Phantom Thief of Heart in Conan

In the evening of this day, in the Mouri Detective Agency, Mouri Kogoro was holding a can of beer and watching boring TV programs as usual. He looked like a sloppy uncle, not at all as charming as he was when he was a detective.

"Really, Dad! Can't you cheer up?" Mao Lilan, who was doing housework on the side, couldn't bear to see her father's dejection, so she came over angrily carrying a feather duster.

"How should I cheer up? Not a single request has come to my door in the past few days!" Mouri Kogoro burped from wine and turned a deaf ear to his daughter's advice.

"My job was all taken away by that nasty detective boy, and now I have another brat to support at home! If this continues, this firm will go bankrupt!"

Conan, who was playing with his bow-tie voice changer in the corner, turned his head awkwardly and put on an innocent smile. He was still trying his best to play the role of a primary school student so as not to let the father and daughter discover the clues.

"How can you say that about Conan, dad! Didn't you say that he brought you good luck in the last kidnapping case?"

"Although I thought so at the time, my work has not increased now! This kid is not qualified as a mascot at all! Sure enough, he is useless except for eating... Oops, Miss Yoko's TV show is about to start,

I won’t talk to you anymore, Xiaolan!”

Seeing that Xiaolan had an angry look on her face and was about to get angry again, Mouri Kogoro quickly stopped talking and changed the subject wisely.

Conan stared at the decadent uncle speechlessly, lamenting his fate in his heart. According to his plan, he wanted to make this uncle the number one detective in Japan, and then use this identity to track down the black organization.

But now it seems that there is a long road ahead.

Just as everything was going on in the office, the long-awaited doorbell suddenly sounded outside.

"Dad, it looks like we have a visitor! Why don't you go and receive it quickly?"

Mouri Kogoro reluctantly put on his suit and came to the door. He opened the door a small crack and wanted to send the people outside the door away:

"Hello, Maori Detective Agency. We are off today, please come back tomorrow...wait, you are! Are you?!

"Miss Yoko!"

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Just one minute later, the brand-new detective Kogoro Mouri was sitting directly opposite Okino Yoko, posing like a handsome middle-aged boy in front of the worried girl idol, but this was inevitably mixed with

With some lingering wretched temperament, Conan on the side shook his head helplessly.

Really, this uncle is completely hopeless. Xiaolan usually works really hard, he thought to himself.

"You mean you were followed and monitored by an unknown person? Damn it, who dared to do such a thing to Miss Yoko! It's such a heinous crime!" Mouri Kogoro pounded the table angrily, as if the person being followed and monitored was

He himself was the same. Even Okino Yoko, who was the client, was so frightened by his excited behavior that he was speechless for a while. The agent accompanying him answered for her:

"Yes, in fact, Yoko has been harassed by unknown people in recent days. He also received threatening letters and secretly photographed photos before. Fortunately, yesterday, the prisoner who sent the threatening letter and illegally invaded took the initiative to go to the police station because he could not bear the condemnation of his conscience.

I confessed and apologized in front of Yoko."

"But we still have no clue as to the identity of the stalker."

"The prisoner who sent the threatening letter took the initiative to plead guilty and apologize? What's going on?" Conan on the side couldn't help but come up and ask, but he had obviously forgotten his current identity and did not notice the sandbag-sized figure of Mouri Kogoro next to him.

The fist was falling towards his head.

"You little brat, don't bother the adults in handling the case here! Go aside and play by yourself!"

Xiaolan quickly carried Conan, who was holding his head and crying out in pain, to a corner and continued to listen, so as not to interfere with Kogoro Mori's handling of the case.

After beating Conan away, Mouri Kogoro asked again:

"Ms. Yoko, can you tell me who the prisoner who voluntarily confessed is? I think the stalker is probably her accomplice. There should be some hope in launching an investigation from this aspect."

"Sorry, we can't reveal the identity of the prisoner here." The agent replied on behalf of Okino Yoko, "And I think the stalker has nothing to do with that person."

Conan, who was listening in the audience, did not dare to speak anymore, but his overactive brain had already begun to work non-stop, analyzing the agent's suspicious words.

Can't we reveal the identity of the prisoner? From this point of view, the prisoner who sent the threatening letter and Okino Yoko should be considered acquaintances, and they are probably also people in the entertainment industry. In order to protect the reputations of both parties, they chose to conceal this information.

But since he had already committed such extreme acts as sending threatening letters, secretly taking photos, and even illegally trespassing, how could the prisoner take the initiative to plead guilty and apologize?

On the other side, the conversation between Mouri Kogoro and Okino Yoko’s manager continued.

"So, apart from the prisoner who has confessed, there are no other clues about this matter? I think we need to go to Miss Yoko's apartment to find out. There should be some undiscovered clues left there.

"

"Actually, there is one thing I haven't said yet." Okino Yoko, who had been silent all this time, spoke at this moment. Her slender body was trembling with fear, which made Kogoro, who was overly emotional today, feel heartbroken.

Later, Okino Yoko described the hallucination she had seen at the door of her house to Mouri Kogoro in detail, but neither he nor Conan, who was observing, regarded this incident as a useful clue. After all, no matter how it sounded, it sounded like

It was a hallucination caused by Okino Yoko due to excessive mental stress.

After understanding the overview of the incident, Mouri Kogoro tidied up his appearance again, planning to go to the apartment with Okino Yoko and her agent tonight to look for useful clues.

"Don't worry, Miss Yoko! I will definitely keep a secret investigation and catch that hateful stalker without leaking it to anyone!" Mouri Kogoro boasted in front of his idol, causing Conan to break into cold sweat.

At this point, he no longer believed this unreliable uncle. He planned to make up an excuse and follow him to the scene to see what was going on.

But before he could come up with an excuse, Xiaolan behind him excitedly asked her father:

"Dad, can I come with you? I also want to see what the idol's room looks like!"

After consulting Okino Yoko's opinion, Mouri Kogoro readily agreed to Xiaolan's request and took the unattended Conan into the car with him.

In this way, the five people drove towards Okino Yoko's apartment building in the dark. But what they didn't know was that the stalker with no clues was now standing in front of their destination, waiting for Okino Yoko.

return.