I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"That~"

Conan hesitated for a moment.

"Just say what you want to say." Serabelle started the car without looking around.

"Actually, I wanted to say——"

Conan paused again, glanced sideways at the iron door leading to the basement outside the car window where Serabelle had come out earlier, quickly calmed himself down before speaking slowly.

"Are you sure it's okay to hand Mizunashi Reina over to them?"

"What do you mean?"

Serabelle shifted gears, stepped on the accelerator, and drove the Audi slowly forward.

"Are you afraid that they will take extreme measures against Mizunashi Reina? If that's the case, I don't think it will be necessary. Severe torture is a thing of the past. With advanced drugs now, one injection will ensure that you will even confess whether you ate shit as a child."

"Of course I'm not referring to that. And why do you have to use that kind of thing as an example..."

Conan was confused.

"What I mean is, don't you distrust Mr. James? You just handed over the member of the organization that you finally caught to them. Aren't you really afraid that they will ask you something and then deliberately conceal it?"

"Not afraid."

Serabelle answered calmly.

He squinted at the elementary school student who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"But you, isn't it a little too late to think about this kind of problem now?"

"I don't care..." Conan suddenly smiled, "My dad knows someone in the FBI, and we have already communicated. If there is any information sent back to the headquarters, I will tell my dad as soon as possible."

"Oh, then I also have people in the FBI," said Serabelle.

"……what?"

Conan was stunned for two seconds, and when he came to his senses, his expression instantly turned into surprise.

"Wait, wait, weren't you from MI6? Why is MI6 connected to the FBI?"

"Why not?"

Serabel shrugged, and her confident tone left Conan speechless.

In fact, he didn't say the second half of the sentence, which was that Shuichi Akai was someone he knew. Anyway, even if James Blake really had some ulterior motives at that time, the worst that could happen was for Sister Mary to take action.

With a loving mother and a filial son, there is nothing that cannot be talked about after watching the seven wolves play together.

"Besides, instead of worrying about me, you should ask your dear father to pay attention to his safety recently. Before I came to Japan, MI6 had been tried to be hacked by the Black Organization, and the FBI might have tried to hack into it as well. If the undercover finds out about you, your father will be finished."

"Probably...not right?"

Conan was a little lucky.

……

After sending Conan back to the Mouri Detective Agency, Serabelle turned around and went downstairs to a commercial building in the center of Tokyo.

It was almost evening and the sky was getting darker. Standing by the road and looking around, I could see gorgeous neon lights everywhere.

After parking the car and entering the building, coincidentally, just as Serabelle arrived at the elevator lobby, found an empty elevator and was about to press the up button, another elevator behind her arrived with a ding.

A surprising and familiar voice came out from it.

"Huh? Isn't this Sera-kun?"

Ok?

Serabelle turned around following the sound and saw that the person coming out of the elevator was Midori Kuriyama, the secretary in Hibiki Eri's office. She had a small bag on her shoulder and seemed to have just got off work.

"Good evening, Ms. Kuriyama..."

"Oh, there's no need for us to greet each other in such a rigid way~"

Without waiting for the greeting to be finished, Kuriyama Midori came up to the young man and patted him on the shoulder with a smile, then lowered her eyes to glance at the gift box in the young man's hands, moved closer, covered her mouth with her hands, and lowered her voice, saying "I understand."

"What's going on? You knew Mr. Fei was coming back from a business trip today, so you came here to do um... that?"

What is "that"?

Serabelle complained in her heart, but still gestured at the gift box in her hand and went along with what she said.

"Well, I went to Kyoto a while ago and just came back the night before yesterday. I also bought some gifts."

"Oh Kyoto, it's not as fun as Tokyo, but it's pretty good for traveling and experiencing the local customs and culture."

Midori Kuriyama poked the gift box curiously.

"So what's in this? Is it a snack unique to Kyoto?"

"No, it's a kimono."

"and……"

The secretary choked up suddenly.

She moved her shocked gaze from the gift box to the young man's calm face, widened her eyes and nodded seriously, then raised her thumbs and nodded twice.

"You are awesome, well done, I won't bother you anymore!"

After saying that, he turned and ran away.

Holy shit, that’s a kimono! This is a proposal!

Miss Kuriyama decided to pretend that she knew nothing for the time being, and then come back tomorrow morning to torture Teacher Hime and get to the bottom of the fierce battle last night.

On the other side, Serabelle took the elevator and soon arrived at the law office of Eri Kisaki on the 12th floor.

She walked through the front hall and came to the office with familiarity. When Serabelle pushed the door open, she saw Eri Hime standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with her back to the door and the desk. She was holding a cup of water in her hand, which was emitting mist, and she seemed a little uneasy.

Hearing the sound of a door opening behind her, Kisaki Eri turned around with great anticipation, and seeing that it was undoubtedly Serabelle, the joyful smile that was already ready to burst out on her beautiful face suddenly blossomed.

"Bell, you're here."

She put down her water cup and walked over quickly, and Serabelle handed over the gift in her hand.

"Auntie... Yeah."

"This is?"

"I bought this kimono when I was traveling in Kyoto."

Serabelle spoke the truth without hesitation.

At this moment, he clearly felt that Kisaragi in front of him stiffened slightly.

Then, the Queen, who could always silence her opponents with her absolute rationality in any brutal and fierce court debate, pursed her lips and subconsciously raised her hand to cover her face, but she still couldn't hide the corners of her mouth that couldn't stop rising with joy.

"Kimono...huh?"

After all, Kisaki Eri is not a grown-up girl like Akiba Reiko who is almost in love, nor does she express all her emotions like Yukiko, but she can only control her emotions with difficulty.

She stood in front of Serabelle with her face raised, holding the gift box in one hand and taking the boy's hand with the other. Her eyes were flowing like a pool of spring water under her glasses, and her red lips were slightly parted.

"Auntie will accept your gift."

Chapter 454 Lan: Why is Mom wearing a kimono?

Once the atmosphere was there, everything that happened afterwards fell into place naturally.

It's nothing more than undressing, bathing, and... paying taxes.

Just like that, in the blink of an eye, evening passed and it was after dinner, and the hour hand on the wall clock in the office quietly moved from five to seven.

The war paused temporarily, and a peaceful atmosphere enveloped the space again.

In the office chair, with rosy cheeks, Kisaki Eri curled up her legs in the boy's arms, feeling a little tired but contented, her face pressed against the solid chest, and the hair on her forehead was a little messy and stuck to her skin because it was soaked with sweat.

There was also a faint subtle scent in the air.

"aunt……"

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"I... just wanted to ask Auntie if you are hungry. If you are, I will go to the nearby commercial street and pack some food for you."

Speaking of this, Serabelle felt a little embarrassed.

Perhaps it was the stimulation of the kimono, or perhaps it was because they hadn't seen each other for nearly a week after the four-day trip to Kansai and the business trip, but Kisaki Eri seemed particularly proactive tonight.

Like in the past, we always had dinner first, but today we started right away without even having dinner.

Because of the tracking operation during the day, Serabelle prepared a lot of supplies. She ate and drank all day long but was not hungry at all at night. After being taken the initiative by Kisaki Eri, she couldn't help but get into the state. She didn't come to her senses until she was done, and she couldn't help feeling ashamed.

However, Kisaki Eri smiled and shook her head.

"It's OK. I'm not that hungry. We were provided with in-flight meals on the way back from the plane. They were just some fruit snacks and such, but I don't have a big appetite. After eating them, they can basically be used as dinner. Besides, I drank quite a lot in the bathroom before..."

She paused here, pursed her lips, and her cheeks became even redder.

Kisaki Eri is really shy. She just can't bring herself to say something that Yukiko would have blurted out long ago, and that even Akai Mari would have said with a blushing face.

After all, if you think about it carefully, Serabelle is old enough to be her son. Helping a boy who is old enough to be her son with her mouth... Oh, that's too bad.

Forcing herself to calm down, Kisaki Eri changed the subject and looked towards the gift box quietly placed on the large desk in front of her. Her indigo eyes were almost melting with tears, and her toes were pressed together and fighting with each other in a tangled manner.

"Come to think of it, this is my aunt's first kimono in her life..."

Huh?

A big question mark appeared above Serabelle's head.

According to Reiko, giving a kimono as a gift in Japan is almost like proposing marriage.

Aunt Eri is married, so why doesn’t she have a kimono?

"Stupid, what are you thinking about?"

As if she had noticed the boy's confusion, Kisaki Eri raised her hand and gently pinched his face with a smile.

"We were very poor when we were young. At that time, Japan was still in the Great Depression. Ordinary people like us who didn't benefit from the times didn't have much money at home. Normally, kimonos are rented for weddings, which costs about 10,000 yuan a day... Guess how much I earned in the first month when I became a lawyer."

"Four hundred thousand?"

Serabelle guessed that he knew that the average salary in Japan was about four million a year.

However, just as he finished his words, a slender index finger scratched his nose.

"How can it be that much? If you swap the numbers, it's about 140,000~" Kisaki Eri smiled and shook her head, "I was just an assistant at the beginning, just like Miss Kuriyama is now... Oh no, to be precise, I'm not even as good as Miss Kuriyama, because I'm just a newcomer. Even the cheapest kimono would cost me two or three years without food or drink."

"Let alone someone like Maori Kogoro. He had only been a policeman for a short time at that time, and his salary was only slightly higher than mine. In addition, he liked to hang out with his friends, so after a year, he could not save any money after paying for his family expenses."

"Ah, speaking of which, Bell..."

When it comes to the price of kimono, Kisaki Eri suddenly becomes worried.

"Bell, you've only been a detective for a year, right? How did you get so much money to buy a kimono? Did you... borrow some kind of credit?"

"No, I earned all the money myself."

Serabelle told the truth.

He was the kind of person who spent very little in his daily life. For example, he had only spent a fraction of the 10 billion yen he had stolen from the robbery, and his biggest expense so far was buying those kimonos.

"Yeah, that's good."

Hearing that Serabelle had indeed used her own savings to buy the kimono, Kisaki Eri finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then she suddenly started coughing.

"Cough cough..."

"Are you okay, aunt? Are you a little cold?"

Serabelle asked immediately.

The environmental services in the commercial buildings here are quite good. Although the annual rent is high, that is because it is in the city center, and the air-conditioning is basically on all year round, keeping the room warm in winter and cool in summer. Even in weather where the air-conditioning is not really needed, ventilation will be turned on to ensure fresh indoor air.

But... even if the air conditioner is on, it ensures that you don't feel cold when wearing a shirt or suit indoors, instead of feeling hot even if you take off all your clothes like in a sauna.

It is easier to catch a cold when someone like Kisaki Eri is wearing nothing.

"Well, Auntie is fine, it's just that I haven't had any water and have been talking for so long, so my throat is a little dry."

Fei Yingli cleared her throat and habitually reached for the thermos in the compartment under her desk to pour some hot water, but as soon as she picked it up, she felt her hand become lighter.