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This is like throwing lambs to the slaughter!
Chapter 227 The Legend of the Red Thread
"Hey, Xiaolan, is dinner ready yet?"
Just as Conan was feeling down, Kogoro's impatient voice suddenly came through the microphone to his ears.
"Okay, okay, I'll go do it right away!" Ran replied casually before turning to Conan and saying, "Remember, Shinichi, it's 10 PM on the 3rd, please don't forget!"
Then, before Conan could react, she hung up the phone.
"Ah...!? Hey, wait a minute, Ran..."
"Beep, beep, beep..."
Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Conan hung up the receiver with great frustration, and couldn't help but complain, "If I had known I was going to the movies with her, I wouldn't have made this call to ask her to go to that tea party."
Conan stepped out of the phone booth, scratching his head in confusion, his signature deadpan expression on his face: "But speaking of which, why does it have to be May 3rd? Is it some kind of special day? After watching the midnight showing, it's May 4th, the day Holmes and James Moriarty fell into the waterfall and died. And then, May 5th is Children's Day..."
"Hey, isn't that Conan?"
After walking a few steps, Conan was startled from his thoughts by a familiar voice and looked in the direction from which the voice came.
Inspector Megure and another unfamiliar officer were seen walking out of the Metropolitan Police Department building, preparing to get into a police car.
"Inspector Megure...!?" Conan greeted him with some confusion. "Is there some case going on so late?"
"Haha, there is a case!" Inspector Megure said casually, seemingly not wanting to discuss the case further. He then introduced the officer next to him to Conan, "This is Inspector Shiratori, who was recently assigned to our division."
"My surname is Shiratori." Inspector Shiratori nodded slightly to Conan. "Inspector Megure told me a lot about you. It seems you always pay attention to many key points."
He seemed very curious about Conan.
Conan blushed slightly. Although he was quite proud of this, as a child, he could only scratch his head and deny it, saying, "No, those were just coincidences."
Officer Shiratori also felt that Conan's appearance was just a coincidence, since Conan's curiosity and perspective as a child would be different from that of an adult.
"I think so too. This is what people mean when they say that stories don't happen without coincidences."
Hearing what Inspector Shiratori said, although it was good that he thought that way, Conan's eye still twitched involuntarily: "Heh, that's exactly what I meant."
"There are just too many cases lately. Looks like I won't even be able to enjoy my Golden Week holiday properly! Goodbye, Conan."
It seemed that Inspector Megure did indeed have something to do and had to go out. After complaining to Conan, he got into the police car with Inspector Shiratori and drove away.
"Golden Week holiday!" Conan looked at the police car driving past him, rubbing his chin with a look of sudden realization. "Oh, I see. So May 3rd is the anniversary of the constitutional amendment!"
But he was quickly confused again: "Wait, what does this have to do with watching a movie?"
When Conan returned to the Mouri Detective Agency, Ran had already prepared dinner.
While everyone was eating, Ran brought up the fact that she and Shinichi had made plans to go to the movies.
"Huh, a birthday...!?" Conan looked at Ran with some surprise.
Ran nodded, and with a very expectant expression, she explained to her father and Conan, "Well, because May 4th is Shinichi's birthday, I asked him to go see a midnight movie with me on the night of May 3rd! As soon as it's midnight, I'll give him the red casual shirt I bought for him. I guarantee he'll be very surprised when he sees it."
Conan finally understood why Ran had invited him to a movie on the night of May 3rd.
He almost forgot that May 4th was actually his own birthday.
Kogoro Mouri suddenly asked curiously, "So, what movie are you going to see?"
Xiaolan said excitedly, "The legend of the red thread!"
"The red thread...?" Conan and Kogoro Mouri looked a little confused.
"Oh, didn't you know?" Xiaolan blushed slightly and explained a little shyly, "People say that when a couple is destined to be together, they will have a red thread tied between their little fingers when they are born. That's a romantic love story based on that!"
Then, Ran pulled out a fortune-telling magazine from under the table and showed it to Kogoro Mouri and Conan: "Look, this says that Shinichi and I both have red as our lucky color in May! I decided to watch that movie because of this!"
"Hehe..." Although Conan was touched by Ran's words, he also sighed helplessly, "Your decision is useless, because I simply can't go to the movies with you!"
……
"What, go to the movies?"
Meanwhile, at Aragaki Yu's home, Miyano Akemi, who had been there all day, extended an invitation to Aragaki Yu as she said goodbye at the entrance.
“Yeah, Aragaki-kun.” Miyano Akemi stuck out her tongue at Aragaki Yu a little shyly. “I had planned to go with a friend, but she had something come up that day and couldn’t come. But I’ve already bought the movie tickets, so I’m really in a dilemma.”
"May 3rd, I don't think there are any plans for the time being..." Aragaki Yu said after a slight hesitation.
"Then it's a date."
Miyano Akemi smiled and extended her hand to Aragaki Yuu, then turned and left contentedly.
However, as she turned around, her face flushed slightly, and she looked a little embarrassed.
Moreover, she only arranged a time and place with Yu Aragaki, but did not tell him what movie they were going to see.
"The legend of the red thread..."
Akemi Miyano muttered something under her breath, unconsciously reaching into her pocket to clutch the movie tickets inside. She had originally planned to give the tickets to Yuu Aragaki first, but she hadn't had the heart to do so yet.
This movie is said to be very popular lately.
She also spent a lot of effort to snag those two movie tickets.
Originally, it was intended to be used to bring together his younger sister and Yu Aragaki.
The movie theater, the red line, a weekend midnight...
It was perfect in every way – the time, the place, and the content.
"Ugh……"
Akemi Miyano couldn't help but sigh.
Chapter 228 Moritani Emperor II
For some reason, Akemi Miyano found that she had been unable to contact her younger sister, Shiho, recently.
After asking Gin many times, he impatiently told her that his sister was currently conducting a secret research project and needed to remain completely silent.
Thinking of this, Akemi Miyano couldn't help but sigh again: "That girl Shiho is really too much of a worry. Since I can't rely on my own sister, I'll have to do it myself."
Akemi Miyano has decided to talk more about her younger sister Shiho's good points with Yuu Aragaki while watching movies, hoping to subtly leave a good impression on him.
(Ai Haibara: ???)
……
The scene returns to the Mori Detective Agency.
"Ah...!?" Belatedly realizing something, Kogoro Mouri slammed his hand on the table and suddenly stood up. "Wait a minute, Ran, didn't you just say you were going to see a midnight movie with Shinichi?"
Ran looked at Kogoro Mouri and nodded: "Yeah."
Kogoro Mouri slammed his hand on the table and immediately pointed at Ran, rejecting her suggestion: "No, absolutely not! I will not allow you to go to a midnight movie with Shinichi! How can a young boy and a girl spend the night together in a dimly lit movie theater!"
Ran helplessly snatched the chopsticks and bowl from Kogoro Mouri's hand and explained to him, "That's not how it is! Dad, don't get the wrong idea! It's because Shinichi forgets his own birthday every year, so I have to remind him every year, otherwise he'll just grow a year older for nothing!"
"Hehehe~" Conan looked at Ran from the side, feeling touched but also embarrassed, thinking to himself, "But now I've shrunk instead!"
Uncle Mori reached out to snatch his food back, but accidentally missed: "That's true, but you guys are still in high school."
"Oh, right, Dad." Ran suddenly remembered what Shinichi had asked her on the phone. She put the bowl and chopsticks back in front of Kogoro Mouri and changed the subject, "Let's go to the afternoon tea party at Teiji Moriya's house!"
"Huh, Teiji Moriya? Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" Kogoro Mouri blinked blankly.
Ran pulled the invitation Shinichi had sent from her pocket and handed it to Kogoro Mouri: "Actually, he originally invited Shinichi, but he couldn't go, so he asked us to go in his place. Oh, right, Conan, you should come too!"
"Great!" Conan nodded excitedly, very satisfied that everything was going according to his plan.
Kogoro Mouri was somewhat displeased that someone would rather invite a brat like Shinichi Kudo than a famous detective like himself. So he turned his head away and pretended to be nonchalant, saying, "Hmph, the invitation is for that kid Shinichi, why would I go!"
Conan, of course, noticed Kogoro Mouri's dissatisfaction, so he took the invitation from Ran's hand and deliberately said, "Teiji Moriya is a very famous architect. This is a historic meeting between a famous detective and a famous architect!"
"!!!"
As expected, Kogoro Mouri couldn't resist Conan's temptation and snatched the invitation from Conan's hand, his eyes wide as he muttered:
A famous detective and a famous architect! Hmm, not bad at all! Hahahaha!
……
Tuesday, April 29th, Moriya Residence.
Akemi Miyano parked the car at the entrance of the courtyard and got out with Yuu Aragaki.
After Aragaki Yu showed the invitation to the waiter at the door, one of the waiters led the two into the courtyard, while the other waiter took the car keys from Miyano Akemi and helped park the car in the parking lot.
"Wow, this courtyard is truly luxurious!" Miyano Akemi exclaimed as she entered the courtyard, which resembled a garden, under the guidance of a waiter.
Just as Aragaki Yu began to survey this exceptionally luxurious garden, he suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from ahead—
"This is indeed a traditional 17th-century British building from the orthodox Stuart dynasty!"
Yuu Aragaki and Akemi Miyano looked up in surprise.
Not far ahead, three familiar figures could be seen walking towards the depths of the courtyard.
The three figures were none other than Kogoro Mouri, Conan, and Ran.