“Do you have any misunderstanding about perfect? ​​Or are you redefining perfect as full of loopholes?” Chu Ming rolled his eyes, “This has nothing to do with Kazuha, okay? Even if Kazuha didn’t show up, you’d still be Kudo Shinkuro’s black.”

Hattori looked unconvinced: “I think I pretended pretty well.”

In terms of confidence, you and him are indeed quite similar. Conan is also very confident in his acting skills.

Chu Ming glanced at Tomoaki Aida who was standing backstage. Although Vermouth would definitely not report if she saw Kudo Shinichi appear, if Vermouth found out that he did not report it either, he didn’t know what she would suspect.

Or maybe we shouldn’t let Kudo Shinichi appear in public?

Thinking of this, Chu Ming stood up and prepared to look for evidence to end the case early to prevent Kudo Shinichi from taking off his mask.

But just as he stood up and walked back, Tomoaki Aide stopped him.

Vermouth has just seen Kudo Shinichi, and it was only after confirming his identity that she gave up the opportunity to play the knight. Her angel is not something that can be touched by just any stinky man.

She had been doubting her own eyesight at first, she thought Conan was Kudo Shinichi, but now Kudo Shinichi appeared in front of her, and Conan also sat obediently on the chair –

——Wait, be quiet? According to her investigation, Conan is never so quiet every time he is on the scene…

Sure enough, Kudo Shinichi turned into Conan, but he just used some method to change back temporarily.

Vermouth’s eyes swept over Chu Ming. Things would not be easy with Granburch here. She had to guard him closely and not let him discover the person in the knight’s armor, who was Kudo Shinichi who had been killed by Gin long ago.

Chu Ming was dragged to his seat by Vermouth and couldn’t get out. Looking at Aizawa Tomoaki who was trying to find something to say to him, Chu Ming was speechless.

“Doctor Arata, I found some clues. This murder scene isn’t a good place. Why don’t we talk about it next time?”

To Vermouth, these words sounded more like Chu Ming telling her that he might have found clues about Kudo Shinichi and was going to check…

No, we can’t let him pass.

Looking around, he found that everyone was paying attention to the case. No one was looking at this side. Xinde Zhiming leaned close to Chu Ming’s ear and said, “Don’t worry about this case. Let the dark guy like Bourbon solve it. There is something about his sister that we are investigating, so we need to see his style of solving cases. How about considering it as his sister owes you a favor?”

???

Hattori’s crime-solving style?

Chu Ming watched Hattori approach Conan, completely ignoring the “Don’t get close to me” written all over Conan, and muttered to him while putting his arm around his shoulders to discuss the case with him, but Huibara Ai raised her index finger and gracefully pulled his hand away.

…Vermouth’s excuse was somewhat perfunctory. Besides, it was rare for Osaka Kurokaki to see Kudo transform, so she probably wouldn’t try to steal his limelight. I really wanted to see Vermouth’s expression after she miscalculated.

Chu Ming sat obediently in his seat and chatted with Vermouth in a casual manner.

Before he could say a few words, the police actually began to prepare to close the case as suicide.

“Inspector Megure, please wait a moment!” A clear voice interrupted Inspector Megure’s conclusion.

Vermouth froze. This voice——

“- This is definitely not suicide, but a very simple homicide!” The knight in armor stood at the door, his posture as tall as a pine tree, and he slowly took off his knight’s helmet.

“Long time no see, Officer Megure.”

Under the spotlight, the young man was full of vigor and vitality. He held the helmet in one hand and his whole body seemed to be glowing.

“Kudo Shinichi?” Chu Ming sat up straight and fixed his suspicious eyes on the boy. “I remember he was on the list of 4869 people taking medicine?”

Chu Ming’s eyes were flashing with strong evil amusement. He picked up the camera and pointed it at the boy whose face was exposed on the stage. Just as he was about to take the picture, he was blocked by Aida Tomoaki’s standing body.

Seeing Chu Ming looking at her with suspicion, Vermouth controlled her emotions and pressed the camera in Chu Ming’s hand: “Wait a minute before filming. That man is in disguise. I suspect he is an FBI agent pretending to be him. He wants to lure us out. If you film him now, it will be too conspicuous and the FBI may find out.”

It’s hard for Vermouth to find a reason that Chu Ming can’t refute in such a short time.

Chu Ming didn’t insist and put down the camera in his hand: “Then I’ll go and chat with him later.”

Vermouth had no reason to stop him and could only look at Kudo Shinichi with a worried look.

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Chu Ming slumped on the back of the chair, listening to Kudo Shinichi’s reasoning. Seeing that Vermouth next to him was looking at the boy with particularly focused eyes, he reminded her maliciously.

“Keep your eyes focused, what if the FBI finds out?”

“……” She had to accept the reason she gave even if it meant tears, and Vermouth withdrew her gaze in frustration.

After Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji finished reasoning the plot together, Chu Ming just stood up and walked to Kudo Shinichi and was about to speak, but saw him suddenly cover his heart and half-kneel on the ground.

Vermouth was shocked. Didn’t she agree with Granburch not to take action?

Without thinking too much, she hurried over and said, “I’m a doctor, don’t gather around here, let me take a look.”

Chu Ming wanted to take two steps back due to the force of Vermouth pulling. He wanted to see how Vermouth would continue the show if Kudo Shinichi turned into Conan in front of Vermouth.

But he couldn’t retreat. Kudo Shinichi felt the familiar severe pain and knew that something was wrong. He avoided the hand of Aida Tomoaki who came to help him, and instead grabbed Chu Ming tightly with his other hand. With his eyes blurred by pain, he signaled Chu Ming to take him away.

Kudo Shinichi opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he fell heavily to the ground the next second.

Vermouth looked at Kudo Shinichi, who was still holding on to the corner of Chu Ming’s clothes after falling down, and then looked at Kudo Shinichi’s face, who was now looking at it with interest, as if he wanted to rub it to see if it was Chu Ming in disguise. She couldn’t help but roar in grief and anger in her heart.

This Kudo Shinichi is good in every way except that his eyesight is too bad. Take a good look at the person you are holding, that is the little lunatic from the winery!!! If he finds out that you are not in disguise, both you and Angel will be in danger!

Seeing that Kudo Shinichi refused to let go, Chu Ming picked him up like a princess. Before he took two steps, he saw Hattori and Conan stand up after whispering, and told everyone present not to spread the news of Kudo Shinichi’s appearance today.

Hearing Hattori’s loud instructions, Chu Ming glanced at Vermouth with a meaningful look, which made her feel flustered. She began to think about what excuse she could use to trick Granburch over in the future.

Guarding Kudo Shinichi’s bed, Hattori originally wanted to send Xiaolan out to buy some things for Kudo Shinichi’s shaky vest, but Sonoko and Kazuha felt that Xiaolan had not seen Kudo Shinichi for too long, so they forced Xiaolan to take the job and let Xiaolan stay with Shinichi.

Currently in the health room, there are only Xiaolan, Hattori, and Chu Ming, looking at Kudo Shinichi who is like Sleeping Beauty.

After a while, Kudo Shinichi flicked his fingers slightly and slowly opened his eyes.

Chu Ming was afraid that he would open his eyes in a daze and say something he shouldn’t say, so he smiled and leaned over to remind him: “Kudo, are you awake?”

Kudo Shinichi, who thought he had definitely transformed into Conan in front of everyone, heard Chu Ming’s reminder and stretched out his hands in front of him. Sure enough, they were not the short and fat hands from before.

That’s great. He thought that a case had happened and his medicine supply was limited, so his plan to confess his feelings to Xiaolan had failed.

“Lan, I have something to tell you tomorrow…”

Seeing that the person had woken up and did not reveal any flaws, Chu Ming got up and went out. The moment he went out, he heard Kudo Shinichi talking to Xiaolan in a very low voice.

…But why wait until tomorrow???

Can’t you tell me today? It will be too late if you don’t tell me now! What if you transform before you can say anything tomorrow?

You are really young and don’t know that the transformation time is short.

The next day, after “accidentally” finding out from Sonoko that the date between Kudo Shinichi and Xiaolan was at the Observation Restaurant in the Beika Central Building, Chu Ming and Hattori Heiji, who had taken a special leave, sat stealthily at a table in the corner.

“Do you think Kudo will really confess his feelings today?” Hattori deliberately hid himself in the dark and asked quietly.

“I think so, if nothing unexpected happens.” Chu Ming blocked Hattori’s fiery gaze, “Be more restrained, I’m recording, don’t get caught.”

“Okay, record it clearly and send me a copy later.”

“Why do you want it? Do you want to learn from it after reading it, and then confess to Kazuha?”

Hattori was so angry that he stood up and argued loudly: “Are you stupid? I have already said that I and that person——wuwuwu”

Chu Ming grabbed his neck and hid under the table, and covered his mouth: “Asshole, keep your voice down, they are coming back.”

On the other side, Kudo Shinichi, who was having a candlelight dinner with Xiaolan, turned his head and looked around in confusion.

“Shinichi, what are you looking at?”

“I thought I heard Hattori’s voice?”

“What? Hattori and Kazuha have already taken a plane back to Osaka. I don’t know how you two are so familiar with each other after only meeting twice. The same goes for Brother Chu Ming, you have only met him a few times, why are you so familiar with each other…” Xiaolan muttered casually.

Kudo Shinichi touched the back of his head. Indeed, Kudo Shinichi had only met them twice, but Conan was very familiar with them.

“By the way, Shinichi, what exactly do you want to tell me?” Xiaolan looked up at Kudo Shinichi who was cutting steak opposite her, a little confused.

“Ah, well… what I want to say is, um…” After hesitating for a long time, Kudo Shinichi couldn’t utter a word, which made Chu Ming and Hattori who were hiding on the side very anxious, especially Hattori, whose face turned red, and he wanted to go up and grab Kudo Shinichi’s mouth and force him to finish what he was saying.

Chu Ming calmed down the restless Hattori with one hand, and held the camera with the other hand to film the two of them steadily.

“I remember now, this seems to be the place where Kudo’s father proposed to his mother. Tsk, this kid is quite good at it~”

“How do you know that’s where his parents proposed? You weren’t even born at that time, were you?” Hattori looked suspicious. “Are you making up a story to lie to me?”

Chu Ming rolled his eyes and held the camera further away to avoid recording the sound of their conversation during the filming.

“Don’t you usually read old news? About 20 years ago, Kudo Yusaku, the father of Kudo Shinichi, also solved a suicide case disguised as a homicide here, and then loudly confessed to Sister Yukiko in front of everyone in the restaurant. The picture in the newspaper was so romantic.”

“Hey, hey, how many people would collect decades of newspapers?” Hattori muttered in dissatisfaction.

Of course there is, the organization… not to mention old newspapers from twenty years ago, even old newspapers from fifty years ago are well preserved, and everything can be traced. He discovered it some time ago when he was bored enough to visit the intelligence group.

On the other side, after talking about irrelevant things for a long time, Kudo Shinichi finally plucked up the courage to get down to business.

“Xiaolan, I came here today because I have something serious to tell you. In fact, I have always–“

“what–!!!”

Chu Ming’s hand paused as he was filming, and Hattori’s eyes suddenly became sharp.

Xiaolan also poked her head in: “What’s wrong, Shinichi? Why is someone screaming?”

Only Kudo Shinichi suppressed his strong curiosity and lied with his eyes open: “Maybe I was scared by a mouse or something, that’s it, actually I–“

It was rare that Hattori didn’t rush to the scene immediately. He held his breath and waited for Kudo Shinichi to finish his words.

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But he could always hear the sound of people discussing loudly nearby.

“Oh no! I heard someone died in the elevator next to us!!”

Kudo Shinichi frowned slightly, and insisted on finishing his words: “Xiaolan, what I actually want to say is——”

“It was our president who was shot through the head!!”

Kudo Shinichi straightened Xiaolan’s head that was leaning to the side, and forced himself to finish his words: “Xiaolan, actually–“

Xiaolan couldn’t help laughing: “Well, you just really want to solve the case, right? Go ahead, great detective, I’ll wait for you here.”

Listening to Xiaolan’s flag-like words, Chu Ming put the camera on the table and exchanged glances with Hattori.

Just as Kudo Shinichi stood up and said, “I’ll be back soon,” two people suddenly appeared behind him, one of them held one of his shoulders and pressed Kudo Shinichi back into the chair.

Kudo Shinichi felt a huge force on his shoulder and sat back in his chair with a confused look on his face.

“Leave this case to the two of us. You just focus on your confession. We will tell you when the case is over.” Hattori Shige said happily to Kudo Shinichi, showing his bright white teeth.