Stay away from Conan.

"Mr. Mori! I'm so sorry, I was so rude before! Ever since I saw how quickly you solved the 'bubble trick,' I knew that your reputation as a great detective was not just due to good luck! So, may I come and help you learn?"

After school, Hondo Eisuke followed Ran back to the Mouri Detective Agency. Hearing Mouri Kogoro's somewhat displeased attitude at his arrival, Hondo Eisuke quickly bowed and apologized to Mouri Kogoro in a hurried, nervous voice. After saying this, he took out a box, held it with both hands, bent down, and presented it to him, saying:
"And also, please accept this as a small token of my appreciation!"

Thus, Kogoro Mouri, who had initially looked displeased, softened his attitude slightly upon seeing that Eisuke Hondo was behaving well today and even offered a gift. However, he didn't immediately show any good expression; instead, he turned his face away, secretly glancing at what Eisuke Hondo was holding, as if he wanted to know what the gift was.

Soon, without even waiting for Kogoro Mouri to ask anything, Eisuke Hondo began to explain on his own:
"It's nothing valuable, just a filter coffee... Oh, right! Let me make it for you!"

As he spoke, Hondo Eisuke took out the gift he had brought from the box—a box of filtered coffee—and then began to ask Ran where the tea-making area was in the office of this agency.

In response, Xiaolan couldn't help but say somewhat embarrassedly:

"This... let me do it..."

As he was speaking, Xiaolan was about to take over to get the coffee, but Hondo Eisuke insisted that he do it himself. He quickly found the place in the office where the tea was made and the hot water and cups were kept, so he hurriedly went over to get the coffee.

Seeing this situation, Conan, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but feel a growing sense of unease.

Why did he suddenly show up with coffee? What's his purpose?
Could it be that he would blatantly poison the coffee?
Thinking this, Conan focused his attention on Hondo Eisuke, wanting to watch him make coffee. But before he could even start, Conan heard a loud thud. It seemed Hondo Eisuke had lost his grip or something; the kettle he was holding had fallen to the ground. Conan reached out in surprise to catch it, but as the water splashed out, scalding hot water immediately soaked Hondo Eisuke's hands as he reached for the kettle—

"what!"

With a scream, Hondo Eisuke instinctively tried to pull his hand away after being burned, but he also lost his balance in the panic and fell backward to the ground.

Suddenly, because everything happened so fast, no one had time to react. The kettle fell to the ground, and then Hondo Eisuke collapsed, his hands seemingly scalded red from the hot water.

"Is it okay!"

Seeing this, Ran immediately rushed over anxiously to check on the situation, while Hondou Eisuke had tears welling up in his eyes, looking somewhat aggrieved, but he said:

"Sorry……"

Then, seeing the kettle lying on the ground, as if wanting to salvage something, it went forward to pick it up.

Seeing this, Xiaolan quickly stopped him and said:
"Are you alright? Never mind that. Did you burn your hand? Let's get it treated right away!"

As she spoke, Ran forcefully tried to pull Hondou Eisuke up. After listening to Ran's words, Hondou Eisuke calmed down, nodded, and then said somewhat awkwardly:

"I'm really unlucky..." In the end, he followed Xiaolan out to the room upstairs, intending to rinse the burns on his hands with tap water.

So, Conan was initially surprised by this somewhat unexpected situation, and then felt a little emotional. After all, given the circumstances, it was clear that the other party couldn't possibly have tampered with the coffee. As his thoughts calmed down, Conan recalled the situation just now, as well as the things he had learned from Ran and Kogoro Mouri about Hondo Eisuke's bad luck. Now he was beginning to understand what was going on.

And another thing—

"By the way, Uncle Mori, what was he talking about earlier about the 'foam trick'?"

Recalling what Hondo Eisuke said after he arrived, Conan became somewhat concerned about this matter.

Hearing Conan's question about this, Hondou Eisuke, who was already feeling a bit down because he had dropped the kettle in the office and gotten burned and fell, started to boast a little when Conan asked about his great achievements in solving the case. He began to recount the general events that had happened in a somewhat arrogant manner.

After listening to Kogoro Mouri's story, Conan couldn't help but feel a little emotional—

So, it was just a matter of "blind cat catching a dead mouse" that Uncle Mori stumbled upon a case with a very clumsy method. It was a trick Uncle Mori was very familiar with, involving beer—the trick of making beer that had almost stopped bubbling bubble again. In doing so, he saw through the murderer's trick and solved the case.
So, because of this incident, and since Hondo Eisuke was also present, he felt that Uncle Mori's reputation as a great detective was well-deserved.

Haha, that's really...

I wonder if this can be considered a manifestation of Hondo Eisuke's "bad luck"?

So, shortly after Kogoro Mouri finished recounting what had happened, he received a phone call. Upon answering, Kogoro's attitude was somewhat respectful. He first addressed the caller as "Inspector Megure" and asked what the matter was. Finally, Kogoro replied earnestly, "Okay, I'll be right there," before hanging up and getting up to leave the office.

Seeing this, Conan was very curious about what had happened to make Inspector Megure call. At the same time, Ran returned with Hondo Eisuke. It seemed that Hondo Eisuke's burns were not a big problem after being rinsed with cold water.

Seeing Kogoro Mouri about to leave, Ran couldn't help but ask:

"Dad, where are you going?"

"Inspector Megure is looking for me, probably because it's related to the incident a few days ago."

With that, Kogoro Mouri was about to set off.

Upon hearing this, Conan immediately became interested and prepared to follow. Meanwhile, Hondo Eisuke, who had been somewhat downcast due to the earlier incident, also became curious and asked Mouri Kogoro:
"Huh? As expected of a famous detective! Can you take me with you? I want to see Mr. Mori solve a big case!" (End of Chapter)