Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

"How can this be my fault?"

Inside the room, Kudo Kazuma dodged left and right, still talking incessantly.

"It's impolite for a little kid to call you by your name directly. What's wrong with calling him 'brother'?"

Gin said in a deep voice, "I don't like it!"

After saying that, he rushed forward and threw a punch. Kudo Kazuma couldn't dodge in time and flew several meters away, crashing heavily onto the bed.

He grinned, gasped, and muttered, "Even if you don't like being called that, go hit him! Why are you hitting me? It's not like I told him to call me that!"

Conan, eavesdropping through a listening device: "?"

Whether it's Gin getting angry and beating someone up over a title, or two members of the Black Organization arguing over a title, it's all ridiculous, okay?

Moreover, the bugging device hasn't picked up any suspicious information so far. Apart from the two of them fighting over how to address each other since they got back to the room, they haven't heard anything useful.

It seems that Kurosawa Jin and Kurosawa Kakuzu really have nothing to do with the organization...

While Conan was trying to figure out the identities of the two people based on what he had overheard, Gin had already walked to the bedside and reached out to pull Kudo Kazuma.

"Hey, thanks big brother~" Kudo Kazuma grabbed Gin's hand and stood up with his help.

Before he could say anything, Gin threw him to the ground with an over-the-shoulder throw.

A soft "crack" sound rang out, and Kudo Kazuma, lying on the ground, glared angrily at Gin: "That's too much, brother!"

Gin snorted and sat on the bed, his tone full of self-righteousness: "All's fair in war."

Kudo Kazuma pouted: "I didn't consider you an opponent. You're the one who's bored and has nothing better to do than come and beat me up."

Gin remained unmoved: "What was that sound just now?"

Kudo Kazuma's expression froze. After patting himself down, he pulled a crushed miniature bugging device from his pocket.

"Big Brother!" He shoved the bugging device in front of Gin. "You'll pay for this! This is the bug I planned to put in Maeda Satoshi's room, but I haven't had a chance to put it in yet!"

"Oh?" Gin didn't mention the compensation for the bugging device, directly changing the subject. "You think it's one of the two of them?"

Kudo Kazuma shrugged: "I've asked everyone else, and judging from their reactions, it's probably not true. But don't you find the way those two turned and left suspicious, brother?"

"But now that the bugging devices are broken... I think I should try to find them in person again."

After casually tossing the broken listening device into the trash can and leaving the hotel room, Kudo Kazuma rolled his eyes in exasperation.

Conan really is everywhere!

This guy actually managed to sneakily plant a listening device on him during the meal!

Thankfully, it was placed on him, not on Gin, otherwise who knows what Gin would have thought.

He really went to great lengths to destroy the bugging device naturally without either side noticing.

No way, I'm going to give that unlucky guy another whack on the back of the head when I get back this time!

Don't think he didn't see what happened. Conan was just lying on the terrace looking at the scenery and thinking of clues, and he didn't even know that the Dark Baron was behind him—how many times has this happened?

This thing's back defense is practically nonexistent, isn't it?

Conan unconsciously shrank his neck as he put away his headphones.

What's going on? Why does he feel a chill down his back? Could someone be plotting against him again?

Seeing this, Ran asked curiously, "What's wrong, Shinichi? Is there a problem?"

Conan shook his head: "It should be fine. Um... After Mr. Kurosawa Jin went back, he got into a fight with Kurosawa Kakuzu over the issue of how to address him. While they were fighting, it seems they accidentally broke the bugging device... I hope they didn't notice."

That was a tiny listening device made by Dr. Agasa. It was very well hidden, and he secretly stuck it to the corner of Kurosawa's clothes. Even if an ordinary person saw it, they would at most think it was a stain that had been accidentally rubbed on while eating.

If those two didn't even notice when the bugging device was broken, it would basically confirm that they had nothing to do with the organization.

"Uh, they started fighting? Because of a problem with how to address each other?"

Compared to the cutting-edge technology produced by Professor Agasa, she couldn't understand this at all.

Conan's eyes widened in surprise: "That Kurosawa Jin, he doesn't like me calling him Kurosawa-nii-san, and he especially doesn't like me calling him Jin-nii-san. Damn it! I don't like calling him that either!"

Does he, a high school student, really like shouting like that?

Suddenly, the sound of arguing came from outside.

When the two went outside, they discovered that Maeda Satoshi from next door had been kicked out, and his fiancée, Sayama Akiko, was angry that he had flirted with a waiter.

After Maeda Satoshi said a few nice things and found it had no effect, he immediately decided to go to the rooftop lounge to calm down and also invited Ran along.

Ran was overjoyed to have the rare opportunity to meet her idol, and before leaving, she didn't forget to invite Conan to come along.

Conan felt a pang of jealousy at the thought of Ran's adoration for Maeda Satoshi, and immediately followed after her in a huff.

When Kudo Kazuma, who originally planned to find Maeda Satoshi, arrived at the nineteenth floor, he found Ran and Maeda Satoshi chatting about karate and walking further and further away, while Conan followed behind them with a sour look on his face, his little face even darker than Hattori Heiji's.

Hey!

Kudo Kazuma's eyes lit up.

At times like this, who the Dark Baron is doesn't matter as much anymore; it's much more fun to gossip about your own brother and future sister-in-law!

He readily followed.

When Kudo Kazuma slowly made his way to the rooftop lounge, he saw Maeda Satoshi and Ran chatting at a table by the window, while Conan climbed onto the table and squeezed between them.

"Wow~ the seawater is so dark~ the seawater looks so~ scary at night~"

That sarcastic tone sounds familiar; I wonder who his unlucky older brother learned it from.

"Conan, what are you talking about?" Ran guessed what Conan was thinking, picked him up, and looked at Maeda Satoshi somewhat shyly, "Maeda-senpai, how did you and Ms. Sayama meet?"

The two continued chatting, and Conan, nestled in Ran's arms, blushed, but still glared at Maeda Satoshi with an annoyed look.

Ran learned karate because she admired this guy!

"So you guys are here?" Kudo Kazuma, having had his fill of gossip, walked in from outside. "I've had some ideas that I was just about to share with you. Where's Detective Mouri?"

"I just saw him with that Ms. Kamijou," Maeda Satoshi asked curiously. "What are you thinking? What are you talking about?"

Kudo Kazuma glanced at him briefly: "The identity of the Dark Night Baron."

Conan's eyes lit up: "Brother Xiaoyin, do you have any clues?"

"I'm wondering, why does that guy have to pick on a kid like you, Conan? Is it possible that he's not confident he can hurt Detective Mouri and Miss Mouri, so he can only bully a kid like you?"

Xiaolan thought about it for a while, but couldn't figure it out, so she simply looked at the night view downstairs through the window.

Conan quickly understood what he meant: "You mean, the one impersonating the Dark Baron might be a woman?"

Maeda Satoshi frowned, glanced at his watch, and said, "It's already ten o'clock. I think Akiko should have calmed down by now, right? I need to..."

"Something terrible has happened..." Xiaolan suddenly turned around at the window, pointed outside and said, "Someone has fallen from the building!"