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

As it turns out, things don't end so easily when they become serial killers.

Given that Heiji Hattori and Conan brought back new clues, this suspected suicide case has become a cold case that is highly likely to be a murder.

Besides the lighter, the two also mentioned what the deceased murmured before he died. Since he couldn't make it out clearly, he simply grabbed the umbrella handle in Hattori Heiji's hand.

Using the umbrella, they began to speculate about the meaning of the case and the tattered scroll found at the crime scene.

Not only the two of them, but also Inspector Otaki and Kogoro Mouri speculated, even Kazuha Toyama called her father, Ginjiro Toyama, the then-Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Osaka Prefectural Police, for help.

Kudo Kazuma held the umbrella over Conan for a while, but then he himself started sneezing without realizing it.

Upon hearing the sneeze, Conan immediately turned to look at Kazuma Kudo's face: "Are you alright?"

Kazuma Kudo shook his head.

It's probably a problem with the rain.

Having just received a surge of spiritual energy, there's no way he'd be unable to withstand the backlash from his brother's death power.

After Ginjiro Toyama understood the cause and effect of the case, Kazuha said enthusiastically, "Alright, let's leave the case to my dad. It's getting late, shall we go eat? I heard a few days ago that a nice new restaurant opened near Shinbashi in Osaka Castle, shall we go there?"

Hattori Heiji immediately exploded: "What kind of talk is that! A murder happened right in front of me, how can I be in the mood for that..."

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly noticed the kind gaze of Ginjiro Toyama.

After a slight pause, his tone softened considerably, and he even used polite language: "Go...what restaurant are we going to? What are we having for dinner? In my opinion, you don't need to worry about me. You should go have dinner with Xiaolan first. What do you think?"

He Ye was speechless for a moment, then glanced at him and said, "Fine, don't eat then! Xiao Lan, let's go, let's ignore them."

Upon hearing this, Kudo Kazuma quickly said, "Wait for me."

He'd been wanting to eat for a while.

Before he could take two steps, Conan grabbed his hem, and Hattori grabbed his wrist. The two of them spoke almost at the same time.

Conan: "Ran and Kazuha went to eat, what were you doing going over there?"

Hattori: "Why did you follow Kazuha and Ran-chan to eat?"

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

He sighed: "Is it possible that I also need to eat? Do you really think everyone is like you? Two death gods who can survive by solving cases without eating!"

Conan pursed his lips, thinking of his younger brother's delicate and frail appearance, and decided to let him eat on his own.

Seeing that even Conan had given up, and considering that Kudo was always getting sick...

He simply let it go.

Then Kazuma Kudo followed Kazuha and Ran to dinner.

"You brought your father here because of Hattori, right?" Ran asked Kazuha with a smile while they waited for their meal. "Your father is so familiar with this case, if Hattori wants any information, your father can naturally tell him immediately. And you even tried to cover it up with that ambiguous attitude..."

“It’s like this…” Kazuha realized that Kudo Kazuma was also present, and she blushed slightly when she mentioned Hattori, “Because I wanted to see Heiji’s bright smile every time he solved a case… cough, thinking about it, I was really being silly…”

Ran laughed and said, "Yeah, totally silly, just as silly as me... To be honest, I always feel that Shinichi will have the same expression on his face after solving a case."

As for Conan now... well, no matter how you look at it, he's kind of adorable.

She insisted that the current Conan is much cuter than Shinichi was when he was a child.

Listening to his two best friends whispering privately, Kudo Kazuma, who felt ignored, couldn't help but sigh.

I should have just kept holding the umbrella for Conan.

When those two girls weren't embarrassed, it was his turn to be embarrassed.

After an awkward meal, the three returned along the same route.

As he passed Osaka Castle Shinbashi Bridge, Kazuma Kudo's gaze was unconsciously drawn to the water beneath the bridge ahead—there, a wisp of spirit lingered.

Moreover, there is another person on the bridge directly above the spirit.

With Kudo Kazuma's eyesight, he could clearly see that it was a man dressed in women's clothing.

The man took out a lighter and set his clothes on fire.

The blue-white flames instantly engulfed him.

The man struggled for a couple of moments before falling down.

The moment the other person lit the fire, Kudo Kazuma understood—oh dear, this guy is the serial killer, he's trying to create the illusion of the soul self-immolating below…

After a moment's thought, he rushed forward and arrived at the same time the person fell off the bridge. While absorbing the spiritual energy, he took out his phone and snapped three photos in quick succession.

"ah--"

Kazuha's scream rang in my ears.

Xiaolan looked warily in the direction they came from: "Who goes there!"

After taking the photo, Kudo Kazuma turned his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Lan frowned: "There was a figure just now, and it looked like he wanted to come over, but when he saw us, he hurriedly dropped his umbrella and ran away... I wonder if it's related to the person who set himself on fire."

Kazuma Kudo scoffed, "This isn't about setting yourself on fire."

He waved his phone: "Here's the evidence."

When Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro arrived with Inspector Otaki, his subordinates, and a group of passersby, Kudo Kazuma showed them the photos he had taken.

"Although it's not very clear, you can still tell that there was already a burning body below this person before they fell. The photo shows the same situation as when I rushed over..."

Kudo Kazuma coughed a few times and shrugged: "In my judgment, the person who set himself on fire is probably not the deceased, but the murderer. After killing the deceased, the murderer threw him into the water, then dressed in the deceased's clothes and pretended to set himself on fire. After struggling for a moment, he jumped into the water, so that anyone who saw him would think that the deceased had died by self-immolation."

Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro exchanged a glance and nodded slightly.

Under the cover of night, others might not notice, but Kudo Kazuma's eyesight was extremely sharp, so he noticed it immediately. Hattori Heizo's expression was somewhat subtle.

He thought for a moment, and then something suddenly occurred to him...

If he remembered correctly, there was a serial murder case in Osaka where Hattori Heizo publicly slapped Hattori Heiji, deliberately luring his own son into a trap as bait, and then using the opportunity to wipe out some criminal gang.

Ah this...

Judging from Hattori Heizo and Toyama Ginjiro's reactions now, could this be the case?

So, he accidentally disrupted someone else's plans?

This is embarrassing...

Or, considering that Hattori Heizo is Black Chicken's father, how can we try to salvage the situation?

With that thought in mind, Kazuma Kudo immediately began to immerse himself in cosplaying his older brother, Shinichi Kudo.

He raised a hand to support his chin, frowned, and said in a deep voice, "But who would do something so cruel as to set themselves on fire just to kill someone?"

"Also, cough cough... since this is a murder case, then Mr. Kato was indeed killed by the same murderer, right?"

"Damn it! Who did it? Who did it?!"

Having obtained a new clue from Kazuma Kudo, Conan and Heiji Hattori, who were verifying their deductions, were left bewildered.

What is Kazuma/the other Kudo doing?

Did you forget to take your medicine again?