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

"If we don't bring this up, we can still be good colleagues."

Kudo Kazuma's words had a hint of gritted teeth.

Shirley didn't even look at him, and said while packing her things, "Colleagues? The action team? Don't be ridiculous."

Her words were quite impolite, but her tone wasn't bad.

Perhaps it's because I didn't sense the terrifying, even more repulsive, dark aura in Kazuma Kudo that the other codenamed members possessed.

Kudo Kazuma leaned against the wall, watching Sherry bustling around, and said with a sneer, "Do you think I wanted to come to the action team and work like a slave for Gin?"

"If I had research talent like you, Sherry-sama, I'd be laughing in my sleep! Would I still need to waste my time here with Gin?"

Shirley, who was packing her things, paused.

Deep in her mind, a rather childish voice said to her, "If I had a learning talent like you, Miyano, I'd be laughing in my sleep, okay? Why would I need to waste my time here with the teacher?"

That was the first and only time she interacted with people her own age in the organization.

The tone and word choice are remarkably similar.

Shirley glanced at him again, a rare occurrence for her: "What's your name?"

"Edogawa Kazuma, what's wrong?"

She looked away and said, "It's nothing, let's go."

After saying that, she took off her white coat, grabbed her Prada bag, and left the office first.

Kudo Kazuma tilted his head in confusion, then followed.

Accompanying us on this mission was an outsider who was responsible for driving, doing odd jobs, and most likely also for surveillance.

Shirley was used to going out under the watchful eyes of others, and aside from giving the other party a cold shoulder, she didn't say anything else.

Kudo Kazuma knew that this was Gin testing him, so he simply pretended to be stupid and acted as if he didn't know that the outsider was also watching him.

Anyway, it was Sherry who was responsible for verifying the information one by one according to the list, and the person being assigned various chores by Sherry was the peripheral employee. As for him...

Isn't he just here to stroll around?

Without leaving any trace, Kudo Kazuma would stroll around each household he visited, ostensibly to "check if there were any surveillance devices" or "to see how the finishing touches on the perimeter were done."

Sherry and the other woman couldn't control him, so they could only let him wander around aimlessly.

As night fell, Shirley's investigation was essentially complete.

The "(Status unknown)" at the end of each mission file has been changed to "Confirmed Death".

When only one document remained, Sherry glanced at Kazuma Kudo again: "The last one to be verified is Shinichi Kudo. This order is wrong."

"Oh, this one was drawn by me," Kudo Kazuma said nonchalantly. "I originally wanted to give it to Vodka, but who knew he wouldn't even take his idol's information."

Shirley: "..."

She clutched the file containing Shinichi Kudo's information and turned to leave.

I've never heard of anyone giving fans information about their idol's death.

Besides, isn't this mission data?

Gin just let him rummage around and move things around?

……

Wait, Vodka, an organization member, idolizes a detective?

For a fleeting moment, Shirley felt that her genius brain wasn't quite up to the task.

Upon arriving at the Kudo residence, everything remained the same.

Sherry continued to investigate in her usual order, while the others followed behind her, keeping watch and ready to give orders at any time.

As for Kazuma Kudo, he was still running around the room.

Anyway, he hadn't been back here for over ten years, so he was unfamiliar with the place. When he wandered around aimlessly, it was no different from being in someone else's house.

Sherry and the others on the periphery, who were on a mission, couldn't see anything wrong with Kudo Kazuma.

It wasn't until Sherry opened the wardrobe that was theoretically Shinichi Kudo's room that things changed.

Shinichi Kudo's room has two wardrobes: one for his everyday clothes and school uniform, and the other for a dusty wardrobe that he rarely opens.

That wardrobe contains Shinichi Kudo's clothes from childhood to adulthood.

However, one part is missing.

Shirley observed carefully, and her heart unconsciously began to beat faster and faster.

The missing piece of clothing, judging by the size, should be for a seven or eight-year-old child… her guess came true!

There really were people who, like the lab rats she accidentally discovered, shrunk into children after taking APTX-4869!

Shirley stood in front of the wardrobe, looking at the clothes, her breathing quickened and her mind in turmoil.

and also……

Seeing Kudo Kazuma strolling in, and remembering the rumor in the organization that "Danpo looks exactly like Kudo Shinichi," she had some other thoughts...

She quickly calmed herself down and closed the cabinet door.

Kudo Kazuma seemed oblivious to her emotions. Instead, he used his gloved hand to pick up a photo frame from the bedside table next to Kudo Shinichi and placed it next to his face.

"No, Shirley, look, we don't even look exactly alike, do we?"

Shirley nodded and said coldly, "The difference is in the eyebrows and eyes. Those who can't tell are probably blind."

It would be truly delightful if everyone in the organization were blind.

Sherry lowered her head, changed "(Status unknown)" at the end of Shinichi Kudo's file to "Confirmed dead," then put away the file and said to the person outside, "Clean up the traces."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

While cleaning up the traces around the area, Kudo Kazuma put the photos back in their original place and followed Sherry out.

As for whether Sherry guessed something...

He pretended not to know, since the girl wouldn't talk nonsense, especially not to people in the organization.

For Kudo Kazuma, this mission was just a few rounds of wandering around, requiring no effort and yielding no results.

But he doesn't mind using this task as an excuse to take a vacation.

"Brother~ This mission is so tedious and exhausting, is it too much for me to ask for a vacation?"

Kazuma Kudo sprawled on the sofa, trying to salvage his vacation.

Gin didn't seem to care: "What are you doing? Dreaming?"

Vodka chimed in, "The reports from the outside have been relayed. Sherry has been handling the tasks, while Danpo has been wandering around aimlessly."

Kudo Kazuma gave Vodka a cool look and reluctantly said, "Fine, then let Sherry have a day off too. I don't mind."

Vodka remained silent.

Danpo's face is way too big!

Gin didn't seem to care much: "Fine, let Sherry meet with her sister tomorrow. You can keep an eye on them. Consider it a day off."

"Not the older brother?" Kudo Kazuma jumped up from the sofa. "Are you sure this counts as a holiday?"

"This is Shirley's day off, but it's my overtime!"

Gin sneered: "You and Sherry are on vacation together, you don't mind?"

After saying that, he flicked his silver hair and left.

"Hey! No! It's that 'together,' not this 'together'!" Kudo Kazuma cried out, "Big brother, you've gone too far... Big brother? Gin! Hey..."

Fine, so you'll cut off his vacation time and send him out shopping with women when he could be resting comfortably, right?

This will be recorded in Shuichi Akai's account!