"Going to a meeting again, Dad?" Seeing Mori Kogoro adjusting his tie in front of the full-length mirror, Ran Mouri glanced at the clock. "Ah, but it's already after work hours."
Ever since joining this investigation team, Mori Kogoro seemed to have returned to the life he had when he was still a police officer, attending case discussion meetings with the special task force every day. Ran Mouri, who had not seen her father working normally for far too long, could not help feeling a little unaccustomed to it.
"They normally wouldn't call me in at this hour, but if they have, that means the case has progressed." Mori Kogoro looked at the setting sun outside the window and sighed as well. "No helping it. I'll grab a sandwich from Polo downstairs."
"Be careful on the way."
"Got it."
Watching Mori Kogoro's departing back, Ran Mouri smoothly and swiftly took out her phone and began composing an email.
It was not that she was eager to fulfill someone's request or anything. It was just that if Dad really got involved in the investigation himself and failed to display the detective prowess that had made him famous across Tokyo, it would be easy to arouse suspicion...
Downstairs at Polo Cafe, Tooru Amuro handed the wrapped sandwich to Mori Kogoro. He immediately noticed the man's exceedingly office-worker-like formal attire and said with a smile, "Working this late? Being a detective is really tough for you. Did you get a major case?"
"It's not very appropriate to fish for information about a colleague like that." Mori Kogoro answered half-jokingly and half-seriously. Seeing Tooru Amuro's handsome face, he could not help thinking of that equally striking subordinate at the other agency, and his tone turned a little sour. "Your agency doesn't exactly lack clients