Ke Xue: My standards for dating are not problematic!

Chapter 443 It's just coaxing a child, why care so much!
Night falls.

Kazuha Toyama, Heiji Hattori, and Heizo Hattori were already seated at the dining table.

Meanwhile, Shizuka Hattori, a housewife, brought out dinner from the kitchen, sat down, and looked at the three of them, saying, "Alright, we can start eating now."

"Hey, don't be shy, eat more, these are all your favorite foods."

Kazuha Toyama had been a frequent visitor to Heiji Hattori's house since childhood, and the two families were already very familiar with each other, knowing each other inside and out, so they naturally knew Kazuha Toyama's tastes.

Shizuka Hattori knows Kazuha Toyama's tastes, and Kazuha Toyama knows Heiji Hattori's tastes.

However, Heiji Hattori rarely visited the Toyama Kazuha family, so he never had the chance to taste Toyama Kazuha's cooking.

“Okay, Auntie.” Yuanshan and Ye smiled obediently. “This place feels just like my own home. I won’t stand on ceremony.”

"Kazunari is such a good boy." Hearing this, Hattori Shizuka smiled slightly, then turned to look at her silly son who was already eating heartily: "Do you know why I asked you to come here today?"

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji muttered while eating, "I don't know."

Hattori Heizo, who was standing nearby, said, "Eat when you're eating, talk when you're talking! Don't talk with food in your mouth."

"That's very rude!"

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but smirk and said, "I...I understand."

He is the kind of person who fears nothing, but he is only afraid of his serious father and his mother who has a faint smile.

Because he knew very well that the two people in this situation were extremely terrifying.

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Heiji Hattori forcefully swallowed what was in his mouth before speaking again: "Mom, is there something you want to tell me?"

Hattori Shizuka put down her chopsticks, placed her hands on her lap, and looked intently at her son.

Under that gaze, Hattori Heiji felt a little scared and couldn't help but wonder to himself, "I don't think I've done anything to upset Mom lately, have I?"

"No, no, absolutely not!"

"I've been very well-behaved lately!"

Heiji Hattori was also a restless fellow who often caused trouble, but the things he did were all minor and insignificant.

But it still gave Hattori Shizuka quite a headache.

"I do have something important to tell you, and it concerns both Heiji and you, Kazuha," Hattori Shizuka said calmly.

"What does this have to do with me?" Toyama Kazuha was stunned.

"The story begins with a karuta tournament that Heiji participated in when he was a child."

Hattori Shizuka looked at Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha and began to recount what had happened back then.

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Upon hearing these words, Kazuha Toyama turned her gaze to Heiji Hattori beside her, her eyes seemingly flashing with fire.

Heiji Hattori, who was directly involved, didn't remember much about the incident and didn't seem to care much about Kazuha Toyama's gaze.

During this period, Hattori Heiji was quite carefree and didn't care about these things at all, but things changed later on.

Especially after Conan, after becoming Shinichi Kudo, went to Big Ben in London to confess his feelings to Ran, he began to develop feelings for Kazuha.

And in the recent theatrical version, he confessed his feelings to Kazuha.

All I can say is that the arrogant one has finally stopped being arrogant and started to take the normal path, but only a tiny bit.

Therefore, zero points!

"Mom, I don't remember this at all?" Hattori Heiji scratched the back of his head, somewhat lost in thought.

Hattori Shizuka said, "You told me this after you came back. How could you not remember? If Ooka Momiji knew this, I don't know how heartbroken she would be."

“Ooka Momiji, I feel like I vaguely remember that name,” Hattori Heiji said.

At this moment, Kazuha Toyama said, "Momiji Ooka, a second-year student at Kyoto Izumi High School, is the ace of the karuta club. She won the championship for three consecutive years in junior high school and has been winning every game in high school as well."

"I remember there will be a karuta tournament soon, and she will definitely participate."

"Kazuha, how do you know so much? Do you also like karuta?" Hattori Heiji asked, somewhat puzzled.

Kazuha doesn't seem like someone who likes karuta.

Hearing this, Toyama Kazuha said irritably, "Idiot, Miraiko is the captain of the karuta club!"

Miraiko is a character who appears in The Crimson Brothers. She is also a girl and is a friend of Kazuha Toyama. In the movie, she goes back into the fire to save a karuta deck.

It seems that this is why Conan, Kazuha Toyama, and Heiji Hattori were all left at the scene, and almost got themselves killed.

"Oh." Hattori Heiji said with a simple smile, "I almost forgot about it if you hadn't mentioned it."

"So, that means Ooka Momiji is pretty strong, but not as strong as me. I beat her so badly she cried back then!"

"But why did you say those things back then?" Toyama Kazuha couldn't help but ask.

Although she knew that Hattori Heiji was trying to comfort Ooka Momiji who had lost the match, she was still very unhappy and wanted to know what Hattori Heiji was really thinking when he said those words, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep at all tonight.

Moreover, she was completely unaware of this matter, and so many years had passed. Furthermore, this Ooka Momiji even invited her and Heiji to attend some Tokiwa Zaibatsu banquet, which was definitely not a good thing.

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Tokiwa Zaibatsu... I feel like I've heard of that somewhere before. Isn't this the banquet that Conan and Ran are going to attend?
Fortunately, it looks pretty good, so I might as well go.

She just didn't really want Ooka Momiji to go too. Don't ask why, you know why.

"Why?" Hattori Heiji glanced at Toyama Kazuha and said matter-of-factly, "Why else? Of course, it's to comfort this girl. She cried in front of me and looked so pitiful, so I said some nice things to comfort her."

"As for why I said these things, it's probably because I watched a TV series back then!"

When we were kids, we always liked to imitate, like imitating scenes from TV shows. Hattori Heiji was one of those kids.

"Oh, is that why?" Kazuha Toyama's lips twitched involuntarily.

No, can you just say things like that so casually?

So why didn't you?
What kind of TV series is this? It really should be taken off the air!
"What else could it be?" Hattori Heiji said, "They're just kids, of course we have to coax them!"

"But after saying all that, I remembered quite a bit. After I finished speaking, she stopped crying, and her face was even a little red. I wonder if it was because of the sunset?"

Shinichi, why is your face red?

Idiot, it's because of the sunset!

Sure enough, people who look alike say the same thing.

"I see," Toyama Kazuha said without asking any further questions. After all, they were just kids; they didn't understand things like feelings anymore, and they weren't high school students.

However, things are different now. Today's elementary school students are quite precocious and know everything, including about love.

“Although you’re just trying to make the child happy,” Hattori Shizuka said seriously, “the girl has remembered it all, for over a decade, and is even planning to pursue you. This is the first step for this child.”

After saying that, she glanced at Toyama Kazuha again: "You'd better be careful!"

"aunt."

Upon hearing this, Kazuha Toyama's face immediately turned red. She glanced at Heiji Hattori beside her without leaving a trace, and when she found that he didn't care at all, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still a little disappointed.

Hattori Heiji is such an idiot!

"Sigh," Hattori Shizuka sighed as she looked at her son and Kazuha.

Kids these days are really stubborn, completely unlike the previous generation.

Of course, there are also some people in their generation who are just as stubborn as these two. I really don't know why they have such personalities.

This doesn't resemble her at all!

"Fine, I won't say anything more," Hattori Shizuka said. "You two just go to the banquet, and Heiji, you need to make things clear with this girl, don't leave things ambiguous."

She knew exactly what her son was thinking, and she also knew what He Ye was thinking. Moreover, she had known He Ye for so many years and had long since decided that she was her daughter-in-law.

This sudden change is really troublesome.

"About this matter," Hattori Heiji said, "I'll make things clear with this girl, and I won't leave anything ambiguous!"

He is very extreme in some aspects, but also very conflicted and awkward in others.

"That's good." Hattori Shizuka said, "Then let's continue eating!"

"it is good!"

After discussing this matter, Hattori Heiji and the others resumed their meal.

After finishing dinner, Kazuha Toyama headed towards her home under Heiji Hattori's protection.

Two people are walking on the road, but the distance between them is enough for one or two people to stand, or even two and a half people. The distance is quite far!

That's what makes a conflicted person like that!

"Heiji, you really don't remember this girl at all?" Toyama Kazuha couldn't help but ask. "She's the heiress of the Ooka Zaibatsu, and she's very beautiful!"

She had seen information about Ooka Momiji in the news and knew what she looked like.

And she was also very clear that Ooka Momiji had a great figure, even slightly better than hers!

She hadn't cared about her figure before, and wasn't envious of Ooka Momiji's figure at all, but now...
Once she realized that Ooka Momiji would be her rival in love, she started thinking about these things.

Moreover, it seems that the men in her class all like girls with good figures. She looked down at herself and then saw her shoes, glancing at them a little bit.

This means that while she has a good figure, it's not exceptionally good; at least not as good as Ooka Momiji's.

"So what?!" Hattori Heiji said, "So what if it's the Ooka Zaibatsu? What does it have to do with me? Besides, my family isn't doing badly either."

"I've only met Ooka Momiji once, and it was when we were kids. I was just saying things to make her happy, and I'm surprised she still remembers them now!"

He was genuinely surprised; he himself had almost forgotten about it, but Ooka Momiji remembered it vividly.

At that moment, Hattori Heiji was completely unaware of the impact of his words.

But that's normal. Everyone was a kid back then, who would really believe these things!

Would you believe that your parents were truly keeping your New Year's money safe when you were a child?

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"I see." After hearing this, Toyama Kazuha felt much better: "By the way, if we're going to the banquet, do we need to wear evening gowns?"

She looked at the clothes she was wearing and felt they weren't quite right.

"Just wear your usual clothes, that should be fine. If you really can't, you can ask Ran. She often goes to banquets with Sonoko, so she knows her very well!"

Both Kazuha Toyama and Heiji Hattori come from well-off families, but they rarely attend these kinds of banquets, so they don't know much about them and don't care much about them.

"Too."

As she spoke, she took out her phone and started contacting Xiaolan.

And so, without realizing it, the two of them arrived at the front gate of the Yuanshan and Ye family's house. The lights in her living room were already on, as were the lights on the second floor.

Moreover, a figure could be vaguely seen from the second-floor window.

At that moment, Hattori Heiji felt goosebumps all over his body, as if he were being watched by something terrifying.

"Hehe, you're home now, so I'll head back first!" Hattori Heiji stammered, then turned and ran off, looking rather disheveled.

Kazuha Toyama covered her mouth and laughed as she looked at Heiji Hattori's somewhat disheveled figure. Then she turned around and waved to her elderly father on the second floor.

"dad."

That's right, the person standing on the second floor looking at Hattori Heiji is Toyama Ginjiro.

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After waving, Toyama Kazuha opened the door and went inside.

At that moment, Ginjiro Toyama also came down from the second floor, looked at his daughter, and smiled.

“Kazuha, you’re back,” said Ginjiro Toyama.

“Dad,” Kazuha Toyama said, “I’m going to the Tokiwa Zaibatsu’s banquet with Heiji.”

"It's a banquet," said Ginjiro Toyama. "Go ahead, have a good time, and make sure you exude confidence. Don't show any weakness!"

He seemed to be implying something, and Toyama Kazuha seemed to understand what he meant.

"I will, Daddy!"

"Yes, she's truly my daughter. It's getting late, you should go and get some rest!"

"Okay, Dad!"

Afterwards, Kazuha Toyama went to take a shower and go to bed, and chatted with Ran and Sonoko about the banquet!

(End of this chapter)