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

Kudo Kazuma had heard a bit about Izumo Keitaro's exploits.

It turns out that on the afternoon Conan and his friends went camping and encountered the Blue Castle, Izumo Keitaro's jewelry store was robbed.

Keitaro Izumo gave a particularly decisive order, and the staff rushed towards the robbers after pressing the alarm. The robbers were scared away by their bravery.

Perhaps because Conan didn't show up, this half-finished robbery didn't result in any injuries or fatalities. Instead, the robber reluctantly left behind the words, "This is completely different from what we agreed on!"

The case was too coincidental, so many people suspected that the robber was deliberately staged by Izumo Keitaro to boost his popularity in his mayoral election campaign.

After Conan heard them mention the robber, he turned to Ran and said, "That does seem a bit suspicious. Have similar cases happened before?"

Xiaolan pondered for a moment, looking somewhat confused, and then asked uncertainly, "Huh? Is that so?"

Kudo Kazuma, however, blinked.

He didn't think much of it just from hearing about it, but when he heard the robber's words, he had a sense of déjà vu. But he hadn't experienced as many cases as Conan, so how did he get this sense of déjà vu?

While the others were chatting, Conan and Kazuma Kudo both fell into deep thought.

At that moment, Kudo Kazuma heard a waiter on the dining car ask, "Are you Miss Akechi, who made a reservation here? This way, please, let me show you to your seat."

"Excuse me, I'm here to cancel my reservation."

A familiar female voice, a familiar scent.

When Kudo Kazuma looked up, he saw a beautiful woman wearing a hat and sunglasses leaning against the door of the food cart.

The woman noticed his gaze and turned back as she left, saying, "It seems this journey is going to be quite exciting."

Watching the other person's departing figure, Kudo Kazuma twitched the corner of his mouth.

Wait, what's Mom doing here? And she doesn't seem to be planning to acknowledge them?

They had agreed to come back to see the two brothers. Shouldn't they have gone to the Mori office or the Edogawa residence to find them? If not, they should have gone to the Agasa residence or returned to the Kudo residence. What happened on the train?

I simply cannot understand these abnormal parents.

On the way back to the private room after dinner, Conan was still asking Kogoro Mouri for confirmation.

"Uncle, have similar cases happened before? Like when the robbers escaped without stealing anything?"

"How would I know?" Kogoro Mouri retorted. "I think you've been reading too many mystery novels or watching too many TV dramas. You must have seen a similar plot somewhere before."

What was said in jest may have been unintentional, but what was heard was taken seriously.

Kudo Kazuma had no idea what Conan was thinking, but a comment from Mouri Kogoro reminded him—this was definitely a plot he'd seen somewhere before, though he rarely read similar novels or watched similar dramas. In his past life, he'd only watched Detective Conan because he liked Conan and Gin…

Wait a minute, isn't that just like the plot of "Detective Conan" from my past life? Yukiko Kudo even appears on the train, and it seems like we'll see Yusaku Kudo after we get off...

Okay, so that's what they're going through right now, right? Never mind then.

After figuring it out, Kudo Kazuma stopped worrying about it, went back to his private room, played on his phone for a while, and then went to sleep.

But as he was sleeping, he was suddenly awakened by something.

Upon waking up, he reflexively pulled out his pistol from the system space and activated the map of the [Spirit Awakening Technique]. He then saw a black dot not far from him, and upon closer inspection, he confirmed that there was indeed a spirit nearby.

So, was I awakened by a spirit?

He put away his gun, intending to use the time to go to the restroom to absorb the spirit, but just as he was about to open the door to the private room, he faintly heard a gunshot—although the rumble of the train in the tunnel was very loud, it could not escape his hearing.

Moreover, what followed immediately was a woman's scream.

However… this scene felt so familiar; he even imagined the narration: the gunshots and cries of agony were drowned out by the rumbling noises inside the tunnel…

No, why is there spoken dialogue?

He's been through quite a few classic storylines, so why didn't he have this sense of déjà vu before?

Kudo Kazuma opened the door to the private room speechlessly, and sure enough, the door to the private room next door, where Kogoro Mouri and Conan were sitting, was also open.

Just as he was about to ask them if they had heard gunshots, a person fully covered in clothing rushed past him.

He froze for a moment, and then someone from the lounge came running up shouting, "He's a murderer! He just killed someone with a gun!"

Suddenly, that familiar voice echoed in Kazuma Kudo's mind again: "That man, like a hungry beast, swiftly passed through the dark passage..."

What the hell? Why does this sound so much like his father, Yusaku Kudo?

Could the thoughts swirling in my head be from a novel by Yusaku Kudo?

In that sense, he seemed to remember something similar: he was lying in a hospital bed, and Yusaku Kudo was reading his own works to him as bedtime stories...

No, is this how you tell bedtime stories to a child who is only a few years old?

While secretly complaining, Kudo Kazuma turned and chased after the murderer.

The assailant fired three shots into an open private room, and when he saw him chasing after him, he fired the remaining bullets at him.

If Ran can dodge bullets, then Kudo Kazuma can too.

As the killer got closer, he panicked and tried to run away, but the killer grabbed him and pinned him to the ground.

As for the gun in the murderer's hand, he kicked it to Conan's feet.

The narration echoed in my mind again: But, a few minutes later, the man disappeared.

Kudo Kazuma held the man, who was fully armed with a hat, sunglasses, and a mask, down firmly, and sneered, "Disappear my ass! Try disappearing and see what happens!"

Given all this, if the other party wants to disappear like in the original storyline, they'd probably need some kind of cheat code like invisibility or teleportation.

Kogoro Mouri and Conan ran over together, and Conan immediately noticed the fishing line that was taut in mid-air and seemed to be tied to something.

He followed the fishing line into the private room where the killer had fired the shot, and then discovered that the other end of the fishing line was outside the broken car window, and... a person was tied to it.

Or rather, the body tied up was none other than Asama Yasuji, the robber from before.

Because of the murder, the train conductor decided to stop the train and call the police.

However, the police only need to handle the cleanup work; they don't need to solve the case—because the murderer, Kazuki Toshiyuki, has already been handed over to the train's security personnel by Kudo Kazuma, who have tied him up securely.

After questioning, the police learned that Kagoshi Toshi was an accomplice of habitual robber Asama Yasuji and another woman. Asama Yasuji had introduced the woman to illegal drugs, indirectly causing her death, and Izumo Keitaro was the one secretly selling these illegal drugs.

Gayal killed them solely to avenge the woman.

As for choosing to commit the crime based on the plot of Yusaku Kudo's unpublished novel, it was because he was a fan of Yusaku Kudo, and because he felt that his situation was too similar to the plot of the novel. So after obtaining the lost manuscript of Yusaku Kudo's novel, he planned this murder according to the plot of the novel.

To this, Kazuma Kudo could only say that after fulfilling his revenge according to his idol's storyline, he was caught by his idol's son. The murderer's life was probably worthwhile after all...