Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"You're obviously lying. Your eyes never left me. You're obviously in love with me."

No, are the lines really that bad, Hongye-senpai? !

Yuuji looked at Ooka Momiji with disdain, and when he noticed the glare she gave him, he pursed his lips slightly.

"Poor queen, why did you expose my lies? Would it really please you to let me lose face in front of all these people?"

Kudo Yuuji put his hand on his chest and said loudly, "I know that you already have someone you love. Although he is dull, he is loyal. Although he is wise, he is stubborn. Although he is agile, he will become a child who can be dressed up in front of the girl he likes."

"You're right, he's the best hero in the world, the bravest knight." Ooka Hongye sighed, "But the knight still couldn't be with the queen in the end. He chose an ordinary girl. My love for her was just wishful thinking."

Many of the audience members under the stage felt their scalps tingling. Everyone present was not a fool. The whole country was hearing about Ooka Koye, Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha. How could they not hear what Ooka Koye and Kudo Yuuji were saying at this moment?

Souji Okita drank the drink in his hand. He was stunned and suddenly understood what Ooka Momiji meant. Has his rival successfully confessed his love?
"The knight abandoned the queen and disappeared into this country. Guests who have come from afar, do you want to take his place here?"

Ooka Momiji's eyes narrowed.

"Your Majesty, this is not my original intention..."

There was silence on the stage for a while. Kudo Yuji looked at the drama club members who were gesturing to him from the audience and nodded in agreement with them, creating an effect of insufficient magic and the lights on the stage were dim.

The stage was cleared again. Kudo Yuji changed into a linen-colored suit again. A wooden basin was placed in front of him. The stage layout changed back to the prince at the beginning.

"The banquet that night a month ago was really wonderful, except for that handsome man who suddenly appeared. I think he deceived the Queen."

The eldest brother was the first to come up from the stage: "Her Majesty sent people to the embassy to inquire, and learned that there was no foreign boy, and then found out that he was one of her subjects."

"Unfortunately, the man left in a hurry and lost his shoes when the Queen chased him. Now Her Majesty is going door to door asking suitable men to try them on, but she only tries one house a day."

The second brother also walked up with surprise. He suggested that he and the eldest brother wear it, so that no matter who became the queen's husband, both brothers would have a good life.

"But I don't understand. It's just a pair of shoes. Someone can always wear them. Why have all the people before me failed so far?" The eldest brother's face looked quite ugly, which made Kudo Yuji realize that there was still a pitfall in the following lines.

"It doesn't matter. We will come to our house today. After today, we will know the reason."

As soon as he finished speaking, Her Majesty the Queen and her guards walked onto the stage carrying yellow rain boots. The guards threw them directly in front of the two brothers and ordered the eldest brother to try them on. After he tried them on, he left with the Queen.

The stage dimmed for a moment, indicating that a night had passed. Kudo Yuji looked at his second brother carefully, and then glared at his eldest brother, who had been replaced by a different actor, with an indescribable look on his face.

"What are you looking at? Go do your laundry!"

He was wearing silk clothes, but the eldest brother played by the girl next to Ooka Momiji had his hands on his hips. Compared with the male eldest brother before, he now looked like he was acting like a spoiled child.

"Now I know what effect wearing those shoes will have." Kudo Yuji turned his head to look at Ooka Momiji who had reappeared, asking her with his eyes how she wanted to act next.

"You, come and wear this shoe."

Her Majesty the Queen gave an order to the laundry boy. Seeing that he didn't move, she was surprised. She lowered her head and waited for two seconds, only to find that Kudo Yuji had walked up to her.

"Your Majesty, sometimes things may not go as we wish, but everything that happened will become a beautiful memory and remain in the past. Even if the result is full of sadness, when we recall it decades later, we can still remember the initial excitement."

Kudo Yuji took the yellow rain boots and used a series of lines to reveal the truth that the boy doing the laundry was the man, which was also a disguised way of comforting the loser senior.

Ooka Momiji had never known Hattori Heiji. She only liked the Osaka boy at that moment of misunderstanding. From then on, the object of this young lady's affection was only the Hattori-kun who she had imagined.

After collecting various information from the newspapers, the most perfect love object was born, but that person was not Hattori Heiji after all. He was just Ooka Momiji's fantasy, similar to a two-dimensional character.

Ooka Hongye also understood Yuuji's subtext. She paused and waited quietly for the boy to continue.

"This love is real, and that lovely girl is real too. Although the result was not as expected, the persistence and happiness over the years are real. It's just that from today on, I need to find another happiness that belongs to me."

Ooka Hongye wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingers and sighed, "I guess you fooled me."

She originally wanted to use this performance to embarrass Kudo Yuuji and let herself calm down, but now that this guy insisted on coming here and even wanted to comfort herself, she finally came to terms with it.

"Senior Hongye." Kudo Yuuji stretched out his hand in front of Ooka Hongye: "Let's finish the last scene."

"Ah."

The eldest lady shook Kudo Yuji's hand like she was training a dog, and acted out a scene where the queen returned to the castle with the male queen. Iori, who was in the audience, held the microphone and added the ending after the curtain dropped.

"The Queen bore the Male Queen eleven children, and they lived happily together."

"Iori! What is eleven!" Ooka Koha's voice came from behind the curtain, and she completely forgot that this was the line she had just changed on the spur of the moment.

Originally, she planned to have Kudo Yuuji wear a wig and dress up as a woman in the last scene, and the eleven referred to him, but now she forgot to add that paragraph, and now the blame has fallen on her own head.

But the performance was still very successful. At least the audience applauded enthusiastically. It was obvious that the drama club had never given them anything good in the past.

"We still have to hurry. Shanneng Temple should be ready..."

Kudo Yuuji left the gym quickly without saying goodbye.

(End of this chapter)