Conan: I'm Not a Model Worker in the Winery

Chapter 348: Invitation to the Ghost Ship
"I say, Uncle Lie, what on earth are we doing out here?"

"Haha~ Of course I'm here to do a mission! And to monitor Conan's whereabouts..."

"It seems that the second half of the sentence is our task!"

A side street.

Lie pulled Hongshu and looked outside stealthily.

Hiroki Sawada watched speechlessly as Lie climbed out of this inconspicuous manhole cover, holding some things in his hands that looked very bad, and his eyes twitched.

"Uncle Lie, you're not going to take me to plant a bomb, are you?"

"Ah~ You found me?"

Lie responded with a grin and waved the tightly wrapped 'severed hand'.

Hiroki was silent.

Why do we need to bring him along to plant the bomb?

He is a good citizen and law-abiding elementary school student...

...Well, it seems that he is not very law-abiding. If he were seven or eight years older, the databases that Noah had hacked into would be enough to send him to jail for life.

Lie grinned and saw what Hiroki was thinking: "Ah~ this, because if I need to detonate it later, I might need your help~"

"...Huh?" Hong Shu was stunned and took a few steps back. "Well, Uncle Lie, forget it. I'm not really suited to doing this kind of thing..."

Lie grabbed him and said, "No, no, no, Hongshu, you are the most suitable one. Don't worry, the explosion won't kill anyone, it will just cause some commotion..."

-

It was not until late at night that Conan, Xiaolan and Kisaki Eri left Fujieda's house, and their old acquaintance Inspector Megure also came out with them.

...As expected, someone died again this time.

The deceased was none other than Mrs. Fujieda's husband, Fujieda Mikio, who had commissioned them this time.

And it turned out that the crime was indeed committed by an acquaintance: the criminal was the old butler who had been serving in the Fujieda family.

The good news is that they still got the commission fee, because Kisaki Eri realized that the other party's contract only stated "find the murderer" instead of "protect Fujieda Shigeo", so the young wife that Fujieda Shigeo remarried could only bear the pain and cut her own flesh - the other party had originally expected to get Fujieda Shigeo's inheritance, but unfortunately, in the end she didn't get a penny for free.

The ending can't be said to be a happy one, but it's also very satisfying...

——The truth is that the head of the Fujieda family, Fujieda Kan'ao, is not popular among the people in the Fujieda family at all.

Moreover, there was an uninvited guest in this incident——

When leaving Fujieda's house, Conan glanced behind him.

At the gate of the villa, a beautiful woman was chatting and laughing with the only remaining male in the Fujieda family.

"Ms. Yukiko, thank you for taking such a long trip this time."

"Ah~ It's no big deal..."

There was a smug smile on Yukiko Kudo's face - after all, on the surface, it was she who took the lead in solving the case this time.

Of course, actually...

Conan tugged at his bow tie, looking sad.

In the end, don't we all have to rely on him?

Since it was Yusaku Kudo who helped the police solve cases before Kudo Shinichi made his debut, Inspector Megure and Yukiko were old acquaintances, and he said many words of thanks before leaving.

However, when Conan was about to take his mother-in-law's car back home, Kudo Yukiko came over and hugged him with a smile:
"Hey, Ran, I just came back recently. How about letting Conan stay at my place for a few days? I can also learn about Conan's situation. His parents specially asked me to come here to ask him."

Ever since she kidnapped her own son last time, she has never appeared in front of Conan with her true identity.

Today, Xiaolan just learned from Yukiko that Conan and the Kudo family are also "relatives"...

Since they are relatives, Mao Lilan naturally has nothing to worry about, and said with a smile: "No problem! Conan, you have to get along well with Shinichi's mother, okay?"

"I know~" Conan replied in a baby voice, and then he looked at Xiaolan reluctantly as he was carried into the car by his mother.

On the other side, Eri Kisaki also has to send Xiaolan back to the detective agency first.

Mrs. Fujieda said that this time the commission fee would be sent to Eri Kisaki's law firm, but it would have to wait until at least tomorrow.

……

"Mom, why did you come back suddenly this time?" Conan sat in the passenger seat, fastened his seat belt, and asked curiously.

He never expected to meet his own mother today.

Kudo Yukiko narrowed her eyes and said, "Because Yusaku happened to have a reader exchange meeting here, so I followed him~ And, I was also worried about Shin-chan's situation~"

Conan held the back of his head, his eyes were extremely indifferent, "Why should I worry? Besides, didn't I send you emails about my recent affairs?"

"But apart from the matter about that little girl, it's the same as if you didn't say anything."

Yukiko Kudo blinked innocently.

Just like Noah said, Xiaoxin was suspicious all the time, and she didn't know what her son was suspicious about all the time...

How was she going to get her son out of Tokyo?

Kudo Yukiko fell into deep thought.

However, Conan expressed his dissatisfaction with her words, "What do you mean it's the same as if I didn't say anything? I clearly told you the most important things..."

The car stopped suddenly at this moment.

Conan was startled by the sudden brakes and almost bit his tongue.

"Okay, okay, we're here, you should get off the car quickly?" Kudo Yukiko still had a smile on her face.

Conan looked at his mother speechlessly, but her expression made him inexplicably think of Lie.

When he thought of Lie, he remembered those three names that seemed to have some pattern...

Conan got off the car in a daze and walked to the door of his house, only to find that this was not his home - but Professor Agasa's home.

"Mom, why did you bring me to the doctor's house?"

Conan looked at Kudo Yukiko speechlessly.

He just came here this morning...

"Because I'm very interested in the girl you mentioned, the girl named Haibara." Yukiko Kudo dragged her son and rang the doorbell of the doctor's house.

Then, there was a clanging sound in the room.

Conan: "..."

Is Dr. Agasa working on some weird invention again?

The door was soon opened, and Dr. Agasa's familiar face appeared in front of the two of them, with an anxious look on his face:
"Shinichi! Something terrible has happened—eh? Yukiko?"

Kudo Yukiko blinked: "Well, it's me, but Shinichi is here too!"

She raised Conan in her hand to signal.

"I really didn't expect you to come back now." Dr. Agasa touched the back of his head and let the two people in. "So, Yusaku is back too?"

"Of course~ But he is still writing a novel in the hotel now."

"You didn't go home to live?"

"Well, because I'm afraid of unnecessary trouble..."

Listening to the two chatting like this, Conan clenched his fists and rolled his eyes, "I say, Doctor, don't you want to tell me something important?"

(End of this chapter)