Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"The car is here."

After being pestered by Yuji Kudo, or rather, Asuka Miyano, the three finally agreed. Under the strange gazes of Jintaro and Kuromaru, Miyano started chatting with Marina in a rather feminine manner, only looking at the car approaching from a distance after being told to stop.

Wow, that was amazing! I think I completely forgot that Yuuji-kun is a boy...

Marina stared at Yuuji, who was in his young lady form, and was quite envious of his disguise skills and acting skills.

"Yes, yes, I've decided. If I have a son, I'll make him marry a beautiful girl with amazing acting skills!"

"Generally speaking, shouldn't he create a beautiful girl who is good at acting?" Because Yuuji could only use the school as a model, his disguise had many flaws in the eyes of professionals. Looking at the family's handiwork of disguise, Jintaro asked Marina, "And what about his disguise skills?"

"Disguise, isn't that just makeup?" Marina pretended not to hear Jintaro's praise of the "beautiful girl": "This kind of thing looks like an heirloom, you can't get it by begging."

"So Marina will probably become a pretty wicked mother-in-law in the future, since she has such high standards for her daughter-in-law even before they're married," Yata said, mainly because he was annoyed to see Jintaro sticking to Marina's side.

"Just kidding. Any kind of girl is fine, as long as she's a law-abiding and good girl."

"Huh?" Yuuji turned his head and sneakily leaned close to Marina's ear: "How about a world-class female phantom thief and a crazy American street racer?"

Do you have some misunderstanding about obeying laws and regulations?

Both Jintaro and Marina, who could read and hear these words, wore strange expressions, as if he were not speaking human language.

"What's wrong with you? You didn't kill anyone. Aren't you just following the law?"

He grumbled and walked towards Kuromaru Yata, and only when the car arrived at the school gate did he pretend to be weak and frail, unable to carry anything. "Hey, you two boys, could you please put our suitcases in the car?"

He pulled Marina to the back seat, and saw Yuuji sitting on the left. Just as he was about to get in, Yata stopped him and pointed to the passenger seat, telling him to go to the front.

"Young master, who is this girl? What about the one from the Nan family before?" Masuyama Kenzo glanced at her curiously, then leaned over to Kuromaru Yata to ask.

“She was sent back to Tokyo. She’s a classmate of ours and a friend of Marina.” Kuromaru watched as Jintaro took the suitcase out of the guardhouse and told Kenzo Masuyama to take it too. He then opened the back door and sat down next to Marina, in the middle of the back seat.

[You're so useless, Jintaro! Why are you even looking at that suitcase? You've wasted such a good opportunity.]

Yuuji turned his head to stare at Yata and Marina looking out the car window. He noticed through the rear window that Jintaro had put down his luggage and walked around to the side to get on the car. He excitedly opened the car door, only to find that he could only sit to Yata's right, and his face fell.

"Hurry up and get in the car, we're about to leave," Ye Tai urged, patting the right side of his car.

"Humph."

Jintaro slammed the car door shut, then ran over to Marina. He glanced at Yata over Marina's shoulder, then, using the small gap to Marina's left, he sat down and forcefully squeezed to the right, pushing Yata directly to the right side of the back seat.

So that's what you were thinking?

Looking at Marina, who was fantasizing about being surrounded by women, but was actually glaring at Jintaro along with Yata because she had been jostled, Yuuji shook his head and comfortably let out a long sigh of relief in the passenger seat where he was alone. (End of Chapter)