Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"To celebrate Orange's entry into the semi-finals! Cheers!"

In the smoky barbecue restaurant, Aoko looked at the people staring at the grill, raised their hands and drank the watermelon juice and cheered.

"Oh, not bad, not bad."

Kuroba Kaito picked up a piece of barbecue with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. He glanced at Officer Nakamori who was staring at him with red eyes, and then nudged Hakuba with his leg from below.

"It's good that you're good at swordsmanship, but for the Kuroba family, magic and disguise are the real skills." Hakuba picked up the drink and placed it in front of him: "Sister Orange is Kaito-kun's sister, and you still have to learn these two skills."

Hakuba hopes to use this as an excuse to suggest that Kuroba Kaito start teaching Axe Touko from today so that he can sneak out at night. However, he doesn't realize that as soon as he calls himself "Kaito-kun", the looks of the other two girls change instantly.

"Ah oh."

Fu Jiang Chengzi smiled and sat next to Bai Ma very obediently, then held her arm and said sweetly: "Sister Bai Ma, I heard about you from my brother before, and we just met today."

When they were in Hakodate, the two had only seen each other from afar and had never met or talked. Hakuba only knew that the girl named Orange was Kuroba Kaito's adopted sister who suddenly appeared, while Orange only knew that the girl and her adopted brother were suspected of having an impure relationship.

[Kaito is the most philandering guy, you better be careful with him.]
A strange boy, about her age, privately shared with her some interesting stories about Kuroba Kaito before she boarded the train to Tokyo.

"Hear...heard him talk about me?"

Hakuba was stunned for a moment, then looked at the bewildered Kuroba Kaito and found that he was blinking at him: "What did he say?"

【What are you doing, White Horse! 】

Kuroba Kaito slammed his head against the table. Even he could tell that this Axe Orange was deliberately making trouble, not to mention that those two pairs of eyes had been looking very strange since just now, but Hakuba didn't react at all.

"He said that if you hadn't taken care of him when he was injured, he would have been dead, so he said he would repay you no matter what..."

The quarrelsome words fabricated by a cartoonist were spoken again by Fu Jiang Chengzi, which made Bai Ma embarrassed. She just gently curled the ends of her hair with her hands, not knowing that this appearance made the other two women panic.

[This! This is clearly it! ]

[No matter how I look at Bai Ma, I feel... Damn it, why did I want to turn him into a woman at that time! ]

"Wait? What do you mean by injured, Orange-chan?" Nakamori Aoko suddenly remembered the injury the girl mentioned just now, and then frowned and glared at Kuroba Kaito: "Kaito, didn't you tell me that everything went well in Hakodate?"

"Eh, no...it's no big deal. Uncle knows it. I was just accidentally hit by an arms dealer. Right, uncle!" Kaito hurriedly looked at Nakamori Ginzo, but ignored Aoko's hand that was ready to move.

The girl pressed twice on his chest, and Kuroba Kaito immediately couldn't help but snorted coldly. Sweat beads appeared on his forehead instantly. His painful expression made Aoko and Hongko know that he was seriously injured.

"We didn't even know about the injury, Kaito, why do you always make me worry!" Nakamori Aoko stood up from her seat and pulled his collar.

"We are outside, what are you doing, Aoko?"

"Then let's go back to the hotel. I want to see how badly you are injured." Nakamori Aoko wiped the tears that slipped down her nose with her hand. She was obviously frightened when she heard Orange say that Kaito almost died.

"Hey, don't cry..." Kuroba Kaito wiped Aoko's tears with his hands helplessly: "I'm fine."

"I don't care. Come on, go back and tell me! If you don't explain everything tonight, you are not allowed to leave my side." Qingzi glared at her father again: "And dad, you also hid it from me. Starting from today, you will not have a lunch box for this month!"

"what?!"

The girl grabbed Kuroba Kaito's arm and dragged him out of the barbecue restaurant. Koizumi Hongzi also followed him worriedly.

Everything happened so fast that the meat was not even cooked through on the grill. Nakamori Ginzo was bewildered. Although he didn't understand what had happened, it seemed that he didn't have to worry about Kaito stealing the sword in the middle of the night.

[As expected, Nakamori-san is the wife. 】

Fu Jiang Chengzi picked up a piece of roasted meat from the grill and blew on it, then glanced at Bai Ma. He didn't feel sad at all because his celebration party was broken up halfway. Instead, he was very happy that he had finally escaped from other people's Shura field.

[I feel a little sorry for my cheap brother... But it shouldn't be a big deal, brothers and sisters should be like this...]

Chengzi breathed a sigh of relief. Her birthday was on the 15th day of March, and considering the situation in Heiyu's family, she probably didn't have any blood brothers or sisters who would betray her.

"But I was supposed to be in the first grade of high school next year. How come I was directly moved to the second grade? Why is Mr. Kuroba so unreliable..."

The girl's head ached uncontrollably when she thought about returning to Tokyo to take the midterm exam after the competition. (End of this chapter)