Conan's Science Manga Artist Kudo Yuuji

"Oh, there are no seats left? But we made a reservation in advance, Mr. Kudo reserved the seat."

After exiting the elevator, Kudo Yuji, who was holding Rize's hand, looked at the waiter who was stopping customers at the entrance of the Yuanjing Hotel, holding his chin with a distressed look, not paying any attention to his daughter who had almost buried her head in her chest.

"Because it has been an hour since the hotel opened, and the person who made the reservation has not come, we gave the seat to someone else in advance. Madam, you have to wait until other guests have finished eating before there will be a vacancy." The waiter took out a queue card from his pocket, and it clearly said number five.

"Number five? Does it mean there are four tables in front?! Do I have to queue up after I made a reservation?"

Yuji opened his mouth slightly, then sighed and handed the queue card back to the waiter.

"It's really bad... huh?"

The waiter stared blankly at Fukuzawa Yukichi covered under the queue card, and his expression changed instantly. He smiled and bent down to Kudo Yuji, motioning her to wait for him at the door, and turned to enter the hotel.

"Bribe."

The girl next to him suddenly said a word, which scared Kudo Yuji, who was now the "mother".

"Where did you learn this word?"

"My grandma taught me." Rize sold Vermouth decisively.

After the waiter came out of the hotel, the two noticed the guests who had packed up and were ready to leave, and the table was cleaned up, and sat down very naturally.

"Wouldn't this be a bit bad?"

In order to observe the man and woman by the window sill, and because the girl did not disguise her face, Kudo Yuji turned his back to the hotel door, and Rize sat facing the door.

The girl saw a family walk to the door holding a queue card after she and her father sat down, and talked to the waiter helplessly. The father left with his family again, and Rize felt that this was not okay.

"They should have come in to eat."

"Rise, this seat was originally ours." Yuji looked at the girl opposite: "It was the restaurant that gave our seat to someone else."

"Then why do we have to pay that person..." Rise looked at the girl opposite carefully...

"Mom?"

"If Shinichi and the others hadn't already eaten inside, I really wouldn't care." Yuji lifted his chin and looked at his daughter: "Rise, do you feel guilty about those people in line?"

"Of course." The girl's attitude became serious: "It's obviously our fault, mom is the one, why do you look so indifferent."

Such a person... is completely different from the father she imagined. Obviously, the father who chatted at the foot of the mountain in Kyoto's hot spring town was very gentle.

"You know, Rise, the only thing a person can't choose in this world is his or her birth." Yuji narrowed his eyes: "If I don't care, what will Rise do? Aren't you going to play mother and daughter with me today?"

Finding that the girl opposite was shocked, Yuji suddenly realized that this was his daughter, and he had overacted a little, so he had to put his hand on Rise's head and took out his phone.

"I asked the driver to reserve four seats at the western restaurant next door. The four restaurants that were in line just now, I will treat all of them to dinner today."

"Huh?!" Rize widened her eyes and suddenly said, "So what happened just now was a test?"

If she also thinks it's right to spend money to come in early, what will her father do? He will definitely think she is a bad child, and she can't be a child of the Kudo family.

Relieved, Rize felt that whether it was Kaori, Yuzuki, or Haibara Ai, who seemed to be her sister, the influence on her was positive, which was really great.

"Rize is such a good girl, I really like you. But remember one thing, the reason why I can compensate them is because mom makes a lot of money. If there is no money, we will have to wait outside together."

Continuing to stroke the girl's head, Yuji heard the girl opposite suddenly snort, knowing that she was angry, so he clapped his hands and said to his daughter: "I'm sorry, Rize-sama can ask for compensation, I will agree to anything."

"Agree to anything?"

The girl's ears trembled: "Really?"

"Really, I'm not lying to you." Yuji nodded.

"Then... can we still play in the future? The game of pretending to be mother and daughter."

In fact, I wanted to ask whether Haibara Ai is Kudo Yuji's daughter, but in Rize's heart, it seems that asking such a question is not appropriate for the current relationship between the two, so she changed it to this.

"Okay, of course no problem." Yuji coughed and began to change to the posture of a lady again.

"Mom likes Rize very much too, be my daughter in the future."

"Hi!" The girl nodded and agreed hurriedly, realizing that she was too excited and lowered her head shyly in a low voice.

"But we can't eat cold food in a Japanese restaurant."

Yuji glanced at the menu and raised his hand to ask the waiter to come over to order. He found that the two people by the window were only eating and not talking. He guessed that his brother was not going to make a fuss in the restaurant, so he enjoyed dinner with his daughter at ease.

"Shinichi, you have been staring at the lady with the child since just now. Do you need me to go over and get her phone number for you?"

Xiaolan's angry voice drew Kudo Shinichi's attention away from the mother and daughter not far away. He hurriedly shook his hand and said, "No, no, I just think that woman looks familiar."

"Familiar?" Xiaolan put her hands on the table: "Dad always says so."

"Don't compare me with the uncle here, it's so presumptuous."

Shinichi rolled his eyes: "You know that woman is Yuji no matter how you look at her."

"Oh, it's true." Xiaolan narrowed her eyes and saw the woman's true identity: "Well, anyway, you and Hattori-kun are attracted to Yuji dressed as a woman, so it doesn't matter anymore."

"What are you talking about..." Shinichi sighed: "Xiaolan, are you not worried at all?"

"What are you worried about? I'm sure you two like women."

Mao Lilan blushed after saying that, and then glanced at Shinichi: "The meal...the meal is almost done. If you are okay, I will go back to the hotel."

"Wait a minute, I'll take you somewhere." Shinichi called out to his girlfriend who wanted to get dressed. He called the waiter to pay the bill, and then he took Xiaolan out of the hotel, went downstairs and got into a taxi.

"Mom, Sister Xiaolan and the others are leaving!"

Eating the pudding in front of him, he lowered his head to avoid seeing Mao Lilan's face when she walked past him. Rishi hurriedly reminded Yuji who was still eating stew opposite him.

"I asked Mr. Driver to follow him first."

Yuji was a little greedy when he saw half of the caramel pudding left in Lishi's small bowl. In order to maintain his father's dignity, he didn't order the caramel pudding that children loved, but he felt a little uncomfortable when he thought of the sweet taste.

"Lee Se, is the pudding delicious?"

"tasty."

The girl nodded, remembering that Belmod had said when he was coaxing her to sleep that if she didn't sleep well, her father would take away her desserts in the future.

[How could it be? You must have lied to me. 】

Riyo, who scooped a spoonful of pudding and put it into his mouth, raised his head and met the longing eyes of Yuji opposite him.

"Mom...won't steal my pudding..." (End of Chapter)