The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"The 1 Billion Yen Robbery..."

"Ten billion!" Kogoro Mouri was dumbfounded, his face almost sticking to the newspaper.

"Dad!" Mao Lilan said in a discontented tone, pretending to complain, "A guest is here!"

Can't you be a little more reliable in front of the guests?

"Please help me find my dad, please, Mr. Detective!"

With two pigtails, Hirota Masami looks like a student, and her big black-framed glasses make her look a bit old-fashioned.

She was very anxious, her face flushed slightly with excitement.

"My father said he came to Tokyo for work, but there has been no news for the past month..."

"I didn't know until I got here that he had already quit his job at the taxi company, and the police couldn't find him even if I asked them."

"I'm really desperate, Mr. Detective, you must help me!"

Hirota Masami looked like she was about to cry.

Maori Kogoro was infected by her and became more serious: "I understand. Please tell me in detail."

She pulled out a photo from her bag, "This is my father, Kenzo Hirota."

The photo shows a middle-aged man holding a black cat and smiling gently.

"48 meters tall, years old this year."

"Um, the cat?"

"That's Dad's cat, named 'Quick'."

Seeing that Maori Kogoro was paying attention to the photo, Hirota Masami added, "Dad loves cats very much. He has three more cats named 'Gou', 'Wang', and 'Di'."

"Hey?"

Conan's exclamation attracted everyone's attention. Maori Ran put down the water cup in front of Hirota Masami and Maori Kogoro, squatted down and supported Conan with concern.

"Conan, what's wrong?"

"No, it's okay..."

Conan scratched his head in embarrassment.

He couldn't say that he wanted to experiment with the doctor's new invention, and was going to stick it on Sister Xiaolan, but ended up tripping, right?

"This kid is just too troublesome." Kogoro Mouri waved his hand and complained.

Conan laughed dryly with dead eyes.

Hirota Masami bent down, took out a handkerchief from her pocket, and gently wiped the sweat from Conan's forehead.

"Although children are full of energy, they should not be overexerted."

Conan stood there motionless, letting the warm touch run rampant on his face.

Good, what a gentle elder sister...

Hey, where's the transmitter?

He looked in the direction where he almost fell and saw his transmitter on Hirota Masami's watch.

It's actually there!

We must find an opportunity to take it down.

At this moment, a tear fell on the dial, pulling his gaze away.

"My mother died when I was a child. My father is my only relative..."

When she talked about the sad part, Hirota Masami couldn't help sobbing, her eyes full of tears were so pitiful.

"I'll leave it to you. I'll contact you every day."

She calmed herself down and smiled at Uncle Maori.

Mao Lilan comforted her with full energy: "Don't worry, Miss Yamei!"

"Don't be fooled by my dad's behavior. He is a famous detective. He will definitely find Mr. Hirota!"

Kogoro Mori was very considerate and acted confidently.

Hirota Masami looked back and smiled, her eyes and eyebrows showing her gentle nature.

After Miss Masami left, Kogoro Mori started working with great enthusiasm and began to investigate the place where Kenzo Hirota used to work.

Conan pinched his chin, feeling that something was wrong but couldn't put his finger on it.

The table TV was still playing the horse racing program that Kogoro Mouri had to watch every day, when suddenly there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the venue.

"The King of Glory, 1th consecutive G win!"

Hao Kuai Emperor?

Conan suddenly had an idea.

I remember the names of Mr. Hirota's four cats...

He jumped onto the table, grabbed a pen and wrote a few words on the notebook.

Just change their order...it won't go wrong!

When Mao Lilan heard the noise, she walked over and saw the handwriting on the notebook. She was stunned at first, then she suddenly realized.

She picked up the notebook and said happily: "I know, it must be like this!"

"Mr. Hirota must really like horse racing to name his cat like this!"

Kogoro Mori approached doubtfully.

"We'll definitely find him at the racecourse!" Mao Lilan said confidently.

Tokyo Racecourse.

The crowd was full of people.

"It's so lively. This is my first time at a racecourse."

Mao Lilan looked at the enthusiastic audience around her and couldn't help but sigh.

"With so many people here, how can we possibly find Mr. Hirota? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack." Kogoro Mori narrowed his eyes, put his hands on his eye sockets, and made a telescope gesture.

Conan also complained in his heart.

Unfortunately, they knew nothing about Xiaolan's luck.

“Ah, I really found it!”

After a while, Mao Li Ran excitedly patted Mao Li Kogoro's shoulder and pointed in a certain direction.

"Now I'm a famous detective too!"

How, how is it possible!

I actually encountered it!

Uncle Maori and Conan both looked dumbfounded.

"I'll go and call him."

Mao Lilan was about to walk straight through the crowd.

Maori Kogoro quickly pulled her back, "Wait, he's missing now, how can he show up here so brazenly..."

His tone became more serious. "Let's not alert him. Let's follow him and see where he lives."

They followed Kenzo Hirota all the way to his current residence, wrote down the address, and then returned to the Mori Detective Agency and called Miss Masami.

"Well, isn't it too fast?" Uncle Mori was shocked by the speed at which Hirota Masami arrived.

"I just notified you a few minutes ago..."

Hirota Masami forced a smile and said, "I was so happy that I rushed back right away."

"So, where is my dad now?"

She wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand and asked impatiently.

Conan looked even more puzzled.

"In an apartment in Nerima Ward..." Uncle Maori said the recorded address.

"Really? He is still in Tokyo!"

Hirota Masami breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sister Xiaolan, do you think Miss Hirota is a little different?"

Mao Lilan was stunned for a moment when she heard this.

Conan pointed at Hirota Masami's outfit and said, "This dress is too mature, and it looks like she's wearing makeup."

Mao Lilan put her hands together and didn't seem to care much!

"She dressed up specially because she's going to see daddy soon, right?"

Conan still felt something was wrong.

He remembered that when they first met, Miss Hirota carried a handkerchief with her.

If it is true as Xiaolan said, that Hirota Masami dressed up on purpose, then why didn't she use a handkerchief to wipe her sweat, but chose such an indecent method as the back of her hand?

The group soon arrived downstairs of Kenzo Hirota's apartment.

"father!"

Miss Yami happened to meet Kenzo Hirota who was coming downstairs to throw away the garbage. With tears of joy in her eyes, she rushed over to him, as if she was afraid that he would run away.

"finally found you!"

Kenzo Hirota's pupils trembled as if he had seen a ghost.

Noticing Mao Li and others behind him, he reacted quickly and returned the hug symbolically.

Hirota Masami turned around and bowed to thank them.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Mao Li. I will transfer the remaining commission fee to you soon."

There they were a father and daughter in love, and here it was just a coincidental encounter.

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Maori?"

Lin Chiyu came across the street carrying a bag and said hello.

"It looks like you have solved another commission. You are very skilled in your work, Mr. Maori."

"Ah, it's Mr. Rin." Ran Mouri recognized the person and called out politely.

"Haha, I, Maori Kogoro, come to you to cure all diseases, isn't it?" Maori uncle stuck out his iconic big tongue, "By the way, Rin, why are you here?"

Lin Chiyu lifted the plastic bag in his hand and said, "There's not much food left at home, so I came out to buy some."

Conan slipped up to him, stretched out his little hand restlessly to open the bag and check it, and found that it was indeed some vegetables and meat.

"You're very suspicious. You live in Mihua, but you come to Nerima to buy groceries?" He squinted with dead fish eyes.

Lin Chiyu didn't feel embarrassed at all, and said confidently: "The supermarket here is having a special sale. I don't have anything to do anyway, so I'll just walk a little further and treat it as exercise."

"By the way, what kind of commission did you handle? Solving relationship problems between couples?"

"It's to help my daughter find her missing father!" Mao Lilan couldn't help but feel ashamed when she heard such a depressing statement.

"Father and daughter? I can't tell. That woman should be in her twenties, right?"

"What are you talking about? She's still a high school student." Conan seemed to have found a supporter and said something guiding him.

Lin Chiyu shook his head, "Impossible, she can't be younger than me."

"Dressing like that usually means an introverted and gloomy personality. In some extreme areas, people may even be seen as targets of school bullying. But does that person look introverted at all?"

"And his social manners are so mature, just like an adult who has been working in society for many years."

He flicked Conan's "apple stem" in a teasing tone.

"You, a primary school student, definitely can't tell, but a fellow worker like me can recognize that aura at a glance."

Maori Kogoro pursed his lips: "You are just a yellow-haired boy..."

Conan finally caught the fleeting inspiration, and his glasses suddenly lit up with a reflective light.

Lin Chiyu also had to take the vegetables he had just bought back home and quickly said goodbye to a few people.

After successfully completing the commission, the Maori family returned to the Maori Detective Agency.

"Hey, where's Conan?"

When Mao Lilan got home, she found that the elementary school student who was supposed to follow her all the way was missing.

"That kid must have gone off to play somewhere again. Don't bother with him." Kogoro Mouri took a can of beer from the refrigerator.

"No, it's too dangerous for a child to be outside alone! I'll call Miss Yami and ask her if she saw anything."

Mao Lilan picked up the phone and started dialing.

"Why...it shows that the number is unavailable?"

She froze in place.

……

Conan sneaked away halfway and ran back to Kenzo Hirota's apartment.

Disguised as a student, he made a special trip to find "Dad".

Why was the scene when those two met so awkward?

"Father and daughter? I can't tell..."

Lin Chiyu's words rang in his ears again.

Yes, you can’t tell they are father and daughter at all!

Conan took two steps instead of three to go up the stairs, but he almost failed and stumbled. He had to take one step at a time, and his two short legs left afterimages.

"Damn, are we late?"

The door of the apartment in front of him was wide open, and Conan's bad premonition grew stronger.

He barged right in and saw Kenzo Hirota hanging limply from the ceiling.

The terrified look of the corpse seemed to be mocking this "Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era."

Recalling the gentle appearance of Hirota Masami in the office, Conan strengthened his determination to stop the situation from developing.

"Hello, Inspector Megure! It's me, Kudo Shinichi!" He immediately used the bow tie voice changer to call the police and asked the police to take over the scene.

After doing this, he turned on the glasses tracker.

If I remember correctly, the transmitter is still on Miss Yamei's watch!

Conan did not indulge in the frustration of failure. He immediately cheered up and ran all the way.

Human power is still too limited!

Conan, out of breath, covered his knees and swallowed the acid that was rising up.

I must ask the doctor to invent a convenient means of transportation someday!

Looking up at the towering hotel building, Conan wiped the sweat off his face and rushed in.

According to the location of the transmitter, she might be in a room on the eighth floor of this hotel...

Fortunately, as a high-end hotel, it is equipped with an elevator. Conan waited anxiously for the elevator door to open.

Ding---

With a slight sound, the elevator opened and Conan ran in impatiently.

At that moment, a cleaning staff pushed a cleaning cart and went in and out with him, as if it was a deliberate arrangement in the drama.

Time was slowed down to the extreme. Conan slowly turned his head and met the eyes of the cleaning staff wearing funny sunglasses.

Conan felt an electric shock and stopped suddenly, pressed the door-opening button, turned around and chased after him.

Oh, the eighth floor.

His sharp gaze was like a knife, cutting into the man's empty wrist.

"Hey, Ms. Hirota, stop it!"

He stopped the man pushing the cart in a stern voice.

"This must be the stolen money from the 1 billion yen robbery!"

Hirota Masami turned around helplessly and looked at the little detective who ran up to her unarmed to stop her.

"You are not a student at all, and you and Kenzo Hirota are not father and daughter. Instead, you are both robbers! It is because Kenzo Hirota took advantage of his familiarity with the escape route to get rid of you and keep the stolen money by himself that you want to find him!"

"Where's your other accomplice? You've already committed an unforgivable crime, and you're still going to protect other criminals and run away with the stolen money!"

Conan shouted loudly, saying that there were three robbers in the news, and it would be very difficult for a woman like Hirota Masami to hang Hirota Kenzo, so he deduced that the person who killed Hirota Kenzo was the third robber who has not appeared yet.

Hirota Masami smiled bitterly, let go of the cart, and squatted in front of Conan.

Conan's eyes were sharp.

She first looked at Conan's sweaty forehead with a complicated look. At this time, Conan could hardly keep a regular breathing, but he still tried hard to speak to her.

Hirota Masami took out the handkerchief and wanted to wipe his sweat like when they first met. Conan was stunned for a moment and did not stop her immediately.

"Wait, no...that's not right..."

The handkerchief was used to cover his mouth and nose, and after just a few slight struggles, Conan lost all his strength.

It's this nasty feeling again...

While he was half conscious, he vaguely saw Hirota Masami's apologetic expression, her eyes full of sadness.

"I'm sorry, little detective."

“I still have things I must do.”

In room 802 of the hotel.

In an unopened medicine bottle that fell on the ground, a capsule-sized pill made a slight "dipping" sound, and then fell silent.

After a brief moment of calm, a dazzling light lit up in the room.

The violent flames bared their fangs.

boom! ! !

After Uncle Maori figured out the result, he brought a group of people to the hotel, and all they saw was the room destroyed by the explosion.