The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Six cars have punctured tires." Rokuda Masashi confirmed the status of the full house of guests. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but glance at Yotsuga Reika and spoke more cautiously, "Apart from us, only Miss Reika's car was damaged."

"There's nothing we can do." President Sijing checked the time, "I can only ask other guests if they would mind giving you a ride."

Although these six people plus other possible accompanying persons, such as Tang Ze brought by Mifune Takuya, are still a large number, finding a guest who is on the way and willing to contact them is quite a test of coordination ability, and no situation that is difficult to coordinate has occurred yet.

Lihua was easier to deal with. There were still vacancies for the staff of the Sijing Group, including his own car...

However, before he could start thinking about the arrangements, Sijing Lihua glanced at several suitors and expressed her dissatisfaction.

"I don't want to! Today is my birthday!" Without other onlookers, Shijing Lihua no longer concealed her true nature and hugged her arms. "Birthdays are such an important thing. The party is over. Now I should be enjoying this atmosphere and going home leisurely. You actually want me to squeeze into a car with others..."

"Lihua, don't be upset at this time." President Sijing comforted his daughter in a gentle voice, as if he had no way to deal with her. "It's too late to send a car here now. This place is far away from the city... This is also the venue you chose for the banquet, so there will be some inconveniences..."

"So you mean to blame me?"

"No, Lihua, it's normal for you to have a happy birthday..."

"Humph, anyway, I won't squeeze into a car with others to go back."

"Dad is not someone else, can't he go back with my car?"

"no!"

Kogoro Mori and his group, who were walking over and preparing to say goodbye, listened to the conversation between the Shii father and daughter. They didn't dare to interrupt, but the understanding in their eyes was too obvious.

When the spoiled young lady wants to throw tantrums, no one can persuade her otherwise.

When even her father, who truly holds her lifeline and decides whether she can continue to use the group's resources, cannot oppose her decision, she is not much different from a dictator.

"I'm going to stay here tonight! Granny Mi is here too, she'll take good care of me." Sijing Lihua turned her back and refused to continue communicating with her father. "Why don't you send someone to pick me up tomorrow morning?"

"Miss..." The old servant who was named by her raised his head, and seeing the look in President Sijing's eyes, he could only lower his head and respond.

"You're really causing trouble for everyone, huh?" Mifune Takuya whispered to Tang Ze, his attitude full of dissatisfaction and disdain, "It's a headache for anyone to meet a spendthrift girl like this from a partner's family."

Tang Ze looked at Granny Mi who was following behind Shii Rika with her head down, and his eyes were much colder than before.

Shii Rika clearly knew the relationship between the girl she killed two years ago and her old nanny, but when she was bossing around Granny Mi who had lost her only relative, she not only did not restrain herself at all, but because she owed her the other party, she even deliberately made things difficult to avoid such negative emotions.

What a bastard who is single-handedly trying to make the world a worse place.

"Then I'll stay too, Miss!"

"Yes, I'll stay too! If only the young lady and the servants live in such a big villa, wouldn't it be too empty?"

"And, there's me!"

Unlike Takuya Mifune and Karasawa who looked down on Yotsuba Rika, the other candidates for Yotsuba Rika's husband were much more active, and were as active as fish jumping out of the water for food.

"Are they serious?" Mifune Takuya's eyebrows jumped. "Let Reika, a girl, spend the night in a manor deep in the mountains with a group of people of the opposite sex?"

"This sounds like it might be even more dangerous." Tang Ze nodded in agreement.

"No, the point is that they did this, so the two of us had no choice but to stay with them." Takuya Mifune rolled his eyes.

"...In that case, I will stay here too and protect the young lady." Masashi Rokuda looked at the hesitant President Yotsuei and whispered, "She is angry now and won't listen to your advice. I won't let those lechers get close to the young lady."

"Well, I feel more at ease with you, Rokuda. I'll leave Lihua to you."

"Don't worry, you still have work to do tomorrow morning, so let me take care of things here."

Seeing that her father no longer opposed her decision, Sijing Lihua, who had achieved another small victory, raised her chin, lifted her fluffy skirt, and walked into the door with a proud look surrounded by a group of men.

After watching the whole show, Maori Ran blinked. When she was about to remind Maori Kogoro that they could drive back, she saw Conan winking at her.

Mao Lilan suddenly became uncertain, slowly took two steps back, turned her head, and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with Ms. Shijing that needs to be checked?"

This is a more euphemistic way of putting it, but judging from the words she subconsciously chose, she did not put Yotsuba Rika in the position of a victim. Instinctively, Conan might think that there is something wrong with Yotsuba Rika herself.

"Well, a little bit..." Conan looked at the people following behind Yotsuba Rika, especially Takuya Mifune and Goro Akechi who were whispering at the very end, and answered ambiguously.

It's not like he had any opinion about Shijing Lihua.

Of course, anyone can see that this is a young lady who has been spoiled to the point of being lawless and behaving badly, but everyone is not familiar with her, so they don't want to cause trouble to them.

He was simply curious and worried about why Goro Akechi was here.

If this is simply related to the Yotsuba family, there seems to be no need for Akechi to choose to stay. Could it be that the purpose of his trip is Yotsuba Reika?

Regardless, this is not the time to walk away.

"Dad, I didn't have time to say goodbye to President Shijing just now, so why don't we go and tell Miss Lihua." Mao Lilan rolled her eyes and found an excuse to delay time, "Anyway, we came to the party because of her invitation, right?"

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the two people who were whispering to each other for a while, shook his head, but did not object.

"Okay, then go tell Miss Shii Reika."

"Ms. Lihua is very good at playing cards." The suitor next to her quickly replied, "We rarely beat her in playing any kind of cards before."

Tang Ze glanced at the guy who answered the question, without saying anything, but he was complaining in his heart.

Isn't that right? Do you dare to beat her? If you dare to win, you will win the game but lose your life...

With support, Shijing Lihua smiled more fully, and poked Tang Ze's wrinkle-free tie with the corner of her playing card box in a frivolous manner: "If you are afraid that I will bully you, how about we make a gamble? Don't worry, I won't treat you unfairly."

"...No." Tang Ze smiled and raised his hand so that the poker would only hit the palm of his gloved hand. "I'm not very good at playing cards. If I gamble, it would be embarrassing if I lose too badly."

"That's what makes it fun." Not only did Shii Rika not retreat because of his rejection, she even moved closer, "We can play cards and get to know each other better, how fun is that? If you don't know how to play cards, why don't we play the King's Game? It's purely based on luck, and you can always get it by drawing cards, right?"

As he walked in, Kogoro Mouri lowered his eyebrows, obviously disapproving in his heart.

Board games like the King's Game are indeed not that luck-dependent, but the problem is that if Goro Akechi is the only unfamiliar outsider among the participants, and the other participants are all flatterers of Reika Yotsuba, then it would be no different from cheating.

As long as Shijing Lihua wants, everyone will reveal their cards to her, which means she can order anyone she wants.

"Ms. Shijing, we should go too." Although he disagreed in his heart, Maori Kogoro still had a good attitude on the surface, "Thank you again for inviting me to the party."

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Should we just find a reason to take Mingzhi away as well?

After all, he is a minor and we can't just watch him being teased by this veteran in the entertainment industry.

Before Kogoro Mori could find the right words, Takuya Mifune's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Detective Maori, have you been drinking tonight?"

Kogoro Mori turned his head in confusion and was about to refute when he saw Takuya Mifune frowning, as if he had something else to say.

"...It seems like there are some." Kogoro Mori had no choice but to answer like this.

"That's perfect, I'll take you guys back, okay?" Mifune Takuya quickly took the opportunity to say, "Detective, please give me your car keys. I see your car is quite spacious, so I can take Akechi back as well."

"You're leaving just like that?" Shijing Lihua narrowed her eyes and looked at Mifune Takuya's profile. "What a pity. You were one of the candidates I considered. Father admires your ability to run the company and boost performance. You still have a lot of hope."

"I'm not interested in playing with you, Lihua." At this point, and since President Shijing was not around, Mifune Taku was too lazy to pretend. "Don't get me wrong. I came here today for only one purpose, which is to get closer to your father and improve the operating efficiency of my own company. I'm not that interested in you. You should leave this hope to someone who needs it."

"Hey, Mifune, how can you talk like that?" Ichieda Takashi quickly stopped him from talking.

"…Just let him go," Nikaidou Yuji quickly grabbed Ichieda Takashi who wanted to stop him, saying maliciously, "Wouldn't it be better to have one less competitor?"

Taku Mifune ignored them and looked at them as if they were flies. He just stretched out his hand and prepared to take the car keys handed to him by Kogoro Mori.

He had no interest in getting involved in such a boring fight as he had to work tomorrow.

“Bang!”

Just as he took the key handed to him by Kogoro Mori, a hand stretched out from the side and slapped the key out of his hand, knocking it onto the marble floor with two crisp sounds.

"What are you doing?" Takuya Mifune frowned as he looked at Rika Shii who was taking direct action.

"You can go back if you want, but as soon as my father's car arrives tomorrow, I will ask him to cut off all ties with your company." Shijing Lihua sneered, "Just get it straight, it's you who need me, and to our family you're just a dispensable supplier who can be replaced at any time. 'Starting a business'? Using family resources to pick up some leftovers is really a way to flatter yourself."

"You, don't go too far...!" Takuya Mifune's eyebrows twitched violently.

There is no greater insult to an entrepreneur than to ridicule his business to his face.

"You too, stop bragging." Shii Rika turned her head and looked at Tang Ze, "'Famous Detective'? You are just being admired by some ignorant people. Aren't those who are a little bit outstanding actually just clowns performing in front of the public? Without the rich, is your halo so dazzling? Who are you showing this to?"

Conan's temples throbbed when he heard Rika Shii speak so rudely to Akechi.

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It would be fine if he just hit Kogoro Mori, after all, stepping on Kogoro Mori is like stepping on cotton, and he can't do anything.

But you are tired of being so aggressive and mocking Goro Akechi? Please don't make it more difficult for the detective who is trying to rescue you.

"A private detective is nothing more than a beggar following his client. If it weren't for the Suzuki family..."

"Ms. Lihua, don't say that..." Gojo Osamu, who knew that the Suzuki family was more difficult to deal with than the Yotsuui family, quickly tried to smooth things over, "The detectives are just hired consultants..."

"You shut up too." Shijing Lihua's eyes turned, and she was not polite at all, and she had no intention of answering him. "Why, my family can't compare to the Suzuki family so you are afraid? If you have the ability, go and be a dog for Suzuki Sonoko. Do they think highly of you?"

It was obvious that she was very angry at the moment and was in a state of indiscriminate attack. She was not prepared to listen to reason at all.

Yotsuba Rika, who had been frustrated by Goro Akechi, was already very unhappy and felt that her charm and background were underestimated. Takuya Mifune's blunt words added fuel to the fire. She was too lazy to even pretend to be gentle.

"You are like birds in a cage. Without my feeding, you can't survive. You don't really think I value you, do you?" Sijing Lihua mocked, "Chirp more, so that you can please your master."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone in the lounge changed drastically.

"Grandma Mi, go and collect the car keys." After venting her anger, Shii Rika turned back and ordered directly, "Don't give it back to Maori Kogoro. Wait until my car arrives tomorrow before giving it to him. If you think so little of me, then you can climb out of the mountain by yourself if you have the guts."

"Hey, hey..." The corner of Kogoro Mouri's mouth twitched.

What does your fight have to do with me?

"I'm going to change my clothes. What a bummer." Pushing open the door of the lounge, Shijing Lihua snorted coldly, "Grandma Mi, ask the kitchen to prepare some tea and snacks for them, so that they won't say that our family is impolite."

Conan took a few steps and stood in front of Goro Akechi, fearing that the person behind him would not be able to hold back and would directly pull out a gun and shoot the disrespectful Yotsui Reika to death.

Hey, hey, please stop talking, Mingzhi isn’t even smiling anymore…!