While Conan was getting whipped, Baishi Hui noticed Chongye Yangzi's eyes were red, with tears welling up.
"Please accept my condolences, Miss Yoko," he said, offering her a handkerchief.
"Tha... thank you," Chongye Yangzi took the handkerchief, wiping her tears while sobbing, "How could this happen? We just met, and now he's suddenly in a car accident?"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but recall bits and pieces of her high school days with him, and her emotions surged even more intensely.
Baishi Hui watched Chongye Yangzi cry, looking like a pear blossom covered in rain, and really wanted to tell her that her ex-boyfriend was scum, operating on the principle of 'if I can't have it, I'll destroy it'.
In a few days, he'll commit suicide in your house and frame you!
However, after thinking about it, he gave up.
Let the dead rest in peace.
He's already dead, what's the point of saying these things?
Baishi Hui led Chongye Yangzi to a less crowded area and said, "Alright... it's not so crowded here. If you want to cry, just let it out..., you'll feel better after crying."
Hearing this, Chongye Yangzi could no longer hold back and burst into tears with a 'waah'.
She threw herself into Baishi Hui's arms, crying and saying, "So... sorry, can I cry here?"
"Of course," Baishi Hui suddenly found it a bit amusing. Even at a time like this, she still asked for his permission... how cute.
Meanwhile, Mouri Kogoro had finished whipping Conan. He was tired from hitting and his anger had subsided, so he planned to stop.
He warned, "You stinky brat! If you ever dare to do something that dangerous again, I won't let you off so easily, understand?"
"I understand! I understand! I won't dare to do it again next time!" Although Conan was in pain and begging for mercy repeatedly, he held no resentment towards Mouri Kogoro in his heart.
He knew that any normal person would probably beat him too.
The problem was that he failed and didn't catch Azu the Bandit.
If he had caught him, Uncle Mouri would have at most scolded him, not beaten him like this.
Mouri Kogoro had just put Conan down on the ground, but when he looked up, he saw Chongye Yangzi throwing herself into Baishi Hui's arms, sobbing loudly.
This scene completely stunned Mouri Kogoro.
He didn't need to ask to know what was happening; it was clear that Chongye Yangzi was too heartbroken and needed to cry in someone else's arms.
Damn it! That spot should be mine!
Miss Yoko should be crying loudly in my arms!
It's all because of that brat Conan!
If it weren't for teaching him a lesson, how would I have missed this opportunity?
Thinking of this, Mouri Kogoro felt regret, and his anger flared up again.
Conan's feet hadn't been on the ground for more than five seconds before he found himself grabbed by Mouri Kogoro again and started getting whipped again.
"Uncle Mouri! Why are you still hitting me?" he cried out, enduring the pain.
"Just now I was teaching you a lesson for your Dad, now I'm teaching you a lesson!" Mouri Kogoro angrily whipped Conan's backside with his belt more than ten times.
He only stopped hitting Conan after he saw Chongye Yangzi emerge from Baishi Hui's embrace.
Conan grimaced in pain. He turned back, pulled down his pants to check, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his backside wasn't bleeding.
Baishi Hui and Chongye Yangzi walked over at this time and said, "Mouri Detective, you and Ran should take Miss Yoko home... I'll take Conan home."
"Okay, okay!" Mouri Kogoro naturally wouldn't refuse, but he wanted to spend time alone with Miss Yoko even more, so he said, "How about Ran, you take Conan home too? I don't know how late I'll be busy here! You have school tomorrow."
"No! Miss Yoko is a girl, how can Dad take her home alone?" Ran refused without thinking.
This made Mouri Kogoro sigh, feeling quite regretful.
"Shirashi-kun, thank you... please be careful on the way," Chongye Yangzi bowed and thanked Baishi Hui with red eyes.
"You two be careful on the way too," Baishi Hui said goodbye to the three of them and took Conan home.
On the way, he looked at Conan's awkward walking posture and smiled, "Mouri Detective went easy on you, otherwise you wouldn't even be able to walk."
"So, I should thank him then?" Conan said with a gloomy expression.
He wasn't upset about being beaten, but about being embarrassed in front of Ran, which he felt was very humiliating!
"If Mouri Detective didn't care about you, he wouldn't bother with your safety," Baishi Hui felt that Mouri Kogoro was quite a good person and worth putting effort into for Conan.
If it were him, he wouldn't bother whether Conan went to play 'Fast and Furious'.
This was all Conan's own choice; he should bear the consequences if something happened.
"...That's true," Conan didn't argue with this; he wasn't stupid and could certainly tell who was good to him and who was bad.
"Speaking of which... your luck is really good. You were shot at so many times by Azu the Bandit, and not a single bullet hit you," Baishi Hui said, and suddenly had the urge to "give him a shot right now."
See if this kid can avoid it even at such close range.
"It's luck... besides, that guy didn't intend to kill me, he was aiming at the skateboard," Conan said as he walked.
Towards the end, he still said somewhat unconvincingly, "If it weren't for that billboard... I wouldn't have been injured!"
Baishi Hui saw Conan with a look of "I'll catch him next time" and knew that Mouri Kogoro's beating just now had no effect whatsoever.
However... if Conan could be so easily beaten into submission and easily give up on adventures, Detective Conan wouldn't have been serialized for so long.
As he himself said, a Detective is a shark; he pounces when he smells blood. How could he give up just because he was injured?
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When they returned to Dr. Agasa's doorstep, Conan suddenly spoke, "Shirashi, that... could you promise me something?"
"Hmm? What is it?" Baishi Hui looked at Conan's face, which showed a fawning smile.
Conan said in a pleading tone, "Could you please not tell Dr. Agasa about this? I swear!! I won't do anything this dangerous again!!"
"No," Baishi Hui refused without thinking.
There was no particular reason; he simply wanted to see how beautiful Yukiko was as soon as possible.
If the Kudo couple didn't know about Conan's "heroic deeds," how would they return to Japan?
"Sigh..." Conan didn't say anything more, just sighed deeply, looking worried.
Baishi Hui pressed Dr. Agasa's doorbell.
After a moment, a bald middle-aged man in his fifties opened the door.
Baishi Hui introduced himself and recounted Conan's "heroic deeds."
Upon hearing this, Dr. Agasa's face turned pale with fright.
The old man's mustache trembled with anger as he scolded, "Conan!! You were too reckless! No!! I must tell your Dad and Mom about this!!"
"Dr. Agasa-------" Conan started to say something, but seeing the doctor's serious and stern gaze, he gave up the idea of begging for mercy.
He instead began to ponder how to deal with his Dad and Mom who were about to return to Japan.