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On the crowded train platform, Suzuki Sonoko opened her arms and jumped to the edge of the platform.
"Be careful, Sonoko." Behind her, Mao Lilan, who was a little worried, followed closely.
"It's okay, Xiaolan, I'm not one of those ignorant elementary school students." Suzuki Sonoko waved her hand nonchalantly, and glared at Conan who was following behind... and the three little members of the Boy Detective Team.
【Why are you glaring at me? 】
Feeling her gaze, Conan put his hands behind his head and rolled his signature dead fish eyes.
"Really? Maybe we'll meet a lot of handsome guys at this memorial. Why do you have to bring these little brats along, Xiaolan? They'll just become a burden~"
Although Suzuki Sonoko spoke her last words in a low voice, they were still heard by the Junior Detective League who came closer.
The three little guys immediately surrounded Suzuki Sonoko and shouted angrily:
"What do you mean by a burden?! We are the super awesome Junior Detective Team! And we have something important to do at Clover Hill this time!"
"Ah, yes, yes, I know, I know~"
Waving his hands very perfunctorily, Suzuki Sonoko waved the three of them away.
"Go play somewhere else and don't disturb your sisters Sonoko and Xiaolan from talking about important things."
"Tsk! Isn't it just a boyfriend? I curse Sonoko-san to never find one!"
"You little brat?! Are you looking for death? Stop right there!"
"Slightly, slightly, slightly~"
"Hey, the train is coming soon, don't run too far and don't bump into other people..."
Looking at the few people who started chasing and fighting on the platform, Kogoro Mouri, who was walking side by side with Dr. Agasa, spoke up to remind them out of the steadiness of a middle-aged man.
Next to him, Haibara Ai, wearing a baseball cap and a big mask on her face, walked up to Conan.
"They are really noisy..." she said, her cold voice falling accurately into Conan's ears.
"Ha, I expected that."
Glancing at Suzuki Sonoko who was playing with the three little ones, Conan shook his head and sighed.
Then, he looked at Huiyuan Ai beside him and asked curiously:
"Habara, why are you wearing a mask today? Do you have a cold?"
"Well, a little bit." Haibara Ai said in a flat tone, and glanced at the crowd around her.
She was actually hiding from people.
Ai Huihara vaguely felt that the person might have already come to Japan, which was definitely not a good thing for her.
Today, Haibara Ai is able to avoid the organization's pursuit thanks to this shrunken body.
But this disguise could not fool that man, because he was once her guardian and he had seen her from childhood to adulthood.
Huiyuan Ai was sure that as long as she appeared in front of him, even if she looked like a child now, that person would definitely recognize her at the first moment. By then...
"Really? Then remember to take your medicine and get enough rest." Conan nodded and said with concern, not noticing anything unusual about Haibara Ai.
"I know..." Huibara Ai also nodded in response and smiled gently.
Since realizing that the man might return to Japan, Haibara Ai has consciously begun to avoid unnecessary outings and exposure to the public.
Including this time, she didn't want to come at first, but after listening to the three little ones chattering in her ears, she reluctantly agreed.
Wearing a hat and a mask, this was the greatest disguise she could muster.
Although it was clumsy, it was almost the same. After all, even if they were from that organization, it was impossible for them to guess out of thin air that she had turned back into a child's body.
As long as she doesn't do anything too conspicuous, covering her face appropriately should be enough.
Thinking of this, Huibara Ai couldn't help but feel quite annoyed. If she had known earlier, she should have found that person to learn his disguise technique.
If she had learned it, she wouldn't be so passive now...
"By the way, what exactly is that Clover Villa?" Kogoro Mouri asked puzzledly while waiting for the train.
The purpose of their trip was to attend the one-year anniversary celebration of the opening of Clover Villa.
At first, the two daughters of the Suzuki Group received a special invitation to the memorial meeting. With the mentality of "good friends playing together", Suzuki Sonoko immediately called the Mori family and also brought the young detectives who were at the Mori Detective Agency at the time.
Of course, this is not an extraordinary act. After all, this memorial service is open to the public and any interested tourist can attend. It’s just that the Suzuki family received a special invitation.
Naturally, Kogoro Mori would not miss the opportunity to eat and drink without spending any money.
But even though he came along, he himself actually had no idea what this Clover Villa was used for.
"Clover Villa is a new concept building built by the Moriyama Foundation on an artificial island near the sea. It is also one of Tokyo's new landmark buildings. The tower standing in the center of the artificial island is surrounded by four high-rise buildings. Its unique design looks like a four-leaf clover that brings luck when viewed from above."
A gentle voice sounded, and Kogoro Mouri turned around and saw that it was the eldest daughter of the Suzuki family, Suzuki Ayako, and her fiancé Shimizu Shizuka who had gone to park the car earlier.
"Sister and brother-in-law? You are here!"
Suzuki Sonoko, who was beating up an elementary school student, heard the voice and quickly left the three little ones behind and ran over. She put her hands on her hips, stared, and looked back and forth between the two of them.
"How slow! Could it be that you two are secretly meeting somewhere without telling us?"
"Don't talk nonsense, Sonoko." Suzuki Ayako took Shizuka Shizuka's hand and replied with a smile.
"It sounds like this Clover Villa is a holiday place?" Kogoro Mouri asked curiously.
“It does have that functionality.”
Looking at him, Suzuki Ayako continued to explain: "But strictly speaking, it should be a group-type complex building, which includes multiple functions such as entertainment, business, art, catering and residence. It cannot be defined by a single function."
"This, this is it..."
Not really understanding what he heard, Maori Kogoro nodded blankly, then raised his hand and touched his head, and subconsciously complained:
"These rich people are really... wasting their money on so many weird things."
"Ding dong!"
Just then, the platform broadcast suddenly sounded.
"Dear passengers, please note that the train is about to arrive at the station. Please do not..."
"The train is about to arrive, Dad, come over and line up." Mao Lilan hurriedly called out to everyone.
"Let's go, Shizuka-kun." Suzuki Ayako also looked at Shizuka Shizuka beside her.
"Ah."
Qingshui Jing smiled and nodded. As she walked over, she subconsciously glanced at the crowd around her.
【Um? 】
Chapter 254 The train exploded
As the broadcast sounded, the crowd on the train platform gradually began to move.
During this, he subconsciously glanced around at Qing Shuijing, and accidentally caught a glimpse of something unusual on the bench behind him.
An ordinary-looking man with glasses was sitting on the bench. It seemed that he was also going to take this train, so after hearing the announcement, he immediately picked up the black suitcase beside him and prepared to get up.
But at this moment, a hooded man next to him suddenly patted the man with glasses on the shoulder, then pointed under the bench and seemed to say something.
The man with glasses had a puzzled look on his face. He followed the hooded man's pointing, bent down and looked under the bench, and his hand that was holding the suitcase loosened.
At the same time, a man also carrying a suitcase walked quickly behind the man with glasses. The suitcase in this man's hand was exactly the same in appearance as the suitcase next to the man with glasses.
While the man with glasses was bending down, this person quickly swapped the suitcase in his hand with the suitcase next to the man with glasses.
Because there were so many people on the platform and the man's movements were extremely quick and skillful, no one except Qingshui Jing noticed what happened on the bench.
Maybe someone noticed it, but didn't say anything because they didn't want to get into trouble.
Just like that, the last person who appeared quickly disappeared into the crowd carrying the swapped suitcase.
The man with glasses finally picked up the thing under the bench, which was a 1,000 yen bill.
The man with glasses smiled and shook his head, then stuffed the thousand yen to the hooded man next to him, then stood up without knowing anything, picked up the suitcase next to him, and walked towards the platform.
"What's wrong, brother-in-law? What are you looking at?"
Suddenly, Suzuki Sonoko tugged at the corner of Shizuka Shizuka's clothes and followed her gaze towards the bench, but because the man with glasses and the man with the hood had left one after another, the bench was now empty.
“What’s wrong with that bench?”
"nothing."
Qing Shuijing came back to her senses instantly and smiled at the two sisters.
The train had already arrived at the station, and her eyes quickly locked onto the bespectacled man who had squeezed into the queue, a hint of doubt flashing in the depths of her eyes.
"Ayako, Sonoko."
After hesitating for a moment, she looked at the two of them again and said, "Why don't we... wait for the next trip?"
She was a little worried.
The keen intuition developed from being on the line between life and death for a long time suddenly took effect at this moment. She vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with the suitcase that was replaced.
Regardless of whether this intuition was correct, she didn't want to take the risk.
"Huh? Why?"
Hearing her words, Suzuki Sonoko asked in confusion, and the Mori family standing next to the three of them also looked over.
"What's wrong, kid? Why do you have to wait for the next trip?" Kogoro Mouri asked first.
Qing Shuijing looked at him and explained with a smile: "Mr. Maori, I see there are a lot of people on this trip. Since we are not in a hurry, why don't we wait and take the next trip?"
Her words seemed to be a question to everyone, but at the end she looked at the Suzuki sisters beside her, as if she only cared about what they thought.
"Well, that's good." Suzuki Ayako nodded in response without any hesitation.
"You don't take the train often, do you? There's no such thing as a lot of people or a few people at this time. The next two trains will be the same..."
Kogoro Mori immediately refuted the reasons given by Shizuka Shizuka. He shook his head with the confidence of a middle-aged man on his face.
"Don't wait, kid. This is how the trains leave Tokyo. There's no way there won't be a few people at this hour. Hurry up and get on the train!"
Following Kogoro Mouri's shout, Conan and the others beside him didn't pay much attention and followed the queue to walk towards the train.
Qing Shuijing just watched the scene calmly, with no intention of following it at all.