Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 23 An Unconventional Interview

Fujimine Yukiko ran to the gate of Teitan High School, but instead of going in, she waved to the other side of the street.
"Xuyi, these reporters are here to interview you, come here quickly!"

When the reporters who were yawning just now heard the name "Xueyi", they immediately became alert.

"Classmate, where is the Shuichi you were calling?"

"Over there," Fujimine Yukiko said calmly, pointing to the street in the opposite direction of Hayashi Shuichi and the others. "I just saw him at that corner. He seemed scared by you and didn't want to be interviewed."

"Hurry up! Class is about to start. If he goes into school, it will be difficult for us to interview him!"

A group of reporters picked up their cameras and chased in the direction that Fujimine Yukiko pointed.

Seeing that the reporters had been deceived, Lin Xiuyi and the other two hurriedly trotted towards the school gate.

Once they enter the school, reporters are not allowed to enter the campus for interviews without the school's permission.

Fifty meters...thirty meters...ten meters...

Just as they were about to enter the campus, the Dean of Academic Affairs, holding a bamboo sword, suddenly stopped in front of Lin Xiuyi and the other two, and shouted in dissatisfaction,

"Lin Xiuyi, at the school gate, don't run around!"

His voice immediately attracted back the reporters who had not yet left.

"Lin Xiuyi is here!"

"We were fooled!"

"That female student just now deceived us!"

……

Seeing that something was wrong, Yukiko Fujimine quickly slipped into the campus and hid among the crowd.

Lin Xiuyi and the other two also wanted to go in, but the Dean of Academic Affairs deliberately blocked their way. "The school rules forbid running around in front of the school gate. Why are you breaking the rules? What if you bump into someone?"

"Hey, is this really in the school rules?" Kogoro Mouri asked the girl next to him in a low voice.

"How should I know?" Kisaki Eiri rolled her eyes at him. "You don't need to take the university entrance exam to check school rules. I've never even read about them!"

"Teacher, don't you know the reason yourself?" Lin Xiuyi asked back depressedly.

He had already seen that the Dean of Academic Affairs was obviously trying to stop him on purpose.

Sure enough, because of the delay by the Dean of Academic Affairs, the reporters not far away had already rushed back.

"Boy, this is a great opportunity to become famous, don't neglect it!" The Dean of Academic Affairs pushed Lin Xiuyi towards the reporter with envy on his face. "If it weren't for the principal's order, I wouldn't bother with you."

It turned out to be the work of the school leaders of Teitan!

Lin Xiu was so angry that his teeth were itching.

When he learned that these reporters were coming to interview him, he guessed that the school must have leaked the information to the news media.

After all, the only people who knew about what happened in the gym yesterday were the police officers from the Investigation Division and Teitan's teachers.

The former cannot bring shame upon himself, so it is only the latter who will attract reporters.

Lin Xiuyi is very familiar with creating a new hot topic to suppress news that is unfavorable to him.

Before he could think about it, the reporters had already surrounded Lin Xiuyi, with cameras and long guns pointed in front of him.

"Are you Lin Xiuyi?"

"Did you really find the murderer at Teitan Stadium yesterday?" "Can you tell us about the process of solving the case and your thoughts afterwards?"

……

Looking at the microphone in front of him and listening to the reporters' questions one after another, Lin Xiuyi seemed to have returned to his previous life, and a dignified smile appeared on his face involuntarily.

"Yesterday's case was not solved by my own efforts. It was the result of everyone's joint efforts."

"Without the guidance and help of the officers from the Metropolitan Police Department, I would not have been able to find the murderer so quickly."

"In yesterday's case, we insisted on protecting the safety of Tokyo citizens as the top priority, and carried out the investigation surrounding the stadium murder..."

"Throughout the investigation, we have maintained..."

"In catching the killer, we did..."

……

The reporters looked at each other in bewilderment. They came to interview Lin Xiuyi to hype up this genius high school detective so that they wouldn't have to worry about sales for the news reports in the next few days.

No one expected that a good interview would turn into a report meeting!
As a genius high school detective, shouldn't you be rebellious, look down on the Metropolitan Police Department officers, and call them good-for-nothings who waste people's tax money?
Why are you still speaking up for them?

If you do this, there will be no conflict among you, so how can we media outlets get the attention for the news?
……

Kisaki Eri and Mouri Kogoro stood in the crowd, watching Hayashi Shuichi talking incessantly, and the expressions on their faces were a little strange.

"Why does the smile on Shuichi's face look so weird?" Maori Kogoro whispered, "It makes me feel sick."

"Me too," Kisaki Eri nodded in agreement, "Although his smile seemed genuine, I always felt it was a little... fake?"

Yukiko Fujimine, who was not far away, also looked surprised.

She originally thought that Lin Xiuyi didn't want to be interviewed because he was timid and afraid that his image would appear on TV and be stared at and pointed at.

But now it seems that this guy is very calm when dealing with reporters, as if he is completely at ease.

Yukiko Fujimine's parents are both well-known actors. Since she was a child, the girl often saw her parents being interviewed.

Every time facing reporters, her parents would show the same fake smile as Lin Xiuyi. Although Yukiko knew that this was a necessary means to deal with reporters, she had practiced at home for a long time, but her performance was always poor and she could not imitate the essence.

Her parents told her that this was because she had not yet graduated and had not entered society to receive training.

But Lin Xiuyi hasn't entered society yet, so why can he?
Could it be that my acting skills are actually not even as good as Lin Xiuyi's?

Were all the compliments my parents gave me before lies?
Thinking of this, Yukiko suddenly felt frustrated and her self-confidence was hit hard.

……

Metropolitan Police Department, conference room.

Toshio Odagiri, the manager of the Investigation Division 1, called Inspector Samezaki and Officer Sato here to teach them a lesson about the Teitan Stadium murder case yesterday.

After the two came in, Manager Odagiri turned on the TV in the conference room. He wanted to let Inspector Samezaki and Officer Sato listen again to how those reporters humiliated the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, but he didn't expect to see the reporters interviewing the high school student Hayashi Shuichi.

Manager Odagiri originally thought that he would hear more ridicule against the Investigation Division, but he did not expect that Hayashi Shuichi would actually speak for them, the detectives.

"...How come this kid is more skilled at giving reports than me?" Inspector Samezaki couldn't help but mutter.

"Are these things being taught in middle schools now?" Officer Sato was also a little surprised.

"If you two had been half as calm as he is," Manager Odagiri snorted, "you wouldn't have been forced to speak nonsense by those reporters this morning!"

(End of this chapter)