Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 25 Miserable Comparison
Lin Xiuyi followed Fujimine Yukiko out of the teaching building and came to the steps behind the gymnasium. Not far ahead was the school's football field.

"Few people come to this place at noon," said Yukiko Fujimine, taking out a handkerchief from her pocket, spreading it on the steps, and then sitting down directly.

The girl picked up the bread and was about to open it when she noticed Lin Xiuyi was standing in front of her, staring at her.

Fujimine Yukiko thought she had exposed herself when she sat down, so she quickly covered her skirt and blushed, saying, "Pervert!"

"Although you altered your skirt, it's not so tight that your underwear is showing," Lin Xiu said without changing her expression.

"How did you know I altered my skirt?" Fujimine Yukiko asked in surprise, "Even the teachers didn't notice..."

"Just now, I was following you and was bored, so I counted the pleats on the back of your skirt," Lin Xiuyi explained. "You and Yingli are similar in size, so the clothes should be the same size, but your skirt has two fewer pleats on the back than Yingli's. You narrowed your skirt."

The Teitan school uniforms of this era are similar to what they will look like in twenty years, with dark blue blazers on top and pleated knee-length skirts for girls and long pants for boys.

Although the Teitan school uniform is much more beautiful in appearance than the school uniform of Lin Xiuyi's previous life's country, the clothes are custom-made by the school after all. Although the size is correct, there will inevitably be some subtle differences when worn by different people. The parts that you want to stand out cannot be shown, and the parts that you don't want to stand out are very obvious.

Boys don’t care about this, but girls who love beauty can’t help but modify their clothes to make them fit their body better.

It’s just that some girls go too far and directly modify their knee-length skirts into miniskirts, exposing their white thighs. Boys have no time to focus on studying.

In order to put an end to this phenomenon, the school began to strictly inspect students' uniforms, but it was inconvenient for male teachers to touch girls' skirts. In the end, Teitan simply formulated school rules to prohibit students from modifying their uniforms without permission.

"What can I do? The original skirt is so bloated, it doesn't look good at all when I wear it," Fujimine Yukiko complained, and suddenly felt that something seemed to be wrong. She carefully recalled what Lin Xiuyi had just said, "You, you were staring at my butt... my back!"

"You walk in front, and I walk behind. Shouldn't I look at the blue sky above instead of your butt?" Lin Xiuyi said as a matter of course, "Okay, I don't have a handkerchief with me, so I'll just stand and talk."

"yesterday……"

Lin Xiuyi briefly recounted the incident at the gymnasium yesterday.

"Is it that simple?" Fujimine Yukiko snorted disdainfully. "I thought it was that difficult. I can handle a case of this magnitude."

"Really?" Lin Xiuyi nodded without comment.

"Mori-san said you helped the police solve two cases before," Fujimine Yukiko urged, "Go on."

"That happened on the first day of school. Kogoro and I forgot to set the alarm..." Lin Xiuyi continued, "After we recorded our statements, Officer Megure drove us to school."

"So that's why you were late that day. Mr. Murakami didn't explain clearly," Fujimine Yukiko asked curiously, "What about the other case?"

"That happened in the evening. Officer Samezaki and the others had finished their meal at the izakaya and were just about to leave..."

Just as Lin Xiuyi said this, he was interrupted by Fujimine Yukiko: "Izakaya?"

"I work part-time at an izakaya."

"Doing odd jobs?"

"No, Chef."

"...Chef?" Fujimine Yukiko asked in surprise, "Are you a good cook?"

"so so."

Hayashi Xiuyi was being modest, but Fujimine Yukiko didn't know that and started analyzing things on her own.

"Customers who go to izakayas usually come here to drink and don't care much about the taste of the food. Even if the chef's cooking skills are average, they won't be able to tell when they're drunk... Well, if you think about it this way, my cooking skills should be better, right?" Generally speaking, when people find that the aspect they are most proud of is not as good as others, they will subconsciously look for other advantages that can surpass the other person to comfort themselves.

This is what Yukiko Fujimine is like now. Ever since she started to doubt that her acting skills were not as good as Hayashi Shuichi's this morning, she has subconsciously wanted to find other strengths that can surpass Hayashi Shuichi, otherwise how can she restore her frustrated self-esteem!

"Are you still listening to the last case?" Lin Xiuyi was speechless. When did I compete with you in cooking skills?
"Listen!" Yukiko Fujimine nodded quickly.

"Just as Officer Samezaki and the others walked out of the izakaya, they heard the sound of glass falling..."

After Lin Xiuyi explained the entire process and outcome of the case, he turned around and prepared to leave.

"Hey," Fujimine Yukiko suddenly called him.

"What else..." Noticing the girl's gaze resting on the lunch box in his hand, Lin Xiu kept saying, "This is my lunch."

"Did you do that?" Fujimine Yukiko confirmed.

"Yeah," Lin Xiu nodded, "It's the leftovers from the izakaya last night."

Yukiko Fujimine looked at the lunch box in Hayashi Shuichi's hand and wanted to ask if she could taste it to confirm who of the two was a better cook.

But I also wondered if this was a bit too cheeky. After all, although they were classmates, they had only known each other for a day or two.

How to do it……

"If everything is fine, I'll leave first," Lin Xiuyi said, and was about to leave.

"Alas, my parents are both actors. They are usually busy with work and often don't come home. I am the only one at home, and it is so lonely every day."

Yukiko hugged her knees with her hands, her voice was hoarse, her delicate face was full of grievance, and tears flashed in the corners of her eyes.

"I even have to prepare my own meals. And this morning, I was delayed by watching the news and didn't have time to prepare a lunch box, so I had to eat bread..."

What's going on? Are you trying to be miserable?
Lin Xiuyi frowned. "My parents died in a car accident when I was four years old. I've been fostered by relatives all these years, and I work part-time in izakayas to save money for college tuition."

Uh……

Yukiko Fujimine was dumbfounded. She just wanted to act pitiful to arouse Hayashi Shuichi's sympathy, and then exchange the bread in her hand for his lunch box to find out how good Hayashi Shuichi's cooking skills were.

But why did Lin Xiuyi suddenly mention his life experience?

And he was so miserable! Hearing this made me want to cry...

Yukiko Fujimine tried hard to hold back her tears.

Don't cry yet! How can I lose to you in terms of misery?

Lin Xiuyi continued while observing, "When I was eight years old, I adopted a puppy named Wangcai. He loved to stick with me, and we were often inseparable. I thought he would always be with me, but who knew...

"It died too?"

The girl couldn't hold back any more and burst into tears.

"...I'm sorry, I just wanted to taste your lunchbox. I didn't mean to remind you of these sad things."

(End of this chapter)