Are All Detectives This Fierce?
The old woman got into the car, Fujino glanced at the Fiat and said, "Fiat 500, the same model as Lupin the Third's. Grandma, you have great taste."
"I didn't expect you to recognize me..."
The old lady took out a book and chuckled in her aged voice, "There aren't many young people who understand old cars like this anymore."
"Lupin the Third?"
Conan also turned around and glanced at the car out of curiosity.
"Hey, Dad, are we there yet?"
Ran crossed her legs, looking coy, and said, "Could you drive faster? I need to go to the restroom..."
"Well..."
Kuroba Kaito sighed speechlessly.
Girls are such a hassle.
This girl is just as troublesome as Aoko.
"Miss, I might be being a bit nosy if I say this."
At this moment, an old woman in the back row suddenly interjected. "The principal of our town once said that successful people always seize opportunities. Some people always think that if they miss an opportunity, they will encounter it again, but they will never encounter it again on the road ahead, and thus they lose the opportunity."
As she spoke, she looked at Ran and asked, "When we went to the gas station just now, you could have easily seized the opportunity, right?"
Conan couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did you know we just went to a gas station?"
"The ashtray is overflowing with cigarettes, which means you are a big smoker."
The old woman glanced at the cigarette butt under the dashboard of the car in front. "The ashtray is empty now, which means you went to the gas station before. Also, the person who let a strange old woman into the car is unlikely to throw a cigarette butt out the window in front of his daughter."
"Hello, hello..."
Kuroba Kaito turned to look at the old woman, feeling that her tone sounded somewhat familiar, "You bastard, who exactly are you...?"
"My name is Chizen Kōdai, and I'm a detective like you two."
Chizen Kōdai a typical detective tone, then reached out and pulled the ashtray out of the car. "I'll keep the ashtray until we get there, since I don't really like the smell of smoke."
"Hey... wait a minute."
Kuroba Kaito made a perfunctory refusal.
However, he was secretly lamenting that he had almost been exposed.
He certainly overlooked the fact that Mori Kogoro was a heavy smoker.
He hasn't smoked since just now.
After all, he is a minor!
Fujino also glanced at Chizen Kōdai, his eyes narrowing slightly.
This old lady... must have discovered Kuroba Kaito's true identity?
He remembered that it must have been this old woman who orchestrated this case.
The Twilight Manor.
"Wow..."
Mori Kogoro, disguised as Kuroba Kaito, looked up at the Twilight Manor in the darkness and couldn't help but remark, "It looks gloomy from a distance, and it really does look like a haunted house up close."
Conan looked around at the cars in the courtyard and couldn't help but exclaim, "They're all luxury cars!"
"Yes, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Porsche..."
Fujino glanced at the cars in the courtyard. "Looks like all the people who came are rich."
Today's visitors are all detectives. Sure enough, being a detective is still incredibly lucrative in this world.
But it doesn't matter if it's a luxury car, it'll just explode in a bit anyway.
The reason he didn't drive his Taurus over today is because of this.
Romeo?!
Just then, Kuroba Kaito suddenly spotted a car, went over and touched it a couple of times. "It's really awesome..."
Don't touch my wife!
Just then, a man's reprimanding voice suddenly came from behind.
The group turned around and saw a man with a double chin wearing a top hat and a green suit walking over. "This is the car I finally got after five years of hard work. If some other man's dirty hands touch it, it might cause a fight later... Little Mustache."
"A mustache?!"
Kuroba Kaito was clearly taken aback.
What the heck is that little mustache?
He glanced at the mustache on his face.
It seems that's the case...
"Forget it, little mustache."
Fujino walked up and patted Kuroba Kaito on the shoulder.
Kuroba Kaito: "..."
Why do you call me Little Mustache too?
I'm not addicted to steroids!
"But... I won't say anything more."
Fujino glanced back at Romeo.
He wasn't a fan of that style of car.
As for treating a car as a wife... well, if a two-dimensional character can be a wife, then a car isn't out of the question.
But...
Your wife is going to explode soon.
"Long time no see, Mogi-kun."
Chizen Kōdai stepped forward and greeted the man with the double chin, "Are you here for the banquet too?"
"Ah, it's Granny Chizen."
"I heard you were shot by the Mafia in Chicago last month?"
"I've long forgotten about that... It's not like it's the first time I've been shot."
"Shouldn't you be settling down and starting a family? You're almost 39, you can't keep treating your car like your wife."
"I don't think about that many things."
Kuroba Kaito: "..."
Fujino: "..."
"Are all detectives this good?"
Kuroba Kaito Fujino in a low voice.
What do you think?
"Um... I think you made an emergency landing a while ago."
The two detectives exchanged pleasantries, while another detective, a phantom thief, and a little kid followed behind. Ran, on the other hand, went into the bathroom first.
As soon as I pushed open the door of the mansion, a commotion erupted.
"Your chef is sick? Are you kidding me? I came here specifically for dinner!"
"I'm so sorry, we've already prepared the ingredients for dinner..."
"Then lend me your kitchen, I'll prepare dinner! Honestly, without delicious food, my brain cells just won't work!"
The first thing I saw was a well-off man in a white suit scolding a maid. He only stopped and left when the maid was almost in tears.
Fujino glanced back, while Kuroba Kaito recognized the man. "That guy looks like the gourmet detective Oogami Shuku Zen."
"It should be."
Fujino glanced at the maid who was about to cry.
That's how maids are; they have to put up with all sorts of attitudes.
If the Shimo-Kasa Sisters hadn't been recruited by him, they would most likely have suffered the same treatment.
Chizen Kōdai stepped forward and asked, "Miss Maid, what exactly do you want to do by going to such lengths to invite the five of us detectives here?"
"No, actually we invited a total of seven detectives."
With his double chin, Mōgi Harushi couldn't help but interject, "You mean there are two more people besides the five of us?"
"There was also a boy and a lady."
"Juvenile?"
At that moment, Ran's ears twitched, and she asked curiously, "Could it be Shinichi?"
"No way!"
Conan then exclaimed, "If you ask me, it's definitely Heiji!"
"The names of the two of them are indeed on the list that our master gave me."
The maid shook her head and continued, "However, we can't get in touch with Kudo, and Hattori was rejected by his mother because of his midterm exams."
"Midterm exams..."
Fujino couldn't help but grunt.
I never imagined that kid would be kept at home by his mom because of his bad grades.