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

Chapter 24 XXIV In the Name of Love

Kudo Shinichi sat there for an unknown amount of time, so long that he even felt that time was coming to an end, when a phone rang suddenly in the quiet room.

He glanced sideways, and "Mr. Akai" flashed impressively on the caller ID.He let the phone ring for a few more seconds, cleared his throat, and then reached out and pressed the hands-free button, and said in a tired voice, "Mr. Akai."

"Yo kid, I got the information, I will take care of the follow-up matters." Akai Shuichi was silent for a moment after finishing speaking, and sighed softly, "You..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Kudo Shinichi: "Understood, thank you, Mr. Akai. Say hello to Teacher Judy and Mr. James for me."

Akai was silent for a moment, then said "um", and said, "I will tell you if there is any news."

"it is good."

The world returned to silence again, only the rain outside the window was still pattering down.Kudo Shinichi turned his head and looked at the water marks falling down on the glass, suddenly he couldn't feel anything.

He thought calmly, yes, what is this.

It is impossible for Kuroba Kaito to leave so easily.It's just that the soul mate mark turned gray. If it was him, he could easily do it, right?This is nothing to him.

——Look, I've made another mistake.Obviously, I should trust him a little more, he already made an agreement with himself, didn't he?

Akai Hideichi called him again not long after.

"There is no news of your parents in the base."

"...Ah." Kudo Shinichi was watching the video of Phantom Thief Kidd, unconsciously rubbing the bracelet he was holding, and nodded.This is not unexpected news, but it is good news.He paused and asked, "Is there a way to know where they are?"

"Sorry." Akai shook his head on the other side. "On this side, we can only see the records of three unknown people intruding. Two are your parents. If there is no accident, the other one took them away."

"So..." Kudo pondered for a moment, "Thank you for telling me."

"There is one more thing. Although I shouldn't tell you, I think you have the right to know that you also deserve our thanks."

Kudo blinked, but didn't answer.

"Do you still remember the nuclear physicist I told you before? I found out later that Pandora's true role is a key to open this box that should not be opened. The organization's plan is not to live forever, but to It is to cause war by destroying several of the most important regimes in the world, so as to profit from the war, and finally form an empire. Their plan started as early as the last century, but it changed many times in the middle, so they accidentally lost it Pandora. This is the real reason why they wanted it so much. Fortunately, we got the information." Akai Shuichi said as concisely as possible, even though he had seen all kinds of strange and dark plans, he could not stop him at all because of this There is a moment of dread in the organization's almost-successful plan.

Kudo fell into a long silence, and it took him a long time to forcefully say, "I am not the one who deserves the most thanks."

"Shinichi, about—"

"Mr. Akai, I'm a little tired."

"...Okay. Then you should pay attention to rest."

"Ah."

Surprisingly, not so unexpectedly, his parents returned the next day.

When they saw Kudo Shinichi who had been up all night with bloodshot eyes, they hugged him silently in their arms, patted him on the back, and didn't say a word.Kudo Shinichi is already a mature enough and responsible young man, but at this moment they only hope that he can cry happily in their arms.

——Of course Kudo Shinichi didn't cry.

He just remained silent for a long time, letting himself sink into the warm embrace of his parents, then let go of his parents' arms, took a step back, and said expressionlessly: "Your methods are terrible."

Kudo Yusaku laughed dryly, feeling guilty, he hesitated for a long time and didn't know what to say.Seeing his father's rare embarrassment, Kudo Shinichi finally couldn't help laughing, and said softly, "Welcome home."

Kudo Yukiko stood by the side, hesitated for a moment before opening her mouth cautiously: "Shinichi, you know you can tell us anything you have."

Kudo Shinichi blinked, as if he didn't understand what they were talking about.

"I heard from Akai that Kaito..."

"It's okay, mom," Kudo Shinichi said helplessly, "I'm fine. Don't talk about this, who did you meet?"

Kudo and his wife looked at each other, and Yusaku Kudo coughed lightly: "Kuroba Pirates."

"Ah...he's still alive." Kudo Shinichi said slowly, the light flickering in his eyes.He looked at Kudo Yusaku fixedly, then shrugged and said calmly, "So, everything will be fine."

Yusaku Kudo wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.He let out a deep breath and smiled reassuringly.

He said, "Yeah. Everything will be fine."

— except that everything is not getting better.

Kudo Shinichi found that he didn't like mirrors, or any mirror that could reflect light, because it would make him see his face that was too similar to Kuroba but completely different.

When he was still a little confused in the early morning, he suddenly admitted that he and Kuroba Kaito were wrong.He stared at his own face in the mirror with some ecstasy, with some slightly messy hair and thick dark circles under his eyes, and there was a buzzing in his head.He raised his hand slowly, tousling his hair bit by bit, watching himself transforming from Kudo Shinichi into Kuroba Kaito step by step, with a proud expression that belonged to Kuroba Kaito smile.

"Hey, Kaito," he said softly.

He looked at it quietly for a while, but the corners of his raised mouth slowly sank.

He lowered his head and exhaled a little unsteadily.

...I am here, what are you doing?Trying to become Kuroba Kaito?

Don't go crazy, Kudo Shinichi.

There is only one Kuroba Kaito, so wait for him to come back.

He firmly grasped the clear crystal that he had re-strung into a necklace, and closed his eyes.

Wait for him to come back.

A few days later, probably Yukiko Kudo finally couldn't stand it any longer, snuggled into his room while he was reading in the afternoon, and wanted to take him to a restaurant in Ginza for dinner at night.Kudo Shinichi didn't feel how bad his situation was, but he couldn't help being coquettish and forced by his mother, so he closed the book and agreed.Yukiko excitedly tidied him up, tried on him one tie after another, and told him briskly that he was going to have dinner with an unexpected person later, and asked him to behave well.Kudo Shinichi agreed perfunctorily, his left ear went in and his right ear went out, and he didn't pay attention to what Yukiko was saying at all.

——However, when he arrived at the place and saw the man in a suit and leather shoes on the side of the table, he began to appreciate in his heart his mother's tireless efforts to dress him up in a daze.He really didn't want to show any bad side in front of this man.

He held his mother's hand, pulled out the chair for her gracefully, nodded slightly to the man looking at him, and said, "Mr. Kuroba."

Black Feather Pirate raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Xinyi. Long time no see."

Kudo Shinichi sat down beside his mother, and glanced at Yukiko blankly.You Xizi said with a smile: "Of course you won't know, you will only be full moon at that time."

"..."

Heiyu Pirates laughed out loud, but the creases at the corners of his eyes still did not diminish his charm, but instead made him look more mature and heroic.His facial features are five or six points similar to Kuroba Kaito, but his temperament is seven or eight points similar to Kuroba Kaito, and his gestures are full of chic and easy aura.Kudo Shinichi was thinking in a daze, until Kudo Yukiko coughed lightly, and then realized that he had stared at the other party for a few seconds rather impolitely, hurriedly looked away, and said with some embarrassment: "Sorry, black Mr. Yu."

"Don't call me Mr. Black Feather. If you don't mind, Shinichi can call me Uncle." Black Feather Pirates said with his eyes bent, "After all, you and——"

"I'm really sorry." Kudo Shinichi repeated again, suddenly clenched the silver knife and fork in his hand, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, covering his sight.He suddenly thought, yes, how could Heiyu Pirates talk to him so normally?

Black Feather Pirate was stunned for a moment, exchanged a look with Kudo Yukiko, and immediately understood.He sighed silently, put down the silver tableware, stretched out his hand and gently pulled out the knife that Kudo Shinichi was holding tightly, covering his hand.Kudo Shinichi raised his eyes to look over, and bumped into Heiba ​​Pirates' calm and bottomless eyes.

Kuroba Pirates said in a low voice: "You have to know, this is not your fault. This is Kaito's own decision, and you should choose to accept it. Maybe you two have reached this point, and letting go is the best choice. You should know that best, shouldn't you?"

Kudo Shinichi's eyes flashed the light that Kuroba Pirates hadn't had time to see clearly, and then he laughed silently.

"But, Mr. Kuroba, I don't believe in fatalism." Kudo Shinichi seemed to think of some warm memories, and even his voice softened, and said, "I believe in him."

September is coming as promised on the tail of summer.

The busy senior year of high school almost started on the first day of school, and the gears were clenched to move forward. He was so busy that he was so busy that he didn't even have the mood to worry about it.It's just that he would occasionally look out of the window in class and get distracted, rubbing his fingertips against the crystal attached to his heart, imagining where he would hide and not want to see him now, fighting and getting angry at the angry black feather And helpless.

I don't know why, probably girls like this kind of melancholy temperament. Since the third year of high school, he has received more love letters and gifts. The most special thing is that he was given a pillow spray that has a sleeping effect. The girl in her beautiful handwriting told him to take a good rest word by word. There was no confession in the whole text, but it made him feel like Yukiko Kudo was possessed, which made him dumbfounded.

Oddly enough, he still took out the spray from his bag that night, hesitated for a moment, and then pressed it lightly.The hazy mist parted and fell down on his pillow.He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.A night without dreams.

Then every other week, he would receive an anonymous letter with the same handwriting, but every time he would send him something in different ways, sometimes it was some cakes he made himself, sometimes it was tea to soothe the nerves, and sometimes it was funny TV series, and a magic box.

He began to feel a subtle sense of familiarity spreading in his heart, filling the void in his heart warmly.

It feels all too familiar.

He pressed his chest, but couldn't grasp the feeling.It is erratic, close at hand, but when you stretch your hand through it, it disperses into dust.

Finally he made up his mind—yes, he needed to meet the owner of the handwriting.

He hid in a place where he could see the corner of the classroom, waited all night, got up early one day, and finally blocked a school girl with twin ponytails.

"Ku-san, Kudo-senpai...!" The junior girl tightly squeezed the letters that hadn't had time to be stuffed into his drawer and the items that she planned to send today, her eyes were wandering, and she spoke timidly.

Kudo Shinichi raised one eyebrow, and said kindly, "Is this from you?"

The school girl hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded slightly.

"Ah..." Kudo Shinichi stroked his chin thoughtfully, and reached out to the junior, "Then give it to me."

"……Eh?"

"I like it very much, thank you." Kudo Shinichi said softly, but a sly light flashed in his eyes, "I haven't met such a careful girl for a long time."

"No, no!" The junior girl hurriedly waved her hands, took a step back, clenched her fists tightly, hung her head and hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Actually...actually, that, no, it's not me. "

"Oh?" Kudo looked at her, but his heart beat inexplicably accelerated.

Could it be...

is it possible--

"...It's an uncle." The junior looked carefully at Kudo's expression, and then added, "He's pretty handsome."

"Huh?" Kudo Shinichi's face was blank for a while.

The junior girl said anxiously, "No, it's not what the senior thinks!"

"..."

"He, he said he just wanted to take care of you on behalf of others!"

"...Ah." Kudo Shinichi probably knew it, and asked after thinking for a while, "Uncle with a beard?"

"Yeah." The school girl looked at him adoringly, "Kudou-senpai is indeed a detective—"

"Oh, I understand." Kudo sighed softly, and his enthusiasm cooled down again.He pinched the bridge of his nose and said in a low voice, "Next time you see him, please tell him that I'm fine and you don't need to bother him."

"……what?"

"Please?" Kudo Shinichi smiled, "Isn't it troublesome for a school girl to do such a thing?"

"Not at all! Actually..." The junior girl paused, and then said in a low voice, "Everyone can see that. Kudo-senpai is not in a good state recently... Everyone is very concerned about you! Me too, I want it too Help the senior with something..."

Kudo Shinichi was stunned there, and then scratched his head helplessly after a while: "Is it so bad?"

"No, no, that's not what it means! The senior is still very good, it's just..." The junior girl blushed, avoided Kudo's probing gaze, and then mustered up her courage to say loudly, "I just want to be happier, so that I can be happier." OK!"

Kudo Shinichi finally burst out laughing, and patted his junior on the shoulder.

"Well, I'll try," he promised.

As if the crystal was warming slightly in his chest, a warm current poured into his heart through his skin.

He also promised a person to live well.

I can't break my promise.

It started to snow again in Tokyo.

Today is no different from every weekend.He woke up at six o'clock in the morning, lay in bed for a while, and waited until his parents came to knock on his room door, then he got out of bed, put on cotton slippers, brushed his teeth and washed his face with his eyes downcast, and then shook his head. He wandered downstairs to have breakfast with his parents.

Half a year has passed since that time, and everything seems to be on the right track, except that Kudo Shinichi is still wearing that bracelet, except that Kudo Shinichi still dare not look at himself in the mirror.

Yukiko Kudo was chatting with Yusaku Kudo about some boring gossip in the entertainment industry, and Yusaku Kudo was also smiling beside him, the air was filled with soothing breath, the morning news was playing on the TV, and the voice of the host was in the room Spread out, and it didn't take long for the weather forecast to start broadcasting.no different.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

Light, light, pause, light, heavy, light, light, pause, light, light, heavy.

After repeating this three times, Kudo suddenly realized something, and immediately stood up, flustered and not knowing what to do.He almost hastily pushed away the chair, ignored Kudo Yukiko's inquiry, and walked towards the entrance, from normal walking speed to brisk walking, and finally turned into a trot all the way.His heart was pounding, and he stopped at the entrance of his house, separated from the world outside by only a wooden board.

The knock on the door seemed to be in sync with his own heartbeat, knocking on the apex of his heart one after another.

He stretched out his hand to hold the cold metal doorknob, and was startled to realize that even his palms were covered with sweat after walking.The sound of knocking on the door still rang in an orderly manner.

— is the simplest form of Morse code.

three letters.

I, L, U.

... I love you.

Could it be—could it be him.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and flung the door open.

"—Oh handsome boy, close your eyes, do you want me to kiss you?"

The familiar and warm voice carried a sense of ridicule and swept into his ears along the wind, gently imprinting a tender kiss on his heart.Kudo Shinichi felt that the whole world became quiet in an instant, leaving only this long-lost voice that could easily subvert his world.

--It's him.

He opened his eyes, and a lot of light rushed into his pupils, and together with his thoughts, they landed on his retinas and were engraved in his mind through the nervous system.The black curly-haired young man in his memory smiled at him against the early winter sun, with a gray scarf around his neck and a khaki windbreaker, standing on the steps of their house.All the light seems to be gathered on his body, even the sun hangs down for him, coating him with a thin layer of gold, so dazzling that Kudo Shinichi can't open his eyes, he can only see the other party bend into a gentle arc of eyebrows.

Kudo Shinichi moved his lips, but couldn't say a word.

...Could it be another too good dream of his?

The black-haired young man pursed his lips in embarrassment when he was stared at by Kudo, and then stretched out the magician's well-maintained hand to him, with a slight blush on his face, turned his face slightly, and said softly He said, "Hey, it's our first time meeting. I'm Kaito Kuroba, I'm very happy to fall in love with you."

Kudo Shinichi seemed to be stepping on a piece of cotton, wondering if he was suffering from longing, and he had already begun to hallucinate in broad daylight, but his nose gradually felt sour.He clenched his fists tightly, his nails were deeply embedded in his palm, the pain faithfully stimulated his nerves, Yukiko asked "who is it" from a distance.He closed his eyes again, then opened them again.The boy in front of him still didn't disappear, and was looking at him nervously.

Kudo Shin must have looked at this young man who had been away for a long time.After a long time, he stretched out his hand and gently held the hand of the young man who had finally returned home, blinked quickly, grinned, and said softly and firmly, "I'm Kudo Shinichi, let's be together then."

The bright sunshine poured down from the sky, and the white dove once again took the free wind to fly to the distant and grand distance in the snow-white winter day.

Would you let me lead you even when you are blind?

Would you like me to hold your hand when you're in the dark?

Would you trust me when you're jumping from the heights?

Will you trust me completely when you jump off?

Would you fall in the name of love?

Will you fall into the abyss for love? [1]

"I love you."

"You don't have to repeat it to me every day. Don't you bother?"

"Don't bother! I love you I love you I love you I love you—"

"To shut up."

"..."

"... Tsk, I love you too."

You bring me back to life

you saved me from hell

Andit'sallinthenameoflove

And it's all in the name of love[2]

END.

Note:

[1][2] From the song IntheNameofLove-MartinGarrix&BebeRexha