Detective Conan: The System Takes Me to Zero's World

Zhu Fujingguang turned the coffee cup, and the amber liquid rippled slightly. The virtual structure diagram of the Karasuma Group reflected on the wall of the cup distorted into strange spots of light as it shook.

He lowered his eyes and stared at the steam rising from the cup. His Adam's apple moved slightly, as if he was choosing his words: "Xiaoxue, do you mean that he has passed the test? You will take your cousin to see your father later?"

Kudo Yuki's fingertips slid across the magician's fortune-telling cards, and a lively smile appeared on the corner of her lips. She glanced at Kuroba Kaito's slightly embarrassed expression and said, "Of course, but we have to prepare a surprise for our father - such as having a certain thief who is always elusive to visit openly as a junior of the Kudo family."

Upon hearing this, Kuroba Kaito took off his hat and bowed exaggeratedly, with the tip of his hair brushing against Amuro Toru's drooping tie. "It's my honor! But Sister Xue, isn't my outfit too shabby?"

He deliberately tugged at the wrinkled collar of his shirt, revealing the traces of glue from the human skin mask that had not been completely wiped clean on the back of his neck.

Amuro Toru snorted and reached out to hold Kuroba Kaito's shoulder. A dangerous smile flashed across his violet eyes. "Rather than dressing up, you should be more worried about whether you will be so nervous when you meet Yusaku-san that you will forget all your magic tricks."

He had quietly taken out a playing card from between his fingers and flicked it accurately towards the tip of Kuroba Kaito's curled hair.

Conan leaned on the armrest of the sofa. "Instead of worrying about appearance, it's better to think about how to explain the stolen gems over the years." He suddenly took out his mobile phone, and on the screen was a collection of news reports about the crimes committed by Kaito Kid over the years. "My dad is a mystery novelist, and no flaws can escape his eyes."

Kudo Yuki raised her hand to stop the two from arguing. Her fingertips gently stroked the magician's divination cards. The warm touch coming from her fingertips seemed to remind her of the upcoming plan.

She tilted her head and looked at Conan with interest, like a fox that had been planning for a long time and had set its sights on its prey. There was an elusive smile in her voice: "Brother, I may have to wrong you later!"

The hair on Conan's neck stood up instantly, and an instinctive sense of vigilance came over him. In his memory, whenever his sister showed this expression, it was always bad news.

He couldn't help but mutter to himself: "I always feel that my sister is planning something that has something to do with me this time."

My mind began to quickly speculate on her possible next action, and cold sweat unconsciously broke out on my palms.

"Sister, what are you planning?" Conan adjusted his reflective glasses and shrank back into his chair, but Toru Amuro put his hand on his shoulder.

Amuro Toru's light purple eyes were filled with smiles: "Conan, you're not scared, are you? I heard from your parents that when you went to Hawaii for special training, you learned all the skills except singing. After disguising yourself as Edogawa Conan, you didn't even dare to use your gun skills?"

"Who, who is afraid!" Conan stood up suddenly, his red bow tie shaking with his movements, "Isn't it just taking Kid to see his dad? Why should I be afraid that he will reveal his true colors?"

He suddenly froze - Kudo Yuki had already taken out a stack of yellowed photo albums from the drawer. The words "Shinichi's Birthday Party" on the cover made his temples throb slightly.

Kuroba Kaito narrowed his eyes exactly like Kudo Shinichi's, pointed at the toddler in the photo album wearing dinosaur pajamas and chuckled, "So the famous detective also has such a cute side?"

"This, these were all specially organized by my sister!" Conan's ears turned red, and he reached out to grab the photo album, but was stopped by Amuro Toru with one hand.

Amuro Toru pulled out the inner page and shook it, his light purple eyes flashing with teasing: "Mr. Yusaku knows about the embarrassing incident in kindergarten when I blushed at Xiaolan?"

Kudo Yuki chuckled, and the divination cards flipped deftly at her fingertips. The magician pattern on the cards flashed in the warm yellow light.

"Specially arranged?" She raised her eyebrows, her eyes curved into a cunning arc, "Brother, weren't you the one who held Xiaolan's hand and refused to let go in kindergarten?"

Conan's face flushed red, and even the tips of his ears turned suspiciously pink: "That, that was an accident!"

Zhu Fu Jingguang finally put down the coffee cup, "I remember a photo. Shinichi broke his knee during the elementary school sports meet, and it was Xiaolan who carried him to the infirmary."

His eyes were filled with a gentle smile like that of a brother, but Conan froze all over - this public security colleague had obviously also participated in collecting his embarrassing stories.

Shushu suddenly poked his head out of Kudo Yuki's pocket, pointed his fat paw at Conan and laughed: "This detective's dark history is about to be exposed!"

Conan took the opportunity to take back the photo album, but suddenly stopped when he turned to a certain page.

In the yellowed photo, the seven-year-old self was pulling at the corner of Kudo Yuki's clothes under the cherry tree. The tenderness between her sister's eyebrows at that time overlapped with the cunningness at this moment.

His throat tightened, and the laughter of chasing each other under the cherry blossoms when they were children seemed to still linger in his ears. Now, facing the hidden plan in her eyes, complex emotions surged - he was nostalgic for the intimacy of the past, but also nervous because of the unknown.

Kudo Yuki deftly flipped the magician's divination cards with her fingertips, and the cards glowed with a mysterious luster under the warm yellow light.

She looked at Conan's flushed face and a sly smile appeared on her lips: "These are all precious memories. Maybe when he sees his father later, he will be more interested."

Kuroba Kaito laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. After finally standing up straight, he joked, "It seems I have to ask my uncle and aunt for advice. Maybe I can find more interesting stories."

Amuro Toru patted Conan's shoulder gently, with a teasing look in his light purple eyes: "This is a good opportunity to enhance the relationship between brothers, don't be shy."

He put the extracted album page back into the album. His action seemed casual, but contained a soothing connotation.

Zhu Fu Jingguang put down his coffee cup and his expression turned serious: "Mr. Yusaku is very sensitive to details, especially when it comes to reasoning. Kaito, your voice and habitual movements after your disguise still need to be adjusted."

Conan finally recovered from his panic, adjusted his glasses, and regained some of his detective calmness: "Sister, what are you planning? I don't believe you just want to make fun of these photos."

Kudo Yuki put the divination cards into her pocket, and Shu Shu also shrank back obediently.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, "I won't embarrass you too much. I just want to see how my father will react. Kaito, disguise yourself as Kudo Shinichi."

Kuroba Kaito's pupils shrank when he heard this, and the magic card on his fingertips almost slipped off. He stared at Kudo Yuki's calm expression, and suddenly realized that the disguise skills and playing card training taught by the other party during the special training in Hokkaido had hidden deep meanings of kinship.

He thought those disguise details that were repeatedly emphasized were just magic training at the time, but now he realized that they were the preparations for today.

"So those trainings..." His voice trembled, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, "Sister Xue knew about our relationship a long time ago?"

"Why do you think Mr. Touichi gave me this divination card?" Kudo Yuki gently pushed the photo album back into the drawer, and the magician's divination card turned into silver light and shadow in her palm.

"Your father guided me to Hokkaido that time. I felt familiar with it at the time, but he said, 'Maybe we have met at some unintentional moment. Or maybe the gears of fate have already connected us closely.'"

"So Sister Xue had already set up the plan? No wonder she emphasized the essence of the art of disguise when she taught me last time in Hokkaido." Kuroba Kaito deliberately moved closer to Conan, his blue-gray eyes flashing with mischief, "Cousin, you wouldn't mind if I borrow your face, right? After all, we are family members who are connected by blood even if we break bones."

Kudo Yuki's fingertips slid across Kuroba Kaito's trembling magic cards. "Instead of dwelling on the past, you should think about how to conceal your mistake in front of your father. After all, your cousin, a famous detective, was chased for three blocks by Mr. Maori for stealing strawberry cake when he was a child."

"Sister!" Conan jumped up like crazy.

Amuro Toru held his head, his light purple eyes curved into crescents: "Don't move, your ahoge is messy."

He adjusted the boy's upturned hair, and beneath the seemingly intimate action lay a warning - don't let him down at the critical moment.

Kuroba Kaito rubbed his hair and turned into the appearance of Kudo Shinichi.

Zhu Fujing opened the mechanism, and the entrance to the base appeared, and the secret door opened: "Let's go and see what else we need to prepare."

A group of people passed through the secret door and came into the base.

The soft light shines on the bookshelf, and the air is filled with a faint scent of paper.

Kuroba Kaito's fingertips swept across the bookshelf and suddenly pulled out a manuscript of "Dark Night Baron" with a gold-stamped cover. His pupils contracted violently with excitement: "Undisclosed analysis of criminal methods? Sister Xue is giving me a magic bible!"

The corners of Kudo Yuki's lips curled up slyly, and she turned the magician's fortune-telling cards with her fingertips: "You can if you want, but you have to hand in a beautiful imitation show to see my father."

She threw away four beautifully bound collections, the silver-embossed words "Kudo Yusaku's personal note" on the spines of the books flowing in the light.

"The original manuscript is kept for the house, and these replicas come with my uncle's reasoning notes from his youth - but the prerequisite is that you can pass your father's test."

Kuroba Kaito's Adam's apple rolled, he lowered his head and stared at the book in his hand, and recalled the various details when Kudo Yuki taught him the art of disguise, and finally realized that the other party had already set up this game.

His eyes lit up with fighting spirit: "It turns out that all that training was a foreshadowing... Don't worry, I won't let you down."

Kuroba Kaito carefully held the book in his arms, "This is simply a priceless treasure!"

Conan frowned and reached out to grab it: "Kid, that's my father's hard work!"

Kuroba Kaito dodged sideways, but his expression was unusually serious: "I will use it to prove that the magic of the phantom thief and the reasoning of the detective are equally worthy of recognition."

Amuro Toru flicked the interview video of Kudo Yusaku on his phone, and a smile flashed across his violet eyes: "Rather than magic, you should be more worried about whether you can answer the impromptu reasoning questions posed by the author when you meet him."

Kuroba Kaito straightened his back and solemnly placed the book against his chest: "With this secret book, I will not only replicate Shinichi's appearance, but also understand the essence of the Kudo family's reasoning."

Zhu Fu Jingguang came closer with coffee and gently placed his palm on his shoulder: "Mr. Yusaku is good at seeing through disguises through subtle flaws. Your voice and habitual gestures must be completely consistent with Shinichi's file records-now, follow me to the audio room for the final adjustment."

Kudo Yuki took out the complete collection of "Night Baron" from the deep of the bookshelf. The gilded spine was shining with the luster of time: "It contains my father's unpublished criminal psychology annotations."

She handed the book over. "But remember, the essence of magic is deception, while reasoning pursues the truth. I hope you know the boundary between the two better than anyone else."

Kuroba Kaito's finger hovered over the book for a moment, and finally took it solemnly: "I will take them with me to complete this special 'magic show'."

Kudo Yuki's fingertips slid across the edge of the album: "The annotations on the replica are just an introduction. The mental game between the father and the criminal is the real treasure."

Conan's tense back relaxed slightly, but Kuroba Kaito's provocative gaze ignited his fighting spirit again: "Don't be complacent too soon. If you dare to use this knowledge to design a puzzle, I will let you know that the detective's dismantling is always faster than the thief's mechanism."

Kuroba Kaito flicked open a magic card, and the card drew a silver arc in the air: "Just wait and see, cousin. When reasoning and magic truly collide, the entire capital will witness a new legend."

Zhu Fu Jingguang coughed lightly, "Kaito, go to the locker room and change into Shinichi's clothes. It's almost time."

Upon hearing this, Kuroba Kaito put his hand on his forehead and saluted in an exaggerated gentlemanly manner: "Yes, sir! I promise to complete the mission!"

As he said this, he ran towards the dressing room with the book in his arms, humming a tuneless little song, as if he was not going to pretend to be Kudo Shinichi, but to step onto the magic stage that everyone was watching.

Conan looked at his back and couldn't help muttering: "This guy really doesn't have any sense of tension at all..."

Amuro Toru has already put his arm around his shoulders, with a mischievous look in his light purple eyes: "Are you worried that he will be exposed? Why not worry about yourself first - if Xiaolan sees these dark childhood histories later..."

"Mr. Amuro!" Conan's face flushed again, and he reached out to grab the other's tie, "Don't go too far!"

She chuckled and raised her eyebrows at Amuro Toru and Morobushi Keimitsu: "Zero, Hiro, take good care of our 'little friend' and don't let this scene get exposed too early."

Zhu Fu Jingguang turned the coffee cup: "Aren't you afraid that Kaito will use the manuscript to design a more difficult magic puzzle?"

"If he can integrate his reasoning wisdom into magic, my father will be very happy." Kudo Yuki looked towards the locker room, with a smile in her eyes. "After all, we in the Kudo family have always admired people who dare to challenge the rules."

Amuro Toru shook his phone and said, "Mr. Yusaku's 'Perfect Crime Simulation' project, Kaito might be able to give an answer from a detective's perspective - Shinichi, are you going to take it?"

He deliberately looked at Conan, "Shinichi, do you want to have a criminal method showdown with your cousin?"

Conan's glasses flashed a cold light: "The tricks of the thief will never be able to defeat the truth, but if you want to spar, I'm always here to accompany you."

Although he spoke toughly, his fingertips unconsciously stroked the magnifying glass in his pocket, revealing a bit of anticipation.

As everyone is preparing to meet Kudo Yusaku, Kudo Yuki can't help but think that the upcoming meeting is not only a test of Kuroba Kaito's identity, but also a fusion of family affection under a complex situation.

And the magic of Kuroba Kaito and the detective reasoning of Conan, the seemingly opposing "crime" and justice, may also collide to produce different sparks at this moment. She raised the corners of her mouth, looking forward to this meeting full of unknowns.

To be continued...