Yuji Kudo, the manga artist behind Detective Conan.

After politely declining Ms. Nohara's offer to go to the banquet hall with the three of them, the Kudo father and daughter decided to go back to their room to change into formal attire, while Higashino was sent by Sayoko to find old Kudo.

"Yu...when did the Prime Minister adopt Rize Kuroba?"

"Adopted? What are you talking about? Isn't Rize Uncle's biological daughter?"

"Huh? How could that be? She used to always act like a lovesick fool, trying to stick to Yuuji. No matter how you look at it, it's just... oh dear."

Conan then realized that the little girl was looking at his younger brother like a daughter looks at her father. He looked up at his daughter in confusion and found that her eyes were exactly the same as the girl's.

"Hey you…"

"I've figured it out. His acting was definitely not convincing. Now that I know, I can't even look at him the same way." Sayoko sighed. "How did my once spirited father become such a颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of being listless, dispirited, and disillusioned) person?"

"Wh...what? I also worked hard to raise you, don't underestimate adults." Conan's face turned bright red.

Sorry, sir, I promise I'll never say you're useless again after we get back!

"So I guess you found out that night, didn't you, Kano Akira?" Conan glared at the smug Sayoko.

"Of course, I am the daughter of the Heisei Sherlock Holmes."

"Tch, don't think I'll be happy just because you said that."

"His ears are all red, just like Dad, a tsundere, brooding uncle..." Sayoko nodded: "But watching a young boy being tsundere is much better than watching an old man, at least it's not an eyesore."

Her mother, with her peculiar tastes, somehow enjoyed watching her father's arrogance, much to the girl's dismay. The father and daughter sat on opposite sides of the sofa. Sayoko pouted, took a blue-green dress from her bag, and went into the bedroom, while Conan sat lost in thought.

[This doesn't make sense. Rize is only 12 years younger than Yuuji, so who's the mother of her child?]

"Dad, ta-da, how's it going?"

A girl wearing clip-on gemstone earrings slowly walked out of the bedroom, leaning against the door.

Where are the sleeves?

"You must have been gambling on sports since you were a kid and it's made you lose your mind. This is a formal dress, where did the sleeves come from?"

"And the skirt is way too short."

"I've covered my knees!" The girl looked at her childlike father and wanted to argue with him: "You gave this to Mom at her high school prom, you haven't forgotten, have you? I promised to cook dinner for her for a month before she would lend it to me."

"Actually, I'm the same age as you now, but I didn't graduate high school." Conan shook his head vigorously. "No, no, how can you go out in such shabby clothes? I packed some clothes for you in my bag, go change into that." "Hmm?" Sayoko immediately smiled knowingly. "So you were preparing a gift for me, beating around the bush like that, you tsundere old man..."

The girl immediately ran back to her room with anticipation, but not long after, two minutes later, a scream came from the bedroom.

"Isn't this my school uniform?! You wretched old man!"

Although she was rude, it was clear that the Kudo family had excellent upbringing. No matter how unwilling she was, Sayoko reluctantly changed into the Teitan High School uniform and stared at Conan with a fierce look.

"I've made you some black tea, come and drink it." The elementary school student picked up the gold-rimmed teacup and began asking his daughter about Kuroba Rize's true background.

"Are you sure she's Yuuji's daughter, and not adopted?"

“I heard from Kokoro that when Uncle added her name to the Kudo family register, he provided proof of parentage. Also, the name on the register wasn’t Rize, but a new name was chosen using Uncle’s family naming method. However, Rize still prefers her original name.”

"What naming method did you use?" Conan asked curiously as Sayoko opened her phone, revealing a group photo full of girls, including her daughter, all of whom were quite beautiful young women.

"My uncle likes to give girls a name by adding a syllable to their name, for example, Rize's full name is Kudo Rion."

"What an awful name. He's never been good at naming people. Sayoko is a much nicer name." Conan puffed out his chest smugly.

"What's so good about it?"

"The good thing is... cute?" Conan waved his hand: "Anyway, this lazy way of naming is just like your grandma's. She was so careless when she named us. She originally wanted to name us something like Ichiro Jiro, but her taste was really tacky."

"Grandma is still very young..."

Sayoko wanted to try and salvage the situation, but it was clear that her elderly father had always been rather oblivious to such matters.

"Haha, I won't say anything about you pretending to be young when you were in your thirties, but you're almost eighty now and you're still pretending to be young, aren't you? You're almost seventy percent mature."

The girl was startled and immediately looked at her phone. From Conan's perspective, it was clear that the heartless girl had activated the family's group call when he wasn't looking.

When did you dial?

"Uh, when changing into school uniforms."

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that three girls with the surname Kudo were sending messages one after another in the chat room. Someone complained to him, "What's so bad about our names?!", while someone else reminded the person whose nickname was "Empress Dowager of the Kudo Family" that Sayoko had saved as a friend to be careful in the group. A cold sweat immediately broke out on Conan's back.

[Clan Chief Candidate: Detective Kudo, recently the intelligence police have reported numerous violations against you. Please submit your fines to the Metropolitan Police Department by Sunday.]
[Kudo Detective Agency: Huh?]
"Oh no, it seems like Rize is angry too..." (End of Chapter)