Stay away from Conan.

"Hey?"

Unexpectedly, when Xiao Ai heard Ayumi ask this, she was a little surprised:

"I did go to Hokkaido, but that was because Takato-nii had a request and Edogawa-san happened to go with us, so we didn't go out together."

After thinking about it, Xiao Ai explained, and then asked back:

"Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"because……"

Facing Xiao Ai's question, Ayumi hesitated for a moment, then lowered her head slightly before saying to Xiao Ai:

"Recently, we wanted to ask Conan to come out and play, but he always declined, so... I wondered if it was..."

"Could it be anything?"

Confused, Ai didn't quite understand what Ayumi meant.

"Ayumi means that Conan probably just wants to spend the holiday getting closer to the person he likes, so that's why he hasn't been playing with us!"

In response to Ai's question, Mitsuhiko on the side said this directly.

Suddenly, hearing this, Xiao Ai was stunned for a moment:

"Master... from Edogawa?"

By the way, why not spend more time with the person you like during the holidays? Hasn't Edogawa always lived with that girl from the office?

And when did a master appear?

"That's right..."

Ayumi hesitated and said nervously:

"Because it was Conan's master who said so... Huihara-san, when we went to Hokkaido that time, Conan also stayed close to Xiaolan, right?"

Ayumi asked this at the end.

Ai probably understood Ayumi's idea, so she couldn't help but smiled and said:

"Don't you know Edogawa yet? He must have been following Uncle Maori Kogoro on some cases these days, so he hasn't been playing with you guys!"

In this way, Xiao Ai roughly expressed her thoughts -

After all, rather than Conan ignoring the children because of Xiaolan, it is more likely because of the case.

but……

Of course, compared to this possibility, Xiao Ai feels that Conan has not played with the children since returning from Hakodate, Hokkaido. It is probably related to the matter of Rena Mizunashi. He should still be worried about the organization's affairs, so he has no intention of playing with the children.

"Yes!"

So, after hearing Xiao Ai's guess, Mitsuhiko thought for a while and felt that Xiao Ai was right, so he quickly agreed. But then Yuan Tai was puzzled and asked:

"But Conan's master..."

"Who is Conan's master, you are talking about?"

As a result, faced with such a situation, it seems that the children still trust the so-called Conan's master, Ai asked.

"It's the detective brother from Osaka!"

"That big brother with dark skin!"

"The accent is a bit strange..."

In response to Ai's doubts, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta all answered the question together, and then Mitsuhiko asked curiously:

"What? Don't you know, Haibara? Conan's reasoning ability was taught to him by his master, the high school detective from Osaka!"

"Hattori Heiji..."

Listening to their answers, Xiao Ai couldn't help but sigh helplessly, feeling...

This seems to be something that the high school detective from Osaka can do.

"Really, that guy Conan is always like this! He didn't even tell us that he had such a great detective as his master, and every time there's a case, he leaves us alone to investigate and takes all the credit! This guy is really too much!" As he said this, Genta expressed his dissatisfaction with Conan, who had not been playing with him and the others recently.

To this, Mitsuhiko also echoed:

"That's right! He must be investigating some big case with Detective Mori right now... Hmm? Ayumi, what are you looking at?"

So, just when the children were feeling dissatisfied that Conan had not played with them since the holiday, Mitsuhiko noticed that Ayumi had been looking towards one side of the restaurant hall since some time ago. He didn't know what she was looking at, so Mitsuhiko couldn't help but ask -

"I think... I saw Uncle Maori..."

Ayumi looked at one side of the restaurant hall and said...

……

"Inspector, Officer Megure...what is this...file?"

In the office of the First Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, Takagi Wataru looked at the file brought by Officer Megure with some confusion. After all, he was not familiar with this file, and it did not seem to be a case he had handled recently, so he did not know what Officer Megure meant by suddenly bringing this file:

"And, this... monster? Tiger Cave?"

Looking at the pure Chinese characters written on the file, Takagi Wataru felt a little overwhelmed.

"The Chinese characters should be read as '妖虎洞'."

In response to Takagi Wataru's questioning, Officer Megure explained this.

"Ah? What is this?"

When Takagi Shigeru heard the name, he became even more confused.

"A killer from a neighboring country."

Officer Megure said seriously.

"Ah? A killer from a neighboring country? How come we have such a file here?"

After listening to Inspector Megure's explanation, Takagi Wataru became even more confused.

"This was sent by the police from a neighboring country. According to the police's tip, this criminal who had committed a major crime in their country seems to have recently smuggled into Japan, so we need to pay attention."

Inspector Megure said seriously.

"Huh? Why? Why did you come to Japan?"

After Gao Mushi understood the general situation, he immediately asked in surprise. After all, this matter did not seem to be a trivial matter:

"Could it be that he came to Japan to kill people?"

"We still don't know. And we are not sure whether he has entered the country. The police in the neighboring country also confirmed this after receiving a tip from an informant. But after all, he is an illegal immigrant, and we have no clues at the moment."

Inspector Megure said seriously.

"Hey...ah! How can this be in this file? There is only the code name 'Demon Tiger Cave', but the person's name, gender, and age are all unknown, and there are not even any physical features. How can we check this?"

After looking through the contents of the file, Takagi Wataru felt deeply troubled.

"Well, the killer's whereabouts are very secretive, but what we know is that he should be a killer belonging to a mysterious organization. But other than that, the police in the neighboring country don't have more information, but what is certain is that the killer is Asian."

Inspector Megure said this with a serious expression.

"Asians... a mysterious organization... this is almost the same as having no clues at all..."

There are Asians everywhere in Japan, and the mysterious organization is called "mysterious" because there are no clues. In the end, apart from knowing that there is a killer who may have sneaked into Japan, the rest is completely dark...

Gao Mushi felt heavy-hearted——

"So, Takagi, even though nothing has happened yet, we can't just sit there and do nothing..."

Inspector Megure said so... (End of this chapter)