Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 34: Cruelty under the Warmth of Night
After sending Xiaolan back to the intersection they came from, Yingsheng looked at the three-story building of Maori Detective Agency. The windows were still pitch black.

"Good night. Remember to destroy this set of clothes." Yingsheng patted the back of his hand on his waist and chuckled.

"Eh... so fast?"

Xiaolan let go of her hand, raised her head and looked around, and there was inexplicably a sense of awakening from a dream in her tone.

Yingsheng smiled and said, "It's better not to say such dangerous things."

"Um……"

Xiaolan jumped out of the car, walked to the front of the car, raised the helmet mask, and winked at Yingsheng.

"Suiyue-kun, do you want to come to my house for a visit?"

"puff--"

Yingsheng couldn't help laughing and put down the motorcycle kickstand, "Okay, I'm just a little thirsty."

"Hum~"

Xiaolan crossed her arms and curled her lips, "You really are a scumbag if you want to go to a girl's house so much."

"Ya Bai was caught in a sting operation."

Yingsheng raised his hands in surrender and said with a smile: "Actually, I have thought about taking you clothes shopping before, as compensation, for a legitimate reason, would you agree?"

Xiaolan thought about it and nodded slightly with some uncertainty, "Probably... maybe."

"Since we are at the commercial street, would you accept to order some snacks and buy a cup of milk tea?"

"Hmm...probably."

"It's already half past ten. In order to avoid nighttime indigestion, it's time to take a slow walk down the street."

"It does make sense."

"That way, time will slip into the ambiguous midnight if you're not careful."

"Ah?"

Suddenly the real purpose was revealed. Xiaolan reviewed the situation in her mind and immediately leaned back with a look of disgust in her eyes.

"You guys are too skilled."

"Haha, it's just talk, don't be afraid."

Yingsheng pushed back with his heels and restarted the motorcycle, "See you later, my senior and companion."

The motorcycle only started to accelerate after leaving the street. Xiaolan watched Yingsheng's back disappear around the corner of the street. She stood there for a few seconds looking at the empty street intersection, shook her head and laughed, then turned around and walked towards home.

The house was still exactly the same as when she left, but perhaps because the night was getting darker, the lights in the room seemed warmer and the room no longer seemed so empty.

Anyway, let’s go take a shower first, the day is over.

Oh, and cell phone information.

It had vibrated several times before, but she never had time to check... Well, there was some spare time, but she seemed to be too excited tonight and kept forgetting about it accidentally.

Missed calls, three.

One mother, two gardeners.

Xiaolan called her mother back first, and the call rang for about thirty seconds before it was connected.

"Xiaolan, what's the matter?"

"It was my mother who called at nine o'clock, and I was..."

"Oh, I just wanted you to go and give Kudo Shinichi a good scolding. He actually came here with a bunch of unfounded reasoning and tried to stop me from moving forward with the lawsuit. But it's okay now. It seems there's a new case and he's gone.

Okay, that's it, I have something else to do, good night, Xiaolan, your dad will be fine."

"Mom, I..."

"Dudududu——"

The urgent busy tone slightly stung her eardrums. Xiaolan sighed softly, looked at the night scene outside the window, waited for a few seconds, and then called Yuanzi back.

Unable to connect, the phone is powered off.

Yes, it's almost eleven o'clock, and Yuanzi usually goes to bed at this time.

Huh?
There was another text message from Yuanzi, and Xiaolan clicked it.

【Stay away from scum! 】

"........."

Xiaolan closed the text message with a guilty conscience, apologized to Yuanzi several times in her heart, and went to wash up before going to bed. Just as she came out of the bath wrapped in a bath towel, the phone rang again, and she walked over to pick it up and took a look.

Inspector Megure?

With a bad premonition in her heart, Xiaolan answered the phone. Before she could say anything, the anxious voice of Kogoro Mouri came from the other end of the phone.

"Xiaolan, hurry to the Mika Central Hospital, Eri has fainted!"

"!!!"

Xiaolan suddenly felt dizzy and had to hold on to the sofa to stand up. Her mouth also became a little dry.

"What happened?" "Don't ask so many questions, just go over there quickly!"

"Did Mom hear any bad news?"

"Are you annoying? Go and take care of her!"

“Tell me the truth!”

"What's the use of you knowing that! Hurry up..."

"Did someone die again!!!"

Boom! ! !

The tranquility of the night sky was suddenly torn apart, and the girl's long-suppressed depression finally turned into a thunderclap.

Never, never before, has Xiaolan roared at Mouri Kogoro like this.

When her unconcealed true emotions could no longer be suppressed and surged out of her chest, she unexpectedly felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

Although, she was also stunned after she shouted.

What an outrageous thing she just did.

But the ones who were even more stunned, of course, were Kogoro Mori and Juzo Megure on the other end of the phone.

Xiaolan, who was always obedient and sensible, suddenly became so rude and yelled at her father and elders...

Is it the rebellious phase?
Did you meet some bad people in school and were led astray?

or……

Are they really wrong?
But they hid this matter for her own good!

It was useless for her to know. She could only stand aside and worry, and even disturb them...

"Sorry, I'll be there now."

Although Xiaolan's voice has not completely returned to its usual gentleness, it has calmed down to a large extent. It seems as if her previous loss of composure was just an illusion that never happened.

"Anything else?" she asked.

Maori Kogoro was slightly stunned, "No more."

"Okay, don't worry, Dad. Mom has always been in good health. She'll be fine."

"Okay, then go over there quickly."

"Well, goodbye, Dad. Goodbye, Officer Megure."

beep beep-

The phone hangs up.

Inside the detention room of the Metropolitan Police Department, Kogoro Mouri and Juzo Megure looked at each other with confusion in their eyes. Did they just... hear hallucinations at the same time?

At the same time, on the coffee table in the living room of Maori's house, a calm voice came from the headset that Xiaolan had taken off before.

"Now, smash the phone."

Bang! ! !
A big hole suddenly exploded in the wooden tatting rice, and Xiaolan's white flip phone smashed through the wooden board directly, bouncing up and down repeatedly on the floor of the detective agency on the second floor. When it finally stopped, it had broken into four pieces.

There are countless other small scattered parts.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop. I kept the headset on the dining table. Your voice was too loud just now, so I heard it." Yingsheng said calmly in the headset.

Xiaolan did not respond. She was taking a deep breath, and then another deep breath, and then another deep breath...

"Dad is that bastard!!!"

Finally, I couldn't bear it any longer.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Yingsheng heard Xiaolan sitting on the sofa angrily, and then he spoke again.

"Although I'm looking forward to you moving out and living on your own, I still have to say something extra."

"Yes, yes, Dad is very concerned."

Xiaolan snorted, "If he cares so much about mom, what was he doing before? Did he ever think about mom when he was drinking? When he was fighting over Miss Towako and getting jealous and hitting others, where was mom?"

There was silence in the headset.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but amid the rustling sound of clothes, Yingsheng finally heard Xiaolan’s soft sigh.

"Suiyue-kun, do you know what happened?"

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