Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 150 Lin Xiuyi's Alibi
The audition result will be notified by phone by the crew later.

But Anzhi Kyoko was very grateful for Lin Xiuyi's advice and insisted on treating the two of them to dinner.

Fujimine Yukiko also wanted to spend more time with her new friend: "Shuichi, you over there..."

Lin Xiuyi looked at the time. It was already past twelve o'clock, and it was indeed lunch time.

With the alibi he created at home, even if Kisaki Eri went back during lunch break, she shouldn't notice anything unusual.

Thinking of this, he nodded and agreed.

……

at the same time,

It was lunchtime at Teitan High School.

Since Hayashi Shuichi didn't come and Maori Kogoro didn't bring his own lunch box, he planned to call Kisaki Eri to go to the cafeteria to eat together.

But when he turned around to call the girl, there was no trace of Kisaki Eri sitting on the seat.

"Where's Eri?"

Kogoro Mouri hurriedly asked the classmate sitting in front of the girl.

"Fei ran out as soon as the class was over," the other person replied. "She seemed really anxious."

Uh……

Kogoro Maori covered his face helplessly.

He already knew where Kisaki Eri had gone.

This morning, after the two arrived at school, they quickly discovered that in addition to Hayashi Shuichi, Fujimine Yukiko was also absent from class.

The reason given by the homeroom teacher, Yui Murakami, was that Yukiko Fujimine had taken leave to audition for a film crew.

At that time, Kogoro Mouri didn't think anything of it. He just thought that Yukiko Fujimine had already decided on her future career direction and was ready to enter the entertainment industry.

But Princess Eri immediately realized something was wrong.

Yukiko Fujimine took a leave of absence to attend the audition. On the same day, Shuichi Hayashi, who had never been sick in more than ten years, also felt unwell and took a sick leave.

This is too much of a coincidence!
After the girl told her guess to Maori Kogoro, the latter was still a little skeptical.

"This morning, when I saw Shuichi, his face was indeed flushed, as if he had a cold and fever," Maori Kogoro scratched his head, "Eri, maybe you are overthinking it?"

"Shuichi has a lot of little tricks up his sleeve. Maybe he's just pretending to be sick," Hibiki Eri frowned, obviously believing her own guess more.

"Whether it's true or not, we can only go back this afternoon to see," Maori Kogoro said nonchalantly, "We can't go back now, can we? There are security guards at the school gate."

Kisaki Eri didn't answer at the time, but now it seems that she had obviously made a decision at that time.

He was the only one left in the trio, so Kogoro Mouri had to go to the cafeteria to eat alone.

At this moment, he suddenly missed Liuli. When they were in junior high school, the trio would sometimes separate, and Liuli would always be by his side.

It’s not like now, once Hayashi Shuichi and Kisaki Eri leave, he will be left alone.

……

Just as Kogoro Mouri had guessed, as soon as lunch break came, Kisaki Eri left the classroom and walked out of the school.

Although there are security guards at the school gate, students are not allowed to enter or leave at will during class time.

But as an excellent student and a good girl in the eyes of the teachers, it was not difficult for Eri to ask the teacher for a leave application.

After leaving Teitan High School, Kisaki Eri quickly walked towards the Mori family's small building.

Twenty minutes later, the girl came to the second floor of Maori's house, took out the key and opened the door.

After entering the house, she went straight to Lin Xiuyi's bedroom. The door was locked and she couldn't open it by turning the doorknob.

Despite their close relationship, Kisaki Eri only had the key to the apartment's front door.

The girl shouted twice, but when no one answered in the room, she snorted coldly and went to the third floor to ask Mrs. Maori for the key.

At this time, Lin Xiuyi's coughing voice came from the bedroom.
"Who?"

"Shuichi, it's me!"

Hearing the response from her childhood sweetheart, Kisaki Eri immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that she didn't go out with that vixen Yukiko to make trouble.

"Xuyi, are you feeling better?" the girl asked with concern. "Open the door, I'll go in and take a look."

After a while, Lin Xiuyi's response was heard in the room.

"I'm fine, I just have a slight fever, but it's not too severe. I'll be fine after a day of rest."

"I won't open the door, so as not to infect you with the cold."

"You should go back to class quickly and don't delay your studies."

After saying this, the bedroom fell into silence and Lin Xiuyi seemed to have fallen asleep.

Although Kisaki Eri wanted to go in and see what was going on, she was afraid of disturbing Hayashi Shuichi's rest.

After hesitating for a while, she decided to listen to Lin Xiuyi and go back to school first.

After locking the door on the second floor, Kisaki Eri was about to leave, but she saw Mrs. Mori from the third floor coming down with a plate of food.

Seeing the girl, Mrs. Maori teased, "You were so worried about Shuichi that you actually ran back from school."

"Shuichi rarely gets sick. I'm worried that he's too ill..." Kisaki Eri blushed and hurriedly explained, "Auntie, I'll be leaving first."

"You two have a really good relationship," Mrs. Maori said with a smile. "Even when Shuichi was seriously ill, he was still thinking about you and worried that you would come back to see him and delay your studies. I didn't expect him to be right."

Kisaki Eri was overjoyed when she heard this, and she couldn't hide the smile on her face no matter how hard she tried.

She was about to act proud, but she didn't expect Mrs. Maori to continue saying,

"But it seems that Shuichi's cold this time is really severe. When I went to see him before, he didn't even recognize my voice and mistook me for you."

"...Aunt, what did you say?" Hibari's heart moved. "You just said that Xiuyi mistook you for me?"

"Yes," Mrs. Maori said with a smile, "He even asked me to go back to school. Doesn't that mean he treated me like you?"

Kisaki Eri was stunned on the spot, her mind full of Lin Xiuyi's reply that she had just heard in the room, and her face gradually became gloomy.

"When you're sick, you have to eat more to get better faster. I was worried that Xiuyi would be hungry, so..."

Halfway through her words, Mrs. Maori noticed that the girl looked strange.

"Eri, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, auntie," Kiyori gritted her teeth, "Leave these foods to me, I'll take them in."

"Okay," Mrs. Maori said, although she was puzzled, she didn't ask any more questions and handed the tray to the girl.

Kisaki Eri took out the key, spoke again and walked in.

She put the tray of food in the dining room, then stood at the door of Lin Xiuyi's bedroom, waiting quietly.

After three or four minutes, Lin Xiuyi's voice suddenly rang out in the room: "Who?"

Kisaki Eri's face darkened, she clenched her fists, said nothing, and continued to wait.

The room was silent. After a moment, Lin Xiuyi in the bedroom said,
"I'm fine, I just have a slight fever, but it's not too severe. I'll be fine after a day of rest."

"I won't open the door, so as not to infect you with the cold."

"You should go back to class quickly and don't delay your studies."

(End of this chapter)