Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"So, what you mean is that I used all my 10 million New Year's money and pocket money to pay for the extras your brother hired?!"

After finally squeezing out of the crowded crowd and leaving the Rabbit Beauty Store, Mouri Ran went to the bathroom alone, while Kudo Shinichi watched calmly as the manager distributed the fees for the extras, and finally after the empty box was taken back by Officer Sato, he realized that he was now penniless.

"I don't even have the money to buy a White Valentine's Day gift for Xiaolan..."

Kudo lowered his head and saw a banknote suddenly appear in front of him. He immediately raised his head excitedly and looked at Conan-chan, who was glowing all over.

"You are so pitiful, I will give you the pocket money Xiaolan gave me this morning. It is enough to buy a bag of throat lozenges."

Throat lozenges? This thing is too shabby as a return gift for White Valentine's Day, but Mr. Kudo is not qualified to refuse now, so he accepted Conan's gift with gratitude.

"But based on that kid's personality, you can look forward to it." Conan comforted Kudo.

“What to expect.”

"Yuji, if he plays a trick on someone, he will definitely make amends double afterwards. For example, he once deliberately added Aunt Eri's salmon filling to my birthday cake, which caused Xiaolan and I to have diarrhea for the whole day. But later he used his pocket money to buy tickets to the hot spring park to take us there, and also bought a digital camera to take a lot of photos for us."

Conan looked helpless with his brother: "Who made my brother a super brother complex?"

"You really deserve a beating if you look like this." Kudo Shinichi blinked, and non-existent cat ears seemed to appear on his hair. He was agitated by the photo Conan mentioned: "Hot spring park, the kind in a swimsuit?"

"Don't think about it. That guy bought the racing swimsuit on purpose. I later found out that he always used us as the background when taking pictures, and then secretly took pictures of the pretty girls behind us." Conan spread his hands: "But compensating Xiaolan and me is indeed the boy's purpose."

While the two were talking, the Usagi store became deserted as all the extras had left, leaving only Sato Miwako, Amuro Toru and Fujiwara.

"Inspector Megure said that the police car that was escorting the three people to the Metropolitan Police Department suddenly turned sharply from Beika Third Avenue onto the elevated road halfway, and then crashed into the artificial river in the central district. When they arrived, the car had already burned down, but no bodies were found."

Miwako Sato looked at the empty Tumei store, remembering that she and Yumi Miyamoto had confirmed that there was no Tumei store on this street before, and she gritted her teeth and punched the table. A store full of actors meant that they had been fooled from the beginning.

"Someone from the Metropolitan Police Department found Takagi and a police officer fainted at the door of the forensic classroom. After they were sent to the hospital, they were found to have been shot with an anesthetic needle. The amount of anesthetic in their bodies was enough to knock out an elephant."

“Who on earth would do such a thing?”

"And Miss Tomoda's body is missing."

"Pervert, absolutely pervert!"

Matsuda Jinpei pretended not to understand and signaled Fujiwara and Kanemoto to reprimand the person who had knocked out their cute junior Takagi-kun, but the two of them ignored him.

[Matsuda, come on, the bugs in the store are still on.]

[Even though it's Jinpei-chan, it's not a good idea to remind him at this time. I definitely don't want to see him get retaliated.] I'm really curious about how that kid will deal with him...

"He's the one who secretly intercepted Mr. Mochizuki at the Mori Detective Agency." Amuro Toru looked at Matsuda Jinpei decisively: "He's the one who might have kidnapped Kudo's illegitimate child. He's the same person as the owner of this store and the director of this murder case."

No one knew when such a dangerous person appeared in Tokyo, which forced Officer Sato, who had originally breathed a sigh of relief, to cheer up again and prepare to go to the river to participate in the search.

"Hey, you've been drinking."

Seeing Sato was about to take out the car keys, Matsuda Jinpei hurriedly grabbed her arm and said, "There are a lot of police over there. It's better for the drunkard to go home and sleep."

"I only had one drink, it's totally fine. Now there are more important things to do." Sato Miwako said seriously: "The river is not far from here. Officer Megure has blocked the main road from here to there. It's not far away."

"Even if we don't have to worry about others, what if we get hurt?" Matsuda Jinpei clicked his tongue, took out his cell phone from Sato's pocket in front of her, and made a blind call to Miyamoto Yumi, which made Amuro Toru's eyebrows twitch.

He was sure that this was the real Matsuda, but how come this guy was so familiar with Officer Sato's friend?
[Already married...Is that possible!]

"Meiwako, what's wrong? Is your case going well?" A lazy voice came from the other end of the phone.

“She’s drunk.”

"No! I only had one drink." Sato stubbornly stated that he was not drunk.

“She’s going to drink and drive.”

Matsuda Jinpei snorted and casually threw the phone to Sato Miwako. He watched her put the phone to her ear and repeatedly bend over to apologize and repent, and nodded with relief.

"That's so thoughtful, Songsong-chan." Jin Yuanguang smiled, "Be careful that your wife doesn't get jealous."

"Don't worry, she can't see it."

“What if there’s a guy over there filming?”

Following Jin Yuanguang's line of sight, Amuro Toru saw a person waving at him in the shadows, who looked very similar to Conan.

"It seems that he deliberately chose a position where the woman's face could not be seen, and the background was facing the door of Tumei."

Jin Yuanguang sighed as he turned around and used his hands to block the sun which was not visible in the middle of the night.

"It's really blinding, this sexy bunny girl neon sign." (End of this chapter)