Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

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Outside the crime scene under the moonlight, Heiji Hattori and Conan Edogawa discussed the case. Various pieces of evidence indicated that this case was closely related to the daytime bombing.

Heiji Hattori stood with his hands behind his head, looking somewhat conflicted as he picked at his scalp under his short hair with his fingers.

"Lin Xiaofeng said he's very busy right now and doesn't have time to come over."

"If he doesn't come, so be it." Conan shrugged indifferently. "You were the one who said you were going to abandon Lin Xiaofeng, and now you're the one looking for him."

"I never expected this case to be connected to the bombing. Conan, do you think the person who killed Yajima Toshiya and the person who carried out the bombing could be the same person?"

The male corpse found inside the mansion, named Yajima Shunya, was actually a core member of the Satsuki-kai. He was supposed to come to the filming location for rehearsals today, but according to Chairman Achiba, he waited and waited and never came. He only found out later that he had been murdered at home by a phone call.

"...Conan?"

"..."

Receiving no response, Heiji Hattori turned and glanced down. He saw that Conan seemed preoccupied, his expression drifting off somewhere.

"Hey, hey, wipe your drool!"

"Hmm? Oh, sorry..."

The sudden increase in volume startled Conan slightly. He instinctively raised his hand to wipe his mouth, but found nothing.

"Heiji-nii, you're so boring..." Conan was speechless.

Hattori Heiji waved his hand with a grin: "I noticed you seemed distracted, so I wanted to ask you what was wrong?"

"...What? What happened?" Conan turned his face away, clearly unwilling to discuss the matter.

However, Hattori Heiji had no intention of letting him off so easily.

"Conan, it's time to reveal your true identity. Yukiko is your mother, right? She's treated you like a son more than once."

As a detective, Heiji Hattori wasn't so stupid that even Shizuka Ikenami noticed Conan was acting strangely, yet he still couldn't see it.

"That's right, Yukiko is my mom."

"So you're Yukiko's illegitimate child. Your father isn't Lin Xiaofeng, is he?"

"Of course not, you idiot!"

"So what exactly happened to you?"

Conan Edogawa looked up at Heiji Hattori, his best friend, and decided to stop hiding it.

"I'm Kudo Shinichi."

"What! You're Shinichi Kudo!"

"Shh—don't be so loud. I'm telling you the truth, but you have to keep it a secret for me."

"It's so scary."

Even Heiji Hattori would find it hard to understand if Shinichi Kudo were to revert to childhood and become a child. This kind of thing, which only happens in science fiction, actually happened in the real world, which is really unbelievable.

"So you absolutely must not tell anyone else."

“I’m not that gossipy. Who else knows the truth besides me?”

"Lin Xiaofeng, Professor Agasa, my parents, my godmother, and then it's you..."

In reality, there are more people who know Conan's true identity than just that many, but Conan only knows that many.

"Don't worry. Since you trust me, I will definitely keep it a secret for you."

Heiji Hattori patted his chest like a close buddy.

317. Exquisite Kimono Beauty

As a result, Lin Xiaofeng and Yukiko spent the whole night together without going anywhere.

Heiji Hattori and Conan came knocking on the door at eight o'clock in the morning.

Erxizi was still fast asleep in bed, the kind of person who wouldn't wake up no matter how hard she tried. Lin Yi, feeling helpless, got up and opened the door.

"Ha—you two, you're in great spirits."

Lin Xiaofeng stood at the door, coldly watching the detective duo, one big and one small.

"Xiao Feng, you're finally awake. Looks like you slept well last night?"

Heiji Hattori remained as carefree as ever, waving as he saw Lin Xiaofeng appear behind the door.

"How can you tell I slept well?"

"Did you not sleep well?"

"Okay. It's not necessarily bad."

"Let's go, let's go downstairs for breakfast."

"Besides the two of you...where are the others?"

"My mom and He Ye are already downstairs."

"Let's go then."

Where is Aunt Yukiko?

"She's still asleep, don't worry about her."

The group of five went out to a restaurant for breakfast.

In Japan, breakfast restaurants require reservations and are similar to cafes.

Most tables are set up with two or three people per table, spaced apart from each other. Generally speaking, four people per table is about the limit. Fortunately, Conan is currently quite small, and since everyone is together, the waiter couldn't very well ask one of them to eat at another table, so they simply added a raised child seat for Conan to sit in the aisle.

Breakfast is served buffet style, and you can take as much as you want except for fruit, which is in limited quantities.

After each of the five people took their favorite dishes, they returned to the table and sat down.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

At that moment, Kazuha, who was sitting next to Hattori Heiji, suddenly coughed loudly, whether she choked on her food or something else. Lin Xiaofeng, who was sitting directly opposite her, quickly took two tissues from the hotel's complimentary tissue box and wiped her throat.

Heiji Hattori, standing next to Lin Xiaofeng, looked at Kazuha Toyama with a puzzled expression.

"Kazuha, are you alright? Did you catch a cold too?"

"No!"

Kazuha covered her mouth with a napkin, coughed twice, wiped her mouth, and couldn't help but roll her eyes: "I just accidentally choked while yawning while drinking soup."

"Yawning while eating... Are you that sleepy?" Hattori Heiji was speechless.

Kazuha continued to roll her eyes at him: "Why don't you try practicing karaoke until 3 a.m. and then being woken up at 7 a.m.?"

“But my mom is in good spirits.” Hattori Heiji pointed to Ikenami Shizuka sitting opposite her.

"How can I compare to your mother?" Kazuha rolled her eyes, utterly speechless at Hattori Heiji. She really didn't know why she used to like Hattori Heiji.

"Heiji, if you can't speak properly, just shut up." Ikenami Shizuka was equally speechless at her son. With his attitude, any girl would be driven away by him.

"Okay, okay... I just care about Kazuha."

Conan, sitting in his high chair, chuckled and tried to smooth things over, asking with concern, "Kazuha-neechan, how's your karuta training going?"

"It's going to be incredibly difficult." The mention of karuta (Japanese card game) immediately changed Kazuha's weary expression. "I was basically just a zombie member; I only joined to barely make up the numbers because Miraiko pleaded for me. Who would have thought I'd be competing in a tournament of this scale? Sigh... Even with Aunt Shizuka's special training, it'll be tough..."

He then yawned again.

"I'm also asking you for help today, Aunt Jinghua," Yuanshan Heye said helplessly.

“No, Kazuha, Yukiko will give you special training today. I think you still lack confidence. If it were Yukiko…” Ikenami Shizuka sensed that Toyama Kazuha lacked confidence, and this couldn’t continue; it had to change.

"Huh? Aunt Yukiko, does she know how to play karuta?"

"Of course. A woman like her..."

……

On the way back, Lin Xiaofeng packed a breakfast for Yukiko.

Back at the Hattori residence, Lin Xiaofeng placed the packed breakfast in the dining room and then went to the guest room to wake Yukiko up.

"Yukiko, you lazybones, get up and have breakfast."

"Hmm. I haven't had enough sleep yet?" Yukiko murmured, kicking her foot, and the big white rabbit bounced around.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaofeng used his Dragon Claw Hand to forcibly wake Yukiko: "Don't sleep, the sun's already high in the sky."

Yukiko reluctantly got out of bed: "Ugh... honestly, I really wanted to sleep a little longer."

"Why are you sleeping so much? You've drained me dry, and you're still sleeping." Lin Xiaofeng's forehead was covered in black lines. He was the one who needed to catch up on sleep.

"What? You're the one who enjoys it so much, I have no choice but to cooperate." Yukiko said coquettishly. With Lin Xiaofeng's nourishment every day, Yukiko's body is getting better and better. She is not only becoming younger, but also more energetic.

"Anyway, get up quickly and go to the restaurant for breakfast. After breakfast, I have another task for you."

"Ok."

Yukiko slowly got dressed, still wearing Shizuka Ikenami's kimono.

Shizuka Ikenami has many beautiful kimonos, but she didn't bring them all back to Tokyo. This time, she plans to bring back a few more and give a few to Yukiko as gifts.

Although Shizuka Ikenami's breasts are larger than Yukiko's, Shizuka Ikenami has to bind her chest when wearing a kimono, while Yukiko wears one without binding her chest, and it fits her perfectly.

Yukiko was naturally happy to accept it. Shizuka Ikenami's kimono was not only expensive, but it was also specially designed and made by a top-notch tailor. Even if you had the money to buy it, it would take a lot of time from design to completion.

"Yukiko, I suddenly realized how beautiful you are in a kimono."

"Of course, I look beautiful in anything." Yukiko is just so confident. She's been beautiful since she was a child, how could she not be confident?

"Tell me... what's the mission?"

Do you know how to play flower cards?

"Of course. Girls of my generation all learned some form of karuta. The rules weren't that complicated, it just took some effort to memorize the lyrics."

"That's perfect. I'll leave the task of training Toyama Kazuha to you later."

"Huh?" Yukiko panicked a little. Her skills were pretty good in high school, but after so many years, she had become rusty. "No, no... I haven't played karuta in so long, I can't teach Toyama Kazuha. Speaking of karuta, Shizuka-nee was the karuta queen of yesteryear. Back then, the title of karuta queen was much more prestigious than it is now."

Nowadays, fewer and fewer people play karuta in Japan. In the era of Shizuka Ikenami, there were many people who played karuta. It's practically impossible for a karuta club like Kazuha Toyama's to have only two members.

"It's precisely because Shizuka-nee's skill level is too high that Toyama Kazuha has lost confidence, which is why we need you to step in..."

“I understand, you want me to be Kazuha’s punching bag. No problem, punching bags have their own stubbornness too, I will give it my all.” Yukiko readily accepted the task.

"Okay, go to the restaurant for breakfast first, and then give Yuanshan and Ye special training."

"OK, darling."

Yukiko went to the restaurant for breakfast.

Lin Xiaofeng went outside and found Hattori Heiji and Conan waiting for him.

In the living room, the three of them sat cross-legged on cushions.

Heiji Hattori and Conan told Lin Xiaofeng about their discovery from yesterday, wanting to know his opinion.

“You believe that Toshiya Yajima’s death is related to the bombing. Since the two are connected, they must have something in common.”

Lin Xiaofeng, seemingly possessing foresight, gave the two detectives a hint: "Think carefully, what do you have in common?"

Hattori Heiji: "Hanafuda?"

Conan: "Satsuki-kai President Kensuke Achiba."

"Hyouka!" Lin Xiaofeng exclaimed, looking at him with an expression that suggested he was a promising student.

"You mean, Kensuke Achiba is a suspect."

"But Kensuke Achiba has an alibi."

Lin Xiaofeng gave the two detectives another hint: "I suggest you start your investigation with the Satsuki Association."

Upon hearing this, Hattori Heiji and Conan immediately felt a sense of direction and became excited.

"In that case, let's set off immediately and start the investigation from the Satsuki-kai! We absolutely cannot let the culprit get away with this." Hattori Heiji stood up, straightened his green baseball cap, and was full of fighting spirit.

"Okay. Let's go!" Conan Edogawa also had a sudden idea.

The two detectives took a few steps and found Lin Xiaofeng still sitting in the living room.

"Xiao Feng, why aren't you leaving?"