Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Ah, I feel like I didn't sleep well last night, and my head hurts a bit."

After driving for half a day, Kudo Yuji didn't get enough rest, and he felt even worse when he got up in the morning. He walked out of the room with the sliding door, and sat in the corridor, staring at the small pond in a daze.

The warmth that he had been holding in the quilt for a whole night was soon blown away by the cold winter wind, and he shivered inevitably. Yuuji crawled back into the room, pulled out the quilt and wrapped himself in it, continuing to doze off in a half-asleep state.

It was really strange. He didn't sleep well even though he was lying in a sealed room and in a comfortable and warm bed. But when the cold wind blew, his body felt warm and Yuji felt he slept soundly and at ease.

"Wait! Master Yuji, why are you sleeping here?!"

A scream woke up the sleeping Yuji at the corner. Before he opened his eyes, he felt the quilt that was wrapped tightly around him suddenly pricked him hard, making it much more difficult for him to breathe.

The boy opened his eyes and found that it was Aunt Yoshimoto in a white kimono. She was also wearing a white fur scarf over the kimono. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was made of mink fur.

Auntie threw Yuji into the room very lightly, then took the kimono she had just placed in the corner and placed it next to Yuji, and said seriously: "You will catch a cold if you did that just now."

"I just feel that the cold wind is a bit chilly..." Yuji muttered, "The heater in the room was too hot last night. I was sweating."

"The cool feeling is just an illusion. Once you catch a cold, you will realize you have a headache."

Aunt Yoshimoto took the hot sweet wine that had been on the electric stove all night from the table in the room and poured a bowl for the boy to drink. She pointed to the kimono and asked Yuji to change into it: "Get ready to take a bath, then go to the reception room to entertain the guests, and then have breakfast."

"Guests? Where are the guests coming from?"

Yuji handed back the small bowl he had finished drinking from, a little curious. It was already past seven in the afternoon when we arrived in Kyoto last night. Fortunately, Mr. Nan had told Aunt Yoshimoto's housekeeper, Mr. Nan Tian, ​​in advance, so when we returned to the Nan family, we had a ready-made dinner and a hot bath.

"Those two young men."

Aunt Yoshimoto said as a matter of course: "Master Nan and the others are not here, you are the master of the house, you must entertain the guests seriously."

"Eh..." Yuji reluctantly took the kimono and put it on: "Anyway, there are no outsiders, can't we just throw them in any room and put two buckets of instant noodles in the room?"

"…So they have a grudge against you?"

Aunt Yoshimoto twitched her lips and drove Yuji, who had just put on his clothes, out of the room, then began to clean up Minami Kaori's room, giving her a reminder.

"The kimono after bathing is in the third cabinet."

"Hi."

About half an hour passed and it was already eight o'clock in the morning. After shaking his clothes and taking a shower, Yuuji looked at his black coat, white underwear and gray skirt, and inexplicably thought of the colonel in the anti-Japanese drama.

"But the material is really good. It's comparable to the high-end stuff my mom wears."

Who would have thought that although it is thinner than the school uniform, it is so warm to wear. It feels like a lot of heat is coming out of the body every time the clothes touch the body when walking.

Pulling open the door of the reception room, Yuuji casually walked to the seat next to Minami Masamune's favorite seat before and sat down, only to find that Conan and Hattori Heiji were staring at him with resentment. "What's wrong?"

Yuuji looked himself over and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"nothing."

Hattori Heiji held his chin and said, "It's just that Conan and I got up at around six o'clock to look for you, and then we were stopped by that old lady in the corridor, and then rushed to this reception room."

"Oh?"

Is there such a thing? Yuji immediately looked at Conan curiously.

"She said you were very tired from driving yesterday. If you don't sleep until 7 o'clock, your body will be damaged. So she won't let us wake you up no matter what."

"So you have something to ask me?"

"This..."

Yuji looked at the two of them in confusion, and when he heard that they got up early because they were not used to sleeping on the heated tatami in the Nan family's house, he could only sigh helplessly.

"Why did we let you two in yesterday?"

He didn't sleep well, it must be because of these two guys.

Footsteps sounded on the wooden board. The moment the sliding door was opened, a rich fragrance wafted over. Aunt Yoshimoto walked in carrying a tray holding a casserole.

"Today's breakfast is stewed tofu."

She casually placed a pair of car keys next to Youer, indicating that he should go out and drive the family car, as going to a rental car agency would easily be misunderstood by the locals.

"Many of the big families in Kyoto know your identity. You should behave like a Nan family when you go out."

Aunt Yoshimoto noticed that the boy's collar was a little wrinkled, so she helped him straighten it out and then left the reception room.

"Aunt Yoshimoto grew up in the Minami family, so she can be considered Kaori's elder."

Yuji took the bank card under the key, planning to return it to the old man when he had the chance, and started eating quickly.

"Hurry up, we have to go out soon."

(End of this chapter)