[Detective Conan] If the Yuanshan family gave birth to a boy

4.

Toyama Xiangji used to always mention his teacher in front of Toyama Rin——

"The teacher's violin skills can be called the best in Japan!"

"Mom, I am so good now because of the teacher's care!"

"When mother takes you to meet the teacher, the old man must be very happy to see you."

Although he knows that his mother's teacher is one of the few musicians in Japan, Rin has never been clear about who the mysterious teacher whose name has never appeared, but after getting off the car, he discovered this... "Hatori" is written on the door of this house! ! !

Rin Toyama felt that his young world view had collapsed after watching his extremely dignified and virtuous mother fly over like a high school girl and give Hattori Seiichiro and Hattori Kaoru (Heiji's grandparents) a bear hug.

It turns out that my mother's teacher is Heiji's grandmother! ! !

According to this routine, it is generally not... the son of a female student and a teacher who came to study because of a long-term relationship sparked sparks and then got married and had children together?At least the female students in the class like to watch this plot!

Rin Toyama looked at his parents, and then at Hattori Heizo and Hattori Shizuka who came out to greet them together.Suddenly remembered... He seemed to have heard from his father... Aunt Jinghua was his childhood sweetheart, the two grew up together, and then Aunt Jinghua married his best friend Hattori Heizo...

Huh?What's going on with this development?Not quite right!

While Toyama Rin continued to be in a daze, Hattori Heiji, wearing a white vest, flashed out of the side yard with a bamboo bucket and a fishing rod, and patted him on the back——

"Yo! Here you come!"

……

Didn't Hattori Heiji know that he would look black in white?That vest was so dazzling against Heiji's complexion!

"Welcome to my grandpa's house as a guest!" The dark-skinned little boy bared his teeth with a smile. - looks very enthusiastic.

"...Are you also here to learn the piano?" Toyama Rin asked, pretending that he didn't see Hattori Heiji's white vest, looking away.

"Huh? I'm here for summer vacation. Grandma said I'm not suitable for learning musical instruments."

Too.Let Hattori Heiji sit on a chair and play quietly, it is better to kill him directly.

At this time, Hattori Seiichiro and Kaoru greeted them to enter the house, and then ordered Heiji to go to the well to hold the watermelon.

"Let's go with Rin too." Hattori Shizuka bent down and touched Toyama Rin's head, "By the way, let Heiji take you around the mansion."

Oh, this is no longer called "home", but "mansion".

Originally, Heiji's house was already too big, but he didn't expect his grandfather's house to be even bigger.

Rin Toyama followed Hattori Heiji for 3 minutes before reaching the small courtyard on the west side. ——There are many cherry blossom trees planted here, and the green leaves are almost illuminated by the sun.In the middle of the yard is a slender pool, in which there are large groups of koi swimming around.There is a small wooden bridge over the water, leading to a small open space on the other side of the pool, where there is a round table with unpacked shogi.

And the stone well is on the left side of this small yard, with a pulley on it.

Rin Toyama, who had never seen such things with his own eyes, was a little confused. After all, his grandfather's house was also in the city, and it was unlikely that he had his own garden.

He gave a rare sigh of admiration, followed Heiji to the side of the stone well, lay down on the edge of the well and looked inside. —It was dark, and the air was exceptionally cool.

"Is it okay to turn this around?"

"You don't have much strength, just stand here and watch."

Rin Toyama froze for a moment, then resentfully withdrew the hand that was touching the pulley, and then clenched into a fist by his side.

Pingci turned the handle more than a dozen times, and a bucket was lifted up. Inside was a small watermelon with neat patterns. The surface was cold, and after being exposed to the sun for a while, water droplets formed like popsicle wrappers.

However, after Hattori Heiji brought up the bucket, nothing happened. ——He turned his back to Rin Toyama, not knowing what he was doing.

"Pingji?"

"...It was you who did that to me first."

Rin Toyama opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

"Hey, did I do something that annoyed you?" Heiji didn't hear a response, so he suddenly dropped what he was doing and turned to look at the friend in front of him.

Quiet, Toyama Rin shook his head.

"I asked you to go out to play and you never agreed." Heiji Hattori looked very angry at this time, his brows were all knit together, he was completely different from him just now! I seldom talk when I'm here! So—”

In order to retaliate against the other party, he deliberately acted indifferent, and then ran out to play with other people.

However, I didn't expect Rin Toyama to be angry or sad because of this. Instead, he seemed to have accepted the change, and his reaction was very calm.

[I went to play baseball with them in the [-]-chome open field, you don't have to wait for me. 】

【it is good. ——Then I'll go first. 】

Then Toyama Rin left with his schoolbag on his back, without even looking back at him.

"Hey! What's wrong with you?" Hattori Heiji shook Toyama Rin's collar violently, "Don't you want our friendship for so many years?!"

So many years of friendship?

Years of friendship?

Friendship?

It should have been a serious matter, but Xiangji and Jinghua, who had been secretly hiding in the room and watched the two children's conversation through the window, almost laughed because of Heiji's words. ——Has the young master overheard his speech again?This kind of expression is not what a primary school student should have.

By the way, how long have these two known each other?Excluding those times when you can barely remember, sitting on the bed and throwing pacifiers, milk powder and toys at each other, it will only be about four or five years.Oh, and you have to subtract the months of "broken friendship"——

Rin Toyama didn't look at Heiji.

He grabbed the opponent's wrist, as if intending to pull Heiji's hand away.

"I won't let it go.——I won't let you go until you explain it clearly!"

"...I have nothing to explain."

"lie!"

"..."

Seeing that he couldn't break Heiji's hand, Rin Toyama simply unzipped and took off the jacket that was being held by the collar by the other party, and turned around to leave, but within a few steps, his pants were grabbed.

"..."

"Keep taking it off, bastard!!!" Heiji yelled.

The upper body is okay, there is only a thin short sleeve left, but when the pants are taken off, there is only fatness left, so how dare I go out to meet people.

So Toyama Rin could only stand there and itch with hatred: "Let go!"

"Don't let it go!"

"Let go!"

"Don't let it go!"

"..."

Rin Toyama's eyes were red when he turned around.

"What do you want me to explain?!" His right hand clenched into a fist and pressed against his side, "Can't you see that I can't keep up with you?!—You can read detective novels for four hours without looking up!! I can't understand anything after more than two hours!!! I will have a headache after practicing the piano for a long time, and I can't get the position right. Reading the score is like looking at tadpoles in the water!!!"

Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment. He knew that his friend had been in poor health since the illness. His father had also said that Rin Toyama would not be able to recover to the best state in his life, so he thought that the other party was so I have been worrying about this for a long time, but I don’t know about the latter ones—because Rin has always... got full marks, and the violin also won prizes in school competitions...

"I dare not tell my parents!!!" Toyama Rin's voice became choked up, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.However, he has been standing in front of Hattori Heiji with his back straight, never showing any sign of submission.

"Why, why not—" Hattori Heiji closed his mouth, looking a little at a loss. ——This was the first time he saw Toyama Rin crying since they were in elementary school.In fact, not only the adults of the two families, but even Heiji himself feels that his friends are much more mature than himself, so after seeing the tears streaming down his cheeks, he didn't know what he should say for a moment .

The yard was quiet for a while, and then Toyama Rin sobbed——

"I'm afraid... I'm afraid that if I tell you, they...they won't want me anymore." The boy looked at his hands and replied vaguely, "After all...like me...me..."

I have never felt that Toyama Rin was as naive as his peers before, because he has always seemed very sensible.Only now, when he said that he was afraid of his parents abandoning him, Hattori Shizuka realized that Rin was also an ordinary child in essence.

A very insecure child.

Not only Rin Toyama, but Xiangji Toyama who hid in the room and planned to see how the two children reconciled also cried. ——Because of Rin's words "like me..."

Her son couldn't concentrate for a long time, and he was so inferior that he was afraid that his parents would abandon him.The two of them—one of them is a criminal police officer—had never noticed such a serious matter.If she hadn't pulled Jinghua to "squat" together today, they might have been kept a secret for a while.

Rin Toyama studied and practiced the piano seriously as before, and never showed any discomfort.It wasn't until Hattori Heiji knocked on his shell that he finally burst out.

How does a child endure those pressures alone?

She remembered the "test" that Toyama Ginjiro put on his son many years ago. —and throw him into the mountains.

Now Mr. Toyama's old mobile phone has become Rin's dictionary.To this day, the audio at that time still exists in the mobile phone and has not been deleted.

She used to think that Toyama Ginshiro deliberately left it as a souvenir, as evidence that her son was the first time to molest her.However, thinking about it now, Rin Toyama was actually very scared at that time, and this emotion has been brought to the present.That's why it is kept until now, while other things that occupy memory are deleted again and again.

Sometimes, an inadvertent sentence from an adult may be remembered by a child for a lifetime.

Xiangji remembers that her father once told her a ghost story to amuse her: the dolls thrown in the dump are cursed, and they will follow the passers-by home, and then stand by the pillow in the middle of the night and look at the doll. people.She really believed it at that time, and until now, she has her own son, but she still can't help but feel frightened when she sees a dirty doll discarded beside the trash can when walking at night.

So Rin...

Outside the room, Hattori Heiji watched Rin Toyama wipe away tears in front of him in astonishment, and then clenched his fist as if he had made up his mind.

"cold!"

Hearing this, the boy shifted his gaze to him.

"I won't leave you behind!" Heiji said loudly, like a hot-blooded young man who just joined the job swears to the Sakura police badge, "Even if you really become a fool who can't understand in the future!"

Frightened by the boy's sudden outburst, the few sparrows on the cherry tree flapped their wings and flew away, leaving behind the hot air and slightly shaking tree shadows.

"We're still good friends!!!—forever!!! I won't break my word!!! So, so—"

Toyama Rin felt that he would never forget this sunny summer day. ——In the courtyard of the Kyushu mansion, the surroundings are filled with the smell of green grass and leaves.

Hattori Heiji reached out to him, telling him not to be afraid.