Daily Spy Life in the Detective Conan World

Chapter 32 Today is Wednesday
early morning.

Sunlight streamed through the window and fell on the dining table in Xia Chuan's home.

A father and daughter, one adult and one child, are having a meal.

Xia Chuan ate his meal while reading the newspaper in his hand.

I have to admire the newspapers; the case of the diplomat's murder, which was closed at almost 11 p.m. last night, was edited into the headline first thing this morning.

However, the title this time is a little different.

[Famous detectives from the Kanto and Kansai regions are tricked; the truth is revealed by a six-year-old girl; a diplomat is killed by his wife!]

Good guy!
Will Uncle Mori be furious when he sees this headline? These reporters and editors are so good at stirring up hatred!

And where did they get their information? Their intelligence-gathering ability is almost as good as Frank's!
Continuing on, the report largely criticizes the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the case itself only taking up a small portion of the article.

They're just putting up a front for something else.

Well, it seems this isn't just a simple report; it likely involves partisan infighting.

"Huh?" Natsukawa actually saw Anya's photo.

The photo looks like an entrance photo from Teitan Elementary School. These reporters are really more detective than detectives; in just one night, they even found a photo of Anya's school.

Or perhaps it's because those politicians have high execution capabilities.

"Ania, stop jumping around! Come quick, you're in the newspaper!"

He waved the newspaper in his hand and looked at Anya with a helpless expression.

The little girl held her rice bowl, her eyes darting left and right, as if she were looking for something.

"Father, where did you put the liquor that Hattori gave me? Anya doesn't want cocoa today, she wants liquor."

She was making a lot of noise all morning, and her purpose was very clear: she wanted the Lao Bai Gan liquor she had been longing for.

Xia Chuan obviously wouldn't tell her, and continued to wave the newspaper in his hand, deliberately shoving the photos in the newspaper in front of Anya's eyes.

"Ania is in the newspaper!?"

The little girl's attention was immediately diverted; in this day and age, who could refuse to report it? Of course, this excludes cases where the ID card is lost.
"OK!"

"Give it to me quickly, give it to me quickly! I want to take it to school to show Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko!"

Natsukawa asked curiously, "What about Conan? He's also a member of the Detective Boys, your partner."

"If Conan doesn't give me some baijiu yesterday, I won't show it to him!"

Alright, case solved. It turns out that Hattori Heiji let Anya smell the liquor when he made Conan drink it yesterday afternoon.

"Alright, hurry up and eat. I'll take you to school today!"

"Okay!"

Anya carefully folded the newspaper, put it into her small schoolbag, and then began to eat seriously.

Ten minutes later, Natsukawa parked his car downstairs at the Mouri Detective Agency.

I'll drop Conan off while I'm at it, and if he's old enough to go to school, I'll give him a ride too, since it's on my way anyway.

"Conan! What are you doing? How could you drink alcohol secretly!"

As soon as Xia Chuan reached the second-floor entrance, he heard a sound coming from inside.

The office door was open, and Natsukawa poked his head in and asked, "Is Conan able to go to school today?"

"Is Conan going to school with Anya today? I specially asked my father to pick you up!"

Anya stood with her head held high and hands on her hips, looking concerned for her classmate, but Xia Chuan seemed to be showing off that she had a father. Was it just my imagination?

"It's Xia Chuan-ge and Anya!" Xiao Lan greeted them with a smile and welcomed them inside.

As soon as he entered, Xia Chuan smelled a strong odor of baijiu (Chinese liquor).

He sniffed it, and asked curiously, "What's this smell?"

Based on Ran's complaint, Conan probably secretly drank some strong liquor, right?
Did Conan remember that he turned into an adult last night?
Oh right, speaking of which, he just remembered that he still had a video of the other person shrinking on his flip phone. After taking Anya to school, he would go to Frank's place to export it to his computer and take a good look at the principle behind it.

"It's all Heiji Hattori's fault for bringing that strong liquor. Conan seems to be addicted; he was just secretly drinking some."

Ran looked worried. She wondered if Conan would grow up to be an alcoholic like his father. How was she going to explain this to the Edogawa family, whom she hadn't even met yet?

He's living with a drunkard; could it be that he caught it from his father?

"Where? Where! Anya wants to drink too! Anya wants to become a beautiful girl like Ran-neechan!"
"Hey, hey, hey! Anya, don't mess around. I don't like drinking baijiu. I wanted to drink plain water. It's just that the color of baijiu is too similar to that of plain water, so I grabbed the wrong one."

Conan, speaking nonsense with a straight face, glanced at the old baijiu in the wine cabinet, and lightly moved the long bench under the wine cabinet behind the sofa with his right foot.

Xia Chuan:.
Xiaolan:
"Conan is a bad kid who loves to lie, (▼へ▼メ)" Well, even Anya wasn't fooled by this excuse.

"I swear, I won't drink anymore, that was the last time."

Conan helplessly shrugged.

It seems it's time to ask Professor Agasa to step in and buy me a bottle to drink my fill.

He was certain that he had become an adult yesterday, a fact he was acutely aware of, and the two intense heart pains he experienced were still vivid in his memory.

However, he still can't figure out why he fainted after transforming, or who put him in the bedroom.

Someone must know his identity. Who is it?
Is it Hattori Heiji? Or is it Natsukawa standing in front of me?

Both of them are quite suspicious. When Hattori was solving the case in the study at that time, could it have been Natsukawa?
Wait, this morning Xiaolan persuaded the department head to ask her to say hello to him for him. What does that mean?
Damn it, without Hattori Heiji's contact information, he has no way of confirming anything. He really wants to call Hattori and confront him, asking him what he knows.

Xiao Lan's gaze towards him today was noticeably different, seemingly scrutinizing him. What exactly happened during the night he was unconscious?

Fortunately, the Tsujimura family murder case did not result in the wrong person being arrested, which is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

"Alright, if Conan doesn't ask for leave, I'll take him to school together."

"Thank you very much, Brother Xia Chuan."

Ran bowed politely in greeting, while Conan rolled his eyes like a dead fish.

He originally wanted to ask for leave, but Xiaolan rejected his request after checking his temperature and finding it normal.

How can children not go to school?
These are Xiaolan's exact words.

Conan felt depressed, with a lot of grievances he wanted to vent but dared not.

I'm already a sophomore in high school!
That's how the scene of drinking at the beginning came about.

All he wanted was to become a seventeen-year-old high school student and then refuse to go to school.

As a result, Ran discovered that he hadn't finished drinking, and he spat out a mouthful of baijiu all over Kogoro Mouri's desk.

If Natsukawa knew what Conan was thinking, he would definitely tell him with a cold laugh: Today is Wednesday, and even if you are seventeen years old, you can't escape going to school today!
Unless you shrink to the size of a baby in swaddling clothes.

The image of Conan sucking on milk powder is somewhat refreshing and unique.

"Okay, let's go."

GTR successfully transitioned into a school bus.

On the way, Anya couldn't help but take out the newspaper and place it in front of Conan.

"Conan, I solved yesterday's case! I, Anya, should still be the leader of the Junior Detective League!"

The shrunken detective's lips twitched. This little brat who can't even read properly is actually showing off to him.

He was disdainful of Anya's boasting, but since he only knew about the Tsujimura family's case through Ran's verbal description, he naturally took the newspaper to check the details.

Anya saw this scene as a sign that the other party was admitting defeat.

It has to be me!

Anya was secretly pleased!
It's a pity that the full moon today malfunctioned my abilities, otherwise I would have loved to hear whether Conan was truly convinced.

Soon, the car arrived at the entrance of Teitan Elementary School.

After being driven there many times, Xia Chuan was very familiar with the road conditions from his home to Teitan Elementary School. The journey was incredibly smooth, and the traffic lights seemed to yield to him, which was quite amazing.

"Ania, you must listen carefully in class."

Anya, who had been so happy and smug, immediately looked dejected upon hearing her father's parting words. ε(┬┬﹏┬┬)3
It's not that the baby isn't trying hard, it's just that studying is really too difficult.

The thought of having an exam today, my abilities failing me again, I'm doomed, I can't even cheat anymore.

uncomfortable.

Conan, who had just finished reading the newspaper, stared at Anya in shock.

"You witnessed the entire murder from the very beginning?"

Anya snapped out of her daze and nodded, "Yeah."

"Then why didn't you tell me?" Conan almost vomited blood.

Seeing the headline in the newspaper: "The one who saw through the truth was a six-year-old girl," he felt a lump in his throat. If Anya had spoken up sooner, he wouldn't have had to force himself to work his brain while running a fever, which led to him fainting.

"Because I'm afraid I'll end up like you, getting a bump on my head from Uncle Mori."

Conan:
I... I was speechless.

(End of this chapter)