Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"So, your dad is in here?"

That brat who had an ambiguous relationship with their daughter is now in the old house where the Miyano family used to live?

In fact, the Miyano couple did not dare to wander around here easily, as there might be lackeys of some organization watching here to see if anyone related to the Miyano couple came.

A figure appeared under the street light in the distance. Miyanoshita and the others hurriedly pulled Rize, who was still in a daze, into the bushes, and then they also crawled in, using the darkness to hide themselves.

"Strange, was there someone here just now?"

Miyanoshita and the others were too nervous to listen carefully, but Rize immediately recognized it was Akiko's voice, and became even more certain that Haibara Ai and her father should be in this house.

"Well, forget it."

The sound of the plastic bag shaking was accompanied by the sound of the door opening, and finally disappeared into the street. The timid Miyanoshita brother was the first to stick his head out, and after confirming that there were no suspicious people nearby, he called the other two to come out together.

"It turned out to be a false alarm."

The other two, except Rize, breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the house with a complicated expression. The lights in the front part of the house, which was used as a clinic, quickly lit up and then went out, and then the back part of the house lit up, telling the three people at the door that everyone in the house was in the back.

The Miyanoshitas then quietly went around to the left side of the house, not paying any attention to Rize who was following behind them. They stopped under the kitchen windowsill and warned each other to keep quiet.

"You guys have prepared the pots."

Akiko's voice came from the kitchen. She seemed to be sorting out the ingredients for cooking. Although the three of them wanted to find out information at the moment, when the butter melted in the iron pan and the fragrance wafted out, the three of them swallowed their saliva at the same time.

"I really miss it. My mother seemed to..."

Akiko didn't finish her sigh because she was interrupted by Haibara Ai. She seemed not to want to mention her parents at this time.

"Now, now is more important." The girl doesn't want to indulge in the past. She thinks that life now is much better than before. Haibara Ai may be a girl who is easier to satisfy.

"But why is it all meat? There are only a few vegetables. Where are the other ingredients?"

The girl's questioning made Akiko embarrassed, and Mr. Kudo next to her finally confessed his excessive request of only wanting to eat meat. For Haibara Ai, who always pays attention to balanced nutrition, eating only meat is simply a challenge to her bottom line.

"If you don't want to become a doctor at the age of fifty, you'd better pay attention from now on."

The aroma of the food was already forming, and Miyanoshita and the others could smell that they were eating Sukiyaki, and the three who had just eaten were now a little hungry.

"Click."

Akiko opened the kitchen window. Since the dining table was inside the kitchen, the three people in the room began to eat. The aroma from the stewing pot kept invading Rize's nose, making the girl dizzy.

It turned out that what she had eaten just now was too little. After all, the food in the old lady's shop was meant to be snacks, and it was not enough to fill a child's stomach.

"What a poor kid."

Miyanoshita Fumio hugged the unsteady Rize, took out the children's favorite candy from her pocket, peeled it and stuffed it into Rize's mouth, then told Miyanoshita Shimi to listen here and she pulled the girl out.

"Remember to bring me something to eat."

After whispering a reminder to his wife, the old father heard that his eldest daughter seemed to be going to the toilet, leaving only Haibara Ai and Yuji, and the second daughter also put down her chopsticks.

"Yuji, I have something to tell you..."

(End of this chapter)