Under the pretext of taking Ai Haibara home, Kōsuke successfully sneaked into the Kudo residence using his old method, while Conan, lacking a suitable reason, could only follow behind him.
Upon arriving in the kitchen, Guangyou first inspected the condition of the chocolate, then nodded in satisfaction.
You can vaguely see white steam rising from the chocolate when it's just taken out of the refrigerator, and you can smell the rich aroma of the chocolate when you get closer.
After he finished unmolding the chocolate, Conan arrived.
Taking out the gift box he had prepared beforehand to hold the chocolates, Kōyū put the chocolates inside and asked Conan, "By the way, how are you planning to give this away? The old way of leaving it at the door?"
"No." Conan, with a barely perceptible smile, walked over to Kouyu with the chocolates he had made himself and asked, "Do you have any extra boxes?"
After casually tossing one to Conan, Kōyū continued packing the gift. After thinking for a moment, he asked with a smile, "You're not planning to use some excuse like 'I ran into Shinichi on the way, and he asked me to give this to Ran-neechan' to personally deliver the gift to Ran, are you?"
"..." Conan paused slightly in his unmolding motion, looking somewhat embarrassed. He coughed lightly and asked, "How did you know?"
“Even a fool could figure that out.” Guangyou couldn’t help but shake his head and said, “I understand your idea of giving the gift to Xiaolan in person, but it’s not appropriate. Unless you tell Xiaolan your true identity, it’s very likely to backfire.”
"Why?" Conan asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Because she'll think, 'Why didn't he give it to me himself?'" Kōyū shook his head, sighing at Conan's sometimes-on-the-top and sometimes-off-the-top emotional intelligence, and then said, "If you really want to just give the gift to Ran like this, then you might as well not give it to her at all."
The words were quite clear, and Conan, being no fool, understood immediately. He sighed and asked, "Then what should we do?"
"Actually, you can do it this way..."
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