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

"No, what exactly is going on?"

Kudo Kazuma asked in confusion, "What did my dad do to make you angry?"

While the gossip about my parents' love life is juicy, I still need to appease my mom on the other end of the phone first.

Yukiko Kudo playfully scolded, "You stinky Kazuma! You change the subject as soon as we get to your brother, don't you?"

She sighed softly, "Sigh~ I knew it, how could I compare to Shinichi in your eyes?"

My husband comes home drunk every day, and my son doesn't love his mom. Ugh, I'm so heartbroken!

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

He sighed deeply, somewhat helplessly: "What did my brother do? Did he choose Dad over Mom?"

Yukiko Kudo sighed dramatically, then began to complain to her younger son about her husband and her miniature older son.

In short, recently Yusaku Kudo has been coming home drunk late at night, and that's not all. This time, Yukiko Kudo even found someone else's lipstick mark on Yusaku Kudo's shirt!

Yukiko Kudo called her eldest son to complain about Yusaku Kudo's excessive behavior, but Conan only listened to half of it before hanging up!

Can you believe he's dead?

"Tell me! Isn't your dad being incredibly unreasonable?"

Kudo Kazuma replied without hesitation: "That's really going too far. Although my dad loves you very much and would never do something like having an affair, I still suggest you run away from home so that he can't find you when he wakes up and will worry him to death!"

"Yes, that's a good idea. I'll go buy the plane tickets in a bit."

After "dealing with" Yusaku Kudo, Yukiko Kudo asked angrily, "Then tell me, isn't it also too much for Shinichi to hang up on me?"

Kudo Kazuma coughed lightly: "Then what should we do? How about... I beat him up for you?"

Yukiko Kudo hesitated for a moment: "Never mind, I'll do it myself. After all, Shin-chan is so cute right now."

So you're planning to come back and pet your son, right?

Kudo Kazuma sighed helplessly, "Whatever makes you happy."

Who made Yukiko Kudo the pinnacle of status in the family?

Not long after, Kazuma Kudo received a message from Yukiko Kudo: she had bought her plane ticket and was about to board, landing around midnight.

Kazuma Kudo sighed and dialed Conan's number.

"Hello, dear little Grim Reaper, your mom is back."

Conan on the other end of the phone: "Huh? What are you talking about? I'm dealing with a murder case right now, I'm busy."

"Literal meaning." Kudo Kazuma tilted his head. "You go about your business. Anyway, Mom lands in the middle of the night, and you can't drive to pick her up. But she might come back to settle scores with you, so be prepared~"

"What's going on..." Conan couldn't help but glare at her after hanging up the phone. "I just hung up on her once, and she's coming back to settle the score with me. How infuriating!"

By the time the case at hand was resolved, it was already past midnight.

When Kogoro Mouri, Ran, and Conan returned to the Mouri Detective Agency, they found Kazuma Kudo and a familiar-looking plump woman standing downstairs.

Kogoro Mouri's eyes lit up instantly.

"Oh my, isn't this Mrs. Edogawa? Are you here to see Conan so late at night?"

Conan and Ran then realized that the woman in front of them was Ms. Fumiyo Edogawa, the mother of "Edogawa Conan" and "Edogawa Kazuma".

The two of them quickly greeted each other.

Fumiyo Edogawa covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "I just returned to Japan, and Kazuma told me that you guys probably haven't gone to sleep yet, so I came here specifically to pick up Conan."

"I rarely come back to take care of some things, so I'd like to invite Conan to stay with me for a few days~" she said, leaning down and giving Conan a wink. "Stay with Mom for a few days, and then come back to see your Ran-neechan, okay, Conan?"

Under the cover of night, Xiaolan's face quietly flushed.

She already knew that Conan was Shinichi, and that the person in front of her, Fumiyo Edogawa, was Aunt Yukiko—wasn't this just teasing her?

Conan, speechless, followed his bratty younger brother and Yukiko Kudo back to the Edogawa residence to spend the night.

Ah, you mean Morofushi Kagemitsu?

Upon learning that Yukiko Kudo would be staying here, he went to find Tooru Amuro again...

That night, Yukiko Kudo had a good time rubbing her shrunken eldest son.

However, when it came time to sleep, Conan would rather sleep with his younger brother than share a room with Yukiko Kudo, which made Yukiko so angry that she didn't want to talk to the two brothers at all.

The next morning, following the address given by his mother, Kudo Kazuma drove his mother and older brother to Gunma Prefecture.

In the back seat, Conan, who was being held on Yukiko Kudo's lap, looked utterly dejected: "Hey, isn't the back seat supposed to be a two-seater? Am I really supposed to sit here?"

Last night, Conan said they were solving the case of the murder of the famous magician Motoyasu Tsukumo. Kazuma Kudo remembered the victim's surname, which was a number, and connecting it to the reason his mother came back, he quickly realized which part of the story this was...

A famous detective who's got nowhere to turn!

Theoretically, this was the first time Ran publicly expressed her doubts about Conan, though that's no longer the case, but...

What made him remember it was clearly not just these things, but also two absolutely iconic scenes from these episodes.

One is Ran's imagined scenario: Shinichi Kudo crouching behind Yukiko Kudo, looking pitiful, and saying, "Ran-neechan is so scary~"

The other one is...

Kudo Kazuma glanced at his older brother in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but complain, "You should be grateful that I'm here, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting on Mom's lap like that."

Conan's half-moon eyes: "Mom can drive even without you, and I don't have to sit on her lap! Damn it! I'm not really a child anymore..."

Kazuma Kudo responded with a chuckle.

In the original storyline where he didn't exist, Yukiko Kudo was Conan riding a motorcycle and wearing a motorcycle outfit.

That famous scene, dubbed "Double Peaks Piercing Ears" by everyone... where Conan is stuffed into a bodysuit, is still fresh in my memory even after all these years!

After arriving in Gunma Prefecture, the car drove along country roads for a while before stopping in front of a large mansion, directed by Yukiko Kudo.

Yukiko Kudo put Conan in the back seat, got out of the car, and went to knock on the door.

A moment later, a short-haired woman in her thirties opened the courtyard gate.

"Yukiko? You really came? You're so busy, but you still came. Thank you so much..."

"What are you saying? For my best friend I've known since childhood, even if she's on the other side of the world, I'll fly back right away!"

After exchanging a few words, the short-haired woman asked, "Huh? Only Shinichi is here? Didn't Yusaku come back with him? And who is this little kid?"

Instead of correcting her friend's mistake, Yukiko Kudo smiled and held Conan up in front of her: "Yusaku isn't back. This is our second child, Conan, born in America!"

"Shinichi, Conan, this is my childhood friend, Hiromi Yauchi. You should call her Auntie Hiromi~"

Kazuma Kudo immediately cosplayed his older brother: "Hello, Aunt Hiromi, I'm Shinichi."

Conan: "..."

If you're Shinichi, then who am I?