Conan's other self

That's how things came to an end for now.

Akai Shuichi later resumed his identity as Subaru Okiya and returned to Kudo's house.

However, even though he himself was already able to skillfully transform into Okiya Subaru's face, Kudo Yukiko still rushed back from the United States to check on his transformation.

"Oh, that's great!" In front of the dressing mirror, Kudo Yukiko looked at Subaru Okiya who had completed his transformation, "Your transformation is already perfect!"

Maplehara, Conan, Judy and Kamel, who were specially called over by Subaru Okiya, were all watching.

"I don't dare to do it!" Okiya Subaru said modestly, "I can only dress up like this now, and the little girl next door has just learned it and is already better than me."

"Don't compare like that, Xiao Ai is really talented in this area. But this way, I don't have to come over every week to check on your disguise!"

"I'm causing you trouble."

"Oh, it's a pity that I have one less reason to come over to see you!" Yukiko Kudo held her face in her right hand and smiled.

Conan couldn't help but give his mother a dead fish eye.

"He's just another person." Looking at Okiya Subaru's face, Judy sighed.

"Is this really Akai?" This is Kamel.

"My voice hasn't changed yet?" Subaru Okiya said, and then pressed the button of the collar-type voice changer, "However, as long as you use this collar-type voice changer worn around your neck, you can become Subaru Okiya. .”

"The voice, the voice has changed!"

"Thanks to Dr. Agasa, who made the voice changer, and Yukiko, the wife of the owner of this house, Yusaku Arto, for her cross-dressing skills."

"Humph~" Yukiko showed a happy expression.

"I would also like to thank Kudo Shinichi who came back specially to help transform into Okiya Subaru, Miss Haihara Ai who performed the transformation, and the two children who made this series of plans."

Okiya Subaru looked at Maplehara and Conan again.

Fengyuan was a little embarrassed, he was not very good at dealing with this kind of face-to-face thank you.

Moreover, the plan for that day was basically made by Conan. This was because both parties were actually their own people, and Maplehara didn't see anything wrong with Conan's plan.

He just offered to change himself back to Kudo Shinichi.

After all, because of the time it took for the medicine to take effect, it was Haihara Ai who needed to help transform Kudo Shinichi.

The next few people chatted for a while, and soon Kudo Yukiko rushed to the airport to catch the flight back to the United States, while Maplehara and Conan returned to the doctor's house together.

At the doctor's house, Haihara Ai was sitting on the sofa, flipping through a fashion magazine, while the doctor prepared four cups of black tea, as if he was going to play some trick with three real elementary school students.

…

the other side.

Toru Amuro drove Belmode in his car and exchanged information with her in this way.

He was persuaded by Akai Shuichi on the phone that day, and his true identity was exposed, so he gave up his plan to capture Akai Shuichi and send him to the organization, and concealed the matter.

"So didn't I say that?" Belmore held his head with one hand and looked at Toru Amuro who was driving, "How can that Akai be still alive?"

"Yeah, I'm worrying too much."

"Don't do this again?"

"Okay. But if something else happens, please help me." Toru Amuro said, "Anyway, I am one of the few people who knows your secret. If members of the organization know it, they will be shocked! I didn’t expect you to be the boss’s…”

He didn't finish his sentence.

At this moment, his temple was pressed against the muzzle of the gun.

"If you say one more word," Bellmore said in a brisk tone, but this casual attitude showed that she didn't mind shooting directly, "your brains will be splashed on the windshield!"

"Then it's better not to leave it. It will be very troublesome to clean it up."

"It doesn't matter, this is not my car."

"I'm not talking about my brain. Didn't I say it before?" Toru Amuro explained, "If my news is interrupted, your secrets will be leaked to the inside of the organization - I have already arranged it."

"Yes, there is such a thing." Belmore seemed to remember it just now, put away his pistol and looked out the window.

"Don't worry, I will keep your secret well. I won't be careless."

"Oh, is it so?"

"...I felt a little strange last time. What on earth do you want to say? Did I neglect something?"

"It's nothing. It's better that we don't act without authorization from now on." Bellmore changed the subject, "There has been no progress in your matter with Shirley. Another rat has sneaked into the organization. Gin seems to take it seriously. Cohen's The revenge has not been avenged yet..."

"He thinks it's the rat?"

"Yes. Counting the man named Bendo, Akai, and that man, there are already three of them. It was the police officer who lurked in and was killed before he could ask his name."

"..."

"His code name seems to be..." Belmore recalled for a moment.

"Scotch."

…

Kudo's house.

"Why not? Scotch whiskey."

Kamel looked at the cabinet and said, "As a whiskey lover, Akai likes both Scotch whiskey and bourbon."

“I’m just into bourbon these days.”

"Speaking of bourbon," Judy asked, "Amuro Toru really plans to hand over Shuichi to the organization? What if you tell the story of how you were caught?"

"If you were taken as hostages, he expected that I would remain silent." Okiya Subaru replied.

That night, a group of Japanese police officers tried to catch Judy and Kamel who were heading to Riyayama Road. He, who had been hiding in the two people's car for a long time, helped solve the matter and informed Tohru Amuro of his identity through the phone calls of those police officers. idea.

"Then what?" Judy then asked, "Why would you rather let us keep checking to see if anyone is following you than call us here? Shouldn't you just let us watch your superb cross-dressing skills?"

Subaru Okiya pressed the collar-shaped voice changer, switching back to Akai Shuichi's voice, "This morning, Reina Mizuno sent me an email."

"What!?"

"So, the fact that you are still alive, Akai, has not been exposed."

"Probably. But the email that was said to be an email actually only had three English letters." Subaru Okiya took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

"Three English letters?"

"What's the abbreviation?"

"No, it's a wine name that you are all very familiar with." Subaru Okiya showed the email to Judy and Kamel, "RUM."

…

"Rum?"

Haibara Ai looked away from the fashion magazine and looked at Feng Yuan who was sitting next to her.

At the table in the other corner of the living room, the doctor said that he put lemon juice in one of the four cups of black tea and vinegar in three. He also claimed that he had super powers and could tell which cup had lemon juice without smelling it.

In fact, these four cups of black tea were filled with vinegar. The doctor just wanted to pretend that he drank the black tea by forcefully drinking it and insisting that the cup he took was filled with lemon juice.

Maplehara and Conan could see this trick at a glance, so they were asked by the doctor not to participate.

So Conan watched the show on the side, and Kaede Principle came over to tell Haibara Ai about the news he just learned from Subaru Okiya, that is, Rum was dispatched.

"Yeah." Feng Yuan nodded.

"As I told you before, I don't know much about wine." Haihara Ai said softly, "But if you are talking about the code name of the second-in-command of the black organization, which is called Rum, I know it."

"Second in command..."

"At least that's what I heard when I was still in the organization, although I haven't met him. Do you need to know about him?"

"yes."

"Then I'm afraid I can't be of much help. The rumors I heard about him when I was in the organization were all kinds of things. Some said he was a strong man, others said he was a woman-like man, and some said he was an old man. , and some people say that those are all his substitutes."

Haiyuan Ai pointed his chin with his index finger, frowning slightly, as if he was trying hard to recall, "Well... he seems to have another very obvious feature, but I can't remember it for a while..."

"It's okay, there's no rush."

"Then what happens next?" Haihara Ai then asked, "Isn't that Rum also looking for me?"

"I probably didn't come here for you," Feng Yuan replied. "According to Reina Mizuna's information, Toru Amuro, that is, Bourbon, came here just to find you. There is no reason why he would send another Rum."

"Ah, are you saying I'm not that important?"

"...Do you really hope that you are that important to the organization?"

"Hmph, Mr. Detective is really good at comforting people. I feel much better," Haiyuan Ai snorted, "Then what is he doing?"

"Hmm...not sure."

"Not sure?" Hui Yuan Ai was stunned for a moment.

She originally didn't think Kudo would know such a thing, she just asked casually, but his answer obviously meant something else.

"Have you already made a guess?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"It's just a very basic guess, of no value. I think it may have something to do with Sera Masumi. After all, she chased her over from the UK and has been inquiring about information..."

Hui Yuarai thought for a while.

"Speaking of Sera Masumi," Fengyuan hesitated for a moment, "There is one more thing..."

"What's wrong?"

"Well...she just sent a message, inviting me and Conan to go to the hotel where she is temporarily staying next week..."

…

A few days later.

The appointed time soon arrived.

"Is it really okay?"

In the hotel room, Akai Mari scrolled through several photos on her phone, "You don't even know who Kudo Shinichi is now, do you?"

"But one of them must be Kudo Shinichi!"

"Aha?"

"And I really can't help it!" Masumi Sera continued to talk about her difficulties, "I think it's all Kudo Shinichi! But how is this possible..."

"What if it's not the case?" Akai Marie was a little dissatisfied, "In that case, I can't tell them about my affairs..."

"That's why I want mom to help me take a look!"

"...What about this one?" Mari Akai pulled her phone and switched the photo to the one with Maplehara, "You also said that you haven't seen him a few times, right? Why do you think he is also Kudo Shinichi?"

"He doesn't wear glasses."

"Huh?" Akai Marie looked at her daughter unhappily.

"That's it." But Sera Masumi didn't think there was anything wrong with this. "When I see that face, I'm reminded of that time ten years ago. And this kid seems to be very powerful."

"Very powerful? Can you fight well?"

"No. He is very keen. It is difficult to secretly take a photo of him. In the end, I was the only one who managed to get such a photo by taking it in the open!" Masumi Sera explained, "The most important thing is -"

"What is it?"

"He immediately recognized that I was a girl!"

"..." Akai Marie was silent for a moment, "After coming to Japan this time, the first time you saw him was wearing a school uniform and skirt, right?"

"That's right. But even my classmates were shocked when they saw me for the first time! I was wearing the same skirt at that time, and they all knew in advance that I was a girl!"

"..."

"But that guy didn't show any surprise at all! And we had met him when we were in London! Even if someone told him that I was a girl after that, he would have looked at it a few times, right?" Maybe he knew I was a girl when he was in London – if he doesn’t remember me, he must have magic!”

Akai Marie felt a little distressed.

"Also, his friends all call him by his last name..."

"What's going on?"

"Holmes and Watson also have the same surname! It must be because of this that he let others call him that... Kudo Shinichi also said that he is a disciple of Holmes."

"I know, so even though you haven't seen him often, you still think he is also Kudo Shinichi," Akai Marie decided to avoid the topic for the time being, "But can you really believe it?"

She looked at the photos of Maplehara and Conan a few more times, "In addition to being very sharp, he is the same as the boy named Edogawa Conan, he just looks smarter."

Even if one of these two people is indeed Kudo Shinichi, it also means that they have to tell these two people.

"It's no problem!" Sera Masaki patted his chest to assure him.

"Then what? When will they come?"

"It's almost the appointed time."

"Have you told them that just the two of them are coming?"

"Yes, I told them not to bring those children!" Masumi Sera said, looking at the hotel room door. At that moment, there was a knock on the door, "Ah! It's coming, it's coming. !”

"Proceed with caution!"

Akai Marie then warned, "If they do not meet our expectations, or if they are not Kudo Shinichi, please ask them to leave. Because we need to explore new areas!"

"Okay, I know! Just hide in the bathroom until you figure it out!"

They installed a camera in the room, and Akai Marie could secretly observe the two of them using a computer in the bathroom.

After Akai Marie hid in the bathroom, Sera Masumi rushed over to open the door.

"I'm waiting for you! Conan! Maplehara!"

Then her face stiffened.

Because in front of her were not only Maplehara and Conan, but also——

"Hello!" Yuanzi waved.

"We are here too!" Xiaolan said with a smile.

——Although these two did not bring those children, they did bring two people who were not children.

Thinking in his mind, Sera Masumi couldn't help but said to Feng Yuan and Conan: "I, it turns out you two are not the only ones here?"

Maplehara turned to look at Conan.

Conan, who was a little embarrassed, pretended not to see it, "Ah, um! I said I was going to find Sister Sera with Maplehara. After there was a swimming pool in the hotel where Sister Sera stayed, Sister Xiaolan said that they also wanted to come..."

"Ah, am I disturbing you?" Xiaolan asked.

Yes, it is indeed disturbing.

"No, no," even though she thought so in her heart, Sera Masumi still said, "I just didn't know beforehand and was just shocked."

"oh…"

"Then you go to the swimming pool first! I'll clean up and go there."

"good!"

Xiaolan and Sonoko turned around and walked towards the swimming pool, while Sera Masumi quickly walked back to the room and closed the door. Then, she made an apology gesture with her hands folded to Akai Mari who quietly opened the bathroom door and looked over.

"Idiot!" Akai Marie scolded, and then coughed twice.

Sera Masumi was a little embarrassed and quickly went to pack her swimsuit.

Outside the door, Conan was still standing two steps behind, looking at Fengyuan with a questioning look.

Fengyuan nodded slightly, and then gestured towards Xiaolan. If they don't follow, Xiaolan will turn around and call them.

After being slightly away from the room, Maplehara whispered to Conan the noise he had just heard: "There are indeed other people inside."

"Did you say anything?" Conan looked happy. As expected of his other self, it is much easier to use than a bug in some situations.

"That was a female, she must be young. The soundproofing effect of the hotel room was pretty good, but she was also very close to the door. She probably just came out of the bathroom... I heard an 'idiot' and two coughs."

"I just came out of the bathroom..." Conan thought for a moment, "Could he be hiding in the bathroom to observe us with a surveillance camera or something like that... Tsk, I knew there must be some conspiracy..."

Fortunately, Sera Masumi still doesn’t know what’s so great about Maplehara…

"They had a few conversations after knocking on the door before."

Feng Yuan then repeated the two sentences he heard.

"If it's not Kudo Shinichi..."