I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

In this way, the two of them stayed in bed until almost eight o'clock before getting up.

In fact, for Sera Masumi, she doesn't care when to get up. If possible, she doesn't mind lying in bed until noon when she feels hungry or has to pee.

But... this is not a trip just for her and Serabelle. After all, Xiaolan and Conan are living in the room opposite.

Time passed quickly and it was 8:30 in the morning. In the lobby downstairs in the hotel, the four people who had already had breakfast met up with Toyama Kazuha who had just woken up at home and saw a text message from Hattori Heiji.

As soon as they met, the furious Osaka girl displayed the evidence of Hattori Heiji's guilt.

"I don't know what to say to this guy Heiji. I clearly said that I would take Ran and the others to play around in Osaka today, but he went off somewhere by himself. He also sent me a message early in the morning while I was still sleeping, asking me to take Ran and Sera-san and the others to play around in Osaka... What about Sera-kun and Conan?!"

"He also sent us a message."

Serabelle also took out her cell phone and calmly showed the other half of Osaka Black Chicken's "evidence".

It was the chat record that he had previously screenshotted and forwarded to Conan.

Yuanshan Heye came closer and looked at it carefully, then suddenly frowned in confusion.

"Tsk, why is this guy Heiji going to Kyoto again..."

"Kyoto? What's wrong with Kyoto? Is there a problem?"

Although Masumi Sera grew up in the UK, she is also familiar with the relationships between the most famous cities in Japan.

Osaka and Kyoto are both very famous cities in the Kansai region, and they are very close to each other, only 50 kilometers apart at most, and it only takes 15 minutes to get there by Shinkansen.

And looking at Kazuha's expression, it seems that she is very reluctant to let Hattori Heiji go to Kyoto?

"Oh no, nothing."

Realizing that he had inadvertently exposed his true inner emotions, Yuanshan Heye quickly adjusted his facial expression, waved his hands, and changed to a seemingly indifferent tone.

"Anyway, since he wants to go, let him go. The three of us girls will have fun in Osaka today, and let the three boys go around Kyoto on their own."

"But Hattori-kun said yesterday that he would take us to play in Osaka, but today he went to Kyoto by himself. Could it be that something urgent happened?"

As expected of an angel, Xiaolan, even though she was stood up by Hattori Heiji at the kendo competition yesterday, she is still willing to believe that the latter might have something urgent to do.

"He...how should I put it, probably...anyway, I don't know him very well."

Yuanshan and Ye became more and more hesitant.

The more she did this, the more Sera Masumi and Xiaolan felt that there must be some hidden story.

Could it be that there really is some hidden secret in Kyoto for Kazuha?

Thinking of this, Xiaolan took the initiative to propose.

"In that case, let's go to Kyoto together today. Then Sera-kun and Conan will meet up with Hattori-kun, and the three of us girls can just hang out. We can always contact each other via cell phone if anything happens."

"Eh~?"

Yuanshan Heye dragged out the tone.

You can see that she is somewhat moved, but at the same time she is more conflicted.

So Serabelle and Conan looked at each other, shrugged, and pushed forward.

"Then without further ado, let's buy tickets and head to Kyoto. I guess Hattori has been traveling alone for almost an hour."

"Um……"

Although it only takes fifteen minutes to get from Osaka to Kyoto by Shinkansen, if you include the time to get to the high-speed rail station and buy tickets and wait for the train, even if you take a taxi to the high-speed rail station, the entire journey will take at least half an hour.

So by the time Serabelle and the others got off the high-speed train and stepped onto Kyoto, it was already half past nine in the morning.

Standing in the crowded square in front of the main entrance of Kyoto Station, Serabelle called Hattori Heiji.

"Hello? Where are you now? We just came out of Kyoto Station..."

"Great that you're finally here, and the timing is just right."

Before Serabelle could finish her words, Hattori Heiji's familiar Osaka accent rang out from the other end.

"I'm at a motorcycle rental shop right now. It shouldn't be far from where you are. It shouldn't take too long for you to walk over directly. I'll send you my location now."

"Row."

Five seconds after the phone was turned off, a location message popped up along with a message prompt box falling from the top of the screen.

I clicked on it and saw that it was indeed not far away.

It was only about a few kilometers away from here, and there was no need to turn too many intersections on the way there.

"Then we'll go there first."

Serabelle put away her phone and said to the three female high school students, then gave Conan a look that said "let's go".

Seeing that the two sides were about to act separately, Yuanshan Heye did not forget to give a reminder.

"Then I'll keep an eye on Heiji while you guys are there. If he's about to do anything strange...anyway, feel free to contact me."

"learn."

After reaching a simple consensus, Serabelle and Conan began to walk slowly towards the location sent by Hattori Heiji.

……

It took about a quarter of an hour for the duo, one adult and one child, to follow the navigation on their mobile phones and quickly found the motorcycle rental shop where Hattori Heiji was.

When we arrived, this guy was standing at the door of someone's store, with his back against the wall and his chin pinched. From the side, he looked very serious. There was also a motorcycle parked next to him, which must have just been rented from the store. It looked like an off-road motorcycle.

"Hey, we're here." Serabelle approached and tilted her head to look past Hattori Heiji into the car rental shop. "So why did you call us to Kyoto? Didn't you say yesterday that you were going to play in Osaka today? Did you suddenly remember that there was some special event in Kyoto today?"

"Well, there are no special events..."

Hattori Heiji came back to his senses from his thoughts, stood up straight, reached into his trouser pocket, fumbled a few times, took out his cell phone and opened it.

"By the way, did you guys watch the news this morning? It was about the fact that several members of a cultural relic thief group were killed in Tokyo last night."

"Oh, that! I saw it. It's said that every member of that bandit group has a copy of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, and they call each other retainers!"

Conan reacted the moment it was mentioned.

Serabelle actually thought of it, but it was wiped out when he clicked the fork. After that, she didn't care much about it and could only shrug her shoulders.

"I just know that there is such a thing, but I don't know the details."

"Well, let's put it this way."

Hattori Heiji sighed inexplicably and scratched his head.

"In fact, one of the thieves who was killed used to run a takoyaki shop in Osaka. I often patronized his shop when I was in junior high school, and he was also very caring towards me. Although I now know that he was a thief gang, how should I put it... I still want to help him rest in peace."

Serabelle understood: "You want to help him find the murderer?"

"Ah."

Hattori Heiji nodded slightly, his expression became a little more serious, and he spoke seriously.

"And by the way, I want to see if I can find my first love."

Serabelle, Conan: "?"

Chapter 409 You are the Minotaur!

The location is in Kyoto, on a popular and quaint street. Two motorcycles with rental car ads posted on them are parked side by side in front of a dim sum shop.

Inside the dim sum restaurant, three people sat facing each other at a table near the window.

Hattori Heiji and Conan sat together on one side, while Serabell sat alone on the other. He liked the spaciousness and comfort of sitting alone.

Because there were three of us, we ordered three bowls of red bean soup.

Serabelle and Conan had just had breakfast in the hotel before coming here so they were not hungry. He picked up the drink, took a sip and put it down, looking around at the prosperous scene in the store and asked.

"…So this is the place where your first love often hangs out? Or is this where you can find clues to the death of the takoyaki shop owner you know?"

A fairly logical guess.

After all, before coming here, Hattori Heiji looked very regretful and said that he wanted to let the deceased rest in peace, and also threatened to find his first love. But then he turned around and ran here to drink red bean soup. It couldn't be that he had some weird reason like "let's eat first now that things have come to this."

Conan obviously thought so too, but he thought a little more deeply than Serabelle.

"Then I think it should be the latter. After all, if Hattori's first love often hangs out here, given Hattori's personality, he should have approached her directly a long time ago. He wouldn't have waited until we were together before daring to recognize her, right?"

"I don't think that's certain." Serabelle held a conservative attitude.

"Stop, stop, stop, what are you talking about...!"

Hearing the two people's speculations becoming more and more outrageous, Hattori Heiji went completely crazy and hurried to stop them.

"That's not the reason. I brought you here just to find a place to talk about the girl I'm looking for. Otherwise, we can't discuss it in front of the car rental shop. We have to do business too."

Oh, I see.

After learning the truth, Serabelle and Conan looked at each other and took the initiative to make a gesture of invitation.

"Then tell me."

Ugh……

Hattori Heiji scratched the back of his head, calmed himself down a little, took a deep breath, and a look of reminiscence appeared on his dark face as he began to tell the story bit by bit.

"That was probably when I was in the third grade of elementary school. I was traveling in Kyoto with my family. I went out alone to explore the temples in Kyoto that day. I accidentally tripped in the temple and hit my head on the wooden fence of the window. It was so severe that the fence broke, and I fainted on the spot. When I woke up, I heard singing coming from outside the window..."

"Singing?" Serabell raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but it's not a special song. Even children here in Kyoto can sing it."

Hattori Heiji tried to sing quietly.

"Marutake Ibari Ni-Oshio Ike, the bride Rokukaku-no-Ochi brocade, the four-stringed Buddha Takamatsu Mangojo, the snow shoes jingle and the fish rack... this is it."

豁？

Serabelle didn't hear anything special about this song. From the melody, he could only say that it had a very Japanese classical style, but it wasn't particularly outstanding or nice to listen to. As for the lyrics, considering his Japanese proficiency as an old Londoner, they couldn't be said to be mediocre, but they just didn't make sense.

Highlight the one who has absolutely no idea what he is singing.

Conan, on the other hand, suddenly realized: "Oh, this is Kyoto's ball song, it's mainly used by children to find their way around, because most of Kyoto's roads are straight and horizontal, and to younger children, almost every street looks the same, so they use this song to remember the name of each street."

It turns out that the lyrics are made up of street names, so that’s fine.

Then Conan changed the subject and complained with his half-moon eyes.

"But almost everyone in Kyoto knows this song. It would be too difficult for you to find someone to sing it with just this."

"Yeah, well, that's certainly more than that."

Hattori Heiji said this as he reached into the inner pocket of his jacket. After fumbling for two seconds, he pulled out a small thing that looked like a lucky bag or a talisman.

He loosened the string at the mouth of the lucky bag, pulled it open, and gently poured out a pure and clear crystal bead from it.

"this is……"

Conan took a look and looked thoughtful, as if he had thought of something but couldn't put it into words for the moment.

Serabelle took it and looked at it in her palm for a while, then poked it with her fingers and flipped it a few times, unable to help feeling a little confused.

"Isn't this just an ordinary crystal bead? And the shape is so weird. Was there any glue on it when you got it?"

"I think should not be."

Hattori Heiji was also a little unsure.

"I heard the singing and wanted to look out the window. Just as I closed the window and saw the girl, a breeze blew by. I was dazzled by the cherry blossoms in the courtyard. When I opened my eyes again, the girl was gone. Only this crystal bead was left. I wanted to pick it up and chase her to return it to her, but..."

But I didn't catch up.

Serabelle completed the rest of the sentence in his mind.

"...Then the problem now is to figure out the origin of this crystal bead. Judging from its appearance, it should not be a girl's ornament. Logically, if it is decorated on clothes or hair accessories, at least holes should be drilled on both sides and a thin string should be passed through the middle to secure it. However, yours is very smooth and has no marks on it. It can't be a single crystal bead, right?"

"Besides, even if we figured it out, it wouldn't seem to be of much use. Crystal beads aren't valuable things. Maybe this kind of gadget was just popular at that time."

Popularity……

Serabelle hummed softly, and the image of a certain Kyoto girl inexplicably emerged in her mind.