Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"If you suddenly run down from up there and slap me hard, you'd better explain yourself, or I'll lose my temper."

As night deepened, besides the Kudo brothers, Higashino, Conan, Sayoko, and Ms. Nohara, only Matsuda, who was standing in the shadows of the ship's deck smoking and emitting a faint red glow, remained on the deck.

Yuji Kudo, still wearing the face he created under the false identity of Hiroo Nohara, sat opposite Shinichi Kudo at a simple folding table, each with a bowl of fox udon in front of them.

Slurping his noodles slowly, Yuuji patted his face, which was pale despite being hit, picked up a piece of sweet tofu skin, examined it by the light of the boat, and then put it in his mouth.

"In ten hours, the Sheng Hai Zhi Xing will dock at Osaka Port." Shinichi Kudo glanced at the three children who were swallowing hard, and without hesitation, he also picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

"I hit you to tell you that sometimes you shouldn't be so confident. If you mess things up, I don't know how many people will fall into despair."

"You can rest assured that as long as we are still at war, we will not be sanctioned for not cooperating with either side."

Yuji Kudo noticed Maki Nohara's formal attire and took off his own suit jacket, throwing it to her.

"The question I'm concerned with is, who exactly, or rather, who killed Cosette? Were they agents from the United States, or from West Asia, whose purpose was to make us suspect American agents?"

Shinichi Kudo snorted, took a sip of hot soup, and exhaled white breath, which made the children somewhat resentful.

"Sayonoko, take them to that restaurant over there." Kudo Yuji smiled, raising his hand towards the only shop on the first floor that was currently lit up: "I want to have a good talk with your father."

After the children had all left, Shinichi Kudo slammed his hand on the table and pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, somewhat annoyed.

"I told you, I won't touch this." Yuji Kudo politely declined the cigarette offered by his older brother, remaining the same as always, simply smiling and leaning back comfortably in his chair. "Four days until Akako Koizumi comes to pick up Conan."

“Oh right, so what will happen in the next four days?” Kudo Yuji snapped his fingers and pulled a can of coffee from under the table: “Conan has grown up.”

"do not know."

Shinichi Kudo snatched the coffee, opened it, and said, "Up to now, everything that has happened is exactly the same as everything I've experienced. And back then, the first thing Shinichi Kudo did after returning to his room was to tell me that he hadn't told you anything."

"So you'll say that later too, huh?" Kudo Yuji had no choice but to stop asking.

"I remember you spent more time in the past than I did in the future." Shinichi Kudo leaned forward. "Were you the detective who suddenly appeared that night on the Star of the Sea?"

Kudo Yuu put his hands to his lips, gently bit his index finger, lowered his eyes, and then nodded at Kudo Shinichi.

"It was me, but Americans can't accept a Japanese detective, so it took us a lot of effort to escape from that theater."

Recalling what happened later, Yuuji said helplessly, "A few days later, the situation there collapsed completely, and classes in Kyoto were suspended. So the three of them dragged me on a trip to various places, and it wasn't until we were in Hokkaido that you and Koizumi appeared in front of me."

"You really need to change that person's influence; you've changed too much." (End of Chapter)