After finishing the bath, I put on a yukata with Conan and went down to where people were gathered.
"Ah~ Here they come.
Ran and her future husband, Jin, my son-in-law."
"Oh~ So it's the onmyoji Jin from the commercials."
"Nice to meet you.
I'm Jin."
We exchanged greetings.
They were all Kogoro's classmates from the same school judo club.
"I'm Yukio, the ace of the judo club back in college.
Nice to meet you~"
"I'm Omura, the number one matchmaker of the judo club.
Nice to meet you~"
"I'm Yumi, the beautiful manager of the judo club."
"I was also a manager, the flower of the judo club.
My name is Kimoto Noriko.
I'm now Yukio's wife."
"I was the captain and the pillar of the team, Kazushi.
I work as a police officer in Chiba now."
After everyone finished introducing themselves, Kogoro stepped forward, striking a pose and bragging.
"Hehehe, and this elder here is the one praised as a genius in Mihua Town, the famous detective..."
Everyone ignored Kogoro and was looking at old albums.
"What is this? An album?"
"Yeah, from college."
"Wow~ Let me see!"
"Hey, listen to me!!"
Kogoro shouted after being ignored, but everyone was too absorbed in the album to pay attention.
"Wow~ This is the photo from when we got second place at the prefectural tournament!"
"Right! I remember, I remember!"
At that moment, Kogoro looked at Kazushi and Yumi and said.
"Speaking of which, you two were dating back then, right? Are you still together?"
"Don't be ridiculous.
I'm done with a guy like him."
Then I stepped in, pretending to be puzzled, and said.
"That's strange.
You two are connected by the bond of marriage.
I thought you were already married."
"What? Marriage?"
Hearing that, Kazushi and Yumi looked flustered.
Then Kogoro said.
"Jin is, you know, Japan's top onmyoji.
So, while we're at it, why don't you do a reading?"
"Oh~ That's a good idea.
Please do it, Jin."
I pretended to think and then said.
"Well, alright.
Since I was invited to the hot spring for free today, I'll do a reading for you."
The others, I read their memories and there was nothing special.
I just told them good things.
"Wow, amazing... How do you get everything right?"
"You see, my son-in-law is Japan's number one onmyoji."
"Ran, you're in trouble now.
You won't be able to cheat."
Then Ran said, flustered.
"I don't do things like that!"
Next were the problematic Yumi and Kazushi, and these two were the central figures in this hot spring incident.
Yumi and Kazushi had been dating for a long time, and when they reached marriageable age, Kazushi kept proposing to Yumi, but Yumi refused all of them.
So, exhausted, Kazushi broke up with Yumi and, at his superior's suggestion, went on a matchmaking meeting and decided to marry someone this year without much thought.
But Yumi, for some reason, started harassing the woman Kazushi was going to marry by phone, or sending photos of her and Kazushi from the past to threaten him.
So Kazushi, who was mentally cornered, planned to kill Yumi during this hot spring trip.
But I planned to resolve it through talk first.
After all, there were a lot of people in the Conan world who committed murder over strange misunderstandings or trivial reasons, so I figured if I cleared it up before the killing, it might be solved.
'In this crazy world where a death god roams, I should save the people I can.'
Yumi and Kazushi seemed curious about my saying they had a marital bond, so they didn't refuse the reading.
I read Kazushi's memory first.
Kazushi had proposed to Yumi, but after continuous rejections, he had no choice but to break up and, at his superior's suggestion, went on a blind date and then just decided to get married without thinking much.
Then Yumi's harassment started, and because the person he was marrying was his superior's daughter and he cared about image, he just endured it, but when Yumi even demanded money, he reached his limit and planned to kill her on this trip.
"Hmm..."
"Why? Is it bad?"
"This requires reading both people who have the marital bond together.
Please wait a moment."
I went over to Yumi and read her memory.
Yumi was beautiful, so when Kazushi was proposing, she was also being proposed to by other men, and she wanted to enjoy her youth more while her looks were still good, so she had strong resistance to getting married.
So she rejected Kazushi's proposals, but after he left, she realized how precious Kazushi, who had always been by her side, was to her, but by then Kazushi already had someone he was going to marry.
That's why she was doing those unreasonable things.
"Certainly, you two have a marital bond, but it's very tangled.
Now I'll tell you the reading."
Hearing that, everyone focused.
"Yumi-san lost someone truly precious because of her own mistake.
But it's not too late.
If you speak your true feelings now and ask for forgiveness, that person will come back.
Marital bonds aren't easily broken."
At those words, Yumi collapsed on the spot and started crying loudly.
"Hic hic hic, I'm sorry... It was my fault..."
Seeing that, everyone was momentarily flustered, but they all went over to Yumi, patted her, and comforted her.
Hearing my reading, Kazushi also seemed quite shocked.
"Yumi..."
I immediately continued and gave a reading pointing at Kazushi.
"You are trying to forcibly cut the marital bond.
If you do that, you will suffer for the rest of your life.
So I hope you untangle the tangled marital bond properly now.
She needed time to prepare her heart, and there's also your fault for not being patient."
"That's..."
Kazushi sat down too.
I said this because I had read that even after all that, Kazushi still had lingering feelings for Yumi in his heart, so he had hesitated several times with this murder plan, which made this story possible.
Once they calmed down somewhat, we gave the two time and decided to go outside to watch fireworks.
"You never know what's tangled up, so resolve it quickly.
We'll be outside playing."
"Yeah, resolving things like that quickly is good."
Leaving the two behind, we went outside to watch the fireworks.
At that moment, Ran looked at me and said.
"Jin, seeing those two makes it seem like marital bonds really exist."
Ran softly held my hand.
I also held Ran's hand and watched the fireworks together.
Then Conan saw that and came over, and used his hand blade to chop our hands apart.
"Hap!"
Tap!
"Ah! Conan??"
"I want to hold hands too!"
"Th-That... haha."
We held each of Conan's hands and watched the fireworks again.
I was watching the fireworks, but I could feel Conan's energy glaring at me angrily from the side.
'Death god guy, are you using Conqueror's Haki now?'
Anyway, we finished watching the fireworks and returned to the inn, and the two seemed to have worked things out, as they were sitting there holding hands and kissing.
"Wow~ We should've come back later.
Made a mistake."
"Hehe, right~"
"Ahahaha, sorry..."
From that night on, Kazushi and Yumi's moans echoed through the hot spring inn.
"Kazushi~ Haan~"
"Yumi!!!"
Kogoro, Conan, and I couldn't sleep because of the noise.
'Damn! I should've just let them die...'
The next morning, we went to the dining room for breakfast, and everyone except us looked like they hadn't slept a wink.
"Hey, you guys, this is an old building, so sound carries.
Take it easy! And there are kids here."
"Ahahaha, did you hear? S-Sorry..."
Kazushi apologized, and Yumi was so embarrassed she couldn't lift her head.
Ran, who also couldn't sleep, said to me with dark circles under her eyes.
"Jin, so a marital bond is something that keeps you from sleeping."
"Th-That seems to be the case."
Everyone was sleep-deprived, so after breakfast we slept a bit more, enjoyed the hot spring once more, and returned to Tokyo.
A few days later, Kogoro told me that the two eventually decided to get married after contacting him.
Well, it worked out well, so that's good.
The next day, an invitation arrived.
Reading it, it was a birthday party invitation for Yotsui Group's only daughter, Yotsui Reika.
'This one, I should stop them from going.'
This episode too, the people who die really deserve it, so I was planning to just let them die.
This time, Reika and her fiancé Yuji, during a typhoon, forcibly took someone's life jacket to save themselves, causing that person to die, and they hid it.
So they get revenge.
That victim was the culprit's girlfriend, so it was a very sad case.
On top of that, Ran gets put in danger in this episode, so I had to stop them even more.
I immediately went to the office and talked to Kogoro.
"It would be better not to go to this invitation.
I have a bad feeling."
"Really? But it's from Yotsui Group, so there'll be lots of good food."
"Instead, let's go here together."
I held out meal vouchers for a famous restaurant.
"Oh~ This is a hot restaurant these days? Did you get this too?"
"Yes, that's right."
Actually, this time I reserved through an acquaintance and paid for it.
To skip the incident, I decided to just spend money.
Anyway, I had more than enough money, so it didn't matter.
Anyway, Kogoro, Ran, Conan, and I went to the restaurant and had a delicious meal.
The next day, the news reported that an indiscriminate murder case had occurred at the birthday party.
It looked like the culprit hadn't been caught yet, so they seemed to have escaped well.
For several days, nothing special happened, I was living my school life, and on the way home, I met Conan.
"Hey~ Conan!"
"Brother, achoo..."
"Did you catch a cold?"
"Yeah, it got chilly suddenly."
I thought, a little affection is affection too, so I took Conan's hand and tried to take him to the hospital.
But Conan didn't want to go.
"It's fine."
"Conan, are you scared of getting a shot?"
"No!"
"Really? Then let's go."
Conan couldn't come up with any other excuse, so I took him straight to the hospital, got him examined, gave him a shot, and picked up the medicine.
Then we went to the office together.
The office was quite noisy, and when we went in, one of Conan's important people was there.
"Call Shinichi right now."
"Sheesh, Shinichi isn't here anymore."
It was 'Hattori Heiji', wearing a baseball cap with dark skin.
Calling himself Shinichi's rival.
"Oh~ Jin! You came with Conan."
"Well, it looks like Conan caught a cold, so I went to the hospital with him for a bit."
Hearing my words, Ran looked at Conan worriedly and asked.
"What? Conan caught a cold?"
"Yeah, seems like it.
sniffle"
I gave the medicine I got to Ran and said.
"This is Conan's medicine.
Give it to him after he eats."
"Jin, thank you."
"No, I saw Conan sniffling and blowing his nose while drinking."
At those words, Conan flared up and said.
"I wasn't drinking!!"
"Hahaha, okay."
At that moment, Heiji fumbled through his bag, took something out, poured it into a cup, and handed it to Conan, saying.
"This one drink and a cold like that will be gone in an instant."
"Thank you."
As Conan tried to drink it, I hurriedly stopped him.
Grab!
"Wait a second.
This smells like Chinese liquor, baijiu.
What are you trying to feed a kid?"
"You know Jin, right? I heard a lot about you.
And don't be so uptight, one drink of this and a cold is cured in one shot."
"Sheesh, where did you hear such nonsense?"
I took the baijiu Conan was holding and poured it into the sink.
The reason I stopped this was because Conan drinks this and turns back into Shinichi.
On top of that, after hearing that, Haibara refines baijiu to make a temporary antidote, so I blocked it.
"Hey hey, you didn't have to throw it away."