Chapter 899: The Wealthy Suzuki Sonoko
When Conan was looking at the poster, Kid said:
"The Fist of Blue Sapphire is the largest sapphire in the world. It sank with a pirate ship off the coast of Singapore in the 19th century. It is a legendary secret treasure that was salvaged by Chen Zhonghan last year..."
Conan couldn't help but interrupt: "Chen Zhonghan? He seems to be one of the powerful people in Singapore?"
Kidd was not surprised that he knew so much. He nodded to confirm his statement and continued, "Then, the old man had an extremely fanatical love for martial arts. He held a karate tournament and inlaid the Fist of Blue Sapphire on the championship belt as a prize for the winner."
Giving away such a precious gem as a prize? Conan was a little surprised, but when he thought of a similar person like Suzuki Jirokichi around him, he was immediately relieved.
Some said speechlessly: "What a bad taste of the rich."
Kidd agreed with a smile: "That's it."
"As long as you win the tournament, you can get the gem. It's no wonder Kidd is here, right?"
Conan lowered his half-moon eyes and chuckled a few times: "Why, you are not planning to participate in the tournament? Do you know karate? Are you a match for Kyogoku Makoto?"
Conan doubts that Yuya is no match for him!
Feeling that he was being looked down upon, even though he was actually a little intimidated by Kyogoku Makoto, Kid still tried to be tough: "I say..."
"Conan? Why are you here?" At this moment, a girl's voice suddenly sounded behind Kidd.
Conan was stunned, and looked behind Kidd in surprise——
He didn't expect that Mao Lilan would suddenly appear. Before he could reply, Kidd turned around with a smile.
"Oh, Xiaolan, what a coincidence!"
Mao Lilan was stunned. She looked at Conan, then at "Shinichi", with a confused expression on her face -
This is... Shinichi? But Conan is here too? So this Shinichi is actually a fake? But he looks exactly like Shinichi!
How can there be two Shinichi?! Yuya and Mio-chan are looking at the scenery over there again...
Kidd didn't realize that something was wrong. He walked to Mao Lilan with a smile, put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Oh, oh, I'm investigating a case here..."
But before he could finish, Mao Lilan guessed something, and she said gloomily: "Kaito Kidd?"
Kidd: ??? How did you know?
No, although he didn't disguise himself, he looked exactly like Kudo Shinichi, didn't he? If you don't look closely, you can't tell the difference between the two, right?
How did she figure it out? Was she Kamiya Yuya in disguise?
Only that guy can easily see through my identity.
Conan laughed with his dead eyes drooping - you guy, didn’t I tell you a long time ago that Xiaolan knew my true identity?
Kid noticed Conan's expression and suddenly remembered this incident, thinking that he was careless.
Previously, Kidd had threatened Conan with revealing his true identity to Mouri Ran, but he said that Mouri Ran already knew it, so the threat failed.
The real reason was that this incident happened too long ago, and there was no time when this information was needed. In addition, the sudden appearance of Mouri Ran caused Kidd to temporarily ignore and forget about this matter.
Look, before he could display his superb acting skills, he was exposed.
Ran Mouri was a little surprised to see Conan suddenly appear here, but when she saw that Kaito Kid dared to impersonate Kudo Shinichi, her mood immediately became bad.
She questioned Kidd, "What bad things are you planning to do by pretending to be Shinichi?"
Kidd waved his hands repeatedly: "I'm not, I didn't..."
But Mao Lilan didn't want to listen to his explanation, and tried to grab Kidd directly, but Kidd was agile and dodged the clutches in a flash. In the blink of an eye, he returned to Conan, grabbed his collar, and ran away - without even taking care of the box.
"Conan!" Ran Mouri was anxious and wanted to chase him, but Kidd was very fast and disappeared into the crowd in a few seconds.
Mao Lilan stood there in a daze.
Conan, who was being held by the collar, struggled desperately: "Hey, you bastard, let me go!"
He didn't understand, Kidd's identity had been exposed, why did they take him with them when they escaped?
Kidd said with a smile on his face: "Oh, I brought you here specially this time, but I have something very important to do!"
Conan's face was full of black lines: "So, can you put me down first?"
Kidd shook his head: "No, let's talk about it slowly when we get to a safe place."
Conan had no choice, he couldn't break free, he could only cross his hands in displeasure and put on a broken face.
On the other side, Mao Lilan knew that she couldn't catch up with Kidd, so she could only run back to ask Yuya for help.
Yuya was surprised and confused when he heard the news: "You said you just saw Kid? And with Conan? That guy was trying to impersonate Shinichi, but you saw through him, and then he ran away with Conan?"
Miyano Shiho was also full of questions.
Mao Lilan nodded vigorously: "That's it!"
Yuya was confused: What the hell is Kidd doing?
Mao Lilan was very worried: "What should I do? Will Conan be in danger?"
Yuya thought about it and comforted him: "It's okay, you know Kid's style of doing things, at most he will steal gems or something, Conan will be fine if he follows him."
Mao Lilan was still a little worried.
Just then, there was a commotion not far away.
The three of them looked up and saw a young man in a purple sweater and a crew cut walking towards them with an arrogant look on his face.
The pedestrians who were originally enjoying the scenery were driven aside by the younger brothers beside him.
He was shouting things like, "Get out of the way! Don't get in the way!"
Good girl Mao Lilan was a little uncomfortable: "What's wrong with these people? They are so rude!"
Yuya said, "The one walking in the middle is called Nakatomi Reijiro, the president of Nakatomi Shipping. He has some abilities, but he also has a lot of negative information. People have mixed opinions about him."
"Is that so..." After hearing this, Ran Mouri didn't say anything else. After all, not everyone is as kind as the Suzuki family.
Anyway, she didn't want to have anything to do with such a person.
But sometimes, trouble just finds itself.
Looking around, Reijiro Nakatomi soon found a good target.
Suzuki Sonoko was wearing hot pants and a short-sleeved shirt today, with open-toed sandals on her feet, looking very cool. Also, because of Yuya's suggestion, she did not wear a headband all the time like in the original work, so her appearance was also very good.
In addition, as the daughter of the Suzuki family, she must have good temperament - as long as she doesn't laugh with her tongue sticking out, and now she lowers her head and quietly looks at her mobile phone, her quiet and graceful appearance still attracts a lot of attention from the opposite sex.
Nakatomi Reijiro showed a cynical smile, walked up to Suzuki Sonoko and started a conversation: "Miss, are you coming to Singapore alone?"
Suzuki Sonoko was a little surprised that someone was talking to her, but she was a little annoyed because Kyogoku Makoto had not replied to her messages, and she didn't want to pay any attention to this guy who was obviously not a serious person.
"I don't have time to talk to you now, go play over there by yourself." Suzuki Sonoko turned her back and continued to text Kyogoku Makoto with her head down.
Nakatomi Reijiro's face darkened instantly, and he said viciously, "Is it okay for you to talk to me like this? If you make me unhappy, it won't be a problem for me to take you and your car away with you."
This forced approach immediately attracted the attention of people around.
A few young people were not happy with this behavior and wanted to step forward to stop it, but when they saw the aggressive younger brothers behind Nakatomi Reijiro, they backed off.
Seeing this, Mao Lilan was about to go over to help, but was stopped by Yuya.
"Xiaolan, please don't ruin the knight's heroic rescue!"
Ran Mao Li looked at Yuya in confusion, and the latter pointed his mouth in a certain direction.
Just as Mao Lilan was about to turn her head to look, she heard screams coming from the other side. When she turned her head to look, she saw that Nakatomi Reijiro's men had been knocked down.
In the middle of a field of "corpses" stood a sturdy dark-skinned young man.
"That's, Mr. Kyogoku?" Mao Lilan was overjoyed. No wonder Yuya said something like a hero saving a beauty.
Kyogoku Shin knocked down Nakatomi Reijiro's little brother in just two moves, and then said to him coldly: "I brought her here, do you have any advice?"
The onlookers exclaimed in amazement at how brave Kyogoku was.
Nakatomi Reijiro's face turned extremely ugly. He clenched his fists and wanted to teach this ignorant guy a lesson, but he didn't expect Suzuki Sonoko to yell at Kyogoku Makoto:
"Ah Zhen, didn't you read the message?"
Kyogoku scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Sorry, Sonoko, I'm not very good at using electronic products..."
Suzuki Sonoko felt a little helpless. No wonder Kyogoku Makoto hadn't replied to her messages. She had also forgotten about it. It seemed that she had to find time to teach Kyogoku Makoto how to use a mobile phone.
Seeing that the two men ignored him, Reijiro Nakatomi rushed towards Kyogoku Makoto in anger and started hitting them with his fists.
But how could such a brainless attack be effective? Kyogoku Makoto even looked at Suzuki Sonoko once more, then dodged the attack by slightly turning his body, twisted Nakatomi Reijiro's arm with his backhand, and then pushed hard.
Reijiro Nakatomi staggered a few steps and then fell flat on his face.
"I will definitely come back!" Nakatomi Reijiro was smart enough to know that he was no match for this dark-skinned young man, so he fled in embarrassment after saying these harsh words.
When his younger brothers saw their eldest brother running away, they hurriedly chased after him.
"Ah Zhen!" Suzuki Sonoko jumped and hugged Kyogoku Makoto's arm, her little face flushed as she shouted, "Sonoko, I'm so scared!"
Being hugged so intimately, Kyogoku Makoto's face flushed, and he touched the back of his head a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, Sonoko, I'm late."
Suzuki Sonoko chuckled and said, "No, no, you came at the right time!"
Yuya and the other two looked at each other, smiled, walked over and greeted Kyogoku Makoto.
"Mr. Kyogoku, long time no see." Yuya raised his hand.
Kyogoku Makoto politely replied: "Long time no see, Yuya-kun. Speaking of which, we haven't sparred for a long time. If we have time..."
Youya waved his hands repeatedly: "Uh, next time for sure! This time we came here specially to watch your game!"
Yuya has always been somewhat skeptical as to whether Kyogoku Makoto is from this world. He has acquired the highest level of karate skills and has a lot of practical experience, but he still feels a bit struggling against Kyogoku Makoto.
Each sparring session takes a long time before the winner is decided. Yuu is also very skeptical. Apart from himself who has the system, is there anyone in this world who can beat Kyogoku Makoto?
Kyogoku was stunned for a moment, revealing a regretful expression: "Competition? I'm afraid I can't participate."
"Huh?" The four of them showed surprised expressions at the same time and asked in unison, "Why?"
The few of them found a shady place to listen to Kyogoku Makoto explain the reason for what happened.
It turns out that the reason why Kyogoku Makoto participated in this karate championship was because he was invited by someone. Simply put, the sponsor covered all the expenses for his participation in the competition, and he only needed to concentrate on the competition.
However, the sponsor, a lawyer named Chen Xuelin, suddenly passed away.
Kyogoku Makoto participated in the competition through a sponsorship agreement, but the sudden death of his sponsor caused his sponsorship agreement to become invalid, so he could no longer continue to participate in the competition.
Hearing that Singapore's strongest karate player will be competing in this championship, Kyogoku Makoto said that he really wants to compete with him.
Everyone felt very sorry because they came to Singapore just to watch Kyogoku Makoto's game.
Suzuki Sonoko was not discouraged: "In that case, let me be the sponsor!"
Under the confused gazes of her friends, she took out her phone and called Suzuki Jirokichi. After a while of babble, she brought good news: "It's solved! Zhen will attend this tournament with our Suzuki Group as a sponsor!"
Kyogoku was very excited: "Sonoko, is this true?"
Suzuki Sonoko patted her chest and said, "With me, Suzuki Sonoko, here, there is nothing that cannot be solved!"
The friends fell silent and looked at each other, tacitly seeing the same idea in each other's eyes - it was worthy of being the Suzuki Group, which was quite capable even abroad, and it was so easy to get a qualification to participate.
One cannot help but sigh, what a wealth of money!
Suzuki Sonoko was very excited. She held Mao Lilan and Miyano Shiho on her left and right, giggling and whispering, "Zhen is staying in the same hotel as us, so this will be a double date!"
"Oh, that's not right!" Suzuki Sonoko suddenly thought of something and looked at Mao Lilan apologetically, "I forgot that Shinichi is gone..."
Mao Lilan forced a smile and said, "It's okay." But she couldn't help but worry about Conan.
Where did Kid take Conan? Is it really okay? What if he took Conan to steal something? What would happen if Conan was caught? Deported?
But he didn't have a passport, so he wouldn't be locked up in jail and unable to get out, right? The more Mao Lilan thought about it, the uglier her face became.
When Suzuki Sonoko saw this, she thought she was unhappy because of what she had just said. After thinking for a while, she whispered, "Xiaolan, do you want me to help you find a handsome guy to date?"
Mao Lilan's mouth twitched suddenly: "No, no need! It's okay, you can just go on a date, I still have to watch Dad and make sure he doesn't drink too much!"
Suzuki Sonoko sighed with some regret.
After meeting the people and getting the unexpected qualification, Maori Kogoro could not wait any longer: "Now that everything is settled, let's go back to the hotel. I can't wait to have a few beers!"
Mao Lilan couldn't help but complain: "Dad, this is not Neon, please don't drink too much!"
Maori Kogoro waved his hands nonchalantly: "I know, I know!"