After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

The little girl is afraid of him, and Ye Guang understands this very well.

After all, even if he has already left the job, the deterrent power belonging to the "Grim Reaper" still cannot be completely dissipated. Some sensitive children will indeed be afraid of him unconsciously.

But the other four people around him were also terrified, so he didn't quite understand it.

Hikaru Ueno hesitated for a moment, and said to the girl: "You..."

He originally wanted to ask the other party directly what he was afraid of.

But just as he started, the smiling waiter interrupted him, asking what they wanted to drink.

After Hikaru Ueno answered "plain water", when he looked back, the girl's condition was much better than before.

It was as if some invisible pressure on her body suddenly disappeared, and everything returned to normal.

Instead, Kudo Shinichi next to her became nervous.

Kudo Shin, a little friend, had been quietly looking at Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuya when Ueno Hikari ordered the four of them to take their seats.

But his calmness, to these people, can already be regarded as blatant.

Nakahara didn't care about this kind of scrutiny, but Osamu Dazai seemed very interested in this kid.

Every time he was sized up, he would stare back with a smile, which made Kudo Shin even more nervous.

And as luck would have it, they were still sitting next to each other.

The current seats of this string of adults and children:

Two children, one fat and one thin, a cute girl with big eyes, a silent girl, Shinichi Kokudo, Osamu Dazai, Hikaru Ueno, Chuya Nakahara, and Subaru Okiya who pulled a chair and sat across from them.

And the young handsome waiter who seemed to be very interested in them, after serving coffee and snacks, sat down opposite.

But the two on the opposite side are probably very difficult to deal with.

With such a long table, it is not good to sit anywhere, and they insist on one head and one tail.

There seems to be a galaxy in the middle.

Quite a bit of a tit for tat meaning.

It also vaguely exudes a special aura that no one else can get in.

Hikaru Ueno looked at his two younger brothers, one on the left and one on the right, and lowered his head to take a bite of the sandwich.

There is a slight similarity.

The male waiter who called himself "Amuro Toru" squinted his eyes comfortably at the sandwich made by him.

Delicious.

This kind of delicacy is completely different from the food he made with those messy "skills".

He took another bite, licked off the salad dressing on the corner of his mouth, broke the silence, and asked curiously, "Are you brothers?"

He was asking Okiya Subaru and Amuro Toru.

The two of them threw him a bunch of question marks at the same time.

Ueno Hikaru: "...Well, a good friend?"

There must be some very close relationship between them, otherwise the subtle similarity could not be explained.

Like Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuya, it can be said that they are - young tame dye.

There is also chaos.

Toru Amuro: "No—"

Okiya Subaru: "Yes."

Toru Amuro: "???"

Okiya Subaru took a bite of the sandwich calmly, and praised very naturally: "Your craftsmanship is still as good as before."

Toru Amuro looked at him silently, revealing a subtle expression.

It's hard to say.

baffling.

Still a little disgusted.

Okiya Subaru looked calm, and continued to tell Hikari Ueno: "We have lived together for a long time, and our relationship is very close."

He paused and said, "We eat and live together, and there are no secrets between us."

Toru Amuro: "???"

What is this FBI talking about.

suffocated.

Okiya Subaru smiled, showing a look of nostalgia: "At that time, there was another friend who was with us. We are almost siblings, and we can entrust our lives to each other."

Amuro took a deep breath.

The little girl on the opposite side suddenly tugged on his sleeve cautiously, and whispered, "Brother, brother, the cup is cracked."

Amuro loosened his hands, maintained a smile, and continued to take a deep breath.

The little girl was still looking at him worriedly.

Okiya Subaru over there didn't know what was brewing, and had stopped talking.

Toru Amuro returned to normal, smiled and patted the little girl's head.

Then, as expected, I saw the corner of Conan's mouth twitching slightly.

On the opposite side, Okiya Subaru, who had finished brewing, continued his performance.

"But then..." He smiled bitterly, holding the coffee cup in both hands, with a lonely expression, "We encountered an accident and separated from then on."

"For many years after that, we never heard from each other again. I have always missed them very much and the happy times we had together."

He let out a long breath, smiled again at the corner of his mouth, and looked at Toru Amuro across the long table: "So I was really surprised to meet again unexpectedly today."

Toru Amuro sometimes really wants to tear up the inexplicable "tacit understanding" between himself and this person.

But at the moment when they looked at each other, he understood why the other party suddenly acted such an outrageous play.

In order to collect information.

The moment Akai Hideo brought the three of them to the coffee shop, Toru Amuro sensed something was wrong.

Whether he is a police officer or a member of an organization, he has an "obligation" to remember certain two faces.

A pair of partners who once set off a bloodbath in the other world

- double black.

He didn't know why Akai Shuichi brought these two guys here, so he could only stand still for the time being and approach the test.

Obviously, the long-haired young man who looks cold but is gentle when touched is "double black"...

Toru Amuro squeezed out a smile and responded to him: "Yeah, I am also surprised that we will meet again here."

While delineating the vocabulary.

——Inverse scale.

They disguised another face in front of this young man named Ueno Hikaru.

A well-behaved, kind, simple face.

But obviously, none of these three words can correspond to "double black".

So now, through this "experience", what they want to figure out is the true purpose of the "Double Black" trip, and.

Do they have other accomplices who have not yet arrived.

And - the identity of Hikaru Ueno.

He looked at Okiya Subaru from a distance, but his peripheral vision fell on the other three people, and he said calmly: "It's just a pity that there is another person who is not present, otherwise, it would be a reunion."

"Yeah." Okiya Subaru sighed, suddenly looked at Ueno Hikaru, and asked with a smile, "Is it similar to you?"

"Yes, very similar." Dazai Osamu took the words, nodded, and stretched out a slap. He didn't mind, and directly showed them the information the two wanted: "However, we have five."

"But there is one thing that is different from you. When my brother left, the four of us still lived together."

He blinked, as if hinting at something: "After all, we get along very well~"

Next to him, Zhong Yuanzhong also snorted coldly and muttered: "Who will get along with you."

Osamu Dazai smiled innocently, took a sip of coffee, the hair falling on his forehead covered his sight.

Toru Amuro and Subaru Okiya shrank their pupils at the same time.

Four people living together?

hit it off?

That is to say, apart from the "Double Blacks", will there be two more evil people like them coming here in the near future?

Conan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly jumped off the sofa and asked Toru Amuro: "Brother Amuro~ Can we go and see the kitten raised here?"

Toru Amuro retracted his thoughts, exchanged a glance with him, and said with a smile, "Of course, that cat is very obedient and not afraid of strangers. It's in the office, just go there by yourself."

The other three children were immediately attracted and ran to the office happily.

Conan grabbed the little girl, pretended to be happy, and ran over there.

Hikaru Ueno looked at their backs, pursed his lips, and thought.

Osamu Dazai noticed it, turned his head to look over, and asked, "Does brother want to see that cat too?"

Hikaru Ueno hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Now that the children are no longer afraid of him.

Then he wants to try now...

Could it be that the little animals are not as alert to him as before.

After all, it may be the reason why I never had the opportunity to contact him in my long life before.

The former Mr. Reaper really likes these soft and cute creatures.

Osamu Dazai: "Then brother just follow along."

Ueno Hikaru hesitated, looked at him, then at Nakaya.

Zhong Yuanzhong also waved his hand indifferently, "I'm not interested in these cats and dogs, brother, just go and see, let's chat here for a while."

Hikaru Ueno looked at the two of them again.

One held his chin and the other smiled.

Hikaru Ueno: "..."

Why did he vaguely feel that he seemed to be being chased away.

—— Hikaru Ueno got up and walked to the office, thinking a little aggrieved.

But in fact, those five children did not all go to the office.

For example, Conan went directly to the toilet next to him.

Four children are playing with cats in the office.

The four adults sat outside and fought each other.

Conan locked the door and called the omnipotent Dr. Ari.

I want him to help find out who these two people are.

In the Central Plains.

Osamu Dazai.

He always felt that these two names and these two faces were very familiar.

But can't remember where I saw it.

Plus the attitudes of Amuro Toru and Okiya Subaru.

He suspected that these two people were involved in a certain major case.

The kind of major cases that he didn't have, or wasn't qualified to deal with.

"Ah, I found it." Dr. Ali's surprised voice came from the other end of the phone, with a hint of fear.

"Xinyi, why did you suddenly think of asking me to check them?"

"You, have you contacted them?"

"Hmm." Kudo Shinichi glanced outside through the gap in the door, "I'm in a store with them now. Who are they?"

"Xinyi, you'd better not get in touch with them." Dr. A Li hesitated for a moment, then said solemnly, "They are..."

Suddenly a pair of shoes appeared in the gap.

Someone stopped outside without making a sound.

Kudo Shinichi suddenly opened his eyes wide and unconsciously held his breath.

The people outside knocked on the door, and called him, a little puzzled, "Conan?"

Kudo Shinichi's high-hanging heart suddenly fell to the ground. He heaved a sigh of relief, opened the door, and smiled at Hikaru Ueno outside, "Brother Ueno looking for me?"

"Hmm." Hikaru Ueno nodded, "You haven't been to the office for a long time, so I'm a little worried."

Conan laughed awkwardly, explained that he was only going to the toilet, rushed his hands under the gaze of Hikaru Ueno, and dragged the person out.

When he reached the door of the toilet, he suddenly remembered something, stopped, and looked at Hikari Ueno seriously.

Hikaru Ueno: "What's wrong?"

Kudo Shinichi naturally still remembered him.

They once met at Yusaku Kudo's signing party.

Kuroba Kaito's older brother.

In the following years, he still kept in touch with Kuroba Kaito from time to time.

But not recently.

He is busy organizing things.

Kaito doesn't know what he's doing recently, but he seems to be busy too.

Kudo Shinichi has a little speculation about this, but it has not been confirmed yet.

But that doesn't matter.

The important thing is that the elder brother who had been missing for several years and left without saying goodbye at Kaidou's mouth suddenly came to Mihua.

Moreover, the appearance has not changed at all compared to many years ago.

Can't blame him for being suspicious.

But the influence of APTX4869 on him is really too deep.

In addition, he just learned the identities of Ueno Hikaru's two companions.

"Kaito has always missed you." Kudo Shinichi chose to play the family card, "Brother, what have you been doing these past few years?"

Ueno Hikaru thought for a while, and gave him a vague answer: "Heal the wound."

He couldn't disclose information about the Underworld, and the answer to "rehabilitate the wounded" was actually correct.

But "rehabilitation".

There is a meaning in Ueno Hikaru's mouth.

Put it in the ears of Kudo Shinichi, that has another meaning.

He opened his mouth, but he didn't continue to ask, but changed the subject: "The two older brothers outside are my younger brothers?"

Hikaru Ueno was a little puzzled as to why he was asking this all of a sudden, but nodded anyway.

Kudo Shinichi: "What about Kaito? Is that right?"

Hikaru Ueno nodded without thinking: "They are the same."

"No!" Kudo Shin denied subconsciously, "Kaito is different from them."

Hikaru Ueno froze for a moment, contemplating.

It's not the same.

They are different individuals after all.

So he nodded and responded to Kudo Shinichi: "It's not the same."

really.

Kudo Shin stared.

Without asking any more questions, I took Hikari Ueno to the office to see the cat.

But at the same time, a monstrous wave had already set off in his mind.

There is not only one organization researching the drug APTX4869.

Moreover, the organization in Yokohama seems to be progressing faster than the organization in black.

Ueno Hikari is probably one of their relatively successful experiments.

And those two people, as "brothers", came to follow up on the status of the experiment.

Kudo Shinichi looked at Hikaru Ueno's figure and pursed his lips.

The young man was squatting in front of the kitten at this time, exuding a gentle aura and full of attractiveness.

And the kitten couldn't help being tempted, it moved out from under the sofa little by little, and lightly swept Ueno Hikaru's outstretched wrist with its tail.

Hearing the surprise cries of the three children, Kudo Shinichi clenched his fists calmly.

Now that Hikaru Ueno has been involved.

Then he...

No matter what that guy Kuroba Kaito is doing now.

It is necessary for him to tell the other party about this as soon as possible.

Kaito Kuroba knew about his shrinking.

But Kudo Shinichi never wanted him to be involved too deeply.

So I didn't explain my experience to him in detail.

Even though he knew that if Kaito Kuroba joined, the process of fighting against the organization would become smoother.

But that is not in line with Kudo Shinichi's principles of life.

But now...

He had to let Kuroba Kaito get involved.

Hikaru Ueno seemed to sense his sight, hugged the three-colored cat, turned to look at him, and tilted his head.

Conan Edogawa smiled a little, leaned forward, and stroked the kitten that was curled up in Hikaru Ueno's arms.