Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Konno Shiro pushed his glasses and then looked at Maori again, "But then again, your group should be two doctors and the granddaughter of one of them, so why..."

"Regarding this, actually they couldn't come, so they asked me to take their place,"

Mao Li smiled and explained, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Mao Li Kogoro, and I'm a detective..."

"M-Moori Kogoro?!"

"detective?!"

The faces of the tour group members changed instantly, and all their eyes were focused on Maori.

Chapter 28: The Nature of Man

To be honest, although he had seen people who were surprised by his identity as a detective before, the exaggerated reactions of these people in front of him still far exceeded Mao Li's expectations.

"What's wrong with my identity as a detective?"

"You still have the nerve to ask us what's wrong?"

The drunk programmer Jiang Yuan said in a bad tone, "Your friend asked a famous detective to participate in the event on his behalf, and then easily won. He is really despicable!"

"This Mr. Jiang Yuan,"

Mao Li frowned unhappily, "You can drink as much as you want, but you can't say anything you want. The three of us are just..."

"The famous detective Maori Kogoro is definitely not the kind of person who would help his friends to forge a case!"

A couple walked in from outside. They were a very energetic young man with short hair, and a young woman with short chestnut hair. It was the young man who interrupted Maori.

"I've read a lot about you in newspapers and on the news before, but I never thought I'd be able to meet you, Detective Maori, here today! It's great!"

The young man smiled with sparkling eyes.

"Thank you... May I ask who you are?"

Maori looked at the young man in confusion. Both his body shape and bright eyes gave him the feeling that he was not an ordinary person, but someone who had been professionally trained.

Before the young man could reply, Xiaolan squeezed forward from behind Maori with shining eyes and said excitedly: "Are you... Are you Mr. Maeda Satoshi?!"

"Maeda Satoshi?"

Conan looked at Xiaolan like a fangirl and stood in the middle without leaving any trace. "Sister Xiaolan, do you know each other?"

"Of course!"

Xiaolan said with an excited blush on her face, "He was the Japanese karate champion six years ago. I started learning karate because I admired him!"

Then, Xiaolan approached the young man and said, "Hello, my name is Mao Lilan, and I won the Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament a while ago! I didn't expect to meet you here, it's great!"

“What’s so great about this?”

Conan looked unhappy, pouted and murmured, "Is the karate champion so powerful?"

"I don't know whether he is very powerful or not."

Maori looked at the embarrassed young man, leaned over to Conan's ear and said with a smirk, "But for a brat like you, he can knock down at least 100 of them in three minutes..."

"..."

Conan had nothing to say about Maori's teasing and could only show his signature dead fish eyes.

On the other side, Xiaolan's speech as a fan has ended, and Maeda Satoshi began to introduce the female companion next to him: "This is my fiancée Sayama Akiko..."

“He’s a high school math teacher.”

Maori looked at Sayama Akiko, then swept his eyes over the other people present.

In addition to bank clerk Shiro Konno, programmer Tokio Ehara, Satoshi Maeda and Akiko Sayama, the remaining beautiful mature woman, software company president Kamijou Hideko, and an elderly computer company investor Genichirō Kaneshiro and his servant Hayashi Shizue were also present.

All ten members of the tour group have arrived, and one of them is the mysterious organizer, "The Duke of Dark Night".

To be honest, Mao Li still doesn't understand the other party's purpose. There are so many people in the tour group. Even if everyone only pays half of the room and food fees in advance, it is still a considerable amount of money.

Is it just for fun to spend so much money? What's more, there is a mysterious computer program called "Dark Night Duke" that seems to be worth a lot of money...

No matter how he thought about it, Maori felt that the organizer was "fishing", using these tempting baits to catch the fish he wanted and achieve a certain purpose...

……

The open-air restaurant on the third floor of the hotel building was brightly lit in the night. People gathered in groups of three or four, and there was hardly an empty table.

"There are so many people, what should I do?"

Xiaolan, who had overslept a little during her nap, was looking for a seat with a headache. At this time, Maoli, who was sitting at a nearby table, waved and shouted, "Xiaolan, here!"

"It's Dad!" Xiaolan looked over happily and found that Maori and Conan were sitting at the same table with Maeda Satoshi and Sayama Akiko.

"Why are the four of you together?"

Xiaolan asked curiously.

Maeda laughed and said, "The two of us are being questioned by your father and this little brother. They are wondering if we are the Duke of Dark Night."

"Come to think of it, the Duke of Darkness seems to be a character in Shinichi's father's novel, right?"

Xiaolan asked curiously as she pulled out a chair and sat down.

"Shinichi dad?"

Maeda Satoshi and Sayama Akiko looked confused.

"Oh, sorry, sorry,"

Xiaolan explained a little embarrassedly, "The Shinichi father I'm talking about is the mystery novelist Kudo Yusaku. His son Kudo Shinichi and I are childhood sweethearts..."

"So this is ah,"

Maeda nodded in understanding, "But you are right, the Dark Night Duke is a character in Kudo Yusaku's novel. And speaking of which, Akiko has always been Kudo Yusaku's number one fan, and she is extremely fascinated by the Dark Night Duke!"

"I will not lose to others in matters concerning the Duke of Darkness,"

Akiko Sayama touched her hair confidently and smiled, "Even my hairstyle was cut into the short hair he likes!"

"You are not the only one who is familiar with the Duke of Darkness, Ms. Sayama."

Kamijou Hideko also walked over in a sexy outfit, and her bold and open outfit made people's heart beat faster.

She only had two pieces of cloth on her upper body, which went up from her thin waist and were tightly wrapped around her neck, just covering her two towering peaks. The hem of her skirt was also high-slit, and paired with seductive purple stiletto heels, her charming white long legs were exposed when she walked...

Compared with the mature charm of a beautiful young woman like her, even Akiko Sayama, who was wearing a low-cut light green bra and backless dress next to Maeda Satoshi and looked sexy and quiet, was no match for her.

Maori admired for a moment this beautiful woman who knew how to show off her charm, but his attention was then attracted by the drunkard Ehara Tokio at the next table - this guy was quite drunk, he even wore his tie on his head like a turban, and while drinking beer he stared at Sayama Akiko with lustful eyes, grinning and looking like a scoundrel and pervert.

(Strange, why didn't he even glance at the sexy beauty Kamijou Hideko when she passed by him?)

Maori was obviously observing the strange lsp Ehara Tokino, but was misunderstood by Xiaolan as being like the disappointing Maeda Satoshi and Conan, staring at Kamijou Hideko's back in a daze as she left.

"Dad! Your old problem has come back again! Really!"

Xiaolan twisted Maori's ear and said something unhappily, then she scolded Conan, "And you, Conan! Even children are not allowed to watch this! You are a bad student!"

Sayama Akiko also blushed and twisted her boyfriend Maeda's ear angrily: "Have you seen enough, Cong?!"

In an instant, all three men sitting at the table were punished.

Chapter 29: lsp is the dead

It was past nine o'clock in the evening, and Mori accepted an invitation from Kamijo Hideko and went to the Emerald Bar on the second floor of the hotel with her - it was not that he was so obsessed with her that he was controlled by her, but he was very clear that she wanted to get information from him, and he could take the opportunity to find out more about her.

"Oh? Miss Kamijou is married?"

Sitting at the bar with Kamijou Hideko, Mori, who was only a fist away from each other, pretended to be shocked and said, "I really can't tell..."

"You're joking... But to be honest, I got divorced three years ago..."

"Well, no matter what the reason is, I think it's a great loss for your ex-husband to divorce a beauty like you!"

——Anyway, it doesn’t cost money to be nice, and it’s pleasing to the eyes to look at beautiful women, so Mao Li simply kept praising the other party.

"If only he thought as you do."

Kamijou smiled sweetly, then suddenly leaned closer, "By the way, Mr. Maori, can you tell me? The famous detective must have known who the Dark Night Duke is, right?"

Maori met the other person's gaze, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "I'm afraid you will be disappointed, Miss Kamijou, how would I know who the Duke of Dark Night is..."

"I don't believe you, you must be lying. Can you just give me a little hint?"

Seeing that Mori was unmoved by such a beautiful temptation, Kamijou Hideko suddenly hugged Mori's arm, rubbed her chest gently through the thin clothes and said, "Please, Detective Mori~"

“Excuse me, but your way of asking for help is a little too special…”

Maori said this with a smile while looking into Kamijou Hideko's eyes, and used his other hand to accurately grab the wrist of her hand that was throwing pills into her wine glass.

"!!"

Kamijou Hideko's smile froze on her face when her little trick was caught, and her body became stiff.

In contrast, Maori's smile became even brighter. He even used a little force on his hands to bring Kamijou Hideko closer to himself, almost like a couple in love, so as to give her a better sense of oppression:

"So can you tell me? Why do you want the computer program called 'Dark Night Duke' so much? Is there anything special about it?"

……

It was almost ten o'clock. After chatting with Maeda Satoshi in the rooftop lounge, Conan and Xiaolan went to the open-air restaurant on the third floor to look for Maori who was not in the room.

It seemed that everyone else in the tour group had returned to their rooms, and only old man Jincheng, who Conan thought was most likely the Duke of Darkness, and his servants remained in the restaurant.

(This old man is not someone who needs to take advantage of the tour group, and considering his status, the program of the 'Duke of Darkness' is also the most profitable for him...)

Just as Conan was seriously looking at and thinking about the matter of Mr. Jincheng——

"what is that?"

"It seems to be a person!"

Some tourists in the open-air restaurant suddenly exclaimed and looked upwards.

"Ok?"

Conan raised his head.

A black shadow was falling beside the towering building, and a strange man dressed as a magician, wearing a strange smiling mask, a tall black hat, and seemed to be flying down from the sky!

"Duke of the Dark Night?!"

The monster was getting closer and closer to the ground, and before people could react, he fell on a bronze statue of the god of war on the wall with a bang. His chest was pierced directly by the upward sword of the statue, and blood gushed out wildly, spilling everywhere.

"puff--!"

The scene fell silent in an instant. Everyone looked in horror at the strange man with his arms hanging limply on the bronze statue, and then at the eerie bloodstained smiling mask. After a pause, they suddenly burst into screams.

“Aaaaaa——!”

Xiaolan, who also reacted, was so scared that tears came out and her legs and feet were shaking.

Conan took a deep breath and was greatly shocked by the bloody and weird scene.

However, compared to other people, he had been exposed to this kind of situation more often and his psychological quality was much better. He did not panic like other people, but quickly shouted to Xiaolan: "Sister Xiaolan, go call the police!"

"Ah good!"

After Conan's reminder, Xiaolan hurriedly ran to call the police, while Conan approached the statue to check the body. The monster was dead, but the bloody smile was still very creepy, and the bloody scene made people feel cold.

As for the weirdo's attire, it was indeed the same as the elusive weirdo, the Dark Night Duke, in his father's novel. He was dressed in this attire to scare him last time.

but……

(The tie and belt are so weird, they look like clothes that someone else put on the dead person...)

Conan thought so with a heavy face, put a handkerchief on his hand, and took off the mask.

(The incident happened so quickly, and it happened to be related to the Duke of Darkness. What the hell is going on...)

"Um?!"

The moment the mask was taken off, Conan's pupils suddenly contracted. Hidden under the mask was the face of the programmer Ehara Tokio who was on the tour with them!

Chapter 30: The resurrection of the dead is indeed a very common thing

Shortly after receiving the report from Xiaolan, the police from the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department rushed to the hotel and quickly cordoned off the scene.