I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"Future Son is under a lot of pressure."

He Ye seemed to know the literary girl with glasses on the stage, and said with a stern expression.

At this moment, Xiaolan suddenly remembered that she should pretend that she knew nothing, and spoke hastily.

"Does He Ye know karuta? You seem to be very familiar with the contestants on stage."

"Oh no, I can't say I know it, I just have a little understanding, a little understanding..."

He Ye was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and waved his hands quickly.

"Mirai is my classmate, and we are both in the Utaru Club... well, it doesn't seem right to say that, after all, there are only two of us in the Utaru Club, and I'm a member of the Zombie Club, just a figurehead. Well, anyway, none of this matters!"

She quickly turned the topic to Ooka Momiji, who had an absolute advantage on the other side.

"Then the other one is Ooka Momiji, she's the daughter of a powerful family. You actually know her, Lan. I just mentioned that I met her when I came to Kyoto for a trip during the winter vacation."

"That's it..."

The unicorn girl's acting skills were very good, and she showed a look of confusion.

At this time, Hattori Heiji touched his chin and said something.

"By the way, why do I feel that the kimono that Miss Ooka is wearing looks a little familiar?"

"haha, yes."

Upon hearing this, Conan narrowed his eyes and agreed.

Then the two brothers turned their heads together and looked to the right as if with some other meaning.

"Eh? What? Kimono?"

He Ye, who was standing on the right, had no idea what was going on. She was stunned for a moment and pointed at herself uncertainly. After realizing that he was not talking about her, she also looked to the right.

"Uh...what's wrong with the kimono?"

Xiaolan, who was inexplicably the focus of the three people's attention, was even more confused, so she turned her head to look to the right.

Then it was Sera Masumi who turned around.

Finally, Serabelle...

Well, he couldn't turn around.

Because there is no one else on the right.

A second later, a slender hand came from behind and placed it on the upper waist.

Chapter 560 Hongye cuts in line, Xiaolan is furious

Not only the game videos, but also the rehearsal videos can actually be used as an important part of external publicity. And because the entire video will not be made public, it can actually have a greater publicity effect.

This is what is called a highlights collection, which only edits out the good-looking parts and removes all the mediocre or ambiguous parts.

Therefore, Nichimi TV basically treated the rehearsal recording as the recording of the finals.

Seeing that the rehearsal would not end for a while, Serabelle and the others moved to a rest area near the edge of the recording venue.

There is no luxurious decoration, just a long table like the one in the school cafeteria, and a few chairs on both sides.

It's really just a simple rest area.

As soon as Serabel and others sat down, the person in charge of the program team who brought them up earlier immediately followed and placed a magazine in front of Kogoro Mouri.

Maori Kogoro:?

It was... quite sudden.

Although he did find a place to sit for a while because he thought it would take some time for the recording rehearsal to continue waiting there, it was not necessary for him to need someone to pass him groceries as soon as he sat down!

Besides, if he really felt bored, he would go get a magazine to read by himself. Just handing it to him like this... It's as if he's already paralyzed in a wheelchair and won't live long.

However, Kogoro Mori soon realized that he had misunderstood.

The person in charge's fingertips fell on the page of the magazine that was opened. There was a picture on the page. It showed a middle-aged man standing next to a shiny black car. He had a sturdy figure and an elegant smile on his face. He looked like a successful person at first glance.

The person in charge whispered.

"Mr. Maori, this is the person you will be interviewing later - President Achiha of the Satsuki-kai, the largest local karuta organization in Kyoto. The magazine contains information about President Achiha and his life experience. You can take a look at it and think about the questions you will ask during the interview later."

"ask questions?"

Probably because he didn't expect that he would be invited to do the interview and he would even have to think of the interview questions. Kogoro Mouri was completely stunned.

However, considering that his daughter was right next to him and was in a state of amnesia, he quickly readjusted his posture, coughed lightly, and pretended to be calm.

"Got it, leave it to me."

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Maori..."

The person in charge said something nice and left quickly.

Serabelle, who was standing next to them, was confused by the conversation between the two.

To be precise, he had been feeling strange ever since he learned that Kogoro Mori was going to participate in an interview on the theme of karuta.

One is a detective, the other is karuta. It cannot be said that the two are very far apart. It can only be said that they are completely unrelated.

Instead of letting a detective do a karuta interview, it would be better to let him do a recommended ranking of Kyoto izakayas. Maybe he would be quite professional and even have some experience.

For example, which izakaya has the most beautiful madam-san?

It's really strange that they asked a detective to do the karuta-themed interview.

At the same time, Kazuha, who was sitting at the other end of the table, couldn't help looking worried at the two people who were still rehearsing on the stage.

"Mirai...Is she okay?"

Rehearsals are rehearsals, but the competition is a real competition without any scripted elements.

It was obvious from the moment they arrived that the girl from the literature department called Mirai was clearly inferior to Ooka Momiji in karuta skills.

Xiaolan asked curiously, "Isn't it just a rehearsal now? It doesn't matter if we lose, right?"

"No, it's not about that."

He Ye hesitated and considered his wording.

"Because there are only two people in our school's Utaru club, Mirai and I. Plus, I'm just a zombie member who joined just to make up the numbers. I usually participate in the Aikido club, so there's actually only Mirai in the Utaru club. It's considered a low-end club that no one cares about in school clubs. If we don't get a good ranking in this competition, the club will most likely be disbanded by the school... So I'm worried that Mirai will be hit too hard during the rehearsal, which will affect her performance in the official competition later."

Oh, I see.

Serabelle understood instantly.

If the audience is too small, it means that there is no voice, and this is the same no matter where in the world.

To give a simple counter-example, almost every school in Japan has a football club and a basketball club. There are many people who participate in competitions but fail to win any titles, but I have never seen anyone be disqualified from a club because of poor performance.

After all, I'm not a professional athlete.

To put it bluntly, the school itself actually already wanted to cancel this club. As for the idea of ​​being disbanded if they fail to achieve good results, it was just an excuse to justify it.

When you consider that Nichiuri TV invited Mr. Mori, who has absolutely nothing to do with karuta, to do an interview, its purpose becomes clear.

To put it bluntly, other big names are unwilling to come because they feel it would be a loss of face, so they have to settle for the second best and find someone who is completely unrelated but has online traffic.

Fortunately, he himself doesn't know this yet.

……

Time passed by minute by minute as they chatted. Since Serabelle and the others were far away from the shooting stage, even if they talked, it would not affect the recording of the content.

So in the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour later, as the last katami on the tatami on the stage was knocked away, the director waved the clapperboard in his hand, and the rehearsal recording session ended.

"Thank you for your hard work, go and have a rest first."

Playing a game of karuta takes a lot of physical and mental energy. Mirai Hidemoto was almost helped off the stage by a staff member.

In comparison, Ooka Momiji seems to be much more at ease, both during and after the game.

She walked off the stage, put on her shoes, waved and declined the mineral water handed to her by the staff, looked around the filming site, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she walked towards the rest area.

"...I was wondering if you had come. I didn't expect you to be sitting here. Were you fascinated by my appearance during the rehearsal just now?"

Ok?

Hearing the familiar Kyoto accent coming from behind her, Serabelle, who was sitting in the rest area, raised her head and looked back.

Then the top of his head pressed against a soft and flat belly.

The view upwards was blocked, and the girl's delicate facial features were completely hidden behind two huge protrusions wrapped in kimono fabric.

"Ala, are you so enthusiastic when you first meet me after such a long separation, my future husband?"

The Kyoto girl took a half step back, bent down, and revealed her noble and beautiful face from behind the covering on her chest, and smiled gently.

"Well, I don't hate it. Compared to this, do you have time after everything is finished here? I think Sera-kun has not experienced Kyoto in spring. With such good weather, how about we go on a trip together?"

"I……"

Serabelle had just opened her mouth when the other two girls at the table slammed their hands and spoke in unison.

"That won't do!"*2

Chapter 561 Conan: Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Just as the tension was drawn at the table in the rest area of ​​the shooting site and it seemed that a war was about to break out, at the same time, the atmosphere in the office of the chief of the Osaka Police Headquarters, 50 kilometers away, was also extremely solemn.

A man with a slightly dark complexion, narrowed eyes and serious features, as if he could be caught at any time to play Miyamoto Musashi in a costume Japanese drama, sat behind his desk, tapping the table with his fingertips in silence, as if he was in deep thought.

In front of him was a piece of letter paper printed out with only a short sentence on it.

[I have no intention of hurting anyone, I just want to blow up the Kyoto headquarters of Nichimi TV]

There are also two photos attached below, both of which are of karuta, and judging from the background of the photos, they were obviously taken inside the Nichiren TV building.

"Ginshiro, what do you think?"

Hattori Heizo raised his head and opened one of his squinting eyes, looking at his best friend who had worked with him for more than ten years at the desk, and asked in a deep voice.

"Hard to say."

The man called Ginjiro was a middle-aged man with a decent appearance. Judging from the work badge hanging on his chest, his position seemed to be Superintendent of Police and his last name was Toyama.

The coincidental surname makes it hard not to think of a girl from Osaka who practices Aikido.

Toyama Ginjiro shook his head.

"Although I also hope that this is just a prank, we can't rely on our luck on such a thing. Besides, since the other party has sent the photos, their purpose is obviously to show that they have the ability to plant a bomb in the Nichiuri TV building. In other words, if this is true, the consequences will be disastrous."

"That makes sense."

Hattori Heizo nodded slightly, then turned to look at Inspector Otaki, who looked very similar to the middle-aged Genta and had been listening to the conversation between his two superiors without daring to breathe.

"Goro, notify Kyoto Nichimi TV right now and have them evacuate all personnel in the building immediately!"

"Yes!"

……

The view turns back to Kyoto Nichimi TV.

If Ooka Momiji's powerful words made everyone's pupils tremble, then the reactions of the two girls that followed shocked Conan so much that he stood up on the spot.

Well, it’s the one in the popular sense.

Let’s not talk about Sera Masumi for now, but why did Xiaolan also react so strongly?

Why?

As a detective, his super intuitive sense started to run at full capacity. He hypothesized, denied, hypothesized, and denied again. In an instant, various possibilities flashed through Conan's mind, and all the possibilities pointed to one thing, which was... it was...

No, absolutely impossible!

Conan shook his head quickly trying to get the thoughts out of his mind.

How is that possible? You have to know that before this, Serabelle and Xiaolan were not even close, although her memory loss had restored her to factory settings a while ago, and she even accompanied Xiaolan to Dorobiga Park afterwards.

But... no matter what, Xiaolan is not that easy to fool, right?

How could they fall in love with each other right away after losing their memories and going out for fun? Besides, Xiaolan and I have been childhood sweethearts for so many years, and I have accompanied her to Dorobiga Park before. How come I have never seen Xiaolan care so much about him?

Just when Conan was getting extremely anxious and was about to lose control, Kazuha, whom he had known since the winter vacation, stood up to smooth things over.