Chapter 2: The Disappeared Cousin
"Hey! Uncle Yusaku! Yeah! I'm at the Tokyo airport, have you contacted Shinichi to pick me up? That's great! Hahaha! Okay, okay, I'll contact him! At the exit of Tokyo Airport, a young man dressed in casual clothes dragged a large suitcase and held a mobile phone in response, smiling faces.
It didn't take long to hang up the phone in my hand. The young man found the pick-up desk, where his name was held high.
"Hi, you're Xiaolan, right?"
"Ahh You are Brother Youyi! I didn't expect that after six years, you haven't changed at all! Still so handsome! ”
"Hahaha! Or can we Xiaolan speak! It's so much better than my cousin who didn't make it! I haven't seen you in six years, but you've changed a lot! I almost didn't recognize you just now, it's prettier than it was! ”
"Brother Youyi! You've really won the prize, where are people as beautiful as you say! If I were pretty, some idiot wouldn't have been ignoring me all the time! ”
"Some idiot? Oh! I know! Hahaha, by the way my stupid cousin? Why are you here alone? What about him? This kid is too vindictive, right? You didn't come to pick me up, big brother! After greeting Xiaolan who came to pick up the airport for a while, Yuyi, who finally remembered that the main owner of the pick-up was not in front of him, asked suspiciously.
"Shinichi? Originally, I came to pick up Brother Youyi today! But he has a temporary case, so he has to entrust me and Conan to pick you up! Hearing Yuyi's inquiry, Xiaolan's face darkened and she explained in a depressed mood.
"Oh! I see! I've heard about him in the United States, Heisei Holmes! It's understandable that a famous high school detective wants to provoke my cousin a little inflated, but it's okay for him to remember those good childhoods! I won't leave after returning to Japan this time, we have time! Hey, hey, hey! Hearing Xiaolan's explanation, You, who obviously didn't believe in this excuse, waved his hand indifferently and laughed slightly gloomily.
Just when he was thinking about how to clean up his cousin who dared to provoke him, suddenly a familiar imp wearing a blue dress and a red bow tie with a pair of large-framed glasses appeared in his sight with a dead fish eye.
"Conan?" Ever since he knew that his uncle Kudo Yusaku gave birth to a son named Kudo Shinichi, Wu Liang, who knew what world he had crossed into, was sincerely worried about his safety, after all, this is a world with a high incidence of homicides, and sometimes a friend who was hooking up with you the day before turned around and could design a locked room murder case against you for some inexplicable reason. There was even a time when Yuichi, who was extremely insecure, was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a persecuted delusional patient. In order to improve the environment of their children, Mr. and Mrs. Kudo Ryosaku Kudo left Japan with him to live in the United States.
It wasn't until a few years ago that he joined the FBI organization in the United States and inadvertently turned on the detective system in his mind, that Yuichi, who had changed, made up his mind to return to the country that scared him to face all this, but what he didn't expect was that he would come back so coincidentally, just not being able to save his cousin, and watching him become Conan.
"Is this fate? When I finally had trouble dealing with the customer and wanted to come back to face everything, the gears of the plot had already begun to spin. Everyone is going to be at this strange time from today, right? Ignoring the things that he was thinking about in his heart, with his acting skills comparable to the Academy Awards, after rubbing Conan's big head fiercely, Yuichi asked with a puzzled face, "Xiaolan!" Whose family is this little ghost? How do you feel that you have a virtue with a new hour, so that people can't help but want to bully when they see it? ”
Seeing Yuichi's hateful big hand rubbing the top of Conan's head and Conan's aggrieved tears looking at him that he couldn't get rid of, Xiaolan hurriedly rescued Conan from under Youyi's hand and explained carefully.
"A distant relative of Dr. Asasa's family? I see! I didn't expect the doctor's family to have such annoying imp relatives! After listening to Xiaolan's explanation, and glancing at Conan, who was a little afraid to look at him, with strange eyes, Yuichi, who pretended not to know anything, pulled his suitcase and followed Xiaolan towards the outside of the airport.
chatted all the way about their respective stories in the past few years, and said that after graduating from the United States, Yuichi, who wanted to go back to Japan to start a business, mingled with Xiaolan, who had not seen him for a few years and was a little rusty with him, completely eliminating the somewhat unfamiliar distance between the two.
"It's still the same rhetoric as before, always changing tricks to please girls. And the personality is quite bad.,I like to bully elementary school students the most! What do you say about bullying elementary school students in order to avenge the game of the year. What happened to my elementary school student? I didn't cheat you! After pushing away the claws that were intentionally or unintentionally placed on his head again, he sat aside and looked at Yuichi Kudo, who had already mingled with Xiaolan, Conan rolled his eyes and slandered in his heart with contempt.
"2-chome 21 of Rice Flower Town has arrived!" Just when Youyi was talking and laughing with Xiaolan along the way, and teasing Conan who didn't want to pay attention to him from time to time, the taxi driver who saw the door number finally stepped on the brakes and stopped on the side of the road with a sense of relief, reminding the passenger that he would not stop chattering as soon as he got in the car, and that it was time for the passenger to get off.
"Huh? Is it there? Time flies! Xiaolan, don't go back at noon today, in order to thank you for picking me up at the airport, I will cook at noon today! Thank you very much! Maybe I'll be back at noon! After smiling and taking his gift box out of the trunk of the taxi, Yuichi, who had settled the bill, took out the key that Yusaku gave him before leaving from his pocket and shook it at Xiaolan before he walked towards the house first. In order to give his cousin an unforgettable meeting ceremony, he wouldn't just let Xiaolan and Conan go after her so easily.
"Is that so? Then bother! I'll make lunch! Xiaolan, who was originally going to go home to take care of his drunken father after settling down with Yuichi, immediately threw Maori Kogoro out of the clouds after hearing Yuichi's last statement that Shinichi might come back, and followed Yuichi towards Kudo House.
Although Xiaolan has been confused by the nonsense that Shinichi will appear, Conan, who has been watching Yuichi's performance unhappily, is not confused, is his cousin's food for people to eat? Ever since he tasted the best dark dish when he was six years old, Shinichi had lost his appetite for a whole month. Now that Yuichi mentioned that he wanted to cook for them, Conan immediately pulled Xiaolan's hand with cold sweat on his face and stopped it.