I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"Ah, Ooka-san, this is the case. Ran lost her memory for some reason, so she probably... doesn't recognize you now."

Uh……

Hearing this, Xiaolan and Ooka Momiji were both stunned.

"Oh, so that's it."

Ooka Hongye was the first to react. She smiled to show that she didn't care, and then bowed slightly with aristocratic etiquette.

"That's fine. Let me introduce myself again. My name is Ooka Momiji, the Ooka of the former Japanese Prime Minister, and Momiji is the one in the karuta lyrics, 'Red leaves floating on the ground'. Although theoretically this is not our first meeting, since the situation is like this, let's just treat it as our first meeting. Please take care of me."

"Well, my name is Mao Lilan, please take care of me..."

Xiaolan, who almost forgot that she still had amnesia, had no choice but to be forced to work. She greeted the other party politely even though she knew that the other party was her love rival.

This way, I can make up for my previous overreaction.

On the other side, after the rehearsal ended, Mikuko Hidemoto, who had just been helped down from the stage by staff, came to the rest area after drinking some water. When she saw Ooka Momiji, she didn't expect him to be there too, and her face looked a little unnatural.

After all, I just lost to him at karuta.

Noticing this detail, He Ye opened his mouth to continue smoothing over the situation.

squeak--

The door axis turned, and the double-sided doors of the entrance to the shooting site were pushed open from the outside. Accompanied by a high-pitched voice, three staff members stood in front and two behind like the icon of the three-phase force, escorting a small booth with rollers underneath from the outside.

“The karuta is coming—!”

The style of the exhibition stand is somewhat similar to the ones used to display cultural relics in museums, with a soft red cloth lining the bottom and an explosion-proof glass cover on top.

Stored inside is a deck of karuta cards that look like they are in good condition.

"Ah, that one I remember is..."

He Ye spoke subconsciously, and was then taken up by Meimoto Mirai.

"It's the karuta of the Satsuki-kai!"

Maori Kogoro kept turning his head and squinted his eyes, complaining disdainfully: "But this is too exaggerated, a deck of karuta is preserved like a cultural relic, really..."

"What are you talking about!"

Umemoto Mirai, whose attention was completely focused on the karuta that was being sent into the venue a second ago, retorted.

"That is the treasure of the Gaoyue Association and the dream of all karuta lovers!"

"And I remember that your dream, Mirai, is to be able to use that deck of cards, right?"

He Ye felt as if he had been trying to smooth things over all day.

"of course!"

Meimoto Mirai immediately became excited when she mentioned karuta.

"But having said that, the Satsuki-kai's karuta are already badly worn out from so many matches, so they will only be taken out during the finals."

"Then I think there should be no problem."

The person who answered was Ooka Momiji. She looked at Meimoto Miraiko across a corner of the table. Their eyes met in the air. The beautiful face of the aristocratic girl, full of the feeling of a mature woman, showed a smile that was confident but not arrogant.

"Hiromoto-san, you are very good at karuta. If you are in good shape, you can even make it to the finals. However, I will still be the one to win the title of karuta queen in the end."

"..."

Meimoto Mirai pursed her lips and said nothing.

The result of a competition during the rehearsal recording session could almost be described as a miserable defeat. No matter what harsh words she said at this time, it would only seem particularly funny.

At this moment, a unified broadcast from inside the building suddenly came from the broadcast at the recording site.

[Emergency notice, all personnel in the building please evacuate immediately. I repeat, all personnel in the building please evacuate immediately...]

Chapter 562: Madam Jinghua comes with a knife

Without any prior notice or explanation of the specific reason, the emergency evacuation alarm just sounded.

It's really strange.

After all, no matter how earthquake-prone Japan is, daily evacuation drills like this will be notified in advance.

Moreover, even if an earthquake really occurs, the measures taken by the people will not be much different from those in non-earthquake-prone countries, which means that you don't have to run away for a small earthquake, but you can't escape for a big one.

In particular, the alarm usually arrives not much earlier than the earthquake waves, and they basically arrive at the same time.

Sometimes even later.

Things like this, where the radio keeps shouting for emergency evacuation but after waiting for a minute or two there's no tremor at all, are basically daily drills.

It's quite annoying.

You have to know that Nichimei TV is very busy on a daily basis, with all kinds of filming tasks every day. They also did some inexplicable emergency evacuation drills, which took more than half an hour to go back and forth, plus it took a while to get back into the state, which meant that it was equivalent to doing nothing for an hour and just going up and down the stairs.

Especially during an emergency evacuation, you can't take the elevator and have to climb the stairs. You're just looking for trouble, right?

However, it was of no use. The evacuation drill still had to be carried out, and at most one could only curse inwardly.

However, this dissatisfaction quickly disappeared as everyone went downstairs.

They saw that the front of the Nichimei TV building, which looked normal before they entered, was now full of fire trucks, and the accompanying firefighters were wearing heat-insulating suits and had serious expressions, ready to go.

This has obviously exceeded the level of a normal drill.

"Hello, what exactly happened?"

The person negotiating with the firefighter leader was a burly, square-faced, somewhat familiar middle-aged man. He seemed to have just come down from upstairs, and couldn't help asking the firefighters the first time he saw them.

"President Achiba, we received a notification from the Osaka Police Department that someone had planted a bomb in the Nichimi TV building, so we immediately rushed over to provide support."

The middle-aged man was shocked by the explanation given by the lead firefighter.

"What did you say... a bomb?!"

Because he was too shocked, he accidentally failed to control the volume, and Serabelle, who was walking behind and had not yet had time to leave the door, heard it.

Masumi Sera, who was following closely beside him, heard a little bit but didn't hear clearly, so he put his arm over his mouth and whispered.

"That man seems to be President Achiha who said he wanted to do an interview with Uncle Maori. Was he talking about a bomb or something?"

"That's about right. From what the firefighter said, it seems like someone planted a bomb in the building and wanted to blow it up."

Serabelle's tone was very calm. After all, she had encountered this kind of thing many times, especially when Conan was around.

"But this has nothing to do with us. Anyway, we have already reached the door. Even if there is an explosion upstairs, it will not reach us, unless the bomb is buried at the door..."

"Brother, what you said is called a flag in anime~"

The girl with tiger teeth narrowed her eyes and complained.

However, just as the brother and sister were chatting with each other, He Ye's surprised voice suddenly came from behind.

"Future Son...where are you going?"

?

Looking back, they saw that Meimoto Mirai, who had come down with them before, had stopped at the stairs of the safety passage for some reason and was reluctant to come down. Amid the crowds of people who were constantly evacuating on both sides of her, she was like a silent reef in the center of a river.

"S-Sorry, Kazuha, I still can't let go of those karuta..."

"Future, don't do anything stupid! Hey, Future!"

After saying this, the literary girl who was good at karuta turned around and ran upstairs, swinging her twin ponytails. Kazuha couldn't stop her even after shouting at her.

"Hey, why did that classmate He Ye get up there?"

Hearing the voice, Xiaolan, who was also on the other side and turned around, couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.

But before she could finish her words, a strong hand grabbed her wrist, followed by the boy's indifferent voice.

"Don't worry about that, let's go out first."

"Uh...oh."

Xiaolan hadn't figured out the situation yet, and since she was being held by Serabelle's hand, she just let herself be dragged out of the building.

Conan, who was also running in the crowd behind, happened to see the scene of the two people's hands touching through the gap. The emotions that he had suppressed with great difficulty before could not help but churn again.

Is it really just a coincidence, or...but he grabbed Xiaolan's wrist, so it could be just an emergency measure he took to prevent Xiaolan from putting herself in danger?

Yes, that must be the case.

Not sure whether he had really convinced himself or was deceiving himself in his heart that he had convinced himself, Conan followed the crowd out of the Nichiuri TV building.

Two or three minutes later, accompanied by the shaking of the ground and the rumbling sound coming from the building, the glass on the outer wall of the building shattered on a large scale in an instant, and thick black smoke and bright red flames emerged from it, and the vibration spread from the center of the building directly to the first floor at the bottom.

All the fire trucks that had arrived were at full power at this moment, and began to pour water into the building from the outside.

Bricks and stones were shattered, dust and smoke were flying, and the landmark building that had once stood like a giant on the land of Kyoto now seemed to be crumbling.

And in the diffuse smoke and dust, three figures appeared vaguely and gradually became clearer.

They are Hattori Heiji, Kazuha and Haemoto Miraiko.

It turned out that before, Mikuko Hoshimoto was so excited that she turned around and rushed into the fire, and Kazuha followed her because she was worried. Hattori Heiji also followed to protect Kazuha.

This was a very risky behavior, but fortunately the final result was acceptable.

Hattori Heiji and Kazuha were hardly injured, just a little dusty.

The only one who looked relatively miserable was Meimoto Miraiko. She was supported by two other people and was covering one of her arms, seemingly injured.

"Mirai, are you okay?" He Ye was very concerned about his friend's injury.

"I...it's okay..."

The literary girl gritted her teeth, endured the pain, took off the cloth bag in her arm, and handed it to He Ye.

"Please give the karuta to President Achiba. My arm hurts."

Seeing her like this, He Ye no longer had the heart to return the karuta: "Alright, forget about the karuta for now, I'll take you to see a doctor first!"

"It's okay, I can do it myself..."

Pushing the cloth bag containing the karuta cards forcefully to her friend, a fleeting smile flashed across her face, which was pale with pain.

She looked at the distance and saw an ambulance waiting behind the fire truck with its lights on.

"It's just a fall. It should just be a muscle injury."

"..."

After hearing what his good friend said, He Ye didn't know what to say. He just looked at the arm that was covered.

I can only hope so.

On the other side, at a roadside bus stop two or three hundred meters away from the Nichimei TV building, a beautiful woman in a kimono and holding a samurai sword, who looked like she came out of a comic book, got off a bus that had stopped and opened the door. Her delicately embellished red lips opened and closed slightly as she murmured softly.

"Ping-chan, you're such a jerk. You didn't even tell mom that your friends were coming to visit you."

Chapter 563: Anxious Wife Looking for Husband

I originally thought it was just an emergency evacuation drill, but I didn't expect it to be real.

I had been hoping the so-called bomb was just a prank, but it actually exploded.

Again, it was quite sudden.

But since it has already happened, it is impossible to pretend that nothing happened.

So half an hour later, all the people inside the Nichimei TV building were taken to the nearest large hospital and underwent physical examinations one by one.

It sounds like a lot of work, but it is not.

After all, most people had evacuated before the bomb exploded, and they knew whether they were injured during the evacuation. They just had to tell the doctor and then move on to the next one.

Their efficiency is as high as pigs on an assembly line with quarantine certificates.

Since there was nothing urgent, Serabel and the others lined up a little further back. By the time he, Sera Masumi, and Ran finished their examination and came out, most of the people outside had already left.

The hospital corridor, which was packed with people ten minutes ago, has now returned to normal order.

Kazuha, Hattori Heiji, Mori Kogoro and Conan were examined in another surgical office. Because there was one more person, they came out a little slower than Serabelle and the others.

Xiaolan noticed that He Ye, who came out of the doctor's office, seemed to have a worried look on his face, so she went up to him and showed concern.