Conan's other self

"Hey, Yukiko, long time no see!"

Outside the gate of the Dongdu Photography Center, they were greeted by a middle-aged man in his forties with thinning hair. "She hasn't changed at all, she's still a beauty!"

"of course!"

Kudo Yukiko greeted happily, and then introduced the middle-aged man to the young detective team, "He is Mr. Karata who asked us to watch the new Masked Superman movie."

"first meet!"

“He works as a colorist and always makes my movies look beautiful!”

Tangtian Jingshan smiled sheepishly.

The elementary school students also realized from what they just said that Yukiko's sister was a female star, so they asked curiously.

After a few simple replies, Kudo Yukiko turned to Mr. Karata and asked, "What next? When will the trial screening of Zero be about?"

Size Zero is an industry term commonly used by film and television producers, referring to the internal version of a film that has just been completed before it is shown to the first audience. For some reasons, the premiere of this movie was too late, so they directly used No. 0 as the premiere version.

"It seems it will take some time, maybe around seven o'clock in the evening..." Mr. Tangtian said, "I'm sorry, please wait here for a while, you can visit this place..."

"OK!"

"Ah, Suijima and Negami!"

Mr. Karada called to two men who happened to be passing by, namely the printer Roshi Hoshima and the developer Yoshihiko Negami, "Excuse me, can you show Yukiko and these children a tour of the developing station?"

The two readily agreed, and then took the primary school students on a tour and introduced the facilities of the development laboratory and their work content.

Along the way, they visited screening rooms, darkrooms and other places, and also saw a lot of machines used in film production.

When the tour was almost over, Negami Yoshihiko looked at his watch and noticed that it was almost time, "Oh, it's already 6:40, we should go to the screening room."

"It seems like that test screening will have to wait for a while."

At this time, a man about forty years old came over. He was the salesman Furumura Dehiro.

"Um?"

"Mr. Karata said it would be eleven o'clock at night at the earliest," Nobuhiro Furumura yawned several times, "but it has nothing to do with me, a person who was called a fool and was kicked out of the scene..."

"Looking sleepy?"

"Playing mahjong again?"

Suijima and Negami asked him, and Kudo Yukiko on the other side was a little confused.

"But, this is too bad," Yukiko Kudo glanced at her watch, "If it's eleven o'clock, I won't be able to catch the plane back... The children can't stay here so late..."

"Then, let the children go to my room to sleep for a while?" Suijima suggested, "The apartment I live in is nearby, let them sleep until the preview, and then they will be refreshed after watching the movie. , I’ll take them back in my car!”

"Really? Then it's up to you!"

"But, are you going to let the children live in a room as dirty as yours?" Negee asked.

"That's too much...it's just a little messy, nothing dirty!" Suishima argued, then looked at the primary school students, "Of course, if the children are willing..."

The primary school students naturally agreed readily.

After all, Masked Superman is something they can't refuse.

Conan took out his mobile phone and asked the primary school students to call home and tell them that they would be back late. Kudo Yukiko looked on with a smile, and then took the opportunity to pull Maplehara aside.

Haiyuan Ai looked back and realized that the mother and son probably had something to say quietly, so she looked away and helped urge the children to make phone calls.

"Xiaoxin," Kudo Yukiko whispered, "compared to the last time I saw you, that child seems to like you more."

Feng Yuan blinked and glanced at Hai Yuan Ai in front of him.

"I can't even count the number of times she stared at your face today, and she did the same thing yesterday! Also, when I said she was my daughter-in-law, her expression was quite interesting~"

"…Know it."

It was almost exactly the same as the last time Kudo Yukiko spoke about this topic. However, this time Kudo Yukiko did not give him a chance to change the subject, but continued to ask: "So... what about you, Xiaoxin?"

Fengyuan was slightly startled, then glanced at Haiyuan Ai who was walking with the elementary school students.

Then, in Kudo Yukiko's half-smiling eyes, Maplehara turned around and spoke softly, "Speaking of this, mom..."

"I need your help with something very important..."

…

After handing the children to Suijima, Kudo Yukiko left first. The elementary school students followed Suijima to the apartment where he lived. In fact, the apartment was right next to the Toto Film Studio, and it took less than two minutes to walk there.

Arriving at the door of the room, Suijima opened it, giving the elementary school students a huge shock.

Various things were placed everywhere in the room in front of him. In Feng Yuan's opinion, it was even better than the utility room that Dr. Ali used to place discarded props.

"It's more chaotic than we thought..."

"You should also take care of yourself..."

"Then let's clean up before going to bed!"

The elementary school students were talking one by one, and Ayumi planned to help clean up the house, but Suijima stopped her.

"No, no, you can't touch it." Suijima said, "Then I won't know where anything is!"

Maplehara wholeheartedly agreed. He was like this before. Even though it was messy, he could still find everything. But if his family cleaned it up, he wouldn't be able to find it... But his situation was completely different from the scene in front of him.

Like them, Furumura and Negami also came here, intending to get some sleep before the screening and the following all-night mahjong session.

Suijima led the elementary school students away from the clutter and opened the door of his bedroom, "Then we will sleep on the sofa, and the children will sleep in my room... This bed should be able to sleep six children if it is turned across. Bar…"

There is only one bed in the room, but it is relatively wide.

"It's been a hard day today!" When the primary school students were about to go in to sleep, they noticed that Furumura seemed to be talking to himself while holding a camera to take pictures, "You have to work hard for the all-night mahjong tonight!"

"What is he doing?" Genta asked.

"This guy has recently become keen on recording diaries with videos," Negami explained to Genta before leaving the room, "Well, I still have work to do, so I'll go back first..."

"Okay!" Suijima replied.

After closing the bedroom door and turning off the lights, the pupils quickly lay down on the bed in a row.

Haiyuan Ai slept on the far left side of the bed, with her back to Fengyuan. Fengyuan was sandwiched between her and Conan, closing her eyes and preparing to rest.

However, after a while, Ayumi and others showed no intention of falling asleep, and were still chattering about the movie they were going to watch later.

"Wow, what should I do? I'm so excited that I can't sleep!"

"The movie should be called 'The Potato Baron's Counterattack', right?"

"No, the name mentioned in the trailer seems to be..."

"Ah ah ah, it's true!" Conan, who was upset by the noise, sat up angrily, "It's 'The Potato Queen's Requiem'! You should remember this kind of thing!"

But he didn't get a response. Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko had obviously fallen asleep, and Genta even snored.

"Hey, I fell asleep..."

"It's true that your voice is noisy..." Feng Yuan complained.

"There is no way," Haiyuan Ai obviously hasn't fallen asleep yet, "They are still children, different from us..."

"..."

"Hey, Feng Yuan, Hai Yuan..." After looking at the two of them, Conan hesitated and spoke.

"What's wrong?"

"...Forget it, let's talk about it when we get back."

On the way to the Dongdu Photography Studio, Conan noticed a car acting suspiciously. Kudo Yukiko was at the intersection. When the light turned green, she stopped for a long time without moving, but the car behind her didn't even honk its horn.

However, he never had the chance to communicate with Fengyuan. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to talk, but after thinking about it, he decided not to.

After all, the other self must have noticed it too...

Thinking this, Conan fell asleep.

Feng Yuan and Hai Yuan Ai also quickly fell asleep.

Although Genta also snores, he is still far behind the doctor, so Maplehara sleeps fairly peacefully.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I noticed something unusual, Fengyuan woke up and opened his eyes.

Haiyuan Ai didn't know when she turned over and faced him. When we were camping before, the young detective team had slept together like this. It wasn't because of this that he woke up...

Haihara Ai's hand grabbed the edge of his clothes.

The room was very dark and he couldn't see clearly, but combined with the sound of Haihara Ai's breathing, Fengyuan knew that Haihara Ai was still sleeping.

She didn't hold her clothes hard, as if she was just checking to see if she was there.

During the recent period, the shadow of the organization has made even Maplehara and Conan worried, especially Ai Haibara, who is more sensitive to the organization.

She obviously didn't sleep peacefully...

Although he didn't know how long it was before the scheduled time to wake up, Fengyuan didn't plan to sleep again. He just stared at Haiyuan Ai in the dark without moving... Then, he heard the slight sound of the door opening and extremely light footsteps coming from outside.

Maplehara became alert.

but…

After all, this is someone else's house, and the door you opened is not from this room... Maybe someone else has returned...

Fengyuan thought like this, and soon realized that something was wrong, but then a painful cry echoed through the room.