Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

After taking care of Conan's equipment and cell phone, Yukiko Kudo approached Kazuki Nukumizu and reached into his pocket.

Cell phone, keys, tissues...

There wasn't much worth taking from Wen Shui.

Oh right, when I was carrying him up the stairs earlier, it seems like an antiperspirant bottle poked into her lower back.

Yukiko Kudo went around to the other side of Awami's body and reached into his right trouser pocket to search.

A few seconds later...

Mrs. Kudo's eyes widened instantly, and her small mouth opened slightly involuntarily.

Then, blushing, she ran out and locked the kitchen door behind her.

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She fled to the living room in a panic, sat on the sofa, and threw her phone and keys, which were in a bag, aside.

Her two little hands were clenched tightly together, and her heart was pounding.

That wretched brat, even when he's drugged, he still won't behave.

And... isn't that a bit too exaggerated?

A tingling sensation emanated from Yukiko Kudo's soft palms and fingertips, like the feeling of someone who has just finished a hundred pull-ups on a horizontal bar and whose hands are not yet back to normal.

After calming down for a while, the strange feeling gradually subsided.

Mrs. Kudo picked up Conan's phone from the bag and began examining fragments of her son's daily life here.

The photos in my phone's album are mostly from school or the Mouri Detective Agency.

The children at school are all adorable, and the teachers are all very gentle. Only Conan, who occasionally appears on screen, always has a grumpy face.

Kogoro Mouri still loves to drink. In almost every photo of him, he is either drinking or drunk.

"Honestly, no wonder Eri hasn't gone back to live there. She'd probably be furious seeing this every day," Yukiko Kudo muttered under her breath.

Then she suddenly realized that Kudo Yusaku seemed to be in a similar situation, often going out to social events and coming back drunk.

Yukiko Kudo sighed: "Do men all become like this when they get a certain age? Aren't there any cute boys in this world like her who still have the youthful energy and spirit they had when they were young?"

Yukiko Kudo swiped her finger across the screen to continue browsing the photo album.

In the few photos of Xiaolan, she is either doing housework or wearing an apron and cooking in the kitchen.

As expected, although Shinichi wouldn't admit it, he still liked Ran, the kind of girl who was good at managing a household.

Of course, Yukiko Kudo also knew that this was largely due to the fact that she herself was not the type of mother who was a good wife and mother. During Shinichi Kudo's upbringing, he was often tormented by his unreliable mother.

Humans are often trapped by things they cannot obtain in their youth, which hinder their entire lives.

This can be seen from the fact that Shinichi and Sonoko Suzuki are childhood friends, but their relationship has never progressed in that direction.

Since that's the case, we absolutely cannot let Wen Shui and that kid Shu get away with it.

Moreover, with Xiaolan's submissive nature, how could she possibly endure the dreadful warmth of lukewarm water...

Huh? Wait a minute!

What kind of nonsense am I thinking?!

Yukiko Kudo felt her cheeks burning. She thought she had forgotten what had just happened, but it suddenly popped into her mind again. Damn warm water and trees.

After looking through the photo album, Mrs. Kudo started flipping through Conan's text messages, but there was nothing particularly noteworthy in this part.

However, there is a little girl named Ayumi Yoshida who contacts Conan more frequently than the others.

If Shinichi can't recover his health, then let's keep Yoshida as a potential daughter-in-law, Yukiko thought to herself.

After learning about Conan's daily life, Yusaku Kudo still hadn't arrived. Bored, Mrs. Kudo subconsciously glanced at her phone, which was covered in lukewarm water, in her bag.

That kid probably saved that photo, right?

But she felt it was impolite to peek at other people's phones.

After hesitating for a long time, Yukiko Kudo couldn't resist her curiosity and picked up Wen Shui's phone.

If not, apologize to Wenshui and Shu after the matter is over.

If so...

It seems like we can only pretend we don't know. If we confront each other about this, it will only put both of us in an awkward situation.

What's more, what if that guy who says he likes older women on his mystery novel resume confesses his feelings to her?

Yukiko Kudo furtively opened Onami's phone and went straight to the photo album.

She thought it would take a while to find it, but when she opened the album, she found a "My Favorites" album.

After clicking in, Mrs. Kudo found that in the few photos in this album...

The first picture is of her taking a bath in the bathroom.

Chapter 86 Yukiko Kudo Picks Up the Whip

Yukiko Kudo felt her heart racing and her cheeks burning as if she had a fever.

This kid actually did it?

Although Mrs. Kudo's personality is impulsive and naive like a little girl, she is not a pure and innocent girl like Ran.

It's suspicious that this kind of thing is stored separately and even has an album.

Not to mention, the album also contains photos of Sonoko Suzuki wearing a swimsuit with her soles showing, and Ran wearing a gymnastics outfit soaked with sweat.

That brat really isn't picky about food.

However, what puzzled Yukiko Kudo was that, despite publicly stating her feelings for the older woman, Kazuki Onamizu, in a public setting like submitting a mystery novel, she was still in a relationship with her.

It seems that she is the only "older sister" in the phone's photo album.

I didn't expect this kid to be so loyal?

Wait, something's not right. There are other people's photos in this album... Yukiko Kudo's mind was a bit confused.

He was fantasized about by a kid who was the same age as Shinichi.

Mrs. Kudo felt a faint joy at having her charm recognized, mixed with the shame and indignation that an elder should feel.

Of course, there was more shame and indignation.

Yukiko Kudo immediately wanted to delete the photo.

But then I thought that doing so would expose her kidnapping of Conan, which would be a bad deal.

Damn it, I can only swallow this anger for now and wait for an opportunity to scare that bastard kid.

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When Conan opened his eyes again, he found himself tied up with ropes and locked in the kitchen of an old villa.

Wen Shui and Shu were also tied up with ropes and were still unconscious, leaning against the refrigerator.

Conan looked around and noticed that the refrigerator, kitchenware, and other items looked very old and were covered with a thick layer of dust, indicating that no one had used them for a long time. Even the faucets were rusty.

There is a window behind the kitchen sink.

The sky outside the window was a vibrant orange-red sunset, suggesting that only a few hours had passed.

Conan tiptoed up onto the kitchen sink and looked out the window.

Outside was an endless forest, and in the yard was the thugs' green car. Near the corner of the wall were several oil drums and shovels.

Although the view from the window is limited.

However, Conan still deduced that the villa was probably a remote mountain villa, with few residents around.

In other words, shouting loudly and trying to send out distress signals now might not get noticed at all.

Furthermore, Conan discovered that the kitchen where he was being held was on a very high floor, at least seven or eight meters above the ground, and there was nothing outside the window that he could climb.

The possibility of escaping through the window was eliminated.

Conan ran to Wen Shui's side again and whispered a few words to him, but Wen Shui didn't respond at all.

Honestly, this guy is too reckless. Not only did he not listen to me and call the police, but he also fell down and got caught by the thugs. He's really a hindrance.

Conan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The good news is that the other party doesn't seem to have any intention of killing them to silence them for the time being.

But he couldn't let himself be led by the nose like this, so Conan arrived at the wooden door to the kitchen.

The sturdy wooden door was locked, but the thugs had cut a hole in it, presumably to monitor them.

Conan pressed his face close to the doorway, peering through the opening to observe the situation outside.

The living room seemed to be empty.

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Meanwhile, on the first floor of the villa.

Yukiko Kudo and Yusaku Kudo were sitting on the sofa in the living room.

Kudo Yusaku held the mask of the Dark Baron in his hand, his brows furrowed: "Why did you bring Wen Shui and Shu along? Didn't we agree not to involve others?"

Yukiko Kudo smiled smugly:

"Don't worry, we'll find a chance to dump him in a corner of Tokyo tomorrow. He won't even know who kidnapped him."

She paused, then said, "Besides, Wen Shui and Shu rushed over to grab me, but they tripped over a stone and fell. If I let him go so easily, it will probably arouse his suspicion even more."

Yusaku Kudo sighed; she didn't believe Yukiko Kudo's story.

After being complained about by Yukiko last time, he privately learned a little about the situation of Onamizu and Itsuki.

Although Kazuki has solved a few cases so far, each one is a very challenging case even for him, making him seem like a detective who is not much worse than Shinichi.

Such a skilled detective tripped over a stone while chasing a criminal?

Kudo Yusaku didn't believe it at all.

However, since the person has already been captured, we have no choice but to go along with her wishes.