"Yeah." Mouri Kogoro scratched his head. "What could I do? I got married early—back then, I was still in college and didn't have a steady job. But I couldn't exactly live on the northwest wind with your mother, so I had to take whatever part-time jobs I could to make ends meet."
Imagining that scene, Mouri Ran couldn't help sighing. "That sounds really hard."
Conan quietly muttered to Jiang Xia, "I never thought Uncle Mouri, with how muddleheaded he is, could teach students. Wouldn't he end up raising another muddlehead like himself?"
Jiang Xia was about to speak when a flash of light and shadow flickered before him. Mouri Kogoro brought his fist down on Conan's head with a duang.
"Don't underestimate me, brat." Mouri Kogoro withdrew his hand and proudly raised his chin. "I used to be an excellent tutor. One student I taught for three years successfully got into the Law Department at Jonan University. That department's admission threshold is terrifyingly high!"
As he spoke, inspiration suddenly struck him. He smacked his fist into his palm. "Right! I remember her home is in Beika Town... I haven't seen her in ages. No time like the present—today, I'll take you all to visit my clever student Megumi."
"Huh?" Mouri Ran froze. "Isn't that a little sudden? What if she isn't home?"
Mouri Kogoro waved dismissively. "Then we'll just call it a walk."
"This..."
Mouri Ran was still hesitating when she suddenly noticed that Jiang Xia had already wandered after him with Conan in tow.
Mouri Ran: "...?"
Could it be that, in the detective world, dropping by to visit people you knew at random was completely normal? Was she making too much of it?
"That's true." As Mouri Ran thought it over, she secretly nodded. "When you think about