As Valentine's Day approaches, many pastry shops are offering customers to make their own chocolates, and they only need to provide the venue, tools and materials for an additional fee.

The same goes for a store in downtown Rice Flower.

It is here that Ai and Ayumi make chocolate.

Chocolate can be made at home, but the tools and materials are available to make chocolate look like a human face, and they want to surprise the doctor and the boys.

At this moment, Ash Yuan Ai is carefully adjusting the appearance of the soft silicone chocolate mold with a tool, although it is only half done, but judging from the hairstyle part that has been basically completed, the one she is doing is obviously the appearance of Kaede Yuan or Conan, and as for who it is, it depends on whether there are glasses at the end.

"You're doing it like oh, Grayplain."

Ayumi leaned over and looked at the chocolate she had just finished giving to the Doctor and was ready to take a break.

"Thank you."

"Whose is this?"

"Yes—"

Ash Yuan Wai responded casually, but was abruptly interrupted by another voice.

"Ah, I found it!"

"Ayumi! Gray Plains! ”

The voices of Motota and Mitsuhiko suddenly came from behind them, startling Ashbara, his hands trembled, and the half-finished product that had just been carefully made became a mess directly.

Gray Yuan looked back.

Dr. Asa walked after Motota and Mitsuhiko, and Kaedehara stood a few steps away, looking at her with an innocent expression.

Kaedehara felt like she was in trouble.

Gray Yuan Ai and Ayumi obviously wanted to keep it a secret for the time being, but they used "reasoning" to find them with the doctor and others...

And judging from Gray Yuan's expression now, she is obviously a little unhappy now, and she seems to have been frightened just now...

After casually talking to Dr. He and the others, leaving Ayumi to deal with the three of them, Gray Yuan Ai jumped out of the chair, came to Kaedehara's side, and then pulled him to the corner.

"How did you know we were here?"

Gray Yuan's tone was a little unkind.

"When Ayumi went out, she told her family that you had arrived and were waiting for her, and it was still snowing, so she wouldn't be relieved that she would go too far alone, so I thought you should be near her house.

At this time of year, the two of you are going out alone and you don't want anyone else to know, so I guess you might have come out to make chocolate..."

“……”

“… I'm sorry. Kaedehara apologized honestly.

Although Doctor, Motota, and Mitsuhiko are the most active, he is clearly the one who has contributed the most.

“… Mr. Detective is using his reasoning skills to the boring place again... I just messed up the chocolate I'm making..."

"You know what? That was meant to be for you," Gray Plains continued, "Now..."

……

The chocolate had to be refrigerated for a few hours for it to form, so after waiting in the car for a while, the group returned to the doctor's house together. And now that it has been discovered, Gray Hara Ai and Ayumi simply directly distributed the Yili chocolate to everyone.

"It's so cute!"

"It's like everyone else!"

Dr. Asa also received two copies. With two chocolates in his hand, he resisted the urge to eat them now, intending to pay attention to the image in front of the children and take another bite.

Motota and Mitsuhiko couldn't put it down, and some were reluctant to eat. Ayumi carefully put away the chocolate that was going to be left for Conan after sending it out.

"Yours." Ash Hara stuffed the small box containing chocolates directly into Kaedehara's arms.

"Thanks." Kaedehara opened it and took a look.

The chocolate in front of me is obviously based on his own face from the hairstyle, but it is clearly not finished. Although I knew this result when I was in the store, I still have to be depressed.

Sure enough, detectives not only have to reveal the truth, but also carefully consider how much truth they have to reveal.

"Because you spooked me out of nowhere, your share has become like this," Gray Yuan emphasized again, "Don't you like it?" ”

……

Night.

The Doctor was a little tired as he had sent the children home, and his snoring was louder and more continuous than usual.

Fortunately, with the earplugs made by the doctor that can block the snoring sound alone, Kaedehara slept peacefully.

But tonight is clearly not a night of nothing, just as Conan is still dealing with murders and gunmen.

There was the sound of light footsteps, followed by the sound of the bedroom door being gently pushed open.

Kaedehara, who had always been alert, woke up from his sleep.

But he almost realized who it was, and he was still sleepy, so he just opened his eyes and looked at the bedside.

The visitor also turned on the lamp next to his bed very intimately.

Then he saw the muzzle of the black hole pointed at his head.

Gray Yuan Ai half sat on the edge of his bed, holding a pistol in his right hand, looking at him with a cold expression.

“… Gray Plains? "Having just woken up from sleep, Kaedehara is still a little dazed.

"I'm really sorry," Gray Yuan's tone and expression were the same, but also cold, revealing a slight chill, "It seems that there is still cold black blood flowing in my body..."

Kaedehara blinked suspiciously, not moving or speaking.

"Don't you understand?"

The corners of Gray Yuan's mouth were slightly hooked, and he seemed a little proud, "I'm actually a spy sent by the organization to spy on you, an important test subject..."

"However, I thought it was a little strange last time, you never seem to ask me about the organization... and don't worry about my true purpose..."

“… Because the puzzle has to be solved by yourself to be interesting. Kaede Yuan thought for a moment, "Moreover, you know more about the organization than I do, and I believe that if there is anything I need to know, you will definitely tell me..."

"Really?" Gray Yuan's expression became more and more indifferent, and his ice-blue eyes seemed to be frozen by ice, "But, Kudo, you seem to have forgotten that you obviously said that you were interested in solving puzzles..."

"Not all of them, some puzzles can make you fall into them just by looking at them..."

"No need to quibble, Kudo."

Ash Yuan coldly interrupted Kaedehara's defense.

"You must have discovered the identity of my female spy, so you didn't ask me... You want to take advantage of me in reverse... It's a pity that you weren't careful enough, and I found out...

In that case, I'll just have to gag you...

Rest assured, you are the first to receive this gift, so accept it with gratitude... You should feel content, so that...

You have nothing to worry about. ”

Bang –

A small gunfire rang out suddenly.

Dr. Asasa on the other side seemed to sense something, but he just rolled over, and his snoring didn't even stop. In general, when asleep, only his own snoring can wake him up.

He might never know what happened next to him tonight.

……

Kaedehara is still alive.

He stared at the seven roses that popped out of the toy gun for a moment, then came back to his senses and scrambled to take the small box that Gray Yuan Ai had suddenly thrown over.

"I'm just worried that some detective will be so sad that the chocolate I received is a half-finished product and can't sleep," Gray Hara quickly received the toy gun and flowers behind his back, "so I thought about it and decided to give him my share." ”

"I don't think much about it." She turned to leave the room and glanced back at him at the door, "Don't forget to brush your teeth." ”

And so the door was closed.

Gray Hara's acting skills are so good...

He almost believed...

Kaedehara recalled the appearance of Gray Yuan's acting skills just now, and planned to keep it firmly in his heart, and then put his attention on the box in his hand.

He stared at the box for a few more moments before opening it.

Inside the box is a piece of chocolate modeled after Ash Hara's face.

Unlike the one Ayumi did, this one doesn't look the same, and it's obviously made by Gray Hara Wai herself.

This one is more delicately made, and the main features of the hairstyle, eyes, and mouth are almost identical, and it looks lifelike.

It's too much like...

It's like it's so reluctant to eat it, and it's a little weird to bite into...

But after all, chocolate is meant to be eaten, not seen. Thinking about the last sentence that Gray Yuan had just left, Kaede Yuan was entangled for a while and still took a bite.

The bite seems to be the position of the mouth...

Hopefully Gray Plains won't mind...

But... It's so sweet...

Just like the peanut and blueberry jam sandwich that Gray Yuan loves to eat, the sugar content of this thing is significantly beyond his standard.

Still, he ate the whole chocolate one bite at a time, and then he wiped the corners of his mouth with his index finger and swallowed the chocolate crumbs from his index finger.

Speaking of which, this is the first time he's eaten chocolate in his current capacity... He still hasn't eaten the copy that Ayumi sent.

It tastes so good.

Thinking like this, Kaedehara picked up his phone and looked at the time, and found that the time was just past a few minutes, and it was already Valentine's Day.

Putting down the phone, Kaedehara got up and put on his coat, and obediently went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, with the smell of chocolate still lingering between his lips and teeth.

It's so sweet.

(End of chapter)