Conan Moslin

"Yeah...I already have a fiancée, and we're getting married soon."

Such news naturally attracted congratulations from old classmates, who were looking forward to attending his wedding together.

However, in such a joyful and harmonious atmosphere, Xiaolan noticed that Aunt Horikoshi Yumi seemed to be in a low mood ever since the news that Uncle Nakamichi was about to marry his boss's daughter was mentioned.

"Aunt Yumi?"

Immersed in her own emotions, Horikoshi Yumi came back to her senses and smiled at Xiaolan. Then she heard Nakamichi and Zhi say, "By the way, shall we go play billiards together later?"

"But, didn't we agree to go watch the fireworks in the evening?" When Noriko Ayashiro heard Nakajima Kazushi's suggestion to play table tennis, she was a little surprised.

"Don't worry, the fireworks won't start until nine o'clock, there's still more than three hours left!"

After a simple calculation of the time, several people agreed enthusiastically, without noticing that Yumi Horikoshi's face suddenly darkened.

"I don't want to fight!" She waved her hands at everyone angrily, and turned and left the room without stopping. "I suddenly feel a little tired. I'm going to rest in my room."

"Hey! Yumi!"

"Aunt Yumi?"

Looking at Yumi Horikoshi's leaving back, Kogoro Mori sighed.

"She is still the same as always, she only cares about herself and doesn't care about others at all."

"I think Yumi just doesn't want to be the same as everyone else." Atsushi Omura was still trying to help Yumi out.

"Okay, okay, don't think about it, let's go play billiard!"

"Yeah! It's only appropriate to play billiards while taking a hot spring bath!"

The few people who had planned to leave quickly gathered their emotions and were about to leave the room when Xiaolan called her father: "Dad, you go with the uncles and aunts. I want to go see Aunt Yumi first."

"Xiao Lan, you don't have to go with her." Nakamichi Hezhi stopped her, "She has always been like this, and she doesn't like to be disturbed when she is resting."

"Yeah, if you knock on the door when she's resting, she might get mad at you!" Ayashiro Noriko obviously knows Yumi very well, and she advised her, "Don't bother her."

"But……"

"Don't you want to see your father's table tennis skills?" Ayashiro Yukio beside him glanced at Kogoro beside him jokingly, "His table tennis skills are amazing."

The word "awesome" was deliberately emphasized, which was obviously an irony.

Hearing the hidden meaning in his old classmate's tone, Maori Kogoro seemed to explode: "Are you mocking me? Yukio, today I must let you see how powerful I am!"

"……I see."

Mao Lilan nodded hesitantly.

……

At about the same time, Xiao Ai was quietly staying in the room, sitting on a chair and flipping through the test book in her hand with some boredom, picking out some questions she had seen before and filling them in.

It's better to have something to do than to sit there doing nothing.

The door of the room was quickly pushed open, and Li An and Conan walked in one after the other.

"Ms. Li An, why are you and Conan back? Aren't you here to talk to Ms. Maori?"

Conan responded first: "Manager Jingu should not be in his room. I saw Miss Iwai's lunch at the door of his room at noon, and no one came to pick it up until just now."

"I knocked on Manager Jingu's door, but his room was locked." Li An closed the door. "Also, Ms. Maria Toda just told me that she thought it would be better to wait until after the dinner quiz is over before going to see her."

Huiyuan nodded to show that she understood.

The reason why Ms. Maria invited Li An was simple, because she was a relative of Takako Toda who had drowned on Izu Beach before, and she wanted to thank her.

I have to say, this world is really small.

Ms. Maria Toda's way of thanking Li An was very consistent with her own professional characteristics - as an astrologer and tarot reader, she hoped to be able to tell fortunes for Li An and the two little ones she brought.

Li An did not refuse her thanks.

"Do you two want to go?"

Conan originally wanted to refuse, but thinking that Xiaolan seemed to like this kind of thing, he decided to go and see the situation.

Not to mention Xiao Ai, when she is outside, she is bound to Li An most of the time.

"Then we'll take you there after we finish talking." Li An pulled out a chair and sat down. "Xiao Ai, how is your topic going?"

She took the question book from Xiao Ai and flipped through it, and soon saw that the questions related to the plot she read last time had been filled in.

Xiao Ai didn't ask for the question book, that question book clearly belonged to Sister Li An.

Seeing her blatantly asking Huibara to fill in the answers, Conan felt helpless: "Sister Li An, what are you two doing..."

"Do you want to read it? I wrote the second half this morning."

Li An raised the question book in his hand with a smile.

"…Let me see it, thank you."

Xiao Ai, who witnessed everything: …

Conan ended up being a part of the corrupt community.

……

The time spent “checking answers” ​​always goes by quickly.

As the gorgeous fireworks exploded in the sky outside the Benkei Hotel, dinner at the Fog City Hotel also began.

The dinner was quite sumptuous, and there were also some small desserts.

At the end of dinner, Miss Iwai served everyone freshly brewed coffee and brought several plates of sugar cubes.

"What's going on? Where did Jin Gu go today?" Fujisawa Toshiaki looked around and asked curiously.

Judging from the way he addressed the store manager, he seemed to have some friendship with Jingu.

In order to leave time for everyone to write the questions, dinner was deliberately scheduled very late. However, even after dinner, Manager Kanaya, who was the convener, still did not show up.

Kawazu Ikuo was just taking the coffee from Iwai, and he said, "Really? Why haven't we seen the innkeeper yet?"

"Could you please ask him to come out and help us correct these test papers?" Ooki Ayako also turned around and added.

After being questioned by several people in a row, Iwai Hitomi held the empty plate of coffee with some distress.

"But my boss told me to entertain you all until he gets here after dinner."

"Ms. Kuroba, I remember you said yesterday that you wanted to contact someone? Have you met Manager Kanaya?" Miss Nanako, who was sitting at the other table, looked up and asked Kuria.

Li An replied quickly and asked Iwai whether she could borrow the phone today.

Of course, Ms. Iwai said that Mr. Kanaya kept the keys himself and she did not have any backup copies.

After hearing Iwai's reply, Kuria sighed.

She glanced at the time on the wall clock, gently stirred the coffee in the cup with a spoon, and waited for the sugar cube in the cup to slowly melt before she picked up the cup and took a sip.

——Tonight is another sleepless night.