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

"Uncle Mori? Ran? Conan?"

Kazuma Kudo tugged at the strap of his backpack and asked curiously, "What are you doing here?"

Are they here to kill someone?

If a spirit comes knocking on his door, he won't leave.

But how can a detective and an antique collector be related?

Kogoro Mouri coughed, placing his fist in front of his mouth. "Well, the head of this family, Mr. Maru, and I made an appointment to come and investigate some things today... What about you, Kazuma-kun?"

Kudo Kazuma looked at the house and lowered his voice, saying, "The owner of this house often pawns items to lend money at high interest rates. An elder of one of my colleagues had some financial troubles in his early years and pawned something here."

“That thing isn’t particularly valuable, but it was left to the old man by his mother. Now that the old man has started a business again, he wants to redeem it.”

"But he's now a powerful public figure in the area, so how could he possibly do something like this? He went to great lengths to find me and asked me to help him get his things back..."

Perhaps because he had spoken too many words in a low voice in one breath, Kudo Kazuma's throat felt a little uncomfortable...

Kogoro Mouri and Ran nodded repeatedly, but Conan looked on with curiosity: "Is Kazuma-nii-san knows such important people? Who is this old man?"

Kudo Kazuma rubbed his throat with one hand and vigorously ruffled his unlucky brother's hair with the other. He then coughed twice to clear his throat before speaking in an annoyed tone.

"They didn't want others to know, so they went through a lot of trouble to ask me to handle this. If I told others, wouldn't I look like a person who doesn't keep their word?"

"Conan, although you are still young, you must know that honesty is a virtue that a person should never lose in their entire life, understand?"

Conan, having been lectured by his bratty younger brother, pouted and remained silent.

Kogoro Mouri glanced at his watch and realized that the appointed time was approaching. He left Ran and Conan in the yard and went inside to meet the owner of the house, Denjiro Maru.

"Huh? An infidelity investigation?"

In the courtyard of the Maru residence, Kudo Kazuma coughed a few times: "What's going on, Uncle Mori? Who brings a child when they're investigating an affair?"

Without Conan, it's just a cuckolding incident at most, but with Conan involved, it's probably a murder case...

"How would I know?" Conan completely forgot that he was a seventeen-year-old high school student. He squatted by the pond in the yard with a look of utter despair, watching the fish jumping up and down in the water.

"I thought the uncle was going to take us out for a nice meal..."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the Japanese-style room behind him and said, "Seriously, it's just investigating an affair, how long are you going to stay here, old man?"

Ran smiled and patted Conan's head: "Alright, be patient, Conan. This is, after all, Dad's job."

Conan was just about to act cute towards Ran when he heard the doorbell ring.

have a guest?

Does that mean Uncle Mori can finally come out, and they can finally leave?

The door to the Japanese-style room finally opened.

Conan turned his head sharply and saw Maru Denjiro walking out while saying to Kogoro Mouri inside the house, "Excuse me, please ask the guest to wait in the reception room for a moment, I'll be right back."

As he spoke, he turned his head and was taken aback to find that Kudo Kazuma was still there.

Kudo Kazuma nodded to him: "I'm friends with Detective Mouri's daughter. We met by chance at your mansion. It's been a while since we last saw each other. I hope you don't mind if we chat for a bit, Mr. Maru?"

Marudenjiro exchanged a few polite words and then went to greet the guests.

Conan glanced at his bratty younger brother with a rather speechless expression.

Marudenjiro didn't mind, but he did.

This brat is showing up in front of Xiaolan with a face that looks almost exactly like his! Why isn't he leaving yet?

Kazuma Kudo looked at Conan with a smile and casually ruffled his hair.

The unlucky guy hasn't even offered up a fresh soul yet, he's not going to leave.

As for whether my brother will be jealous...

Could that be his problem?

As the two brothers continued their playful banter, Maru Denjiro invited the guests into the reception room.

A short while later, Maru's phone rang.

Unfortunately, the only person in the house who could answer the phone was entertaining guests, and the rest of the people were all guests, so the phone rang for a while and then went silent.

A short while later, the phone rang again, accompanied by Kazuma Kudo's cough.

Kogoro Mori, a cigarette dangling from his lips, popped his head out of the tatami room: "It's so noisy! What on earth is that old man doing?"

Xiaolan said, "Maybe it's because we can't hear the phone ringing in the meeting room?"

After the phone call ended, Kudo Kazuma shrugged: "Where is the rest of his family? When I came over this morning, there were servants serving tea."

Ugh, I should have drunk more tea. My throat's a bit sore; I don't know if it's because I didn't drink enough water today, or if the Grim Reaper's power is acting up again...

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but glance at his unlucky older brother.

Kogoro Mouri explained, "It's probably not convenient to let others know about my wife's affair, so Mr. Maru asked the servants to go out for a stroll first."

After saying that, he shrugged helplessly and shrank back into the Japanese-style room.

At that moment, both Kazuma Kudo and Conan looked towards the reception room.

Xiaolan looked curiously into the meeting room: "What's wrong?"

Conan frowned slightly and asked, "Did you hear any strange noises just now?"

I heard it, it was the sound of a sword being drawn...

I wonder which good brother came to deliver the soul.

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "Didn't hear you, but I thought of something..."

Conan and Ran both looked at Kazuma Kudo.

"That old man went to greet a guest... cough, when he greeted the guest he said he would come back to find the uncle after he escorted the guest to the reception room, but he hasn't come back for so long. I said, cough cough, could he have started talking to that guest first?"

As for what was used to negotiate, that's hard to say.

Xiaolan sat down on the steps and said, "Let's wait a little longer. After all, Dad is just a hired detective. Compared to him, the guests should be more important."

Conan and Kazuma Kudo sat side by side next to Ran.

After waiting a while longer, Conan let out a sigh of relief: "What's going on? That old man is so slow! I'm starving..."

Sensing the presence of a spirit emanating from the direction of the reception room, Kudo Kazuma silently murmured to himself: "It's coming soon, the old man is about to die."

Suddenly, the phone rang again, and the three of them turned to look at it.

As a result, the phone ringing disappeared instantly, as if it had suddenly become shy from being stared at by six pairs of direct gazes.

"What happened?" Kogoro Mouri poked his head out of the Japanese-style room. "It rang once and then hung up? What's going on?"

He glanced down at his watch: "Two hours have passed, what on earth is that guy doing?"

Before anyone could speak, Kudo Kazuma coughed a few times, and the phone rang again.

Kogoro Mouri suddenly roared, clenching his fists, "I can't stand it anymore! I have to go to the meeting room and see what that guy is doing!"

Conan glanced at Kazuma Kudo, whose cough was getting worse each time, and quickly followed after him, saying, "Wait for me, I'm going too!"

A moment later, Kazuma Kudo and Ran, who were waiting in the yard, heard a familiar scream...