Solving cases with Detective Conan's science? No, I'm a cultivator!

Sonoko gave Ran a knowing look and then took Ran's arm.

Xiao Lan's legs suddenly gave way.

Sonoko quickly helped her up. Seeing Ran's condition, she thought to herself, "I didn't say anything too outrageous!"

"Ran, are you alright?" Kitagawa Taki asked with concern.

"N-nothing!" Xiaolan quickly waved her hand and said.

Kitagawa Taki tilted his head; he hadn't thought about it in that way at all.

……

Banquet hall.

The place was already packed with people.

The Yatsudai Group went to great lengths to create a buzz for this maiden voyage, inviting many high-society figures to participate.

As soon as the group reached the door, a waiter approached them.

"Excuse me, are you Ms. Suzuki?"

Sonoko nodded: "Yes, that's me."

The waiter bowed slightly, smiling broadly: "Seats have been reserved for you all, please follow me!"

"Mr. Mori!"

At that moment, a man's voice came from behind them.

He was probably in a hurry to come up and say hello, and didn't pay any attention to the short Conan. His knee bumped into Conan, and Conan stumbled and almost fell.

"You must be the famous detective Kogoro Mouri?" The man walked up to the group. "I saw you when I came in."

“That’s right, that’s me.” Kogoro Mouri sized up the man, who had medium-length brown hair and wore glasses.

“Great, I’m a screenwriter named Hiroshige Kusaka,” the man introduced himself.

Conan rubbed his aching back and glanced at Hirose Kusaka with considerable displeasure. Even if he wanted to say hello, did he have to be in such a hurry?

Kitagawa Taki's gaze, however, was drawn to a beautiful woman behind the man.

Ran also noticed the woman who looked like her mother, Eri Kisaki.

Hiroshige noticed their gazes, stepped aside, and introduced, "This is Ms. Minami Akiyoshi. She is the deputy commander of the design team for this passenger ship, and she also named it Aphrodite!"

"I am Akikichi, nice to meet you!"

Minako Akiyoshi looks to be around thirty years old, with medium-length gray hair and black-rimmed glasses. She resembles Eri Kisaki and has a mature charm.

"I am Mori." Kogoro Mori twitched his lips, his expression quite unnatural.

Sonoko reached out and touched Ran, who nodded in understanding.

Minako Akiyoshi looked at Taki Kitagawa: "This must be Mr. Taki Kitagawa, right?"

Kitagawa Taki smiled and replied, "Hello."

Hiroshige looked at the waiter, held up two fingers, and said, "Could you add two more seats for us?"

The waiter looked at Sonoko, while Sonoko looked at Kitagawa Taki.

Kitagawa Taki nodded; he was quite interested in this Minami Akiyoshi.

So, the group was led by a waiter to the central area of ​​the banquet hall.

Before the banquet officially began, the group started chatting.

Having just witnessed the waiter and Sonoko's reactions, Hirose Hironari asked:

"May I ask who Mr. Kitagawa is?"

“Oh, I’m just an exorcist,” Kitagawa Taki said casually.

Minamiko Akiko chimed in, "Mr. Kitagawa is no ordinary exorcist."

"Oh, is that so!" Hironari Kusaka didn't take it to heart and said instead, "Actually, I'm writing a TV drama project set on a luxury cruise ship, and I met Ms. Minami through an interview."

Sonoko, displeased with him, asked, "Then, Mr. Kusaka, what stories have you written?"

Before Hiroshige could answer, Ai Haibara's voice rang out: "Perhaps it's a story like the Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage?"

Hironari Kusaka gave an awkward laugh.

Akemi Miyano tugged at her sister's hand.

Kogoro Mouri said, "Speaking of which, I remember that one of the Yatsushiro merchant ships had an accident where it hit an iceberg, right?"

Chapter 329 As long as the ship doesn't sink.

Minako Akiyoshi nodded slightly: "That's right, it happened in the winter fifteen years ago."

Kogoro Mouri recalled, "I remember that it was because of the captain's misjudgment that one crew member died and the captain sank into the sea with the cargo ship."

Hiroshige looked somewhat uneasy, then looked ahead and said, "A big shot has arrived!"

Sonoko recognized the newcomers: "That's former Prime Minister Shinmi and his wife!"

Hiroshige Kusaka said, "There are entertainers behind them..."

Kogoro Mouri's eyes lit up: "It's the Rei sisters! They still have such hot bodies!"

“Dad…” Xiaolan gently touched her forehead.

Kogoro Mouri can't change his ways no matter where he goes.

"Chairman Yatsushiro Entarō of the Yatsushiro Foundation and his daughter Yatsushiro Takae have also arrived." Hiroshige Kusaka introduced the elderly man and middle-aged woman, dressed in kimonos, who sat down next to the former prime minister and his wife.

"After Yatsushiro Takae took a husband, she became the president of Yatsushiro Merchant Ship. However, her husband was not so lucky and passed away in an accident a few days ago."

Kogoro Mouri said, "It's Hidetoshi Yashiro, who died in a car accident, isn't it?"

“Yes,” said Minako Akiyoshi. “Mr. Hidetoshi Yashiro is my boss, and he is also the chief designer of this ship’s design team.”

"What a pity." Hiroshige Kusaka shook his head.

Kitagawa Taki glanced at Kusaka Hiroshige, and he felt that there was something hidden in the man's words.

……

The banquet has ended.

Hiroshige Kusaka returned to his room first due to seasickness.

"Brother Kitagawa, drink!"

Kogoro Mouri's face was flushed from drinking, and he kept clinking glasses with Taki Kitagawa while holding his red wine.

"Dad, please stop drinking!"

When Kogoro Mouri and Taki Kitagawa drink, they always end up getting themselves drunk first.

"Brother Mori, let's have one last drink."

Since Ran has spoken, Kitagawa Taki will no longer accompany Kogoro Mouri.

After finishing a glass of wine, Kogoro Mori slumped onto the table.

As soon as Kitagawa Taki put down his glass, Akiyoshi Minamiko struck up a conversation with him: "Mr. Kitagawa, I've always been curious. In the cases you've solved, you always resolve them very quickly. How do you manage to do that?"

Sonoko quickly answered, "Of course, it's about using your brain!"

Minako Akiko covered her mouth and laughed, "Indeed, but there are rumors that Mr. Kitagawa can communicate with the souls of the dead, which is why he was able to quickly find evidence and identify the murderer."

Upon hearing what Akiyoshi Minamiko said, everyone looked at Kitagawa Taki.

“Most of the souls of the dead disappear quickly, and only a very few live on,” Kitagawa Taki explained.

"Is that so?" Minako Akiyoshi nodded slightly.

Seeing that Kitagawa Taki was "making things up" again, Conan shook his head speechlessly.

……

the next day.

10:00 AM.

The group of people were drinking tea on the deck.

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the time, stood up, and said, "I'm going back to my room."

Seeing this, Xiaolan asked, "Dad, what are you doing going back to your room?"

"Let's change clothes." Kogoro Mouri laughed heartily, saying smugly, "I've arranged to meet the Rei sisters; they're very interested in my story!"

"I'm leaving now!" Kogoro Mouri waved and left the deck.

"Uncle's got a knack for it." Sonoko chuckled.

Xiao Lan sighed. Luckily, her mother wasn't on the boat, otherwise it would have made it even more difficult for the two of them to get back together.

"Forget about him, Miho-nee, Sonoko, Ai, let's go get a massage!" Ran said to the girls.

Akemi Miyano asked, "Taki-kun, are you and Conan going?"

"I won't go." Kitagawa Taki waved his hand.

The massage services offered on board are divided into separate areas for men and women.

Conan wasn't interested either.

After the girls left, only Conan and Kitagawa Taki remained at the table.

Conan sat down next to Kitagawa Taki and asked, "How did you decipher the code used by those robbers at school last time?"

Kitagawa Taki thought Conan was going to say something, but it turned out to be just about solving the case.

"Oh? The famous detective hasn't solved it yet?"

Conan narrowed his eyes; he had naturally untied it.

After returning home that day, he thought about it for a long time before correcting the mistakes on the code sheet and finally deducing that the code referred to the marking device on the ground floor of the warehouse.

Therefore, he absolutely did not believe that Kitagawa Taki could deduce the answer out of thin air within just one or two minutes after seeing the code.