Playing house in the anime world

(Note: Date Ko died a year before the story began, so at this time in Detective Conan's timeline there was still a year before Gin was beaten with a club, and Edogawa Conan was still Kudo Shinichi at this time)

He actually heard someone say that they had never heard of Kudo Yusaku. Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but start to speculate the identities of the two passers-by out of curiosity.

He, as a son, is not bragging, his father Yusaku Kudo is really quite famous, and few people say they don't know him.

Even if you haven't read Yusaku Kudo's books, you should at least have heard of him, because he appears in the news quite frequently.

And seeing how enthusiastically they were discussing books, they must be reading enthusiasts. So it would be even more strange if Kudo Yusaku wasn't known.

Kudo Shinichi guessed that they might be foreigners, but Kudo Yusaku is quite famous all over the world, so...

After all, they are foreigners, right? After all, the world is so big, there will always be people who don’t read mystery novels.

But they speak fluent Japanese. Did they learn Japanese specifically for traveling?

Judging from his behavior... it seems that he is walking around with a map, so there is a high probability that he is not a local, and the possibility that he is a foreigner has increased a little.

But they seem to be very familiar with the direction of the streets and various transportation facilities, so... they might be from Asian countries?

"You haven't observed it yet?"

Aiko Gojo turned around and looked at Kudo Shinichi, who had followed them all the way to the train.

Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment and took a step back in embarrassment.

Oops, I was so engrossed in my thoughts that I completely forgot to hide more discreetly!

Kocho Kanae had noticed someone was following them a long time ago, but since this person seemed to be just an ordinary student, she suspected there might be some misunderstanding. However, it turned out that this person was staring at them very seriously and even followed them all the way to the train with full concentration.

But they are going to the villa, wouldn’t it be impolite to follow them?

"I... ahem, I, I want to take this subway too!" Kudo Shinichi took a look at the places the train would pass by and saw the area where his home was at a glance.

It's a good opportunity to take this train home.

The three of them then strangely sat in the same row of seats on the tram.

Aiko Gojo began to look at the boy openly. He looked young, and the blue school uniform he was wearing was quite nice and suited his temperament very well. His hairstyle was also quite unique, with a tuft of hair sticking up on the back of his head.

"Big brother, are you a high school student?" Gojo Aiko came over and started talking.

"Well, what about you? You should still be an elementary school student, right?" Kudo Shinichi felt that this was a good opportunity to ask some questions, and secretly prepared to continue to verify his guess.

"No." Aiko Gojo understood that it was time for her favorite guessing game again.

Not an elementary school student?

Kudo Shinichi was full of confusion. Could he still be in kindergarten?

He felt that was unlikely, so...a junior high school student?

There are indeed some junior high school students who are shorter.

Kudo Shinichi: "You're a junior high school student, right?"

Gojo Aiko nodded: "Is the big brother a pervert?"

Kudo Shinichi was shocked by such direct words, and he quickly explained that he was just wandering around the street with nothing to do.

Isn't that even more suspicious? Gojo Aiko looked like a perverted stalker who claimed he was just wandering around after being discovered.

"No, that..." Kudo Shinichi gritted his teeth, "I'm just trying to figure out the identities of the people on the street. For example, I think you two are foreign tourists, but you don't look like them, so..."

Aiko Gojo and Kanae Kocho looked at each other and thought, oh no! They should not have exposed this guy if they had known this earlier. Although they didn't know why he thought they were foreign tourists, they really didn't know what to say if they were asked about their identities.

You can't say anymore that they come from an Onmyoji family, can you?

At the critical moment, Aiko Gojo remained very calm.

"Our identities are secret, you can guess them yourself, but we can only stay here for a certain period of time. If you can't guess them by then, you can only wait until next time."

Kudo Shinichi was stunned. What does "my identity is a secret" mean? And I can only stay here for a certain period of time, so I am just a tourist, right?

"Is it really a tourist?" Kudo Shinichi refused to believe it. He was going to guess it today! No, he was going to infer it!

“That’s not wrong, is it?”

“Is that a foreign tourist?”

“That shouldn’t be right, right?”

"Are they... tourists from other cities? Are they here for vacation in Beika Town?"

“That shouldn’t be right, right?”

"Is that... a rare trip from some country town to the city?"

Aiko Gojo continued to shake her head with an innocent look on her face.

Kudo Shinichi initially suspected that she was actually playing a trick on him and deliberately going against him.

"Aiko, we've arrived at our stop." Kanae Kocho reminded Aiko Gojo who was having a great time.

Kudo Shinichi looked up and found that the bus stop near his home had arrived, so he quickly got off the bus as well.

A group of three people walked together inexplicably, and then they all felt something was wrong.

Aiko Gojo: Why is he still following us?

Butterfly Kanae: Does he live here too?

Kudo Shinichi: Why are they getting closer to my house?

"Aiko, look what I caught!" Kenji Hagiwara stood at the door of 2-chome-20, with a pile of boxes around him.

Aiko Gojo ran over with a puzzled look on her face, and saw an extra-large puppy doll in the box.

"Hahaha~ I never thought that the day would come when I would catch such a big doll!" Kenji Hagiwara looked very proud.

"The truth is, he spent an hour and a lot of money in the mall to get this..." Jinpei Matsuda quietly sabotaged the situation.

Hagiwara Kenji quickly excused himself: "Because we were almost there, just a little bit short!"

"And every time you were just a little bit short?" Jinpei Matsuda even suspected that the boss saw that he was so miserable and persistent that he secretly adjusted the program of the claw machine so that he finally caught it.

After all, the money he spent was enough to buy a doll of this size, so it could be said that he had wasted an hour.

"A brown dog with fluffy fur and a jewel bow tie..." Aiko Gojo muttered while holding the doll, "I understand! This is Dog Dazai!"

Kudo Shinichi: What kind of weird things is she talking about?

Hagiwara Kenji: "Hahahaha——Dog Dazai hahahaha——"

Jinpei Matsuda sighed helplessly, it was amazing that she could make that connection.

"Oh no... Now that you mention it, I'm starting to feel a bit like Dazai-san." Koukou Kanae imagined Dazai Osamu. Isn't it brown + fluffy hair + jeweled bow tie? The only thing missing is a bandage for the soul.

"This is..." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at Kudo Shinichi, "Aiko, you made new friends so quickly? You really can make new friends wherever you go."