Conan: Death is Watching Me

Chapter 213 Earth Ladies Team

Luxury apartment.

Yoko Okino, dressed in simple disguise, and Osamu Kenzaki, who plays Detective Samonji, arrived early and entered the elevator with a mustache-wearing group.

Gao Mo had assumed it was a big party, but it turned out to be just a secret gathering among friends.

Aside from Yoko's former teammates, only Kenzaki Osamu participated.

"Is the engagement party being held here?"

“Yeah,” Kenzaki Osamu pushed up his sunglasses and rang the doorbell. “Because it’s a private party, it’s just the few of us… By the way, I haven’t told the media about my engagement to Kaoru yet, so please don’t tell anyone.”

“Of course,” the man with the mustache assured him.

"You are finally here."

A petite figure nervously opened the door.

“These days I feel like there’s a peeping tom around, and I’m too scared to go out alone.”

"Hasn't Mr. Kenzaki moved in?" The man with the mustache looked curiously into the room.

"We'll get married next spring, and..."

The petite figure responded with a word and moved slightly away from the mustache.

"Who is this gentleman?"

"Huh? Aren't you my fan?" the mustachioed man asked, surprised. "Miss Yoko said you've always wanted to meet me."

“Kaoru,” Yoko Okino introduced, “this is Detective Mouri, and his daughter Ran, Conan who lives with Detective Mouri, and then there’s Sonoko and…”

"Kido Takamori?" Kusano Kaoru covered her mouth in surprise. "Didn't you become fat?"

"I just gained weight for a while, but I've recovered now."

Gao Mo habitually observes women.

Holmes was able to discern a person's information upon first contact, and his eyes were no exception. Even without using supernatural powers, they possessed top-notch observational skills, though their databases were not as extensive as Holmes's.

He didn't know much about relationships, but Kenzaki Osamu and Kusano Kaoru didn't seem like a couple in the throes of new love at all; their intimate gestures seemed like a performance.

And private engagements... is that really necessary between actors and celebrities?
Gao Mo glanced around strangely.

In addition, the so-called voyeurism incidents are also quite abnormal.

He didn't find any suspicious people around, not even a single reporter.

“Mori,” Gomer reminded the man with the mustache, “it’s still early. Didn’t you say you were going to help deal with the spying incident?”

“Oh right,” the man with the mustache coughed and turned to Kusano Kaoru with a serious expression, “Could you tell me the details? If this kind of thing is left unattended, it might cause some big trouble.”

“Recently, people have been ringing the doorbell to play pranks on us,” Kenzaki Osamu explained. “Every time they ring the doorbell, they run away and leave a threatening note on the door, such as ‘I will come again’.”

"Around when did it start?" Gao Mo's eyes flickered slightly. "Was it because you two officially became a couple?"

“So,” Kenzaki Osamu paused for a moment, “it doesn’t seem impossible. Strange things did start happening after we decided to get engaged… but very few people know about it, not even our company, because…”

"This is interesting. It seems this voyeur knows quite a bit about you."

Gao Mo's gaze lingered on the group of people for a moment.

It may be a bit subjective, but he felt that this incident was related to emotions, and that it might not necessarily involve eccentric movie fans—the person behind the scenes might have wanted to pretend to be a perverted fan, but ultimately lacked experience.

“Yoko had a similar experience before; it seems like a colleague is deliberately trying to scare you.”

“How could that be?” Kusano Kaoru laughed. “I haven’t offended anyone recently. My only job is working with Ash to play the female reporter next to Samonji. And I even got the role by taking advantage of Yuki’s absence, because Yuki couldn’t participate because she was taking care of her sick father.”

"What if the other person hates you because of Mr. Kenzaki Osamu?"

Gao Mo changed his shoes and briefly looked around the room.

"If it's a perverted fan of yours, the root of the prank is likely because you and Mr. Kenzaki are engaged, but the other party hasn't laid a hand on Mr. Kenzaki. So I think the other party might be a fan of Mr. Kenzaki, or someone in the industry who secretly admires Mr. Kenzaki." Outside the entrance hall.

A beautiful woman with long hair was startled and stopped in her tracks, her eyes trembling.

“As expected of Senior Kido,” another woman with a ponytail and a cigarette dangling from her lips said coldly as she walked past the long-haired beauty. “Running a detective agency really makes a difference; he’s practically a famous detective.”

"Sister Huimei!"

Kaoru Kusano greeted him cheerfully.

"You're here too?"

"Yoko told me to come no matter what, and I can leave if it's inconvenient."

The woman with the ponytail wore a light red coat. Although she was no less beautiful than Yoko, she dressed and acted like an older man, with sharp eyes and a casual demeanor.

"It's been so long, let's not dwell on what happened back then," Yoko Okino said, "It wasn't easy for the four of us from the Earth Ladies Team to get together again..."

"What's going on with Kido-senpai here?" The long-haired beauty, Yueye Xue, looked a little uneasy. "Is he dating Yoko?"

Yoko Okino waved her hands repeatedly: "No, no, it's just that I happened to be attending Kido-san's banquet, so I thought we could take this opportunity to meet."

"Even Kido-san is being called out."

Kusano Kaoru's eyes were full of gossip.

"But I remember that Terumi-nee used to have a crush on Kido-senpai, right?"

"That's all in the past. I prefer handsome young men who are talented now."

Hoshino Terumi's eyebrows twitched slightly as she turned her gaze to Kogoro Mouri's family, feeling slightly uncomfortable with the mustache's excited eyes.

"Who is this elderly gentleman?"

“He’s the super famous detective Kogoro Mouri,” Yoko Okino reintroduced. “When I was being stalked and threatened before, I asked Kido-san and Mr. Mouri to help me out…”

"Maori Kogoro?"

The long-haired beauty, Yue Yexue, trembled more violently and almost lost her footing. Her sudden change in expression immediately caught Conan's attention.

Gao Mo also glanced at the woman.

“Even Yuki Takeno is here,” the mustachioed man exclaimed excitedly. “Kaoru Kusano, representing lush vegetation; Yuki Takeno, representing snow-capped mountains; Terumi Hoshino, representing a sky full of stars; and Yoko Okino, representing the azure sea… I never thought I would see the Earth Ladies Team again in my lifetime. It feels like my youth has returned!”

"Ah……"

Gao Mo and the man with the mustache distanced themselves.

They shouldn't have come to this party.

but……

Gao Mo's gaze fell once again on Yue Yexue, who was the last to enter the room.

It seems like all the characters have arrived.

If it were just Mustache coming, nothing might happen, but Ran and Conan... it seems that any idol or celebrity who gets involved with Ran will encounter trouble to some extent.
"Everyone," a bespectacled young man wearing an apron came out with a soup spoon, "I'm Kaoru's manager. Dinner will be a little while, so if you can't wait, you can go to the living room to watch TV. 'Detective Samonji' is about to start."

"The time is just right."

Kenzaki Osamu said excitedly.

"Today's episode should be very exciting; the murderer will definitely surprise you."

“I’ve never been interested in these kinds of mystery scripts, and Detective Samonji is just so-so,” Hoshino Terumi stubbed out her cigarette. “If you ask me, Domoto Hajime, who’s on par with you, is much more likable. He’s actually solved real cases, and he’s way more handsome than you.”

Kenzaki Osamu smiled wryly, puzzled: "You don't have to say that about me, do you? I got more votes than him last time."

"That's because they're low-key."

(End of this chapter)