Conan: The Romantic Daily Life of a Ghost Detective

Water droplets kept dripping from her wet hair.

Crystal-clear water droplets slid slowly down the tips of her dark brown hair, landing on her delicate shoulders, her perfectly proportioned curves, her flat stomach without an ounce of fat, and her long, slender, healthy, tanned legs...

There was no obstruction or resistance encountered during the process.

At that moment, the air in the entire room almost froze.

Wen Shui was the first to be forcibly restrained. After all, even when Suzuki, who was like a good friend, appeared in front of him without any reservations, Wen Shui's mind went blank.

Not to mention, Sonoko's healthy skin tone is covered with tan lines.

It fulfilled all of Wen Shui's fantasies about sporty girls.

"Ahhhh, you can't look!" Ran was the first to react. She quickly jumped up to block Wen Shui's view and then pushed the equally stunned Suzuki Sonoko back into the bathroom.

The area connecting the bedroom and living room was deserted. Wen Shui sat blankly on the edge of the bed, staring at the water droplets on the floor.

It all seems like a dream.

Suddenly, Xiaolan peeked back and used a towel to wipe the water droplets off the floor clean.

Warm water: ?

Are you worried I'll sneak a bite?

Hagilan, are you looking down on me? Everyone says you can't eat anything that's been on the ground for more than three seconds, I would never do such a thing.

While Wen Shui couldn't help but mutter to herself, the image of Sonoko's graceful curves kept flashing through her mind.

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About twenty more minutes passed.

Wen Shui still hadn't seen Ran and Sonoko appear. Instead, Ran's phone, which was charging on her bedside table, rang. It was Kogoro Mouri calling.

He might have just taken the warm water before, but now he's a little hesitant.

So, holding Xiaolan's phone, he carefully walked towards the corridor leading to the bathroom.

The layout of this hotel suite is such that after passing through a short corridor from the entrance, you can see the bedroom and the king-size bed. The bathroom and kitchen are located on either side of the corridor as you continue further in.

Wen Shui, holding her phone, arrived at the kitchen door and saw Xiao Lan and Suzuki Sonoko leaning against the stove, seemingly drinking tea.

“Um… Uncle Mori’s phone call.”

Ran glanced at Wen Shui with a complicated expression, then walked over and took the phone. Sonoko Suzuki didn't even look up, keeping her head down the whole time.

That's understandable. Although Sonoko Suzuki is usually very outgoing, she is, after all, a girl.

Xiaolan: "Hello, Dad?"

"Ran, how much longer until you two finish?" Kogoro Mouri's voice came from the other end of the phone. He seemed unaware that Wen Shui had brought the girl back to the hotel.

Xiaolan sighed: "Yuanzi and I have already gone back to the hotel."

"Back to the hotel? Why didn't you call us? Where's that kid Wen Shui?" Uncle Maoli seemed very worried about Wen Shui.

Ran had no choice but to tell Kogoro Mouri that she had gotten her clothes dirty while eating ice cream, and that they would change their clothes and rush over soon.

Kogoro Mouri didn't suspect anything. He probably heard Sonoko's voice on the phone. Considering Sonoko's presence, even if Nukumi was bold, he wouldn't dare to do anything too outrageous to Ran.

After hanging up the phone, the three of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

It was Sonoko Suzuki who spoke first, laughing and trying to lighten the mood: "I just heard the electronic sound of a pachinko machine on the other end of the phone. Uncle Mori, are you secretly playing pachinko with Conan?"

Wen Shui and Xiao Lan exchanged a surprised glance.

Judging from the look Ran gave him, Sonoko Suzuki probably wanted to pretend that what had just happened hadn't occurred.

This made Wen Shui swallow all the words she had prepared.

Sigh, I was thinking of asking him directly what kind of tests I'd need to pass to become the son-in-law of the Suzuki Group and get Ran's approval...

However, considering that Sonoko's inner self is not what her outward appearance suggests, Nuku decided to cooperate with the performance.

Wen Shui smiled and said, "I think it's very likely... So, should we go back and arrest the criminal now?"

"What prisoner?" Xiaolan complained. "That's my dad. But it's a bit too much to let a child play pachinko. He needs to be taught a lesson."

As Xiaolan spoke, she waved her little fist.

The atmosphere among the three seemed to have returned to its previous harmonious state.

However, everyone harbors their own curiosity and confusion.

Wen Shui was puzzled as to why Xiao Lan had reacted so strongly just now. Did she have "gacha phobia"?

What Ran is concerned about is how Wenshui played with Suzuki Sonoko's gashapon machine before, and whether it was as she thought.

As for Sonoko Suzuki, her feelings were much more complicated.

However, after what just happened, Sonoko looked at Wenshui with a noticeable increase in dependence. This was the first time a boy had seen her body, and it was in front of her best friend, Ran.

However, this progress was a bit too fast for Sonoko, who seemed reckless on the surface but was actually quite timid inside.

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A small pachinko parlor near the commercial street.

Kogoro Mouri, carrying the two boxes of pachinko he had just bought, returned to his seat.

Conan, standing nearby, asked anxiously, "Uncle, are we really not going back? What if Ran and the others secretly went to the amusement park to ride the exciting rides?"

Because he is still a child, Conan cannot directly express his concern that Wen Shui and Ran might have excessively close contact.

This was the only way he could hint at it to Kogoro Mouri.

Kogoro Mori casually took out two small steel balls and threw them into the machine. The ambient lights above the machine immediately started flashing, and rousing music began to play.

"Didn't Xiaolan say on the phone that they'd be here soon? I need to win back all the money I lost before and exchange it for cigarettes, otherwise it'll be terrible if Xiaolan finds out."

Although Kogoro Mouri was a little worried at first, he then thought that Sonoko was right there beside him.

Even if that brat Wenshui is bold, he wouldn't dare to lay a hand on Ran in front of the second young lady of the Suzuki Group, right?

Perhaps he had accidentally soiled his clothes while eating, because Kogoro Mouri quickly focused his attention on the machine in front of him, as the machine's LED light strip began to flash brightly in alternating patterns.

"Hehe, great! This machine is indeed starting to spit out money!" Uncle Mori excitedly kept throwing small steel balls into the machine's entrance.

Conan watched anxiously as the numbers on the BB machine jumped around.

He was hesitating whether to sneak away and go back to find Xiaolan.

A young man with dark red hair walked over and placed two packaged ice creams on the machine next to Kogoro Mouri.

The fat man, who was sitting at the machine next to him, staring intently at it just like Uncle Mori, complained after seeing the ice cream: "Daisuke, why are you only arriving now? Didn't we agree to meet at ten in the morning?"

The red-haired guy named Daisuke smiled sheepishly: "Sorry, I went to get ice cream with Ezuko earlier. I brought you two back before I left."

"Seriously, a guy who doesn't keep his word will be abandoned by the God of Paddy Balls," the fat man teased.

"I was just worried about spoiling your fun," Daisuke said with a smile, sitting down next to the fat man and changing the subject. "By the way, guess what I saw at the ice cream shop just now?"

Fat man: "A murder case?"

"No, just now a guy got beaten up by two super pretty girls at an ice cream shop. It attracted a lot of people," Daisuke said seriously.

"Could it be that he got caught cheating?" the fat man guessed.

Daisuke: "If it were that simple, would I need to tell you specifically?"

"Stop keeping me in suspense, just tell me what happened." The fat man was getting impatient.

Conan and Kogoro Mouri both stopped what they were doing and listened intently to the gossip.

Daisuke then briefly recounted what he had seen, emphasizing that after the two girls had a conflict with the man at the ice cream shop, they actually left the cake shop together.

It looked like they went back to the hotel. At the time, the surrounding guests were speculating about the relationship between the two girls and the man.

Daisuke and his girlfriend gossiped about it for a long time, but in the end they still couldn't guess the reliable truth.

Daisuke used this incident as a topic of conversation to divert attention from the fact that he was late because he was with his girlfriend. After finishing the story, he sat down and started playing pachinko together.

But Kogoro Mouri and Conan, who were sitting next to him, had turned green with rage.

Chapter 188 Xiaolan's Little Scheme

This time, Conan didn't even need to be persuaded; Kogoro Mouri dropped half a box of pachinko and rushed towards the store entrance with Conan.

Daisuke called out from behind, "Hey, old man, you haven't returned your chips yet."

"Here you go, consider it payment for the information." Kogoro Mouri pushed open the glass door without looking back and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

Daisuke scratched his head. Although he didn't know what the man meant, it seemed like he had encountered something very urgent.

He picked up the half-eaten ice cream and two boxes of steel balls, moved to Kogoro Mouri's machine, grabbed a few steel balls and threw them into the machine.

Just as Daisuke lowered his head to take a bite of ice cream, the machine in front of him burst into dazzling colored light, rousing music started playing, and small steel balls were falling out of the outlet under his feet with a crackling sound.

Daisuke was so shocked that he dropped his ice cream on his pants: "M-Musou! He's actually unleashing Musou?!"

Although the basic gameplay of pachinko machines is similar, they are often decorated with different themes to enrich the customer experience, using different sound effects, animations, and lines to increase immersion.

The machine that Kogoro Mouri chose was a retro Three Kingdoms-themed game.

Phrases like "fighting with one's back to the river," "flooding the seven armies," "awakening," and "unparalleled" were used in the machine's reward system.

Among them, "Peerless" is already one of the top prizes on this machine.

This can be heard from the crisp sound that has continued from the outlet until now.

The fat guy next to him, who was engrossed in the game, was also drawn over by the exaggerated sound effects: "What's going on? I've been playing all morning and haven't managed to get a Musou attack. What kind of incredible luck did you get, kid?"

Daisuke casually wiped the ice cream off his pants, then picked up two empty boxes next to him and barely managed to put the winning steel balls into them; some of the boxes were overflowing.

"That old man left at such an inopportune time," the fat man's companion couldn't help but feel sorry for Kogoro Mouri.

Daisuke laughed triumphantly: "This is probably just luck. I knew that dreaming about Lisa last night meant something good was going to happen."

"I might tell Zhizi if I'm not careful," the fat man said. "But speaking of which, what if that uncle comes back looking for you later?"

“Well…” Daisuke thought for a moment, “We can just split it evenly. Even though it was the machine and chips he left behind, I’m the one playing.”

The surprise of winning the lottery made Daisuke quickly forget about Kogoro Mouri.

He picked up another handful of steel balls, and because he had won quite a bit earlier, he increased his bet even more this time.