Chapter 823 Kisaragi's Successor
Hearing what Kitagawa Yusuke said, Shindo Sumire's expression became visibly nervous.
She clenched her hands in fear, her expression suddenly cautious. It seemed that the other party's evaluation was very important to her.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so impatient." Shindo Sumire lowered her head, "In fact, the police still have many investigations that require my cooperation, and they insist on accompanying us on our trip. It's me who will give you some advice. Are you in trouble?"
"It's okay. The police are here, which saves me a lot of trouble." Kitagawa Yusuke shook his head and supported Shindo Sumire, who wanted to bow and apologize. "I mean. , Teacher, he won’t be here until noon at the earliest, you can’t see anything if you come so early.”
Shindo Sumire first made sure that there was indeed no embarrassment on his face, and then she breathed a sigh of relief, and the expression on her face suddenly cheered up: "How could it be possible? I can go to the outfield to visit the exhibition first. I heard that this exhibition Are you responsible for setting up the venue?”
“It’s mainly the theme and concept proposed by the teacher.” Kitagawa Yusuke did not deny her words and nodded slightly, “There are also other senior brothers and sisters who help.” >
"There is no need to be modest, Kitagawa-kun. Mr. Kisaragi will be proud of you for being able to create such a wonderful design for the first time you arrange an exhibition." Shindo Sumire's complimentary words continued one after another, "Again You have to arrange the exhibition and you are also busy with your studies. I heard that you also contributed three new works to the exhibition? You are a diligent and hardworking genius that is beyond the reach of ordinary people."
The people standing on the side, Except for Conan, who somewhat understood the situation, everyone else looked at this scene in a daze.
Sumi Shindo is said to be a cutting-edge painter, but she is actually 34 years old this year. However, when she stood in front of Kitagawa Yusuke, who was ten years younger than her, she acted so respectfully and reservedly, as if she was the junior. Similar.
"Did Yusuke-kun win some incredible award recently?" Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help but mutter to herself, "Why haven't I heard of it?"
Conan pushed up the glasses on his face, thinking Like a mirror.
It’s hard to tell whether other people’s compliments to Kitagawa Yusuke are true or false. Shindo Sumire must be very sincere, because in her eyes, Kitagawa Yusuke is more than just an ordinary painter.
In her eyes, Kitagawa Yusuke was like a superman on this thrilling Chinese Valentine's Day.
While studying in Tokyo, he was responsible for the layout of the art exhibition assigned by Kisaragi Hosui, as well as publicity and reception work, but he was still able to kill Hachioji overnight as quickly as possible as the opening day approached. City, take away Sumire Shindo who is in danger, place and protect her, then turn around to fake her death scene, and finally change her mind at the right time to change her mind to the real murderer to ensure the safety of this last survivor...< br>
Even if he, as the Phantom Thief of the Heart, does not act alone, his companions must have done a lot of the work for him. This amazing mobility and efficiency are enough to shock people.
Shindo Sumire obviously appreciated this sentiment very much, so at the first moment of the launch, she insisted on coming even though the police were guarding her. If she really had any difficulties, she probably just wanted to find someone. Without a chance to communicate privately, just say the gratitude you really want to express...
"...You still have the next tasks to be busy with, so I won't continue to bother you. "Shindo Sumire finally finished her praise, and when she saw the people waiting on the side, she took two steps back reluctantly, "You still have to pay attention to your health, Kitagawa-kun."
Karasawa Fuka was wearing Kitagawa Yusuke's leather jacket. He took a deep breath, straightened his face, and nodded expressionlessly as an answer.
He knew what Sumire Shindo was talking about. Compared to the version of Kitagawa Yusuke she had seen a few days ago, the version played by Karasawa was naturally much slimmer.
He is not afraid of the problem of cheating. After all, the time that Zhufu Jingguang has been in contact with her is actually very short. Come to think of it, even if Shindo Sumire has doubts, she will naturally interpret it as hard work after thinking about his busy schedule these days. caused by multiple identities.
"Yusuke-kun!" Seeing Shindo Sumire leaving with a few waiting police officers, Suzuki Sonoko, who had been holding back for a while, immediately pounced on her, "Long time no see!"
Bearing Kyogoku Makoto behind her looked at her with a keen eye. Karasawa took half a step back silently and held Suzuki Sonoko's arm before she could touch her: "Be careful where you step. The infield did not consider the passage of tourists. The problem is, the ground is not easy to walk on.”
The place where he stood was just below the steps of Mount Fuji where Hosui Kisaragi displayed his works. The uneven rocks were carved on the ground using pure white materials without any shadows to imitate natural rocks. Texture, ladies wearing high heels will have a hard time walking here.
Of course, when the infield is officially opened, the isolation cordon will be put up here, and it is not an area prepared for tourists.
Although Shindo Sumire may have indeed misunderstood part of how busy he has been recently, considering his true workload, it is not a misunderstanding.
For this venue, Karasawa did participate in a large part of the design work. When he was too busy and had no time to supervise the work, he even added some extra money and asked Kidd to come over and check the situation for him. By the way, Palm palm eye.
Today's venue has gathered the inspiration of several disciples of Kisaragi Hosui, Karasawa himself, and Kaitou Kidd. It is indeed the most well-designed and stunning venue in Tokyo in recent times.
The kind that is comprehensive and guarantees that there will be no explosions or any phantom theft incidents.
"It may have been a long time since we last saw you. How are you doing lately?" He turned his head again, looked at the others, and greeted politely.
Mao Lilan wanted to smile back and say that she was fine too, but after thinking about what she had experienced since the last goodbye, she couldn't say "everything is fine".
After hesitating, she chose to answer the question with a question: "You seem to be in good condition, Kitagawa-kun. Living with Mr. Kisaragi, you won't have enough to eat this time, right?"
Knowing Kitagawa Yusuke's speaking style, she chose to make a small joke, because she knew that this question might be a little offensive to others, but here in Kitagawa, the topic of cooking is what the other party cares about most.
What she didn't expect was that after hearing her question, Kitagawa Yusuke did not answer immediately, but fell into deep thought abnormally.
"Why, why, haven't you been with him recently?" Mao Lilan was surprised, "Is it Mr. Ruyue...?"
Is it possible that he mentioned some inappropriate topic in a casual joke? What are their conflicts?
But even the media is saying that Kitagawa Yusuke not only studied with Kisaragi Hosui, but also lived directly with him in the single-family house on the hill. He is not only regarded as the most important disciple, It's even possible to directly inherit the teacher's inheritance...
"Oh, that's not the case, I was thinking about the last time I had a meal..." Karasawa said seriously, "Then I found myself I can’t remember.”
“Huh?” Suzuki Sonoko was stunned, “Have you not eaten for a long time?”
“I can’t help it. I won’t be able to remember to eat.”
With the sound of crutches hitting the ground, Ruyue Fengshui, who was striding like a meteor, led several people over, raised his hand, and slapped Tang Ze on the head.
"I told you to remember to eat well." He was quite annoyed when he spoke, and it seemed that he wanted to raise his cane and hit it directly, "That is to say, the media hasn't even entered the scene yet, and your lies have spread. , the media didn’t know what rumors to make.”
“Teacher, you came so early.” Tang Ze did not avoid Ruyue Fengshui’s movements, but instead held his arm with his backhand to avoid the old man. Because he stretched out his hand to hit him and lost his balance, "I told you to just leave it to me."
"I don't dare to let you stand in front and talk nonsense in front of the camera." Ruyue Fengshui snorted. He made a sound, with a look of disgust on his face, but his hands followed his movements and accepted his support, which was obviously very helpful.
The people who had learned a lot about this hard-spoken and soft-hearted old man exchanged glances, not surprised.
No matter how unforgiving Kisaragi Minesui said, he actually valued Kitagawa Yusuke very much, and everyone could see this.
Just by looking at the few men and women who seemed to be disciples following Ruyue Fengshui, he left him behind and didn't even make a special trip to introduce him to others.
“When you came to the exhibition hall the day before yesterday, didn’t I ask you to eat with your senior brothers and the others?”
“Oh, I was busy checking the position of the spotlights and didn’t pay attention to the time.”
“Tsk, it sounds like I’m squeezing you.”
"It's my fault. It's always hard for me to pay attention to other problems when I'm concentrating on doing things..."
"Where's Minetaro, why didn't he urge you to eat well?"
" Senior Brother Minetaro has been busy displaying the cards. "Why don't you call him when he is busy? How come such a big man seems to be starved to death by me..."
The master and disciple were bickering, but Conan noticed that Ruyue Fengshui looked at the other disciples behind him with an expression that was not at all kind. After thinking for a moment, he heard the meaning of these words. Subtext.
It seems that although there are many classmates in the school, Kitagawa Yusuke, who was favored by Kisaragi Minesui, was naturally ostracized by others because he was too favored by the teacher. In addition, because of his angry mouth, he could not get the favor. It is reasonable for senior brothers and senior sisters to take care of them.
Karazawa comforted Kisaragi Hosui, knowing in his heart that he really couldn't blame his fellow disciple for being narrow-minded. The main reason was that Kitagawa Yusuke's radio wave attribute was really useful.
When Karasawa himself acts in this identity, he can't help but feel a kind of arrogant happiness because he can express his feelings. If it were replaced by Kuroba Kaito, it would only get worse.
You know, Kuroba Kaito is usually a brat who is on par with Kudo Shinichi. When he was Kid, he was even more provocative, making faces, taunting, and pulling off all at once, especially making nonsense. A loud-mouthed monster thief.
With the two of them working together, and the objective fact that Kitagawa Yusuke is indeed very popular, it has been shown that his group of senior brothers and sisters were not so angry that any new murders occurred during the days of setting up the exhibition. Good self-cultivation.
After scolding Huai for a while, Ruyue Fengshui calmed down after getting Tang Ze's promise that he would have a good meal when meeting the guests at noon.
He reached back, took a box from the hands of the disciple who was following him and handed it to Tang Ze.
The box was heavy in my hand, with a slight chill in it. Tang Ze, who had some guesses, opened it and saw that it was indeed another piece of clothing.
Since Kisaragi Hoisui said that he is more suitable for kimono, and occasionally when he needs someone else to wear the skin for him, kimono can indeed cover up the differences in everyone's body shape, but in any formal occasion where Kitagawa Yusuke needs to appear, Karasawa would always remember to wear a kimono, and today was no exception.
Karasawa's kimono is definitely not shabby anymore. It was bought for him by Minesui Kisaragi and Akemi Miyano. The value may not be lower than many luxury dresses, but the green kimono jacket on his body is much better than the one in his hand. This one can only be overshadowed.
This is a sky-blue feather fabric. You don’t need to unfold it to take a closer look, you can see the golden patterns exposed at the folded corners.
After shaking it off, you can see that the neat fabric has a Mount Fuji scene painted on the sleeves and hem with dye. Just by looking at the artistic conception and strokes of the pattern, you can guess whose handiwork it is.
Conan and others standing next to Kitagawa Yusuke widened their eyes.
Even if we don’t consider the origin of this outfit, the meaning of this set of clothes was personally gifted to us by Hosui Kisaragi, who is famous for his paintings of Mount Fuji, and he took it with him everywhere.
"Master and disciple are not the same here. You are already treating him as your own child." Jin Kyogoku, who was least familiar with Kitagawa Yusuke, couldn't help but sigh.
"Thank you, teacher." Karasawa did not refuse this meaningful Chinese robe. He simply took off his kimono jacket and put on the long feather fabric directly.
He would put so much thought into organizing the art exhibition because he knew that this exhibition of Ruyue Fengshui was actually held for himself.
Now his teacher wants him to dress up and appear in front of others in the most high-profile manner, and he has no reason to refuse.
"Well, it looks good." Ruyue Feng looked up and down for a while, then patted Tang Ze twice with satisfaction, "Okay, it's rare to invite some friends over to play, so don't leave them hanging there. ."
"Teacher..."
"My legs and feet are fine. There are so many people following me, so I don't need you to take care of me. Go ahead and play, I'll go around by myself and take a closer look at what you have done with the old man's swan song."
Ruyue Fengshui She refused to follow him and left with the others in a hurry, as if she had come specially to deliver clothes to him.
"Your teacher really values you." Mao Lilan looked at Ruyue Fengshui's back with some envy as he walked swiftly.
She has indeed learned a lot, but the most she can say is that she is not a slow learner and can persevere. Without any genius-like talents, she has never enjoyed this kind of unconditional preference from her teachers.
"More than just attention, Xiaolan, you don't know. Everyone in the industry is saying that Mr. Kisaragi may have written a will and is preparing to hand over all his belongings to him. He has begun to call him 'Ruyue's inheritance'" "Suzuki Sonoko half joked, half sighed, "This is not an easy thing to take."
The master's partiality is both a benefit and a pressure.
Kitagawa Yusuke, who was lifted to this position by Kisaragi Hosui, will definitely receive more scrutiny and attention in his future creative journey. If he cannot withstand this love, the backlash he will receive will definitely be severe. Small.
Tang Ze raised his eyebrows and nodded to her lightly: "The media is so well-informed now? It's strange, then why haven't they discovered my past affairs yet?"
"Yeah, the media are all...huh?" Suzuki Sonoko, who subconsciously agreed, realized what he heard and let out a strange scream, "Ah? Is this, is this true? ”
She was just making fun of it. She believed that the media were just making fun of it!
"Well, the teacher specially asked me to accompany him to find a lawyer. He wanted to leave his land, paintings and chattels to me." Tang Ze nodded, "He hoped that I would be more focused and not be affected by external objects. My study.”
On the surface, it’s about study, but it’s actually about Kitagawa Yusuke being the Phantom Thief of the Heart.
Kisaragi Hosui, who has no children in his life and has only loved Mount Fuji all his life, hopes to protect the future of his disciples as much as possible. This may seem a bit exaggerated to the outside world. He has never started a family and doesn’t know how. For him to get along with his nephew, this was the best way he could come up with.
Several people were shocked in place by this shocking news. They all looked at his calm expression, completely unaware of what he was saying, and were speechless for a moment.
They now understand why the disciples of Ruyue Fengshui ignored him.
"So, Miss Maori, if you change your mind about the model, you can contact me at any time." Tang Ze, who felt the situation was a bit stiff, thought for a while and decided to liven up the atmosphere, "Now I can offer a suitable invitation price. "The teacher will not object."
"What model..." Mao Lilan asked blankly. Halfway through, he finally remembered this.
Oh, yes, when Kitagawa-kun first met, he asked her if she would like to be a nude model or something...
"No, no, no, it's impossible!" Mori Lan's face suddenly turned red and she waved her hands vigorously, "Don't mention it!"
"Hey, are you worried that I have other ideas? I just purely appreciate the beauty and think you are my friend. The most suitable woman in my life..."
"No, that's not the problem!"
"Are you worried about personal safety? I don't mind having other people present to ensure your safety. You can bring other people to supervise, such as Miss Suzuki, or this This kid..."
"That's even worse!"
Ruyue Fengshui, who had already walked far away, faintly heard the rumbling echo in the inner field, shook his head helplessly, and paused. Two clicks of the cane.
"This kid, he designed the infield by himself, doesn't he know that his words will be amplified? Hey, forget it..."
Too lazy to pay attention to the naughty kid who was doing something wrong, he walked towards the VIP channel, followed the list prepared in advance, showed his usual pride belonging to Master Kisaragi with a straight face, held his head high, and greeted the guests who arrived one after another.
"Mr. Shitara, Mrs. Shitara...oh, this is Mr. Haga..."
(End of this chapter)