Chapter 44
Life was simple and happy. Jinji and Yoshiyo Sugawara watched their son grow from a baby running around in diapers to a kindergarten student who received all kinds of snacks because he was too cute.
Sugawara Yoshiyo looked at the bag with distress, which was much heavier than when she left, and then she found chocolate, rice cakes, strawberries, jelly, daifuku and oatmeal cookies in the bag.
Little Sugawara Megumi, who inherited her parents' appetite, had cheeks as round as apples on a branch after an October frost. She walked up and kissed Sugawara Yoshi's face: "Mom, I was obedient and didn't bring any snacks to kindergarten."
Yoshiyo Sugawara, who was sitting on the floor, and her husband, who was leaning against the wall, looked at each other with a helpless expression.
Yoshiyo Sugawara noticed that her son seemed to weigh a little more than his neighbor, Hisahito. As long as the child was within a healthy range, she thought it was fine, until she discovered that Jiner gave her son money to shop freely every time he played marbles.
In addition to exercise, Yoshiyo Sugawara decided to control her diet by giving up highly processed snacks.
Little Sugawara Megumi is very obedient and the results were very good at the beginning. During this holiday, she has been learning physical training with Jiner and swordsmanship with Sugawara Yoshiyo, so she has got enough exercise.
Until the holidays are over and kindergarten starts.
Little Sugawara Megumi is very popular in kindergarten because she can draw abstract paintings such as frogs with small wings, is kind and generous, and often brings snacks to share with everyone. So after everyone learned about the incident, every child brought snacks for Sugawara Megumi.
Even the teacher who sent Sugawara Megumi home on the school bus after school reminded her not to suddenly stop all snacks for the children.
Shen Er also came forward to join in the fun. He found something and couldn't help but hold it up: "Ahui, you actually received eel sushi!"
The eel sushi was wrapped tightly in plastic wrap and didn't emit any smell. There was also a cute sticker with a small sea urchin head on it.
"Give it back to me, this is a gift from Genta." Little Sugawara Megumi tried to get it several times but failed, and her face turned red with anger: "I will definitely grow taller than my dad in the future."
Silly child, your comprehensive physical examination report shows that this is not the case.
Just as Shen Er was about to speak, he noticed his wife looking sideways at him with a kind smile.
The angry Sugawara Hui threw himself into his mother's arms. Sugawara Yoshiyo kissed his forehead and said: "You have received so many delicious things. Xiao Hui, do you want to personally give some delicious snacks to your classmates?"
It is better to reciprocate when it comes to snacks. Sugawara Yoshiyo thinks that these children who worry about Xiaohui and bring him snacks are also very cute.
"Glutinous rice nut boat, crispy fruit puff." Sugawara Megumi's eyes lit up. For a child who is often taken to restaurants by various uncles to eat delicious food, choosing a delicious snack seems difficult.
A wet kiss fell on her cheek, and Sugawara Yoshi came back to her senses and saw her little sweetheart looking at her: "What are you thinking about, mom?"
"How about adding crepes?" Sugawara Yoshiyo said, "Last time, after Xiaohui fell asleep, your father made delicious crepes."
"Go play outside, I heard Ayumi calling you." Shen'er lied with his eyes open.
"I thought Hui would have some peace and quiet after going to school. Being a parent is so hard." Jiner hugged Sugawara Yoshiyo from behind and sighed.
Sugawara Yoshiyo laughed: "That's just the beginning. Maybe when he reaches his rebellious stage, he'll feel like a man and won't take the initiative to hug and kiss us anymore. We think that's childish behavior."
"Oh, he dares." Shen'er sneered, and his expression looked as if he was ready to beat him up when the rebellious period really came.
Little boy Sugawara Megumi was going to the nearby park to play. He knew a shortcut, but it required him to squat down and crawl through the bushes.
Then little Sugawara Megumi saw a surprising scene.
Little girl Sugawara Megumi, who had learned through education that ugly things that humans could not see were roughly equivalent to cursed spirits, saw a little boy with a bun and unique bangs make a cursed spirit into a ball and throw it into his mouth.
This image evoked Sugawara Megumi's painful memories of the taste of cursed spirits. She was completely surprised that besides her father, there was actually someone who loved to eat this!
Geto Suguru, who had already mastered how to use his own spells, wiped his mouth and just as he suppressed the nausea, he noticed a fiery gaze. He moved here because of his parents' work changes and he didn't expect that there would be someone here with the same talent as him.
When Geto Suguru wanted to say hello, he saw the kid with the sea urchin head popping out of the grass. His round little face was full of shock and his mouth was wide open.
That lively little expression seemed to be saying, this person is actually being silenced!
Although he felt his stomach churning, Geto Suguru still didn't have the disgusting taste he remembered.
After vomiting all over the place, Geto Xiayou sat up straight and saw a box of cutely packaged baby strawberry milk and a little hand with four dimples.
"Can you see it too?" asked Geto Suguru.
Little Sugawara Megumi nodded cautiously and then shook her head: "But I don't like eating that."
"I don't like it either." Xia Yujie curled his lips, and when he saw the milk that was handed to him with persistence, he finally accepted it.
100ml of baby drink was gone in two sips. Xia Yujie bit the straw and thought that he should prepare a bottle of this sour and sweet drink before eating Ju Ling next time.
The cardboard box was thrown accurately into the trash can in a parabola. Xia Yujie looked at Sugawara Megumi's round profile and cleared his throat: "Brother will buy you some taiyaki later."
Sugawara Megumi shook her head: "Thank you, brother, but I don't eat snacks. I will go home to eat soon."
He thought of something and took out a handful of candy from his pocket. He generously pushed the mountain of candy in his little hand towards Geto Suguru.
Unable to resist such enthusiasm, Geto Suguru observed the little boy beside him with a candy in his mouth. This child who didn't understand his unique "talent" was very cute and different from the little kids with snot in their hands that he had seen before.
A cursed spirit that looked like a small mosquito flew through the air. Just as Geto Suguru was about to cover Sugawara Megumi's eyes with his hands, he found that the chubby-faced child had turned her head away and looked at the lawn.
"Can your parents also see this kind of thing?" asked Geto Suguru curiously. He could tell from the child's reaction that he had a teacher and was not able to figure it out freely like he did on his own.
Little Sugawara Megumi nodded and said, "Brother, you look unfamiliar. Are you the new neighbor?"
Xia Yujie nodded: "I haven't finished moving my luggage yet, and I think this neighborhood is pretty good."
After the brief novelty of seeing his own kind, Geto Suguru quickly realized what it was like to have a four-and-a-half-year-old child growing up in full love and care.
Although little Sugawara Megumi looks very well-behaved, the five-year-old's nature of being curious about everything is fully revealed.
"Big brother, what does that taste like?"
"Big brother, why did you eat that?"
"Big brother, have you ever thought about eating it with sauce?"
"Big brother, what are you having for dinner?"
"Big brother, can you also push an SUV?"
After trying his best to answer all the questions without any confusion, Geto Suguru felt that he almost didn't recognize the word "big brother" anymore.
"Xiaohui, it's time to go home for dinner." When Sugawara Yoshiyo arrived at the park, she saw a little kid sitting next to the penguin slide and a boy she didn't recognize.
"Mom, this is my new acquaintance, Brother Takeru." Sugawara Megumi threw herself into her mother's arms and introduced her sweetly.
Although his head was buzzing from chatting, Geto Xia Yu still stood up politely and said, "Hello, I'm Geto Xia Yu, the new guy who just moved in."
Sugawara Yoshiyo nodded and said, "The house in front with animal graffiti on the door is mine. You're welcome to come and play with Xiaohui."
Holding her mother's hand, little Sugawara Megumi waved reluctantly, and after fully explaining her experience of meeting her new playmate, she looked expectant and said, "Mom, can you give me a brother?"
"This is too difficult." Sugawara Yoshiyo said, she looked at the little face drooping, but if it was a little brother or sister, she could still try: "Xiaohui, do you want a sister or a brother?"
Sugawara Megumi's bright face was full of anticipation, and her tone was very serious: "I can share snacks and toys with them."
Many of his toys are donated every year to children in need, and toy enthusiast Megumi Sugawara is happy to share.
Yoshiyo Sugawara couldn't help but kiss her son's cheek again. Sometimes a thought would flash through her mind, wishing time would slow down so that her son could rely on her like a little sticky cake for a little longer.
Shier holds the opposite opinion on this point. He thinks that if Sugawara Megumi always wants to sleep with her parents while holding a small pillow at night, he might not be able to bear it and send this kid to the neighboring Itadori family before high school, and then go traveling with his wife.
There are only two people.
When Sugawara Megumi was in the first grade of elementary school, Jiner discovered that his wife's "wish" seemed to have come true.
After handing the newly prepared Valentine's Day gift to Yoshie Sugawara, Shinji, who was kissing his wife, had a thought in his mind: Something is wrong. Didn't he give Yoshie a Valentine's Day gift last month? Why is it Valentine's Day again?
After Shigeru raised this point, Sugawara Yoshiyo also reacted.
After a joint investigation, the couple discovered something. Because of the unstable spiritual pressure of Beika Town, Beika Town gradually developed a sense of separation from other places in time and space due to the dimensional difference.
To put it simply, the flow of time in Beika Town is independent and uncontrollable.
The flow of time in Beika Town is different from that outside. During the time when Yoshiyo Sugawara and his employees brought back nearly 400 stranded souls, three months in the real world felt like several years to the people in Beika Town.
"Then Hui will have to go to elementary school for many years." Shen Er thought of this and shook his head. In this case, when will he wait until this kid becomes an adult and throw him to Yuzhang's house?
"Let's investigate what happened first. Reiatsu won't change for no reason." Sugawara Yoshiyo said. Thinking of her Xiaohui going to elementary school for many, many years, she couldn't help but show a loving expression: "Today, let's go to Teitan Elementary School for an inspection."
Shen Er glanced at the time and curled his lips: "Ahui is already in elementary school. Nowadays, elementary school students don't like their mothers to pick them up at the school gate every day."
"But Xiaohui likes to hold her mother's hand when going to the supermarket. Even you still can't reconcile with yourself. Xiaohui just doesn't want to be close to you." A smug arc appeared at the corner of Sugawara Yoshiyo's mouth.
Shen Er shrugged indifferently, regardless of whether he liked it or not. After the close combat class was exhausted, it was still him, the father, who carried his son back to the room.
"Looking at the news, the crime rate in Mihua is a bit scary." Shen Er touched his chin and asked: "Should we sell some of the houses involved in the accident and invest in the funeral industry?"
Sugawara Yoshiyo thought this was a good suggestion: "Let's go pick up the kids and collect the rent together."
Walking on the streets of Beihua, the Sugawara couple began to think about what happened three months ago that caused the abnormal spiritual pressure and discovered this uncontrollable change.
At the entrance of Teitan Elementary School, little girl Sugawara Megumi, wearing a blue hoodie with a little penguin print and black shorts, stood among her friends, talking and laughing. The boy with the sea urchin hair and the boy with pink hair, who were half a head taller than their peers, had bright smiles on their faces.
The pink-haired boy noticed this first and spoke enthusiastically to his friends around him.
Then everyone saw it.
"It's Uncle Sugawara, is that beautiful sister next to you your mother?" The enthusiastic elementary school students gathered around him.
"Do you want to go to your aunt's house today? I baked a delicious cake." Sugawara Yoshiyo said.
Megumi Sugawara, who has gradually lost his kindergarten chubby figure and turned into a sturdy little handsome boy, gave his mother a hug. He was surprised that his mother, who was very busy at work, came to pick him up from school.
My friends around me were also very surprised.
"Great, since there's cake to eat, the Junior Detective Team's target today is the Sugawara family." Genta said happily.
Yoshiyo Sugawara looked curiously at the boy with small glasses among the children. This unfamiliar little boy had a strong life flame that was inconsistent with his age.
I didn’t seem to have seen this child at the opening ceremony, but the flame of life seemed strangely familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere before.
"Auntie Sugawara, he is Edogawa Conan. Conan transferred to our class three months ago." Yuji Itadori introduced.
"Conan lives in Xiaolan's house. He is very smart and good at playing football and skateboarding." Ayumi added.
"Hello, uncle and aunt, ahaha." Conan Edogawa said in a cute child's voice. He had come into contact with Sugawara Yoshiyo in a previous case, and he didn't expect to see this detective here.
Compared to the cute elementary school students of this age who generally like to act like mature adults, the one in front of me is a complete outlier.
Shen'er also remembered that he had watched the police investigate a case while buying vegetables before. This kid was the one who often wandered around the evidence collection scene with a sharp gleam in his glasses and said "ah-le-le" in a baby voice.
Coincidentally, this child appeared right after the disappearance of Kudo Shinichi, the "savior of the police." Every time he went grocery shopping, he'd hear women of all ages express their longing for the high school detective. And while working part-time as a coach for the Teitan High School sports club, he learned from Mouri Ran that her childhood sweetheart, Kudo Shinichi, had taken a long leave due to a case.
The timing is so coincidental, these two guys look so alike.
The Sugawara couple looked at each other calmly, and understood each other's thoughts tacitly.
The children who were eating the cake were all very happy, but Conan, who was holding a glass of juice with one hand in his pocket, looked out of place.
"There are Lego blocks and game consoles upstairs. Which kid is interested?" asked Yoshiyo Sugawara.
The owner, Sugawara Megumi, and the half-owner, Itadori Yuji, brought their friends up to play. Conan, who was not interested in either of them, was observing the various ancient-style weapons displayed in the cabinets on the wall.
After sending the fruit upstairs, Jiner began to maintain the cursed tool in front of Conan without any hesitation.
Conan, who is very curious about everything, couldn't help but ask: "Oh, uncle, has the knife been sharpened?"
"Yeah." Jiner nodded. This Nichirin sword was one of Sugawara Yoshiyo's collection.
"The pattern on it looks very ancient and very much in the style of the Taisho era." Conan said. He was very interested in all new knowledge.
Shiro raised the corner of his mouth: "You have good taste, Kudo Shinichi."
"Of course, I--" Edogawa Conan froze in place, realizing something.
No one recognized him so directly after he turned into a child. Even Xiaolan, who was very close to him, was fooled.
Edogawa Conan didn't know where he had given himself away, and tried to make amends with a stiff expression: "Hahaha uncle, what are you talking about? I am a relative of Shinichi brother, you mistook me for Shinichi brother."
"You really are not good at pretending to be a child, Kudo Shinichi." Jiner said while supporting his face.
Edogawa Conan couldn't help but sigh. His parents had contact with the Sugawara family when they were in China and knew that the couple had been police officers in the past and should not be bad people. After taking a deep breath, he chose to admit: "Yes, I am Kudo Shinichi."
There was a clattering sound from the stairs. Sugawara Megumi picked up the empty plate and looked at Conan with a complicated expression.
Sugawara Megumi couldn't put the stinky but nice Shinichi brother and the big pervert who lived in Xiaolan's room and slept on the floor while taking a hot spring bath without any psychological burden and bathed with Xiaolan sister as the same person. How could Shinichi brother become like this?
When Edogawa Conan saw Sugawara Megumi's expression, he smiled bitterly and thought that it was indeed difficult for even people he knew to accept that a high school student was beaten with a club and drugged and then turned into an elementary school student. He was about to open his mouth to explain something when he saw Sugawara Megumi take two steps back.
Sugawara Megumi was filled with grief and sorrow: "I, I will never respect Shinichi-nii again!"
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