Stay away from Conan.

"Anyway, let's not talk about them for now. Since we're here, let's have a good meal!"

As if not wanting to continue talking about his parents, Kudo Shinichi changed the subject and started talking about eating. After all, the two of them were in such a high-end restaurant.

In response to this, listening to Kudo Shinichi's words, Xiaolan nodded and prepared to start looking through the menu in front of her.

However, as the topic turned back to ordering food, looking at Xiaolan flipping through the menu, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but feel a little nervous, thinking about the ultimate purpose of this trip.

Therefore, Kudo Shinichi, who was sitting opposite Xiaolan, felt a little uneasy for a while. He seemed to want to say something, but he was nervous and didn't know how to start.

Seeing this somewhat abnormal reaction, Xiaolan couldn't help but feel a little nervous about Kudo Shinichi's performance. As a result, although she seemed to be flipping through the menu, her heart was a little confused, and she didn't even pay much attention to the contents of the menu.

In this way, the appearance of Kudo Shinichi and Xiaolan at the moment seems very awkward to outsiders, and this kind of atmosphere also makes Xiaolan feel a little unsure of what to do.

But it seemed that Kudo Shinichi was so nervous that he didn't notice the strange atmosphere.

In this way, the current deadlock is maintained for a while, and it feels a bit impossible to continue like this. Xiaolan tries to break the deadlock.

"Um, Shinichi..."

"Hey? What's wrong?"

When asked this by Xiaolan, Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment, and then he tried to remain calm and replied.

"Do you, do you have anything you want to tell me?"

In this case, Xiaolan asked this question in a casual manner.

In response to this, Kudo Shinichi felt as if something had been exposed when he heard this. He looked a little flustered and didn't know how to respond. So he couldn't help but reach out and touch the back of his head, as if he wanted to say something while Xiaolan was asking him questions, but he couldn't open his mouth.

However, after asking that question, Xiaolan secretly regretted it and wondered if her words were too straightforward. But now that things had come to this point, Xiaolan couldn't help but look at Kudo Shinichi with some secret expectation, hoping that he could say something.

Being watched by Xiaolan with a bit of tenderness, Kudo Shinichi knew that at this time, he should...

It's about time I said it.

After being reminded by his mother and Huibara, Kudo Shinichi actually understood a little bit what he should do, but...

At this moment, Kudo Shinichi still hesitated for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth, had to face Xiaolan, and said the words -

"This... um... that..."

With a slightly red face, Kudo Shinichi found it a little difficult to speak.

——"Hey? Isn't this Xiaolan?"

As a result, at this moment, just as Kudo Shinichi was gathering his emotions and courage to try to speak, he heard a familiar voice coming from the side.

For a moment, there was some surprise. As this external voice broke the stalemate on the scene, Kudo Shinichi and Xiaolan couldn't help but turn their heads to look to the side -

I saw that it was Sato Miwako.

She was wearing a decent dress and had light makeup on her face. She looked at the two people present with an expression of surprise.

"Officer Sato?"

Xiaolan was obviously very surprised to see Sato Miwako here. She didn't expect to run into an acquaintance by chance in such a place:

"Why are you here too?" Therefore, when Xiaolan asked her the reason, Sato Miwako seemed a little embarrassed subconsciously. Her eyes first turned to her side, to the other person who wanted to hide and didn't want to be seen by acquaintances. Then she seemed to think that this was a bit wrong and hurriedly tried to turn her eyes back.

However, Sato Miwako's reaction has attracted the attention of Xiaolan and Shinichi. Looking in the direction of her gaze, they saw behind her, Takagi Wataru in a suit was also there. He didn't want to be seen by the two and tried his best to avoid everyone's sight.

However, by now, it is clear that Gao Mushi's actions are in vain.

"And Officer Takagi!"

Suddenly, Xiaolan said in surprise.

Therefore, Takagi Wataru knew that he couldn't hide any longer, so he could only walk out from behind Sato Miwako, touched the back of his head slightly embarrassedly, and responded to Xiaolan:

"Ahahaha...what a coincidence, Xiaolan..."

As a result, seeing how Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako were dressed and came here together, Xiaolan naturally had some guesses and asked in surprise:

"What's wrong? Are you guys dating?"

"This, this..."

In response to this, Takagi Wataru responded with a bit of embarrassment, but soon, Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako reacted and turned to look at Kudo Shinichi who was sitting opposite Xiaolan -

"Isn't this... Kudo?"

Only then did they realize that the person who was with Xiaolan was actually Kudo Shinichi. This made Takagi Wataru and Sato Miwako also look at the two people in a bit of surprise:

"I heard from Officer Megure that you were back. I didn't expect..."

Sato Miwako said this, and then Takagi Wataru seemed to have thought of something, so without answering Xiaolan's question, he turned around and asked about Xiaolan and the others' situation:

“You are here…”

"Is it a date?"

Miwako Sato added.

After hearing this, Xiaolan and Shinichi were both stunned. The originally slightly awkward atmosphere between the two of them was completely changed by the words of the two outsiders who intervened.

For a moment, it seemed like a subconscious reaction. Xiaolan and Shinichi smiled awkwardly and denied it one after another:

"No, no, no..."

"I just came to eat..."

Shinichi and Xiaolan each responded.

However, although Xiaolan and Shinichi said this, from the perspective of Sato Miwako and Takagi Wataru, it still felt that it should not be that simple.

At the same time, for Shinichi at this moment, to be honest, he originally thought so, but now...

There is no way, the atmosphere has been completely destroyed. There is no point in saying those words at this time. Let's just find another opportunity...

——"Hello, I'm Tatsumi, and I've made a reservation. May I ask…"

At this moment, when Shinichi, Xiaolan, Miwako and Takagi Wataru were chatting because of their chance encounter, a middle-aged man and a young man came to the door of the restaurant and said this to the waiter.

This situation was the most common thing in the restaurant, but what was different was that Gao Yuan was following behind them... (End of this chapter)