Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

Mr. Tomimura's letter was written in a very casual manner. He just apologized to his two students, but he also said that he really thought Afue Riko was a very good girl, and that it would not be a bad thing if Kuroba or Arimura married into the Afue family.

"The letter is dated June 6th, so it was written exactly one month ago..."

At night, holding the letter from Mr. Tomura, Heiba ​​Youzhen looked up at the full moon in the sky. He felt a pair of hands hugging him from behind, and his body stiffened for a moment.

"Today...isn't there a village?"

"Arimura-kun is not feeling well."

There are light blue flowers embroidered on Axie Riko's kimono, which seems to be a perfume made of plum blossoms and fragrant honey, and it smells very refreshing.

"My father was so happy when he heard about my pregnancy that he sent a telegram saying that he and his superiors had gone to Shanhaiguan in China and were on their way to their former capital."

During the three years, Keisaburo Afue returned to Hakodate many times to talk with the two of them, and finally claimed that he would be willing to let them go as long as his daughter could have a child.

[My daughter is so beautiful, you two are the ones who are taking advantage of her!]
"Youzhen, the code arrangement you two designed is almost ready."

Axie Riko buried her head in Kuroba Yusada's back: "I have learned the disguise technique you taught me very well."

She knew that her father was lying. There was no way he would let Kuroba and Arimura, who knew so many secrets, go. The next time Keisaburo Axie returned to Hakodate, he was going to kill them.

As far as she knew, that day was not far away.

The man slowly turned around and looked at Riko, whose eyes were moist. The woman's face turned red in the moonlight and she slowly lowered her head.

The moonlight gradually hid behind the dark clouds, as if it was shy even to see the scene in the courtyard, leaving only a faint tail of light falling on the corner of the clothes that was dragging on the ground and twitching back and forth.

The moon had risen to the middle of the sky, but the dark clouds were still blocking it. Everything in the yard was obviously over. Touching her neck covered with red marks, Fujiang Lizi straightened her clothes and pushed open the gate without any reluctance.

Inside the room, Arimura, with his back to the door, covered his ears with his arms and recited silently.

"After today, it's all over."

……

"If you ask me, the two people in the yard must have disguised themselves and changed their identities, right?"

Yuji looked at Washikomiya Tayu with great anticipation. He was originally casual about the story, but now he became excited.

How fresh! Kuroba Kaito's great-grandfather had such an experience. Isn't this a natural material for a short essay? Next time Kaito dares to talk back to him, just quote Kuroba's great-grandfather's personal experience.

[Did you know that someone’s great-grandfather was deceived into becoming a prostitute?]
If you dare to talk back again, Kuroba Kaito will be called an unfilial descendant.

"Well, fortunately, we in the Kudo family don't have such an elder who is against the will of heaven." Patting his chest, Yuji sighed at Goshiro's hesitant look.

"That night, Kuroba Arisada burned down the shrine where the sixth star blade was originally placed, and when Afue Keisaburo's men went to put out the fire, he returned and took Arimura away."

But to the outside world, the people of Axie could only say that it was done by the spies of the War Empire. So Keisaburo Axie, who was demoted back to Hakodate due to his failed command on the battlefield shortly afterwards, had to rebuild a similar shrine on this mountain.

"The mountains here seem to be naturally formed, but in fact, they were dug out by Keisaburo Axie, who worked so hard that he died. He recruited people to join the army, but only half of them went to China, and the remaining half were locked up here to dig holes. He told their families that these people sacrificed their lives for the empire on the battlefield in China."

Washikomiya Tsuyu touched her daughter's forehead and noticed that the boy opposite her looked at Chengzi with a strange look in his eyes.

[No wonder it's the color, it turns out it's from a magic studio, it has nothing to do with our detective team. ]

"Okay, now that we've finished the story, you can tell us where the Star-Edged Knife is." Yuji clapped his hands, and asked someone (Conan) to pack up the leftovers, and pointed to the location of the knife rack.

"The knife has been taken away." Washikomiya Tachibana woke up her daughter who was pretending to be asleep and walked towards the passage.

"One night a few years after the two escaped, the knife suddenly disappeared, leaving only the entrance to the passage wide open."

Coming out of the passage, he watched the woman walk to the torii and press the button. The steps rose up to cover the passage again. Yuuji rubbed his nose, followed by Gojo, Nanakomachi, and Conan as they went down the mountain together.

"I never expected that this old Hei Yu family would have such a thing. The stories of the people in the past are still very interesting."

Poking Conan, Yuji said again: "Why don't you speak?"

"I wonder where Afue Tadayuki came from."

Conan rolled his eyes. Seeing that Yuji was still trying to tickle him, he kicked him. "In that woman's story, Axue Keisaburo only had one daughter. What about Axue Tadayuki?"

"This is hard to understand. The ages of the father and son don't match." Youji spread his hands and said, "The grandson will say to others that he was born in his old age. Anyway, his surname is Fujiang."

"But when the uncle was at Axie's house before, Axie Takuzo never mentioned that he had an aunt who was actually his grandmother." Conan stopped and looked back at the torii gate of the mountain gate.

"I remember that Orange said that Kuroba Kaito's disguise technique is average, right?"

"Do you suspect that the Washi Komiya family is also the descendant of Axie Riko?"

With a smile on his face, Yuuji immediately gave instructions to Gojo, asking him to check and see if he could find a few more relatives for Kuroba Kaito.

The four of them went down the mountain and got in the car, then turned their attention back to the secret treasure itself. Yuuji coughed twice, then called Kuroba Kaito who was following the police back to the police station.

"It must be Hei Yu Youzhen. The son of a rat can dig holes. It turns out that the most important knife has always been in his hands. I will give him a good beating."

……

"Is there such a thing in the Kuroba family?"

Inside the conference hall of the police station, a group of policemen, holding tea and snacks, listened carefully to the story told by the old lady at the front. Except for Nakamori Aoko and Nakamori Ginzo who had a weird look on their faces, everyone thought the story was quite interesting.

"But this doesn't mean that Afue Riko's child and Kuroba Yusada are father and son, right? Afue-san doesn't look like the Kuroba you're talking about."

Ginzo Nakamori glanced at Takuzo Axe who was equally surprised standing aside, and felt that this guy had nothing to do with the Kuroba family in any way, and was so useless.

"Of course, because Afue Takuzo is not Afue Tadayuki's biological son."

The old lady at the front said shocking news: "He was originally the adopted child of Fu Jiang Zhongzhi before I could remember. He was deliberately trained to be incompetent so that he could marry into the Fu Jiang family. However, the child didn't like him, so..."

"what do you mean……"

Officer Nishimura looked at Takuzo Axie who was trembling all over.

"The Fu Jiang family he controls is only the Fu Jiang family he thinks it is."

The old lady's wrinkled face slowly raised itself up, clearly visible in black and white under the lights of the police station.

"If it weren't for the weak father-son relationship between him and Fu Jiang Zhongzhi, he would have..." (End of this chapter)