Bandage fine tricks

"Oh, are you the famous Mr. Mori Kogoro? Ah, is this your daughter and Mr. Ling? You really are beautiful and talented. Oh, the cat on Mr. Ling's head is so cute!"

As soon as he arrived at the banquet venue, the owner of the banquet—a club owner in his 50s— came up to him, and Kogoro Moori almost couldn’t find where his head was with his rainbow fart. Fortunately, he still remembered to clarify:

"Ah, no, this child and his cat are fostered by someone else in our house." Mao Li Kogoro said quickly, "This is my daughter Mao Lilan, and this child is Edogawa Conan. My cat is called Cai Cai."

"It's so cute!"

The adults began to brag to each other to show their respect, Mao Lilan took Conan to the free-eating table aside: "What does Conan want to eat?"

Conan quickly said: "It's okay, Sister Xiaolan, I will take it myself! Sister Xiaolan, go play with Sister Yuanzi, I'll just eat here by myself, and I will take care of Cai Cai!"

Mao Lilan looked up, and Yuanzi was waving at her, and she was surrounded by several boys and girls, obviously wanting her to introduce new friends to her.

It’s hard to refuse Sonoko’s kindness... Thinking about the distance between the two sides, as long as I remember to look at this side, I can pay attention to Conan’s movements. It's within range of what I can see!"

"Uh-huh!"

"Cai Cai also help me keep an eye on Conan!"

"Meow!"

The little white cat lying on top of the child nodded seriously and meowed.

Conan: "..."

Watching Mao Lilan run towards the garden, Conan's smiling face collapsed in an instant, revealing the classic half-moon eyes: "Why can Lan that guy believe that a cat can watch over a child?"

[Maybe because the cat is more reliable than you. 】

“……………………”

Conan looked up with a dark face, but human eyes do not allow him to see the top of his head: "You are really just a relative of Xiaoba, aren't you her own son?"

This girl's poisonous tongue is almost the same as that of Xiao Ba.

【…】

Little White Cat's heart skipped a beat, but quickly returned to normal: 【I'm a girl. 】

"........."

Because he is a girl, he is not his own son.

Instantly understanding the meaning of the little white cat, Conan was silent: Is it time to refute this point? !

Conan even thought in advance that if he continued to yell at it, "Oh, that's his daughter?", this guy pretending to be a cute and cute pet cat lying on top of his head would continue to refute "I'm a cat"...

The feeling of wanting to vomit but not being able to vomit is so aggrieved.

He shouldn't have promised Xiao Ba to help her take care of the child temporarily.

No longer thinking about bad things, Conan diverted his attention to the banquet: "A lot of people brought pets..."

Generally formal banquets rarely have pets, but the nature of today's banquet is closer to that of an afternoon tea salon, and the host himself likes pets very much, so in order to have a common language in the salon, open a new On the topic, many ladies and ladies have brought their pets.

As far as Conan saw, there were all kinds of obedient pet cats and puppies being hugged in his arms, but they were well-bred, and he didn’t scream nervously because he saw many other strange faces—yes, if it was that Pets that are not obedient enough will generally not be brought out, otherwise the embarrassment will be minor at that time, and if they offend others and affect their own business or something, it will be too much to lose.

In such a big environment, Conan walked around with a little white cat on his head, and it didn't look too abrupt, but it blended in better...

Taking advantage of Mao Lilan's attention not on himself, Conan walked to a corner, just turned around, and saw a girl with black hair and different eyes standing in the dark.

"Meow!"

The little white cat let out a soft cry, jumped into the girl's arms, purred almost subconsciously and rubbed her ears with her.

Xiao Ba rubbed the little kitten in her arms, almost touching it with her hand, and the kitten automatically lay down on its belly and waited for her to touch it. Xiao Ba stiffened a bit, and then put her hand on it.

When the little cat purred and made a guttural sound, Xiao Ba stopped, and the little cat realized something, turned over and stood up, meowing.

Xiao Ba nodded: "Well, go ahead and be careful."

"Meow!"

The little white cat meowed, jumped down, and disappeared after a few strokes.

At this time, Xiaoba said to Conan: "Thank you, Conan."

Conan Edogawa watched the interaction between her and the kitten without speaking, and then said, "Among all the people, including Dr. Li and Mom and Dad who know my identity, only you can call me Conan."

"Because I know how terrifying that organization is." Little Hachi said almost with a sigh. Thousands of episodes of Shinigami elementary school students, before the plot went berserk and the Akai family was so awesome, every time the winery appeared, it was not just Conan and Haibara. The shadow of sorrow is the nightmare of all audiences.

Of course, that later turned into a gin nightmare (bushi).

...It's definitely not because I saw that the child's conditioned reflex was Edogawa Conan and I couldn't remember Kudo Shinichi's name!

Unexpectedly, Xiao Ba's answer would be like this, and Conan had mixed feelings: Even when the two of them were alone in absolute safety, Xiao Ha didn't call him Shinichi again... so cautious...

"By the way, why did Mr. Maori come to this banquet?" Xiao Ba remembered something and asked.

"Ah, it was the host of the banquet who invited him, saying that there was something wrong with him..."

Just as Conan was about to continue, he saw Xiao Ba suddenly turned into a little white cat and rushed to his shoulder: "Meow meow meow!"

"Ah, I heard Cai Cai's cry!"

A clear girl's voice came from the outside, and after a few seconds, Mao Lilan turned around the corner, saw Conan with the cat on his head, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "I finally found you, Conan! Really, I ran away again in the blink of an eye Fortunately, Cai Cai showed me the way!"

Thinking of the sudden call of the little white cat just now, Conan: "..."

He was brought back to the banquet, this time Mao Lilan was not far away, Conan had no choice but to bluff Mao Lilan and walked towards Maoli Kogoro: this time Maoli Kogoro was invited to this salon banquet, not to brag .

...well, at least not just for bragging rights.

The greetings over there almost came to an end, the host led Mori Kogoro to the box on one side, seeing Conan following on his short legs, followed by Mori Kogoro's daughter, he froze for a moment: "Oh, This kid..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, because this kid always likes to follow me when I solve the case, so he's used to following me!" Mori Kogoro laughed, "Xiaolan will take good care of him."

"Oh, it's okay, come here together, I was negligent, there are not many young children at the banquet today, no wonder he feels bored!" The host followed up, "Then, kid, when the uncles are talking, you should Be good!"

"Okay!" Conan Edogawa replied in a childish and childish voice with a drawn out tone.

Kogoro Mori and the host were not the only ones in the box, there was another young man in his 20s, Katsumi Kuno, who was the youngest son of the host, Kuno Mori.

"Actually, this matter has something to do with self-denial..." Hisuno sat down on the sofa, and the smile he put on just outside to prevent others from seeing through his mind suddenly disappeared, and his decayed face made him look like All of a sudden ten years old.

"Not long ago, my eldest son Shoucheng passed away. He committed suicide." Kuno Shou said, and when he mentioned the pain of losing his son, his face twitched violently. "My wife passed out when I received the bad news. We were busy with Shoucheng's funeral, and the hospital told me that at the time of Shoucheng's funeral, my wife ran out of the ward, as if she wanted to come out, but she didn't notice the warning sign, and stepped into a hospital room that was Repaired elevator shaft..."

Die on the spot.

After two bad news in succession, Kuno Mamoru still survived until...

"Last month, my youngest daughter, Jasmine, was in a car accident on the way back from a trip and passed away."

In just three months, three relatives passed away. From the perspective of outsiders, the Kuno family probably had bad luck. But in the process of sorting out the belongings of the eldest son, Kuno Mamoru and Kuno Katsumi felt something was wrong.

"Brother has the habit of keeping a diary. Because his mother was too controlling when he was a child, he once peeked at his diary. He found that he didn't have an attack after that, but thought of a way." Katsumi Kuno said, "He will use the ink that can disappear first. Write a real diary, then overlay a fake diary with ink that will develop at normal room temperature."

"If you put the paper on a fire or blow it with the heat of a hair dryer, the ink developed at room temperature fades away, revealing the text written in the 'disappeared ink'."

As he said, he took out a notebook from the cabinet behind him, which could be seen to be some years old, and handed it to Kogoro Mouri.

After receiving the hair dryer that Kuno Mamoru brought over, Mori Kogoro followed what Kuno Katsumi said, and blew hot air on the first page of the notebook for a while, only to see the first plain words recording daily life Fades away, and then, some other words are revealed.

"Really..." Mao Lilan, who came over curiously, couldn't help but said.

"Yes, elder brother told me about this, it's a secret between our two brothers." Katsumi Kuno pursed his lips with a complicated tone, "When my father and I sorted out elder brother's belongings, I wanted to know why he committed suicide no matter what. , although he was indeed suspicious and worried for a while before that, and his good temper suddenly became irritable, which was close to the symptoms of depression with suicidal tendencies mentioned by the doctor, but..." He pinched the base of the bridge of his nose and endured Feeling sour, he continued, "I opened his diary, but I didn't see that he had recorded anything special. It was still the same schedule as the daily things, except that the handwriting was a little messy... ...and then I thought about our brothers' 'little secret'..."

He put the diary on the fire to roast, and then Kuno Keji saw the real content of the diary.

Mori Kogoro turned to the last page as he said, and the messy and almost illegible handwriting was revealed under the hot wind:

"They, they are coming, they are coming, they are coming to kill me...you have to tell, Jasmine, be careful..." Kogoro Mouri struggled to recognize and read out, "that dark... crow army... is going... to come It's..."