Ke Xue: The thief Cao is actually myself

Chapter 633 I'm Really Not an LSP! (Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

Maori Detective Agency.

The afternoon sun shines through the window, casting patches of light and shadow on the floor. Conan is nestling comfortably in the soft sofa, drinking a cool drink happily. When he raises his eyes inadvertently, his eyes are firmly attracted by the lonely figure by the window. It is the owner of this office - Maori Kogoro.

I saw Kogoro Mouri sitting alone in front of the window, his body hunched over, his chin supported by one hand. His profile was in the interweaving of sunlight and shadow, and his wrinkles seemed to have deepened. He exuded endless loneliness, as if shrouded in a layer of sad mist.

Seeing this scene, Conan narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a trace of worry, and whispered softly: "Uncle has been very abnormal recently, and he looks listless."

Since returning from the class reunion that day, this usually carefree and cheerful uncle seemed to have changed into a different person. He often sat in front of the window for a long time, staring straight out of the window, watching the streets full of traffic and pedestrians, and the atmosphere of fireworks everywhere, very lively.

But the other person's eyes were empty and wandering, and the hustle and bustle seemed unable to touch his heart, as if his thoughts were still deeply trapped in that heartbreaking tragedy, which made people feel worried.

At this moment, Mao Lilan walked out of the kitchen with a cup of steaming tea. Seeing her father like this, she sighed helplessly. That sigh was full of a daughter's understanding and heartache for her father.

She gently placed the teacup on the table and poured a cup of hot tea for her boyfriend Bai Ye. The rising steam blurred her eyes. After a moment, she slowly said, "There's nothing we can do about it. After all, an old friend did that. Anyone would feel bad if it happened to them."

Recalling the murder of Yumi Horikoshi and the regrettable "fall" of her elder Kazushi Nakamichi, wouldn't Ran Mori also be heartbroken?
During those days, she was so depressed that she couldn't eat, and her heart was filled with disbelief and regret about all this.

She had not met the two elders, Yumi Horikoshi and Kazushi Nakamichi, very often, and their relationship was not particularly close. But even so, this sudden change still hit her hard.

Not to mention that her father, Kogoro Mori, has known Nakamichi Kazushi and Horikoshi Yumi for more than ten years, and the friendship between the three is extremely deep.

Faced with such a major change suddenly, the pain that Kogoro Mori, a close friend of the two, endured was so deep that others could not imagine it.

Bai Ye took the teacup and took a sip. The warm tea slid down his throat, but it failed to dispel the depressing atmosphere in the room. He looked up at Maori Kogoro, and after thinking for a moment, he slowly said, "Yes, my good friend killed another friend of mine. This kind of thing is hard for anyone to bear, not to mention that my uncle has such a deep relationship with them. This blow is really too great."

Conan frowned slightly, his tone was thoughtful: "Sister Xiaolan, it's not a solution for Uncle to continue like this, we have to do something. If he keeps suppressing himself like this, it will only get worse, and he might even get sick."

Bai Ye gently put down the teacup in his hand, his eyes firm: "I agree with Conan. Uncle Maori is a man who values ​​friendship and loyalty. This incident has dealt him a heavy blow. We have to find a way to help him get out of the shadow of the past."

Mao Lilan nodded gently, tears welling up in her eyes, and said in a choked voice: "You are right, but what should we do? Dad is not interested in anything now. Whether it is eating, reading newspapers or horse racing, he doesn't care at all."

Conan frowned slightly, recalling the details of the case in his mind. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said, "I think we can start with the case. As a detective, Uncle must be interested in the case. Maybe we can try to start from this aspect and let Uncle shift his attention to the case and focus on investigating it. Maybe it will make him forget his troubles and regain his spirits."

Mao Lilan raised her head, and a hint of hesitation flashed in her originally dim eyes.

It is true that her father is a detective, but his original intention of becoming a detective is more to support the family, make a living, and provide for the family. This is fundamentally different from a high school detective whose mind is full of reasoning and who is obsessed with cases to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep.

Using cases to divert attention and help him get out of the haze, this trick may be useful for the high school detective Kudo Shinichi, and it has worked every time, but will it really work for Lai to help her father regain his former spirit?
She expressed her doubts about this!
Unless it is a commission with staggeringly high remuneration and the client is a bright, charming and attractive beauty!
But how could it be easy to come across such a commission?
Even if she really encountered that, she wouldn't trust her father to pick him up!

After all, a certain confused detective, as soon as he saw a beautiful woman, immediately lost his soul, completely lost his sense of propriety, and could not control his lsp.

She didn't want to just want to help her father out of the haze, but accidentally found herself a stepmother!

If something like that really happened, she would definitely cry without tears and regret it endlessly!
Thinking of this, Mao Lilan shook her head lightly, her tone full of helplessness: "Focus on investigating the case? Let's forget about it and let him take it easy for now."

At this point, she paused for a moment, as if to encourage herself, and added, "Dad, don't be fooled by his careless and unruly appearance. In fact, he knows everything in his heart. He will be able to adjust himself quickly and return to his former mental state."

After hearing this, Conan tilted his head slightly, with a hint of doubt and compromise on his face, and said softly: "Is that so? All right, let's see if uncle can adjust himself first. But if he doesn't get better, we still have to think of another way."

Even her daughter, Mao Lilan, is not in a hurry, so why should he, a kid who is staying in someone else's house, worry too much?

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, a certain confused uncle is usually a heartless guy, laughing and joking all day long. In a few days, maybe, as if nothing had happened, he would start clamoring to go out for a big meal and watch horse racing.

Besides, rather than worrying about when Kogoro Mori will be able to recover, he is more concerned about something else now.

That is……

"By the way, if uncle is so skilled, why has he never won a competition?"

Conan's thoughts involuntarily drifted back to the crime scene, when Maori Kogoro attacked like a cheetah, and with just one move, he knocked down the furious Nakamichi Kazushi. That moment of decisiveness was still fresh in Conan's memory, and it also gave him a new understanding of Maori Kogoro's judo skills.

You know, Nakamichi Kazushi is a top judo master who won individual victory in the National Judo Competition, but Maori Kogoro was able to subdue him so easily, which shows his profound attainments in judo!
But why has he never seen such a strong judo master in any formal judo competition? This is too abnormal and puzzling!
Could it be that Maori Kogoro is deliberately hiding his strength? But why would he do this? Is there some unknown secret behind this?

Or was it that the reason they couldn't see Kogoro Mouri perform well in the arena was because he had unspeakable difficulties and was constrained by some unknown factors?

The more Conan thought about it, the more curious he became. This curiosity was like a blazing fire, burning more and more vigorously in his chest, so strong that he could hardly sit still and had to speak out.

Mao Lilan was stunned by this sudden question for a moment, then the corners of her mouth slightly raised, she smiled softly, and a touch of tenderness of reminiscence flashed in her eyes, "I heard that my father is indeed capable, but when it comes to competitions, he tends to think too much. Just like when he participated in the shooting competition in the police force before, he was too eager to win the first place to prove himself. As a result, when he participated in the competition, his hands were shaking with nervousness and he couldn't perform well at all. Later, when he participated in the judo competition, the more critical the moment, the more pressure he put on himself, but in the end he put too much pressure on himself, which eventually led to poor performance and naturally he couldn't win."

Thinking of her father's embarrassing state during the competition, she couldn't help but shake her head slightly, feeling both angry and amused.

I get extremely nervous when it comes to competing. The more I want to win, the more nervous I get. During the competition, all my strength is used in the wrong places. In this state, it would be a miracle if I can win!
I really don't know, her father is usually smart and clever, but he fails at critical moments. Who did she inherit this habit from?

"But if he really puts his heart and soul into it and gets serious, he's still pretty strong."

Conan suddenly understood what was going on and couldn't help but mutter, "So he's also afraid of the competition."

He had always thought that the somewhat confused uncle was fearless, but he didn't expect that he also had his own weaknesses.

As for the fact that Kogoro Mori was very strong, he had no doubt about it.

After all, in the field of Japanese judo, which is full of masters and fiercely competitive, the national championship is extremely valuable, almost equivalent to an Olympic medal, and is the highest honor that countless judo players dream of.

And since Kogoro Mori was able to easily defeat such a powerful opponent, there is no doubt that his own strength is at least at the level of a national champion!

However, Maori Kogoro always looks careless and nonchalant on weekdays, but once the critical moment comes, the power he bursts out is so shocking and terrifying, it seems that we can no longer judge a person based on appearance alone!
Thinking of this, Conan was just about to continue to dig deeper into this topic and get to know Mouri Kogoro in depth to see if he had other unknown secrets and powerful abilities. At this moment, he caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye that Mouri Kogoro, who had a gloomy face and was as depressed as a frost-bitten eggplant, suddenly had his eyes brightened, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes for a moment, like a hungry wolf seeing its prey.

"Is it pink this time?"

It turned out that a gust of wind suddenly blew outside at some point, and the wind was so strong that it just happened to blow up the skirt of a passing girl.

"What? The uncle is still the unreliable uncle. We have been worrying about him for nothing."

Seeing this, Conan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth and held his forehead with helplessness.

Just a moment ago, Kogoro Mori had a sad face and was immersed in a depressed mood, but in a blink of an eye, all his attention was drawn away by such an unrelated and trivial matter.

A certain confused old man is as good as ever at destroying the expectations that others have worked so hard to build up for him!

A few dark lines appeared on Mao Lilan's forehead. Her eyebrows were raised upside down. She rushed to Mao Li Kogoro in a few steps. She stretched out her hand quickly and grabbed his ear. She gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Dad! What are you looking at again! Can you be more serious as an elder should be!"

You know, not only is there a tomboy like Conan in the house, but her boyfriend Bai Ye is also here.

If some foolish old man led her boyfriend astray and turned him into a LSP who liked to peek under girls' skirts, she would probably want to eat her disappointing father alive!
Maori Kogoro was pinched so hard that he grimaced in pain, yelling "Ouch, ouch" loudly, waving his hands around, trying desperately to break free from his daughter's "clamp", muttering: "Ouch, I just saw it accidentally, Xiaolan, please be gentle! If you pinch my ears again, they will fall off!"

His shout was like a stone thrown into a calm lake. In an instant, the passers-by downstairs stopped in their tracks as if they were under a spell, and all cast strange glances at him.

In the crowd, a few innocent children didn't understand what was going on. They pointed at the funny scene and laughed. At this moment, the crisp laughter was like a bunch of small knives, stabbing Mao Lilan's heart.

Mao Lilan felt her face burning hot, and she was so embarrassed that she could dig out a three-bedroom and one-living-room house with her toes. The strength in her hands also unconsciously relaxed a little because of the extreme embarrassment.

But she was still furious, and glared at Maori Kogoro fiercely, with a look that seemed to be able to eat people, and said unhappily: "Dad, look at what you have done. Now you are being treated as a joke. It's so embarrassing."

Maori Kogoro rubbed his ears, which were red and slightly swollen from being pulled, and argued for himself with a face full of grievance: "How can you blame me for this? The wind didn't blow me, it blew by itself. I am innocent!"

(End of this chapter)