Science solves cases? No, I am an immortal cultivator!

Kitagawa Taki has absolutely no interest in tea parties with celebrities.

No matter how famous you are, can you be as famous as the banquet hosted by the Sonoko family?

……

at the same time.

Not long after returning home, Xiaolan received a call from Kudo Shinichi.

Xiaolan was a little surprised. Apart from the last time when Kudo Shinichi called to explain that the person she met in Shibuya that day was not him, this was the second time she received a call from Kudo Shinichi.

"Hey, Shinichi, what's going on?"

Conan is at Dr. Agasa's house at the moment. He uses a voice changer to briefly talk about the invitation letter to afternoon tea he received from Teiji Moritani.

"So, you want me to go on your behalf?"

Xiaolan smiled self-deprecatingly. She thought Kudo Shinichi would call her to show concern for her, but it turned out he was just asking her for help.

Do you only think of her when you need help?

Shouldn't such friends be superficial relationships?

"That's right. I have a very troublesome case on my hands right now and I can't get away. I can go with Uncle Maori and Conan."

Conan didn't notice that Xiaolan was in a bad mood and continued talking to himself.

"I have already put the invitation letter into your mailbox."

Xiaolan said silently: "Well, okay."

"Okay, that's it. I'll hang up first." Conan was afraid that Xiaolan would catch him and ask him all kinds of questions, so he hung up the phone impatiently to avoid being exposed.

Xiaolan listened to the busy tone on the phone and was silent for a long time before she let out a long sigh.

May 5th is Kudo Shinichi's birthday, and she originally wanted to ask him out and give him a gift.

But now it seems impossible.

Maybe she and Kudo Shinichi have drifted apart...

Xiaolan got up and went outside to get the invitation letter and read it briefly.

The time is tomorrow afternoon, and she has to ask for leave.

"Dad, let's go to the tea party at Moritani Teiji's house tomorrow." Xiaolan handed the letter to Mouri Kogoro who was lying on the chair.

"That brat was invited, what am I going to do?"

Kogoro Mouri glanced at the letter and threw it aside.

Xiaolan threw out her trump card, "Just go, Moriya Teiji is a very famous architect, maybe Miss Okino Yoko will go too!"

"Miss Yoko!"

Kogoro Mori "sat up in shock from his dying illness", grabbed the letter, and all he could see were the big words "celebrities from all walks of life".

Xiaolan shook her head helplessly. She hoped that her father would get rid of this bad habit. Then, maybe her mother would agree to come back.

……

April 4st morning.

Kitagawa Taki unexpectedly met Xiaolan downstairs who was carrying a plastic bag.

"Xiaolan, did you just come back from buying groceries?" Kitagawa Taki glanced at the bag in Xiaolan's hand.

Xiaolan smiled and said, "Yeah."

Beichuan Taki nodded, then realized what was happening and said, "That's not right. Don't you have classes today?"

Xiaolan explained: "Oh, that's right. I've asked for leave. We're going to a tea party this afternoon."

"Tea party?" Kitagawa Taki thought, could it be such a coincidence?

"Is this the tea party at the Moriya Teiji family?"

Xiaolan was surprised and asked: "Hey, Beichuan, how did you know?"

Well, it seems to be true.

Beichuan Taki asked: "He wrote me an invitation letter, and he also invited your father?"

"I see. However, he didn't invite my father, but Shinichi. He couldn't go, so we went on his behalf."

The one who invited Kudo Shinichi? Then he would definitely go.

Beichuan Taki smiled and said: "Then let's go together this afternoon!"

"Yeah, okay, I'll go up first."

……

Kitagawa Exorcism Office.

"Going to a tea party this afternoon?"

Kitagawa Taki told Miyano Akemi and Haibara Ai that he was going to attend the tea party at Moritani Teiji's house in the afternoon.

Huiyuan Ai glanced at Kitagawa Taki suspiciously, "Didn't you say it was boring and you wouldn't go?"

"I have nothing to do at home anyway, so I might as well go."

Of course, Kitagawa Taki would not say that he decided to go because he met Xiaolan.

Miyano Akemi said: "Taki-kun, you and Ai go, I won't go."

"What's wrong? Mingmei."

"Nothing, I'm just tired from learning skiing these past few days and want to take a break."

"Oh, okay. Ai, are you going?" Kitagawa Taki didn't think Haibara Ai would go, he just asked casually.

Who would have thought that Huiyuan Ai simply replied: "Go, of course."

She wanted to see what made Kitagawa Taki change his mind.

"What's with that expression on your face?" Haibara Ai looked at Kitagawa Taki who looked a little surprised.

"I'm happy. It's a good thing that you are willing to go out, Ai." Kitagawa Taki smiled.

……

in the afternoon.

Seeing Xiaolan and the other two, Haibara Ai looked at Kitagawa Taki with contempt. She knew that Kitagawa Taki would definitely not change his mind for no reason.

"So Brother Beichuan also received an invitation! It's just right for us to take a ride."

Kogoro Mouri opened the car door and sat in the back.

Conan rolled his eyes, it was he who received the invitation.

But he was a little curious about why Moritani Teiji invited Kitagawa Taki.

"Brother Kitagawa, did Professor Moritani invite you to be an exorcist?" Conan teased.

Beichuan Taki said casually: "More or less. He said he is very interested in exorcism."

Now it was Conan's turn to choke. How could a university professor believe such a thing?

Maori Kogoro heard what the two said and laughed, "Brother Kitagawa has become very famous recently! He's almost as famous as me! Especially with the last cement corpse case."

This made Xiaolan next to him feel a little embarrassed for him.

"No, no, I just solved a case. I'm still far from catching up with the reputation of 'Sleeping Kogoro'!" Kitagawa Taki said modestly.

Kogoro Mouri was so flattered that he lost his mind and laughed out loud with his tongue sticking out.

Soon, the group arrived at Moritani Teiji's house.

Under the guidance of the security guard at the door, Kitagawa Taki parked the car in the parking lot at the back.

Afterwards, everyone walked over, showed their invitation letters, and walked into the garden in front of the castle.

"As expected of Professor Moritani, this is indeed a building from the 17th century, the Stuart era of England!"

As soon as Kogoro Maori said this, he immediately attracted the attention of several people.

Kitagawa Taki asked: "Brother Maori, do you know so much about architecture?"

Why doesn't he believe it?

"Ahem, look carefully at the left and right sides. Aren't they symmetrical? This kind of building is known as a bilaterally symmetrical design, called... called..."

As Kogoro Mouri was speaking, he seemed to have forgotten the words.

Huiyuan Ai added: "Classical symmetrical architectural style."

"Oh, yes, that's the name." Kogoro Mouri said after taking out the cheat sheet from his pocket and taking a look at it.