"Hey...Obasan! Have you finished your work? Go back to Osaka quickly!"
Freed from the embarrassing failure of the pretense competition, Hattori Heiji grabbed Ikeba Shizuka's arm and rushed out the door.
At this moment, Mouri Kogoro, who was anesthetized at the side, woke up from his anesthesia. He heard Hattori's words and jumped up in anger.
"Hey! You are so rude to Ms. Chibo like this! How can Obasan, Obasan call a lady like this!"
"I can yell whatever I want." Hattori Heiji pointed his thumb back at Ikeha Shizuka and said angrily: "After all, she is my mother!"
"Ha!? Nani!!!!"
After hearing Hattori Heiji's words, Conan, Xiaoran and Mouri Kogoro opened their mouths wide, looking extremely shocked.
"You, you lied...Bi, after all..."
Xiaolan looked in disbelief, pointed at Hattori and exclaimed: "After all, you see Ms. Jinghua is so white!! Why do you..."
"Baga!! I inherited my father's dark skin color!!" Hattori Heiji was obviously heartbroken again and shouted in shame and anger.
And in Hattori Shizuka's embarrassed explanation, everyone also knew why the other party came to entrust him with the request and told so many lies in the process.
All this is to test Mouri Kogoro.
"Eh? Testing?" Mouri Kogoro asked in confusion: "Why do you do this?"
"It's just a mother's worry."
Shizuka Hattori smiled sheepishly and explained: "Every time Heiji and Mr. Mori solve a case together, they always seem to lose.
Therefore, I also wonder if Detective Mori adopted a "Spartan" approach in order to let Heiji learn more knowledge about criminal investigation and made him do a lot of difficult and reluctant work."
Speaking of this, Shizuka Hattori said with a worried expression: "And when Mr. Mori came to Osaka before, he didn't come to my house as a guest...
The last time you went to Osaka, you didn't come to my house either... so I'm worried that you might still be a bloodless, tearless, inhumane man."
Hearing what his mother said, Hattori Heiji complained with drooped eyes: "It sounds nice, but when I was injured and hospitalized before, you didn't come to the hospital to see me either."
"Ah... That's because I was pressed for time, so I didn't have time..." Mouri Kogoro promised again and again: "Next time, I will definitely visit him next time."
"I feel relieved when I hear you say that. I was getting more and more worried before, so I took the liberty to come here and cause trouble to you."
Hattori Jinghua bowed slightly to apologize and said with a smile: "But thanks to this, I finally know why our family Heiji admires you so much!
After all, Mr. Mori is a nice person and has great reasoning ability, so this is a matter of course!"
"Thank you very much for your compliment..." Mouri Kogoro replied in confusion after hearing the other party's praise.
After thanking you, Shizuka Hattori looked at Karasawa and smiled and said: "I have often heard your name mentioned by my husband, and it was indeed well-deserved when I saw you today. I wanted to find another time to meet another person whom Heiji admires, but I didn't.
Thinking about it, today is just the right time.
Thank you also for taking care of our family Heiji."
"You're too kind."
Karasawa said quickly: "I am only a few years older than Heiji. You are an elder and you don't have to be so polite. Heiji is like a younger brother to me. You don't need to tell me that I will take care of him."
"Having you say this makes me feel at ease."
After Shizuka Hattori bowed slightly to thank him, he looked at Kogoro Mori and asked, "This time, Heiji and Kazuha will be handed over to you, Detective Mori. Please take good care of them."
"Ah? Leave it to me?" Mouri Kogoro said in confusion: "Why?"
"Eh? Didn't you listen to Conan-kun?" Hattori Heiji glanced at Conan in confusion, and immediately began to talk about why the two came to see them.
After some explanation, everyone realized that it was Hattori Heiji who had invited Mouri Kogoro to accompany him to Fukui to investigate the case.
No wonder everyone saw that Heiji and Heiji were both carrying suitcases.
As for why the two of them didn't know, it was naturally because Hattori Heiji called Conan and hoped that he would inform him in place.
But Conan thought it was a joke, so he didn't respond in time.
"By the way, you said you were going to a small isolated island called Miinabeshima near Wakasa Bay to investigate a case?" Karasawa showed an interested expression, "I remember that island seemed to be called..."
"I didn't expect you to know about Karasawa Criminal Investigation." Hattori Heiji nodded and said with a trace of his lips: "Yes, outsiders there say that is... the island where mermaids live."
"Huh? There are mermaids living up there?" Mouri Kogoro, who was on the side, was speechless after hearing the conversation between the two, "Does anyone believe this kind of thing?"
"Well, maybe it's because there are real examples in front of you."
Hattori Heiji smiled and said: "On that small island, there is a mother-in-law who is said to have eaten mermaid meat and gained immortality."
"Ah! I know what you're talking about!"
Xiaolan's eyes lit up when she heard this and said: "I remember it was about three years ago. The immortal mother-in-law was quite a sensation at that time!"
"Yes, this is it!" Toyama and Ye Mian said with admiration: "I also want to keep myself young and beautiful forever, so I followed Heiji here."
"Hey, are you trying to get someone..."
Before Xiaolan could say anything, her mouth was covered by the shy He Ye, and the two girls started laughing and playing around.
"Humph, she's just a long-lived mother-in-law." Mouri Kogoro said speechlessly: "It's not like the legendary eight-hundred nun who ate mermaid meat and lived for eight hundred years."
"But the Wakasa country where the eight hundred bhikkhunis are located is the current Fujing, and it can be regarded as the birthplace." Karasawa said with a smile.
"Then what happens next? You came to me specifically. Is it because the client wants to find a mermaid?"
Mouri Kogoro looked unmotivated, "If that's the case, forget it, I don't want to find something that doesn't exist at all."
"No, in fact the commission is exactly the opposite. The commission letter sent has only one sentence - "The mermaid will kill me, please save me!"
Speaking of this, Hattori Heiji's face gradually became serious, "I can even see the fear of the writer from the trembling notes.
Regardless of the fact that when I called for the first time, I was hung up even though it was very painful, but I still got the sound of the waves and the shouts of women..."
"Interesting." Tang Ze touched his chin with interest and pondered for a moment before saying, "It's decided, I'll go with you!"
"ha?"
Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard Tang Ze's words, and Xiaolan on the side couldn't help but ask: "But Tang Ze Criminal, you are still at work, are you okay?"
"Don't worry, just take a vacation." Tang Ze waved his hand casually.
Not to mention taking a vacation, it is nothing for Tang Ze, who has more and more privileges now. Even if he cannot ask for leave, he will not miss this rare case.
Whether it's for rewards or to prevent the coming tragedy.
"But Tang Ze Criminal, why are you so concerned about this matter?"
Conan, who couldn't muster any energy, couldn't help but became interested when he heard that Karasawa had asked for leave and wanted to go to the island with them. "Is there something that caught your attention?"
"No, nothing was discovered." Tang Ze smiled and shook his head.
"Is it possible, Tangze Criminal, that you are interested in the mermaid who can live forever?"
Conan looked at Tangze with a surprised expression, as if he was saying, "How can you, a thick-eyed person like you, believe such a childish thing?"
"No, I don't believe there are any mermaids in this world either."
Tang Ze feels that in the world of Ke Xue, it is the right way to believe in "Ke Xue". Playing with "demons, ghosts and ghosts" is too un-"Ke Xue".
"Then Tangze Criminal, why do you want to go to the island with us?" After hearing Tangze's words, Toyama and Ye couldn't help but ask.
"Although there is no evidence now, it's just intuition, but I feel that this may be someone using the "mermaid" to plan something behind the scenes, so I want to investigate."
"Planning?"
"Mermaid?"
"What's the conspiracy behind it?"
Seeing that everyone was starting to think things over, and their expressions gradually became serious, Tang Ze waved his hands quickly, "Of course, these are just my guesses, without any basis. Maybe the client really wanted to find that unfounded mermaid.
Maybe."
"But no matter what, if you go with Tangze Criminal, I will feel more at ease!"
When Hattori Shizuka heard that Karasawa also wanted to go to the island, he bowed slightly and said, "Heiji and Kazuha, please take care of them."
"Don't worry, I promise nothing will happen to them." Tang Ze smiled and replied.
"Oh, okay, okay, mom, please go back quickly."
Hattori Heiji, who was on the side, saw his mother's appearance and quickly pushed Shizuka Hattori out, "I'm not a child anymore, so I don't need to worry so much. You should go back to Dashan as soon as possible. If it's too late, you won't be able to buy a ticket."
Already."
Well, if we want to accurately describe Hattori Heiji’s mood at this moment.
So when moving into the dormitory in college, the feeling of a mother telling her roommates to take more care of her son can be perfectly replicated in Hattori Heiji's current mood.
After placing the salute on Karasawa's car, Hattori Heiji hailed a taxi and took Kazuha and his mother to the train station.
Of course, instead of going back to Oban with Hattori Shizuka, he and Kazuha bought tickets to Tokyo.
Because Karasawa's car could not carry so many people, the two simply put the salutes on the car and asked them to load up and take the car to Tokyo.
After Karasawa sent Mouri Kogoro and the others back to the office, he picked them up at the station and took them to a hotel to stay for one night.
"Speaking of which, what happened to Mr. Yoshikawa in the end?"
After the car got on the road, Xiaolan, who was sitting in the back seat, suddenly remembered this incident and couldn't help asking curiously.
"Well, after Officer Henggou went to his house to search and collect evidence, he would also be punished as he should." Mouri Kogoro replied casually.
"After all, people gathered together in private to gamble, and something like this happened. The plot is quite bad, and I guess it's enough to make you suffer." Tang Ze added with a smile after hearing this.
Speaking of which, gambling in Neon is also explicitly prohibited by the criminal law.
However, as a special law, public gambling (such as horse racing, etc.) that can bring revenue to local finances is legal.
Speaking of which, we have to talk about the wonders of Neon’s gambling industry.
The most famous ones are small steel ball shops like Pachinko, but this is a gray industry. If you ask any neon person whether a small steel ball shop is gambling, nine times out of ten they will tell you that it is gambling.
But legally it is a custom industry.
Because gambling as defined in the Neon Criminal Code must involve money, gambling as defined in the Criminal Code must involve money (cash or securities).
However, this point was taken advantage of by the "three-store method" adopted by the small steel ball store.
The general process is that customers enter the store and spend money to buy small steel balls, and then play games. After the game is over, they take the small steel balls to the store to exchange for corresponding prizes.
Then turn left when you go out and enter the pawn shop next to it, and you can exchange Pachinko's prizes directly for money.
Simply put it is:
Cash is exchanged for small steel balls → the small steel balls won are directly exchanged for money: gambling, prohibited by law
Cash is exchanged for small steel balls → the small steel balls won are exchanged for special prizes → take the special prizes to the exchange office to exchange for cash: non-gambling, legal
Through the existence of this "special prize", the small steel ball industry has completed legal whitewashing.
But most people’s attitude is: Do you think I’m blind?
But no matter what, they are a legal industry, comply with the law and are large tax payers, so naturally everything will be fine.
As for Yoshikawa Takezo, not only did the amount of gambling be huge, but it was also private in nature, so he would definitely not pay taxes, and it also forced people to lose their families. The plot was too bad, so it was naturally a shame.
However, the group of people naturally had no sympathy for Yoshikawa Takezo, and instead felt a sense of relief when hearing the other person's words.
So when it comes to gambling on this thing, it’s better for everyone to stay away from it.
After sending Mouri Kogoro and others back to the office, and picking up Hattori Heiji and the others, the three of them had dinner together, and then Karasawa returned to the dormitory and started packing his luggage.
Early the next morning, everyone boarded the boat to Meiguo Island early.
Conan also learned on the ship that the letter sent to Hattori Heiji was actually a commission sent to him. In addition, Karasawa said that there might be something hidden behind it, so Conan gradually became interested in this case.
He has made up his mind to start investigating after landing on the island. This time he must find out the clues about the case before Tangze Criminal!
Then...when he is full of energy.
Conan ate his fill of dog food during the intimate gestures between Karasawa and Ayako~
Hahaha!! You even said it was for investigating the case, I believe you! You bad old man is so bad!!
So, you took leave this time just to torture the dog...ah, it was just for a date!!
With drooping fish eyes, Conan looked at the two people with a "sweet atmosphere" in front of him, complaining crazily in his heart, but there was a trace of envy in his eyes, but he couldn't hide it at all.
This chapter has been completed!