"Um..."
Seeing that the important business seemed to be almost settled, Kudo Yukiko peeked out from behind Jiang Xia and Kisaki Eri. She looked at Mouri Kogoro as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. "There's something I want to ask you."
"Oh, Yukiko!" Only then did Mouri Kogoro get the chance to greet his beautiful neighbor. "Long time no see! What is it? Go ahead and ask!"
"Then I will!" Kudo Yukiko, who had just been looking shy and bashful, suddenly became brimming with Killing Intent, like a general stepping onto the battlefield. "You remember the beauty pageant at Teitan High School twenty years ago, right? Whose name did you put on your ballot in the end?"
—Of the 20,001 ballots handed out back then, 20,000 had been collected. She and Kisaki Eri had received 10,000 votes each. According to Mouri Ran, the sole remaining ballot had been in Mouri Kogoro's pocket.
"The beauty pageant from twenty years ago?" Mouri Kogoro scratched his head. He had been about to say he'd forgotten, but before the words left his mouth, he belatedly sensed two faint yet intensely oppressive stares.
"..." Under the gaze of the two women, Mouri Kogoro was forced to work his rarely used brain. After a while, he remembered. "Oh, that."
Kudo Yukiko and Kisaki Eri: "!"
He actually remembered?!
The two instinctively exchanged glances. Would the outcome of a contest delayed by twenty years finally be revealed today?
He definitely voted for Eri, Kudo Yukiko muttered inwardly. After all, they'd known each other since childhood. It was a friendship vote—yes, a friendship vote. It doesn't count.
He definitely voted for Yukiko, Kisaki Eri muttered inwardly as well. *She was terrifyingly cute in high school. Even I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from voting