I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"Sister Sonoko is talking about the trainee detective with the determined face." Conan, who was walking beside Xiaolan with his hands on his head, casually reminded her.

"Oh oh oh, him." The general image finally emerged in Xiaolan's mind.

"Look, not only is he a detective, but he's also British. Don't you feel a sense of déjà vu with these two characteristics, Lan?" Sonoko's eyes lit up.

"Uh, Holmes?"

"Yes, it's Sherlock Holmes!"

As soon as his XP was mentioned, Yuanzi immediately started talking nonstop.

"Just imagine, in a dim bedroom late at night, with only a soft bedside lamp on, the great detective Sherlock Holmes sitting by the bed, holding a book in his hand and reading a love poem to you in a standard London accent..."

"No, a real Sherlock Holmes would only whip half a pig in the room and observe the reaction of the pig's body after the whipping."

"I mean to me!"

"... spank you?"

Conan took a long time to utter a sentence.

As the saying goes, "Misfortune comes from the mouth." The next second after he finished speaking, the furious Miss Sonoko pressed her two fists against his temples, one on the left and one on the right, and punched him hard, causing him to scream in pain.

"You're the only one who talks too much! You're the only one who talks too much! Shut up, little brat!"

After severely torturing the little devil with glasses, Sonoko angrily let go of his hand, but when he mentioned Serabelle again, the little anger that was still left in his tone disappeared in an instant.

"Well, it's not a big problem. If Sera-san is successfully assigned to our class, it won't be a big deal to ask for his contact information then~"

"A detective..."

Kisaki Eri, who was walking at the edge with her arms around her, caught the key words and suddenly spoke out.

"Although what I said may sound a bit general, most detectives in this world are indeed good at talking and speaking. It's always a good idea to be careful and observe more. Don't you understand, Lan?"

"I know, mom, you are really something."

Xiaolan sighed silently and smiled helplessly.

It's a problem left over from history.

"By the way, how is that alcoholic uncle in your family doing recently?" Hibiki asked casually.

"Ah, Mom, you mean Dad..."

"Forget it, no need to say anything. I can tell from the way you look. It's probably still the same as before. No commissions, no money. You just drink beer and watch TV in the office every day. Haha."

Shaking her head silently, the female lawyer changed the subject, and a smile appeared on her charming, mature and beautiful face again.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. Lunch is coming soon. What do you want to eat? Auntie will treat you today."

……

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Serabelle and Sera Masumi were walking back to the hotel.

The girl with tiger teeth put her hands in her pockets, held her head high and hummed a little tune proudly, but unfortunately she still couldn't stand up at all.

"How's my performance today? Didn't it help you, Bernie-chan, to get a very big potential client?"

"Big client? Are you talking about the police captain?" Serabel could not deny it.

If he could establish a more reliable cooperative relationship with the Japanese police, it would provide considerable help in his efforts to solve the case.

"Inspector?" The girl with tiger teeth was slightly stunned, then gently slapped the former's shoulder, "Of course not, I mean Suzuki classmate, the two girls who were chatting with us just now, the one with a headband showing her forehead."

"Oh, her, what's wrong?"

"Uh, no way? Serani-chan, don't you know which is the largest financial group in Japan?"

The largest financial group in Japan?

Serabelle hesitated for a moment, as this question touched upon his blind spot in knowledge, but he still followed the girl's line of thought.

"…Suzuki Group?"

"No, no, no, the largest consortium is the Karasuma Group."

Sera Masumi shook his index finger and said, "The second largest consortium is the Suzuki Consortium. Currently, the eldest daughter of the Suzuki Consortium, Suzuki Ayako, is engaged to the son of another consortium, while the second daughter is still single and her name is - Suzuki Sonoko."

"..."

Chapter 15: Zhenchun is already asleep

It was half an hour later when Serabelle and Sera Masumi returned to their residence.

They walked back to the Haido Hotel in Haido-cho, next to Beika-cho. The distance was neither close nor particularly far.

Like the UK, taxi fares in Japan are quite expensive, so most families have a private car. If you don't have a private car, you can usually take the bus to travel this distance.

But Serabelle and Sera Masumi had just arrived in Beika Town today, and they didn’t even know how much it cost to pay for the bus, let alone ride it.

By then, maybe I can go all the way to Hokkaido.

This is an exaggeration, of course, but that's roughly what it means.

The scene switched to a double suite at Beihu Hotel where three people sat down at the dining table in the suite's living room. On the table were three still-steaming boxed lunches.

This is the room of Akai Mary and Sera Masumi.

Serabelle's room was separated from them by a corridor and was a single room opposite.

Although from an economical point of view, booking a triple room is a more cost-effective way, there is a mother and daughter here after all.

Just like a mother and son would sleep in separate rooms to avoid suspicion as they grow older, not to mention that Serabell and Akai Mari are not mother and son at all.

To be honest, it is more similar to the protagonist Yuji Kazami and his master Asako Kusakabe in the Gray Series. Although the process and details are slightly different, the final result is the same.

——All went to bed.

Back to the topic, in the living room of the suite, Mary Akai was eating while listening to the two of them describing a series of events that happened in the cafe in the morning.

"I see. I didn't expect you to encounter so many things this morning. Although it's a bit unpleasant to encounter a murder while drinking coffee, it doesn't mean it's a bad thing."

She glanced at Serabelle, who was eating silently with a determined look on her face.

"Bell, what do you think about the case solved in the cafe this morning?"

"Ideas——"

A certain trainee investigator paused to eat, swallowed the food in his mouth with great effort, opened his eyes, and temporarily returned to his normal state from the determined expression on his face.

"Well, I just think that what you said, Sister Mary, is absolutely right. The Japanese police are quite incompetent. Even the police chief of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is only at this level. If you replace it with the police chief of other regions, you can imagine the level of that."

"The level of the Japanese police is admittedly poor, but what I'm asking is..." Akai Mary paused, her eyes looking straight at him, as if she could see through his heart, "what are your feelings after solving this case."

Oh~

Sensing the subtle change in the atmosphere in the living room, Sera Masumi shrank his head weakly.

She is a fearless person, except for the look from her mother.

Because from childhood to adulthood, once Akai Mary enters this mode, it usually means that the trouble she has caused has been known, and the only thing she can do next is to honestly admit her mistakes and receive the final punishment.

It is just like the usually strict head teacher saying coldly before announcing the midterm exam results: How do you think you did in this exam?

Serabelle stopped eating and stared at the ceiling for two seconds, then turned around and gave a thumbs up.

"I didn't expect that I have a talent for reasoning."

"..."

"..."

Masumi Sera's hand holding the bowl was shaking slightly.

Did you hear that? This statement really highlights the confidence!

But is there something wrong with showing off confidence at this time?

Sure enough, after hearing this answer, Akai Mari's already serious face became even more expressionless.

"If, I mean if, the criminal was not stupid enough to leave the murder weapon on his body, nor did he disguise it as a finger bandage to show it to everyone, but sneaked into the cafe with it hidden on his body, and after committing the crime, he just threw it into a toilet and flushed it away, would your body search method still be effective?"

"Well……"

Serabelle thought about it seriously.

To be honest, it seems to be true.

"While we are successful this time, I hope you understand that this method of mobilizing a large force can only be used when you are 100% sure that you can win with one move."

"It takes countless successes to build a golden signboard, but it only takes one small failure to mess it up... Zhenchun, the same is true for you."

The female investigator turned to look at her daughter and said calmly.

The girl with tiger teeth immediately pounded her head like garlic.

The topic of the coffee shop case came to an end, and Akai Mari paused for a moment before speaking again.

"Then let's talk about the two methods of gaining popularity. Bell and I agree on these two methods. Solving the case directly is certainly the best shortcut to gain a lot of popularity in a short period of time, but its disadvantage is that it is unstable. Although the effect of leaflet publicity is slow, it can win by quantity. So my personal suggestion is that both methods can be carried out simultaneously."

"I will be responsible for the specific design of the flyer. In order to ensure the best publicity effect and not waste unnecessary funds, this may take a long time, but it should be completed before tonight at the latest. Then Bell will take it to a nearby copy shop tomorrow for photocopying. Tentatively, 500 copies will be printed first."

"Understood~"

Serabelle put on her signature determined face again and spoke incoherently while eating.

But there was something strange about Sera Masumi.

She clearly told her mother about her encounter with Suzuki Sonoko, but her mother didn't say a word about it and didn't express any opinion at all.

It’s weird.

So from the end of lunch until several hours after dinner, she completely focused on the style of the flyer, searching for various samples on the Internet and repeatedly comparing and selecting them.

The afternoon passed and night fell quietly.

Since tomorrow is Monday and she didn't sleep the whole night, Sera Masumi washed up and went to bed early.

It's quite tragic. A good weekend was inexplicably wasted by a series of moves and school transfers, and I moved across half the world from the UK to Japan.

What's even worse is that Japan's time is eight hours ahead of the UK, which means that you just got out of school on Friday, but then you waste the entire Saturday on a bunch of things, and then you find that you have to go to school again the next day.

What about the weekend? What about my weekend?

Snap, gone.

On the other side, Serabelle, who had just finished a shower and was steaming with white heat all over her body, and only had a bath towel wrapped around her waist, just walked out of the bathroom, but she heard a "beep" sound from the door lock at the entrance next to her.

That was the sound of the door being unlocked.

Ok?

The next second, the door was slowly pushed open from outside.

Outside the door, a female investigator with a girlish appearance was holding a laptop bag in one hand with a calm expression, and a small paper box in the other hand, which seemed to have something like 0.01 written on it.

"Come in, Zhenchun is already asleep."

Chapter 16: The small umbrella is not enough

There is nothing wrong with doing business first and talking about business later.

Time jumped, and as the hand of the quartz clock hanging on the wall moved forward more than one and a half ticks, Serabelle, who had taken another shower in the guest room, sat back on the big bed in the middle of the room, leaning against the backrest at the head of the bed.

It's already one o'clock in the morning.

Mary Akai sat on his lap, leaning back in his arms with confidence, with a lazy table on the bed in front of her. She was working on the laptop on the table, with a slight blush on her fair cheeks.

It always takes some time for the afterglow of consecutive climaxes to completely fade away.

I have to say that Haido Hotel is worthy of being one of the top hotels in Tokyo, and its service in this regard is meticulous and thorough.

Although the single room is equipped with a desk for computer use, the hotel still provides lazy tables in the bedside tables, one on each side.

I don't know why a single room needs two lazy tables.

Maybe it's because those young couples who come to Tokyo for tourism find that after applauding for love, it's over too quickly and it's too early, so in order to avoid embarrassment, they both take out their laptops and have a love double row on the big bed in the hotel?