Ke Xue: Shinichi and I are childhood friends.

Chapter 1371 Kamiya and Sera's Tea Party

A bookstore in Beika Town.

Yuya and Conan came out carrying several books.

Conan stroked the books in his arms and said excitedly, "I'm so lucky! I never expected this store to have out-of-print mystery novels."

Yuya smiled broadly as well: "Yes, yes, it was definitely worth coming all this way to this bookstore!"

Then, puzzled, she asked, "By the way, how did you find out about this store?"

Conan recalled for a moment and said, "Ran told me about it. It seems that Sera said this shop specializes in mystery novels, so I thought I'd invite you to come along."

"Sera..."

"Hey, Kamiya-kun, Conan!"

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly came to my ears.

Yuya looked at Conan: "I think I heard Sera's voice?"

Conan smirked and looked behind Yuya: "Be bold, remove the 'seems like' part."

Yuya turned around and saw a motorcycle parked on the side of the road, with Sera Masumi squatting next to it and waving at them.

Seeing the two turn around, Sera Masumi stepped over the railing and walked over, smiling as she said, "I didn't expect to meet you here. Maybe today is my lucky day?"

Yuya and Conan exchanged a glance.

Yuya smiled and said, "What are you doing here?"

Sera Masumi shrugged and pointed to the motorcycle behind her: "The motorcycle suddenly broke down."

"I see," Yu nodded in realization. "Then keep working on it. We'll head back now."

After saying that, he and Conan turned and left.

This is too suspicious, and I have a bad feeling about it. To avoid getting involved in strange events, I should leave as soon as possible.

Seeing that the two were about to leave without saying a word, Sera Masumi panicked and shouted, "Wait a minute!"

Yuya and Conan both turned around at the same time.

"Um," Sera Masumi said with an embarrassed expression, "Excuse me, Conan, could you please open this plastic bottle for me? I'm really thirsty." She pointed to the plastic bottle in her pocket.

Conan lowered his half-moon eyes: "Don't you have hands?"

"In a way, I really don't have hands right now." Sera Masumi helplessly spread her hands, and Yuya and Conan saw that her hands were covered in oil stains.

Conan sighed, thinking it was just opening a bottle and nothing should happen.

He stepped forward, took the bottle from Sera Masumi's pocket, and then twisted it...

"Hiss!" Instantly, the water in the bottle sprayed out, directly hitting Conan's face.

Conan exclaimed in surprise, "Why is it a carbonated drink?!"

Sera Masumi hurriedly apologized, "I'm so sorry! I didn't think of that. I need to change my clothes right away."

Conan shoved the bottle back into Sera Masumi's hand, and said with a wry smile, "No need, I'll just run back."

Sera Masumi advised, "But this place is far from your home. Won't you feel uncomfortable being all sticky?"

“Oh, right,” Sera Masumi suddenly stood up and pointed to the hotel across the street, “I just moved last week, and the hotel I’m staying at now happens to be over there!”

"..." Yuya and Conan both lowered their dead fish eyes at the same time.

No, isn't this way too obvious?

Sera Masumi turned her head and said, "How about it, Conan? Do you want to come with me to my hotel room to take a shower and change your clothes?"

Conan was silent for a few seconds, then decisively said, "I don't want to."

"Eh!" Sera Masumi cried out, as if she had suffered a huge blow, "Why?"

Conan, with his half-moon eyes lowered, asked, "Do you have any clothes I'm wearing?"

Sera Masumi chuckled: "Isn't it a coincidence? When I was buying clothes yesterday, the store had a promotion and gave me a set of children's clothes for free."

Children's clothing... Conan's forehead bulged with a vein, and he said speechlessly, "It's not women's clothing, is it?"

Sera Masumi gave a dry laugh: "How could that be? It's for boys."

Conan chuckled: "What a coincidence, it's like it was specially prepared for me."

Sera Masumi chuckled dryly, "How could that be? It really is a coincidence."

"I see." Conan looked hesitant.

Sera Masumi nodded expectantly.

"I still don't want to."

Sera Masumi stumbled and almost fell, asking with a wry smile, "Why?"

Conan didn't speak, but looked at Yuya.

Yu shrugged, took out his phone from his pocket, fiddled with it for a while, and then turned the screen away.

"There have been two hotel bombings recently, and the perpetrators have not been caught yet. That place is too dangerous."

“Oh, this,” Sera Masumi read aloud while looking at the screen. “In both cases, hotel rooms were charred black by the bombs, but fortunately there were no casualties. Also, both hotels that were attacked received mysterious codes, but the contents of the codes have not yet been made public.”

Yuya put away his phone and said, "That's all for now. Conan and I will be leaving now. Sera, you should move out as soon as possible. It would be better to rent an apartment."

Conan nodded, and Yu turned and left.

Moreover, your acting skills are so bad that you practically have the word "trap" written all over your face.

Just as the two had taken a few steps, Sera Masumi suddenly spoke up: "Oh right, I happened to get the first code for the hotel bombing this morning!"

"Huh?" Yuya and Conan stopped abruptly and turned around. "Really?"

Sera Masumi's lips curled into a smug smile. As expected, a detective cannot refuse a code.

"Of course, if you're interested, I can show it to you!"

Although all she wanted was Conan, she obviously couldn't leave Yuya behind, so she decided to have them both together and find an excuse to get rid of him later.

“However,” Sera Masumi pointed in the direction of the hotel, “I saved the code on the hotel's computer…”

"So, are you ready to take a shower?"

Conan's lips twitched slightly: "This bath..."

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This is the bath I'm taking!

In the hotel room, Conan was taking a shower, while Yuya was sitting face-to-face with Sera Mari in the living room.

Sera Mary's plan was to have Sera Masumi lure Conan over alone, but she didn't expect Yuya to be there too.

There was no other way but for the two of them to come together.

They had already met once before, and Sera Mary's existence had long been exposed, so she simply stopped hiding.

Sera Masumi sensed that the atmosphere between the two was somewhat heavy, and she felt uneasy.

"Would you like some black tea?" Sera Mary suddenly asked.

Yuya nodded slightly.

Sera Masumi stood up and said, "I'm going to a bar!"

Sera Mary said, "No need, Masumi, go and bring Conan a change of clothes."

“Okay.” Sera Masumi nodded and walked towards the bedroom.

Sera Masumi went to the bar and started making black tea. A little while later, she came over with four cups of black tea.

He pushed one of the cups in front of Yuya: "Try it."

"Thank you." Yuya thanked him politely, picked up the black tea, took a sip, and exclaimed, "It tastes really good, very authentic British style."

Sera Mary looked slightly surprised: "I didn't expect you to know so much about black tea?"

Yuya smiled slightly: "It's alright, I usually prefer coffee."

Sera Mary gave a curt "oh," and after a while added, "Drinking too much coffee is bad for your health."

Yuya's expression was a little strange. Although he guessed that Sera Mary was the mother of the Akai family, it still felt very incongruous that she said these words in the appearance of a junior high school student.

He coughed lightly and said, "Well, it's mainly because my girlfriend likes to drink it, and I caught it from her."

Kamiya Yuya's girlfriend? A glint flashed in Sera Mary's eyes. Is she the woman who developed the antidote?

The person who could develop the antidote to the poison created by Elena is probably no ordinary person.

"Oh?" Sera Mary feigned curiosity. "What kind of person is your girlfriend?"

Yu smiled slightly: "She is a very good person, um, very beautiful, intelligent, calm, and with a sharp mind..."

Yuya used a string of words of praise.

Sera Mary remained silent. Even if she was her girlfriend, wasn't this filter a bit too heavy? She was practically using every possible word of praise.

On the other side, Sera Masumi, carrying the clothes she had prepared in advance, walked to the bathroom door.

Sera Masumi called out, "Conan, what do you think of the bathroom at this hotel?"

Conan replied from inside, "Hmm, not bad."

“That’s great,” Sera Masumi said, her gaze falling on the schoolbag in the laundry basket. She squatted down, but before she could even open the bag, Conan spoke up.

"I didn't bring that medicine with me today."

"Huh? Oh, is that so?" Sera Masumi blinked her beady eyes, realizing she'd been found out?

The two people in the living room also heard the conversation.

A smile flickered across Yuya's face: "This is truly..."

Sera Mary calmly sipped her black tea.

Yu also spoke up first: "You didn't invite us here just to drink black tea, did you?"

Sera Mary paused, remained silent for a long time, put down her teacup, looked at Yuya, and said, "I want to know, how far have you come to understand this?"

Yuya leaned forward, resting his chin on the coffee table with both hands, striking that legendary pose, and slowly said, "Sera Mary, Sera-san's mother, who claims to be the sister from outside the domain—in reality, she is an agent of M16."

"am I right?"

Sera Mary showed no surprise, coughed lightly, and smiled as she said, "As expected of a famous high school detective, you've already investigated to this extent."

Yuya smiled faintly: "This is deduced from the information you told me on your own initiative. I'm just curious, how... did you become like this?"

Sera Mary hesitated for a moment. Now that her identity had been exposed, there was no point in hiding it anymore.

After observing for a period of time, she has confirmed that Yuya is not just an ordinary high school detective.

Among all the people Sera Mary has ever met, few can match his keen observation skills and powerful reasoning abilities.

Although her second son was intelligent, he was not good at reasoning.

The eldest son... he's already dead, so there's no way to compare him to him.

As for the youngest daughter... she's even worse.

Sera Mary slowly opened her mouth and recounted how she shrunk, but to avoid misunderstandings, she did not mention that the poison was developed by her younger sister.

Unfortunately, she didn't know that the girlfriend Yuya mentioned was her sister Elena Miyano's daughter, and her own niece.

Yu remained silent for a long time.

He never imagined that so many things would happen when he visited London at the invitation of a wealthy lady and toured Holmes's residence on Baker Street.

What surprised him even more was that these two people had suspected Conan's identity from the very beginning, and gradually confirmed it during their investigation.

"So, at that birthday party, you had Sera... Masumi steal the antidote so that you could turn back and then seek revenge on the Black Organization?"

Sera Mary nodded slowly: "In my current state, I am completely unable to deal with those people, and I cannot use my identity in M16."

Yu sighed, "Unfortunately, that wasn't the complete antidote."

Sera Mary's eyes widened: "What do you mean?"

Yuya: "It means exactly what it says. The antidote is incomplete and can only maintain its effects for a period of time. After the effects wear off, it will return to its current state."

Furthermore, because it's an incomplete antidote, excessive use can lead to drug resistance, and in the worst-case scenario, it can prevent one from ever reverting to their original state.

Sera Mary's face immediately turned ugly.

She never expected that her honesty would be met with this answer.