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

Chapter 417 Mortals are ultimately just mortals

In an instant, the woman in green panicked.

"What are you saying? Who killed anyone? What nonsense are you spouting at such a young age?" The woman in green frowned deeply. "You've been targeting me from the very beginning. Who do you think you are to talk such nonsense? This is slander, don't you understand?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged, looking completely self-righteous: "If you think I'm targeting you, then you're being too arrogant. I've handled many cases, and none of the ones I've targeted have turned out to be innocent."

Only then did the man in the trio realize something: "Wait, I think I've seen this boy's picture in the newspaper before. He's been involved in quite a few cases. You're a detective, right? Could it be..."

His eyes lit up: "You're that high school detective Shinichi Kudo, the one known as the savior of the Metropolitan Police Department?"

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

He really wanted to ask the uncle if he was face-blind.

But ever since he realized that he occupied half of his older brother's position and that he was considered half of Shinichi Kudo in the eyes of the world's will, he found it really difficult to ask that question.

Even the world's will can mistake them for the same person, so we shouldn't expect too much from these almost NPC-like extras...

He sighed deeply and said with a hint of helplessness, "Hello, I'm not Shinichi Kudo, I'm..."

"If it's not Shinichi Kudo, then you must be Kazuma Edogawa, the young president of Kurosawa Software, the disciple of the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, and the detective of the heart, right?"

A somewhat androgynous boyish voice sounded from behind. Kudo Kazuma turned around and saw a boy wearing a dark blue hat with slightly messy black hair under the brim.

Seeing the boy's familiar hat and hairstyle, and then looking at his eyes, which are somewhat similar to Shuichi Akai's in both eye color and lower eyeliner... tsk tsk, could this be Sera Masumi?

[Unlock the special character Sera Masumi, reward 100 points.]

The system voice that rang in his mind just in time told Kudo Kazuma that his guess was correct.

Sera Masumi nodded at him, then peeked at the neatly arranged shoes and clothes. She even walked up to them and looked down at the clothes and the location of the body downstairs before saying, "Well, this really wasn't suicide, was it?"

"The shoes and clothes were placed directly above the body. If the deceased jumped from here, how could the clothes and shoes be so neatly arranged? And I heard you say before that the deceased was drunk before dying, right? In that situation, is it really possible to arrange the shoes so neatly?"

After she finished speaking, she put her hands in her pockets and looked back at the group: "I think someone probably left the clothes and shoes here afterward to deliberately mislead everyone and make us think that the deceased committed suicide... Am I right, President Edogawa?"

Kudo Kazuma smirked. What's going on? Did she deliberately ask him a question? Did she think he was Conan?

Considering that this girl's brother pays three million yen in rent every month, Kudo Kazuma gave her face and leaned forward to take a look down: "You're right, but I don't recommend calling me president. You don't understand the value of the title 'president' in Beika."

Sera Masumi was taken aback by his words: "Huh?"

What the hell are you talking about?

As Kudo Kazuma looked down, he happened to see the sixth floor below, with the curtains fluttering in the wind.

Wait, the window on the sixth floor is open?

Kudo Kazuma suddenly realized something, leaned halfway out from the rooftop, and shouted at the top of his lungs to Ran and Sonoko downstairs: "Ran—! Sonoko—! Haibara—! Can you check if the windows on the 6th floor are open?"

Within ten seconds, Xiaolan called.

"The window on the 6th floor wasn't open. I asked the security guard next to me, and he said that the deceased had smashed the entire pane of glass with a fire extinguisher a few days ago."

"Hiss—I understand, thank you." Seeing the police car rushing towards them from afar, Kudo Kazuma immediately said, "I'll hang up now, we'll go down right away."

Seeing him walk towards the elevator, Sera Masumi immediately asked, "President Edogawa... um, Edogawa-kun, is something on your mind?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "Shoes and clothes can mislead people into thinking the deceased committed suicide, and of course, they can also mislead people into thinking the deceased fell from the rooftop. Let's go pick up Inspector Megure and the other officers first. We'll go straight to the sixth floor, that's the right way to go."

Moreover, Conan is either on the sixth floor or the second floor right now.

He interrupted the green-clad woman's plan this time, and Conan might have already figured out the murderer's modus operandi.

When the group arrived at the location where the body was found, the police had already taken photos and marked lines, and some people were questioning Xiaolan, Yuanzi, and the security guard about the situation at the scene.

"Edogawa, you're here too?" Inspector Megure saw Kudo Kazuma, then peeked behind him. "Huh, isn't Mori here?"

Kazuma Kudo: "...No."

Wait, what kind of look is that from Inspector Megure?

Don't think he's the Grim Reaper, okay?

He quickly added, "But Conan is here. We discovered some suspicious points, and Conan went to investigate."

Megure glanced at Kudo Kazuma suspiciously before letting out a sigh of relief: "Thank goodness, Mori-kun's plague-like nature hasn't infected you yet."

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

Alas, mortals are mortals after all; they can't understand who the real Grim Reaper is.

Just as he was silently complaining, Inspector Megure spoke up again: "So, who is this boy who came down with you?"

Sera Masumi stepped forward: "Hello Inspector, my name is Sera, and I'm a detective."

"Detective..." Inspector Megure chuckled dryly, "Oh, a detective... So, have you figured out what happened? Was the deceased a suicide?"

"Of course not." Kudo Kazuma shrugged, too lazy to tell the truth, and only said, "If the inspector doesn't believe me, you can go to the sixth floor and find Conan, he will tell you the answer."

When he went downstairs, the elevator came from the 6th floor, so he texted Conan to confirm that he was indeed on the 6th floor.

As for him, since he already had the soul, he was too lazy to make the trip again.

Seeing that Kudo Kazuma was too lazy to go upstairs anymore, Ran had no choice but to go upstairs herself and become his tool.

She sighed and said, "Well then, Kazuma, you and Ai should find a place to rest downstairs. Sonoko and I will go upstairs with the Inspector and the others to take a look."

Kudo Kazuma nodded first: "Take the elevator when you go upstairs. Observe carefully inside. This murderer used the elevator to kill people."

After reminding Ran, he then reminded Inspector Megure: "By the way, Inspector, remember to bring these three relevant personnel, especially the lady in the green dress; she's a key figure."

Inspector Megure was quite familiar with Kazuma Kudo's investigative style and knew that anyone he suspected was basically doomed. Upon hearing this, his sharp gaze immediately fell on the woman in the green dress.

“The three of you, especially this one… Ms. Zhouchuan, right? Let’s go, let’s go up to the sixth floor together.”

The group headed towards the elevator, but Sera Masumi turned back to look at Kudo Kazuma before leaving.

"Who is he?"

Ai Haibara's cool voice rang out: "I noticed he's paying a lot of attention to you. Could it be... that someone from the organization sent him to secretly monitor you?"

Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "She wasn't sent by the organization. If you really want to talk about it, she should call you her cousin."

Ai Haibara's eyes widened instantly: "What?"

Is there such a thing?