Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"So the small door Yuantai mentioned is this dog hole."

Mitsuhiko saw a dog hole in the park fence behind the bushes that was big enough for a person to crawl through, and thought it was too disrespectful to the princess.

"How can Your Highness the Princess crawl through a dog hole..."

Several children looked at Princess Ann, but when they noticed the sparkling stars in the princess' eyes, they suddenly looked at each other in confusion.

"Dog hole!"

Princess An clasped her hands together and said excitedly, "I heard from the head maid Gran that the brave prince would go through the dog hole to the girl he loves. His white robe would be stained with dust from the bushes. Although his handsome face was covered in dust, he would still stand out from the crowd."

"Is there such a fairy tale about a prince who crawls through a dog hole?" Rize looked at Haibara Ai, but got no response.

"Anyway, I must experience the feeling of an ordinary person today. What the princess does is not ordinary, so what the princess doesn't do must be ordinary!" Princess An encouraged herself: "Climbing a dog hole is not ordinary, so I want to crawl through a dog hole."

[Is there something wrong with this logic? ]

Seeing Princess An leading the way, Kuroba Kaito had no choice but to urge Aoko and the other girls to follow. When only boys were left in the park, Kaito lay on the ground and set off.

"This is……"

It was Conan's turn at last. The boy with glasses looked at the plants on the grass and suddenly shouted, "Are any of you hurt?!"

"Ok?"

Kaito looked under Conan and found bloodstains on the plants. His eyes fell on the hole and he suddenly realized: "The murderer also got out through this dog hole!"

"Hey, Captain Yuantai is so awesome!" Princess An shook her fist, making the fat boy's face slightly blush.

After finding out how the murderer escaped from the crime scene, everyone immediately began looking for other clues nearby. The criminal's escape route included roads, bridge holes, and even sewers, which made Conan and Kaito more certain that their ideas were correct.

The criminal must have been in a panic, so his escape route was so strange.

"The bloodstains disappeared here."

The residential area was the last place where bloodstains appeared. Everyone had been following the bloodstains and before they knew it, they had arrived near Kudo Yuji's home.

"Walk a hundred meters to the right from here, and you can almost see the black stone wall of the house."

Rize's words made Conan a little confused. He didn't know why this girl called Yuji's house home. Remembering that she also lived in his house now, he decided to find his father to ask him clearly in the evening.

"Isn't this Conan? Why are you standing here like an idiot?"

The engine of a black car stopped beside them, the driver's door of the black Bentley opened, and Tokuizumi, dressed in a suit, got out of the car, slowly opened the back door, and then protected Minami Masamune, who was wearing a kimono. At the same time, Minami Kazuma in the passenger seat and Minami Yuriko in the back seat stretched their necks to look at the child.

"Dad, you forgot your crutches."

Minami Kazuma and Yuriko also got out of the car with their crutches and looked at the long-haired girl next to Haibara Ai.

"Oh, I'm getting old and confused."

Nan Zhengzong, who was walking steadily just now, immediately began to tremble and shake, and he looked like he was about to fall down. Seeing this, Nan Hezhen hurried forward to support his father, but was finally forced back by the slightly flashing eyes with a strong murderous intent.

Coincidentally, the old man finally walked to Haibara Ai. His legs and feet went weak and he was about to fall down, but looking at Kuroba Rize who was struggling to support him, he showed a rare tender look.

"Thank you so much, little friend. Grandpa's unfilial son always likes to laugh at me and doesn't let me use his walking stick."

Nan Hezhen, who was being blamed, widened his eyes, his hands holding the crutch trembled slightly, his mouth slightly opened, and he was greatly shocked by the contemptuous look from the girl.

"Why...why is this happening!" Minami Masamune looked at the girl who was acting as a crutch at the request of the old man, and turned back to look at Tokuizumi with grievance. "...Mr., your heart is unexpectedly small in some places." Tokuizumi found that Minami Kazuma, who lacked communication with his father, still didn't understand, and coughed to remind him: "Didn't you just say that you should try to make Miss Rize closest to you?"

“That’s exactly like something a father would do.” Yuriko moved a little further away from her husband, deciding to keep her distance from Kazuma in front of Rize so as not to be bothered by the girl’s strange opinion of him.

"So that's how it is. You discovered a murder case and tracked the clues all the way here!" Minami Masamune bent down in surprise and looked at Rize with admiration: "That's amazing."

The other children, including Princess An and Aoko were a little proud, only Kuroba Kaito felt something was weird, while Conan just stayed where he was.

[Is this Chief Nan being framed by someone? ]

Upon hearing that there was a murder, the Nan family members came over. After sorting out what happened with the children, they took a group of people to observe the bloodstains from the beginning and then stopped in front of the last bloodstain.

"right here!"

In front of a telephone pole in front of a residential area, Conan pointed at the red marks on it, but looked up and found that the old man and Minami Kazuma both had smiles as if they saw through everything, and Yuriko also understood something.

"You guys look like this..." Huiyuan crossed her arms in sorrow: "Is it because of the color?"

"Oh, you're quite smart." Minami Masamune's cold compliment almost made Haibara Ai laugh.

"I understand too." Rize shook Minami Masamune's arm. "The bloodstains are red on the outside, but five percent yellow and three percent black on the inside, which means the bloodstains do not belong to the same person."

"That's amazing!" Nan Zhengzong shouted.

"Hehe." Huibara Ai rolled her eyes.

"Why didn't we see that there are so many layers of colors in here?" The three little ones looked at each other.

Not only them, but several other people also stopped where they were.

"Musicians have absolute pitch, and painters certainly have similar techniques." Yuriko raised her finger: "But this is a legacy of the Nan family."

"Little girl, I think you have great talent and are a good candidate for painting. Come and learn Japanese painting from me!"

Although Kudo Yuji has a decent talent for drawing, his talent is still far inferior to that of Rize-chan.

"But, Grandpa, don't you already have a son..."

Rize secretly glanced at Minami Kazuma. She knew that Kaori had been studying in Tokyo since she was a child. Although the old man had just deliberately misled her, the little girl could see that Minami Kazuma was not a really bad person.

Complaining is very normal. Just like she had just returned to the Kudo family for one day and had heard her grandfather say no less than ten times that her uncle was a rebellious son who was about to marry into the Kudo family's family.

“And I still have to learn…”

"Study! What to study? As long as Li Shi is happy." Old Master Nan did not hide his preference at all and said something that even Dequan could not help but twist his expression.

"Grandpa is not only a master of Japanese painting, but also the chief of the National Police Agency. All the police in Japan listen to me. Grandpa has already helped you learn all the knowledge that you want to learn, Rize-chan, decades ago!"

"grandfather……"

Nan Zhengzong suddenly felt a cold air coming from his daughter-in-law, followed by words that his granddaughter had no feelings.

"Don't say such bad things in front of little girls."

(End of this chapter)