The Pirated Onmyoji of the Detective World

However, after the snow woman quietly told him that she smelled a familiar scent on that Akechi Fumiyo, Aragaki Yu more or less guessed her identity.

Chapter 267 Aragaki Yu: Actually, I'm your fan

"Uh..." Fumiyo Akechi smiled awkwardly, then quickly grabbed the arm of Yuu Aragaki, who had stood up and was about to leave the private room, and said, "Wait, wait a minute, would you believe me if I said it was just a misunderstanding?"

"Oh?"

Yuu Aragaki sat back down in his chair, squinting as he watched Fumiyo Akechi continue her explanation.

"Actually, my true identity is..." Fumiyo Akechi said, turning her back and rubbing her face from an angle that Yuu Aragaki couldn't see.

Then, as she turned around, she casually removed the wig from her head, revealing her true face—Yukiko Fujimine.

She naturally knew quite a bit about the boy in front of her named Yuu Aragaki.

Since her conversation with her son, who had become an elementary school student, Yukiko had conducted a lot of research on the boy who had appeared next to her son.

Later, Yusaku revealed that the boy, Yuu Aragaki, had helped the police a lot, and even Inspector Megure had a high opinion of him.

He seems like a trustworthy guy.

Therefore, after unexpectedly encountering Aragaki Yu on the train and being suspected by him, Yukiko decided to confess her purpose to him.

Perhaps it could even help her find an assistant, since things on the train have already developed in a way that has exceeded her expectations.

Having regained her true identity, she stared at Aragaki Yuu across from her with a smile, eagerly anticipating the gasp of surprise the boy would make upon seeing her true form.

However, he found that Aragaki Yu's eyes only lit up slightly, and after glancing at him with interest, he did nothing more.

"???"

Yukiko was completely stunned.

Could it be that the guy in front of me didn't recognize me?

but……

How...how is this possible?!

It's worth noting that before she married Yusaku Kudo, she was one of the most popular Japanese actresses among men.

She had already won numerous awards and become a global sensation by the age of 19.

She then married Yusaku Kudo at the age of 20 and retired from the entertainment industry.

Even so, it's impossible for anyone not to recognize their own face.

"You...you don't know who I am?" Yukiko's voice sounded slightly dejected.

"Huh? Should I know you?" Seeing Yukiko's childlike expression, Aragaki Yu couldn't help but pretend to be clueless.

Seeing the somewhat bewildered look in Aragaki Yu's eyes when he saw her true face, Fujimine Yukiko began to doubt her own fame in Japan for the first time.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is... Yukiko Kudo..."

"Oh, it's you! You're the famous actress Yukiko!" After Yukiko said his name, Yu Aragaki seemed very excited and jumped up from his seat.

He excitedly grasped Yukiko's hands: "Ms. Yukiko, I'm a huge fan of yours, please give me your autograph!"

"..."

Looking at Aragaki Yu's exaggerated expression and listening to his seemingly enthusiastic words, Yukiko almost believed Aragaki Yu's nonsense.

"Thank you." Yukiko Kudo smiled awkwardly, but inwardly she thought, "Heh, if you were my fan, wouldn't you recognize me?"

If it weren't for the fact that Yuya Aragaki was the son of an old friend, Yukiko would definitely have punched his handsome face.

"However, Ms. Yukiko, why are you here? And dressed like this?" Yu released Yukiko's hand, sat back down, and got back to the point.

“Little Aragaki, there’s no need to call me ‘madam.’ Since you’re Shinichi’s classmate, there’s no need to be so polite. Just call me…”

Just as Yukiko was considering the appropriate way to address him, Aragaki Yu also very perceptively changed his form of address: "Yukiko-neechan?"

"Hey!"

Upon hearing the word "older sister," Yukiko Kudo immediately beamed with joy, and her earlier displeasure at Aragaki Yuu not recognizing her vanished in an instant.

"Little Aragaki, you're the kind of kid I like best!" Yukiko said with a smile as she stood up from the edge of the bed.

"Here you go, didn't you want my autograph? Here you go! Don't be shy, and if it's not enough, just let me know."

She grabbed her handbag that was lying to the side, rummaged through it and pulled out all the autographed photos she always carried with her, stuffing them into Aragaki Yu's hands.

At this moment, Yukiko Kudo really found Yu Aragaki more and more pleasing to the eye.

She even took it upon herself to believe that Aragaki Yu's failure to recognize her was due to his overwhelming excitement and shock upon seeing her beauty.

"Thank you, Yukiko-neechan, this is enough!" Yuu Aragaki happily accepted the autographed photos Yukiko handed him, carefully placing them in his inner pocket, as if afraid of accidentally damaging them.

He was overjoyed, knowing that autographed photos of Yukiko's quality, which she always carried around, could fetch hundreds of thousands of yen online.

Yukiko, standing nearby, naturally noticed how much importance Aragaki Yu valued the autographed photo she had given him, and she became even more satisfied with him.

This little guy named Yuu Aragaki is definitely much more agreeable than my own son, Shinichi.

Even if her unlucky son turned into Conan, he would only call her "Auntie" in front of others.

Pah! Don't you even realize how old you look?

I'm still a young girl, okay?!

Furthermore, I had only slightly disguised myself.

She had just been in the train carriage trying to talk to her son, Shinichi, about the case when he turned around and, to her astonishment, called her "Auntie"!

Thinking about all this, Yukiko Kudo felt a burning hatred.

"But, Yukiko-neechan, how did you know I'm Shinichi Kudo's classmate?"

Just as Yukiko Kudo was lost in thought, Yuu Aragaki suddenly asked a question.

"Ah...!? You mean this!" Not wanting to reveal that she had investigated the boy's identity, Yukiko Kudo quickly made up an excuse, "Of course, I heard it from our Shinichi!"

Chapter 268 Yukiko-neechan

"That's right, that's exactly it."

Yukiko Kudo affirmed the excuse she had made up, almost as if talking to herself.

"Shinichi told me that a really interesting guy recently transferred to their class, and I also heard Ran calling your name in the train car earlier, so I confirmed your identity."

"I see." Aragaki Yu nodded.

Although Yukiko Kudo's expression was very sincere, Yuu Aragaki did not believe her words at all.

On the contrary, I wholeheartedly gave her a thumbs up for her acting skills.

"Speaking of which, Yukiko-neechan, what exactly is your purpose in disguising yourself and sneaking onto this train?" A curious expression appeared on Aragaki Yu's face. "Could it be related to this case?"

"Ah! Right, I almost forgot about the important matter!"

Yukiko Kudo, reminded by Yuu Aragaki, realized she had something more important to say, and stuck out her tongue somewhat embarrassedly.

"The reason I took this train was because I saw a report about Japan in Los Angeles."

When the topic turned to serious matters, Yukiko Kudo immediately dropped her joking expression, and her voice became serious: "The report said that a robber at a jewelry store left behind a strange message and then ran away without stealing anything."

Yuu Aragaki was clearly aware of the robber's words, "This is completely different from what we agreed on," so he looked at Yukiko with some doubt and asked, "While that sentence is indeed a bit hard to understand, is it really worth making you come all the way back from America?"

“Yes.” Yukiko Kudo nodded and explained to Yuu Aragaki, “Yusaku, ah, that’s Shinichi’s dad. He told me that a professional robber shouldn’t be this careless.”

Yukiko paused, tidied her slightly messy hair, and continued, "Also, the sentence the robber blurted out at the scene was completely different from what was supposed to be said. This absurd sentence was exactly the same as the plot of his unpublished mystery novel from 10 years ago, except that the store that was robbed in the novel was not a jewelry store, but a large antique art store."

Upon hearing Yukiko's words, Aragaki Yu vaguely recalled this part of the plot.

However, he couldn't recall any details of what happened afterward. The only thing he was certain of was that the murderer who shot him was still on the train.

"So, what else did Mr. Kudo say later?"

"Of course, Yusaku immediately called the jewelry store to find out if their manager was going to take a train trip that included a long tunnel in the near future."

Yukiko stretched while sitting on the edge of the bed, unabashedly displaying her stunning figure that would make countless women envious, and continued, "Because in that novel, the owner of the art shop was shot and killed by thugs on the train. I never imagined that the owner of this jewelry store would actually be taking the Hokutosei train in six days."

"Then why didn't you stop it?"

Yuu Aragaki didn't quite understand the Kudo couple's behavior.

Because in his memory, they weren't the kind of people who would sit idly by and watch others go to hell.

"what……!?"

When she mentioned this, Yukiko's face showed a hint of shame. She explained somewhat embarrassedly, "There was nothing I could do about it. I never expected that Mr. Izumo would be shot while I was in the toilet."

"Then why can't we tell the person involved or discuss it with the police?"

"Well..." Kudo Yukiko said with a helpless shrug, "Inspector Megure seems to be extremely busy because he's involved in some case, and Yusaku said that if we tell Mr. Izumo about it, it might alert the culprit."

"So, Yukiko-neechan, why do we only see you now? Why didn't Yusaku-san, who wrote this novel, get on this train?"

Aragaki Yu also found this somewhat perplexing.

“You mean Yusaku? He’s already taken the previous Hokutosei train to Sapporo. When we called the jewelry store, the staff wouldn’t tell us which of the three Hokutosei trains their boss would take.”

She looked at Aragaki Yuu across from her with a complicated expression.