The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"This is... Oh, it's you. You're the lady from the teahouse."

Tang Ze took a few steps closer, and with just one sentence, Toyama Kazuha's expression changed again.

With a smile on her face, Chiga Ling shifted her gaze from constantly examining Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha, and looked towards Tang Ze, bowing slightly. "You have a good eye. I'm Chiga Ling, and we met once in the teahouse last night."

"Isn't it easy to recognize? Although a geisha with makeup removed looks very different than with makeup on, your temperament makes it easy to distinguish them here." Tang Ze returned the greeting first, then replied politely, "Those who can't recognize it may just not have much exposure to Gion."

Gion is a famous flower street.

Now that it has become a well-known traditional cultural street, the constant flow of people has greatly increased the fame of geishas working in Gion, such as Chiga Suzu. Compliments like praising someone's good temperament and fame can never be wrong.

As expected, Qian Heling raised her hand to cover her mouth and chuckled softly. "You're too kind. Actually, many people can't recognize it, even regulars. I'm going to hazard a guess that you can recognize it because you're from Kyoto, right?"

This is a very Kyoto-style statement.

This is a compliment to Tang Ze for his good eyesight, so this completely positive word is a compliment to Kyoto, and this kind of praise is particularly Kyoto-esque.

"Can you tell? I thought I didn't have an accent." Tang Ze made a slightly surprised expression. "It turns out that becoming famous requires a lot of ability."

"Well, your accent is quite light, but I think people who grew up in Kyoto can hear the difference."

"I've also never met anyone I could recognize right away. You're amazing..."

The two Kyoto people started chatting as if no one was around, leaving the high school students next to them stunned.

"H-Can you hear the accent?" Conan, who has always had very good hearing, muttered to himself in disbelief.

"Chiga Ling?" Suzuki Sonoko recalled for a moment and suddenly realized, "Oh, it's the most beautiful sister from last night. Can you really recognize her?"

"Geisha?" Toyama Kazuha stared at Hattori Heiji. "Could it be that you were looking at her beauty in the box last night..."

"Hiss—investigating the case, I've already said that for the sake of investigating the case, she's also a witness, and..." Hattori Heiji couldn't say in front of her that she might be an accomplice, so he quickly glanced in Chika Ling's direction, "I don't mean any disrespect!"

Toyama Kazuha stared at Hattori Heiji suspiciously. Tang Ze finally finished his long polite conversation and turned to look at them.

"Let's not stand here any longer. Ms. Chiga should have finished her meeting and is heading back to Gion, right? Let's go, everyone. This is quite convenient."

The machiya they lived in was not far from Gion, so theoretically they could continue traveling together for a while.

No matter what they say in private, they can't make things look awkward in public. No one has any objection to Tang Ze saying this.

The group of people started moving again, but the atmosphere was even more turbulent.

"I almost forgot to ask." Tang Ze stood next to Hattori Heiji, and as if he didn't notice Toyama Kazuha's fierce competition, he immediately started to fire, "From the look on your face earlier, could it be that... you've already found the girl you met before?"

Toyama Kazuha's eyes widened, and she immediately grabbed Hattori Heiji's arm: "Is it her? Is that why you...?"

Damn it, if I found it, what would happen if I just told her directly?

We've only met twice and we already have a little secret!

Hattori Heiji felt like his arm had become a cat scratching board, and he groaned inwardly, looking at Tang Ze with resentment.

How could he not hear that Tang Ze was fanning the flames? This was too unfair. He really called people out to investigate the case...

"I don't know." Hattori Heiji denied, not wanting to risk his life. "Even if it's true, there's no way to confirm it. After all, she hadn't seen me before."

"I haven't seen you before?" Yuanshan Heye was stunned for a moment with a tense expression. "Hey, I remember you said she was your first love..."

A first love you've never met? How did you fall in love with me? Just because I glanced at you for a second in the crowd?

"You didn't tell Miss Yuanshan." Tang Ze smiled and said, "No, he just happened to see someone singing and thought she was beautiful and cute, so he remembered it."

Toyama Kazuha was stunned and looked at Hattori Heiji in disbelief: "I know you are superficial, but it is really surprising that you can be so superficial. Aren't you just looking at others for their good looks?"

Losing to such a reason? She was really not convinced.

"Well..." Hattori Heiji looked away, "I caught a glimpse of her, so I was moved at the time. That was eight years ago. I definitely can't still like her now. I just wanted to meet her."

Perhaps at the beginning, there were indeed childish romantic fantasies, but this obsession and complex quickly faded away with the passage of time.

The reason I keep thinking about it until now is just to give my past self an answer, a definite answer to confirm that I am not dreaming.

It's impossible to like someone for eight years just because you met them once eight years ago, right? That would be the ultimate masochist...

"You know it was eight years ago." Yuanshan and Ye Suan said, "And you still carry that thing with you..."

If it was just verbal, she might not care that much.

But every time Hattori Heiji goes to Kyoto, he never forgets to bring the crystal beads with him. How can anyone believe that he has no other intentions when he says that he is obsessed with them?

"So you still carry it with you now?" Tang Ze interrupted jokingly, "Just like a talisman?"

"I did bring it with me..." Hattori Heiji's voice softened, his voice lacking confidence. "But that's because, uh, because I have a feeling that I need to return the item to the owner."

Now it seems that the things that Tangze and Conan teased him about might not belong to the little girl. It is indeed possible, but if that is the case, he has to return the things.

"Is it valuable?" Tang Ze tilted his head. "Yes, you've been talking about it for a long time, but I haven't even seen what it looks like. Can you take it out and let me see it?"

The others who were constantly looking at them from front to back immediately looked over.

Faced with so many expectant and anticipating eyes, Hattori Heiji couldn't keep hiding it any longer. He sighed and took out the old little woven bag from his pocket.

He bought this thing when he went to Kyoto for fun, and he stuffed this bead inside it, and it has been there ever since.

"It's nothing special, actually. It looks just like a glass bead." Heiji Hattori excused himself as he carefully took it out and handed it to Tang Ze, "It really doesn't have any special features. It's normal that you can't recognize it..."

As he took it out, he watched Qian Heling's reaction out of the corner of his eye.

Qian Heling also showed a curious look politely at this time, and watched with a smile as he handed the thing to Tang Ze's palm.

A bead, half of which was round and the other half had a base, fell into Tang Ze's hands.

Chiga Ling didn't react, and neither did Toyama Kazuha.

To be more precise, none of the people who gathered around to watch reacted.

Instead, it was Tang Ze who suddenly exclaimed "Ah".

Hattori Heiji, who didn't know what he was nervous about, looked over nervously.

"Ah, it's a sapphire." Tang Ze rolled the bead back and forth in his palm twice, then quickly opened his third eye in the blink of an eye and replied, "It's so big and so pure, it's really valuable. You should return it to the owner."

Tang Ze had previously predicted that this crystal bead would be white crystal or something like that, but he didn't expect that it was not crystal at all, but a sapphire.

Of course, this is not the information given to him by the third eye. The third eye is not yet so omniscient and omnipotent.

This part is the additional identification knowledge he learned after he met Kuroba Kaito and asked him some information about Pandora-related gems. The third eye only served to magnify and view.

Hot knowledge, sapphire does not mean blue gemstone, but includes all transparent corundum except red.

——So what Kaito Kidd is looking for is actually corundum, which looks like sapphire but is actually ruby.

Ahem, that’s too far off topic.

A natural gem like this without any impurities is worth a lot of money. This big one, as big as the tip of your little finger, and a bead that has been shaped, is even more valuable.

If it is big enough, pure enough, and in good condition, the price of one will start from several hundred thousand yen.

"Sapphire?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, "Isn't it crystal?"

"Of course not." Tang Ze looked back at him strangely. "You hold it in your hand all day long, so you should take it out and look at it often, right? You've been holding this bead for so long, have there been any scratches from daily bumps and bruises?"

"Well, this one doesn't really..."

"That's right. Sapphire has a Mohs hardness of 9, second only to diamond. Even metal can't scratch it easily, so of course it's always so smooth." Tang Ze glanced at Hattori Heiji with a subtle expression. "You don't think it's always so bright because you polished it, do you?"

What a human flesh polisher.

Hattori Heiji really thought so: "..."

This bead is crystal clear when held in the hand, and there are no marks on the smooth round surface. Even its hardness shows that it is not an ordinary gem.

Although colorless or white sapphires, which lack color-causing factors, easily give people a feeling of taking off their pants to fart, and a question of why I don’t use glass, it makes perfect sense considering that it is actually the white hair of the Medicine Buddha statue.

For this kind of old Buddha statue, glass was much more difficult to work with than gems in that era.

"So this thing is actually very expensive?" Hattori Heiji was really panicking now, "Then I should have returned it earlier."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?" Tang Ze added, perhaps comfortingly, "Weren't you just worried that they wouldn't even remember you? You took away such valuable things, it's hard for them to forget you."

"Oh, yeah..." Yuanshan Heye came back to her senses from her surprise. After hearing this, her logic finally fell into place. "Wait a minute, that's not right. You just said that she hasn't seen you. It's you who saw her unilaterally. Then where did this bead come from?"

Could it be really like what Tang Ze described, that when he saw a pretty little girl, he couldn't help but go up and pull out the beads of her jewelry?

Even though Heiji was very cute when he was a child, he really deserves a beating for doing this.

Toyama and Ye's expression became sharp.

"Where else could it have come from? I picked it up, I picked it up!" Hattori Heiji quickly clarified, "She was singing in the yard, and I watched for a while, then suddenly a gust of wind blew, and after the cherry blossoms drifted past, there was no one under the tree. I quickly chased after her, wanting to at least ask her name or something, but in the end I only found this thing..."

As he described this, he was always paying attention to Qian Heling's reaction.

Chiga Ling pretended to listen attentively, but there was no special expression on her face. She looked like she was just listening to the story.

—She's a geisha, huh? Even though she didn't join in the conversation, her facial expressions always gave the perfect response, making it seem like she was listening intently. She's a perfect listener.

Like a spring breeze, but not intimate.

This made Hattori Heiji feel a little frustrated, and also made him more certain that this thing might not have been lost by that girl.

Since it is as valuable as Tang Ze said, it stands to reason that the person who lost it should be deeply impressed.

Not everyone is Suzuki Sonoko, who can throw away precious jewel gifts at will.

"Oh—" Yuanshan Heye drew out the tone, "After all this time, you're not sure who dropped it. You just picked it up from the ground."

When she said this, her brows relaxed and her expression became much more relaxed.

To put it bluntly, with such broad conditions, it is unlikely to find anyone, let alone any further development.

She was so nervous before mainly because she thought that when Hattori Heiji was not working with her, he had met someone he got along very well with, so much so that they exchanged gifts and he still remembers him to this day.

Since it was really just a chance encounter, and even that one-sided, there's really nothing to worry about.

"I've already said it, I really haven't talked to anyone... Why are you so suspicious..." Hattori Heiji sighed heavily, and seeing that Toyama Kazuha finally smiled again, he felt a lot more relieved.

Compared with the childhood fantasy and the girl standing next to him, the former is just a frustrating obsession.

After all, he was worried that talking about this would make Yuanshan Heye unhappy, so he never told her these details.

This scene was beautiful enough in his memory, and he was also worried that if he described it too beautifully, it would cause some misunderstanding to Toyama and Ye.

Tang Ze tilted his head to observe the relaxed atmosphere between the two of them. The teasing smile on his face didn't disappear. He narrowed his eyes and asked again, "What about the song? Is there anything special about it? Ms. Toyama mentioned that you came on the day of the Gion Festival. Maybe we can find some clues there?"

Tank, huh? You like to create him, right? He had to see which of them would get lucky today.