Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 337: Kaito Kidd makes his grand appearance!
At 10:30 in the morning, Kudo Shinichi finally appeared at the Beika Central Hospital.

And it was with Conan Edogawa.

When the two people walked over hand in hand, in the corridor outside the biochemical examination room, Yingsheng, who was sitting in a wheelchair, tilted his head slightly and tapped his temple with his left index finger.

When Conan saw Hotaru, he was about to speak, but his hand was gently pinched by the person next to him, and he stopped immediately.

Yingsheng kept looking at them without any reservation.

"Are you brothers?"

The two people in front of me look so similar. If you take off the black-framed glasses on Conan's face, they are almost exactly the same.

But Conan is still a child after all, and Hotaru cannot be 100% sure what he will look like when he grows up.

"Uh...it's probably just a coincidence."

Kudo Shinichi scratched his ears and looked at the closed door of the biochemical examination room.

"Is Xiaolan in here?"

"Yes, this project is quite time-consuming, don't rush." ​​Hotaru looked at Conan and said with a smile, "Little boy, is your mother Ms. Kudo Yukiko?"

"My mother is Edogawa Fumiyo, and Ms. Yukiko is her favorite star." Conan said in a sweet childish voice.

"Oh..." Hotaru touched his chin, "So you are Kudo Yusaku's illegitimate child, right?"

"...No way!" Conan exclaimed.

"Ahem, Mizuki, can we go in and take a look first? The case at the Tanaka residence has not been completely solved yet." Kudo Shinichi interrupted.

"Of course, but before that, shouldn't you do something?"

Hotaru looked at Kudo Shinichi, raised his hands, pinched his cheeks, and pulled hard.

"You said you came here to look for the Face Changer, but who knows if you are the thief crying thief?"

He let go of his hand, and a blush appeared on his white jade-like cheeks.

"It should."

Kudo Shinichi also pulled hard on his face, but his expression didn't change at all, so he let go and rubbed his cheek.

"Can i do it now?"

"perhaps."

Hotaru looked at Conan again.

Conan pouted: "I'm just a child, how could that person disguise himself as me?"

"You guys made that face-changing monster sound so scary, like Mystique." Yingsheng controlled the electric wheelchair to move back a distance and make way for the door. "But from what you said, kid, it seems that the monster can't change its shape? Let's go in."

Conan grabbed his cheeks with both hands, made a face at Hotaru and rolled his eyes.

"Now you should be satisfied."

"Ha, Conan-kun is very cute. Mr. Yusaku must like you very much." Hotaru said with a smile.

"I told you I'm not a bastard!"

Conan glared at Hotaru fiercely, and his body was pulled to the side and entered the room with Kudo Shinichi.

Xiaolan was standing in front of an unknown instrument, taking deep breaths into the blue transparent nozzle. She didn't react when she heard the noise at the door. She only looked back after the screen of the instrument next to her gave the prompt "Collection Completed".

"Is there anything wrong with you?"

Xiaolan paused and saw two people walking towards her, Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, and little boy Edogawa Conan, who was wearing a blue shirt.

"Shinichi, why are you here?"

Xiaolan raised her eyes slightly and looked towards the door. Yingsheng was leaning against the door with his hands spread out, looking quite helpless.

Conan saw this scene through the tiny reflective film on his glasses and frowned slightly.

Kudo Shinichi walked closer to Xiaolan, looked at her face with confusion, and didn't speak for several seconds.

Xiaolan and Conan both gave him puzzled looks. Only then did Kudo Shinichi come back to his senses and scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Um... I heard that you were injured, Xiaolan, so I came to see you. Are you okay?"

Conan: "..."

Damn, this guy must have been stunned just now!
Xiaolan smiled softly: "I didn't expect that you would care about others. It's nothing. It's already scabbed over."

Conan looked up at Xiaolan's left shoulder. Under her white and green short-sleeved shirt, there were several circles of white gauze wrapped around her.

He wanted Xiaolan to show her wound so that he could confirm whether she was the person that day this morning, but he didn't know how to say it.

After repeated lessons, he no longer dared to be as direct as before.

Kudo Shinichi smiled and said, "Since it has already scabbed over, it won't be good for the wound to heal if you keep wrapping it. You have to let it breathe."

"Too."

Xiaolan nodded and raised her hand to untie the gauze, but it was not convenient with one hand, so she looked at Kudo Shinichi.

"Please help me untie it, Shinichi. Be gentle, some of it is stuck together."

"Oh, good."

Kudo Shinichi quickly let go of Conan and went forward to help Xiaolan remove the gauze. Indeed, quite a lot of it was stuck on the blood scab, so he carefully cut it open with the small scissors he carried with him.

During this process, Xiaolan kept looking at Kudo Shinichi with a gentle gaze and a faint smile on her face.

Looking at the two heads almost stuck together, Conan, who was standing there, felt very unhappy. He curled his lips slightly and tilted his head to look around.

Then he noticed that Yingsheng at the door had a strange expression on his face and was taking pictures of the three of them.

Conan's heart suddenly skipped a beat and he quickly ran to the door.

"Brother Shuiyue, what are you filming?"

It's still that coquettish voice.

Yingsheng waved him to the wheelchair, rubbed his fluffy little head, and showed him the photo of the scene just now.

"You seem jealous, why?"

Conan panicked, "Because, because..."

"Because Xiaolan took your brother Shinichi away, right? He was holding your hand all the time, but because of a word from another girl, he left decisively." Yingsheng sighed softly, with pity in his eyes, "Conan-kun, your brother doesn't love you anymore."

Conan: "..."

Hey, you are too mean, how can you tease a child like this? Be careful or I will cry in front of you!

Conan decided to take revenge. He looked up at Hotaru and made an innocent expression like a child.

"I heard that Suigetsu-niang and Xiaolan-niang are dating, but it doesn't look like that. Xiaolan-niang is more concerned about Shinichi-niang's appearance."

Humph, this time it must be like a stab in the heart.

The person Xiaolan likes is me, not you!

Hotaru shrugged: "Of course I know that Xiaolan likes Kudo Shinichi, but what does it matter?" Conan was stunned, "Huh?"

Yingsheng lowered his voice, "Conan, you are still too young and may not understand. I will tell you honestly, but don't tell anyone else. Do you know how happy I was when I found out that Xiaolan still liked Kudo Shinichi but chose to be with me?"

"!!!!!!"

Conan trembled all over and his brain went blank. It was three seconds later that he looked at Yingsheng with an incredulous look.

This guy……

What perverted remarks did you just make?
Yingsheng shook his head and said with emotion: "After all, you are just a child and don't understand the beauty of it. You will understand it when you grow up."

Conan slapped the hand on top of his head, his eyes full of anger, "I understand, but I don't understand, and I will never understand!"

As a famous detective with a deep understanding of human nature, Conan certainly understands where Hotaru's so-called "sense of pleasure" comes from.

It's nothing more than NTR.

But as a mentally normal person, Conan really doesn't understand why someone could be so bad!
Conan gritted his teeth and said, "I heard from Brother Shinichi that you promised him that Sister Xiaolan is special!"

"I did say that, and then?"

Yingsheng said casually: "When I was in Kabukicho, I would say this kind of oath at least eight or ten times a day, sometimes more than ten times. I was just coaxing girls, who would take it seriously. Let me teach you a lesson, little friend, girls love to hear it the most..."

Conan couldn't bear to listen any longer, so he interrupted, "So, your feelings towards Sister Xiaolan are just false?"

Yingsheng sighed: "I don't like what you said. Children are just ignorant."

"What do you mean? You just said..."

"I am sincere to every girl, understand? Every one, everyone."

boom--! ! !
Looking at Hotaru's serious expression, Conan's scalp exploded and he was overwhelmed by anger.

He had never seen such a shameless person!
Conan now really wants to jump up and punch Hotaru in the face, then press him against the wall and hammer him into a meat patty that even a forklift can't get him down!

pity.

Just as he was about to make a move, he felt a sharp pain from the gunshot wound in his abdomen, like a bucket of cold water poured on his head, which calmed his anger a little and restored a bit of rationality.

Dr. Agasa's weak voice also sounded in the hidden headphones, advising him not to be impulsive.

Conan didn't make any move after all. He just looked at Yingsheng coldly and said word by word: "I will tell all these words to Sister Xiaolan!"

Yingsheng smiled and said, "Go ahead and tell me. That way I will definitely feel supreme pleasure again."

"you you!"

Conan tried to hold back his anger, his knuckles turning white as he clenched his fists. "Could it be that Sister Xiaolan also knows about this? What did you do to her? Why doesn't she leave you?"

"I didn't do anything. Who knows what she was thinking?" Yingsheng reached out to touch Conan's hair again and sighed, "Emotions are too complicated. I guess, probably during that long wait, Kudo Shinichi broke her heart."

Conan was about to slap Hotaru's hand away again, but when he heard this, he suddenly stopped in mid-air.

Is all this my fault?
Yingsheng narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly: "Little friend, I admit that I am not a good person, but your brother Shinichi is really not good in this regard, so don't learn from him. You should be in elementary school, right? Do you have a girl you like?"

Conan slowly lowered his head and said nothing.

Yingsheng shook his head and said, "You can't do that. If you like someone, you should be bold and say it out loud. Don't be shy. Otherwise, you will end up like your brother Shinichi, who was overtaken by a yellow-haired man like me."

Conan was silent for a while, then looked up and asked, "Why are you telling me this?"

"What do you think?" Yingsheng asked back.

"I don't know."

"You should understand."

The conversation seems inexplicable, but in fact Conan has regained his sanity. He begins to doubt Hotaru's motives for saying these words to him, and suspects that Hotaru is testing his true identity.

This is indeed the case, and this is Yingsheng's purpose, but of course he can't say it directly.

Seeing Conan's eyes flickering, Yingsheng smiled and said, "I won't beat around the bush. I'm telling you this mainly because Kudo Shinichi doesn't seem to understand the situation. He's so stupid, isn't my pleasure greatly reduced?"

Conan's eyelids twitched wildly and he sneered, "So when you asked me not to tell anyone, you actually wanted me to tell them?"

"It's up to you, kid." Yingsheng laughed, "But it's best not to tell your brother Shinichi right now. If he cries in the hospital, it will be a great loss of face for the 'savior of the Metropolitan Police Department'."

Conan sneered again and said nothing. He let Yingsheng rub his head without moving again.

He finally discovered it.

Mizutsuki Hotosei is a master of lies. It is hard to tell whether what he says is true or false. If you continue to talk, not only will you not get any useful information, but you may also be misled.

Yingsheng did not continue to ask questions. He looked into the house with a smile on his face and tapped the armrest of the wheelchair lightly with his left index finger.

There, Xiaolan's cheeks were slightly flushed, and Kudo Shinichi's ears were also red.

The two of them had apparently said something before.

Soon, Kudo Shinichi finished removing the gauze for Xiaolan, let out a long sigh, and took two steps back.

Conan had been keeping an eye on that place out of the corner of his eye. Seeing this, he immediately ran over and looked closely at the blood scab on Xiaolan's left shoulder. His body suddenly froze again.

The blood scab was indeed quite narrow, and looked like a wound caused by a playing card.

But, the direction is wrong.

Conan clearly remembered that when he used the playing card gun to hit Xiaolan, Xiaolan was facing him, her body slightly leaning forward, her center of gravity downward, and her left hand in her pocket.

The poker card was scratched horizontally, and when Xiaolan was standing, the wound should be high in the front and low in the back.

But now, it is reversed, with the back high and the front low.

How is this going?

Could it be that the Xiaolan this morning wasn’t her?
But she clearly said that to Shuiyue, what is going on?
Xiaolan leaned forward slightly, "Is there something wrong with my wound, Conan-kun?"

Conan shook his head quickly, "I was just wondering how Sister Xiaolan got this wound. It must be very painful."

"Huh?" Xiaolan looked puzzled.

"Yes, Xiaolan, what happened before? I'm very worried about you." Kudo Shinichi also agreed.

"Shinichi, are you serious?" Xiaolan frowned slightly.

Kudo Shinichi was slightly stunned, "Of course..."

He suddenly thought of something, but before he could open his mouth, he saw a quick shadow flash before his eyes. His body subconsciously wanted to lean back, but he had no time to move before he felt a pain on his face.

“Hiss! It hurts, it hurts!”

Kudo Shinichi took a breath of cold air, and after Xiaolan let go, he quickly covered his face and rubbed it.

"Shui Yue has just verified it. We are definitely real people."

"How...how could this happen..."

Xiaolan couldn't help but take a step back, murmured in disbelief.

Kudo Shinichi confirmed his guess, with a complicated expression, "Xiaolan, did you also meet me this morning?"

(End of this chapter)