Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

"hateful……"

"You don't know who you're working for, do you?"

Long asked Kondo again.

"...I just received a phone call request." Kondo replied indifferently.

Hearing his answer, Long laughed loudly, "What kind of commission is this? What kind of evidence did they use against you?"

Kondo did not answer his question, but just stood there silently.

"In short, it's for your own good to follow the instructions here. This is all my experience in this industry. No matter who it is, the person who orders us around is not a good person."

Long said this through clenched teeth, with a few beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead.

……

"The Prime Minister will arrive at Narita Airport tomorrow morning..."

The news broadcast on TV was that Prime Minister Barbeo of Nigeria was visiting Japan.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

"I'm coming." Kogoro Mouri hurriedly agreed, and subconsciously picked up the remote control to turn off the TV, but he still didn't want to work at this time.

"Excuse me……"

The door of the office opened and someone walked in...

"Ah, we're closed today..." As soon as Kogoro Mouri turned around, he saw a woman in a windbreaker and a ponytail standing in front of him.

"Really? Then I'll come back tomorrow." The woman lowered her head slightly and prepared to leave the office.

"But it's a different story if it's a beauty like you."

"what?"

"No, it's nothing. You've got the timing right." Kogoro looked at the watch on his wrist and smiled at the woman.

"Really?" The woman looked confused, and Kogoro hurriedly led her to sit on the sofa.

The woman's name is Kanae.

"You want to investigate whether your husband is having an affair, right?" Kogoro looked at the photo Kanae handed him and put it on the table. The photo showed Kanae, who was about to get married, and a man named Kondo.

"Yes, although he has vehemently denied it, I find his behavior extremely suspicious. If I were to conduct the investigation on my own, I would be limited both physically and mentally. It would also affect my work and cause trouble for the company, so I'm planning to seek help from you professionals."

She had followed Kondo all the way to the bathhouse, even though they both had bathrooms at home and Kondo didn't usually go there. Thinking he must have a reason for going to the Ichizhao bathhouse, Kanae staked out the area. She saw him emerge carrying an unconscious boy and then drive off with another man to an unknown destination. Since Kanae didn't have a car, she couldn't follow him any further.

"Do you have any idea about the person you're having an affair with?" Kogoro asked.

"The person having an affair..." Kanae felt a little suspicious. She thought about it carefully, then immediately looked into Kogoro's eyes and shook her head firmly.

"It's just that today when I was cleaning his car I smelled a woman's perfume."

"What is your husband's occupation?"

“I’m looking for a job now.”

"Letting such a beautiful wife work alone while having an affair outside is truly unforgivable... I get it! Then let's go to the bathhouse where your husband was last seen and take a look!"

Kanae picked up her bag and windbreaker and stood up. "After all, this is urgent..."

As soon as he opened the door, Kogoro immediately felt hungry. Oh, he hadn't had dinner yet. But Kogoro deliberately put on a handsome look and turned to look at Kanae: "Let's have a simple meal together later."

"Ha..." Kanae blinked blankly at Kogoro Mori, who was pretending to be a gentleman.

Help Yukiko find her son

Shiraizumi Masu told Yukiko that Conan was missing. Yukiko was very worried about her son's disappearance and hoped that Shiraizumi Masu could find Conan.

Shiraizumi Mashi agreed and took Ai and Akemi with him to find Conan.

Izumi, Ai, and Akemi arrived at Dr. Agasa's house and told him what had happened. Izumi immediately turned on the computer. A map appeared on the screen, with red dots flashing on it.

"...Sure enough, he's still in the bathhouse."

"Huh?" Dr. Agasa also looked at the computer monitor.

"That means his clothes are still in the bathhouse." Quan Yi picked up the tracking glasses handed to him by Xiao Ai and connected them to the computer with a data cable.

……

Akemi and Dr. Agasa followed Izumi's instructions and stayed at the doctor's house, while Izumi and Ai came to the bathhouse and told the old lady at the counter that they wanted to retrieve Conan's clothes.

"Those clothes have just been taken away by his mother~."

"Hmm? Mom?" Quan Yi narrowed his eyes.

From the old lady's position, she couldn't see Xiao Ai hiding in the corner of the counter. She took out the tracking glasses from her pocket, put them on her face while approaching the counter, and pressed the switch.

"Yes, he just came over to retrieve his son's clothes, and he said the child is fine."

While the old lady was answering, Ai under the counter continued to observe the display of the tracking glasses, and the red light spot was moving at high speed.

"It's moving... Judging from the speed, it should be getting on the bus."

The three of them left the bathhouse and headed towards the Maserati SUV parked in the parking lot across the street. Izumi looked up and saw Kogoro Mori and a woman walking towards the bathhouse. That woman wasn't Akemi's mother, Eri Kisaki.

"That's the woman we just saw..." said Ai.

"That strange woman?" Quan Yi frowned.

"I'll go track her down." Xiao Ai took off her glasses and handed them to Quan Yi.

"Xiao Ai, are you okay on your own?" Quan Yi asked.

"no problem."

"Then be careful! Keep in touch!"

……

Ai quickly approached the direction of Mouri Kogoro. Mouri and the woman stopped in front of the bathhouse and seemed to be talking about something.

"Then let's go in and take a look first, and then go eat." Maori Kogoro said as he walked into the bathhouse, and at this moment -

"Good evening." Xiao Ai said to him.

"Hmm? Ah, it's Quan Yi's sister..."

"Who is this sister?" Xiao Ai asked as she watched Quan Yi's Maserati start the engine and drive away into the distance.

"Ah, I..." Just as Kanae was about to answer.

"Hey! I'm working here, don't disturb me!" Kogoro Mouri interrupted her.

"Can I be with you?" Xiao Ai asked.

"Hey, but this will disturb us..." Kogoro obviously looked annoyed...

"It's okay. There's no need to hide this. But dinner will have to wait a while, and we have other things to do right now."

The woman took a few steps forward and called out to Ai to follow her, so Ai followed her with a cheerful look.

The three of them arrived at Kondo's apartment and overheard the conversation between Kogoro and the woman. Ai learned that the woman in front of her was Kanae, Kogoro's client, who was asking him to investigate her husband, Kondo. Although she also wanted to remind Kanae that entrusting such a detective would not yield any results, Ai also vaguely felt that this matter was related to what she and Izumi were investigating.

"This is the apartment your husband works in, right..." Maori Kogoro looked up at the apartment. It was quite high up, and looking at it made his neck ache. Other than that, the location and decor made it look like a very high-end apartment. Although Kanae said her husband was looking for a job, it seemed he had quite a bit of savings.

"We'll be moving out soon..." Kanae said as she walked into the apartment. The apartment entrance had fully automatic locks. Kanae entered the code on the panel, and the automatic door slowly opened.

"He used to run a convenience store, and there's still a lot of stuff he needs to deal with, and he hasn't finished sorting it out yet."

The three of them walked towards the elevator room in a corner of the luxurious lobby, took an elevator waiting on the first floor, and went up to the upper floors of the building.

"This really meets the conditions for an affair." Standing in the elevator, Kogoro Mouri couldn't help but sigh.

"But he looks very serious." Ai looked at the photo she got from Kogoro and returned it to Kogoro.

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"Men take having an affair seriously." Maori Kogoro pretended to be a good man. Xiao Ai ignored Kogoro's reaction and looked up at the huge bag on Kanae's shoulder.

"What's in here?"

"These are work tools." Kanae squatted down, put the bag on her legs, and showed the contents to Ai.

"I'm a magazine editor." The bag was neatly organized. There were system manuals, a pencil case, a glasses case, VIP magazine, some documents filed in folders, and a folded hat... the same one Ai had seen her wearing in the bathhouse that day.

"There are so many things." Kogoro and Ai looked inside the bag together.

.. .. 0

“Because there’s a deadline.”

Ding.

The elevator reached the target floor.

The three of them walked through the corridor and came to the door of Kondo's room. Kanae pressed the doorbell first, but there was no response from inside.

"Sure enough, he didn't come back."

Kanae was just about to take the key out of her bag when Ai suddenly realized that there seemed to be movement in the room, so she reached out and grabbed the door handle.

"The door is not locked." Xiao Ai walked into the room without saying a word.

Click.

Kanae flipped the switch on the wall of the entrance hall, and the lights in the hallway and the living room came on. There was no one in the room, but since the door was unlocked, it meant someone might have entered the room.

The living room was almost empty. Kanae had said before that Kondo had quit his previous job and was planning to move out. It seemed that this was the result of Kondo's own tidying up.

Ai glanced at the living room and then ran through the hallway toward the room. She saw the French window leading to the balcony half-open. She paused, thinking, and reached out to touch the French window.

"...Hey, don't be so casual."

Kogoro's voice warned her from behind, but Ai ignored him, opening the French window and stepping onto the balcony. There was only a pair of tables and chairs on the balcony, no one there. A tall potted plant sat beside the partition separating it from the adjacent balcony. Ai climbed onto the chair, leaned out from the balcony, and looked down, just in time to see Izumi's car parked downstairs.

"Brother Quanyi is here, I'm leaving."

Xiao Ai and Shiraizumi Masu go to find Conan together

Ai walked down the steps in front of the apartment and looked in the direction of the parked SUV.

"Brother Quanyi, why are you here so soon?"

"I followed Conan's clothes and came to this apartment..." Quan Yi frowned, raised his head again to look in the direction of the apartment, and turned on the radar on his glasses.

"She's coming out!" Quan Yi turned back to look at the entrance and saw a young woman coming out of the apartment building. The woman had short hair that reached about her shoulders and was wearing a short jacket and trousers that made her legs look slimmer.

The car drove in the opposite direction of the Maserati.

"Sit down!"

"Um!"

Quan Yi fastened his seatbelt and started the car. The Maserati made a 180-degree U-turn and chased after the Mini Cooper.

……

Kogoro Mouri leaned on the balcony of Kondo's room and took a puff of his cigarette.

"But are convenience houses so profitable? How can we afford to live in such a luxurious apartment..." Mao Li sighed and was confused.

"I don't know..." Kanae looked confused as she walked onto the balcony.

"Detective is actually similar to Convenience House, but the results are completely different..."

Ha. The night view from the apartment a little way from the city center is truly stunning. So enviable. Maori unconsciously placed his hand on the partition between him and the neighboring balcony. With a click, something fell off...

"Wow!"

The partition suddenly flipped over and Maori fell onto the balcony next door.

"Huh?" What on earth was going on? Mao Li slowly climbed up from the balcony next door and looked at Kanae with horror. Kanae also blinked in confusion.

The two of them walked through the balcony to the next room. Kogoro pushed the French window leading to the room and found it was not locked, so he lifted the curtains and walked into the room. Kanae also picked up her mobile phone to shine some light and followed behind Maori Kogoro.

The layout of the rooms was identical. Stepping down from the balcony led to a spacious living room filled with bookshelves devoid of any sense of life. Kanae approached the bookshelves, her phone held high, watching the books shuffle around with interest. Maori Kogoro pulled a notebook from the numerous bookshelves and began flipping through it.

"Miss Kanae, do you know this room?"

Hearing Kogoro's question, Kanae shook her head.

"...I see, convenience store... Ms. Kanae, it seems that your husband is very likely not having an affair." Kogoro said solemnly as he looked at the handwriting on the note.

Hearing this, Kanae couldn't help but open her eyes wide.