Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"I don't know where those two people went out for."

Shinichi Kudo, who was lying in Kaito Kuroba's quilt, sneezed and felt a little cold again. He could only curl up in the quilt like a caterpillar until the quilt moved little by little to the sliding door.

Sometimes it is like this, no matter how warm the bedding is, even if you put your hands in it, you will feel hot and sweaty, but if your own body cannot be warmed up, your hands and feet will be extremely cold. The only way to get out of this predicament is to soak your body in hot water.

Kudo Shinichi felt the temperature of the cold wind, gritted his teeth, jumped out of the quilt, jumped into the hot spring in a few steps, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"My feet, which were cold just now, are finally warm now."

He looked at the night sky that was a little hazy in the heat, and slowly rubbed his feet with his hands in the water. Just as he was about to climb out of the water and back into bed, he heard the sliding door next door open.

"Xiao Lan! Hurry up, it's so cold."

The hotel only used a fence to separate the courtyards of the two rooms, so of course there was no soundproofing effect. Kudo Shinichi heard very clearly that the person who spoke just now was Toyama Kazuha, and after she spoke, there were two footsteps, which should be Xiaolan and Ooka Momiji.

"Conan... where did he go?"

The sound of the child falling into the water was heard three times, followed by the girlfriend's distressed voice. However, unlike the past, Xiaolan's words did not express worry about the disappearance of the child, but only dissatisfaction with her boyfriend leaving without saying goodbye.

"Okay, Conan is not an ordinary child."

Yuanshan Heye advised: "You should get used to it by now."

"I better not get used to it."

Xiaolan complained, and then was immediately confused by Ooka Hongye's stare. Her face turned a little red and she asked in a low voice.

"What's wrong, Momiji-san?"

"Eh, ah, I was just thinking that Mori-san, who has been dating Ohkudo-kun, should be an experienced person now...ah hehe..." Ooka Momiji said what she was thinking with some embarrassment, but facing the two girls she did not choose to change the subject.

"Wait...what are you talking about all of a sudden? What if there's someone next door?"

"Don't worry, I'm not such a fool. Iori has already confirmed with the landlady that the couple staying next door are out having fun, so there's no one here right now."

Ooka Hongye snorted, and secretly looked at Xiaolan, who was sitting down a little. Her face was red, not sure whether it was because of the hot spring or because of her words.

"Hongye-san...why are you suddenly asking this question..."

"To be honest, there's no one to communicate with." Ooka Hongye sighed, "I should have talked to Kaori, but that girl's experience is not enough for reference."

“That’s true…”

Toyama Kazuha surprisingly praised Ooka Momiji: "Most people can't accept that the two of them can get along to this extent."

【Actually, there are three people...】

Xiaolan thought of Huihara Ai who also got the pearl brooch like her, and hesitated and said: "This may also be related to the personalities of Kaori Yuzuki and Kaori Yuzuki. The three of them grew up together, so being together is actually... not that incomprehensible."

"What does this have to do with growing up together?" Ooka Momiji fiddled with the water in front of him. "According to what you said, Maori-san should be with both Kudo brothers at the same time."

"Hey!" Toyama Kazuha really couldn't help it. She stood up from the hot spring and threatened Ooka Momiji to shut up. As a result, she was bumped head-on by the Kyoto girl who also stood up, and fell into the hot spring pool.

"You two, this is dangerous!"

Mao Lilan calmed them down and then pulled them to sit on both sides of her.

"Actually... there is one thing I have been thinking about..."

The unicorn girl suddenly spoke up, interrupting the awkward atmosphere between the two people and diverting their attention.

"Before I fell in love with Shinichi, there was a period of time when I had feelings for Yuuji..."

The air suddenly became quiet, even the hot spring water stopped. Not only the two people in the girls' pool, but also Kudo Shinichi here froze.

[Ran vs. Yuuji?! When...]

"Eh? Xiaolan? Yuuji..."

He Ye looked at Xiaolan blankly. She remembered the situation she simulated with Yuuji in Kyoto last time. At that time, she was thinking about asking her best friend for help.

"That was... when I was five years old..."

[What? It was when Xiaolan was five years old...] Ran Mouri put her fingers on the ends of her hair, recalling the scene of that day. And Kudo Shinichi's pressure disappeared at once. After all, when he was five years old, his younger brother...

……

"Wait! Why is the temperature so high?!"

When Kogoro Mouri woke up early in the morning, he noticed that his wife and daughter were not feeling well. He took a thermometer to measure their temperatures and found that they both had high fevers.

"It must be because you didn't blow dry your hair after taking a shower last night. Now you can't go to kindergarten today."

Housewife Eri Maori stood with her hands on her hips helplessly as she looked at her husband who didn't know whether he should go to work, and rolled her eyes.

“What are you still doing at home?”

"You and Xiaolan are sick, should I still go to the Metropolitan Police Department?" Maori Kogoro hesitated: "Otherwise, I should ask for leave from Megure-senpai."

"You were introduced to the police academy. There must have been rumors about you in the Metropolitan Police Department. If you ask for special treatment, people will gossip about you."

Kogoro Mouri knew that his wife was right, but he could also see that Eri was a little panicked. This was the first time that both of them were sick at the same time, and they had no idea whether it was a cold or some other reason. Couples who had just become parents would tend to think about everything.

"That being said, I graduated and entered the Police Examination Office through my own hard work. Asking for leave because of family matters is not considered special treatment."

"No, no." Mao Liying pursed her lips: "I can take Xiaolan to the hospital by myself, you still go to work."

After forcefully kicking her husband out of the house, Eri Maori began to clean up the house. After putting thick clothes on her daughter, the mother and daughter took a taxi to the hospital.

"Pediatrics..."

While comforting her coughing daughter, Mao Li Eri noticed that there seemed to be a lot of children with fever today, and she became even more panicked.

"Room Three... Yukiko?!"

After entering, she saw that the person sitting in the doctor's chair was none other than her high school classmate, the famous star Fujimine Yukiko. Mao Liying asked in surprise, "Why is it you... where is the doctor?"

"Ah...Eri!" Kudo Yukiko looked at the person who came happily: "Doctor..."

"Dead."

The sudden low voice startled the three of them, and Xiaolan, who was already feeling uncomfortable, even started to cry.

"Death...ah?"

"The doctor was dragged out and killed by the parents because he accidentally treated the child badly."

The little boy sitting next to Kudo Yukiko, tied to a children's chair, spoke as if it were real.

"Wait! Yuji, didn't I tell you not to talk about other people's death casually?" Yukiko first apologized to her old friend, and then gently taught her son.

"It doesn't matter. He will be killed sooner or later."

"No one would kill the doctor."

"He will, because it doesn't matter if this world dies."

Kudo Yuuji looked up at the ceiling: "It's all fake anyway."

……

"Wow, was Yuuji this scary before?"

Yuanshan Heye got goosebumps in the hot spring. Compared with the teenagers nowadays, he was simply a mentally ill and weird kid.

"Shinichi's mother said that Yuuji seemed to be suffering from depression and cognitive impairment during that period, and he was always saying things that were true or false."

Xiaolan suddenly realized that the other two girls were looking at her with strange eyes.

"But in that case, Mori-san, who likes that child, should..."

This is even more abnormal! (End of this chapter)