The three of them went home early the next morning, but Kogoro Mouri went fooling around somewhere and waited until he came back in the evening.
"Ou~dou~san~"
As soon as he entered the house, Mouri Kogoro heard the "urging cry" from his daughter. He shuddered and looked at his daughter with a flattering smile and said: "Hey, you are back. How are you having fun?"
"I came back early in the morning." Xiaolan put her hands on her hips and looked at her father angrily and said, "You didn't go home yesterday. The quilt was all neat and tidy, and you didn't come back until now."
"No, it's not..."
Mouri Kogoro looked at his daughter with a panic expression on her face, but then he remembered something and grabbed a life-saving straw, and hurriedly took out an invitation letter from his pocket:
"Look at this, I received an invitation. Maybe the host of the party has entrusted me with something!"
"Really? Why don't you open it quickly and take a look."
Xiaolan saw that her father had begun to beg for mercy, so she decided to save him some face. She did not continue to pursue his previous night out, but continued to follow his words.
"Please help me take a look."
Mouri Kogoro handed the invitation to his daughter and showed off proudly: "Maybe it's an invitation from my fans~ Let you see how famous my detective Moori Kogoro is!
But I don’t really want to go, it actually has a Halloween invitation written on it, it’s really out of place!”
"Eh? Untimely?" Xiaolan asked puzzledly while opening the letter: "Why do you say that?"
"Don't even look at what month it is now." Mouri Kogoro said speechlessly while sitting on the sofa: "But Halloween is on October 31st every year, so I said it is "inappropriate"."
Seeing that Xiaolan had opened the letter and started to read the contents, Mouri Kogoro was half lying on the sofa and holding his chin and said: "What is written on it?"
"Uh...this letter says..."
Xiaolan looked at the letter and read with some embarrassment: "Hello, incompetent Detective Mouri Kogoro...
The night of the full moon is coming, and I specially invite you to a scary and scary party...
It's a bloody party on a ship...
Regardless of whether you choose to attend or not, the poor lamb to be slaughtered cannot escape the fate of its own death.
And the guilty will go free..."
"Hahaha--!"
After hearing the content of the invitation read by Xiaolan, Mouri Kogoro couldn't help but gnashed his teeth, "How brave you are, how dare you... How dare you write a provocation to me, Moori Kogoro...
Did it say who the asshole sent it to me!??”
"Well...it's written on the envelope, but it seems to be a foreigner's name..." Xiaolan looked at the name on the envelope and couldn't help but read out, "Vermouth..."
"Humph! Who cares who he is!"
Mouri Kogoro said angrily: "I have decided to attend this banquet. Then I will slap that guy in the face hard and let him know how powerful I am, Moori Kogoro!!"
On the sidelines, Conan, who would secretly complain about Moori Kogoro as usual after hearing what he said, had no intention of complaining at this moment. He touched his chin with a solemn look on his face.
Obviously, he had already thought of something from this name.
.........
"Vermouth..."
"I'm so sorry..." Dr. A Li held the phone and apologized: "I have never heard of Xiaolan..."
"It's okay, I'm just asking..." Xiaolan's words came from the phone: "I just don't know what the purpose of the person who remembered the invitation letter is..."
"Then Mouri plans to attend the dinner party tomorrow night?" Dr. A Li asked.
"Yeah... Dad said that men don't have the word coward..." Xiaolan looked at the two people next to her and said: "Right now Yuanzi is helping dad put on makeup. Which style should be used when I see it...
.”
"yes..."
Xiaolan looked at the invitation in her hand and said: "Because the theme of the party on the invitation is "Halloween", the organizer also requires that every participant must dress up as a ghost and wear a black suit or dress to attend the banquet."
.
Even fellow travelers must dress up according to the above standards..."
"Come with us?" Dr. Ali heard Xiaolan's words and asked: "Xiaolan, do you also want to participate with your father?"
"Are you kidding me? How could I go to that crappy Halloween party?!" Xiaolan's decibel level soared like an exploding balloon in an instant.
Dr. A Li sweated: "I...I think so..."
"Ah, by the way, doctor, besides asking you if you know who is hosting the banquet, I also want to ask you something, doctor..."
Xiaolan looked at Moori Kogoro who was angry because of his makeup and Sonoko who was laughing and walked to the side and lowered her voice and said: "My father has received the invitation... Then maybe Shinichi... may also receive it.
This invitation letter..."
"Shinichi..." Dr. Ali glanced at Conan next to him and said with a smile, "I understand. I will help you check the Shinichi family's mailbox later."
"Excuse me, doctor."
Xiaolan was a little embarrassed and made an excuse to explain: "After all, it is a provocative letter sent by the organizer to the detective. If you don't send him an email to notify him of this kind of thing, you will have to complain again..."
"Well...no problem...if I see it, I'll let you know..."
Dr. A Li paused and said: "But I think there shouldn't be anything... I checked his mailbox for him in the morning, but I didn't see the invitation... I'll check it out later..."
"Is that so?" Xiaolan nodded after hearing this and then explained again: "Ah, by the way, doctor, Conan is going to your place, please be sure to keep an eye on him, after all, that kid always likes to run to dangerous places.
..”
"Well, I know, I will definitely take a good look at him. I know, I will definitely take a good look at him." Dr. Ali agreed.
After Xiaolan thanked him again, he hung up the phone, while Conan and Tang Ze sat next to him and looked at the contents of the invitation letter.
"Are you planning to go?" Haiyuan, who was wearing a mask, coughed twice: "That ghost ship..."
"Well...I'm very interested in the signature at the end of the letter..." Conan said, looking at the letter.
"Do you have any ideas?" Dr. Ali was surprised when he heard this.
"I think Haibara should know this better." Karasawa smiled and said: "After all, like gin, vodka, and Vermouth, it is the name of the wine."
"I don't have much research on alcohol, and I have never heard of Vermouth..." Haiyuan coughed.
In addition, because the bugs had been disposed of into the small dark room again, Haiyuan had no scruples about talking about the organization.
"This kind of wine is produced in Italy. Usually we call it another name..." Conan looked at Haiyuan with a solemn expression and slowly said one word:
"Absinthe…"
This chapter has been completed!