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

After finishing his three sandwiches, Kudo Kazuma took Akemi the cat to another room.

He couldn't help much with the materials that Ai Haibara needed to organize, since he couldn't understand any of them.

During these meetings, Akemi always had questions she wanted to ask him, but since his meetings with Akemi always took place at Professor Agasa's house, and Ai Haibara was also present at other times, he never paid any attention to her.

Ai was busy at the moment, and Akemi called him again, so he agreed.

Carrying Akemi the cat to the living room, Kudo Kazuma turned on the TV and, while letting Akemi watch her favorite romance drama, asked, "You want to know how Ai—Sherry—left the organization?"

Mingmei nodded her fluffy little head: "I also want to know if she is safe now."

When Conan turned back, Akemi had already gone to Professor Agasa's house with Ai. Otherwise, she wouldn't have needed to ask any more questions; she would have known how Sherry left the organization.

After briefly explaining the special cases of APTX-4869 to Akemi, Kazuma Kudo shrugged: "You shrink after taking the drug. Ai is one of the special cases."

Akemi shook her head as she listened: "That's too risky... If it weren't for Shiho's good luck, she would be dead by now. I clearly told her to live well."

"There's something I think you should understand," Kudo Kazuma said, his tone somewhat unfriendly. "If you hadn't wanted to take Sherry away back then, the two of you would still be safely in the organization, without having to take any risks."

"If it weren't for Shuichi Akai, you sisters wouldn't have been under surveillance at all. In fact, with Sherry's research, your positions in the organization would only have risen higher and higher, wouldn't they?"

Mingmei wanted to argue, but she couldn't say anything in front of the person who had saved her and her sister.

Kudo Kazuma noticed Akemi's emotions and shrugged: "I know what you want to say. Everyone has their own ambitions. It's only natural that you and your sister don't want to stay in the organization. After all, you didn't join voluntarily back then."

"From a personal perspective, it's not wrong for you to want to leave, but you're wrong in thinking too simply. Sherry... even Ai isn't as simple as you think. You don't really think that after you cause this scene, Sherry will still be able to stay in the organization, do you?"

"Miyano Akemi, it's only because you're a cat now. If you were still a human, I wouldn't want to take you in, given how naive you are—it would easily implicate Ai, and thus the professor and Conan."

He has only used the skill [Puppet Technique] once so far, to create a puppet body for Shiho Miyano.

As for the matter of casting his soul into the puppet's body, he needs to find someone to test it first before he can safely deal with Jingguang Cat, Narumi Rabbit, and Akemi Cat.

For someone who has died once, reappearing in the eyes of others is never a simple matter.

Jingguang and Narumi are fine, but as for Akemi, if she remains as simple-minded as ever, Kudo Kazuma thinks it wouldn't be a bad thing for her to just stay as a little cat and keep Ai company.

Out of consideration for Ai, he reluctantly gave Akemi a relatively good news.

"I used some methods on the organization's side. Now, in the organization's eyes, Sherry is already a dead person. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Ai is safe. So... you should be more careful when you do things, understand?"

After giving him a few words of advice, Kudo Kazuma went to the kitchen to get busy.

Narumi Rabbit was unaware of the inside story, but seeing that they were in the same boat, she still comforted the depressed Akemi Cat with a few words.

Jingguang Maomao, on the other hand, knew more about the sisters' situation and even helped her analyze the problems with her behavior and choices at the time, and how to correct them.

Everyone in the group was busy with their own tasks.

Around 12:30, Ai Haibara finally finished sorting and organizing the documents.

After going downstairs, she saw two cats and a rabbit huddled on the sofa watching TV. The two cats would occasionally meow at each other and chat for a bit, but Kudo Kazuma was nowhere to be seen.

After seeing her, her little calico cat, Xiaoyao, meowed twice at the other two cats and ran towards her.

Ai stretched out her hands, letting Haruka jump into her arms.

She patted Haruka's head before turning to look for Kazuma Kudo, only to find two dishes and two bowls of porridge on the table, while Kazuma Kudo was putting two more dishes on the table.

She paused for a moment, then carried the little calico Xiaoyao to the dining table and asked somewhat uncertainly, "You can cook?"

“Yes.” Kudo Kazuma sat down at the table, gesturing to the seat opposite him. “Is there a problem?”

Cooking is a skill he learned in his past life, and he hasn't forgotten it in this one. In addition, he has added a branch of Japanese cuisine, and with the upgrade of system points, his cooking is delicious.

What's so strange about this?

Ai Haibara raised an eyebrow and couldn't help but retort, "You can cook, yet you still go to the base to freeload meals? You can cook, yet you don't eat breakfast?"

She could guess why without even needing Kudo Kazuma's answer.

Laziness, I guess.

No wonder Gin forcibly dragged him out of bed...

"I think you should just stay at the base," she couldn't help but complain. "Otherwise, you won't get any breakfast at all."

"What are you going to do living at the base? Are you going to be dragged off on missions by Gin every day?" Kudo Kazuma scoffed. "Besides, if you're always living outside and never going home, Conan will get suspicious."

Ai's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly.

She frowned and looked up at Kudo Kazuma: "He probably doesn't know your identity as a codenamed member, right? He can't even accept someone like me, so if he finds out about your other identity someday... will that be okay?"

Kudo Kazuma tilted his head and said nonchalantly, "Let's wait until he finds out."

It wasn't that he didn't care about Conan's reaction; it was mainly that he was confident in his ability to conceal his true intentions.

The unlucky guy didn't even know about it when he had no other cheats besides [Two Elements Clone]. Now that he also has [Sound Bewitching] and [Puppet Technique], how could he possibly know?

The fact that Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko Kudo knew about his codename and identity as a member of the organization was something he revealed voluntarily after he received the codename.

But they had no idea what he had done in private.

Aside from organized sniping missions, he has never intentionally done anything wrong—what does the shadow clone's actions have to do with him? Can Conan find any evidence?

Yusaku Kudo never doubted anything; he was very confident.

Moreover, when he fabricated the reason for joining the organization for his parents in this world, he made himself sound incredibly innocent. In the eyes of Yusaku Kudo and his wife, he was abducted, left to wander the streets, and was only picked up by someone and brought back to the organization.

No one would believe that a seven-year-old child would actively seek out a way to infiltrate a transnational criminal organization, right?

At least Ai Haibara doesn't believe it.

Therefore, in her opinion, Kudo Kazuma, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, probably joined the organization in a daze, so his father, Kudo Yusaku, wouldn't blame him.

So... is his nonchalant attitude genuine, or is he just putting on a show for himself?

Carefully observing Kazuma Kudo's expression, Ai Haibara inadvertently started to overthink things...