Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Mr. Maori, aren't you going to have a drink today? You ordered some delicious food that I normally wouldn't have eaten?"

Looking at Kogoro Mori sitting at the table, Kensuke Wakita took the large belly of tuna brought from the kitchen, gently placed it in front of this elder of Kudo Yuji, and then signaled with his eyes to the waiter who delivered the food to go off work.

"Well, actually my wife doesn't have much work recently, so I plan to come back and stay for a week. It will be inconvenient to take care of her if I drink." Kogoro Mouri first patted his head and smiled embarrassedly, then his face suddenly changed at the surprised look of Kenshin Wakita, and he lowered his head in despair.

"So... at least before the end... have a good meal..."

"Uh… um… okay."

Maori Kogoro picked up a piece of sashimi and put it in his mouth: "Are you alone today, Mr. Wakita?"

He saw the waiter who had just delivered the food and the chef who came out later changed out of their work clothes in the store and turned around to go off work. Apparently, the man with the eye patch was the only one in the store now.

"So I will be in charge of the cooking later." Kanenori Wakita noticed Kogoro Maori's confusion and explained, "Actually, I am also a chef."

"Eh? Aren't you here to entertain guests?"

Uncle Maori put down his chopsticks. Since the sushi restaurant opened, this man has been the one who greeted him every time he came, so he naturally thought he was just an ordinary worker.

"Here, here." Wakita Kanenori pointed at his eye patch and said, "Mr. Mori, aren't you curious about my outfit at all?"

"Uh...Wakita Kenshinori, sometimes being too curious is not a good thing, especially for a detective. If you accidentally get involved in some strange incidents, that would be bad."

Kogoro Mori's indifferent look made Kensuke Wakita pause for a moment. He rubbed his lower lip with his exposed buck teeth, and finally laughed.

"That's great, you are worthy of being my favorite detective."

Hearing the flattery, Kogoro Mori revealed his true colors in the blink of an eye, which scared Kensuke Wakita again. He always felt that the man who was bragging in front of him was not the same person as the guy who had seen through him just now.

"But now I want to say it myself, so it doesn't count as your curiosity." Wakita Kensuke then took off his blindfold, revealing the swelling inside that almost squeezed his eyes.

"I don't know what happened. Maybe I ate something bad, or maybe I wiped my eyes with something on my hands. Anyway, it hurts so much that I can't open my eyes. The manager was worried that I would accidentally hurt myself while cooking, so he asked me to serve people first."

"In that case, I won't eat sushi today."

Maori Kogoro immediately said after hearing this: "What the store manager said is right."

He didn't really want to eat sushi. He had been a detective for so long and had seen all kinds of people. If this guy really got injured while cooking for him, even if it had nothing to do with him, some unpleasant things would inevitably happen. It would be better to stop it from the beginning.

"so I……"

Just as Kogoro Mouri was holding the table and preparing to get up and leave, the door of the sushi restaurant was opened, attracting the attention of two people in the restaurant.

"Eri? And the housekeeper of the Suzuki family."

Maori Kogoro noticed that the person who came in with his wife was Suzuya who was with Suzuki Yuko, so he asked, "Why are you together?"

"Originally I didn't have a job, but Miss Suzuya came to discuss with me the latest legal regulations for their security company, so I asked her to have a meal near my home before going home."

Apart from some vegetable and ramen shops, there are not many restaurants in the Beika Shopping Street. In addition, this sushi restaurant is right next to the Mori Detective Agency, so Kisaki Eri naturally walked in with Suzuya.

Unlike the couple who were chatting, Suzuya's eyes were now looking at Wakita Kensuke, who was standing at the table with a pair of large fake teeth in his mouth.

[It seems... it's him...] "But Mr. Wakita probably can't cook, otherwise we can go to the Yakitori restaurant next door..."

"What a shame." Kisaki Eri clapped her hands and suggested to Suzuya: "Why don't you come to my house and I'll cook for you myself."

[Don't agree! Don't agree! ]

As an intelligence boss working undercover in the Suzuki Group, Suzuya naturally knew that Eri Kisaki loved to cook murderous dishes.

Logically speaking, she is not a fan of any special fetish, so she would not torture herself like this, but the current situation is very clear. If she does not agree to Kisaki Eri, she will have to eat Wakita Kenshinori's food.

She didn't trust her biological father, but she also didn't want to eat food that killed someone, so her eyes fell on the sashimi that Kogoro Mori had just eaten, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

Yes, sashimi! Like instant noodles and rice balls, it is said to be a life-saving medicine for those with advanced culinary cancer. Even the most incompetent chefs can cook these three dishes poorly.

"I don't think there's any need to go to the detective agency. I can just use the kitchen in this store."

Suzuya looked up and saw Maori Kogoro trying to dissuade him palely: "Ah, this is not good. After all, we still have business to do."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kogoro Mori winked at Kanenori Wakita, hoping that he would refuse.

What if my wife blows up the kitchen of this sushi restaurant?

"Mr. Maori, you're welcome. In fact, we don't have much ingredients today, so it's okay for you to use the kitchen."

Kanenori Wakita obviously did not understand what Mori meant, so he pointed in the direction of the kitchen. In order to build a better relationship with Kogoro Mori, he generously stated that Kisaki Eri could use the ingredients in the kitchen at will. However, he did not expect that before he finished speaking, Kogoro Mori and Suzuya, who had finally sat down, both looked unhappy again.

"Guest, please have some tea."

While Eri Kisaki was cooking, Suzuya was still a customer of the sushi restaurant, so Kenshinori Wakita still politely offered him a cup of tea, but he didn't expect that Suzuya spit into the empty teacup after taking a sip, and then frowned.

"You haven't even mixed the matcha powder yet, are you really a store clerk?"

Suzuya didn't go too far. It was Kisaki Eri who invited her to dinner. If she made things too difficult for the man in front of her, it would inevitably cause misunderstandings and make the other party think that she was actually dissatisfied with him.

"I don't like matcha, do you have any other drinks?"

"What do you want to drink? I have everything here, Coke, Sprite, marble soda, grape water..."

"Natto soda."

"Huh?" Wakita Kenshinori blinked in confusion, and after confirming that he had not heard it wrong, his face turned grim. He thought that it was his daughter who was making trouble, but he did not expect that Mouri Kogoro next to him seemed to have met a soulmate, and he slammed the table and shouted.

"So Miss Suzuya also likes natto soda. To be honest, even though it tastes weird, you'll start to miss it if you don't drink it for a few days."

He paused in the middle of his words, took out his cell phone in front of the father and daughter, and answered the call while muttering "Why is it him?"

"Officer Yokomizo, why did you suddenly think of calling me...what?!"

(End of this chapter)