Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 176: Maori Kogoro's Spring
"Is that so?" Fujimine Yukiko was slightly stunned, and her originally lively eyes froze instantly. Then she remembered that Lin Xiuyi had indeed told her that her parents died when she was very young.

Guilt suddenly surged in her heart, her eyes were full of self-blame, and she quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Xiuyi, I, I really didn't mean to remind you of these sad things."

"It's okay, it's been more than ten years. I've almost forgotten what my parents look like," Lin Xiuyi said calmly, waving his hand nonchalantly.

What he said was indeed the truth, but everyone else thought that Lin Xiuyi said it in a nonchalant manner because he didn't want to worry his friends.

Kisaki Eri glared at Fujimine Yukiko angrily, but the latter did not refute as usual, but lowered her head in guilt.

As Doigaki Ruri watched the scene in front of her, her worries about her friend were immediately relieved.

She sat on a high stool in front of the kitchen counter, gently turning the spoon in her hand, her eyes moving between everyone.

In fact, the reason she came to Beihua this time was not only for a date with Kogoro Mouri, but also because she was a little worried about Eri Kisaki.

Although the two best friends have been separated for more than two months, they still chat on the phone frequently.

In the past half month, Kisaki Eri has been complaining to Doigaki Ruri on the phone about the curly-haired vixen who always likes to stick to Lin Xiuyi like a little tail.

From her friend's slightly anxious chat, Doigaki Ruri had already keenly noticed that the other party seemed a little flustered.

After all, before going to high school, many girls wrote love letters to Lin Xiuyi, and some were even bold enough to take the initiative to confess their love to him.

But basically all of them were decisively rejected by Lin Xiuyi, and even those letters of confession lay obediently in Kisaki Eri's hands.

For Doigaki Ruri, as she said before, she had already tacitly accepted in her heart that Hayashi Shuichi and Kisaki Eri were a match made in heaven.

No matter what Kogoro Mouri thought before, he must have made up his mind now, otherwise he would not have suddenly changed his mind and invited me.

But this vixen who appeared beside Lin Xiuyi when he was in high school was obviously different from the girls in the past.

Not only is she beautiful and has a graceful figure, but her personality and hobbies are also very similar to Lin Xiuyi's.

Doigaki Ruri saw her friend's anxiety and naturally wanted to help her.

She didn't like dressing up before because she thought Kogoro Mouri liked smart girls, so she focused on studying hard and didn't care about her appearance at all.

She wears a simple ponytail every day, and her thick glasses almost cover most of her face.

After the failed confession at junior high school graduation, Doigaki Ruri slowly let go of her worries after moving out of Tokyo. She began to learn makeup and dressing from her mother who worked in a theater troupe. Soon, she transformed from a girl who only knew how to study into the radiant girl she is today.

Doigaki Ruri originally thought that her friend had lost in this "emotional battle" and was ready to help her dress up and make sure to defeat that vixen.

But now it seems that even if she doesn't help, Kisaki Eri clearly has the upper hand.

Everyone in the izakaya had their own thoughts, and the atmosphere suddenly became silent.

At this moment, there was a creaking sound and the door was pushed open with force.

Maori Kogoro, with disheveled hair and out of breath, ran in: "Where's Ruri? Did she come?"

"Why are you looking for her?" Kisaki Eri glanced at her friend, who was facing away from Maori Kogoro and seemed a little nervous at the moment. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, and she asked with a hint of mischief, "Aren't you going on a date?"

"I remembered the meeting place wrong," Maori Kogoro scratched his head awkwardly, his face full of embarrassment, "I was already at the station when I suddenly remembered that the meeting place seemed to be an izakaya."

"It's good that Liuli hasn't arrived yet. I was worried that she would get angry and leave when she saw I wasn't here."

As Kogoro Maori spoke, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand.

"You're right," Lin Xiuyi said in coordination with Yingli, "Liuli has arrived just now, but when she saw that you were not there, she was disappointed..." Before he could finish his words, Maori Kogoro turned around and was about to run out.

"I'm going after her now!"

His steps were so hurried that he almost bumped into the table and chairs next to him.

"Wait a minute, Kogoro!"

Doigaki Ruri couldn't bear it any longer and called out to the other person.

She clenched her fists nervously, encouraged herself, then stood up from the stool and looked at the other person with a smile.

"You, you are?"

Maori Kogoro looked at the radiant beauty in front of him in surprise and doubt, his mouth slightly open, with an expression of disbelief.

"Liuli? No, that's not right. Liuli shouldn't be this beautiful. But how come the little mole next to her mouth looks exactly like Liuli's?"

After hearing these words, Doigaki Ruri didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

She bit her lips slightly, and a complex emotion flashed in her eyes. Although Maori Kogoro did not recognize her, he still remembered the location of the small mole on his lip.

"We've only been apart for two months," Doigaki Ruri stamped her feet lightly, blushing slightly as she said coquettishly, "Kogoro, you don't even recognize me?"

"Is it really Liuli?"

Kogoro Mouri's eyes widened, his eyes full of amazement.

He hurriedly apologized with a dry laugh, his face full of smiles, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"It's not that I didn't recognize you, I just wasn't sure. You didn't dress up much before, and you always wore glasses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle..."

"This is the first time I see you dressed so beautifully!"

The last compliment obviously made Doigaki Ruri happy.

She lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly, her hands unconsciously fiddling with the corners of her clothes, her toes tapping the ground slightly.
“Is it really that different from before?”

"It's more than just big, it's a world of difference!" Maori Kogoro praised excitedly, "You look really beautiful now. When you were in school before, you looked ugly..."

Seeing his good brother about to say something stupid, Lin Xiuyi quickly interrupted with a dry cough: "Okay, Kogoro, Liuli is here, why don't you go on a date quickly and stop wasting time here."

"Yes, yes," Kogoro Mouri nodded repeatedly, with the corners of his mouth raised, almost reaching the back of his head.

Although he had heard from Lin Xiuyi and Kisaki Eri that Ruri was very beautiful without her glasses, he had never seen it with his own eyes.

After seeing Ruri's beauty in person today, Kogoro Maori wanted to slap himself two months ago.

Why did I lose my mind back then and actually reject Liuli's confession!

"Eri, Shuichi, then I will..." Doigaki Ruri said a little embarrassedly.

"Hurry up and go," Kisaki Eri smiled and gave her bestie a push. "Haven't you been looking forward to this day since kindergarten?"

(End of this chapter)