Chen Ze twitched the corner of his mouth, deeply suspecting that his luck hadn’t been good today. After all, he had just seen off Black and White Impermanence, and now soone with the title of Grim Reaper had shown up.
"This is a restaurant, kids. What would you like to eat?" Betty obviously didn’t know the identities of the five children in front of her, but that didn’t stop her from attending to the guests.
"Eh? Sister, your clothes are so pretty!" The speaker was Ayumi Yoshida, a little girl who had left behind a strange figurine.
She could also be considered the only elentary school girl in the Teenage detective corps, and the grown-up Ayumi was quite pretty too. If it weren’t for Xiao Ai, she could probably have been the face of the Teenage detective corps.
However, Chen Ze’s biggest impression of Ayumi was focused on that figurine of hers, which was completely different from traditional ones.
This figurine, made by a tech wizard with a screenshot, had a blurry face, but sohow it was inexplicably funny, monopolizing Chen Ze’s laughter for a while.
"Thank you~ So, what would you like to eat?" Betty was very pleased and couldn’t stop smiling.
Then, the five little custors of the Teenage detective corps took their seats at the table, curiously looking at the nu.
"What are you looking at?" Xiao Ai asked Conan, noticing that her companion seed to have found sothing interesting.
"Hmm... The wings on the back of this waiter don’t seem fake," Conan mused as he looked at Betty, whose wings appeared all too real no matter how one looked at them.
"So far, I don’t think there’s any organization or group that has managed to create such a thing," Xiao Ai calmly took a sip of her lemonade, enjoying the cool sensation.
"I might be overthinking it, since soone like Kid also has such lifelike abilities in makeup," Conan shook his head and then started looking at the nu as well.
anwhile, Chen Ze stood in the kitchen wiping glasses. He had overheard Conan and Xiao Ai’s conversation, as after all, he was the owner of the restaurant and could hear even the softest sounds if he wished.
"Wow, eel rice bowl! I’ll just have an eel rice bowl!" This voice was unmistakably Kojima Genta’s, and the eel rice bowl was his favorite dish.
Chen Ze silently opened the refrigerator, took out an eel, and started preparing it.
"Then I’ll have a curry, what about you, Xiao Ai?" Ayumi’s voice ca.
"I’ll have a curry too," Xiao Ai was as calm as ever.
"Then... then I want the sa as Xiao Ai!" Chen Ze’s mouth twitched again, recognizing Mitsuhiko Tsuratani’s voice, who used to like Ayumi but later took a liking to Xiao Ai.
"What about you, Conan?" Ayumi’s voice rang out once more.
"I’ll just have a curry too, hehe." If Chen Ze hadn’t known better, he might really have thought of Conan as just a regular kid.
"Manager, four curries and an eel rice bowl!" Betty called out the order.
"Right away." Chen Ze nodded; preparing these five dishes wasn’t really a problem.
Although the eel rice bowl took so ti to prepare because it needed broiled eel, Chen Ze felt confident he could handle it with ease.
So Chen Ze planned to take this opportunity to go upstairs and change his clothes.
However, he couldn’t take the normal restaurant passage because Conan would definitely see him, and then he wouldn’t be able to achieve his goal.
"Luckily, there’s a little ladder here." Chen Ze took a glance at the soup pot heating up and imdiately climbed up.
Before long, Chen Ze had changed his clothes and picked up so other items on his way down.
"Even though it’s not very nice, but... why do I find this so fun?" Chen Ze looked at himself in the mirror and nodded with satisfaction.
Five prepared dishes, Chen Ze’s cooking speed was very fast, and it wasn’t long before he was done.
"Betty, co in and serve the dishes," Chen Ze called Betty in, then sat down on a chair and patiently waited.
"Dear young guests, sorry to keep you waiting, here are your dishes." Betty placed the eel rice in front of Yuan Tai, then according to Chen Ze’s instructions, served four portions of curry to Conan and Ayumi Yoshida.
"Wow! This eel rice is so delicious!" Kojima Genta wished he could stuff his mouth full of eel rice, as it tasted even better than the eel rice he usually ate.
"The curry is also delicious, and not spicy!" Mitsuhiko Tsuratani exchanged a glance with Ayumi, both faces lit up with joy, as they had the sweet version of the curry.
"Hm? Yours is sweet?" Conan took a bite of the curry, which was spicy and suited the taste of a high school student like him.
"Yeah, isn’t yours, Conan?" Ayumi Yoshida looked up at Conan.
"Haha... Of course, mine is too, how could it not be?" Conan imdiately laughed, diverting the topic.
"Mine is the sa as yours," Xiao Ai quietly ate a mouthful of curry, which also had a spiciness to it.
"That’s strange..." Conan rubbed his chin in thought; it shouldn’t be that when five kids co to a restaurant, they would get different flavors served separately.
Furthermore, it was such a coincidence that both Ayumi and Guanghan had the sweet kind, while his and Xiao Ai’s were moderately spicy.
Considering the waiter’s attitude when serving the dish earlier, Conan started to suspect that there might be a secret hidden in this restaurant.
The sound of footsteps, "tap-tap," Conan lifted his head, and his pupils constricted in an instant as he saw a man in a black suit walking out of the kitchen, and he wore a black hat even inside the restaurant.
"Kudo... Conan..." Xiao Ai also trembled, this was unusual, which restaurant would dress like this?
"Stay calm..." Conan watched the black-suited man warily as he approached. Could this man be a mber of the organization, or was it just the restaurant’s dress code?
The man ca closer and then stood beside Conan.
Conan swallowed hard, the air beca so heavy in that mont, as if an invisible pressure was weighing down upon him.
"Uncle, aren’t you hot dressed like this?" Conan lifted his head, his face showing the innocence of a primary school student.
The man looked down, smiled and said, "Hot, yes, but I have to go out for errands, you all enjoy your al."
Upon hearing this, Conan visibly relaxed, and Xiao Ai also eased up quite a bit.
However, just as Conan was about to say sothing else, the man leaned closer to his ear, and without any emotion, said, "Hello there, Shinichi Kudo."
Right after, while Conan was still stunned, the man moved next to Xiao Ai, leaned in, and said, "Hello there, Miyano Shiho."
"Xiao Ai? What’s wrong?" Ayumi heard the sound of chopsticks dropping to the floor, lifted her head, and saw the faces of Conan and Xiao Ai, pale as paper.
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