Chapter 121 Fifteen Cats

"Sorry, I have to answer a call." Chijiang Nayue said as she took off the cat and insect hanging on her body, stood up and walked to the stairs, where she stood and waved her cell phone at them.

Standing at the top of the sofa, Kotani had a broad view, which allowed him to keenly notice some small details: after seeing the caller ID clearly, the store manager's originally raised mouth corners straightened, and the smile between his eyebrows instantly cooled down.

Is it possible that the relationship between the store manager and his grandfather is not good? But Hiro mentioned to him that this store seemed to be given to him by the store manager's grandfather... If that's the case, the relationship should at least be good.

Standing on the wooden stairs, Akae Nazuki took in everyone's expressions, and at the same time saw Conan's face full of curiosity as he walked out from between the store managers.

He tried hard to hold back the urge to laugh, but in the eyes of others, it looked like the store manager pursed his lips and nodded hastily to Conan, then ran upstairs without looking back, as if he was very worried that the person on the other end of the phone would hang up the phone.

What is it that they cannot listen to?

This question popped up in Conan and Furuya's minds at the same time.

[If we do this, will they definitely follow us and eavesdrop?] At the same time, in Akajyo Nanazuki's mind, [Shu] asked in confusion.

[Because he's a detective.] The Savior was sitting on the second-floor window with his back to the stairs, his hand on the window sill, and he answered the call with a dazed look on his face. At the same time, he answered the question about [Book] in his mind, [Never underestimate the curiosity of a curious detective when he faces the information he needs... If it's not enough, then two.]

Unfortunately, there happened to be two curious detectives here who needed to collect intelligence on the store manager.

Of course, the call was not from Karasuma Renya. In fact, Akae Nazuki had received a text message from the other party before he went out this morning. Guessing that Conan would come today, he simply used the content of the text message and planned to happily perform a new drama in front of the two detectives.

[Shu] therefore received a request for help and cooperation. For his newborn world consciousness, which was not yet fully aware of his own abilities, Chi Jiang Na Yue knew very well that the other party also wanted to "learn a thing or two" from him. In this case, he would not hesitate to teach [Shu] in strange places.

After all, it was his creation anyway, and if that Russian rice ball was taken away because of his lack of intelligence, Akae Nazuki would really feel ashamed. When Akae Nazuki went upstairs, Conan nervously ran to the children to ask them what happened, and glanced at the staircase from time to time, fearing that he would miss some important information. After these two times, his anxiety was completely exposed.

Fūya on the side looked at Conan thoughtfully. He found that this kid seemed to want to sneak away and eavesdrop on the store manager's phone call... To be honest, he was also concerned about it.

Zhufu and his childhood friend looked at each other, then suddenly turned their heads and rubbed against Mitsuhiko and meowed twice. Matsuda and Hagiwara also strolled over to his side. In just a few seconds, the two cats successfully diverted the children's attention.

Conan didn't know whether to be speechless or relieved for a moment. He just breathed a sigh of relief and tried to sneak away. Then his arms felt heavy and Conan reflexively grabbed the things in his arms to prevent them from falling to the ground. When he came to his senses and looked down, he found that the Siamese cat squatting on the sofa had somehow crawled onto him.

The man and the cat looked at each other.

Was she trying to eavesdrop with him, or was she trying to stop him? Conan felt a headache, and seeing that time was running out, he simply put the question aside and sneaked towards the staircase with the cat in his arms.

The stairs in the store were made of wood, but Conan made almost no sound when he walked on them. He easily avoided the children's sight and walked to the stairs on the second floor. As the distance got closer, he could gradually hear the voice of the manager talking.

"Nothing, I was just serving customers in the store and didn't hear the phone ringing."

Conan frowned: The manager is lying, why?

The person on the other end of the phone said something. The store manager was silent for a moment and then sighed and said helplessly, "I know. I'll pay attention next time."

"This weekend? Uh... well, nothing else." The store manager spoke much slower than usual, as if he had to think for a while before speaking each sentence. "Do you need me to attend? Okay, Grandpa, I will go."

It turned out to be a call from my grandpa...

Fūya pondered over what he had heard: the store manager usually always had a smile on his face and was never in a bad mood, but today, when he was talking to the 'grandfather', the store manager used a distant tone that he had never heard before, and that expression that seemed very cold no matter how he thought about it.

The relationship between the store manager and the grandfather does sound bad. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart and came to a conclusion temporarily.

Conan, who was holding the cat, had similar thoughts to Fōtani. At the same time, he knew a little more about the store manager's family situation than Fōtani, such as the fact that the store manager's grandfather was a very wealthy tycoon, and that his grandfather was so wealthy that the store manager had the confidence to casually take out 500,000 US dollars and throw it away.

So he couldn't help but start to speculate: The store manager's family background is really not simple, maybe he is the child of a big family. In that case, it is not strange that he has a cold relationship with his grandfather. The strange thing is that the store manager's grandfather doesn't seem to think so? When the store manager placed an order in the office before, he did not show any resistance to the existence of his grandfather.

Hey, could it be that these two people can't say anything nice when they are face to face with each other, but actually like each other very much in private - could it be that this is the type!

Conan shuddered for some reason.

I always feel horrible, why is this happening?

While they were thinking, there was no sound coming from the manager. Conan was about to look up when he found a shadow covering him. He froze all of a sudden.

When he looked up, he saw that the store manager was standing in front of him without him knowing when. When he saw him looking at her, he smiled at him with a curved brow.

This smile not only did not make Conan relax, but made the hair on his back stand up. He immediately stood at attention and looked up to show his innocence: "Um, store manager brother... Ahem, Xiao brother, I want to ask you about something..."

In order to show his sincerity, Conan also deliberately changed the address to the name that the store manager had mentioned before, to show his seriousness.

Unexpectedly, Jōtani was stunned and looked between the two people in surprise.

Hagiwara and his friends have been here for more than two months and they don't know the name of the store manager, but this kid actually knows it... just because of the commission whose specific content they don't know yet?

I have a strange feeling of losing in a strange place, the Siamese cat thought unhappily.

The store manager and Conan looked at each other for a moment, then took a step back. He reached out to take his cat, turned around and walked back to the window without looking back: "No need to call my name... Never mind, you heard it anyway. Is there anything you want to ask me? You can ask a few more questions now."

As for whether he is telling the truth or not, that is not certain.

Chi Jiang Na Yue thought so and secretly pulled the hair on her friend's back out of pity.

Fūya didn't know what Akae was thinking, but he instinctively felt something was wrong and sneezed.

After Conan walked to the other side of the window and sat down, he observed the manager's expression, and then asked hesitantly: "Is the man just now facing you really the grandfather of the manager's brother?" "Yes." The manager nodded readily and said, "At least, that's what he told me."

"'He said so'...what does that mean?" Conan asked in surprise.

After the call was hung up, the awkward feeling around the manager disappeared, and now when he was talking, Conan and Furuya felt the same as before, which gave the child the courage to ask this question.

As he said, the store manager did not avoid the question. Instead, after thinking for a while, he gave an answer that shocked both the man and the cat.

"Well, because I don't actually have any memory of what happened two and a half months ago."

The black-haired young man lowered his eyes and looked at the cat in his arms, then dropped this big bomb in a normal tone.

The pencil behind his head fell to the ground at some point, causing his long hair to break free and fall behind his body, on his shoulders and on Fūtani's head. The latter felt the cool touch and his nose tip felt inexplicably itchy.

Conan gasped: "Wait, what does this mean?!"

"Literally, but I didn't completely lose my memory." The store manager shrugged, and more black hair flowed smoothly to his chest as he moved. "When I woke up, I found myself lying in a strange room, and he was the first person to speak to me. He told me that he was my grandfather... or something."

When the store manager just woke up, his mind was completely blank, just like a newborn baby. The only special thing was that he had excellent reading and writing skills, could understand the language spoken by other people, and could speak the language himself, but other than that, he had no knowledge of the world at that time.

Karasuma Renya believes that he was the one who brought Kalua to this lonely world, and that he is Kalua's creator and his "father", and that he changed the term to "grandfather" to make it more reasonable. He has no children, so in Karasuma Renya's eyes, Kalua is the only one who can inherit everything from him and can be considered his descendant.

This was especially true after he learned that Kaluuya had woken up, which was why he introduced himself to the child like that, but——

[“So, is Grandfather your name?” The long-haired young man who had just learned that Kaluya was his name stood by the window, looking innocent and asking seriously in a tone that was not unusual.]

Karasuma Renya then remembered that the child he had pulled out of the pages of the book had been sleeping for more than 20 years, and it seemed like this was the first time he opened his eyes and saw this world.

So it’s normal not to know what a grandfather is, right?

"He said I was sleeping for a long time, so that's why this happened." The store manager yawned a little sleepily as he spoke. "After I woke up, I studied there for a few more days, and left when I could guarantee that I could live on my own."

The store manager does not seem to agree with some of the grandfather's behaviors. They have different ideas, which makes the store manager resist this cheap grandfather.

"No? To be more specific, I just feel that he and I shouldn't be grandfather-grandson relations, so I can't call him that and don't want to stay any longer." The store manager retorted, "...Well, I don't agree with him a little bit."

Furuya and Conan both complained in their hearts: You said that, but didn't you still call him "Grandpa" when you called him...

"This shop was given to me by Hagi when I found out that he was planning to open a cat cafe." The store manager lowered his head, his expression a little complicated.

Conan and Fūya, who were watching this scene, were still lamenting in their hearts that the conflict between the grandfather and grandson was really annoying. They were completely oblivious to the vomiting in Akae Nanazuki's heart because of the disgust she had said.

[Too scary.] Akajina Yue murmured, [This is really too scary. I want compensation for my work injury. Does this world really need to be saved?]

A kind-hearted Karasuma Renya who makes him call him Grandpa!

The phone call that was just overheard was actually a one-man show by Akae Nazuki. He just couldn't accept calling the real Karasuma Renya "Grandpa", so he could only save the country in this roundabout way.

Chijiang Nayue's eyes twisted for a moment, he felt that his soul had been sublimated once again, he was definitely tempered in pain!

He never wants to see the good guy Karasuma Renya appear again!

Karasuma Renya becoming a good person might be a good thing for the world, and for most people in the world.

But for every Akae Nazuki who was stolen from the Yokohama world, every Yokohama world that lost its savior and can only wait for destruction, and every Nakahara Chuuya and Dazai Osamu who lost their children before their eyes, Karasuma Renya's sin is unforgivable.

So he hated this kind of situation the most. He couldn't just kill such an old man, but he also felt disgusted if he just left him alone... He hated it. Why couldn't he always be a pure evil person?

Chi Jiang Na Yue was extremely dissatisfied and decided to go back to her own world. She must ask her teacher to go to the old man's manor together to step on the guy's ashes.

The Savior decided to skip the topic.

"Come to think of it, he said there's a dinner party this weekend that I need to attend." Conan heard the store manager say in a troubled tone, "It's the birthday party for the eldest daughter of the Suzuki Foundation, but he also said that the thief Kid sent a notice to the Suzuki Foundation?"

"Ah, is it Sonoko's elder sister's birthday..." Conan muttered for a while, and suddenly realized what the store manager was talking about, "Ah? The thief Kid?"

The store manager tilted his head obediently, his hair hanging down, and asked innocently yet curiously, "What is Thief Kid?"

“…”

Conan remained calm and said, "He is a very tasteless, childish and annoying thief. Store manager, don't worry about him. Uncle should be there by then. We can meet at the banquet!"

“Is that so?” The store manager showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, but he couldn’t help laughing.

I've recorded it. I'll let Kuai Dou listen to it after I return to the main world.

Conan didn't know what the manager was thinking. His attention was focused on the manager's background. He really cared about the fact that the manager said he had been sleeping for a long time, but Conan didn't want to touch on the manager's private affairs so presumptuously. He was also worried that the other party would become suspicious of him, so he had to change the topic.

"What does the store manager's family do?" the boy asked innocently. "I remember that the store manager's grandfather also runs a company like Suzuki-san, right? What does he do?"

In the past two days, Conan has privately searched many times for groups and families related to the surname Miyamoto, but he feels that none of them match the store manager.

Hearing this, Furuya also pricked up his ears and listened openly.

Unexpectedly, the store manager hesitated for a few seconds.

"I guess it's a legal job...right?"

"…Why would you hesitate about something like this?!"

"Because some people in his company look like criminals." The store manager regained a gentle smile on his face and said seriously, "Even if they are actually good people in this world, they may be some kind of super villains in another world."

"Ah, the multiverse theory?" Conan didn't know why, but he actually stroked his chin and thought seriously, "That may not be true, right? Even if it is, it has nothing to do with our world in the short term."

Akae·From a parallel world·Mission is to save this world·Natsuki looked up at Conan, smiled brilliantly, and agreed, "That's true."