Conan: The Heart Thief

Kudo Yukiko came up again to stop them, opened her arms and hugged Lin Xiao, acting very willful and not like an elder at all.

"Auntie, you tried to deceive me, do you still expect me to tell you the truth?" Lin Xiao shook his finger at Kudo Yukiko, "Putting yourself in others' shoes is the most basic thing. You don't need me to teach you."

"Eh?!"

"Thank you for your hospitality, Auntie. It's getting dark now. I should go home."

"..."

Although Kudo Yukiko was very unwilling, she had no choice but to let Lin Xiao go back. Now she really had no right to ask Lin Xiao to answer her questions.

After Lin Xiao left, Kudo Yukiko felt that she had more questions in her mind.

She sat on the sofa, analyzing the previous conversation.

"What's going on with that Lin Xiao? He seems to know a lot about not only Shinichi's affairs, but also our family's affairs. What on earth is going on..."

Lin Xiao returned to his apartment, took a shower, and lay down on the bed. He wanted to sleep but couldn't, his mind was full of Kudo Yukiko's beautiful body. He had to distract himself by playing mobile games.

"I need to calm down now and not be impulsive!"

It's no wonder that Lin Xiao's concentration is not enough, mainly because there are too many beauties in the world of Detective Conan...

It was a new day. Teitan High School only had half a day of classes and then had a holiday.

Xiaolan invited Lin Xiao to her house for dinner again.

"Isn't this bad..."

"It's okay. Shinichi used to come to my house for dinner often. Since you live alone, Lin-kun, you can also come to my house for dinner often."

"Your father will hate me..."

"He dares?!"

"OK then."

Lin Xiao felt that what Xiaolan said made sense. Kudo Shinichi often went to Xiaolan's house for meals, so he could do the same.

"By the way, I have something for you."

Lin Xiao distributed the Phantom Thieves of Hearts cards printed with a home printer to Xiaolan.

"This is……"

"This is... the business card of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. As long as you distribute the business card, you can enter the heart palace of the bad guys in the name of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts and steal their hearts."

"How amazing!" Xiaolan looked amazed.

"But you have to keep it a secret, keep it secret from anyone."

"Well... this is a secret between me and Lin Xiao. I will keep it secret." A blush suddenly appeared on Xiaolan's face.

"A secret between the two of them?" Lin Xiao hesitated. Doesn't this mean that even if a new Phantom Thief idol joins, he cannot share the business card of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts?

After all, stealing hearts is no small matter. For now, it is enough for Xiaolan and I to have this ability. We can talk about other things later...

Next, Lin Xiao and Mao Lilan went to the Mao Li Detective Agency together.

As a rent collector in Tokyo, Kogoro Mouri received a huge amount of child support from Conan's parents. However, he didn't mind his daughter bringing her classmates home to eat for free, which made Conan very dissatisfied.

"Brother Lin Xiao, why are you here to eat for free again? You really know how to bother others!"

Lin Xiao knew that Conan was jealous again and didn't care about Conan's sarcasm at all.

Xiaolan was furious: "Conan, I invited Lin Jun here, do you have any objection?"

Faced with Xiaolan's questioning, Conan immediately felt intimidated, but at this time, he couldn't retreat.

"...Of course I have objections... If Shinichi knew that Xiaolan brought other boys home, he would definitely be unhappy."

"Conan, your words are so funny. Why should I try so hard to please Shinichi? What does it have to do with me whether he is happy or not?"

"what!"

Conan's eyes widened. He couldn't imagine that Xiaolan would say such hurtful words.

"Did I say something wrong?" Xiaolan narrowed her eyes. Kudo Shinichi and she were childhood sweethearts and their relationship was equal. Why should she be the one to please him instead of him pleasing her?

"Sister Xiaolan, you have changed. You were not like this before..."

Conan felt very hurt and was about to cry.

"Hehehe... Conan, you make it sound like you knew me before."

Xiaolan sneered, thinking that Conan was quite dishonest. At first, she thought Conan was cute and sensible, and liked him very much. Now, she thinks that Conan is very scheming, and he doesn't have the innocence of a child at all. Moreover, he is a lackey of Kudo Shinichi, and he tells tales to him every day, and she likes him less and less.

Chapter 21: African Friend Hattori Heiji

Not long after dinner, a guest came to the office. The guest was a young man, not very old, with dark complexion, wearing a baseball cap and carrying a large travel bag on his back.

"This is the Mouri Detective Agency. Do you have a commission? Yes," Xiaolan asked in confusion.

"..." The visitor did not answer, but looked at Xiaolan with great interest.

"Excuse me..." Xiaolan felt uncomfortable being stared at by the other party.

"Sister Xiaolan..." Conan raised his eyebrows and glanced at the young man warily, "You can see that he is a foreigner. How can he understand you when you speak Japanese to him?"

"So that's it, is he an African? If I speak English, will he be able to understand it?" Xiaolan looked at the visitor carefully and found that he was indeed as black as an African.

The young guest immediately got angry: "Who, who is African? I am a native of Osaka!"

Listening to the guest's authentic Osaka accent, Xiaolan suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. You are an African living in Osaka!"

"I told you, I'm not African, I'm from Osaka, Japan!" The customer almost fainted, straightened his baseball cap, and said seriously, "Ahem, let's get back to the point. My name is Hattori Heiji, and I'm a high school detective from Kansai. I came here to look for Kudo Shinichi."

Conan's nerves suddenly tensed up and he became very wary of Hattori Heiji.

Xiaolan bit her finger and asked in confusion: "Are you looking for Kudo Shinichi? How did you find my house?"

"Kudo Shinichi has been missing for a long time. He must have been hidden by you, right? Mori Ran." Hattori Heiji said with certainty.

Xiaolan pouted unhappily: "Why should I hide Kudo Shinichi? Where did you hear this rumor?"

Hattori Heiji explained: "I went to a party with my family and met Suzuki Sonoko, who is a friend of Kudo Shinichi. I asked her where Kudo Shinichi was. She told me that Kudo Shinichi did not come to school and went to handle a case.

But I don’t think so. If he was handling a case, he wouldn’t have disappeared for so long. So, he must have been hidden by you.

Mao Lilan, please tell me where Kudo is! Aren't you her woman? "

Xiaolan clenched her fists, her expression helpless and angry: "I am not Kudo Shinichi's woman. Kudo Shinichi has been missing for a long time, and I don't know where he is?"

"You still say you don't know... Kudo Shinichi, isn't he hiding here?"

Hattori Heiji rushed in, walked in front of Lin Xiao and pointed at Lin Xiao's nose.

"Kudo Shinichi, I guessed right. You hid just to avoid me! You turned a blind eye to the challenge letter I sent you? You just wanted to avoid the challenge I sent you!"

"Is this true?" Lin Xiao did not ask Hattori Heiji, but asked Conan, is this true?

Conan said with a bored look on his face: "Brother Shinichi can't even finish reading all the love letters he receives every day, so how could he pay attention to any challenge letters?"

"Kudo Shinichi, don't act stupid!"

Hattori Heiji questioned Lin Xiao aggressively, without asking any questions. He didn't act like a detective at all. His questioning was just to highlight Conan's power, which was in line with Lin Xiao's inherent impression of him.

"I'm not Kudo Shinichi. My name is Lin Xiao."

"Lin Xiao?"

"Can't you see that I'm not Kudo Shinichi?" Lin Xiao looked at Hattori Heiji with the eyes of a silly roe deer.

"What!" Realizing that he had recognized the wrong person, Hattori Heiji doubted his life. He looked at Lin Xiao carefully and found that the other person was indeed not Kudo Shinichi. "How could it be? It seems that Kudo Shinichi is really not here."

"A-choo!!!" Suddenly, Conan sneezed. He rubbed his nose and felt unwell. "Why did I suddenly catch a cold? It's so strange."

"Eh? Little brother, you have a cold. I have a good medicine here. I guarantee you will feel better after taking it." Seeing that Conan looked like he had a cold, Hattori Heiji immediately took out a bottle wrapped in white paper from his bag and poured a small cup of liquid into it and handed it to Conan, "Little brother, drink it and your cold will be cured!"

"Thank you." Conan was feeling uncomfortable, so he didn't think much about it and immediately picked up the cup of medicine and drank it down, "It's so spicy——"

Conan stuck out his tongue because of the spicy taste, and he looked very funny.

Soon, after drinking the "medicine", Conan's condition did not improve, but became worse. He felt dizzy and his face was abnormally red, which made Mao Li Ran worried.

"Hattori Heiji, what on earth did you give Conan to drink? Why did he become like this?"

"Hey hey hey..."

Hattori Heiji smiled and opened the white paper that originally wrapped the bottle: "It is a Chinese wine called 'Bai Gan'. I am sorry to bother you here before I meet Kudo. This is a meeting gift..."

As soon as Hattori Heiji finished speaking, Mori Kogoro came over and accepted the "Shiragan" wine.

"I'll accept the 'meeting gift'. But... if you give this kind of wine to a child, it will harm him, don't you know?"

After hearing this, Kogoro Mori also gave Hattori Heiji a lesson. After all, if such a young child was given high-fat drinks, he might have to be sent to the hospital.

Hattori Heiji immediately explained: "If you have a cold, drink this to make you sweat and it will be cured easily!"

Lin Xiao asked expressionlessly: "Hattori Heiji, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? You don't even have basic common sense."

Lin Xiao felt more and more that Hattori Heiji was a fool. It was unthinkable that he would think of giving strong liquor to a child.

"I'm not stupid. I'm a high school detective from Kansai, the most famous detective in Kansai!"

Lin Xiao laughed and retorted, "I guess your father's subordinates are teasing you."

"That's not the case!" Hattori Heiji was furious. "I was in Kansai, but I handled a lot of cases that the police couldn't solve!"

Hattori Heiji was planning to publicize his great achievements to Lin Xiao, when at this moment, "Knock knock knock..." several heavy knocks on the door were heard.

At the same time, a female voice with displeasure sounded.

"How long are you going to make me wait outside? I'm on a tight schedule."

Everyone looked back and saw a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties wearing a dark brown coat, sunglasses, and carrying a large black bag on her shoulders, with a look of impatience on her face.

"I'm sorry..." Kogoro Mouri immediately stepped forward to apologize, then glared at the other people fiercely, saying that they were talking too loudly, causing him to not notice the real client.

Mao Lilan also quickly cooperated with her father, tidied up the office, and invited the guests to sit down.

Lin Xiao, Conan, and Hattori Heiji stood aside and observed.

"Hello, sir, who are you?" asked Kogoro Mouri.

The middle-aged woman took out a business card and said, "My name is Tsujimura, Tsujimura Kimie, this is my business card."