"Sorry, sorry, I'm really sorry about that..."
"Seriously, how does someone get bumped by another person's dog while bending down to pick up trash, lose their balance, and nearly stumble into the street...?" Sonoko Suzuki adjusted her headband and folded her arms, complaining, "Should I say you're really unlucky, or that you're just incredibly uncoordinated...?"
"Well, um..." The boy with the large round glasses gave a wry smile. "Anyway, thank you. If I hadn't bumped into you, I might really have fallen into the road. That would have been dangerous."
When he had crashed into them, the pedestrian light had still been red, which was why they had stopped at the curb to wait. Falling into the street at a time like that could easily have caused an accident.
"I'm the kind of person who, if I accidentally drop bread, will have it land butter-side down one hundred percent of the time. Though, physically speaking, I really am..." As he spoke, he looked up and studied Sonoko Suzuki and Ran Mouri's faces. Suddenly, his expression shifted. "Huh? You look very familiar. Have we met somewhere before?"
Conan, who was holding his head and was just as dizzy, shot him a sidelong look.
That pickup line was beyond outdated, wasn't it? Who even used something like that...?
"Oh, right, I have seen you before!" Eisuke Hondou nodded in realization. "You're Great Detective Mori Kogoro's daughter, right? I haven't seen you give any formal interviews or anything, but you show up in reports all the time..."
"Huh? You recognized me?" Ran Mouri pointed at herself in surprise.
As Mori Kogoro's fame had risen, people who knew Ran Mouri naturally knew about her family background. Still, with her father absent, it was unusual for someone to recognize her face alone.
"Of course. You're