In the world of Detective Conan, the female characters are all acting strangely!

Autumn leaves in Ooka!

Known as the Suzuki Sonoko of Kansai.

However, Xia Ye didn't think so.

My garden is much cuter than this girl.

Although Ooka Momiji appears elegant, she still carries a hint of haughtiness, albeit only a little—

This is actually the normal situation!

It's abnormal for someone like Sonoko, the heir to a top conglomerate, to be so down-to-earth, to split the bill with Ran, and to queue up with her to buy concert tickets!

Where else in this world can you find a young lady as down-to-earth and kind-hearted as Sonoko?

Natsume really loves the garden!

"lady..."

The woman in the office lady uniform looked somewhat ashamed. The lady had instructed her not to be disturbed, but the young lady insisted on coming in, and she couldn't stop her. Fortunately—she glanced at the lady almost imperceptibly, and thankfully the lady seemed to be acting normally—of course, she couldn't show this feeling!

"It's okay~"

Ōoka Kanon waved her hand and said calmly:

"Qianwei, you should go back first!"

"Yes, ma'am!"

The office lady named Qianwei bowed and took her leave.

Kon Ooka looked at her daughter: "Kumyou, is there something you need?"

"No--"

Ooka Momiji looked at Natsume curiously. "I just came back from my teacher's place and heard that we had a guest, so I came to see who this is?"

"Autumn mountains and summer leaves~"

Ooka Kanon introduced him to her daughter: "You should have heard of him."

"Of course!"

Ooka Momiji nodded, a graceful smile appearing on her pretty face: "Recently, my classmates have been talking about Officer Natsume a lot. One of them said you're really good and wants to spar with you!"

"Is that Okita Souji?"

Xia Ye was too lazy to even comment on the names of the characters in Japanese anime. There was at least a whole row of people named Okita Souji. However, the Okita Souji in the Detective Conan world should not be the Okita Souji from the author's other work, "Yaiba," otherwise his fighting power would be hard to say.

Of course, even if he's not Okita Souji from "Yasu no Tales", this guy is still very strong. After all, he's an A+ rank swordsman in the official setting, second only to Kyogoku Makoto, and much stronger than Hattori Heiji!

"You know Okita-kun?"

Ooka Momiji never expected that Natsume would know her classmate and even guess that it was him so accurately, which clearly showed that she knew him very well!

"I don't know him—"

Xia Ye smiled slightly: "It was Hattori Heiji from Osaka who mentioned Okita to me, saying that the kendo club of Izumi Shin High School, where Okita is, is an arch-rival of their Osaka Kaifang High School kendo club."

"Hattori Heiji?"

Osaka Momiji's eyes widened in surprise:

"You know Hattori Heiji too?"

Yes, we are friends.

Xia Ye nodded, then feigned ignorance and asked:

"Miss Momiji, you know Hattori too?"

"I'd say we know each other."

Ooka Momiji clearly didn't want to talk about these things and quickly changed the subject:

"What are Mr. Xia Ye and Mom talking about?"

"They were discussing the collaboration between the Ooka and Suzuki families—"

"Is Miss Hongye interested in these?"

Xia Ye laughed and said, "Our family doesn't want to hear about these kinds of topics at all!"

"Your family..."

Of course, Ooka Momiji knew that Natsume was Suzuki Sonoko's fiancé, a fact well-known among the upper echelons of Japan, and which Mrs. Suzuki herself had confirmed.

However, Xia Ye said these words so naturally, which made the young lady, who was clueless about her own feelings and had never understood other people's feelings, feel a bit overwhelmed by the "dog food" (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

"I'm not that interested."

That's true. Ooka Momiji herself doesn't have many thoughts about the family business. She doesn't like it, but she doesn't hate it either. However, unlike Sonoko, she is the only daughter in the Ooka family's main branch, and she is the direct heir, unlike the Suzuki family, which has to choose someone else. As the heir, she definitely has to learn family management.

"Then let's sit down and talk?"

"Good~"

"Miss Koyo knows Sonoko, right?"

"know..."

Seeing Xia Ye's upturned lips, Ooka Koyo's lips twitched, losing her composure for the first time in front of a guest.

Judging from Xia Ye's expression, he must have learned from Suzuki Sonoko about how his childhood shrew had made him cry.

They really have no restraint and say whatever comes to mind!

Just like when he was a kid!

"Yuanzi praised you!"

"what?"

Natsume's words startled Ooka Momiji, who said in disbelief:

"Will she praise me?"

"That's what I said!"

Xia Ye was both amused and exasperated.

These two girls shouldn't be the kind of enemies, right?

According to Sonoko's description, which is to the extent that they had a few fights when they were young, Sonoko did praise her.

Sonoko said you're pretty tough...

"Kick-kick--!"

When she was a mother, Ooka Kanon burst out laughing.

Xia Ye glanced at the sight of them swaying and bobbing back and forth, it was quite a spectacle...

"Suzuki Sonoko!!!"

Ooka Momiji gritted her teeth, her pretty face flushed red...

We were both young ladies from prestigious families, but who knew that Sonoko would be so wild, like a little monkey. Back then, we were both young, and when we fought, it was just a matter of who dared to hit whom. If it were now, who knows who would hit whom!

"Okay, no more kidding!"

Xia Ye knew when to stop; a little teasing was enough, after all, they weren't very familiar with each other yet.

Sonoko says you're really good at karuta!

"is it?"

Ooka Momiji pouted, not particularly happy.

She'd played karuta with Sonoko before when they were kids, but given Sonoko's almost nonexistent skill level, she wouldn't have appreciated the praise, let alone—

She was beaten because she won at karuta!

How could I be happy?

"Cough cough!"

Ooka Kanon suppressed a laugh and quickly tried to smooth things over:

"Come on, have some tea!"

...

I chatted with the Ooka family, mother and daughter, for a long time.

The conversation went quite smoothly.

Especially the autumn leaves of Ooka.

Because Xia Ye found out about the embarrassing things that happened when she was a child.

She simply gave up on pretending to be a rich young lady in front of Xia Ye.

They also retaliated by revealing many of Sonoko's unladylike behaviors when she was a child.

However, judging from Xia Ye's smiling face, she clearly thought the garden was quite lovely!

Ooka Momiji was full of resentment. Not only did she fail to damage Sonoko's image in Natsume's heart, but she was also fed a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection).

However, she envied the tender and doting look in Natsume's eyes when she talked about Sonoko.

After all, she was a girl who had never been in a relationship before.

It's normal to yearn for sweet love.

"It's time to eat—"

Looking at the time, it was almost noon, and Ooka Kanon stood up.

"Those two guests should have rested well by now."

"Shall we go and meet up with them?"

"it is good!"

Xia Ye stood up as well.

The time I spent touching and cuddling with Ooka Kanon just passed quickly.

The conversation went well, and before we knew it, more than two hours had passed, and it was noon.

"Are there more guests?"

As soon as Ooka Momiji returned, she heard that her mother was meeting with guests, so she came over immediately. She thought that Natsume was the only guest, but she didn't expect there to be others.

"who is it?"

"Shizuka Hattori, wife of the Osaka Prefectural Police Chief, and Kazuha Toyama, daughter of the Osaka Prefectural Police's 3.6 Criminal Investigation Chief."

Kon Ooka explained to her daughter, "They came all this way specifically to see the light festival~"

"Hattori..."

Ooka Momiji was taken aback again.

Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters——

Isn't that Hattori Heiji's mother?

And that distant mountain and leaf—

According to the investigation, she is Hattori Heiji's childhood friend!

"Okay, let's go see the guests!"

Because she misunderstood Hattori Heiji's words when she was a child, Ooka Momiji, who had always had feelings for him, was thinking about how to behave in front of her "future mother-in-law" while also thinking about how to suppress her "love rival" until Hattori Shizuka and Kazuha greeted her and she came back to her senses.

"what?"

"Sorry, I was distracted!"

"It's okay~"

Kazuha looked at Ooka Momiji, who was about the same age as her, but felt that she was much more mature than her. She had small red earrings, pink lipstick on her lips, and nail art with maple leaf patterns on her nails. And—that front armor that made her the envy of her peers!

Kazuha had never seen a garden this big before!

That's still the result of the log reward!