Chapter 206 Winter is coming

"...Is there any juice?"

Tsukiyama Asari felt uncomfortable being stared at by the woman with a suggestive gaze. He pursed his lips and asked this incoherent question in the sight of several people.

The expression on Miss Masaya's face was blank for two seconds. She blinked and said hesitantly, "I think... there should be some."

"Great." After getting a positive answer, the black-haired man quickly reached out and picked up Conan Edogawa, who had not yet reacted, and held him tightly in his arms. When he turned to face Masaya, he lifted the little boy sitting on his lap a little under his arm, so that the round head with apron just stood between him and the woman, "Then Conan, let's go too!"

"...Ah?" The little boy who was used as a shield felt that this scene was extremely familiar, as if he was in a certain art studio a long time ago, just like now, like a person who doesn't want his 'single mother' to be taken away, and inserted himself between Tsukiyama Asari and the guy who came to chat up for no reason.

Thinking of the word that was too wrong, Edogawa Conan lowered his head with a guilty conscience, and gave a few private shouts to the brother behind him.

But... I must go!

Seeing the woman in front of him look even more interested after she came back to her senses from her daze, the boy immediately moved back a little, firmly blocking Tsukiyama Asari behind him, and then gave the woman a brilliant smile, "Wow, there is juice to drink! I want to go with Asari... and my brother too!"

After saying that, he turned to look at Okiya Subaru who was secretly observing Masaya at the side, his smile even brighter than before, "Big brother, come too."

"Okay." Okiya Subaru narrowed his eyes slightly, put down the knife and fork in his hand, and agreed at the right time, "I'm also very interested in the bartender who is good at mixing cocktails."

The original three-person game immediately turned into a team-building activity with the participation of children, The atmosphere, which was originally somewhat ambiguous, was transformed into a kind of family-friendly scene. Masaya looked at the half of the round face that was revealed after Conan Edogawa took off the lower half of the mask. The smile in her eyes was covered by a faint soft light for a moment.

She reached out and gently pinched the boy's cheek. The latter was instantly frozen for a moment because of this action. He only felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but before he could trace the source of this familiarity, Miss Masaya stood up, turned around and left.

Have I seen this person somewhere before?

Conan Edogawa frowned, and the childlike bright smile on his face faded, turning into a serious expression that did not match his appearance. Before he had time to think about anything else, he felt his cheek being pinched again.

"......?" The boy turned his head along with the force and met Yueshan Chaoli's eyes. The black-haired man put the fingers of his other hand on his chin, looked up and down at the little detective in his arms, and said with the attitude of studying some literature, "It seems that Conan's profile is really soft, everyone wants to pinch it."

"...Now is not the time to talk about this." Edogawa Conan immediately curled his helpless half-moon eyes. He looked around and simply jumped off Tsukiyama Asari's legs, then pulled the man to stand up, "Uncle, and Mr. Subaru, Asari and I will go back first, and see you at the bar later."

After that, he didn't look at the reactions of the two men, and pulled Tsukiyama Asari and walked quickly outside. The boy looked like a child who was pestering adults to go out to play, and did not attract the attention of others.

Edogawa Conan didn't let go of his hand until the two of them reached the bow of the ship. It was already dark now, and above the sea far away from the city, the stars finally broke away from the small world in the restaurant and collided quietly in the endless sky.

"It's too dangerous--" The boy had no time to appreciate the current scenery. He crossed his arms across his chest, and his aura was much stronger than before. Tsukiyama Asari looked at him and felt that he saw himself who used to teach this little detective who ran around everywhere, "I always feel that she is a little familiar, but I can't think of where I have seen her before... Anyway, you must be careful. What if she is from the organization? That would be dangerous."

"Yeah." Looking at his anxious look, Tsukiyama Asari laughed a little, but was afraid that the serious little detective in front of him would think that he was perfunctory, so he tried hard to hold back his laughter and nodded, "I'm not some little detective who runs around everywhere. Of course I will pay attention. After all, I am a 26-year-old adult. You underestimate me too much."

"Because this time is different! This time..." Edogawa Conan frowned, as if he felt his voice was too loud, so he lowered his voice, "You didn't have to get involved this time."

This time was already dangerous. As an ordinary person, Tsukiyama Asari did not participate in this cooperation plan, so naturally it was impossible for her to obtain the weapons and equipment equipped by the Public Security Bureau.

"Since we're here, we might as well make the best of it - if I didn't come, who would you give Xiaolan's invitation letter to?" The black-haired man looked at the conflicted expression on the other's face, reached out and pinched his face hard, "Besides... I always have a strong feeling that I must come to this ship. Maybe something important will happen here? Or maybe I'll meet someone..."

Tsukiyama Asari, who had boarded the ship to assist his two vests in completing the mission, blinked inwardly and forced himself to find a non-conflicting reason for boarding the ship. Who would have known that after hearing this, the boy, who was worried and conflicted just now, fell silent.

"Who are you meeting..." Edogawa Conan paused, but swallowed the rest of his words. He wanted to say something, but he saw a few figures in the distance, so he quickly became alert and swallowed the rest of his words back into his throat.

"You actually came here."

The two figures walked straight towards the bow, and it was not until they saw the familiar wheelchair that the alert Edogawa Conan breathed a sigh of relief.

Kasugawa Shugo smiled and waved at the two of them, "We have been looking for you two for a long time."

In fact, it didn't take long. Of course, he knew where Tsukiyama Asari was, but saying directly that he didn't know would remind his friend of something, so he had to go around a few times with the other party before suggesting to go to the bow and stern to take a look.

"Don't worry, Fūya said there are only cameras and monitors indoors and on the middle side of the deck. I've also tested the surroundings with a detector, and there's no signal response." Hagiwara Kenji added, taking out a thin bracelet from his pocket and handing it to the little boy, "I forgot to give it to you just now, and this, if the contactor is damaged, you can use this to notify other people."

Seeing his half-long-haired friend begin to explain to the boy how to use that thing, Kasugawa Shugo whispered, "Asari, come here."

As he spoke, he took out the ear-drop-shaped contactor that had been assigned to him from his pocket.

This connector is of no use to Kasugawa Shugo, who has been working with Hagiwara Kenji. He doesn't have pierced ears, so it's not very convenient for him to move around with the ear clip. So he simply thought of giving this equipment to the original body, who now has no modern equipment but the dagger that he brought by cheating, to balance the equipment ratio.

Without waiting for the man in the wheelchair to speak, Tsukiyama Chaoli tucked all the slightly long hair on the left side of his head behind his ear, half squatted down, and moved a little closer, allowing the other party to stretch out his hand and pass the thin long nail through his ear hole and fix it on the earlobe.

Kasugawa Shugo looked around and used his fingertips to tuck the black hair that the man had just tucked behind his ear. The soft hair hung down, vaguely covering the teardrop-shaped gem that fell from the earlobe.

It really fits. The police officer sitting in the wheelchair nodded with satisfaction. Anyway, it fits him much better than this one. When he tried it at noon, he was ridiculed by Hagiwara Kenji for a long time!

"Thank you, Hiiragi..." Tsukiyama paused for a moment, and suddenly thought that he should not say the other person's name directly in public. He also felt that it was a bit strange to call the unfamiliar 'Mr. Kasugawa' now. He hesitated for a long time, and finally put his right fist to his lips. While turning his face away, he blocked the smile that appeared on the corner of his mouth because of shame, and whispered the special title on this ship, "...Young Master."

After he finished speaking, he felt that the surroundings had inexplicably quieted down. The big and small who were talking just now were now completely silent. They just stood beside them, one staring hard at the sea level not far away, and the other looked up at the stars in the sky, as if they suddenly wanted to appreciate the scenery around them.

I don't know what Kenji Hagiwara and Conan Edogawa thought of in just a few seconds, but they have already seen the terrifying brain-filling ability of the half-long-haired police officer. Tsukiyama Chaori simply pulled the boy who was still looking at the stars in his hand, left a sentence "We're leaving first", and walked into the cabin without looking back.

... Very uncomfortable sight.

When he reached the fast-track cabin, Tsukiyama Chaori paused and was sensitive to the sight from not far away. Perhaps because the sight was only directed at him, the boy who was being led did not feel anything wrong, but immediately became alert after his brother stopped.

The best way to deal with this situation is to not respond. The black-haired man pretended that he didn't feel anything and prepared to continue walking into the cabin, but the man behind him obviously didn't want to let him go.

"Useless wishes, unnecessary desires."

A hoarse male voice came from behind, and the content of the mouth made Yueshan dazed for a moment. He turned his head and looked, "...what?"

"This is a fool, with many wishes. The damage they cause far exceeds the benefits." Without directly answering his question, the man knocked on the ground with his cane and recited this strange, poetic sentence in an evocative tone.

After speaking, the man raised his head, and a pair of heterochromatic eyes appeared in the hole under the mask.

"I'm talking about the mask on your face."

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