Conan Moslin

"This is the letter I received."

"The stationery is of ordinary grey color. The address is..."

"Northumberland... No, no! This time we are going to the Mycroft Inn!"

"Yes, I saw it." Li An leaned on the soft sofa and read the letter. Hearing this, he said slowly, "Xiao Ai, continue reading."

Huihara Ai hummed and slowly turned the book in her hand to the next page.

"The handwriting is very illegible, the postmark is Charing Cross, and the letter was sent on the evening of the previous day." The little girl's voice was still cold and clear, but there was no reluctance in it. "'Who knew you were going to the Northumberland Hotel?' Holmes looked sharply at our visitor."

"Does Xiaolan know that you want to go to the McCoff Hotel?"

There was not much content in the letter and Li An finished reading it quickly.

She took a last look at the date on the letter and pushed the letter back in front of Conan.

"I just received this letter last night, too." Conan seemed a little regretful, "But when I wanted to ask, she had already made an appointment with Uncle Maori to attend the class reunion..."

In fact, he had the chance to ask, but Xiaolan really wanted to watch the fireworks display.

Although the class reunion lasted only one day and one night, it happened to be on the second day of the trip he wanted to take.

He couldn't ask Uncle Maori to ignore his old friends from the class reunion and join the tour group that he signed up for without his permission, right?

But then again, he had also been looking forward to this trip for a long time and really didn't want to miss it.

Conan lowered his head and looked at the letter that had been placed back in front of him.

Xiaoai is still studying.

"He took out a piece of letter paper folded into four from the envelope. He opened it and laid it flat on the table. In the middle of the letter paper was a sentence in lead type, which read -"

Dear Sherlock Holmes Fans:

I have something very close to your heart. I am currently working on a very unusual problem.

But I really don't have the energy to complete it.

But it is an opportunity for me to reason.

If you'd like to hear the story, then...

I will send a car to pick you up at the McCoffe Hotel and look forward to seeing you.]

Next comes a series of information such as designated time, address, and contact number.

Mycroft Hotel is named after Sherlock Holmes' brother, Mycroft Holmes, who worked in the foggy city of London.

His abilities are said to be stronger than Sherlock's, but he is too lazy and never wants to get involved in anything, so he is also called the armchair detective by his younger brother.

The content of the letter that Conan received was the same request that Mycroft made to his younger brother Sherlock Holmes in "The Greek Interpreter", where his brother first appeared.

Given Sherlock's character, it is certainly impossible for him to refuse such an invitation.

The same goes for Sherlock Holmes fans who love this detective novel.

"That's enough." When Xiao Ai was about to continue reading, Li An gently interrupted her.

She watched Ai close the red-covered book and turned her gaze to Conan who was sitting beside her.

"Sister Li An——"

"Don't look at me like that. You're not a child anymore." Facing the coquetry of this fake child, Kuroba Kurian seemed unmoved. "You came to me just because of the book I put on the bookshelf last time?"

"There are quite a few books on the bookshelf in the living room. All the other books are very new, except for this Sherlock Holmes, which is a bit old..."

From the time the book was printed to the degree of preservation of the book, Conan seemed to have triggered some kind of mechanism and gave a long speech, and finally came up with this conclusion: "So! Sister Li An, you are also a fan of Sherlock Holmes!"

Li An just asked: "Anything else?"

"I can see that..."

The rest of the words got stuck in my throat.

Kuroba Kurian turned the page of the book, and Conan saw a red seal on the corner of the title page.

There are only two words, a name——

Wood smoke.

"This is……"

"It's from an elder. I occasionally flip through it. There are some of her comments in it."

He had never heard anyone mention this name, and Li An had never mentioned it before.

“Obon is coming.”

she says.

"She likes 'Conan' very much. If there is a child named 'Conan' who can go and see her... I might agree to you."

"what?"

"No, forget it." Li An smiled. "It's not that I can't go to the McCoff Hotel. I just need to see if I can finish the work at hand."

……

After seeing Conan off, Li An carefully put away the books on the table, said hello to Ai, and returned to his bedroom.

Trojan Village was relatively quiet today, with only her and Xiao Ai there.

She made the bed, cleaned the carpet, tidied the pigeon's habitat, and prepared food and water for it. After everything was done, she also planned to take care of the flowers and plants in the garden.

Through the window, I saw Ai wearing a hat and standing in the garden watering the plants.

Speaking of watering, there is actually a watering device installed in the garden, and only a few flowers and plants in pots need to be watered.

Li An opened the door to the balcony.

"Together?"

"Ah."

In fact, the sun today is not that strong, but Ai has gradually gotten used to wearing a hat when going out as a way to hide her identity.

But speaking of this, Huibara Ai always felt very strange.

The identity of "Kasi" does not seem to be unknown, but why did no one discover that the "child suspected to be Miyano Shiho's" was living in Muma Manor during the time she was "investigated"?

You know, no one has ever come to investigate Trojan Village.

When she came to her senses, she had already asked.

"You're talking about this..." Li An saw Xiao Ai watering the plants, so he took out the gardening shears and started to take care of the branches and leaves in the garden. "Why do you think no one has been here?"

She cut off a branch that was in the way.

"My bedroom was turned upside down by them, and all the triggers were triggered."

Haibara Ai paused while watering the plants.

"You were all at school that day, and I was the only one at home." Throwing the branches into the bucket beside him, Li An clapped his hands, stood up, and quickly moved to another place, "No one will come after this."

"What about that time you were at the Rice Flower Hotel last week..."

Apparently, Haibara Ai had heard Conan talk about the identity of the victim in the Beika Hotel bombing when she was at school this week.

"You won't grow taller if you worry too much, little girl."

Apart from submitting a simple report on the incident, the last incident had no actual impact on Li An.

She was almost completely out of touch with the case and did not make any arrangements. Even the mission to go to the Daikoku Building was assigned by Gin on the spur of the moment.

It should be Gin who has the headache.

You know, she wasn't the one who first contacted Nakajima Hideaki, she wasn't the one who confirmed the time and place of the transaction, and she wasn't the one who caused the accident that day...

Of course not her either.

She just knew about the grudges between the upper, middle and lower levels in advance, and while they were exchanging number plates, she took advantage of the few minutes to simply check the contents of the information.

"Okay..." Seeing that she didn't say anything more, Huibara Ai stopped asking.

During this rare leisure time, let’s not think too much, right?