I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 65 Drinking the Missing Kogoro Mouri
A look of surprise appeared in Chen En's eyes.

The previous security mission involving Minami Takayama and Shiina Nagano was likely triggered because Conan had contact with Minami Takayama, but what's going on with this security mission?

Conan and Ran Mouri had just run past, and they encountered a murder case as soon as they left the Budokan.

The Death Aura is supposed to activate once a day, right? Why is it being used so frequently today?
Has Conan activated some kind of special ability?

Did MEGA evolve or something?

"Hey, Dad, aren't you home?"

After walking a short distance outside the martial arts hall, we arrived at the outside of the martial arts hall.

Ran Mouri's voice immediately reached Chen En's ears.

The platform's high school girl, with her uniquely styled hair, said with a hint of complaint,

"Did Conan encounter a kidnapping incident today?"

"If it weren't for Mr. Chen En's timely help, we would have been in big trouble."

On the other end of the phone, Kogoro Mouri fell silent.

After a while, he answered loudly.

"I know."

"Those kids around Conan even said I kidnapped someone, which made me run to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to give a statement before I was even fully awake. Anyway, it seems like nothing happened so far, right?"

"I ran into a friend on my way back, and we had a couple of drinks. I'll be back later, don't worry!"

That sound was indeed a bit too loud.

Even Chen En and Suzuki Sonoko, who were standing next to Ran Mouri, could hear it clearly.

Sonoko Suzuki, unfazed by this, shook her head and sighed.

"Xiaolan, your dad went out drinking again."

"Honestly, he's a very famous detective, yet he doesn't care about his personal image at all..."

Suzuki Sonoko was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly noticed that Chen En was still standing next to her.

She immediately turned her head away, embarrassed, trying to salvage some of her image as a young lady.

However, as soon as she turned her head, the more she thought about it, the redder her face became.

I felt that my attempt to cover it up only made me look worse.

"Don't say that Uncle Mori doesn't care about his personal image. As the second daughter of the Suzuki Group, don't you care about it either?"

Standing next to Ran Mouri, Conan twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking to himself with a hint of speechlessness.

It was getting late, and the other members of the Junior Detective Club had already gone home.

They were supposed to go back before lunch, but now it's almost dusk after the concert.

If the members of the Junior Detective League don't go home soon, they're definitely going to get a scolding.

Conan put his hands in his pockets and said somewhat boredly,
"Sonoko-neechan, shouldn't you be home by now, according to the normal schedule?"

"If you don't come home any later, Aunt Pengzi will call to ask how things are going, right? She might even send someone from her family to pick you up."

After all, the last time Sonoko Suzuki was kidnapped, she was traveling alone in a car at dusk.

Even the kidnappers didn't know who she was; she was simply sitting with their target and was worried that she might have learned their secrets... After that, Suzuki Tomoko became more attentive to this kind of thing.

Upon hearing this, Sonoko Suzuki immediately took out her phone, glanced at the time, and muttered something.

"What? It's still early."

"Besides, even if Mom sends someone to pick me up, so what... um, it still won't work..."

As Sonoko Suzuki was saying this, she suddenly thought of Tomoko Suzuki's attitude towards her finding a boyfriend.

—Because she was the chairman of the Suzuki Group, her father, Shiro Suzuki, only had two daughters.

With her older sister Ayako Suzuki getting married and leaving the family, the only person left to succeed her as head of the Suzuki Group was Sonoko Suzuki.

Tomoko Suzuki has always hoped that she could find a very capable and socially equal husband.

Therefore, if Tomoko Suzuki knew that she had a boyfriend, she would definitely come looking for her.

To avoid any unforeseen circumstances, it's best not to let her mother know about her relationship with Chen En.

"Um, I... I'll go now?"

"I'll come visit you another day," Sonoko Suzuki said somewhat shyly, changing her previous statement.

Chen En nodded in agreement, and was about to ask if he should take Suzuki Sonoko back.

But then I saw taxis already parked on the side of the road soliciting passengers.

Therefore, Chen En had no choice but to see Suzuki Sonoko off to her car and then stop there.

"Well then, Ms. Suzuki, goodbye for now."

—Sonoko Suzuki blushed again as she took the car home.

Why did Sonoko Suzuki choose to go home first after realizing that Tomoko Suzuki would send someone to pick her up?

Chen En actually knew what was going on.

If he remembered correctly, Sonoko's father, Shiro Suzuki, was quite open-minded about Sonoko's social interactions.

However, Tomoko Suzuki was quite authoritarian in this regard.

That noblewoman was determined to marry a man who was of equal social standing and ability to the Suzuki family. She put a lot of challenges and tests on Kyogoku Makoto, and it was only after going through countless trials that she finally recognized his abilities.

Chen En put his hands in his pockets, lost in thought.

It's impossible for me to marry into his family; it's absolutely impossible for me to do so in this lifetime.

However, for Chen En, who possessed technology that was ahead of its time, finding a suitable match was simply a matter of time.

I believe that all the problems will be solved eventually.

However, before that, Chen En needs to solve the immediate problem.

Chen En turned to look at Ran Mouri and asked,

"Miss Mori, don't you think your father is about to be involved, or has already been involved, in a heinous murder case?"

Ran Mouri: ?

Although you call yourself Batman, you are indeed very good at this.

But you can't just say things carelessly!

How could my dad suddenly encounter something like this? It's outrageous!
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Hotels near Shibahama Station.

The middle-aged man, who also looked somewhat drunk, grabbed his glasses and tilted them upwards.

He squinted and stared for a long time before finally recognizing the person from the series of double images.

Immediately, the middle-aged man smiled and said,

"What? Isn't this Mori's daughter?"

"Oh, Ran, what's wrong? Why did you suddenly come to the hotel? Is it to see Mori?"

“After you finished your phone call with him, he said he took the bullet train on the Miho Line back home.”

You won't find anyone else here.

Ran Mouri and Conan, who were initially somewhat skeptical of Chen En's explanation, exchanged a glance.

They are now genuinely starting to suspect that Kogoro Mouri might be involved in some heinous murder case.

—No matter how you look at it, getting drunk to the point of disappearing is pretty outrageous, isn't it?!
He could answer the phone before, so why can't he answer it after getting on the bullet train?
"Mr. Chen En, in that case, where should we go to look for Dad next?"

"Ran Mouri asked anxiously."

Chen En was speechless.

He stared at the mission indicator arrow that was moving rapidly in front of him, unsure of what to say.

The mission arrow for security tasks sometimes points directly to the location where the incident occurred.

Sometimes it will point to specific individuals, or it may simply be like when Takayama Minami was kidnapped, where there is no arrow at all, and he has to find his location by himself using a locator.

Now the arrow is moving rapidly in direction.

Only a ghost could use this thing to locate a heinous murder!

He immediately understood why Gotham's Batman wanted to implement city-wide surveillance.

Chen En is now also tempted to get one!

(End of this chapter)