Conan: The Heart Thief

Akiba Reiko was influenced by Lin Xiao and her voice did break in a few places, but ordinary audiences couldn't hear it. Only someone with absolute pitch like Conan could hear it.

Conan, who was sitting in the row in front of Lin Xiao, couldn't help but turn around and look at Lin Xiao. Although others didn't notice, he noticed that Lin Xiao had been with Akiba Reiko for a while just now.

However, Lin Xiao's expression was calm and Conan didn't notice anything wrong.

Chapter 137 SHINE!～すべての女が、晏く日本へ～

Akiba Reiko and Lin Xiao agreed to get married after Lin Xiao graduated from high school. As for now, in order not to affect Lin Xiao's normal life, the two maintained an underground relationship.

Lin Xiao agreed without hesitation, and said he would marry Akita Reiko after he graduated from high school. However, he didn't know if Akita Reiko could wait until that day.

……

On the weekend, Yukiko Kudo drove Lin Xiao and Huihara Ai to go camping, but they got lost.

"Oh my god, where is this? Why is it different from what I imagined?"

Yukiko Kudo looked blankly at the dense forest around her. She had originally planned to arrive at the reserved camping site in the evening, and then the three of them would have a barbecue buffet together and then camp together.

It was almost dark now, and they hadn't reached the campsite yet. If they waited until dark, they would have no chance of finding it. As the sunlight filtering through the leaves grew dimmer and dimmer, she was completely at a loss as to what to do.

"What's wrong? Yukiko." Lin Xiao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw Yukiko's worried look and asked.

"I, I seem to be... lost." Yukiko had a sad expression on her face.

"I told you to let me drive. You just didn't believe it." Lin Xiao was speechless.

"How can I let you drive without any worries when you don't even have a driver's license?" Yukiko retorted immediately.

Huiyuan Ai, who was sitting in the back seat, sighed softly: "What should I do next?"

Lin Xiao took out his phone and located it: "There seems to be a village nearby. Let's go over and see if there is a place to stay."

The three of them are now in the jurisdiction of Tottori Prefecture, in a place called "Kuppet Ridge". This location is a very remote place in Tottori Prefecture, and no one knows how Kudo Yukiko drove here.

"Tottori Prefecture...Kumei Ridge..."

At that time, when Lin Xiao saw this place name, an event in "Detective Conan" flashed through his mind.

"It can't be such a coincidence. Next, I will meet Conan and Heiji, and then it will be a destined meeting of three famous detectives?"

Just then, a foreigner came over and spoke stiff, broken Japanese into the car window.

"Hello... I'm sorry... to bother you, but since we can meet in such a remote place, it must be God's will."

Yukiko Kudo rolled down the window and looked at the man in front of her. He was a young man wearing an orange jacket, with short blond hair and a pair of blue eyes.

"Sir, are you lost too?"

"No, I'm not lost yet. If I wait until dark, I will be really lost." The man looked bitter, and then he began to introduce himself: "My name is Robert Taylor, an American, a photographer who loves nature. This time, I came here specifically to take pictures of this nostalgic place."

At this point, Robert raised the camera that had been hanging on his chest to indicate that what he said was correct.

After hearing this, Kudo Yukiko immediately laughed heartily and clapped her hands: "Mr. Robert, since you are familiar with this place, do you know where to stay?"

Robert nodded: "I will go to the Takeda family soon. You can stay at the Takeda family tonight. The Takeda family are all good people."

Yukiko Kudo nodded and happily let Robert get in the car.

Robert got into the car and found a little sister next to him.

"Hello, little sister. What's your name?"

Huihara Ai ignored him and said coldly: "Your Japanese is not good, so don't force yourself to speak Japanese. I can understand you even if you speak English."

"Uh... little sister, you really know how to joke."

Robert suddenly didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Her name is Huihara Ai."

Kudo Yukiko kindly broke the awkwardness and briefly introduced herself: "My name is Kudo Yukiko, and the person next to me is Lin Xiao."

"Please take care of me."

Under Robert's guidance, Kudo Yukiko drove all the way to Takeda's house.

On the way, Robert recalled with longing: "In the depths of Puppet Ridge, there is a place called 'Spider House'. Three years ago, I accidentally broke my foot while taking photos here. Thanks to Miss Takeda's care, I recovered quickly."

It was obvious that the Miss Takeda he was talking about lived in the place called Spider House.

Puppet Ridge? Spider House?

Hearing this, Yukiko couldn't help but reveal a look of anticipation and yearning, thinking to herself that the name of this mountain forest was strange enough, and there was actually an even stranger and weirder place... called "Spider's House", maybe that place would be very interesting!

However, Robert's kind explanation with a smile immediately dissipated Yukiko's expectations. She only heard him say slowly, "Haha, the name Spider House may sound strange, but it's just a small residence in the forest. The owner is a master of puppets, so it's called Puppet Ridge Spider House. It's probably a metaphor that the string used to manipulate puppets is like spider silk."

"Ah, so that's it..."

After hearing Robert's explanation, Yukiko lost interest. She originally thought there was a monster legend there.

Huiyuan Ai frowned and said, "I always feel like this is a very dangerous place."

After a while, they barely arrived at the Takeda family before it got completely dark.

The Takeda family is just like the spider house in Robert's words, very strange, standing alone in the forest. It is a typical Japanese-style building hidden in the forest, revealing weirdness everywhere.

Lin Xiao suddenly remembered that the Takeda family in the cartoon seemed to be in the drug business, so it was understandable that they would hide and live in such a place.

Under the leadership of Robert, Lin Xiao and Kudo Yukiko had just arrived at the Takeda family when they saw a slender figure trotting out.

It was a young woman wearing an orange sweater and long black hair. When she ran out of the courtyard and saw Lin Xiao and his group, she immediately showed an extremely cheerful look and said happily: "Mr. Robert, you are really here!"

"Ms. Takeda, it's great to see you again." Robert hugged the young woman, both with happy smiles on their faces.

Lin Xiao was shocked. Miss Takeda, is she still alive?

"Excuse me for interrupting you. May I ask, Ms. Takeda, didn't you misunderstand the English word 'shine' as 'SHI-NE' (go to hell)?"

Miss Takeda looked at Lin Xiao in confusion and replied, "The news once reported that the first article published by former Prime Minister Abe on Weibo was called "SHINE! ~ Let women shine in Japan ~". I don't think I'm that stupid. Hehehe... But how do you know this? Did Robert tell you?"

Lin Xiao suddenly realized that in the world of Detective Conan he traveled to, in order to correct the bug of too fast technological progress, the date was directly adjusted to the latest year. As a result, in this world, no one stopped using mobile phones and suddenly everyone started using mobile phones. The butterfly effect caused by this made Miss Takeda not misunderstand shine.

However, former Japanese Prime Minister Abe's statement "SHINE! ~ As long as women like this, Japan will shine ~" did cause a big media sensation, and many Japanese women felt that Prime Minister Abe was being sarcastic to them.

Robert scratched the back of his head embarrassedly: "Actually, I also learned this from former Prime Minister Abe, hahahaha..."

Then, Robert was confused again: "Mr. Lin, I don't think I told you about this."

Lin Xiao smiled and said nothing, without making any comment.

However, Kudo Yukiko interjected: "However, I can guarantee that former Prime Minister Abe said SHI-NE. I heard his speech live, and he pronounced SHI-NE. He deliberately used this word to seduce Japanese women. That guy is a misogynistic man."

When Miss Takeda heard this, she panicked: "Mr. Robert, are you also being sarcastic to me?"

Robert was confused: "What does yin and yang mean?"

Chapter 138

Led by Miss Takeda, everyone entered the Takeda family.

"Oh, it's Robert, welcome!"

"Are these two...?"

The person asking the question was a middle-aged woman with short hair and wearing a green turtleneck sweater. She was from the Takeda family.

Hearing the middle-aged woman's question, Robert suddenly came to his senses and remembered that he didn't even have the most basic etiquette of introducing each other, so he hurriedly apologized and helped to introduce: "Mr. Lin, Ms. Kudo, this Miss Takeda is named Takeda Misa, the only daughter of Takeda Shinichi, the owner of this Spider House. The name of this middle-aged lady is Takeda Yoko, the wife of the second brother of the owner Takeda Shinichi; Aunt Misa, Aunt Yoko, Mr. Lin and Ms. Kudo are friends I met on the road."

"Ms. Misa, Ms. Yoko, we are both going to stay at your house for the whole night. This is really intrusive."

"We will cover all expenses including food and accommodation, please rest assured."

While greeting politely, Lin Xiao and Yukiko also stated the purpose of their visit.

"Please don't say such polite words again." Takeda Misa said to Lin Xiao and Kudo Yukiko seriously, "Since you are Robert's friends, you are my Takeda Misa's friends. It is natural for me to invite friends to stay as guests."

With the enthusiastic introduction of the head of the family's only daughter, Takeda Misa, Lin Xiao, Kudo Yukiko and Huihara Ai naturally stayed at the Spider House.

Next, through Takeda Misa's introduction, Lin Xiao and his friends also met all the members of the Takeda family, in order:

The head of the Takeda family, 45-year-old Takeda Shinichi;

Takeda Kinuyo, wife of Takeda Shinichi and mother of Takeda Misa;

Takeda Shinichi's second brother, 38-year-old Takeda Ryuji;

Takeda Shinichi's third brother, 35-year-old Takeda Yuzo;

the mother of the three brothers, 71-year-old Chie Takeda;

Takeda Ryuji and his wife Takeda Yoko's twin daughters, Takeda Emi and Takeda Sami;

Takeda Shinichi's business partner, thirty-five-year-old Osei Negishi;

And the Takeda family's nanny, 26-year-old Kanya Miyuki.

Among them, Oo Negishi is staying here temporarily because of a recent business transaction. He is responsible for helping Shinichi Takeda sell puppets.

It is surprising that such a large family lives in such a secluded and inconvenient place.

During dinner, Lin Xiao discovered that the Takeda family did not seem to accept Robert as a foreigner. They were very welcoming on the surface, but they were actually smiling with a knife. It was a pity that Robert was a foreigner and could not understand the Takeda family's little tricks. Takeda Misa was very protective of Robert and was even willing to go to the United States with Robert.

Robert in the original story is a complete idiot, he is obviously an American. He is in love with Takeda Misa, but he doesn't think about bringing Takeda Misa to the United States, but thinks about going to Japan himself, pure and brainless.

After dinner, Takeda Shinichi couldn't wait to pull Negishi Oo back to the room to discuss business, in a mysterious way. Lin Xiao knew at a glance that the two of them were openly discussing the puppet business, but in fact they were discussing the drug business, using puppets to sell drugs. However, Lin Xiao did not intend to expose them, and he would not do anything to repay kindness with enmity.

……

Around nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Xiao, Kudo Yukiko and Haibara Ai sat together, sipping hot tea and eating snacks.

I have to say, the Takeda family is quite hospitable.

"Wow. The Takeda family is such a nice family. The snacks they sent are so delicious." Kudo Yukiko smiled into a crescent-shaped eye, "Ai, what do you think?"

"Yes. The snacks are delicious." Huiyuan Ai was not able to eat such traditional Japanese snacks in the research institute before, and she was very happy. However, she felt uneasy in her heart.

"Brother Lin Xiao, you have a blank expression on your face. Do you also feel that the Takeda family is weird?" Huibara Ai asked.

"Yes. Xiao Ai, your intuition is not wrong." Lin Xiao gently stroked Huiyuan Ai's different-colored hair, "However, we are just passers-by, so we should not meddle in other people's business."

"I've had enough to eat and drink, and it's almost time to go to bed."

Yukiko Kudo returned the tea set and plates on the tray, went back to the room, and busied herself making the beds for Lin Xiao and Huihara Ai, as if she was Lin Xiao's husband and Huihara Ai was her daughter.