Detective Conan: Developing a younger version of Ran Eri, and the stunning Yukiko.

Ran sneered, thinking that Conan was getting more and more unruly.

At first, she thought Conan was cute and sensible, and liked him very much.

But now I feel that Conan is quite scheming, completely lacking the innocence of a child, and he's like Shinichi Kudo's spy, reporting to Shinichi Kudo every day. I'm getting more and more annoyed with him.

Not long after we finished dinner, guests arrived at the firm.

The newcomer was a young man, very young, with dark skin, wearing a baseball cap and carrying a large travel bag on his back.

"This is the Mori Detective Agency. Do you have a case to file?"

Xiao Lan asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"..."

The visitor did not respond, but instead began to look at Xiaolan with great interest.

"Excuse me……"

Xiaolan felt extremely uncomfortable being stared at.

“Ran-neechan…” Conan raised an eyebrow, giving the young man a wary look. “Look, he’s obviously a foreigner. How can he understand Japanese if you speak to him?”

"I see. Is he from Africa? If I speak English, will he understand?" Xiao Lan carefully examined the visitor. He was indeed as dark-skinned as an African, that much was true.

The young customer immediately flew into a rage: "Who, who is African? I'm a native Osaka resident!"

Hearing the guest's thick, authentic Osaka accent, Xiaolan suddenly realized, "Oh, I see. You're an African living in Osaka!"

"I already said, I'm not African, I'm a proper Osaka native from Japan!"

The guest nearly fainted from anger. He straightened his baseball cap and said with a serious expression, "Ahem, getting back to the point, my name is Hattori Heiji, a high school detective from Kansai. I'm here to find Kudo Shinichi."

Conan's nerves tightened instantly, and he became extremely wary of Hattori Heiji.

Ran bit her finger, looking puzzled, and asked, "You're looking for Shinichi Kudo? How did you end up at my house?"

"Shinichi Kudo has been missing for a long time. You must have hidden him, right, Ran Mouri?" Heiji Hattori said with certainty.

Ran pouted unhappily: "Why would I hide Shinichi Kudo? Where did you hear such a rumor?"

Heiji Hattori explained, "I went to a party with my family and ran into Sonoko Suzuki. She's a friend of Shinichi Kudo, so I asked her where Shinichi Kudo was. She told me that Shinichi Kudo didn't come to school and went to handle a case."

But I don't think so. How could someone disappear for so long while handling a case? So, you must have hidden him.

"Ran Mouri, tell me where Kudo is! Aren't you his girlfriend?"

Ran clenched her fists, her expression a mixture of helplessness and anger: "I'm not Shinichi Kudo's girlfriend. Shinichi Kudo has been missing for a long time, and I don't know where he is!"

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040 Indiscriminately?

Chapter 40

"Still pretending not to know... Shinichi Kudo, isn't he hiding right here?"

Hattori Heiji barged in, walked straight up to Shiraishihara, and pointed at Shiraishihara's nose.

"Shinichi Kudo, I knew I wasn't wrong. You hid away to avoid me! You ignored the challenge I sent you? Just to escape the challenge I issued to you!"

"Is that so?"

Shiraishi wasn't asking Hattori Heiji, but rather turned to Conan and asked if it was true.

Conan said with a bored expression, "Shinichi receives so many love letters every day, he wouldn't pay attention to any challenge letters."

"Shinichi Kudo, stop playing dumb!"

Hattori Heiji questioned Shiraishihara aggressively, without asking any questions or clarifying the situation. He didn't act like a detective at all; he seemed more like someone there to highlight Conan's abilities, which matched Shiraishihara's preconceived notions about him.

"I'm not Shinichi Kudo. My name is Shiraishihara."

"Shiraishihara?"

"Can't you tell that I'm not Shinichi Kudo?"

Shiraishi looked at Hattori Heiji as if he were an idiot.

"what!"

Realizing he had mistaken someone for someone else, Hattori Heiji was utterly bewildered.

He carefully examined Shiraishihara and realized that the other person was indeed not Shinichi Kudo.

"How could this be? It seems Shinichi Kudo really isn't here."

"Achoo!!!" Suddenly, Conan sneezed. He rubbed his nose and felt unwell. "How did I suddenly catch a cold? That's strange."

"Oh? Little brother, you have a cold. I have a special medicine here that will make you feel better after taking it."

Seeing that Conan looked like he had a cold, Heiji Hattori immediately took out a bottle wrapped in white paper from his bag, poured a small cup of liquid, and handed it to Conan. "Little brother, drink this and your cold will be better!"

"Thanks." Conan was feeling unwell and didn't think much of it, picking up the cup of medicine and gulping it down. "Ouch—"

Conan was so spicy that he stuck out his tongue, looking quite comical.

Soon after drinking the "medicine," Conan's condition not only did not improve, but worsened. He felt dizzy and his face turned an abnormally red, which made Ran Mouri very worried.

"Heiji Hattori, what exactly did you give Conan to drink? How did he become like this?"

"Hey hey hey..."

Heiji Hattori smiled and unwrapped the white paper that had been covering the bottle: "This is a Chinese liquor called 'Bai Gan.' I'll have to bother you for a while before I meet Kudo, so consider this a small gift..."

No sooner had Heiji Hattori finished speaking than Kogoro Mori walked over and took the "white liquor" from him.

“I’ve accepted the ‘gift,’ but… you’re giving this kind of wine to a child, it’ll cause problems, do you know that?”

Upon hearing this, Kogoro Mouri also reprimanded Heiji Hattori a few times, since giving such a young child strong liquor could easily result in him being sent to the hospital.

Hattori Heiji quickly explained, "If you have a cold, drinking this will make you sweat, and you'll get better very easily!"

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

Shiraishihara increasingly felt that Hattori Heiji was an idiot for giving a child strong liquor; how could he even think of such a thing?

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

Shiraishi chuckled and retorted, "I bet it's your father's subordinate playing a trick on you."

"That's not how it is!" Hattori Heiji was furious.

"I've handled many cases in the Kansai region that the police couldn't solve!"

Just as Hattori Heiji was about to boast to Shiraishihara about his great achievements, a series of heavy knocks came from the door.

At the same time, a displeased female voice rang out.

"How long are you going to make me wait outside? I'm in a hurry."

Everyone turned to look and saw a middle-aged woman, about forty-five or forty-six years old, wearing a dark brown coat, sunglasses, and carrying a large black bag on her shoulder, looking very impatient.

"I'm sorry..." Kogoro Mouri quickly stepped forward to apologize, then glared at the others, blaming them for talking too loudly and preventing him from noticing the real client.

Ran Mouri quickly helped her father tidy up the office and invited the guests to sit down.

Shiraishihara, Conan, and Hattori Heiji stood aside and observed.

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

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

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041 No need for further explanation

Chapter 41

Kogoro Mouri took the business card and asked, "Oh, Ms. Tsujimura, what would you like to ask me to do?"

"To be precise, my husband and I would like to ask you to help us investigate someone. Oh, by the way, my husband is a diplomat."

Kimie Tsujimura looked somewhat impatient as she took a stack of documents from her black bag and handed them to Kogoro Mouri.

"Okay." Kogoro Mouri took the documents and began to read them. "So, you want me to investigate your son's girlfriend's character?"

“That’s right, these are her photos and resume.” Kimie Tsujimura nodded.

The woman in the photo is young and beautiful, with short, dark brown curly hair and a radiant smile.

"Miss Katsuragi Sachiko is twenty-four years old this year. She graduated with top honors from both Mitsuba Junior High School and Mitsuba High School. She is currently studying at Toto Medical University and is determined to become a female doctor who saves lives."

Having read this far, Kogoro Mouri put down the documents, his face full of confusion.

"According to the information, this girl is excellent in both character and academics. What is it about her that you are not satisfied with?"

“No.” Kimie Tsujimura lowered her eyelids slightly. “It’s just…”

Kimie Tsujimura hesitated, seemingly unsure how to express herself.

At this moment, Hattori Heiji interjected, thinking himself clever: "It must be because the woman in the photo is too perfect that you can't stand her. Humans are inherently suspicious and jealous, so it's not surprising that a mother would be jealous of her son's girlfriend. Am I right, Ms. Tsujimura?"

Upon hearing this, Kimie Tsujimura's face immediately turned cold, and he looked extremely dissatisfied.

"Detective Mori, who is this guy?"

"Ah, this..." Kogoro Mouri looked embarrassed. "He's my daughter's friend."

Kimie Tsujimura didn't say anything more, and stood up impatiently, saying, "Anyway, we can discuss the details with my husband when you get to my house."

Kogoro Mouri asked in surprise, "Excuse me, do I have to go there now? If that's the case, why don't you and your wife come together?"

In response to Kogoro Mouri's words, Kimie Tsujimura's expression grew increasingly impatient: "My husband is a diplomat. If people find out he's in a place like this..."

"A scandal will break out."

Hattori Heiji quickly added, "Then please allow us to go with you."

Kimie Tsujimura demanded, "Why?"

“With so many of us going together, people will only think we’re relatives and friends visiting, not that we’re detectives!” Hattori Heiji explained.

Kogoro Mouri, who was about to get angry, thought it made a lot of sense and suppressed his anger.

"Alright, let's do it this way. Let them go too." Kimie Tsujimura put his sunglasses back on and instructed Kogoro Mori.

"Yes, Mrs. Tsujimura."

As a result... the group set off with Kogoro Mouri.

On the way, Ran Mouri kept looking at Conan with a worried expression.

"Conan, you're in this state, why do you still insist on coming along? You should stay home and rest at a time like this."

"I'm fine, I'm perfectly alright!" Conan said, still feeling dizzy and trying to sound tough.

Inside the Tsujimura mansion.

"Madam, you're back!" Butler Fumio Koike, dressed in a black suit and wearing a black bow tie, hurriedly stepped forward to greet her.

"Where is the master?" Tsujimura Kimie asked.

Fumio Koike responded, "I think the master is probably in his study." He then turned his gaze to the guests, "And these gentlemen are..."

Kimie Tsujimura replied coldly, "You don't need to ask any more questions."

"Yes, Madam." Fumio Koike wisely kept his mouth shut.

Just then, a gentle and sweet girl's voice came from inside.

"Mom, I'm sorry to bother you."

Everyone looked up at the sound and saw the girl from the photo appear before them. She had dark brown hair, wore a dark blue headband, and an elegant light purple jacket. A bright smile bloomed on her delicate face.

"Ah, it's from the photo..."

Before Kogoro Mouri could finish his sentence, Heiji Hattori covered his mouth with his hand.

Kimie Tsujimura said to the girl with a displeased look, "How did you end up here?"

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