Time seemed to stand still for a moment.
Apart from Fujieda Soka and Ueki Kusahachi, who were unaware of the situation, everyone else was more or less surprised.
I never imagined they would meet in this place, in this way.
Before the silence could linger, Eri Kisaki, as if she had met her match, deliberately "mockingly" said:
"Ha, after all these years, you still love to pretend to be young."
"But even if she was a princess of Teitan back then, it seems she couldn't withstand the relentless passage of time."
Yukiko Kudo responded in kind:
"Ah, yes."
"However, the saying 'time waits for no one's age' also applies to you."
"A queen who uses makeup to conceal her age."
Their words were filled with a strong sense of hostility.
Worried that the two would start arguing, Xiaolan quickly stepped in to smooth things over:
"Please, you two, stop doing this..."
However, before she could finish speaking, Eri Kisaki and Yukiko Kudo grasped each other's hands.
The next moment, the two women's expressions changed instantly, and they burst into laughter.
"Yukiko, it's been a long time!"
"Yes, how have you been lately? Are you alright?"
The two greeted each other familiarly.
The tense atmosphere, as if a fight could break out at any moment, vanished instantly.
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
The change was so sudden that Xiaolan was a little caught off guard.
Seeing the two of them acting like best friends, she subconsciously let out a soft "Eh."
Faced with such a stark contrast, Kwang-woo smiled and thought to himself:
"That's quite a unique way to greet someone."
"He's starting to seem like a bit of a sarcastic friend..."
Age is always one of the things women care about most.
People who joke about someone's age either have very low emotional intelligence or are simply adversaries who can't stand each other.
Or perhaps the two people's relationship is so good that they don't care about these things anymore.
Clearly, Eri Kisaki and Yukiko Kudo belong to the latter category.
The two, absorbed in their reunion, did not notice Xiaolan's unusual behavior.
Recalling the time of their last meeting, Yukiko Kudo sighed:
"It's been ten years since we last met, hasn't it?"
"The last time we met was before you and Kogoro broke up..."
Upon hearing this, Eri Kisaki corrected Yukiko Kudo's mistake:
"We didn't break up, we just separated."
"I'm still in contact with him."
Not having spent much time discussing emotional issues, Yukiko Kudo said with a touch of nostalgia:
"No one has called me 'princess' since the high school festival."
"I really miss those days."
After hearing what Yukiko Kudo said, Eri Kisaki also recounted what happened back then:
"At that time, the school imitated those beauty pageants and held a competition for 'Miss Teitan'."
"There was quite a commotion over the showdown between the princess and the queen."
"Miss Teitan? Is there such a competition?"
As a student at Teitan High School, this was the first time Conan had ever heard of this competition.
He's a boy and he's not interested in that kind of thing.
It's normal not to know.
Xiaolan remembers this competition.
She looked at Eri Kisaki and Yukiko Kudo in surprise and said:
"I think I heard Sonoko mention it before."
"Twenty years ago, there was a beauty pageant that shocked the entire Teitan High School."
"The two sides in the final battle possess both sweet and charming looks and genius acting skills."
"Princess Teitan attracted the attention of the world's media at her first appearance."
"The other is the beautiful and intelligent Teitan Queen, who passed the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo perfectly and was recommended to study at Harvard at the age of sixteen."
This is the situation described by the garden at the time.
She said that the match was already legendary.
Few people know the identities of the two sides in the final battle.
Even someone as well-informed as her couldn't find out who those two people were.
It only circulated among students.
To Xiaolan's surprise...
She actually knew both of the legendary protagonists.
One is her biological mother, and the other is Shinichi's biological mother.
Thinking about this, Xiaolan couldn't help but sigh:
"I never imagined that those two people would be my and Shinichi's mothers."
Beside Eri Kisaki and Yukiko Kudo, Suka Fujieda was watching the two of them with a quiet gaze.
She hadn't expected that these two people in front of her would have such a powerful background.
One was recommended to study at Harvard at the age of sixteen and also passed the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo.
The other one also seems to be an actor, a very famous one.
Although she didn't know them, the identity of "celebrity" sounded very impressive!
...
Thinking back on what she had just said, Fujieda Suka really wanted to dig a hole and crawl into it.
However, she was genuinely worried that such a situation would occur.
Putting everything else aside, let's just talk about appearance.
Although she felt that she could be considered a beauty after putting on makeup.
But there's no comparison between these two people who only wore light makeup.
She didn't want to give away her huge inheritance to others, or have it stolen from her.
...
No, she wanted to defend her love.
Yes, it's about defending love.
Whether others believe it or not, she believed it.
No one knows what she's thinking.
At this moment, Conan didn't care about his mother's title of "Princess Teitan".
He cared more about the result of that match back then.
Although he wasn't really interested in beauty pageants, he still asked Xiaolan:
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