Chapter 41 [Lack of Ability of the Parties Involved]

In the distance, the evening sun shines on the street.

The sun brushes Conan's body, but it doesn't warm him at all.

Conan stands in the shadow cast by Rock's tall body, feeling as if he is falling into an ice cellar.

He stares at Rock in a daze, and what catches his eye is a black dress that only appears in nightmares.

In Conan's eyes, the black dress seems to suddenly jump out of Rock, wrapping him tightly and plunging him into infinite darkness.

And at this moment when his mind is blank, Conan thinks of Xiaolan and glasses...

Hmm? Glasses?

Rock puts the glasses back on Conan's face: "Sorry, I took off your glasses just now and forgot to return them to you."

"Really careless, right?"

"Edogawa Conan?" Rock's words gently drilled into Conan's ears.

Conan's eyes were still blank, and he just nodded numbly.

Rock smiled softly and waved his hand to say goodbye to Conan for the second time.

But this time, he really left.

But Conan stood there all the time, staring at the direction Rock left.

…

A few months later, Dr. Agasa's house.

"Dr. Agasa, have you found out the details of Rock?" Conan leaned over the sofa.

"Shinichi, I've said it several times." Dr. Agasa wiped the sweat from his forehead, lowered his head and continued to improve the watch-shaped tranquilizer gun on his hand, and responded: "Rock's file is that of an ordinary orphan, and then he worked hard to get into the University of Tokyo, and then he passed the exam to become a policeman."

"No matter how I check, there are only these. Shinichi, I don't think he is a member of the Black Organization you said, did you guess wrong this time?"

Conan said embarrassedly: "Actually... Actually, I also think he is not a member of the Black Organization, but..."

But Rock has been too close to Xiaolan in recent months!

It seems that his job as a policeman does not exist. He doesn't have to work at all, and runs to the Maori Office every day as if nothing happened.

Every time he came, he even deliberately brought souvenirs to please Uncle Maori, and occasionally he would take over Xiaolan and help the Maori family cook.

Pah! Disgusting!

That would be fine, but the key is that every time he practices judo, he would try his moves with Xiaolan.

There are so many physical contact moves in judo, Conan saw it with his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

When Conan first met Rock, he thought the other party's target was him.

But now it seems even more terrible.

The other party's target is Xiaolan!

You might as well come for me!

And Rock, the evil guy, would go to Teitan High School to pick up Xiaolan after school every day, and after school, he would drag Xiaolan to practice fighting.

What a sinister intention!

Conan didn't know about this at first, he was still happy in elementary school every day! If it weren't for the previous time when Sonoko mentioned it, Conan might not have known that there was such a thing until now.

And every time these two people fight, they walk out cleanly and come back panting.

Conan couldn't stand it anymore!

This guy must be taken away! Take him away!

"It's so abominable!" Conan grabbed his hair randomly.

He has always been the best boy of his age, and he has never worried that someone can snatch Xiaolan from him.

But the appearance of Rock made Conan feel a sense of crisis.

And Conan knew very well that Xiaolan appreciated the profession of police more than detectives because of her father Maori Kogoro.

Rock is a policeman!

They both have the same fighting hobby...

"What should I do to make him leave Xiaolan?" Conan lay on the sofa in frustration, looking at his tender palms.

If only I were Shinichi now.

This is actually the root of all jealousy. He is a child now and has no way to protect the person he likes.

Conan believes that his feelings for Xiaolan since childhood are sincere.

But what if he can't find the antidote?

I can't let Xiaolan wait until he grows up to 18 years old...

Conan slowly closed his eyes. He now deeply understood the meaning of the sentence "All human suffering is essentially anger at one's own incompetence."

"So Shinichi, you are worried about this." Dr. Agasa stopped his work, "Isn't this very simple? Rock wants to learn judo, why don't you introduce him to another fighting master?"

Yes!

A flash of lightning flashed through Conan's mind.

Conan jumped up from the sofa.

He was really confused.

Conan always felt that Rock's target was likely to be himself or Xiaolan.

But in fact, he had always ignored that Rock might not care about them at all. He came to the Mori family just to learn judo.

Maybe he was just fighting with Xiaolan because Xiaolan was very good at fighting.

Rock might have noticed that something was wrong with this kid the first time they met, but the other party didn't care at all and didn't make a fuss about it afterwards.

After thinking about these things clearly, Conan was relieved.

But soon, Conan frowned again.

Some time ago, he and Xiaolan attended Uncle Maori's class reunion, and only then did he clearly know that Uncle Maori was indeed a real talent.

And he is quite capable. It can even be said that people with Uncle Maori's level are rare.

It seems... I have to ask my father for help this time.

His father, the famous mystery novelist Kudo Yusaku, has a lot of connections in all walks of life.

To put it bluntly, whether he wants to learn to fly a plane or a tank, with Kudo Yusaku's network of connections, he can build a Hawaiian technical school for him in a few minutes.

It is not difficult to find a few world-famous fighting masters.

The key is how to introduce the fighting masters to Rock in the name of Kudo Shinichi in a very reasonable way.

Conan was a little worried. He jumped off the sofa and began to pace back and forth in the living room, thinking about countermeasures. When he passed the coffee table, he suddenly noticed a newspaper on the coffee table. He glanced at it and then stopped instantly.

The front page of the newspaper had a title written in large black bold font:

《Legend of Rice Flower! The 10 billion yen robbery was quickly solved! A genius criminal detective emerged! 》

"The mastermind of this robbery was Hirota Masami, who had been lurking in the Siling Bank for half a year. Shortly after the robbery, a policeman who was on duty happened to pass by and quickly solved the 1 billion yen robbery."

Perhaps because they had been suppressed by the detectives for too long, the police high-level officials spared no effort to publicize the investigation process of this case, highlighting the role of the police in this case.

Conan didn't care about the operation.

He just stared blankly at the tall and handsome policeman in the newspaper.

"So... this guy has a job."