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Chapter 56: A loving father and a filial daughter

Early the next morning, Mouri Kogoro ran to the taxi company where Hirota Kenzo once worked, and asked the taxi company's employees for news about Hirota Kenzo.

However, Hirota Kenzo seemed to have had little interaction with his colleagues, and none of his colleagues knew his whereabouts. It was as if he had disappeared from the world.

Even his colleagues at the taxi company didn't know that Kenzo Hirota had a daughter from Yamagata Prefecture.

As the investigation continued day by day, Mouri Kogoro found almost nothing.

Considering that Mr. Hirota has four cats, he also visited every pet hospital in the city, but he couldn't find any clues.

During this period, Masami Hirota made two more visits to the Mori Detective Agency, wanting to ask if there was any trace of Kenzo Hirota.

On the days when I am not here, I will make two or three phone calls to Mouri Kogoro every day.

"I'm so sorry!" Mouri Kogoro said to the other end of the phone with an apologetic look on his face, "Yes, please give me a little more time... Okay!"

After hanging up the phone, his face looked very ugly.

"Is this Miss Yamei calling again?" Xiaolan looked at her father who was helpless and asked worriedly.

"Well... I've already made three phone calls today." Mouri Kogoro replied.

Today is already a week after he started looking for Hirota Kenzo, but he has been unable to find any trace of this middle-aged man.

Mouri Kogoro grabbed his hair in annoyance and punched the sofa hard.

In the living room, a live broadcast of the horse racing is playing on the TV.

[Oh! The gap has narrowed from four horse lengths to five horse lengths! Go for it!]

[The King of Hao Kuai, G1 wins five consecutive games!]

"Emperor Hao Kuai?" Conan repeated the name while listening to the TV, feeling that it seemed familiar.

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and remembered the names of the four cats raised by Hirota Kenzo.

He immediately found paper and pen to write down the name of the horse, and found that it was composed of the names of the four cats raised by Hirota Kenzo.

"Hahaha... It can't be such a coincidence, right?" The corner of his mouth twitched, thinking to himself.

Xiaolan accidentally caught a glimpse of Conan's writing, and then heard the shouting "Emperor Hao Kuai is indeed the undefeated emperor" coming from the TV, and her eyes lit up.

"That's right! That must be the case! Mr. Hirota likes horse racing!"

“That’s why I named the cat after the horse!”

"You'll definitely find him at the racecourse!"

【Hey, hey...】

Conan was speechless, and Mouri Kogoro also sneered at this conclusion.

They didn't believe that it was so easy to find Hirota Kenzo.

But in the end, they couldn't defeat Xiaolan and were dragged to the Tokyo Racecourse. Xiaolan looked at the crowd of spectators in front of her and exclaimed excitedly:

"Wow! This is my first time at the racecourse! It's so spectacular!"

"Let's find Miss Yami's father quickly!"

[Idiot! How can I find it!] Mouri Kogoro put his hands in his pockets and thought disdainfully.

[You underestimate the work of detectives!] A high school detective felt proud in his heart.

But the two of them obviously underestimated the luck of Qingshan's daughter Mao Lilan.

God Lan will send down divine punishment to punish them for their disrespectful thoughts.

"And in such a chaotic crowd, how can we..." Mouri Kogoro looked around and questioned.

"Ah! There!"

Xiaolan looked back and saw a middle-aged man holding a newspaper walking past them.

Surprisingly, it was Kenzo Hirota they were looking for!

"Eh?!"

Conan and Kogoro followed her eyes and saw the fat, middle-aged man with a somewhat bald head.

【Really found it!】

The two of them were dumbfounded.

"Look! I am also a famous detective!" Xiaolan pointed at Kenzo Hirota and said to the two of them with a smile.

【How...how is it possible...】

The two detectives, one large and one small, began to doubt life at the same time.

"I'll call him!"

Seeing that Xiaolan was about to walk up to greet Hirota Kenzo, Mouri Kogoro quickly grabbed his daughter: "Don't call him, so as not to scare the snake!"

"We followed him to see where he lived..."

The racecourse was still full of passionate cheers and shouts, and the three of them were far behind Kenzo Hirota who was walking towards the exit.



"Thank you! Thank you, Mr. Detective!"

"Thank you for helping me find my dad!"

Miyano Akemi thanked Mouri Kogoro angrily.

Mouri Kogoro looked at her with strange eyes: "It must have come too soon! I just told you..."

"I was so happy that I rushed over immediately..." Miyano Akemi said with sweat on her face, "Where is my father now?"

Conan looked at Miss Hirota Masami carefully, and suddenly turned to look at Xiaolan: "Sister Xiaolan, do you feel that she is different from before?"

"Huh?"



In front of an apartment in Nerima Ward.

"Crack!"

Hirota Kenzo looked at Hirota Masami with tears in her eyes and an eager look on her face. Her mouth opened wide in horror. The garbage bag she was holding in her hand suddenly let go and fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

"I...I had a hard time looking for you...Dad!"

Seeing that Hirota Kenzo was so frightened that he was shaking all over, Miyano Akemi was worried that he would suddenly say something revealing that would make Kogoro Mouri notice, so she flew into the arms of "dad" and "cryed uncontrollably."

"dad!"

She cried so sincerely that Mouri, Kogoro and the three of them couldn't help but feel sympathy. They felt that this girl must have been too excited after seeing her long-lost father, which was why she had such violent mood swings.

What a filial daughter...

On the other hand, Hirota Kenzo, who was tightly hugged by Miyano Akemi, had a look of disbelief on his face and remained motionless. He must have been moved by the discovery of his daughter.

What a warm picture of a loving father and a filial daughter.

What a touching and deep father-daughter love.

"Thank you very much!" The crying stopped, and Miyano Akemi pulled Hirota Kenzo beside her and bowed to Moori Kogoro.

"Mr. Hirota, it's not okay to make such a lovely daughter sad!" Mouri Kogoro said to Hirota Kenzo with a smile.

After thanking her again and again, Miyano Akemi dragged Hirota Kenzo back upstairs: "Dad, you must give me a good explanation!"

Mouri Kogoro looked at the "father and daughter" of the Hirota family walking upstairs hand in hand, and laughed proudly because he had solved another commission.

Suddenly, he seemed to realize something and looked back with Conan.

Under a telephone pole not far away, a tall man wearing sunglasses and a windbreaker turned up the collar of his windbreaker and left silently.

"What's going on with that guy? I always feel familiar." Mouri Kogoro muttered, and soon he didn't take this person to heart and just regarded him as a passerby.

Conan stared closely at the tall man's back and frowned.


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