Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 69: Teidan transfer student - Yukiko Yuki!
Coming in front of the little girl, Megure Jusan looked into her eyes with a complicated expression.

The amber water was clear and tranquil, yet it lacked the focus of ordinary people and lacked a trace of vibrant light.

She is a blind person.

She couldn't see whoever had left the mask on her before.

Kudo Shinichi slowly squatted down and asked softly, "What kind of flowers are you selling?"

In the soft sunlight, the little girl showed a sweet smile.

"Big brother, it's Hyacinthus."

"hyacinth……

I bought all your flowers, but has anyone said anything strange to you before?"

"Strange words... Um, is Big Brother a detective?"

"I'm a detective."

"Oh, the big brother with the nice voice told me earlier that he hates detectives."

"Heh, that guy...what else?"

"He also said that if I sell flowers in this life, I will be beautiful in the next life, and I will definitely meet someone I like in the future. And for a cute girl like me to sell flowers, customers must pay double the price. But this can only be said when asked."

Kudo Shinichi shook his head and laughed: "Okay, I'll pay double."

"Yeah! Long live big brother!"

The little girl smiled happily. "That big brother also said that if someone is willing to pay double the price, then he must be a very interesting person. That's all."

"Interesting or something..."

Kudo Shinichi smiled bitterly: "It's really bad."

Rubbing the little girl's head, Kudo Shinichi really paid double the price to buy the hyacinths, but he did not take the flowers, he only took the white fox mask.

He turned away and returned to the back seat of the police car.

Megure Jusan sighed softly, but Sato Miwako could no longer hold back and immediately squatted down and asked the little girl in a gentle tone about the person before.

Does he have any particular voice? Does he have any idiomatic mannerisms? Does he mention any addresses or names? Has anyone else communicated with him?
But the result, of course, was nothing.

"One step slow, every step slow."

When Megure Jusan returned to the police car, he saw Kudo Shinichi tapping the forehead of the white fox mask and speaking calmly:
"Inspector Megure, I didn't do well enough this time. He took advantage of my curiosity about the murder case and got caught up in it. Let's continue to Tsuburaya Town. I will learn from my lesson."

"Ugh--"

Megure Jusan sighed: "Brother Kudo, please don't say that. It's our police who failed in their duty. It's just that, if we go to Tsuburaya Town now..."

He wondered if it was too late.
Kudo Shinichi said calmly: "This mask may be a declaration of victory when he left Tsuburaya Town; but it may also be a deception, the purpose of which is to make us think we have failed and give up the investigation. Go ahead, at least to investigate the murder case."

Megure Juzo nodded, called on Sato Miwako to get in the car, and started the car.

A few minutes later, a subordinate reported back.

The identity of the deceased in Tokyo Bay has been found out. He is a homeless person in Beika Town, or in other words, a member of the Nimukyoukai. The Nimukyoukai had several fights with the Sumiyoshikai this morning, and they were all defeated. It is not surprising that one or two bodies were found.

"Is the mastermind behind this related to the Yakuza?" Megure Jusan speculated.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head and said nothing. It was very easy to set up firewalls in these directions, so it was impossible to find out anything.

Fifteen minutes later, the police car stopped outside a house where the murder occurred in Tsuburaya-cho.

Ten minutes later, the police car left.

The search for the second department has been closed. What happened there was simply an accident.

The truth is hard to tell, and it doesn't matter.

After circling the street and the surrounding areas twice in a police car, combined with the previous deployment of the search department, Kudo Shinichi found a suspicious point.

The exact reason was irrelevant, but when he got there the place was undoubtedly deserted.

There were indeed a few fresh footprints there, which showed that there were two people, but who knew whether they were the mastermind behind the incident and the people he took away.

"Officer Megure, please go back to the Metropolitan Police Department."

Kudo Shinichi's tone was still very calm, but this made Megure Jusan quite worried. "Brother Kudo, you have already..."

"I haven't done enough, Officer Megure."

Kudo Shinichi interrupted, and seeing Megure Jusan's concerned expression, he seemed to have finally thought of something. He forced a smile on his face, his eyes full of suppressed excitement.

For some reason, when he saw that smile, even though the person in front of him was his very familiar brother Kudo, Megure Jusan inexplicably felt his heart tremble.

Such a familiar look, just like... just like...

Just like criminals!
"To be honest, Officer Megure, I am very upset about this failure."

Kudo Shinichi walked towards the police car: "I thought I had not been deceived by his schemes for too long, why am I still being led by him?

I think it’s because of the way of thinking.

There is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief on guard against a thousand days. If I were just a detective who speaks for the dead, I would always be walking behind him.

After all, if he didn't take action, how could there be any deaths?

If I want to catch the mastermind, I have to think from his perspective and determine who the next target will be. Of course, this incident is over, and there is no need for him to take action again.

But as long as he continues to protect Xuesong Kiyoko, this kind of thing will happen again sooner or later.

Officer Megure, can you please help me?"

Megure Jusan was stunned for two seconds, then quickly nodded: "No problem, Kudo brother, you decide."

It turns out that my brother was thinking in the criminal's way. It really scared him.

Kudo Shinichi chuckled: "This matter is..."

The next morning, 8:30.

Class B, sophomore at Didan High School.

The bell rang and everyone sat quietly. But when they saw that the person who pushed the door open was not the math teacher for the first class but the head teacher, a burst of low whispers immediately broke out in the classroom, but only for a moment before silence returned.

Who followed the head teacher into the door?
The first thing that caught everyone's eyes was a light, pure white dress. It was like the first ray of bright color splashed into the dim world. The next moment, it brought out the slender and elegant figure, rendering such a pure and otherworldly beauty.

For a moment, a newly blossomed lily stood gracefully beside the podium, her black hair like a waterfall, setting off her delicate skin as white as snow, and actually gave off a kind of enchanting and cold charm.

Gollum—

After a brief moment of stagnation, I don't know how many people swallowed their saliva.

The head teacher coughed lightly.

He coughed heavily again.

Seeing that most people still didn't look at him, he turned around helplessly and wrote the girl's name on the blackboard.

Kiyoko cedar.

"Due to some reasons, Xuesong will be transferred to our class starting today..."

As soon as the head teacher said this, there was an uproar in the audience, with all kinds of shock and cheers mixed together. He had no choice but to stop for a few seconds and look directly at Xuesong Qingzi.

"Xuesong, where do you want to sit?"

Xuesong Kiyoko looked down and was about to speak under everyone's expectant gazes when she saw Kudo Shinichi stand up in the middle of the classroom.

Everyone looked at him in confusion, and Kudo Shinichi turned around and bowed deeply to his neighbor:
"Please, Wanshan-san, move to the back!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

“Eh??????!!!!!!!”

The classroom was in an uproar.

Yingsheng glanced at Xiaolan's back and shook his head helplessly, "Kudo, what do you want?"

(End of this chapter)