Conan Moslin

The wait for Manager Jingu to arrive was long and boring. Just one hour was enough to make everyone who had nothing to do complain.

Since everyone had not yet handed in their questions, and in order to ensure the outcome of the final reasoning quiz, everyone tacitly agreed not to discuss anything related to Sherlock Holmes. This resulted in an almost dead silence in the room, with only one or two voices occasionally asking questions, and Ms. Iwai's continuous apologies.

"When will Manager Jin Gu come over?"

"Really? You can't let us wait here forever?!"

"Please don't worry..."

Li An thought silently in his heart that Mr. Jingu might not be able to come at all.

She did not join these people in complaining, but took out a deck of cards and handed them to Xiao Ai as she had said in the morning, intending to prove with practical actions that the cards in her hand were indeed not only used for magic performances.

This is a good idea, but it is difficult to implement in practice.

Li An put all the cards in his hand on the table and quickly ended this round of the game.

Haibara Ai looked at the poker cards in her hand, then turned her head to look at Conan who was staring at the cards in his hand with a bitter and resentful look on his face. She felt that Sister Li An did not seem to be suitable for playing such a game.

Whether she shuffles the deck or not, she makes it a habit to write down the cards in her hand - the result of this approach is that poker games are never suspenseful.

It's already past twelve o'clock and it's completely dark outside.

Maria Toda was already impatient to wait, and she mentioned that she heard that Manager Kanaya didn't want to give the book "A Study in Scarlet" to anyone, but just framed it for them to show off.

She pushed the table away and stood up, saying to Miss Iwai, "Excuse me, I have to go back to my room first."

The faces of the people sitting next to her also looked unhappy, and they stood up almost at the same time as her.

"Ms. Hei Yu, are you going to come with me?" Maria asked Li An before leaving. "I think there's no point in waiting any longer."

Li Ancai put away the cards in his hand and turned to ask the two children for their opinions.

"I'll go over first. Do you two want to wait?"

Of course Conan had to wait, and Ai thought about it and decided to stay here too.

Hattori Heiji on the side yawned, planned to get some information, moved his chair next to Conan, and made a promise to Kurian.

"Don't worry, I will help you take good care of the child!"

……

While Li An followed Ms. Maria to her room, Xiaolan also followed Kogoro to the hotel.

"Xiaolan, how's your photo shoot going?"

"It's already been filmed. Do you want to see it now, Dad?"

Xiaolan fiddled with the camera in her hand, trying to take some photos of fireworks to show her father.

"Let's talk about it when we get back. I'll send them all a copy after it's developed." Maori Kogoro crossed his arms behind his head and walked towards the hotel with Xiaolan. He couldn't help complaining, "Really? Jun and I finally found a good seat, but in the end, no one got there!"

"Now even Chun doesn't know where he has gone! Everyone is just minding their own business..."

"Dad..." Xiaolan put down the camera, feeling helpless.

A teasing voice came from the side: "Kogoro, I will tell Chun exactly what you said, okay?"

"Uncle Nakamichi!"

Several people gathered one after another and soon arrived at the restaurant.

Of course, dinner time had already passed, but in preparation for the fireworks display, the staff at Benkei Ryokan continued to work all night long.

To put it simply, they have to prepare midnight snacks for several guests.

Sitting at the dining table, Xiaolan suddenly thought of Yumi who had been locking herself in the room.

"By the way, Dad, should we go wake up Aunt Yumi for supper?"

"Yes! I haven't seen her for a whole night, so she should have calmed down by now, right?" Before Kogoro could reply, Kiko on the side echoed him.

Xingxiong said, "Maybe she will be even angrier. Except for Xiaolan, none of us even invited her to the fireworks display!"

"But... it's so late, why don't we wake her up tomorrow?" Omura Jun was still a little worried.

"I see Yumi didn't eat much for dinner, so we should wake her up. This way she can see the photos of the fireworks display taken by Xiaolan." Nakamichi Kazushi stood up, holding his knees.

"How about this, let's all go and call Madonna from the Judo Club? How do you think?"

Everyone soon arrived outside Yumi Horikoshi's room.

dong dong dong-

"Yumi, I'm coming in, okay?"

Ayashiro Yukio pushed open the door and saw that it was a little dark in the room, so he fumbled and turned on the light.

pat.

Maria Toda turned off the lights in the living room, quickly threw the paper and pen back onto the table in the bedroom, and lit up the crystal ball that had been placed in the middle of the table.

She pressed her chubby cheeks, then quickly sat up straight, put her hands flat, and showed a professional smile that only belonged to astrologers.

"Please come in."

Li An, who was asked to wait a moment, pushed the door open and walked into the house. He saw the slightly dim living room with bright starry sky lights casting star-like lights on the wall.

Not far behind the crystal ball, a round face was reflected.

Both of them were wearing purple clothes, one dark and one light, which just matched the mysterious atmosphere at the moment.

Kuroba Kuriya sat down opposite Maria.

The wooden table in front of him was placed horizontally, and on the table was a black tarot card with a starry sky and constellations painted on it. The crystal ball was placed right in the center of the hexagram on the tarot card.

Under the light, her face was blurred.

It fits the stereotype of an astrologer perfectly - if you ignore the rustling and thumping of papers behind the bedroom door.

Li An tried to hold back, but couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you don't want to pick up your test book?"

"…No, it's fine."

Maria obviously heard the voice as well, and there was a slight embarrassment on her face, but she quickly calmed down and returned to the main topic at the moment.

"Thank you for coming." Ms. Maria had a sincere smile on her face. "Ms. Li An, I still want to thank you for saving Gui Hezi."

"Takahata has already thanked you."

Judging from the time, her wedding should have been over.

When she gave the gift, she also heard that Matsuzaki Haru was absent that day for some reason.

No, maybe I should call him Yamashita Haru again.

Chiyo Yamashita was disappointed with her granddaughter, whom she had educated, or perhaps she was disappointed with the education she and her parents had given her.

"Takahata and I talked about you."

"She said that if it weren't for Miss Kuroba's help, she might not be here anymore." Maria Toda paused, "No, it would be better to say that her body might have collapsed because of this."

"Besides, I think you have done more for her than just this."

——In the original story, after being bitten by a nearly fatal poisonous snake, Takahata easily forgave the "murderer".

Except Maori and his group and the murderer, no one knew her magnanimity and patience, her self-blame and forgiveness.

…She felt guilty about testing her fiancé, so she concealed the story of the person who hurt him.

But what happens after that?