"...Haaah..."
Fang Zheng opened his eyes and yawned.
He had finally gotten a good night's sleep last night. Afterward, Ran and the others had gone to find Uncle Mouri, who was drinking, while Fang Zheng had taken Mira back to the room to rest. As long as he stayed away from Conan, Hattori Heiji, and Kogoro Mouri, nothing would fall into his lap. Fang Zheng was no detective and had no interest in cases that dropped from the sky. Life was short, so rather than waste time on dead people, he might as well waste it on women.
"Ring, ring..."
Just then, his phone suddenly rang. Fang Zheng reached out, casually picked it up, and answered.
"Hello, it's me... Oh? Ran? What is it?"
"Mr. Fang Zheng, I didn't disturb you, did I?"
"It's fine. I just got up. What's wrong?"
"You don't know? Something happened to Hattori last night!"
"Oh? What happened?"
Although Ran sounded anxious, Fang Zheng remained calm. Hattori Heiji was part of the protagonist group, after all. He was tough enough that he would not die so easily.
Ran quickly explained everything to Fang Zheng.
Put simply, after Fang Zheng took Mira back to their room to rest last night, everyone else had gone to find Kogoro Mouri. Then, just as expected, something happened again. Not long after they arrived, someone drinking with Kogoro Mouri was murdered... Well, Fang Zheng considered that standard procedure. Good thing he had been smart enough not to go.
Then, naturally, Conan's detective mode kicked in, and he and Hattori Heiji searched everywhere for clues. But unlike the usual "the culprit is among us," they did not solve the case on the spot this time. Instead, they discovered that the murdered man had also been a member of the Genji Hotaru