The Split-Actress in Conan's World

"Next, please come to the stage and enjoy my performance." Kazuzo Sanada took off his cloak and the blood-stained coat, leaving only a white shirt.

"Let's start with the simplest card trick." He flipped his palm and a deck of cards appeared out of thin air in his hand, causing a small shock to everyone.

"Wait a minute!" Young master Mifune Takuya put his hands in his pockets and raised his head, "I am a very suspicious person."

He came to the front of the stage and stared at the magician on the stage: "Can I shuffle the cards?"

"Of course no problem." Sanada Kazuzo was not flustered at all and calmly put the pile of cards in front of him.

"If nothing else, this mentality alone is first-class." Chiyoko took an ice cream cone from somewhere and ran behind Conan to make this comment.

"You really are... even more elusive than Kaito Kid." Conan was so frightened by his sudden appearance that he almost knocked over the ice cream cone in his hand. Fortunately, Chiyoko was agile and dodged in time.

Lin Chiyu who was standing by suddenly joined the conversation: "Do you like sweet or salty tofu pudding?"

He bent down and said this to the two children.

"I'll add vinegar."

Chiyoko calmly licked the cone, and when she saw the huge question mark above Conan's head, she simply explained, "It's a code word."

After his explanation, Conan was even more speechless: "What a powerful code word, Kaito Kidd can't possibly guess it."

The magic show over there was very successful. Even though it was Takuya Mifune who shuffled the cards, Kazuzo Sanada still completed a brilliant operation.

"Is there anyone else who wants to give it a try?" The magician was in high spirits at this moment, and seemed to be planning to challenge a more difficult magic.

"I, I'll do it!" Suzuki Sonoko, who was already very interested in magic, raised her hand and volunteered to run to the stage holding up the hem of her dress.

When she took the deck of cards from Sanada Kazuzo, Rin Shakuha had already consciously moved closer to the stage.

"Mr. Rin is also interested in magic?" Conan turned around and asked Chiyoko.

"I don't know. Maybe they're afraid that the second young lady will mess it up." Chiyoko said casually as she bit off a piece of the crispy edge of the ice cream cone.

As if in response to his words, a few seconds later, a scream was heard from the stage.

"what!"

Suzuki Sonoko hurriedly looked down at the stage and realized that her shuffling technique was too unfamiliar, causing the cards to scatter all over the floor.

Lin Chiyu was already prepared and picked up the cards that fell in front of him immediately.

"There are some more here." Mao Lilan leaned over to his side, also holding a pile of poker cards in her hand, and handed them over with a smile.

"Ah, thank you, Brother Shakuha, and Xiaolan." Suzuki Sonoko exaggeratedly sighed and smiled sweetly.

After all, she was wearing a dress today and it was inconvenient for her to bend down.

"Sorry, Mr. Sanada, I think I messed up." Sonoko stuck out her tongue, looked at Sanada Kazuzo apologetically, and returned the neatly arranged deck of cards.

"It's okay, it's just the cards that fell, it won't affect my skills."

Sanada Kazuzo smiled sympathetically and comforted Sonoko not to take it too seriously. Then he winked at the audience and raised a finger mysteriously: "It might as well make the performances below more exciting!"

The guests laughed good-naturedly.

So the embarrassing scene was easily resolved by the adults who were well versed in the ways of the world.

"Next, we invite this lady to choose a card she likes as a thank you for coming to help." He pointed to Mao Lilan who had just helped pick up the cards.

"Hey, me?" Mao Lilan pointed at herself in confusion, then looked at Sonoko on the stage, feeling a little at a loss as to what to do.

"That's right." Actually, Kazuzo Sanada wanted to invite the very elegant gentleman just now, but unfortunately he retreated out of the crowd after picking up the cards.

"Xiaolan, come quickly, it's very interesting!" Sonoko also excitedly called her sisters to come on stage.

Ran Mao Li walked up shyly, ready to draw a card at random in front of Kazuzo Sanada.

However, it was stopped by the magician himself.

"and many more!"

Sanada Kazuzo stretched out a hand to stop her, and pointed to his eyes in a very ceremonial manner: "Before that, I will use my X-ray eyes to see through you..."

"Predict the cards you picked."

"Uh uh, doesn't it feel greasy?" Chiyoko shuddered after finishing the ice cream cone.

Conan turned his head again to see what he was doing.

"Telling girls that you can use your X-ray eyes to see through them." Chiyoko added.

It would have been fine if he didn't say it, but after he said that, Conan also felt it was a bit strange.

"You're really ruining the atmosphere!"

On the stage, Kazuzo Sanada performed another round of tricks. He first conjured a pigeon from his hand, then pretended to put his ear close to it and nodded from time to time.

"Okay, then it's the Ace of Hearts!"

Finally, he came to this conclusion and handed the open card fan to Mao Lilan.

"What's this about X-ray vision? It turns out that all it can do is predict the future... He didn't even pay me the patent fee!" Chiyoko complained.

"Why are you taking a magic trick so seriously?" Conan was speechless.

"Please choose any one." Kazuzo Sanada smiled as he looked at Ran Mouri who was carefully selecting.

Yuanzi was giving advice from the side, squints and pokes her shoulder: "Right, the one on the right!"

Mao Lilan obeyed her best friend and took the card on the far right.

Yuanzi came over to take a look.

"what?"

The two of them raised their doubts at the same time.

"Kaito Kidd!"

In the corner of the card in Mao Lilan's hand, there was a stick figure logo of Kaito Kid!

And soon, they read the words on the card: "Like Caesar, who fell at the feet of Cleopatra, I have come to you..."

With this heavy news, the crowd began to boil. Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Chamu Shintaro hurriedly shouted to calm the situation: "Everyone calm down, use code words to confirm each other's identities!"

Unfortunately, the effect is minimal.

"Nakamori, has it been stolen?" He had no choice but to turn around and ask Inspector Nakamori who was guarding the entrance to the hall.

Inspector Nakamori also had a grim look on his face and did not answer.

Even the police could not confirm which pearl was the real Black Star.

Conan was thinking about how Kid would approach the gem, and said casually: "He just wanted to make everyone panic so that he could get it. Now he's doing this kind of trick, which shows that he hasn't succeeded yet."

"Eh?"

Inspector Nakamori looked down and saw only a black head that just reached his waist.

"It is at times like these that the police need to be most vigilant. He is not a magician..."

A white light flashed across Conan's glasses, and he suddenly understood Kaito Kid's method. He closed his eyes slightly, raised the corners of his lips, and spoke in a low voice.

"Just an ordinary human who relies on props and magic tricks to perform."

Jingle Bell--

While the stage was still panicking about the sudden appearance of the Kaito Kid card, Suzuki Sonoko's cell phone rang.

When she took out her cell phone from her purse, the call was hung up by itself.

"What is Shakuha doing......"

Looking at the notes displayed in the contact column, Suzuki Sonoko was a little confused.

Although Inspector Nakamori didn't know where this little brat came from, what he said did make sense.

"Don't worry, it doesn't matter even if that guy knows the whereabouts of the real thing." Suzuki Tomoko walked over, squatted down, touched Conan's head with a smile, and said to the two police inspectors.

"This place is like a prison at sea. Could he have successfully taken the Black Star from a ship full of policemen and then disappeared without a trace?"

It’s really hard to say...

Inspector Nakamori sweatdropped inwardly, but he certainly couldn't say it in front of the boss. He waved his hand and instructed his subordinates, "Guard all the passages! The ship will arrive at Tokyo Port in less than ten minutes. Don't let anyone escape before we check their identities at the shore!"

Conan secretly complained in his heart that this would most likely be useless.

He looked back into the meeting hall, looking for that figure.

Suzuki Sonoko was holding her best friend's arm, and her eyes suddenly swept to her chest, only to see that the place where pearls should be pinned was now empty.

"Xiaolan, where are your pearls?"

"Huh?" After being reminded by her, Mao Lilan also reacted and quickly pulled her arm out of Sonoko's arms and turned around to look for her.

"Ah, there!" Soon, she saw the black pearl dropped on the ground not far away, and it happened to hit a man's leather shoe. The man noticed the movement, looked down, and seemed to be ready to squat down to pick it up.

"Excuse me, please help me pick up that pearl!"

The man heard her cry, looked in her direction, waved and nodded kindly, and reached out to grab the pearl that had fallen to the ground.

laugh--

There was a strange sound, and the pearl suddenly cracked, with dense smoke gushing out from both sides, followed by a crisp explosion.

Bang!

"What is this sound?"

An observant guest noticed this and looked over with a frown.

The man who picked up the pearls was choked by the unbearable smoke. He covered his mouth and nose and crawled away from the pearl with a terrified expression.

"It's the pearl, the pearl exploded!"

"What!?"

Everyone was a powerful person, and when they heard the news, they couldn't sit still, for fear of keeping this dangerous thing with them for even a second longer.

In an instant, smoke erupted in the conference hall.

"What a joke! How can you wear pearls like this?"

"Run, it's a bomb!"

"Hey, don't squeeze me, my dad is the mayor!"

Chaki Shintaro waved his arms and tried his best to disperse the thick fog, shouting: "Everyone, calm down!"

No one cares about him.

In such a chaotic scene, there are bound to be bumps and bruises.

"Mom!" Suzuki Sonoko was choked by the thick smoke and couldn't open her eyes. She was wearing a dress that was inconvenient to move in, and she couldn't even run. She could only stand there pitifully, calling out with two big bags of tears in her eyes.

A big, warm hand suddenly appeared, firmly grasped her wrist, and led her through the crowd in twists and turns. After a few steps, they walked out of the smoky conference hall and came to the corridor outside.

"Hey, Brother Chiyu!" She finally opened her eyes and saw the reliable figure in front of her.

While she was delighted, she also began to worry about others: "What should we do if Mom and Xiaolan are still inside?"

Rin Chiyu pointed behind her.

Suzuki Sonoko looked back and saw Suzuki Tomoko, who was holding a hand mirror and slowly putting on makeup.

Hearing what Sonoko said, she rolled her eyes: "If Xiaolin hadn't arrived in time, I would have been knocked down in there. How could you be the one to worry?"

Hearing this familiar tone, Suzuki Sonoko burst into laughter.

Lin Chiyu shook his head: "It's a pity that it's too late. The Black Star has been replaced."

The two were stunned when they heard this. Suzuki Tomoko lowered her head and checked the black pearl on her chest, "It really is!"

"How do you know mine is the real thing?" she asked doubtfully.

She thought it was a great idea.

"Pearls are best matched with women, and the 'black star' has the image of a star, so the only thing that matches it is the 'moon', which is you, Aunt Tomoko."

Lin Chiyu hesitated to speak, but finally said: "How can you, such a narcissistic person, say that others are the most suitable for the Black Star?"

Suzuki Tomoko stood on tiptoe and patted his head unhappily, smiling: "When will you come home to play for a few days? I think you have been living too comfortably outside and have forgotten the taste of home. Let your aunt help you recall it?"

"I'm going to chase Kidd!" Rin Chiyu left this sentence and fled.

Suzuki Tomoko looked at his back and sighed.

She turned around and said to Sonoko, "After today, you can take the initiative to go and play with your brother Shakuha."

"Didn't you say he didn't want to see us?" Suzuki Sonoko wiped away the tears choked by the smoke and blinked her big eyes.

"That was before," Suzuki Tomoko rolled her eyes at her. How could the two kids grow up together, with Rin taking care of them, so how could their IQs be so different? "He would rather live in that kind of hellish place than spend the money in his card or call. It's like he's disappeared from the face of the earth."

"If your father hadn't been able to track down his situation, he would have gone to catch him long ago, but he's hiding on purpose. What can we do? As parents, we have no choice but to go along with him at times like this."

"He showed up in front of us a few days ago and changed his residence. He must have figured it out on his own. Since he doesn't intend to hide, there's no need for us to deliberately suppress our desire to see him."

Suzuki Tomoko pretended to reminisce and sighed, "Maybe I'm just being nosy. Kong Ming is indeed meticulous at work, but when it comes to relationships, he's a complete mess..."

"The Fujiwara family..."

"It's not a good idea either."

Suzuki Sonoko nodded as if she understood, but she didn't quite understand all this. After all, the Suzuki family's educational policy for her has always been to make her happy.

For example, the big responsibility in business and social life often fell on her older sister Ayako. When she was a child, Ayako hugged her neck and cried many times, saying "I don't want to study anymore."

Ayako found a fiancé not long ago and decided to marry someone else, so the status of heir fell on Sonoko. Of course, it was too late to continue her education as an heir at this time.

The Suzuki couple naturally gave in. Since there was no way to change the situation, they just let her be and then find a capable man to marry into their family.

If things really don't work out, there's still the Rin family and their son to back them up. The Suzuki Group won't be destroyed in one or two generations.