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

Chapter 398 I Won't Show Mercy Next Time

Conan's fate is self-evident.

Kudo Kazuma quickly took him back to the detective agency and, without thinking twice, told Ran everything his older brother had done sneaking out late at night.

However, in order to conceal his identity as a member of the organization, he did not mention that Gin deliberately let Conan go in the end. He only said that Gin probably did not expect the opponent to be a child, which is why Conan was able to escape by chance.

Xiaolan was both worried and angry when she heard this.

Even so, she still thanked Kudo Kazuma quite politely: "Kazuma, thank you for telling me all this. I have something I want to say to Shinichi alone. You haven't had breakfast yet, have you? Why don't you eat here?"

Kudo Kazuma didn't consider himself an outsider. He nodded and went to the kitchen to find the breakfast that Ran had prepared.

By the way, let's temporarily leave Xiaolan's room and give her some room to do her thing.

After Kudo Kazuma finished breakfast, Ran had already taken the opportunity to beat up Conan.

This beating was even harsher than when she first found out Conan was Shinichi Kudo—after all, Ran had witnessed firsthand how much pain Conan was in when he turned back, and although she was angry then, she was actually more heartbroken than angry.

As for this time...

All I can say is that, in order to prevent Conan from going to school with the marks of his beating, Kazuma Kudo spent points to stack the effect of [Life Aura] several times over.

"Oh, right." Before going to school, Ran, now gentle again, told Conan and Kazuma, "Sonoko invited me to stay at Fukitoyama Villa after school on Friday. I heard there are many small animals in the mountains there, and we can also see snow recently."

"I originally thought that it would just be the two of us going, and we wouldn't need to bring Shinichi. But after what happened today, I suddenly feel that it would be more reassuring to bring him along. If we don't keep a close eye on him these next few days, who knows what he might be up to?"

Conan sighed upon hearing this: "Don't be like that, Ran~ I'm not as bad as you're making me out to be?"

Kudo Kazuma chuckled, "I think Ran has a point. You'll have to keep a close eye on him then."

Seeing his beloved girl and his younger brother discussing how to keep a close watch on him, Conan was completely helpless.

After what these two said, it made him seem like he couldn't use his brain at all and just blindly charged forward. Isn't that a joke?

Kazuma Kudo didn't care what Conan was thinking.

After Conan and Ran went to school, the first thing he did was go back to catch up on his sleep.

Missing four hours of sleep is a terrible thought.

When he woke up, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

There's a message from Gin on Bond that he sent half an hour ago.

The software has been returned to the organization; the mission is over, and Vodka won't say a word. However, next time I won't hold back.

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

This "next time" that won't show any mercy probably isn't for him, right?

So it must be referring to Conan?

It seems Ran needs to keep a close eye on Conan to prevent him from causing any more trouble.

To his dismay, Conan sent him a message not long after school.

[So Valentine's Day is almost here! And I checked, it seems that Fukitoyama-so (吹渡山庄) is a place that teaches people how to make chocolate, so Ran and Sonoko went there to make chocolate, right?]

Kazuma Kudo was speechless.

No, what does this have to do with him?

I even sent him this specifically...

He was speechless, so he simply made a phone call.

"Hey, you're awake?"

Upon hearing Conan's voice, Kazuma Kudo almost cursed.

If it weren't for him, would I have been dragged out of bed by Gin at six o'clock?

"So, what do you mean by telling me this? Didn't Xiaolan say she'd take you with her?"

On the other end of the phone, I could faintly hear other children talking.

Conan cleared his throat and lowered his voice, saying, "Well, it's Valentine's Day after all... and that Fubuki Villa is a rather remote villa, so there aren't many people going there at this time. So... I was thinking, could Haibara help make an antidote so I can go with Ran?"

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

That beating you got this morning was basically for nothing, right?

He provoked Gin one minute, and he'll turn back into Shinichi Kudo the next.

Who said his brother wasn't stubborn enough?

His brother is incredibly stubborn!

He was speechless for a moment: "Go tell Haibara yourself!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone directly.

He was speechless.

If his brother still remembers asking for the antidote when they go to a remote mountain village with hardly anyone around, shouldn't he praise this rascal for being so great?

To Kudo Kazuma's dismay, Ai Haibara actually provided the antidote.

According to Ai, after the skincare product was released, there was no research direction for the second phase, so when there was nothing to do, she and Asagi Minami were researching the third version of the antidote.

When researching the third version of the antidote, they made two experimental pills that were only slightly better than the second version, but they still couldn't satisfy Ai Haibara. One of them was used in the experiment, and there just happened to be one left.

Ai Haibara had been thinking about whether to let Conan take it to see what the unsuccessful third version would do on a person, so when Conan asked, she immediately agreed.

Kudo Kazuma was speechless for a long time, and finally he could only tell Ran and Sonoko that he would go along as well.

Ran is fine keeping an eye on Conan, but if it were Shinichi Kudo, he worries that Ran would be influenced by romantic feelings and wouldn't be able to keep an eye on her stubborn older brother.

"What?!" Kogoro Mouri was quite worried after learning that they were going to go to the deep mountains to learn how to make chocolate. "What kind of inn is that? They lure young girls to some godforsaken mountain, just to make chocolate? It doesn't sound real! There might be some danger."

"Don't worry, Dad, there's no danger at all. Besides, why would I be afraid of danger?" Xiaolan said, shaking her fist.

Conan added reassuringly, "Even if there's any danger, Kazuma and I are here for you. Don't worry, Uncle."

"You brat!" Kogoro Mouri punched Conan on the head. "You're the one I worry about the most! If you dare to do anything to Ran while I'm not around, I'll beat you to death!"

Conan, who was covering his head, suddenly turned into a half-moon-shaped eye and didn't want to say a word.

Kogoro Mouri snorted, then said seriously, "Ran and Sonoko are two girls after all, so I'll leave them to you two."

The next day at noon, the three of them ate breakfast early. Afterwards, Conan took the antidote, transformed back into Shinichi Kudo, and went to Agasa's house to have Ai Haibara draw blood.

Meanwhile, Kazuma Kudo drove to the Suzuki residence to pick up Sonoko before returning to the office. There, he picked up Ran and Shinichi Kudo, who were already waiting, and they headed towards Fukito Villa along the snow-covered mountain road.