Chapter 34: A Gentleman's Friendship
Uesugi Kiyoshi is not a person who can't lie.
He just doesn't like to lie to his friends, especially friends like Yuichi Kudo, who are very good at thinking about others and understand the world very well.
He has no taboos against the enemy.
Sometimes, when he doesn't want to say something, Yuichi Kudo will stop talking and don't ask the end - this is a mature and stable person who is very comfortable to interact with, and the friendship between the two of them is a bit of a gentleman's friendship.
Everyone has secrets.
For Uesugi Kiyoshi, a friend is someone who can tolerate each other's shortcomings and secrets and help each other in times of difficulty.
That's all.
What Kudo Yuichi said is right, this great detective can be regarded as having a thorough view of his character, he has been taken care of so much by Kudo Yuichi, if the roles of the people who need help are reversed one day, even if it is a sea of swords and fire, Uesugi Kiyoshi will not have a word.
He didn't want to chill the hearts of those who had helped him.
"It's a little strict, Yuichi, you're going to be a loner like this."
"If everyone tears through their pretenses and treats each other honestly, I'm afraid that the human relations in this world will no longer exist."
Kiyoshi Uesugi said this in a joking tone.
The communication between people is originally woven by countless lies, in life, study, and work, for some trivial things that are very troublesome to explain and inconsequential, a proper lie will save a lot of trouble.
If Yuichi Kudo can't even stand this level of lies, then the so-called "socialization" may be an ordeal for him.
How to say it...
Uesugi Kiyoshi suddenly felt that Yuichi Kudo was a little pitiful.
Yuichi Kudo waved his hand indifferently.
"Hey, I've gotten used to it for so many years, even my biological parents have fooled their son me from time to time, how can I expect everyone to treat me with sincerity?"
"Bear with it, you can't die."
"Besides, isn't there still you?"
"To be honest, Qing, I wouldn't have been in school for that long without you, and I'm not interested in playing friendship games with those high school students."
"Chatting with you, it's really one of my few entertainments, you're really my life-saving medicine~"
Uesugi Kiyoshi got goosebumps when he heard this--the sincerity of the love was true, but it was too disgusting for a man to say it.
He glanced at Yuichi Kudo with disgust, and shivered very exaggeratedly.
"Has Miss Yamazaki ever seen you like this? Use your affection in the right place, in the right person, count me on you, thank you. ”
Kudo Yui shrugged indifferently.
"In Kana-chan's eyes, I am perfect, even if he sees me at the most embarrassed, he can't shake my image in her heart."
Uesugi Kiyoshi's eyes immediately became ambiguous.
"Yo! Jiana-chan, what an affectionate title, I said how can you not be sensitive to the confessions of those little girls, this has long been a heart? ”
Yuichi Kudo didn't have the slightest look of embarrassment and shyness, and he had a natural expression.
"Yes, Kana is a fiancée that I have cultivated for a long time since I was a child, and I have been trained to be the most suitable fiancée for my personality - didn't I tell you?"
"You said a P!" --Kiyoshi Uesugi originally wanted to complain like this.
With a twist of his mind, he grasped the point of this passage and temporarily changed his words.
"From childhood to adulthood?"
“...”
"How old are you?"
"Sixteen years old, you won't forget that I'm at the same level as you."
“...”
"How old is Miss Yamazaki?"
"Twenty-four."
Uesugi Kiyoshi listened to Yuichi Kudo's answer without thinking, and blinked, with a very strange expression on his face.
"At what age did you start your cultivation?"
Kudo Yuichi pretended to pinch his fingers and calculated, and said seriously: "Probably... Seven years old? ”
Uesugi Kiyoshi was immediately shocked.
"You're a pervert, aren't you?"
Whose child started to raise a fiancée at the age of seven! She is still a girl seven or eight years older than herself, and she is almost in high school when you are seven years old!
Yuichi Kudo has a fuss on his face and shakes his head a little disapprovingly.
"This kind of age difference is not uncommon, I can't help it, Qing, I am not an ordinary family, I have the right to choose my future wife, but the range of choice is determined by my parents."
"I have the power to resist, but I can't."
"It's not a good thing to be a maverick and act rebelliously, at least not in Japan."
"I was born in the Kudo family, so I had to take on the responsibilities of the Kudo family, and many people were like this - like Akutagawa, do you think he wants to play the role of another person? What can be done about family inheritance? ”
"If I want to get married in the future, my wife must be the right person."
"My father is in a high position in Sakurada, my grandfather has deep connections in the National Police Department, I graduated from high school, I should be admitted to the University of Tokyo, come out and take the civil service exam directly, and then go to the Metropolitan Police Department Police University to go through the motions, and then enter the police world, and naturally take over the family's resources."
Kudo Yuichi spread his hands helplessly, although his expression was a little gloomy, but he didn't have a very resistant expression.
Probably he has taken this as his responsibility, his obligation.
"Kana is the most pleasing one of my fiancées, and her personality and appearance are excellent."
"So, I showed her my good side, let her have a good impression of me, and finally in contact with her, subtly affect her personality, so that she becomes the most suitable type for me - you love me, both love, both are happy, what's so strange about this?"
Not to mention how a seven-year-old child can make a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl have a good impression, Uesugi Kiyoshi frowned and thought about this passage for a while, always feeling that something was not quite right, but what was wrong, he couldn't say.
At the end, he muttered, "Hmm... I always feel like you've made a scumbag statement, but I can't fault you..."
"Isn't that really a cheating on feelings?"
Yuichi Kudo has a good relationship with Kiyoshi Uesugi and doesn't care about this kind of rude words, but it doesn't prevent him from making a very sharp counterattack.
"Oh Huo, I obviously didn't accept anyone's confession, but I hid my wife in the golden house, and I started living with my college wife, and Uesugi-kun, who was unclear with my junior sister, actually said that I was a scumbag."
"It's really hard to put into words, and I feel offended."
Uesugi Kiyoshi was choked on the spot, he didn't come up in one breath, he couldn't suffocate to death, he couldn't refute it after thinking about it for a long time, and in the end he had to shake his head helplessly.
"Rin and I are innocent, don't talk nonsense!"
Yuichi Kudo smiled weirdly.
"So, you're not going to refute the first half of the sentence?"
"Tut-tut."
"Qing Ke is really a good man, it is worth learning from me, rest assured, if it continues to develop like this, when you are killed by a firewood knife in the future, I will definitely invite the most professional team to you for the funeral!"
Kudo Yuichi patted his chest with a wicked smile, although Uesugi Kiyoshi was a little blocked and couldn't speak, but he was not disgusted by this kind of revelation between friends.
In a sense, the great detective is not wrong.
Just as he wanted to quickly change the subject, there were several knocks on the door, and then the wooden door of the conference room was gently pushed open.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa walked in slowly, a smile on his face.
"I'm really sorry to disturb the emotional exchange between the two [good men]."
"But, gentlemen, time is precious, so shall we get down to business first?"