"How come I didn't know I'd signed up for a tour group..."
Kogoro Mouri sat in his seat, his face full of disdain.
Conan had signed them up for this tour group on his own initiative. It was fairly famous among Sherlock Holmes fans, and the members were selected with great care. Even Conan himself had not expected to be lucky enough to get chosen.
That was why he had brought Kogoro Mouri, Ran, and Sato Xu Yue along with him.
Xu Yue sat at the very back of the van. He smiled without saying anything and looked over the people inside.
Mm, very good. Although he had joined them, there had been no major changes in the lineup. That was probably due to the space's own corrective force.
The driver was Hitomi Iwai, an employee of the organizer and a waitress at the lodge they were heading to. In the front passenger seat sat a middle-aged man named Toshiro Fujiike, who worked as a driver. Beside Ran Mouri was a librarian named Nanako Shimizu, while next to Kogoro Mouri sat a PE teacher named Ikuo Kawazu.
They kept talking in the car about their understanding of Sherlock Holmes and their love for his works, each explaining which novel was their favorite.
Conan got along quite well with them too, but when someone curiously asked Kogoro Mouri about it, his single answer—"The Murder on the Orient Express"—immediately gave him away.
In an instant, everyone else on the tour began to subtly exclude him.
This was a rather famous event within their circle. How had an outsider been selected this time? What an utterly terrible experience...
The organizer of this event was also a wealthy man. He had built a lodge atop a cliff, and aside from the waitress who