Ran thought about it and remembered how her dad often spent all the living expenses, leaving her worried.
There was also that time when her dad had carelessly accepted a case and spent the client's commission fee. He had called Mom and Senior over to help, and in the end, Senior had given up part of his share of the money.
That was how they managed to keep life going.
Otherwise, she really had no idea how they would get by.
Life was hard. Ran sighed.
The idea of getting a huge commission just for doing something so inexplicable was extremely unreasonable...
Ran frowned, feeling that something was off.
Then she thought of something and muttered thoughtfully, "This plot really is a lot like the Red-Headed League..."
"What Red-Headed League?" Sonoko asked directly. If she did not understand, she asked.
Ran said helplessly, "It's from the Sherlock Holmes detective collection. Someone hired a red-haired man for a high salary to sit in a room copying out an encyclopedia. But while he was doing that, someone was digging a tunnel to a bank!"
"Uh..."
Sonoko scratched her head. "What does that have to do with these two things?"
"That's why detectives are detectives."
Fujino crossed his arms and explained, "Behind anything unreasonable, there will be a perfectly reasonable explanation."
"So only detectives care about things like that..." Sonoko waved her hand helplessly. "An ordinary high school girl like me has nothing to do with this kind of thing..."
Then she glanced at Ran and teased, "As for Ran, Shinichi must have nagged at her so much that she got assimilated."
Ran gave her a dead-fish stare and complained, "Sonoko, that's not the point. The point is why that person hired someone at such a high price to do something like this!"