After retirement I became a guardian of troubled youth

The next day, Conan Edogawa got news about the "new exchange student" from his sister Xiaolan after school.

It is said that the new exchange student is a boy who looks somewhat similar to Xinyi's brother, but his personality is very different from a straight male fan who only focuses on reasoning.

This boy named "Black Feather Kaito" quickly integrated into the class on the first day, and not only became one with the boys, but also inadvertently won the hearts of many little girls.

After all, who doesn't like a handsome and gentlemanly boy.

What's more, that boy can do magic tricks.

This kind of little specialty is extremely popular among girls of this age.

Conan sipped his juice and heard this silently, curled his lips, couldn't help it, interrupted her and asked, "Very powerful?"

Mao Lilan nodded and smiled slightly: "Yes."

It seems that she is also one of those attracted by those little magic tricks.

Conan curled his lips again, and muttered unhappily: "It's just some tricks to deceive the eyes, what's so great about it."

When Mao Lilan heard his words, she laughed: "Did Xinyi tell you that?" She naturally thought so.

"He has complained like this many times before." Mao Lilan stretched her waist, looked up at the dusk outside the window, "It seems that the detective and the magician are not getting along well."

"Of course." Conan opened his eyes wide and explained solemnly, "The mission of a detective is to solve puzzles, and a magician is a guy who uses those tricks to create meaningless puzzles."

When he said this, the statement that Kaito Kuroba gave after hearing his remarks involuntarily emerged in his mind.

——"However, as long as the other party is happy, this magic is meaningful~"

The boy sat on the high chair and turned half a circle towards him, with a smile in his bright blue eyes.

Kudo Shinichi choked for a moment.

And until now, he has not thought of a point of view that can well refute this sentence.

Sister Xiaolan's voice brought him back from Feiyuan's thoughts: "But maybe they will become good friends."

She blinked and said with a smile in her voice, "Just like Shinichi and his magician friend."

She has never met Xinyi's friend who is said to be very powerful in magic, but from his usual narration, it is not difficult for Mao Lilan to see that the two people are very close.

"They often seem to be able to help each other at critical times."

Edogawa Conan pouted for the third time.

Although sister Xiaolan's words are indeed true.

Perhaps because of the difference between "detective" and "magician", he and Kuroba Kaito have completely different thinking angles on many things.

Because of these "distinct differences", they often have conflicts and disputes.

But it is also because of these differences that they can provide a new inspiration just right when the other party is stuck in a bottleneck.

But this time, he didn't intend to "provide help" to Kaito Kuroba so early.

Who asked a stubborn guy to pretend to be an elegant gentleman to flirt with his sister Xiaolan?

Edogawa Conan recalled the scene where the two met yesterday afternoon, and couldn't help chuckling silently.

A certain guy who has always been good at deceiving people with sweet words yesterday afternoon put his hands together and begged him hard.

According to the current "setting", Kaito Kuroba is just a high school student who was exchanged here by chance. He should not take the initiative to find Hikari Ueno, and can only hope that he can "meet by chance" one day.

But the "accidental" of this "accidental" is too great.

Also, added a couple of nasty presences that automatically avoid the "accidental" option.

So Kuroba Kaito, out of desperation, took the initiative to find Edogawa Conan, seeking a little "little help" from him.

The young man put his hands together in front of his lips, his eyes shone with light, reflecting the tiny lamp above his head.

Edogawa Conan instantly saw the deep meaning in those eyes.

He doesn't like Kuroba Kaito, but in this matter, he doesn't mind helping the other party.

After all, a detective's mission is to decipher the truth of a secret.

And people like Hikaru Ueno who hide many stories at a glance are the favorite objects of detectives.

"Of course I can promise you."

He stirred the spoon and said in the sound of the surface of the spoon colliding with the wall of the cup,

"However, in order to make the effect more realistic, I need to delay contacting him for a few days."

"No problem!" Kaito Kuroba agreed, "Before that, I'll go to the hotel first."

Edogawa Conan let out a long "Oh—" with a strange look.

Kuroba Kaito was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

Conan: "Aren't you going to 'sell badly'?"

He has also exchanged information with Akai Shuichi, and he probably understands the disguise of the "double black" who can set off a bloody storm in front of Ueno Hikaru.

To sum it up, good, super good, very good.

When Kaito heard this, he "cut" without thinking.

"I don't like that kind of low-end tricks."

The great magician drank the coffee in his cup in one gulp, left such a sentence coolly, got up and walked away.

……

On the Monday following the official transfer of Kuroba Kaito, Edogawa Conan called Ueno Hikaru as agreed.

Of course, at this time, about a week had passed since they set the agreed time.

During this week, Kaito Kuroba won the favor of all the teachers and classmates of Mihua High School, laying a solid foundation for his good image in front of his brother in the future.

Edogawa Conan expressed his disdain for this.

With his detective instincts, he was sure that Kaito Kuroba's paper-like disguise would be completely punctured one day sooner or later.

Either by those "brothers" he has never met, or by himself who was stupid for a while.

He was looking forward to that scene, and on this sunny afternoon, he made a call.

When he received the call, Hikaru Ueno was trying to make a new dessert - mousse cake.

Three adults who were starving for food sat obediently in a row on the sofa in the living room, looking forward to his feeding.

This is a rare moment for the three of them to be truly "super cute".

On weekdays, even though they pretended to be peaceful on the surface, they were still fighting tit for tat in secret - specifically referring to a certain "double black".

While waiting to be fed, they temporarily and completely put aside their suspicions about each other, and kept "outside".

This "outside" of course refers to some uninvited and unexpected visitors, as well as this call like today.

They couldn't hear what the person on the other side said on the phone, but they could clearly see the change in Ueno Hikaru's expression.

In just 1 minute, this young man who has always been expressionless has experienced a "huge" change from confusion to worry to surprise.

Although his change only stayed between the eyebrows and eyes, it was already too obvious to Hikaru Ueno.

This made the three people peeking at the caller feel vigilant and have a vague sense of crisis at the same time.

Sure enough, after hanging up the phone, Ueno Hikaru hurriedly packed up his things, told them to take the cake from the oven in 10 minutes, and then turned and left.

Zhong Yuanzhong also blocked the door in time and asked him what he was going to do.

Ueno Hikaru thought for a while, hesitated for a moment, and said, "There is a person... I want to introduce you to each other."

He said, with a slight smile on the corners of his mouth and eyebrows: "I mentioned him to you before, he will live with us for a while...you will get along."

Zhong Yuanzhong also nodded obediently, sent his brother away, then turned his head with a serious expression, and looked at the other two people.

"What are you going to do?"

Dazai Osamu rubbed his chin, looked at Edogawa Ranpo, and half-confirmedly asked for the other party's opinion: "First observe for a while?"

Edogawa Ranpo responded happily: "Yes. But before that..."

Osamu Dazai answered: "A small 'welcome' is a must."

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Zhongyuan Zhong also felt a chill all over, tilted his head and touched his arm, avoiding these two people, and went into the kitchen by himself.

……

On the other hand, Ueno Hikaru came to Mihua High School before school after receiving the news from Kudo Shinichi.

It is said that this is the school that Kuroba Kaito "exchanged" to.

In the next three months, he will conduct a one-semester exchange study on behalf of "Jiang Gutian High School".

And because he came too hastily, Kaito Kuroba was actually in a completely unprepared state.

That is, he does not have a stable residence.

Coincidentally, when Kaito Kuroba booked the hotel, none of the hotels near Mihua High School had a single vacant room.

So he had no choice but to ask one by one, and finally settled on a place far away.

For the past week, he has lived in this hotel far away from the school. Not only the daily expenses are extremely high, but it is also extremely inconvenient to go to school and live in peacetime.

Kuroba Kaito struggled to adapt for a week before he had no choice but to call Conan and ask him what he could do.

Kudo Shinichi immediately thought of Hikaru Ueno, and contacted him as soon as he hung up the phone.

Ueno Hikaru was hesitant at first, wondering if Kaito Kuroba would feel awkward if they lived together suddenly after not seeing each other for so long.

But after listening to the other party's narration about "How much Kuroba Kaito misses him these years", he immediately dismissed the idea, and couldn't wait to bring the other party to live with him at home.

Not long after Hikari Ueno arrived, the school bell rang, and the youthful and energetic teenagers walked out of the campus laughing and going home.

Hikaru Ueno stood across the road and waited, looking at the smiling faces of youth, recalling the experience of picking up his younger brothers from school in a trance.

That seems to have been a long time ago.

This kind of searching and waiting made him involuntarily look forward to it.

Also become a little nostalgic for the past.

And, I miss that boy whom I haven't seen for many years even more.

He still remembered that he left without saying goodbye, and felt a little guilty.

Ueno Hikaru has been faintly worried, and when they reunited, Kaito was still angry with him because of this incident.

Soon, the number of people leaving the school gradually changed from the hustle and bustle at the beginning to the sparseness in the end, with only one or two people coming out occasionally.

The sun also fell little by little, and the setting sun climbed into the sky, reflecting the teaching building red.

Hikari Ueno became a little anxious.

He stood under the streetlight, pursed his lips, and even began to consider whether to go in directly to find someone.

Or maybe...he missed the other person.

Hikaru Ueno lowered his eyes.

In the next second, someone tapped on the shoulder from behind.

He froze for a moment and turned around suddenly.

A bouquet of tender roses bloomed in front of my eyes.

A few pigeons bathed in the setting sun flapped their wings and flew up, circling around him.

Hikaru Ueno raised his eyes, and looked at the boy who suddenly appeared behind him.

Kuroba Kaito was looking at him quietly, holding a rose and smiling.

Hikaru Ueno's heart trembled, as if it was instantly filled with some unknown emotion.

Rose nodded slightly, and Kaito Kuroba smiled and called him "brother".

Just like every morning and dusk seven years ago.

Hikaru Ueno took a step forward, opened his arms, and gently hugged the boy who had crossed time and space.

Flocks of pigeons formed a circle and circled upwards, surrounding the two of them.

The pure white is stained with the magnificent sunset.

Kuroba Kaito raised his hand, and lightly stroked Uenohikari's hair.

"You've been gone for a long time~"

There was not the slightest complaint in his tone, as if he was just flirting casually after many years.

Rose bent down and leaned carefully between the white hair.

A white pigeon left the team, landed on Ueno Hikaru's shoulder, and hopped twice with its head tilted.