Science: The Little Shota of the Maori Family

It seems that the cold medicine I took yesterday, the ginger soup and the rock sugar and pear soup I drank were very effective.

Xiaolan gently pushed the door open and came in. Seeing that Watanabe Toru was already awake, she became less cautious and came over to ask, "Are you awake, Toru? Are you feeling better today?"

"Much better, Sister Xiaolan." Watanabe Toru said with a smile.

"That's good. Breakfast is ready. Get up and wash up first."

"it is good."

When I came out of the room, I saw Kogoro Mouri sitting at the dining table, leisurely eating breakfast.

"Uncle, are you up so early today?"

Watanabe Toru was a little surprised. On weekdays, Kogoro Mouri would only come out of the bedroom slowly after he and Xiaolan finished breakfast. It was rare to see him eating breakfast as early as today.

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Maori Kogoro explained lazily, "I'm going out to meet a client soon. By the way, is your cold better?"

"much better."

"That's good. Is there anything you want to eat? I'll bring it to you when I get back."

Watanabe Toru scratched his head and said, "No, I'd better wait until the cold is completely healed before eating it."

"Well... that's fine."

After breakfast, Kogoro Mouri changed his clothes and left home.

Watanabe Toru drank the lean meat porridge and watched Xiaolan cleaning up the leftovers on the table.

"Sister Xiaolan, didn't Sister Sonoko invite you to her sister's party? Did she tell you the date?"

Xiaolan stopped what she was doing and thought for a moment: "It seems to be the day after tomorrow, but since Xiaoche has a cold, I think I better not go."

... ..... ....

"It's okay, Xiaolan. My cold will be gone soon." Watanabe Toru advised, "It's rare for Sonoko to invite you. You don't want to disappoint her, do you?"

"This..." Xiaolan was a little confused.

On the one hand, she was worried about Watanabe Toru's health, and on the other hand, she felt embarrassed to refuse Sonoko's kind invitation.

"How about this," Watanabe Toru suggested, "If my cold is gone tomorrow, we can go to Sonoko's party. Otherwise, we can just rest at home."

Xiaolan thought about it carefully and felt that this was the safest way, so she nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll listen to Xiaoche."

The sun outside was scorching in the afternoon, but with the air conditioning on in the house, it didn't feel like the hottest days of summer.

Xiaolan was sitting on the sofa, her long white legs showing under her home shorts, and Watanabe Toru was lying there with his head resting on her.

"Ah, open your mouth, Che."

Watanabe Toru obediently opened his mouth, and then a peeled grape was stuffed into his mouth.

The years are peaceful and Toru Watanabe is enjoying the present moment.

Until it was interrupted by the rustling sound of a door opening.

"I'm back." Maori Kogoro walked in: "Xiaotuo, look who's here to see you."

Watanabe Toru glanced at it.

Ayumi, Genta, and Conan followed behind Kogoro Mouri.

"It's you." Watanabe Toru greeted lazily.

"Xiaotetsu, are you feeling better?" Ayumi asked with concern: "After I told everyone that you had a cold, everyone was worried about you, so we came together. Mitsuhiko went to Karuizawa and couldn't come."

110. Conan's Jealousy

Watanabe Toru doesn't care whether Mitsuhiko comes or not.

He said with a smile, "Thank you all for coming to see me. I'm feeling much better now. I'll be able to go to the park to play football with everyone in a couple of days."

"That's great." Ayumi looked excited.

Conan glanced at Watanabe Toru lying on Xiaolan's thighs, and a wave of jealousy surged in his heart. Even though Watanabe Toru was just a child, he still felt that something that belonged to him was taken away.

It must be very comfortable to rest my head on Xiaolan's legs...

Since his friends had come to see him, Watanabe Toru couldn't lie down any longer, so he reluctantly got up and said, "Everyone, have some fruit. Um... I have a videotape of Kamen Rider here, do you want to see it?"

"it is good."

Genta and Ayumi shouted excitedly.

……

The next day, Watanabe Toru's cold was finally cured, which meant that he could go to Sonoko's sister's party with Xiaolan.

On the day of the party, the two of them carried backpacks and took a taxi to Sonoko's villa.

The Yuanzi family has many villas, but the villa for this gathering seems a bit remote.

The overgrown weeds and muddy mountain road made it impossible for the car to move forward. In desperation, Watanabe Toru and Xiaolan had to get off the car at the foot of the mountain and walk to their destination.

"Hmm... Let me take a look." Xiaolan took out the paper with the address written on it, studied it for a long time, and said unconfidently: "It should be turning right up the mountain... then..."

Watanabe Toru: “…”

Why did he have a bad feeling?

After walking along a mountain road with Xiaolan, seeing the surroundings becoming increasingly desolate and gloomy, Watanabe Toru finally couldn't help but ask, "Sister Xiaolan, are we going the wrong way?"

"How could that be?" Xiaolan said firmly, "It says it's nearby, but why can't I see it? Ah... maybe we took a detour. It doesn't matter, we'll be there soon."

I feel like you're comforting yourself.

Watanabe Toru sighed inwardly.

After walking for another twenty minutes, Xiaolan's eyes suddenly lit up. She pointed ahead and said excitedly, "Ah... we're here. I told you we're on the right road."

Watanabe Toru looked up and saw a gorgeous three-story villa hidden among the dense woods. A dilapidated and shaky wooden suspension bridge connected the two sides of the cliff, becoming the only passage.

Watanabe Toru frowned, and the relevant case emerged in his mind.

Could it be that……

"Xiao Toru, let's go." Xiaolan took Watanabe Toru's hand and walked towards the suspension bridge.

"Eh? There seems to be someone on the bridge. He's getting closer," Xiaolan exclaimed again, "Is he going to the villa too?"

Watanabe Toru was a little absent-minded: "Maybe."

At this moment, the person on the bridge seemed to hear the movement behind him. He turned around, took a look over here, and then ran away.

Xiaolan's heart skipped a beat, and she looked horrified: "That, that person's face..."

When Toru Watanabe saw the face wrapped in bandages, he finally confirmed that this was the Villa Bandage Monster Murder Case.

The two men crossed the rickety suspension bridge safely.

In front of the villa gate, Yuanzi stood with her hands on her hips, complaining to the brother and sister who were late: "You are so slow, Xiaolan, where have you been? It's rare for me to invite you to my villa, and you are still late. What a shame."

"Sorry, Sonoko, we took a detour, so we are late." Xiaolan apologized with a smile.

Fortunately, Sonoko didn't take it too seriously, and her eyes fell on Watanabe Toru again: "You finally brought little Toru here."

"Yes, because I'm worried about Xiao Che being home alone."

"You still have your father." Yuanzi sighed: "It's so inconvenient for you to fall in love with such a burden."

Xiaolan was stunned: "Talk, talk about love?"

"Yes." Sonoko said seriously, "Aren't we here to meet handsome guys?"

"How, how could..."

Sonoko clasped her hands together in an intoxicated manner. "Then, amidst the beauty of nature, we'll compose a romantic love story. I feel like the wish I made to the shooting star that day will come true."

Xiaolan: "..."

Watanabe Toru: “…”

Entering the villa, Xiaolan asked while changing her shoes: "Have all those handsome guys you mentioned arrived?"

"Yes, they arrived a long time ago and are all resting in their rooms."

"So, that person wrapped in bandages is here too?" Xiaolan thought of the strange man she saw on the suspension bridge...

Yuanzi was stunned for a moment: "Wrapped in bandages? But there are no guests like this who came to the villa today."

"Ah?" Xiaolan's face turned even paler. "No, it's not a guest. Could it be a local resident?"

"Alright! Stop saying such inexplicable things." Sonoko pointed at the stairs and said, "Go put your luggage away quickly. You and Xiaoche's room is on the second floor."

"Oh... okay." Xiaolan temporarily put aside her doubts and walked upstairs with Watanabe Toru.

The second floor is the guest room, with a long corridor and rooms on both sides.

"Eh? There are so many rooms on the second floor." Xiaolan looked around: "Yuanzi didn't say which one is ours."

As she spoke, she reached out to push open the door of the guest room closest to her.

"Wait a minute, Sister Xiaolan." Watanabe Toru called out, successfully interrupting Xiaolan's actions.

"What's wrong, Xiaoche?" Xiaolan looked over and asked in confusion.

"It's better to knock on the door first to confirm if there is anyone inside. Otherwise, it would be very rude to rush in."

Xiaolan reacted: "You're right, it's a good thing you reminded me, Xiaoche."

Watanabe Toru's idea is very simple. He has no right to interfere if someone wants to commit murder, but if he knows that Xiaolan will be in danger if she opens the door and still doesn't stop her, what's the difference between that and being a moron?

With Watanabe Toru's reminder, Xiaolan took a deep breath and knocked on the door of the first room.

"Who is this? I'm changing into clothes, please wait a moment." A man's voice came from the room.

"Ah! There really is someone." Xiaolan was startled and quickly apologized: "Sorry to bother you, it's nothing."

As he said that, he went to knock on the door of the next room.

After knocking on three doors in a row, Watanabe Toru and Xiaolan finally found their room.

"Whoo~"

Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief, went in, put her luggage on the bed, opened the window, and fresh air blew in, and the view of the entire forest was in sight.

"It's so beautiful." Xiaolan spread her arms and felt the baptism of nature.

Watanabe Toru smiled and said, "It's much cooler here than at home. It's a great place to escape the summer heat."

"Yeah." Xiaolan retracted her gaze and left the window: "Let's tidy up first, Xiaoche."

"it is good.".

111. You want to seduce my sister, right?

"I see." Xiaolan, who was sitting downstairs chatting with everyone, put down her lemon tea and said, "You all used to be in the same club?"

"Yes," Sonoko explained, "You are all my sister's classmates from college. They are all members of the Film Research Club. The five of us have a very good relationship, so we get together every two years."

"Let me introduce you. This is Mr. Masaru Ota, who has been playing the leading male role."

"Then there's Mr. Hiroki Kakutani, who's in charge of photography."

"This is Brother Takahashi Ryoichi, who's in charge of props."

Takahashi Ryoichi scratched the back of his head and smiled innocently at Xiaolan, looking harmless. It was hard to imagine that he was a demon who would dismember people.

"Next up are my sister Suzuki Ayako, who's in charge of the actors' makeup and costumes and is currently looking for a marriage partner, and Ms. Ikeda Chikako, who's also the director, screenwriter, and president of the film club."

"Wow!" Ran's eyes lit up when she heard the name. "Could you be Ms. Ikeda, the screenwriter of the currently airing "Blue Kingdom"?"

Toru Watanabe's attention also fell on Chikako Ikeda.

Well, 17, this is the victim, and he will be cut into pieces soon.

"Yes, that was Chikako's work when she was in college, and it was her representative work when she first entered the literary world." Suzuki Ayako said with a smile.

Ikeda Chikako was a little embarrassed by the compliment: "Let's not talk about the past."

Hiroki Kadoya pointed his camera at Chikako Ikeda and said, "Ms. Ikeda, please say a few words to our audience."