kyoto people often use to remember the way." The girl opposite stared at Hattori in confusion, obviously wary of the boy who came up to her.

Unlike the excited Hattori Heiji, Conan in the back frowned and looked directly at the girl's face. He didn't know why, but he always felt that he had seen this girl somewhere. The face was very familiar, and so was the voice.

"But, sister, your accent doesn't sound like that of a Kyoto native, does it?"

Conan walked to Hattori Heiji, raised his head and looked cute at the kimono girl. His big eyes made the girl relax a lot, and she was no longer as wary of the two of them as before.

"This is because I transferred to Tokyo when I was a child, probably after the third grade of elementary school..."

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Hattori Heiji's bleeding arm. The girl was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "Your body is injured. Hurry up to the temple and ask the monk for some medicine."

After the three of them got the medicine, they sat on the stone bench in the courtyard. Seeing that Conan was not tall enough to reach Hattori Heiji's arm, the girl looked at the Osaka boy and gritted her teeth.

"I...let me help you."

Just when he was about to refuse and decide to disinfect and bandage Hattori Heiji himself, Conan was interrupted by his best friend before he could open his mouth.

"Then...it's up to you..."

With his eyes turning, Hattori Heiji's tone was not as out-of-the-box as usual, and seemed a bit calm, which made Conan who was sitting aside watching the two very unhappy.

Helping Hattori Heiji take off his coat, the girl inspected the wound scratched by the arrow. She first washed the surface with water, then disinfected it, and then wrapped it with a bandage and anti-inflammatory medicine.

After flexing his arms, Hattori Heiji held the coat in his hand, grinning implicitly.

"Your hands are really skillful, eldest sister..."

"Sister...Sister? You are so rude, I am only seventeen years old!" The girl seemed to be offended by the name of the Osaka boy, and glared at Hattori Heiji displeased.

"No, it's not! How should I put it? We Osaka people like to call girls sister. It's not right..."

In a hurry, Hattori Heiji was worried that the girl would be angry because of this, and he eagerly defended himself, but he saw the girl opposite covering her mouth and burst out laughing.

"You are... really interesting..."

She...she said I was interesting...

The girl's smiling face stunned Conan, who was in deep thought. It was so beautiful that all the young men in full bloom blushed and followed the girl silently.

Walking to the door of Kurama Temple, the girl turned around strangely and asked, "Excuse me, do you have anything else?"

"Well, although it's very presumptuous, can I know your name?" Hattori Heiji scratched his head in embarrassment, knowing that his request was a bit excessive.

"Asuka, my name is Asuka." The girl turned around and walked towards the distance while a gust of wind blew by and untied the ribbon that tied her hair.

Gently catching the red ribbon, Hattori Heiji stared at the girl's back innocently.

"Hey, I'm back!"

Shaking Hattori Heiji's pants, Conan looked at his best friend in a daze and pulled hard. Under the sunset, the sound of the fabric tearing was very clear.

"You are too bad, Yuji..."

Looking at the boy who opened the car door and got in, Kaori quietly raised her head from the back seat and looked at Hattori Heiji behind her.

"Deliberately pretending to be Hattori-senpai's first love, you can think of such a damaging idea."

Taking the can of coffee from Kaori, Yuji stared at the girl speechlessly, took a sip and said, "But, weren't you the one who came up with the plot after the reunion?"

"I was..." After being mute for a while, Kaori faced the boy, hit her head with her fist, and stuck out her tongue.

"Hey!"

"Don't be cute!" Yuji coughed and looked serious.

They also saw the gangster who attacked Hattori Heiji from a distance, but they were facing each other at that time. Before the car could turn around, the shadow of the motorcycle was invisible.

Genji Hotaru, Hattori Heiji, and Mouri Kogoro who were invited to Kyoto.

Yuji took out his mobile phone, edited a text message and sent it to Xiaolan, asking the driver of the Nan family to drive the car to a place where they could eat.

"Ah, Sister Xiaolan replied."

Looking at the photos sent together, Yuji frowned, paying attention to the rows of patterns.

The top ones are cicada, tengu and goldfish. The next square is a dot, the next square is chicken and loach, and continuing on is violet, tengu and Mount Fuji.

"I can't understand it at all."

Holding his chin, Yuji felt Kaori pressing against his body, so he also showed her the drawing on his phone.

"This... feels... very much like the roads in Kyoto."

"The road to Kyoto?" Yuji stared at the painting again and asked Kaori to open the map on her phone and compare the riddles to search.

Holding the pen and writing in the notebook, the young man looked at the information and nodded.

"So that's it..."

………

"Conan, why did Hattori-kun sit by the pond as soon as he came back, holding a hair tie and being in a daze?"

Xiaolan saw that there was no one around, so she quietly leaned into Conan's ear and asked in a low voice: "There are also blood stains on his coat arms, Shinichi, is something wrong?"

"Yes." Conan looked at the portrait on the table, still reasoning, but his thoughts inexplicably drifted to the girl named Asuka from before.

Why, why does her face feel so familiar? Where have I seen it before?

Shaking Conan, Xiaolan saw her boyfriend's face turning red and mumbling something, and she tapped his forehead with her knuckles in displeasure.

"It... hurts!"

Lying on the table, Conan's tears fell from his face and he snorted angrily: "What are you doing!"

"Who made you not answer my words, and also say something about a girl named Asuka!"

Xiaolan hugged her chest and raised her head: "Don't tell me that Asuka is a girl with twin tails."

That's it. No wonder I think that girl's voice is so familiar. Her voice is too similar to Kazuye's.

Conan seemed to have some experience with this plot. He remembered the girl's height and made a guess.

"You haven't told me what happened after you went out."

Xiaolan came close to Conan again and looked at the circles on the scratch paper on the table to draw: "Is there any result?"

In order not to frighten the girl about the attack by gangsters, Conan hesitated for a while, but still did not say that Hattori Heiji had been attacked at Kurama Temple just now, and only answered the second question.

"There is still no progress in the puzzle of the portrait."

I have an exam in the morning, and there is another chapter to be posted in the afternoon