Chapter 189 Mom's Room

Chapter 190: Mom's Room

"Kudo, please don't interfere in this matter anymore." I said coldly. "I will solve this matter myself, in my own way."

"What?!" Conan's pupils suddenly shrank. Yes, what Kaoru said confirmed that he was right. The reason why the bird flew away was definitely because Kaoru had just released his murderous aura. Now he was so calm because he had sobered up from his anger and began to deal with the problem calmly. The murderous aura that came out of anger was only for a moment. However, Kaoru in a calm state was more terrifying than Kaoru in anger. If Kaoru in anger could only vent his anger with the gun in his hand, then Kaoru who calmed down after being angry would not only shoot the enemy with a gun, but also use other means to make the other party really regret coming to this world!
"Xun, calm down, this matter..."

"I'm calm." Ignoring Conan's panicked words, I said in extreme silence. "I'll say it again, you don't need to interfere in this matter anymore. I will handle it myself."

"You..." The words stuck in my mouth, Conan pulled me and walked to the corner away from everyone. "Xun, you promised me. You won't kill anyone again!"

"Yes, but I will only agree to your condition if you fulfill your promise to me." I looked at Conan coldly. There was no emotion at all. "You said that you would not give me the chance to kill anyone. You said that you would do your best to kill all the evil in this world. But the condition I agreed to you was that my family would not be harmed in any way. And today, you did not keep your promise."

"I.."

"Kudo, you broke your promise." My eyes were cold. "So, I will handle this matter this time, and you are not allowed to interfere!"

"Impossible! Now that the case has happened, I can't just ignore it!" Conan yelled at me angrily, "I will still fulfill my promise, I will catch the criminal myself! I will kill all the evil in this world, including you! I won't let you commit crimes again, absolutely not!" Conan was angry, and his tone was a little anxious. It was also a concern for me. He didn't want me to make mistakes again and again on the road of being a killer. That's why he said what he said just now.

"..." Facing Conan's angry words, my brows knitted slightly, but soon I was relieved. "Then let's do this." I said calmly. "In this case, I will give you a chance."

"What?" Conan was puzzled.

"I'll give you a chance to find the criminal faster than I can."

"Eh?"

"From today on, I will use my own methods to find the criminal. During this period, I will not do anything excessive. At the same time, you can use your detective mind to investigate this case. If you find the criminal before me, let him be executed on the spot. Then I will treat my mother's injury as if it never happened, and you will not break your promise. But if I find the criminal first..."

"Then he is at your disposal!" Conan shouted at me.

"Oh?" Conan's reply surprised me a little.

"If you can find the criminal before me, he will be at your disposal!" Conan stared at me fiercely.

"Oh? You are quite confident in yourself." I looked at Conan with a hint of ridicule. "Okay, then I will also raise the stakes. If you win, from today on, I will no longer touch anything related to crime and will be a normal child wholeheartedly. How about it?"

"A word is settled!"

"Haha, it's a deal."

———————————Detective Conan The Movie: The Fourteenth Target—————————————

When we left the hospital and returned home, it was already evening. Xiaolan and Dad were very tired and didn't feel like cooking, so we just ordered takeout to fill our stomachs and that was it for dinner.

The atmosphere at dinner was a little heavy. Including Xiaolan, everyone had no appetite because of their mother's matter. They ate a few bites and went to rest. Dad will continue to investigate the case tomorrow. Xiaolan wanted to take Conan and me to see her mother, but Conan wanted to go to the doctor's place. One was to check and repair his solar skateboard, and the other was to start investigating this case. After all, the bet between him and me has officially started. He also knew the terribleness of my methods, so he began to devote himself to this case.

The next day, I went to the hospital with Xiaolan. After a day of hospitalization, my mother's body had basically recovered. Although she was still a little weak, she was no longer in danger. All that was left was to take good care of herself.

My mother's secretary Midori Kuriyama accompanied me to the hospital to get a discharge certificate, and the three of us sent my mother home together.

After returning home, Xiaolan and Kuriyama Midori helped my mother onto the bed. Although I could do all these things by myself, given the current situation, I could only stand beside my mother and watch her quietly like a real child.

"Ms. Kuriyama, I really trouble you today." Xiaolan bowed slightly to Kuriyama Midori. "No, this is what I should do." Kuriyama Midori is her mother's secretary, but in fact she is her student and assistant. "Well, teacher, I'm sorry to bother you. I need to rush back to the company. If you have anything, please feel free to call me." After saying that, Kuriyama Midori bowed slightly to Xiaolan, and then turned to look at her mother lying on the bed. "Teacher, please have a good rest. I'll take care of the company for the time being."

"Well, thank you for your hard work." Mom said with a gratified smile.

"Well, I'll take my leave first." After saying this, Midori Kuriyama greeted again and left her mother's apartment.

"Well, Mom, you take a nap first, I'll make you some porridge." Xiaolan didn't sit for too long, she got up to make lunch for her mother, and what about me? Of course, I sat next to my mother and accompanied her all the time.

"Xiaoxun, I'm sorry for making you see me so weak." After Xiaolan walked out the door, her mother sat up weakly from the bed.

"Auntie, don't get up yet. It's better to lie down and rest for a while." Although I said this, I still helped my mother up.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Mom sat up. "It's a pity that I can't see the room here in my condition. Take a look for yourself. You didn't come to my bedroom last time. Maybe after you see what it looks like here, you will want to leave that old man and come live with me."

"Ahem..." I coughed awkwardly. I have to say that my mother is really persistent in trying to get me from my father. I smiled helplessly, then stood up and looked around the house. I did not enter my mother's room last time. This time, the whole room is light yellow in theme, clean, tidy, and looks warm. It seems that every piece of furniture is carefully designed and placed. On the neat dressing table are our family portraits, Xiaolan's recent photos, and photos of my mother and father. Next to the photos, a familiar object caught my eye.

"Hmm?" I raised my eyebrows slightly when I saw what was on the table. It was a small wooden table with a layer of fine velvet on top. On top of the velvet was a cup with a lavender pattern printed on it.

"This is..." I frowned as I looked at the crudely made cup.

"This is the only gift you gave me that year." A loving voice came from behind me. I turned around and saw my mother smiling at me tenderly. Oh... It seems that my mother has recognized me. But I still can't admit it.

“Auntie, I haven’t sent it…” I was about to retort with a frown, but was interrupted by my mother.

"Okay, Xiaoxun. Stop talking. I understand." Mom didn't let me continue. Instead, she looked at me with a sad look. "I know you are my Xiaoxun, but I can't reveal your identity for many reasons."

“…” I couldn’t help but frown at what my mother said.

"Do you remember this cup? You gave it to me on my birthday before you disappeared." A trace of longing slipped from my mother's brow. "That year, you said that the lavender on the cup was a symbol of you. You said that you liked the feeling of being held in your mother's palm. So all these years, I have kept it well." At this point, a little sadness appeared on my mother's face. "Unfortunately, the cup broke on the night you disappeared. Although I have found the best craftsman to glue the cracks together, the crack that split the lavender in half can never be erased."

After listening to my mother, I turned the cup in my hand and found that there was indeed a tiny crack in the middle of the lavender, twisting it into two. Although there were traces of repairs, the crack was so glaring.

"Remember the last time we had dinner together in a restaurant?" Mom saw that I was silent and spoke again. "That time, I specially ordered two dishes, one is your favorite beef, and the other is mushrooms that you would never eat."

Hearing this, my expression changed slightly. Indeed, I remember that when I was a child, every time my mother asked me what I wanted to eat, I would always say that I wanted to eat beef, because beef is the best food for me to increase my strength. As for mushrooms, although I have never been picky about food, there is only one thing I will never eat, that is mushrooms. I don’t know why, as soon as I eat that thing, my stomach will naturally react. So no matter what time, I will not touch that thing. I remember that when I was a child, my mother secretly put some chopped mushrooms in the dishes in order to prevent me from being picky about food, and the result was that I vomited continuously, and finally I had a fever and went to the hospital. Since then, whenever my mother took me with her, she never dared to eat mushrooms at home or outside.

"You only touched one of the two dishes I specially ordered. You can't deny that, right?" Mom smiled at me with a triumphant smile. "For various reasons, you look so much like my Xiaoxun. Even if that rough guy Kogoro can't recognize you, how can I, as a mother, not recognize my own child?"

"But Auntie, my age is right here." I said helplessly. My mother is indeed the queen of the legal profession. What she said and did left me no room for rebuttal. So I had to use my age as a cover-up.

"You still won't admit it?" At this point, a hint of sadness appeared between my mother's brows. It seemed that she had been talking for too long, and her body, which had just recovered a little, began to feel weak again.

"Auntie, don't think about it anymore. It's more important to have a good rest now." I interrupted my mother. Although my mother has already confirmed my identity, of course, I cannot acknowledge it at all.

"Do you really need me to take you for a DNA test before you admit it?" Tears flashed in my mother's eyes. "Xiaoxun, I don't mean to embarrass you. I also know that you must have your reasons for hiding it, but I... I just want to hear you call me mom one more time!"

A simple sentence shook my heart fiercely. The two words "Mom" were clearly in my mouth, but it was extremely difficult to say it out loud. I didn't answer my mother's words. I just watched her cry silently, lowered my head and looked at the lavender cup in my hand. I couldn't help but clench my hands a little tighter.

(End of this chapter)