Chapter 55 Male "Female" Friends
Chapter 55
After Kurokawa Kaoru finished speaking, Judy Stelling remained silent for a long moment. A moment later, Gong You, who had finished taking the statement, came over. Seeing the two men standing there staring at each other, his expression bewildered, he took two steps forward and stood in front of Kurokawa Kaoru.
"What happened?"
“…”
"nothing."
After a brief silence, Kurokawa Kaoru laughed. Without even glancing at Judy Stelling, he dropped his eyes and toppled his head to the right, hitting Gong You's shoulder. "I was just discussing with Judy where to get the best omurice. It's too late to eat it now, so I'll have to wait until next time."
"You really like omurice, after all."
There was a situation before where he was in a low mood because he couldn't eat omelet rice. Besides, Kurokawa Kaoru just gave people a strange feeling. Apart from that, Miya You couldn't see any problem, so he believed his explanation.
"I remember there's a food stall near our hotel. If we don't waste time on the road, we should still be able to catch up."
"real?"
"Of course it's true."
"Then let's go now."
When it comes to eating, Kurokawa Kaoru is always serious. He had some recollection of the food stall Miya Yu mentioned; he'd faintly smelled its delicious aroma when he'd passed by before. He'd barely eaten all day, so the thought of the food stall instantly brightened his mood.
"Those two people will leave on their own anyway, so there's no need to wait for them."
"Thank you for remembering us despite your busy schedule."
Just as they walked out of the next door, they heard Kurokawa Kaoru's words. Seeing that he had no regrets about abandoning them, Hattori Heiji twitched his lips, but couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Aren't we going to take the Shinkansen? We're both going there too, so let's go together."
"Are you two leaving too?"
"Are you going to let us stay here overnight?"
As expected, seeing Kurokawa Kaoru looking at them with a look that said "That's what I think", Hattori Heiji took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to complain, and before Kurokawa Kaoru could speak, he forced a "ferocious" smile at them: "It's getting late, we should leave quickly."
“…”
How come this expression is even scarier than the wolf grandma in the picture book?
Looking at Hattori Heiji in front of him, Kurokawa Kaoru's expression paused, and he finally swallowed the words back.
They were here to visit Judy Stelling. Although they didn't get to enjoy the omurice, it didn't affect her relationship with Edogawa Conan. Smiling, they were escorted to the station. Seeing Kurokawa Kaoru and Miya Yuu buying their tickets at the ticket machine, Judy Stelling's expression shifted slightly. She deliberately used a gossipy tone to ask Edogawa Conan, "Satsuki and that other kid, are they a couple?"
Kurokawa Kaoru and Miya Yuu? Boyfriend and girlfriend?
Edogawa Conan's expression froze, but because Judy Stelling didn't know the identity of Kurokawa Kaoru, she could only laugh dryly and shook her head: "They are just good friends. I don't know much about their affairs. As for whether they are boyfriend and girlfriend, Judy may have to ask it herself."
"Oh! I just think they are a good match."
It was obvious that Judy Stelling would not ask in person. Seeing that the two people were almost done buying their tickets, Judy Stelling let out a long sigh and winked at Edogawa Conan with a smile: "It's better not to bring up topics like this in front of the parties involved. After all, Xiaoyue is a girl, and she would be more or less embarrassed."
"That's true."
Edogawa Conan scratched his head.
Excuse me? Are they really talking about Kurokawa Kaoru?
Worried that continuing would reveal Kurokawa Kaoru's true gender, he shook his head and looked up at Judy Stelling: "Come to think of it, when we were taking the statement, I saw Teacher Judy talking to Kurokawa with an unpleasant expression... What were you discussing at that time?"
At that time? Judy Stelling's expression shifted slightly.
"Discuss? We were just chatting about how you haven't come out yet."
"Is that all?"
Edogawa Conan didn't give up: "But I saw you guys talked for a long time."
"If you don't believe me, you can ask Xiaoyue."
Just at this time, Kurokawa Kaoru also came over. Hearing Judy Stelling's speech, his eyebrows raised and his eyes fell on her: "What questions do you want to ask me?"
"Cool kid wants to know what we were talking about."
Just now? Quickly realizing what the other person was referring to, Kurokawa Kaoru smiled as he met Judy Stelling's gaze, his eyes filled with emotion. "I don't remember exactly what we talked about, but it was something unimportant anyway."
"I was thinking the same thing just now. Maybe it's because I was having so much fun chatting with Xiaoyue."
"That's great! I'm happy to meet someone like Judy who loves omurice as much as I do."
It was obvious that Judy Stelling didn't want others to know the content of her conversation with him. In fact, Kurokawa Kaoru didn't think there was anything to hide about this matter, but since the other party had hinted to him like this, it would be bad to not give her face.
Thinking of this, Kurokawa Kaoru sighed and his eyes fell on Judy Stelling.
"But this kind of thing might come to mind someday, what do you think, Teacher Judy?"
Kurokawa Kaoru's words clearly carried a hint of "threat." Judy Stelling was silent for a moment, realizing the implication. Suddenly, she laughed, not knowing what she was thinking. "In my opinion, the conversations between Xiaoyue and I are girls' secrets. Isn't that what people always say?"
"A secret makes a woman woman."
Seeing people frowning at her, Judy Stelling smiled and shook her head, then put a finger against Kurokawa Kaoru's lips.
"Women with secrets are the most attractive. I hope you can remember this."
As soon as she finished speaking, Judy Stelling walked in the opposite direction of them. She stopped a taxi on the side of the road, told the driver the address of her apartment, turned around, blew a kiss in the direction of Kurokawa Kaoru, and then got in the taxi and drove away.
“…”
"What's all this mess?"
Looking expressionlessly at the direction where Judy Stelling left, Kurokawa Kaoru, who had returned to his natural voice, rubbed his shoulders and looked at Edogawa Conan with disgust: "How do you know such a weirdo?"
Edogawa Conan:?
Isn't that what he wants to meet? He already said she's Xiaolan's English teacher!
Kurokawa Kaoru and Miya Yuu's destination happened to be on the same route as Edogawa Conan and the others, so they sat on the platform together waiting for the subway to arrive. Seeing Kurokawa Kaoru, who had been playing with his phone since Judy Stelling left, Edogawa Conan opened his mouth and took the initiative to walk up to him.
"What were you guys talking about just now?"
"Didn't you say you forgot?"
"Don't joke around, do you think I would believe something like this?"
"We just briefly chatted about our thoughts on this murder case."
Seeing that the other person still didn't believe him, Kurokawa Kaoru felt helpless and grabbed the other person's collar and lifted him up.
It wasn't the first time that he felt his body hanging in the air. Even when he was grabbed by the collar, Edogawa Conan accepted it well: "You should know that even if you don't tell me, I will try my best to find the answers to many things."
"Then why don't you just try your best?"
Kurokawa Kaoru felt a little amused and threw the person into Hattori Heiji's arms. After confirming that Hattori Heiji had caught the person perfectly, Kurokawa Kaoru's expression was calm, and the content of his words was clearly heard by Conan Edogawa: "To be honest, I just happened to have some ideas about the identity of this Judy Stelling, so I took the opportunity to test her."
Who is Jodie Stelling?
Edogawa Conan opened his eyes wide: "You already know?"
"I can guess at least a little."
She was from the United States and could understand some Japanese, but she pretended not to be good at it. Earlier, when she was at the door, she had deliberately spoken to someone in the Hyogo dialect, but the other person understood her and immediately started talking to her in Japanese.
This is a kind of inertial thinking. When a person can master a language fluently, when they hear the other person speaking the same language as themselves, they will subconsciously switch to the same language. Even if Judy Stelling has tried hard to make her Japanese sound very poor, there is always a difference between pretending to be unproficient and being truly unproficient.
In addition, Judy Stelling paid attention to Conan Edogawa, and she obviously had a certain understanding of the speed of the Japanese police's response.
All these suspicions made Kurokawa Kaoru think of a department that he had only heard of but had never dealt with - the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is also one of the world-renowned and most important intelligence agencies in the United States.
He didn't care why the FBI came to Japan, or why they were undercover at Teitan High School as an English teacher. After all, they weren't from the brewery, so Kudo Shinichi probably wouldn't care too much. Quickly thinking about all this, Kurokawa Kaoru lowered his eyes, hiding the emotion behind them.
"With your ability, it won't take long for you to find out the other party's identity, so I won't bother with any more."
As if he had guessed what the other person was thinking, he added, "Besides, we talked about Pandora's Box before. At that time, you made the opposite choice from Gong You. You can't blame me for not telling you what we talked about."
Edogawa Conan: ...
Is the Pandora's Box question applicable now?
Kurokawa Kaoru's attitude had already made him realize that there was no way to learn Judy Stelline's identity from the other party. Fortunately, they could now confirm one thing, that is, no matter what Judy Stelline's identity was, at least she was not one of those in the Black Organization, otherwise Kurokawa Kaoru would not be so casual.
Since it wasn't the Black Organization, Edogawa Conan wasn't so anxious to know the other party's identity. Just then, the subway arrived at the station. Under the cover of the brake sound, he laughed and said in a voice that only he and Kurokawa Kaoru could hear, "Just now, when you were buying the tickets, Teacher Judy asked me the same question."
"She asked...are you and Gong You boyfriend and girlfriend?"
“…”
Kurokawa Kaoru was stunned.
TBC.
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