Stay away from Conan

In "Mycroft Hotel", after Hattori Heiji listened to the event organizer Hiroyuki Kanaya's explanation of the arrangements for the trip, Hattori Heiji lost all interest and turned around and walked upstairs, ready to rest.

Seeing this, the waitress who had just distributed the questionnaires couldn't help but stepped forward and reminded her with a smile:

"Hello, are you going to rest? My master has prepared a late-night snack tonight. Everyone has come here after a long journey. Why don't you eat something before resting?"

While saying this, the waitress turned around and loudly announced the news to everyone present who had not left yet——

"Ah! It turns out there is a midnight snack! If you say that, I am really hungry!"

In this regard, after hearing the waitress's words, Kogoro's expression finally softened a lot. He felt that this was the rare thing that made him happy after coming here.

At the same time, looking at the waitress who always treated others with a polite smile, and although she had some freckles on her face, she still had a pretty and cute appearance, Kogoro couldn't help but step forward and said:

"Excuse me, young lady, what are you preparing for the supper? Have you prepared any wine?"

In response, the waitress continued to reply with her polite smile:

"You don't have to be so polite. My name is Hitomi Iwai, just call me Hitomi. For supper, there are some Western-style pastries and English-style black tea. As for wine, there is no wine."

Hearing this, Kogoro couldn't help but feel a little uninterested, but thinking it was better than nothing, he casually found a seat in the restaurant to sit down.

In this regard, facing this arrangement, the other people who had also planned to leave the restaurant and go to their rooms to answer questions also slowed down——

"Right!"

Among them, the young man wearing glasses looked very arrogant and said:

"I originally planned to stay up late to finish these thousand questions, but I couldn't do it without eating something."

As he said this, he motioned to the young woman who was traveling with him, who was similar to him, to sit down at a table in the restaurant, and began to flip through the questions on the questionnaire he had received, but did not start filling it out.

Looking at his behavior, the girl sitting opposite him looked a little resentful. She put one hand on the table, tilted her head and slowly complained:

"I said Yanren, do you need to be like this? You just can't write...are you afraid that we will copy your answers?"

"You can't say for sure, Ayako."

The man called "Ken Ren" reached out and pushed up the glasses on his face, and said slightly proudly:

"Anyway, I am also the president of the research association, and I will not lose to anyone in terms of understanding of 'Sherlock Holmes'!"

"President of the research association?"

After hearing what the other party said, the middle-aged man couldn't help but asked curiously.

"He is the president of the University Reasoning Research Association."

Faced with such an inquiry, the woman named "Ayako" answered for the other party:

"And I am a member of the same research association."

"Oh! It turns out to be the university's reasoning seminar!"

After hearing this answer, the young man who was in the same car as Conan said with envy:

"It's great. We can meet friends with the same hobbies and participate in seminars and so on, and we can also join this tour group together. It's different for me. When I was in college, I never met anyone who was also obsessed with "Sherlock Holmes" friend."

"Yes, after all, there are too few people in this era who can sit down and study masterpieces seriously. Even in the library where I work, there are fewer and fewer people who come to read masterpieces."

Following the topic raised at this time, the young woman who also came in the same car as Conan and the others said indifferently.

At this moment, after listening to everyone's conversation, the middle-aged man suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but suggest:

"By the way! Speaking of which, we are all Sherlock Holmes fans participating in the tour group, but we came in two groups and don't know each other very well. Why don't we take advantage of this late-night snack time to spend time together and interact with each other? Let me introduce you, maybe we can get together again after this trip is over!”

As soon as this statement came out, several people present couldn't help but think it was reasonable, but the young man wearing glasses said sarcastically:

"I mean, uncle... are you saying this now because you think it's impossible for you to get the first edition of the collector's edition of "A Study in Scarlet" this time, and you want to wait until the end to see who will get it, and then Find a way to get it from that person, right?"

"you--"

Facing the young man's words, the middle-aged man couldn't help but look very ugly. The corners of his mouth twitched slightly and his eyebrows began to tremble, as if he was very angry.

At the same time, the originally good atmosphere at the scene became very solemn because of the man's words.

In this regard, just when the middle-aged man was about to teach the other party a lesson, the man wearing glasses snorted coldly and said indifferently and proudly:

"Forget it. Anyway, I think everyone here who came to join this tour group is not the kind of person who would give up the first edition of the book that he finally got. And, can you get it from the hotel owner? There’s something else to say in this book!”

As he said that, Ayako on the side saw that the situation was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with, so she interrupted:

"I'm sorry, Yan Ren just has a personality, so don't worry about it."

Then, Ayako with a smile changed the topic and said:

"By the way, speaking of self-introduction. My name is Ogi Ayako. As mentioned before, I am a member of the University Reasoning Research Association, and this is our president, Toba Kento. We are talking to Osaka over there The high school student Detective Hattori Heiji and the astrologer Ms. Maria Toda came in the hotel manager’s car and arrived a little earlier than you, so they were resting upstairs just now.”

In this regard, after listening to Oki Ayako's words, the atmosphere at the scene could not help but relax a little, so the remaining people started to introduce——

"My name is Kawazu Ikuo, and I am currently a physical education teacher in a high school."

First, the young man who came in the same car as Conan introduced cheerfully.

"Nanako Shimizu, librarian."

The young woman, who was slightly dull and somewhat introverted, said.

"So……"

In response to this, the middle-aged man who was a little angry when Toba Kento calmed down and then introduced himself:

"My name is Toshiaki Fujisawa, and I am the station attendant at the station. I should also be the oldest person participating in this event. I have to say that I feel a lot younger when I join this trip with young people like you!"

In this way, in such a slightly harmonious atmosphere, after the waitress Hitomi Iwai brought the late-night snack food out of the kitchen, everyone started eating late-night snacks in the restaurant——

"Hey, it's boring..."

However, on such an occasion, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but sigh as he felt very bored.

Seeing that several people present were chatting enthusiastically about Sherlock Holmes-related topics, I didn't want to communicate with them at all. It could even be said that I couldn't get in the conversation.

Among them, the only one whose painting style is slightly different is that of the astrologer Maria Toda.

I saw her and Moori Kogoro. It seemed that because Kogoro had some disdain for her profession as an astrologer, this middle-aged lady who was obviously fat could not help but show off her skills, which made Kogoro feel a little embarrassed for a while -

"Judging from your palmistry, you are very fond of beauty. Even if you marry a virtuous wife, you will eventually end up separated."

As soon as these words came out, Kogoro's expression couldn't help but become very ugly, his tone was a little stumbling, and he asked:

"Yes, is there any basis for it?"

In response, Maria Toda pointed at Kogoro's palm and said:

"You see, the line next to the palm is the marriage line. This line extends long to the relationship line, which is the sign of separation. Moreover, there are several bifurcated lines below the marriage line, which is the sign of affair... You will Is the separation caused by an affair?”

With sharp eyes, Ms. Toda asked seriously.

Listening to these words, Conan and Hattori Heiji on the side couldn't help shaking their heads at the same time, obviously feeling that the other party was just playing tricks.

But Kogoro, as the person involved, seemed to be completely frightened by what the other party said at this moment, and he was stunned and speechless.

In this regard, looking at Kogoro's embarrassing scene, it seemed that Ms. Toda was really a bit mysterious. At this time, Xiaolan stepped forward and asked with some anxiety:

"Then...Ms. Maria, can you help me take a look?"

With that said, Xiaolan stretched out her palm and asked Ms. Toda to check it——

"Ah, my usual charges are..."

In this regard, Ms. Toda wanted to refuse, but after taking a look at Xiaolan's palm, she said involuntarily:

"There are two marriage lines at the beginning, but they merge into one at the end, so you can't go wrong..."