【Quick New】In the Name of Love · In the Name of Love- XXIV

"Kuroba, are you playing football?"

After school, Kudo held a football in his left hand, sat in his seat and asked Kuroba who was arranging his schoolbag.

As May is approaching, the breath of summer has quietly arrived, mixed in the tail of late spring, sending out the enthusiasm that belongs to summer.It has been more than a week since Heiyu came to Didan High School for exchanges, and during this week or so, he quickly got along with everyone in Class B of the second year of high school, and even gained some fame in the entire Didan High School.

Of course, he also quickly drew closer to Kudo Shinichi.

During this week, it wasn't that he deliberately got close to the big detective, it was just a very natural thing. The two of them occasionally talked in low voices in class, chatted in the corridor during the break, and took a lunch break. At that time, the group of four had lunch under the tree... Everything seemed to be a matter of course, so Kuroba had to gradually accept that perhaps soul mates do exist, and he was lucky enough to find each other.

Kuroba Kaito treasured every minute and every second he spent with Kudo Shinichi, and it can even be said that he cherished it too much.

——How long will they be able to get along like this?

Kuroba would involuntarily think about this question every day when he was free.

He couldn't escape his identity as Kaito Kidd—if he could, he would certainly be willing to just be a simple high school student. From time to time, you will know that you have met the other party that belongs to you. Maybe you will become your best friend in this life, or you may fall in love, but they will spend this life with each other's company.

And now everything is messed up.

Phantom Thief Kid is Kudo Shinichi's soul mate, and Kuroba Kaito is Kudo Shinichi's friend of the same age who met by chance.But Kaito Kid cannot equal Kaito Kuroba—at least not yet.

God knows how many times his frank words came to his lips and he swallowed them back abruptly, carefully avoiding the topic of soul mates.Kudo Shinichi was in front of him. I don't know if it was the detective's intuition or he was deliberately avoiding it. The two had known each other for more than a week and had never talked about any related issues.

But that doesn't stop them from being attracted to each other.

Kuroba gave up and thought, even if someone as outstanding as Kudo is not his soul mate, he would still want to be his best friend.The willing, determined kind.

"I said Hei Yu, are you still online?"

Kudo stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Kuroba's eyes.

"...wandering again?"

Hei Yu blinked as if waking up from a dream, and quickly nodded: "Kick, kick, walk around. I'm sorry, I was just thinking about my own business - how many people did you call?"

"My mind wandered halfway through packing, and I was convinced." Kudo said dumbfoundedly, "I called the other four people and kicked them casually."

Hei Yu murmured in his heart, "I don't know who is the cause." On the surface, he stood up with a particularly energetic face, flicked his hair, and said coolly: "Okay! Then let's set off now—"

"Aren't you going to change your clothes?"

"—Uh." Hei Yu paused, coughed dryly, and his face was a little hot, "What, let's go and change clothes!"

"..."

"Kuroba—to the left!"

"—— Sato!"

"Hey, what are you doing, what are you doing, Ueno, it's very wrong for you to do this—"

"Return to defense, return to defense! Kudo!"

Six boys in sportswear were running on the green football field covered with artificial turf. The sweat on their foreheads glistened in the setting sun. into the ears.

They were divided into two teams to play on the playground, while Kudo and Kuroba were assigned to the opposite group because of luck. The reason for the small number of people was that they often needed to grab the ball from each other.I have to say that although Kuroba didn't train as hard as Kudo, he would usually exercise at home to maintain his physical strength - Kaitou Kidd's night activities made him have to do this, and his body flexibility can be regarded as a medium level. He is good at ball games.Especially during the week in Tedan High School, he was dragged by Kudo to play football on the playground when he was free or not, and he was forced to hone some football-related skills.

And now, Kuroba faced Kudo once again.

"Damn, don't keep staring at me, okay?" Kuroba panted and shouted while kicking the ball and running.

Kudo said, "Not good."

Then he sped up and ran, and kicked over——

Because the feet were faster than the body, and the speed was too fast and the strength was too strong, Kudo slid sideways against the lawn and kicked the football controlled by Kuroba, but it also caused Kuroba to lose his center of gravity. , also fell to the ground one after another, and his knees rubbed hard over the rough lawn due to inertia, and fell on Kudou.The two cried out in pain at the same time.Kudo hurriedly raised his hand and made a gesture, signaling to the other students that they were fine, and told them not to rush over.

"You are so heavy, Kuroba! I'm almost crushed by you!" Kudo complained with a wrinkled face, his chest heaving violently in order to get enough oxygen.

Kuroba quickly propped himself up, turned over with difficulty and lay down beside Kudo, opened his eyes and looked at the sky that was dyed warm by the setting sun, gasping for breath as well, and said in a somewhat intermittent voice: "You... ...You are too ruthless, just kick the ball like this..."

"Did you get hurt anywhere?" Kudo asked, turning his face sideways, "Hands or knees or something."

Kuroba also turned his face sideways, looked at Kudo, and blinked quickly.

……Depend on!Wouldn't the big detective, with wet hair sticking to his forehead and looking at him with his blue eyes, look this good? !

Heiyu felt that his heartbeat was like that of the best sports car, accelerating in one second, and could run out of the solar system in an instant.

They are so close now, so close that he can smell the grass smell mixed with Kudo Shinichi's sweat in the air, so close that he seems to be able to feel the sound of each other's breathing, so close that he can kiss each other even closer Sweaty nose.

"...No." Hei Yu heard himself say, "Are you injured?"

Kudo was distracted for two seconds before realizing that Kuroba was asking himself a question, and let out a long breath: "No, I'm fine."

The two of them lay down for a few more seconds before the other students hurried over, each thinking about something, until a group of them squatted beside them and asked about their situation, Kudo slowly got up , turned his head to look at Heiyu who was still lying on the lawn and was unwilling to get up, and asked helplessly: "Master Heiyu, can you still kick?"

Kuroba played a rogue, and said pitifully: "Kudou-san needs to kiss you to kick it."

Kudo pursed his lips in disgust, intentionally ignoring his missed heartbeat, and said, "Oh, then Master Kuroba, please lie down." After speaking, he sat up and made a gesture to leave.

Kuroba immediately grabbed Kudo's wrist and said flatteringly, "Don't, don't, I'm joking, Kudo, you are so stingy."

Kudo couldn't help laughing, he lowered his head and wanted to pat off Kuroba's grasping hand, but his whole body froze instantly when Kuroba grabbed the inside of his wrist inadvertently.

It is a shiny ancient pipe. Although the logo is small, every detail is carefully drawn. Even the grain of the dark brown wood can be clearly seen, as if white smoke is slowly drifting out of the mouth of the pipe. , lingering around the pipe, covered with a hazy halo, the long river that spanned centuries fell on Kuroba's wrist.

A... colorful soul imprint.

At that moment, Kudo clearly felt his heart constrict, as if someone had grabbed his heart viciously, and he couldn't even breathe normally. For some reason, there was a sore feeling all over his body Scrub it off.

He opened his mouth, his eyes were tightly locked on the inside of Kuroba's wrist, but he couldn't even say a word.In the end, he just grabbed Kuroba's wrist with his backhand before he could react, pulled him up vigorously, then turned around without saying a word, smiled reluctantly with other students who came over, and said in a low voice : "Sorry, I don't feel very well, let's end here today. I... I'll go back first."

The other students just obviously felt that Kudo's state suddenly became wrong, but Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, thinking that he was seriously injured just now, so he patted him on the shoulder and said to him, "Take a good rest." Kudo" After that, Kudo left in a hurry, looking at his back as if he was running away.

It was only then that Heiyu realized that the wristband that he had been wearing to cover his soul imprint had been rubbed off when he had just wrestled, and landed on the grass not far away, his soul imprint had been completely exposed. It was clearly seen by Kudo Shin.He wanted to open his mouth to stop Kudo Shinichi who had already reached the edge of the playground, and wanted to explain to him, but he didn't know what position you should use to stop him.

—He knew he had a soul mate.

Kaito Kuroba first felt a great panic, fearing that the other party would drift away from him because of this, fearing that the other party would accuse him of not telling him about it.

But he soon realized something else.

——Why... the big detective cares so much?