"Brother Heiji and sister Kazuye, they are so slow..."
Conan yawned loudly, sat on the sofa in the Maori Detective Agency and said with dead eyes.
"Well... I promised to come at one o'clock, but it's already two o'clock."
Xiaolan looked at her watch and paced in the office.
"Then why don't you just give him a call... He should have a mobile phone, right?" Mouri Kogoro said impatiently while smoking a cigarette.
"I've tried it, but it doesn't seem to be turning on."
A worried look appeared on Xiaolan's face.
"And I called Hattori's mother, and she said they had already arrived on the eight o'clock flight..."
Conan listened boredly to the conversation between Maori and his daughter.
More than a week has passed since the last shock at Xianqiao Station. He has reached a consensus with Yuan Huaiyu in school and formed a temporary alliance in the face of the crisis in Belmode.
Considering that there is strength in numbers, he proposed to Yuan Huaiyu that his good friend and acquaintance of Yuan Huaiyu, Hattori Heiji, should also join them.
After Yuanhuaiyu readily agreed, Conan contacted Heiji who was far away in Osaka, told him the whole story, and invited Heiji to come to Tokyo to discuss related matters.
Yesterday, Conan just called Hattori Heiji. Early this morning, the Osaka high school detective who cares about his friend and rival, hurriedly grabbed his childhood sweetheart, Toyama Kazuha, and arrived in Tokyo by plane.
They had arrived in the morning, but the appointment time with Uncle Maori was at one o'clock in the afternoon because they wanted to find someone.
"I heard that that person is Kazuha's father's former subordinate of Toyama's criminal director. His name is Kusukawa. He is now working in a detective agency in Tokyo..."
Xiaolan said.
"Oh? Kusukawa from the Acupido Detective Agency? I know him as a very gambling man. I heard that he was fired by the police because he was too addicted to gambling..."
Mouri Kogoro raised his head slightly and recalled the information about Detective Kusukawa.
"I heard that that person sent a letter to Kazuha's father not long ago saying that there was something important, but he lost contact completely after that. So Kazuha's father asked Heiji and the others to stop by when they came to Tokyo this time.
Look what happened to Mr. Kusukawa."
"By the way, that dark-skinned detective kid might be at Kusukawa's place."
Mouri Kogoro dug out a phone number from his notebook, picked up the phone and dialed.
"Is this the Acupido Detective Agency? I would like to find Mr. Kusukawa..."
"What? You haven't been able to contact him for two or three days? He said before that he wanted to follow a big case, maybe he was tracking him somewhere?"
Mouri Kogoro's voice rose an octave.
"Uh... I'm not playing mahjong, but I want to ask if two high school students have gone to see Mr. Kusukawa?"
"Oh? Yes? Yes, yes, a man and a woman came from Osaka. They went to Mr. Kusukawa's residence? Okay, okay, thank you."
Mouri Kogoro hung up the phone and sighed deeply.
"It seems we have to find those two guys by ourselves... Really, why do we, as hosts, have to look for guests everywhere?"
…
It started to rain lightly outside the window.
"Xiao Ai, do you like rainy days?"
Yuan Huaiyu was lying on a soft and comfortable armchair, with an open book covering his face. There was a large glass of sparkling happy water on the coffee table next to him, and he asked lazily.
Haihara Ai sat upright and elegantly on the chair on the other side of the coffee table, picked up her cup from the coffee table and took a sip of hot tea.
She moved her eyes away from the book in her hand and looked at Yuan Huaiyu whose face was completely covered by the "Book on Rainy Days".
"Rainy days always make people feel a little depressed. But from another perspective, it also makes people's minds peaceful."
Yuan Huaiyu opened and closed his lips: "Yeah... when I was a child, I hated rainy days - when it rained, I basically had to go home obediently and couldn't play freely outside."
"What about now?" Haiyuan Ai asked casually while reading the book.
"Now... now I think the rain is pretty good. Anyway, I don't like going out that much now."
Yes, as long as it is not necessary, you would rather stay at home and entertain yourself...
Hui Yuan Ai muttered something in his heart.
The two of them didn't speak anymore. In the spacious space, only the subtle snoring of Yuan Huaiyu, the sound of Haiyuan Ai turning the pages of a book, and the clear but not noisy sound of rain outside the window...
The years are quiet and peaceful.
"Ring ring ring!"
Suddenly, a phone ringing broke this rare peace.
"Um--"
A complaining voice came from under the book on Yuan Huaiyu's face.
He reached out and took down the "Book on a Rainy Day", placed it on the coffee table, and slowly took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
"What's going on?"
He glanced at the caller number, lay down again, put the phone to his ear, closed his eyes and asked.
"Oh? Hattori arrived in Japan this morning, but now he is missing? Do you suspect that something happened to him?"
As soon as he heard that Conan persuaded Heiji to go find a detective first to find something, but he disappeared again, Yuanhuaiyu suddenly had something in his mind.
"So? Did Uncle Maori take you and Xiaolan to the detective named Nanchuan? Did you find anything?"
"The Ito family in Kenhashi Town? Why is it Kenhashi again..."
"Do you think there is something suspicious about a well-known lawyer? If you guessed correctly, that Obasan should be called Misari Ito, right?"
"How do you know I know? Let's not talk about it for now. Don't go to Misari Ito's house by yourself. Hattori's disappearance should be related to her."
"Okay, where are you now? I'll go find you."
After Conan reported his address, Yuan Huaiyu pressed the hang up button, stuffed his phone into his pocket, closed his eyes and remained motionless as if he had fallen asleep.
A minute later, Yuan Huaiyu opened his eyes, sat up, and met Hui Yuan Ai's inquiring eyes.
"Is that Osaka detective in trouble?"
Haibara Ai was quite impressed by this famous Kansai detective who was as famous as Kudo Shinichi, mainly because of the black.
"Yes, I have to go out. The situation is quite critical. Hattori and Kazuha's lives may be in danger at any time now."
Yuan Huaiyu picked up his cup and took a sip of ice-cold happy water, then looked out the window.
"Oh, Yu Tianzhen doesn't want to go out... It would be so comfortable to just lie down and take a nap..."
Having said that, Yuan Huaiyu walked to the door, put on his coat, held an umbrella and walked out.
After watching him go out, Hui Yuan Ai shook his head slightly, put down his book, walked upstairs, and got into the laboratory.