Great Swordsman Ke Xue.

Chapter 422 The Secret Discovered~
Karuizawa, Gaojingchuan Hotel.

It's a rare day off, so Kogoro Mouri brought Xiaolan and Conan out here to relax.

One of the major features of Gaojingchuan Hotel is that although it is located in the city, it has a huge indoor swimming pool, allowing nearby residents and tourists who come here to enjoy the feeling of ocean waves in the swimming pool.

Therefore, there are a lot of people here today, especially young female college students.

Kogoro Mouri was lying on a lounge chair by the swimming pool, wearing sunglasses and with headphones of his Walkman in his ears. If you didn't look closely, you might think he was just an ordinary uncle enjoying his vacation.

But if you pay closer attention, you can see that the corners of Kogoro Mouri's mouth are almost reaching the sky.

A truly creepy old man, the kind that would scare away kids~.

At some point, Xiaolan and Conan silently stood beside Mouri Kogoro. Conan's mouth twitched and he looked speechless. He didn't want to come at first, but Mouri Kogoro insisted on bringing him along, because without him, Xiaolan would never agree to let Mouri Kogoro come out.

Xiaolan took two deep breaths, and her chest in her small vest rose and fell rhythmically. She looked at Kogoro Mouri's increasingly obscene smile that could not be concealed, and felt helpless and angry.

She suddenly reached out and picked up the remote control of the Walkman that Kogoro Mouri had placed on the table, and pressed the volume + sign all the way down fiercely.

“Ahhh~ Lula la ...!!!”

"Ahhhhh!!"

For a moment, even Conan on the side couldn't help but cover his ears, not to mention Kogoro Mouri who was caught off guard.

He jumped almost three meters high and fell off the chair while rolling and crawling.

In response to this, Xiaolan just sneered nonchalantly. She is the real filial daughter~.

It took Kogoro Mouri a long time to finally recover. He raised his head fiercely, then stared at Xiaolan, took a deep breath, and another deep breath.

My own daughter, my own daughter—I can’t beat her, I simply can’t beat her.

"Xiao, Xiaolan, are you going to kill me?!" But he still couldn't completely control himself. At least Maori Kogoro couldn't understand why Xiaolan suddenly came here.

"Hmph!" Xiaolan gave him a cold glance and reached out to confiscate Mouri Kogoro's Walkman.

"How dare you say that! It was you who said we should stay in Karuizawa for two days to escape the heat, but when we got here, you just put on some beach pants and enjoyed yourself."

Xiaolan said, and suddenly turned her head, "Conan, let's go, go eat, and ignore this damn old pervert."

"Uh, ah, Xiaolan, wait, wait for me a moment."

In just a moment, Mouri Kogoro became scared. He quickly stood up, but his feet slipped and he almost fell to the ground again. After finally standing up, Mouri Kogoro looked at the only pair of shorts on his body, so he quickly stepped on full throttle and ran straight to the locker room.

Although Xiaolan said she would take Conan away, she still waited for Kogoro Mouri at the hotel entrance.

However, even though Kogoro Mouri put on his clothes and followed him awkwardly, Xiaolan still didn't intend to give him a good look.

"Xiao Lan, please give me back my Walkman. I only listened to half of it."

"No, this MD is a birthday present my mom bought me. I don't want it. I'm lending it to a perverted old man!"

There were a lot of people around, and Kogoro Maori was so embarrassed that he couldn't speak, so he had to quickly follow.

After walking out of the hotel gate and walking a few steps, the group turned into a shopping street. Conan and Xiaolan walked in front, and Mouri Kogoro followed behind with a melancholy look on his face.

".Hey, Xiaolan, you can't blame me. I have to deal with so many cases every day. I have to find a chance to relieve the pressure."

Conan rolled his eyes speechlessly, while Xiaolan still walked forward with her hands behind her back without looking back.

"Don't you feel sorry for your mother?" Xiaolan felt a little embarrassed when she said this, because when she talked about this, she couldn't help but think of what happened a few days ago.

After Shimizu Koji left that day, it should have been a good opportunity for the family to reunite, but as soon as she pulled Mori Kogoro over, Kisaki Eri turned around and left without looking back.

Kogoro Mouri usually lives a life of debauchery, and he has been even more dissolute in recent days. The day before yesterday, an uncle who often drank with him sent Kogoro Mouri home. When he got home, Kogoro Mouri was in disarray, and his face and neck were covered with red lip marks.

There have been too many such incidents to count.

Even for Xiaolan, her previous determination to bring her parents together has faded a lot in the past few days.

Maori Kogoro was a little surprised to hear Xiaolan say that, and then he curled his lips and said nonchalantly: "How could she know what I'm doing? Besides, maybe Eri is also making out with a young man somewhere right now."

Kogoro Mouri's speculation was not purely malicious. In Tokyo, most office workers, especially singles, or middle-aged men and women like them who are separated and almost divorced, will find their own entertainment. There are plenty of KTVs and gigolo clubs anyway.

He, Kogoro Mori, is just one of them. Over the years, hasn't Kisaki Eri ever felt lonely?

Kogoro Mori doesn't care about it, or rather, he doesn't care about what he does. Kogoro Mori is a very traditional Japanese male chauvinist, and under the training of such a father, Xiaolan has been able to tolerate his behavior.

Xiaolan didn't think there was anything wrong with what she heard, and she was too lazy to even refute. She just looked around casually.

When Conan heard this, his little head couldn't help but start to have all sorts of random thoughts.

He is the only one who knows the secret.
But suddenly, Xiaolan stopped, and Mouri Kogoro almost bumped into her. Conan was almost the same, as he was held by Xiaolan's hand and also staggered.

"Xiaolan?"

"Sister Xiaolan."

Xiaolan turned a deaf ear to Conan and her father's calls. She just stared blankly in one direction and her eyes widened unconsciously.

The expression on his face changed from stunned to surprised, then to shocked, and then to covering his face in disbelief.
Seeing this, Conan and Maori Kogoro naturally looked in the direction where Xiaolan was looking.

Then, the two of them, like Xiaolan, froze in place.

Not far away, in a men's clothing store, through the transparent glass window, you can clearly see——

With a sweet smile on her face, Eri Kisaki was intimately holding Koji Shimizu's hand to help him try on a tie. The two of them were talking and laughing like a couple in love. Koji Shimizu, who was wearing a casual suit, looked particularly compatible with Eri Kisaki.

Xiaolan was stunned. She never expected that her father's words would come true, and she never expected why her mother would be with Qingshui.

Oh, that’s right! Yes, it must be that mom wanted to thank Koji.

If it were someone else, Xiaolan would have really collapsed, but Shimizu Koji's words made Xiaolan still hold on to a glimmer of fantasy and hope.

But for no reason, Xiaolan still felt a little flustered.

Because she realized that if her mother wanted to thank Shimizu Koji, she should have called her no matter what she did. After all, she was Shimizu Koji's classmate.
Xiaolan was conflicted and slowly moved towards the clothing store.

Kogoro Mouri gradually came to his senses, his eyes were filled with shock and complexity, his face turned blue and white, and without hesitating for too long, he followed Xiaolan's footsteps.

Conan, who stayed behind at the end, looked at the backs of Xiaolan and Maori Kogoro as they walked in, and he was suddenly panicked and at a loss.

Qingshui, oh Qingshui! I can't save you!

(Conan: I can’t even wash it!)

(End of this chapter)