Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

He talked with Aoyagi Akimitsu all the way and still felt unsatisfied.

This was the first time in his life that someone, other than his father Yusaku Kudo, had chatted with him about detective novels like this.

Kudo Shinichi has many interesting novels that he wants to recommend to Aoyagi Akiko, but he is afraid that she will find him too annoying. When chatting with his childhood sweetheart Xiaolan, he often makes her angry without knowing why.

"of course can."

Qing Liu Bingguang nodded under his expectant gaze: "Do you want my contact information? So you can contact me immediately."

"want!"

Kudo Shinichi's eyes lit up and he quickly took out his cell phone. Aoyagi Akimichi smiled and told him his email address and cell phone number.

Shinichi Kudo was filled with joy after writing down the contact information. He waved to Aoyagi Akimitsu and watched the black Mazda leave before pushing open the iron gate.

He walked through the greenery on both sides and paused when he was about to open the gate.

"Oh, I almost forgot, the nanny is not here, I have to solve the dinner by myself..."

Kudo Shinichi muttered and put down his hand. He sighed, locked the door again, turned around and left the empty Kudo house.

He is not that particular about food, and since the nanny was away these days, he just went to a nearby convenience store to buy some food.

I don't know how the nanny's child is doing, I hope he gets better soon...

……

Soon it was lunch time the next day.

The lunch break at Minato Middle School is one and a half hours, starting at 11:1 and ending at : p.m. Students can eat in the cafeteria or bring their own food during this time.

Because his parents were out of the country and the nanny had recently taken leave, Kudo Shinichi could only go to the cafeteria for lunch.

Having learned the lesson from yesterday, he never let the food out of his sight the whole day today - yesterday, after he bought the food, he temporarily put the food on the seat, went to the other side to buy coffee, and left for about 5 minutes.

The cafeteria was very noisy. Most of the students sat together with their friends. Kudo Shinichi sat alone at the table, eating while recalling what the teacher had said when he went to ask the teacher today.

[Kudo-kun, the school has checked the surveillance cameras in the cafeteria dining area and found nothing abnormal.]

No exception.

...If he didn't put it there while he was away, then something was already added to the meal when he got it?

Kudo Shinichi finished his lunch with full of suspicion and walked out of the cafeteria, while taking out his cell phone to send a message to Aoyagi Akimitsu.

[I asked the teachers, and they said the surveillance footage didn’t show anyone putting glass shards in my meal…]

[…Can I come to see you now? — Kudo Shinichi]

A minute later, Aoyagi Binguang replied.

[I'm not in the office right now. A piano score was lost in the music classroom yesterday. I'm checking the surveillance in the monitoring room. Let's meet in the library after school. - Aoyagi Akimitsu]

Something lost in the music classroom?

Kudo Shinichi noticed this information and was about to ask if he needed help, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of several furtive figures walking towards the back door of the cafeteria out of the corner of his eye.

It was Hojo and his friends.

They were holding something in their hands, and Kudo Shinichi was startled, thinking that the object looked very familiar. Without thinking too much, he put away his phone and followed them.

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In front of the cafeteria's cold storage on the basement floor, several middle school students opened the door of the cold storage with bad intentions.

There was no one in the kitchen area outside the cold storage, and there were two surveillance cameras pointed at the processing table. The school cafeteria has surveillance cameras installed in several rooms to monitor food safety on campus, but as long as you avoid them, there will be no problem.

Hojo Shinji unzipped every zipper of the backpack in his hand and threw it hard into the cold storage.

There was a loud swish and all the books and stationery in the schoolbag were scattered into the air. Some of them flew far and even hit the wall.

"Shinji, you're so mean!" A friend next to him laughed and pushed his shoulder.

"How amazing! You even dare to bully Kudo Shinichi!"

"It's time to teach him a lesson! Why should an outsider be treated preferentially?!"

With all these voices of support, Hojo Shinji's self-esteem was greatly satisfied.

He raised his chin proudly: "What Kudo Shinichi? It's just that his parents are a little famous! But my sister said..."

"What are you doing?!"

A sudden roar frightened Hojo Shinji so much that his body trembled.

He turned his head to look at the door, and saw the person who was the subject of the topic, Kudo Shinichi, appear in front of them.

Kudo Shinichi was wearing the Teitan school uniform, which was completely different from that of Minato Middle School, and was glaring at them angrily.

Hojo Shinji, who was looking at him, suddenly felt a little guilty.

Apart from verbal bullying, this was actually the first time he actually bullied a classmate. During the summer vacation, he deliberately knocked down his sister's friend and injured her, and was severely punished by his father. If his sister hadn't stopped him, his father might have made him kneel down and apologize.

Thinking of his father's words, he hesitated and struggled inside.

But under the gazes of everyone around him, he quickly straightened his back again.

He didn't want to apologize, and he couldn't apologize.

——If he apologizes, his friends will definitely look down on him!!

Kudo Shinichi walked over and saw the scattered backpacks and books in the open cold storage, which made him even angrier.

"Hojo, why on earth would you do such a thing? Is bullying others fun?!"

Hojo Shinji curled his lips and raised his voice to increase his confidence. He said confidently: "Because my sister said that you are unlucky."

"What?" Kudo Shinichi was stunned.

"When I told her your name and that you would be studying in our class, she told me to stay away from you. Because you always get involved in cases, and if I get too close to you, I'll be involved and encounter all kinds of dangers!"

After shouting these words loudly, Hojo Shinji walked up to Kudo Shinichi and grabbed his collar without waiting for his response.

Amid the exclamations and cheers of his friends around him, he made up his mind, pushed Kudo Shinichi hard into the cold storage, and slammed the door shut.

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"boom--"

The heavy sound of the door closing made the rabbit, who was hiding at the door and watching the whole process, tremble.

After lunch today, he went to find Kudo Shinichi alone. As soon as he arrived at the classroom, he saw several boys, led by Hojo Toika's younger brother, leaving with Kudo Shinichi's schoolbag, so he followed them.

I didn't expect to see with my own eyes the entire process of Kudo Shinichi being locked up in the cold storage.

The rabbit was filled with rage, he almost forgot that he was now in the form of a weak rabbit, and wanted to step forward to stop this violent act.

However, before he could move forward, the rabbit felt his body suddenly lighten.

——A man dressed as a chef picked him up from the door.

"How come a pet came here..."

No one in the room heard the low muttering, and the lights in the corridor outside the kitchen were not on. It took Rabbit a while to see the face of the chef standing in the dark.

A male, probably in his twenties, with short hair, wearing a full set of white chef's uniform with some stains on the cuffs.

The rabbit recognized him. There were several times when Aoyagi Binguang did not close the door during music class, and he saw him standing at the door, listening to Aoyagi Binguang playing the piano, and would leave only after Aoyagi Binguang finished playing.

Seeing that it was an adult, Rabbit quickly raised his short hands and stretched towards the kitchen, motioning him to go in quickly - although he was just a chef, he was an adult after all, and had a certain deterrent effect on the students.

But the rabbit was disappointed. The chef seemed to be completely unaware that there was someone in the kitchen and walked towards the stairs with him in his arms.

Coming back to the surface from the darkness underground, the sunlight blinded the rabbit and he closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, the chef had already put him back on the ground and turned away.

"..."

Rabbit looked at his back and quickly came to his senses. He opened the system group chat to notify Aoyagi Binguang.

[Lust: Please go to the basement of the kitchen quickly. Hojo threw Shinichi's things and pushed him into the cold storage! ! ]

He typed the message quickly, while remembering their conversation yesterday afternoon...

……

Time goes back to yesterday afternoon.

Kudo Shinichi waved goodbye to them, with a bright smile on his face without a trace of gloom.

Watching his figure gradually disappear into the distance, Rabbit sat back in the passenger seat alone. Aoyagi Binguang fastened his seat belt and he turned on the system again.

[I never thought that the protagonist would be bullied...]

Along the way, Kudo Shinichi was communicating with Aoyagi Akimitsu. He not only recommended several novels, but also talked about his situation at school.

Rabbit found it unbelievable, Kudo Shinichi was the protagonist of this world. Even if we put aside this identity, with his excellent background and brains, he was definitely a child of destiny. But such a person would encounter school bullying.

"This is not surprising. The Japanese royal princess was also bullied by her classmates during her school years. At one point, she didn't even dare to go to school and had to ask a psychologist to come to her home for counseling."

Aoyagi Akimitsu was not surprised at all.

Rabbit felt quite complicated, especially since he knew the perpetrator of the cold violence was the younger brother of a player.

When he first learned that Arrogant's younger brother was also in Minato Middle School, he was very scared, fearing that she would come to the school one day and notice them, but Aoyagi Akimitsu comforted him not to worry.

Rabbit couldn't help but speculate: [Do you think it's possible that Hojo Toika said something to her brother? ]

His guess was not without reason. The endings of many cases in "Detective Kyoko" were changed. They suspected at the time that Hojo Toika did not agree with the ideas expressed in the original work, and she might not like Kudo Shinichi.

“We cannot confirm this for now.”

Qing Liu Bingguang lowered his head and looked at the rabbit: "If you are really worried, you can go to him these few days to see him and accompany him. Anyway, he knows you."

The rabbit nodded without hesitation.

He thought for a moment and then asked: [As a teacher, can you help him solve his current dilemma? ]

"It's difficult." Aoyagi Hikari said calmly, "If it was physical violence, I could stop it when I saw it, and external injuries would make it easier to collect evidence. But what he encountered was cold violence, and any teacher's intervention would be useless and even counterproductive."

[Now he has eaten glass shards in his food. Is this already considered physical violence? ]

Aoyagi adjusted the rearview mirror and looked at it for a few seconds. Rabbit noticed that his expression had become a little serious.

“It may not be the students who did it.”

Hearing this, Rabbit was stunned and subconsciously tightened his hands around the seat belt.