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

The next day, Conan caught a cold.

After school, he got home in the afternoon and his cold was still quite bad.

“Conan is like this, there’s no way he can go out and play with us.” Kudo Kazuma shrugged. “I think I should send him to Professor Agasa’s place. It’ll be more reassuring to have Haruka and the others taking care of him. Uncle, wait for me a moment.”

Sonoko Suzuki, hands on her hips, looked down at Conan, who was sneezing several times: "Kid, you should stay home and rest properly. Don't cry just because you can't be with your Ran-neechan!"

Conan couldn't help but give a half-moon look and mentally complain.

[That Sonoko! Who's going to cry?! Damn it!]

A short while later, Kudo Kazuma returned: "Alright, we can go now."

Seeing that his face was pale and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, Xiaolan quickly handed him a tissue and asked, "Are you alright?"

"It's alright, thank you." Kudo Kazuma didn't stand on ceremony and took the tissue to wipe his sweat.

Seeing this, Sonoko Suzuki sighed helplessly: "Your health really isn't very good. You're already this tired just from going to 2-chome to see Conan off."

Kudo Kazuma's half-moon eyes: "I was worried you'd be getting impatient, so I ran back, that's why I'm sweating, okay?"

"Okay, okay, let's go~"

In the car, Sonoko Suzuki happily performed the magic tricks she had been practicing for Ran.

Xiaolan was also very supportive, constantly praising her best friend's magic tricks as amazing.

Sonoko Suzuki nodded repeatedly: "Such a wonderful magic trick will definitely give Katsuki a surprise."

"Keshu? Is that the friend you met in the chat room?"

“Yes, indeed!” Sonoko clasped her hands together in front of her chest. “He’s not only incredibly knowledgeable and eloquent, but he also uses polite and humorous language, and sometimes displays exceptional literary talent. He must be a handsome man with both talent and looks!”

Xiao Lan asked in confusion, "So, you two haven't met yet?"

"Yes, yes, this is our first meeting. I'm planning to show him the magic trick I just performed; he'll definitely be amazed."

Sitting in the passenger seat, Kazuma Kudo immediately poured cold water on the idea: "He won't be surprised at all. Isn't that the most common magic trick on TV? There are even tutorials online."

Not only that, he also explained the principle behind Sonoko Suzuki's magic trick, which earned him Sonoko's half-moon-eyed gaze.

After staring at him for a while, Sonoko Suzuki couldn't help but complain, "Ichima, did you take the wrong medicine today? You're just as annoying as that brat Conan!"

Kudo Kazuma was taken aback by those words and coughed several times.

Xiaolan was both amused and exasperated, and quickly changed the subject: "Yuanzi, this is, after all, your online friend gathering. Would it be inappropriate for us to go?"

“It’s okay,” Sonoko Suzuki said casually. “I told them I brought two lovely girlfriends with me.”

She reached out and patted Kudo Kazuma's seat: "We'll be counting on you when we get there!"

Ran knew that her best friend was chatting online using a male identity, but the thought of "Kudo Kazuma" helping her impersonate Sonoko in a little while...

Kazuma Kudo gave Sonoko Suzuki a half-moon-shaped glance and chuckled.

Upon arrival, Kogoro Mouri instructed Kazuma Kudo to take good care of Ran and Sonoko, then left their luggage behind and departed.

Kudo Kazuma stepped forward and knocked on the door. When someone opened it, he quickly got into character: "Hello, I am the magician's apprentice."

He pointed to Ran and Sonoko Suzuki behind him: "This is my... um... girlfriend, and her best friend."

Upon hearing this, Sonoko Suzuki moved closer to Ran: "Ichima didn't do what I wanted at all! Hey, Ran, tell me, who's his girlfriend? It must be you, right? That guy wouldn't do that just because he looks like Shinichi..."

Xiaolan blushed and quickly tugged at her best friend's sleeve, saying, "Yizhen loves to talk nonsense, don't you know that?"

"That's right, it's all because that guy looked so much like your great detective in the car that I couldn't tell them apart..."

The middle-aged man who opened the door looked at Kudo Kazuma curiously for a moment, then glanced at the two girls standing side by side behind him: "Judging from the way you talk, you're clearly a girl, so how could you be a boy? Am I wrong?"

"Or... is the real magician's apprentice between the two girls behind?"

"Aha~!" Sonoko Suzuki suddenly jumped out from behind Kazuma Kudo. "You guessed right, I am the real magician's apprentice. These two are my friends Ran Mouri and Kazuma Edogawa."

The three followed the uncle who opened the door, who was also the owner of the villa, Araki Yoshinori, and entered. They met many people and introduced themselves to each other. Apart from Sugan, who was hired by Araki Yoshinori to work, the others were people from the chat room.

After getting to know each other, Sonoko Suzuki asked curiously, "By the way, Katsuki... that is, Red Herring, hasn't he arrived yet?"

"Oh, he's already upstairs."

"Isn't he coming down?" someone looked towards the stairs. "Red Herring, the magician's apprentice has arrived too."

Sonoko Suzuki looked towards the stairs with anticipation, and then...

She saw a chubby, round-faced boy come downstairs.

"So you're the magician's apprentice." The round-faced boy smiled and pointed to himself. "I'm Doi Takaki. Great, I knew it, you really are a girl."

Sonoko Suzuki stood there, stunned, her lips twitching uncontrollably.

Her dream of a Prince Charming shattered with a single "snap"...

Seeing Sonoko's blank expression, Doi Takuki smiled sheepishly, then looked behind her, paused for a moment, took two steps forward, and asked Kudo Kazuma, "You're Edogawa, the president of Kurosawa Software Company, right?"

Kazuma Kudo nodded dryly: "Hello."

Doi Takaki frowned, politely said "Hello," and then said nothing more.

Kudo Kazuma, however, looked at Doi Takuki with curiosity: Why is this person's reaction so strange?

While the two were wondering about each other, the others were counting the number of people.

"Now, only the chat room leader, the Escape King, and the Shadow Mage haven't arrived yet, right?"

Just then, the doorbell rang.

While muttering, "I wonder who it is," Arayoshi went to open the door, and the others followed.

Upon opening the door, Huang Yi was genuinely stunned for a moment: "You look so much like...you...are you the King of Escape, or the Shadow Mage?"

The boy outside the door looked remarkably like Kazuma Edogawa; if it weren't for their different hairstyles, they might have mistaken them for the same person.

"No, I'm not from your chat room." The boy tilted his head and smiled. "My name is Kaito Kuroba, and I'm a friend of Red Herring and Takuki Doi."

After saying that, he waved to Doi Takaki: "I'm late, you don't mind, do you, Doi Takaki?"

Doi Takuki turned to look at "Kudo Kazuma" in the room behind him, who seemed rather odd, and then at "Kuroba Kaito" outside the door, who was smiling broadly. He couldn't even keep up his silly smile anymore.

Are you Kaito Kuroba?

Then who am I?