Conan: Naruto

"Stinky brat."

Mouri Kogoro glanced at the confident Dongfang Haoyue with a speechless expression, cursed softly, and complained angrily in his heart:

"What I heard clearly before was that this kid was hiding behind the tree and loudly suggesting more sneak attacks on me, causing me to lose my keys!"

When Mouri Kogoro thought about this, he turned away without wanting to see Dongfang Haoyue, closed his eyes, put his hands in his pockets, and casually found another way:

"In short, we can only call the villa manager and ask him to come and open the door with the spare key."

"Okay, okay, but..."

Xiaolan turned to look at the villa not far to the right and reminded weakly:

"There are no phone booths nearby...other rental villas have not been built yet..."

Mouri Kogoro opened his eyes, turned around, followed Xiaolan's line of sight to the villa, and recalled calmly:

"The ski bus has left... This place is a bit far from the hotel in the ski resort..."

"So...only the owner of the villa not far over there can help us..."

Xiaolan looked sadly at the luxurious villa far behind and to the right.

"What a joke!"

Mouri Kogoro glanced at the luxurious villa and refused righteously:

"Who would ask help from a nouveau riche who builds a villa in a place like this?"

The voice just fell.

Mouri Kogoro stepped up the steps with long strides, stood outside the wooden door of the rental villa, raised his right foot, made sufficient preparations to kick the door, and loudly announced like a robber:

"At this point, the only way to break through is by force!"

"Wait, wait!!!"

Deciding to ask the owner of the luxury villa for help, Xiaolan and the other three rushed to Mouri Kogoro eagerly, trying to stop Kogoro from compensating the gate afterwards.

suddenly!

"what?

Could it be that you..."

It was the slightly surprised and uncertain voice of a middle-aged man.

"Ok?"

Xiaolan's family all stopped when they heard the noise, and looked in surprise at the bald man in his 50s who looked to be in his [-]s and was sitting in the driver's seat of a dark green car not far behind them in surprise.

"Oh!"

The bald man wearing an open dark brown coat, a blue sweater, a red scarf, and a gold watch looked at Mouri Kogoro excitedly and exclaimed happily:

"As expected, it's you, Mr. Detective Mouri Kogoro!!"

The bald man paused for half a second and praised with high spirits:

"I often see your superb reasoning in newspapers!"

The bald man looked at Xiaolan's family, who were getting closer and closer, and said with curiosity and concern:

"Are you in any trouble?"

"Yes."

Mouri Kogoro pressed his left temple with his left hand, leaned forward, and explained embarrassedly:

"I'd like to borrow a landline phone."

"I see!"

The bald man's left arm rested on the edge of the fully lowered car window, with his thumb facing his chin, and he said in a friendly invitation:

"Just use my landline phone!"

"your home......?"

Mouri Kogoro put down his left hand, straightened up, and looked at the bald man dumbly.

"Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself."

The bald man was taken aback for a moment, apologized, passed the car window with his left hand, raised his index finger and pointed at the luxury villa, looked at the villa, and said with a hearty smile:

"My name is Oyama Sho (おおやままさし), and the villa over there is my home."

"Forehead......"

Mouri Kogoro looked at the luxury villa blankly, and confirmed with embarrassment:

"That villa...?"

"Correct."

Dashan looked at Mouri Kogoro and asked in confusion:

"What's wrong with Detective Mori?"

"No, no!"

Mouri Kogoro quickly relieved his embarrassment, looked at the general, and praised with a heroic smile:

"I think it's a pretty nice villa, hahahaha!!!"

"dad......"

Xiaolan stood behind and to the right of Kogoro Mori, looking at Kogoro slightly melancholy.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudou Shinichi stood on Xiaolan's right side shyly, covering their faces with one hand and secretly complaining in their hearts:

"Just now I said I wouldn't ask for help from the nouveau riche who built a villa in this place, but now... Oh, Detective Mori's change of attitude is really fast...!"

Dongfang Haoyue thought about it for a while, carefully observed Dashanjiang's car, and commented in surprise:

"The driver's seat of Japanese cars is usually on the right, but the driver's seat of Oyama Sho's car is on the left... uh... he drives an imported car whose brand I can't recognize."

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after a while.

The snow outside the gate of General Dashan's villa.

"What a grand!"

Mouri Kogoro stood at the bottom of the steps outside the mahogany gate, retracted his gaze from the villa, looked at the general on the left with a smile on his face, and praised enthusiastically:

“With this elegant color and good design, I seem to see the perfect character of the builder.”

"Hahaha, you think so too?"

Dashan looked at Mouri Kogoro happily and laughed heartily.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi stood on the right side of Xiaolan behind Kogoro, looking at the back of Kogoro's head with slightly narrowed eyes, and complained in confusion:

"Detective Mori's level of praise is as inscrutable as ever...!"

"Speaking of which, I forgot to ask your names."

Dashan will look at Xiaolan at the back right, and confirm in an amiable manner:

"Are you the daughter of Detective Maori?"

"right."

Xiaolan was stunned for a moment, looked at the general in a polite manner, and introduced herself in a friendly manner:

"My name is Mao Lilan."

Xiaolan stretched out her hand towards the cute and well-behaved Kudou Shinichi and Dongfang Haoyue, and introduced them one by one with a smile:

"On the left is Edogawa Conan, and on the right is Dongfang Haoyue. They are children whom a friend asked my family to take care of for a period of time~"

"Oh......"

Dashan will draw a long note with a slight regret.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi looked at the general with confused expressions, and speculated uncertainly in their hearts:

"He seems a little disappointed...?"

next second.

"Huh!"

At some point, Mouri Kogoro stepped onto the steps and walked outside the villa door, facing the door sideways, holding the lion-shaped copper door knocker with his left hand, and turned his head to the right.

Kogoro looked at the general at the bottom of the steps, smiled cheerfully and praised:

“This lion door knocker is amazing!”

"Ugh......"

After hearing this, General Dashan glanced at the door knocker with deep regret, lowered his head slightly, closed his eyes, and was extremely sad.