Model worker and his little darling

"I invited you here today so that you could see Osaka properly. As for us humans, there's no fixed time when we'll die."

Seeing Hattori suddenly start talking about matters of life and death, Conan's eyes widened in confusion. "Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

Hattori shook his head. "I had a bad dream. Just when I was about to catch the thug, he turned around and stabbed me instead. That's how you died."

When Conan heard Hattori say he had an ominous dream, he had already prepared words of comfort, but the next thing he heard was that he had died, leaving him speechless.

"I'm telling you, Ministry, you can dream all you want, but what's with dreaming about me dying? Don't just kill people in your dreams."

Pingqing pressed down on Conan's big head. "Conan, haven't you noticed that Hattori dreams of catching criminals with you? He even dreamt that you died, and then specially invited you to Osaka just to see you in person and make sure you're safe. What is this? This is love, this is Hattori's deep love for you."

Conan grabbed Pingqing's hand and pinched it hard. "Pingqing-nii, what nonsense are you talking about again?"

His relationship with Hattori was purely fraternal; they admired each other's talents.

Watching Conan and Hirai bicker, Hattori was speechless; it really looked like two kids fighting.

Just then, a chubby man walked over. "Heiji."

Upon seeing who it was, Hattori was surprised. "Officer Ōtaki, it's you! Didn't we agree that Officer Sakata would pick us up?"

Otaki pulled Hattori aside. "Officer Sakata was murdered at home. Team Leader Toyama has already gone there, so the department head sent me to pick you up."

"What? You're saying Officer Sakata was murdered? When did that happen? Didn't they say he was on leave yesterday?"

Hearing Hattori's loud shouts, everyone around looked at them. Otaki quickly covered Hattori's mouth. "It's still unclear. Sakata didn't go to the police station today, and no one answered the phone. We went to his house and found out he was dead."

Upon hearing this, Hattori was instantly agitated and only wanted to rush over to find out what was going on and catch the thug.

Officer Otaki grabbed Hattori, "Calm down, Heiji."

Uncle Mori looked at Inspector Otaki and asked, "Inspector Otaki, what happened?"

Upon seeing the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, Otaki recounted the story once more.

Upon hearing that a police officer had been murdered, everyone lost their interest in sightseeing and rushed to the crime scene.

Upon arriving at the crime scene, he saw a group of police officers working diligently and methodically. Heiji was amazed, thinking that they were much better than Inspector Megure's men.

Seeing that Otaki had brought a group of outsiders, Ginjiro Toyama frowned. "Otaki, what's going on? Why did you bring them here?"

Otaki quickly introduced the group to Ginjiro Toyama, explaining that Uncle Mori wanted to come and help.

"No need, this is a matter for the police. We don't need the detective's help. You should take them and leave quickly."

After saying that, he went back to his work, not noticing that Hattori and Conan had already sneaked inside.

Uncle Mori didn't say anything when he heard that he had been rejected. After all, this was Osaka, not like Inspector Megure.

"Dad, Conan and Hattori are missing."

"I think those two brats probably sneaked in to investigate the case."

At this moment, Conan and Hattori, who had sneaked in, had already been discovered by Ginjiro Toyama. Despite Hattori's reasoned arguments, they were kicked out.

He has already discovered something here that is related to a recent series of murders, and he can't let the two children in and disturb the scene.

Seeing Hattori and Conan squatting dejectedly to one side, with a policeman watching them to prevent them from sneaking back in, Hirai almost burst out laughing. Sure enough, the Osaka police were normal; two kids trying to get involved in a murder case? No way!

Unlike Inspector Megure, who lets Conan run around everywhere without any limits.

Shortly after, Hattori received a call from his father, Hattori Heizo, instructing him to leave the crime scene immediately and properly entertain the Mori family.

Seeing that no one seemed particularly interested, Hattori led everyone back to his house.

Everyone was shocked to see Hattori and his mother standing together, the stark contrast between black and white.

Ran blinked, looking incredulous. "How is that possible? Hattori, your skin is so dark."

Upon hearing this, Hattori immediately bristled, "Isn't that a bit too hurtful? My skin color is inherited from my grandfather."

Hattori's mother, Hattori Shizuka, smiled gently and invited them inside.

As Ran watched Hattori's mother preparing tea and snacks, she was about to go and help when she saw a girl walking straight towards her.

Pingqing glanced at it and saw it was Kazuha. He instantly became interested; the show was about to begin.

Kazuha sat down next to Ran with a stiff face, her tone cold, "You're that Kudo guy, aren't you?"

Ran and Conan were both stunned.

"Heiji often talks to me about you."

Conan visibly panicked, and Ran asked, somewhat puzzled, "Did Heiji tell you that?"

"Stop pretending. I already knew everything. You are—"

Conan was terrified and turned pale. He hurriedly waved his little hands, trying to explain, "Um... um..."

Ignoring Conan's shouting and yelling, Kazuha leaned close to Ran and said, "You're the woman Heiji met in Tokyo, the one he always talks about, the one called Kudo, right?"

Conan was taken aback. Kudo's woman?

When Conan saw that Kazuha was speaking to Ran, he immediately blushed. Was she saying that Ran was his woman?

The middle-aged man standing next to him looked displeased.

Pingqing looked at the group with a broad smile; each person's expression was so interesting that he couldn't keep up with them all.

Xiao Lan chuckled, "Miss, I think you've misunderstood."

But Kazuha continued her nagging, arrogantly saying, "I can tell you something here: Heiji and I have been best friends bound together by iron chains for a long time. If you want to mess with Heiji, you'll have to get past me first."

"Kazuha, you're here too."

Hearing Hattori's mother's gentle voice, Taira Kiyoshi turned around and saw Hattori and his mother carrying tea and snacks as they walked in.

Everyone enjoyed Hattori's mother's cooking, and the uncle especially praised it highly.

Hattori was curious about what he and Hachi had just talked about.

When Hattori heard Kazuha call Ran "Kudo," he burst out laughing. "You woman, don't make me laugh to death. The Kudo I'm talking about is a man, understand? As for Kudo's girlfriend, she's this lady."

Xiaolan blushed and waved her hand, "That's not how it is."

Kazuha and Hattori had started arguing, and when Hattori's mother saw this, she quickly stopped Hattori and made Kazuha sit next to her.

Taira Kiyoshi noticed the loving and tender look Hattori Shizuka gave Kazuha, as if she were looking at her own daughter. Tsk, this is a pair of childhood sweethearts who have already received their parents' approval even before they're officially together.