Conan Moslin

When entering the entrance of the detached apartment, the well-dressed butler was already standing at the door and greeted respectfully.

"Ma'am, you're home."

"Where's the master?"

"Yes, I think the master should be in the study."

Butler Koike Fumio glanced at the middle-aged man with three high school students and two elementary school students behind her. It seemed like a strange arrangement for a picnic. He asked with a little doubt, "Who are these guests..."

Tsujimura Kimie looked back and said calmly, "He is an old friend of mine, Mr. Maori."

and then?

Fumio Koike waited for her to continue her introduction with a smile, but after waiting for more than ten seconds, nothing came of it.

As a dedicated butler, he would naturally continue the conversation even if his wife did not continue.

"Well, Mr. Maori, please follow me to the reception room..."

"No, I'll bring them to see my husband."

Kimie Tsujimura refused immediately.

"Yes."

At this time, a door near the entrance was opened, and the girl in light purple clothes greeted the visitor with a smile, her tone intimate and natural.

"Mom, it's you."

"Ah - it's in the photo... mmm -"

Hattori Heiji covered the mouth of the outspoken Mori Kogoro.

Isn't it the most basic detective rule to keep the information of the person the client asks you to investigate confidential? ! What's wrong with this uncle?

Kurian, who was beside Mao Lilan, saw that Katsuragi Sachiko, who had a sweet smile in the photo, now had an even brighter smile at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.

Does she...really know nothing?

On the other hand, Tsujimura Kimie frowned in a bad mood, as if he didn't want to see her: "Why are you here?"

"I..." Seeing that she was not in a good mood, Katsuragi Sachiko was about to explain when a cheerful voice came from behind her.

"I asked her to come." Takayoshi Tsujimura came out naturally from behind the door, put his arm around his girlfriend's shoulders and explained with a smile, "I saw that my father was unwilling to meet Sachiko, so I forced him to agree."

He glanced in the direction of the stairs: "Dad has locked himself in the study since a while ago and has not come down. I went upstairs to call him just now, but he didn't answer."

Sachiko nodded with a slightly red face, and then asked with a smile: "By the way, Mom, are these guests your friends?"

"Does it have nothing to do with you?" Tsujimura Kimie's tone immediately became sharp. She rebuked mercilessly, "Also, I don't think you have the status to call my mother short and wide now!"

The smile on Katsuragi Sachiko's face froze. She opened her mouth, and the other hand on her wrist unconsciously grasped the cuff. After a long while, she lowered her eyes and replied "yes" in a low voice.

Sensing her loss, the hand on her shoulder hugged her tighter.

"What the hell... a second wife, what's so great about that!"

Katsuragi Sachiko forced a smile and shook her head slightly at him, signaling him to stop talking.

Takayoshi Tsujimura then gave up, but there was still dissatisfaction in his eyes.

He didn't have a very deep relationship with his stepmother. After all, his father had just remarried, not lost his wife.

He was already in his teens at the time, not old enough to know nothing.

If his mother had not talked to him in person before she left, and he had known that the divorce was a normal result of a breakdown in their relationship and had nothing to do with the woman who showed up in the house a year later, he would have reluctantly called her "Mom" for the sake of his father's face.

However, even his mother did not object to his relationship with Sachiko, so why could a stepmother arbitrarily criticize his lover? !

Is she Sachiko's mother?

"Everyone, please follow me." Tsujimura Kimie did not hear his stepson's mutterings of dissatisfaction, and of course did not know what he was thinking. Just as he was about to take a few people upstairs, his father-in-law who came down the stairs blocked his way.

As if she had overcome all the difficulties, she took a deep breath and asked, "Why, Dad, you haven't left yet?"

"What are you talking about? I was just about to show you this fish I caught..."

Toshimitsu Tsujimura stood a few steps behind his back with his hands behind his back. He was not aware that he was blocking the way. Instead, he took out a rolled-up piece of paper from behind like a magician.

He let go of the paper seriously, and it unfolded, revealing a lifelike fish, smiling like a naughty boy.

"How about this fish? Is it big?"

Tsujimura Kimie replied reluctantly, "It is indeed quite big..."

"I have to go upstairs first. I'll meet you in the Japanese-style room soon."

Tsujimura Toshimitsu stroked his beard and nodded, then he moved away from the stairwell and showed off the exhibition to his grandson who was still downstairs: "Guishan, this fish of mine..."

Takayoshi Tsujimura was somewhat helpless: "Grandfather..."

Kogoro Mouri and a few others followed the lady upstairs in a mighty manner, but Sachiko suddenly noticed that Conan, who was left behind, looked unhappy, and spoke with some concern.

"Are you feeling unwell, little brother?"

Conan was being pulled away by Xiaolan. When he heard the question, before he could react, Ran Mouri had already stopped.

Conan shook his head before reacting.

Are you asking him?

"I didn't...A-choo!"

How could it be possible that everything was fine... Ran Maori frowned worriedly.

I really shouldn't have come...

Kogoro Mouri looked back and thought that Conan should be fine with so many people taking care of him, so he and Heiji Hattori went upstairs one after the other.

Kuriyasu and Huihara were left at the end. They looked at each other and decided not to join in the fun.

Xiaochi Fumio was still standing respectfully by the side. Hearing this, he immediately said, "The family doctor who performs routine checkups for the master is on his way. When he arrives, he can check him as well."

Katsuragi Yukiko suggested enthusiastically: "I am a medical student. I can give your little brother a simple physical examination first."

"When Sachiko was interning at the hospital, she treated some patients under the guidance of professional doctors. She will definitely be fine." Takayoshi Tsujimura nodded in agreement.

"Am I right? Doctor Sachiko~"

Unfortunately, he was the intern's guinea pig patient.

Seeing him making such an inappropriate joke, Katsuragi Sachiko awkwardly pushed away her boyfriend's face and continued to say to Mao Lilan: "Anyway, before the family doctor comes, I can take care of this little brother first."

Toshimitsu Tsujimura unfolded the drawing paper that he had folded away, pulled it to cover his face, pretending not to see what the two people were doing, and turned to look at the butler.

Koike Fumio immediately lowered his head and said, "I'll go and ask the family doctor to come quickly."

"Then I'll leave Conan to you, Ms. Sachiko!"

After thanking Miss Sachiko with a sincere face, Mao Lilan turned around to look for Conan, but found that the child who was hiding behind Kurian and Haibara was gone.

"Conan... Where's Conan?"

Li An leaned against the handrail of the stairs and pointed upstairs silently.

"He went upstairs."