Chu Ming actually thought that it was okay to tell Xiaolan. After all, Xiaolan was not that kind of weak girl.

“Ran is actually much stronger than you think. But considering Conan is so reckless right now, it’s better not to tell Ran, lest Conan really gets upset one day. I have a way…”

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Conan was lying on the hospital bed, his mind still revolving around what Hattori had just said.

“I think she didn’t come to ask you because she wanted you to tell her the truth in person.”

Alas, it seems that I really can’t hide it this time, I should tell her——

Creak—the door of the ward was pushed open.

Xiaolan walked into the ward with a gentle look on her face, but Conan always felt that there seemed to be something hidden beneath this gentleness.

Could it be that Xiaolan couldn’t wait any longer after waiting for my explanation for so long?

Conan half sat up and looked at Xiaolan who came in from the door: “Sister Xiaolan, aren’t you going back to rest?”

Xiaolan looked out the window, the wind blew up her skirt and long hair, and her slightly sad eyes made Conan completely lose his guard.

He organized his words and chose to tell her the truth.

“Sister Xiaolan – Xiaolan, it’s me. I am indeed Kudo Shinichi. I think you may have guessed it…”

Xiaolan blinked slightly and turned her head. Crystal tears slowly dripped down her cheeks. She squatted beside the bed: “Shinichi, it’s really you, it’s really you——”

Conan’s short hands grabbed Xiaolan’s shoulders: “Yes——”

“Click—whoosh—”

The sound of the bullet being loaded was so clear in the dark night, without any hesitation. After passing through the silencer, a slight sound occurred, and Xiaolan’s tearful smile froze, and the whole person slowly fell to the ground.

“Xiao, Xiaolan… Xiaolan!!!” Conan anxiously wanted to reach out to grab Xiaolan, but his arms were short and he could only grab a strand of hair. Before he could react, there was a slight ripping sound, and a wig appeared in his hand.

“Ah?”

Chu Ming originally thought that this was the peak of his acting skills. Just as he was slowly falling to the ground with a sad expression, his scalp felt cold and the wig suddenly fell into Conan’s hands. He was neither sure nor wrong.

Conan held the wig in a posture ready to roar. He turned stiffly to look at Huihara Ai, who was holding a gun and preparing to say her lines, but Chu Ming was unreliable and something went wrong…

The three of them were very embarrassed for a while.

In the end, Chu Ming was the most shameless. He tore off his disguise and took the pointed wig he had carefully made from Conan’s hand as if nothing had happened: “Surprise~”

Huiyuan Ai gritted her teeth, pressed the switch on the gun, pulled the trigger, and a bunch of flowers popped out of the muzzle: “Surprise~”

Conan endured and endured, but finally couldn’t hold back any more: “You two – you two are actually, actually planning to do this again!!! Brother Chu Ming, you are actually wearing women’s clothes! You are actually disguising yourself as Xiaolan!! You, you – I -“

Conan was so angry that he was incoherent. He was almost, just almost, going to confess his true feelings to Xiaolan!!!

Ahhhhhhhh bastard!!

Seeing that Conan’s face was almost deformed with anger, Chu Ming quickly pushed Huiyuan Ai to the front: “In fact, we have other ways. We don’t need you to tell her the truth, right, Xiao Ai?”

The corners of Huihara Ai’s mouth twitched, and she took out a pill from her pocket, saying in a cold tone: “This is a temporary antidote I made based on the ingredients of white dried fruit. It can allow you to temporarily restore your identity as Kudo Shinichi, but I don’t know the exact time. However, you should also know that you can’t stand under the light with your current identity. After secretly meeting your childhood sweetheart, you will find an excuse to get away. During this time, I will disguise myself as Conan. However, this medicine has not been tested, and you are the first test subject. What do you think, great detective, do you want to try it–“

Conan took the pill without hesitation, his eyes shining: “So I can go see Xiaolan with my own identity?”

“That’s right, but I don’t know exactly how long the drug will take effect. Just in case, take the drug when the performance is about to begin on the last day of the garden party.”

Conan nodded repeatedly. The first thing he would do after becoming Kudo Shinichi was to confess to Xiaolan!

Otherwise, Xiaolan would be deceived by that Arata Tomoaki who appeared out of nowhere!

Chapter 224 Are you guys doing cosplay?

Garden party.

Chu Ming brought Conan, dressed as Haibara Ai, into the garden party of Teitan High School. At this time, Xiaolan was about to go on stage to perform a stage play.

“Sister Xiaolan.” Haibara Ai wore a mask and voice changer specially made by the doctor, dressed up as Conan, followed behind Chu Ming and greeted Xiaolan.

“Conan, you’re here~” Xiaolan looked at Conan with some tenderness. In her heart, she had already determined that Conan was Kudo Shinichi, and was just waiting for him to confess.

Perhaps because she was afraid that Conan would be exposed, Vermouth, disguised as Tomoaki Aide, called Xiaolan over and started discussing the plot with her.

Chu Ming looked at the strange maternal love in Aikawa Tomoaki’s eyes when he looked at Xiaolan, and couldn’t help but twitching his lips.

This look is really crazy…

If Conan was really here, he would probably be jealous again, but when Huihara Ai saw this scene, she just put her hands in her pockets and said in a cool manner: “Then I’ll go to the audience first.”

Chu Ming waved to them and raised the camera in his hand: “Keep up your performance, I brought a camera here to record your performance and burn it into a disc for you to enjoy later~”

Xiaolan was stunned when she saw Conan’s behavior, which was completely different from before.

As the play began, when he saw the princess played by Ran appear, Maori Kogoro excitedly stood on his chair and danced, proudly announcing to everyone around him: “It was so good!! That’s my daughter! The one playing the princess is my daughter! Isn’t she beautiful!”

Chu Ming held the camera in one hand and recorded Maori Kogoro’s performance, while his other hand was grabbed by Maori Kogoro and raised up together to cheer for Xiaolan.

He Ye curled up her legs and hid to the side far away from Maori Kogoro. Feeling the teasing eyes of the people around her, she couldn’t help but cover her face: “Why is this uncle so embarrassing – I don’t know him, I don’t know him…”

But just as she was mumbling, the princess played by Xiaolan was dragged out of the carriage by the bad guys. She jumped up in excitement and shouted, “Xiaolan, use your karate to knock down all those bastards!!!”

Chu Ming silently turned the camera around and pointed it at her again. He was so engrossed in the role now that he would regret it when he watched the replay later.

——Just like him back then…

Suddenly, a few black feathers slowly floated down from the sky, and Kudo Shinichi, wearing a knight’s costume, landed on the stage from the sky.

He slowly stood up, turned his head to look at Xiaolan behind him, reached out and grabbed her shoulders, and gently hugged her as if he was hugging his most precious treasure.

Maori Kogoro was furious when he saw the scene in front of him: “This bastard, how dare he? How dare he treat my daughter like this, my daughter is not married yet!!! He actually touched her so carelessly, I will beat him to death–“

Chu Ming and He Ye hugged Mao Li Kogoro’s arms on the left and right and pulled him back: “Uncle, calm down, this is a stage play, it’s all fake! Didn’t you say before that you wanted to marry Xiaolan to Dr. Arata?”

While Chu Ming was trying to persuade them, he held the camera steadily with his other hand. These were precious images of Xinlan and they had to be captured well.

“How can you take seriously the jokes made after drinking! Ah, why is that boy’s hand still around Xiaolan’s waist, let him go, ah ah ah——” Kogoro Mouri was almost going crazy, but he couldn’t break free from Chu Ming’s hand, let alone go on stage to make trouble.

“…If you still remember the oath you swore in your youth, please write your testimony on my lips.”

Even through the mask, Chu Ming could clearly see Kudo Shinichi’s blushing face and his firm movement of kissing him down.

“Ahhhhhh—this is too much!! Noooooooooo what are you talking about, Ran—” Kogoro Mouri was unable to break free from Chu Ming’s iron-like grip. He sat down on the ground dejectedly, staring at the knight on the stage with murderous eyes, as if he was thinking about what color sack to use to trap Tomoaki Aoi and beat him up after the performance.

Chu Ming watched through the small screen of the camera as the two people got closer and closer.

“what–!!!”

Kudo Shinichi instinctively spread out his cloak, protected Xiaolan behind him, and looked in the direction of the scream.

Damn, just one second. Chu Ming turned off the camera angrily. One second later would kill him!

Oh, seems to be dead…

Since the incident happened at school, the police responded quickly and Officer Megure arrived at the scene shortly afterwards.

“The crime happened at about 2:40, which was the climax of the whole play.” Xiaolan walked over slowly, wearing a princess’s gauze dress.

“It’s Xiaolan, yes, today is the garden party of Teitan High School. Since you have a performance, he should–“

Maori Kogoro saw that the scream interrupted the two people’s approach. He was now wearing clothes, his brows relaxed, and walked towards this side: “Officer Megure, who are you looking for?”

Officer Megure said with disgust: “Looking for you.”

This plague god even spared his own daughter’s school and brought this tragedy to the school.

“Hahaha, Officer Megure, you’re too polite. Although I’m called a famous detective, it’s not okay for you to rely on me so much~”

The corners of Inspector Megure’s mouth twitched, and he ignored Maori Kogoro’s shameless words: “…No one approached the body, right?”

“No! It is the detective’s duty to ensure the integrity of the scene and wait for the police!” Maori Kogoro said righteously, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of something in his peripheral vision and changed the subject, “But, officer, you also know that some detectives are curious – ahem.”

Inspector Megure was speechless and looked in the direction of the body. Sure enough, a figure that looked particularly familiar, yet not so familiar, was squatting next to the body.

Seeing everyone looking at him, the squatting man couldn’t help but turn his hat around and spoke with a thick Osaka accent: “It’s potassium hydroxide.”

“…”

“…”

Seeing that everyone was silent and just staring at him, Hattori thought that he had acted too closely like Kudo Shinichi, and couldn’t help but continue reasoning proudly: “Most people lose their color after death, but this guy’s lips and nails are not purple, but pink instead. This is evidence of potassium hydroxide poisoning.”

Seeing Hattori Heiji trying to imitate Kudo Shinichi, Chu Ming couldn’t help but cover his face, “Your accent is too strong!!! You painted your face so white, did you use a pound of foundation, Hattori?” Look at Kudo Shinichi hiding under the mask, grinning almost to his ears, he is laughing at you!

First Conan imitated Hattori’s Osaka accent, and then Hattori imitated his Tokyo accent… They are really good friends.

Look at the scene, fake Conan, fake Shinichi, fake Tomoaki Azabu, are you guys playing cosplay here?

Chapter 225 Kudo Shinkuro

Maori Kogoro looked at Hattori who was talking eloquently and said, “Have I seen you somewhere before? Didn’t you look like this before?”

In fact, Kogoro Mori wanted to ask where Hattori went for whitening.

“Oh, I just haven’t been back for such a long time, have you forgotten me?” He reached out and took off his hat, “I am Kudo Shinichi.”

No, you are Kudo Shinkuro.

Several people twitched their lips as they watched his clumsy performance, which he thought was perfect.

Hattori Heiji slowly approached Xiaolan. Under the light, his skin was whiter than Xiaolan’s. “That kid with glasses called me and asked me to come back to watch his sister Xiaolan’s play, right, Gong-kid.”

“You, can’t, be, convinced, -” Xiaolan took a step back, dumbfounded.

Kazuha suddenly popped up from between the two of them: “What are you doing, Heiji?”

Kazuha reached out and touched Hattori’s face, and found a clear black mark: “Why do you put so much powder on your face? Your hairstyle has changed too…”

Chu Ming could feel Hattori’s embarrassment even when he was standing at the back. Hattori stammered and pointed at his own face: “Don’t talk nonsense, I, I am Kudo Shinichi, the real thing, the genuine product.”

“What nonsense are you talking about, kid!!!!” Kogoro Mouri couldn’t help but stride forward to separate him and Xiaolan.

Seeing that he couldn’t hide it anymore, Hattori had to wipe off the powder on his face, fading to black in a second: “Hahahaha, I was just joking, to lighten the atmosphere, hahaha——”

“…Really, it’s enough that we have a fool like Brother Mori here, there is no need to import another one from Osaka…” Inspector Megure couldn’t help but complain.

“?” Maori Kogoro looked over in disbelief. What did he hear? Wasn’t he the favorite little brother of Inspector Megure?

“Hahaha, I was just kidding too, hahaha, isn’t this joke funnier than his, hahaha–” Seeing that he had accidentally said the complaint, Inspector Megure decisively started to play dumb.

“Damn it, my perfect plan is all caused by He Ye–” Hattori squatted beside Chu Ming and kept muttering.