Chapter 308 Please Stop Backstabbing

Unable to make an appointment with Kogoro Mori, Hattori Heiji had to come up with other ideas.

If I go directly to Conan... it's really weird for a high school student like him to go out with an elementary school student. I can't afford to lose face like that.

Hattori Heiji thought for a moment, and his eyes fell on Toyama Kazuha, who happened to be visiting his home. After looking at her for a while, he suddenly had an idea.

Hattori Heiji calmly walked over to his childhood friend and suggested very naturally, "By the way, Kazuha, didn't you say before that you wanted to go to Tokyo with me? Why don't you go ask Mao Lilan out? She has lived in Tokyo since she was a child, so she must know a lot of fun places."

——In Hattori Heiji's opinion, based on the stickiness shown by Conan, as long as he can make an appointment with Mori Ran, it is equivalent to making an appointment with Conan.

At that time, he would let Mao Lilan take Hattori Shizuka and Kazuha to go shopping, and he would take Conan and sneak away without asking for permission later. The two of them would go to Ogasawara to happily solve cases and compete with each other.

While Hattori Heiji was happily fantasizing, Toyama Kazuha did not agree as decisively as he expected.

Instead, after a moment of shock, he asked coldly, "A date with Mao Lilan? What do you mean?"

Hattori Heiji was startled by her tone and subconsciously waved his hands to explain: "It's just that, the child in her family and I get along quite well..."

As he spoke, Hattori Heiji gradually fell silent.

——Yuyama Kazuha had an expression that said, “You are kidding me.”

This made Hattori Heiji suddenly alert: Could it be that Toyama Kazuha saw through his true purpose, knew that he actually wanted to make a date with Conan, and also guessed that there was something wrong with this kid Conan?

Thinking of this, Hattori Heiji couldn't help feeling guilty.

He cleared his throat: "Forget it, stop fighting, I'll do it."

…Let him go and ask Conan out directly.

Luckily, Conan usually behaves very smartly, so he can pretend that he is playing with Conan and is trying to train the next generation of talent.

There is nothing shameful about cultivating future things.

As for indirectly making an appointment with Conan by making an appointment with Jiang Xia... Hattori Heiji has no such option in mind at all.

Although because of what happened before, he felt that Jiang Xia was a nice person and no longer avoided this Tokyo detective like the plague, but this did not mean that he liked solving cases next to Jiang Xia.

——That feeling is more uncomfortable than when someone circles the murderer in advance while reading a suspense novel, because the other person didn’t come back to reveal the spoilers after reading the novel, but suddenly circled the murderer while reading together, and he always circled the right one...

…

Hattori Heiji thought about the previous case he solved near Jiangxia, no, the feeling of being forced to solve a spoiler near Jiangxia, and he felt a little depressed.

He walked to the side dejectedly and dialed Conan.

Toyama Kazuha looked at Hattori Heiji's back, narrowed her eyes slightly, and quickly took out her mobile phone.

She flipped through her address book and found Ran Mouri's number - the last time Ran Mouri and her friends came to Osaka, Toyama Kazuha politely exchanged contact information with her.

She tried to dial and found that the line was not busy. This meant that Hattori Heiji had sneaked away just now and was not calling Mao Lilan, but someone else.

This made Yuanshan and Ye breathe a sigh of relief, but they also felt a little complicated, as they felt that the number of strange potential rivals in love had increased.

——Who on earth was Hattori Heiji talking to on the phone? He even deliberately walked away and avoided her calling...

When Yuanshan Heye thought of this, he suddenly wanted to go over and eavesdrop.

However, at this time, her call to Mao Lilan was picked up.

Mao Lilan's voice was slightly surprised. It seemed that she didn't expect that Toyama Kazuha would call her: "Kazuha?"

Yuanshan Heye had no choice but to suspend his eavesdropping plan.

However, this does not mean that she intends to ignore Hattori Heiji's trip to Tokyo.

Toyama Kazuha smiled slightly, but her tone was sweet: "It's like this, I want to ask if you are free the day after tomorrow. Heiji and I are going to Tokyo soon, but I don't know if there are any fun places there."

Mao Lilan happened to have nothing to do that day, so she enthusiastically offered to help as a guide.

After discussing this matter, Yuanshan Heye pretended to convey an imperial decree: "By the way, if Jiang Xia is free, you must invite him - Heiji said that he hasn't seen him for a long time, and he really wants to share detective skills and the latest solved cases with him."

Mao Lilan was already happy because Yuanshan Heye took the initiative to contact her. When she heard this, she was even happier: "Okay."

After agreeing on the meeting place for the day after tomorrow, both parties hung up the phone with satisfaction.

Yuanshan Heye was quite relieved: according to her last experience, when Jiang Xia was present, most of the other girls' attention would be diverted to Jiang Xia, and few would pay attention to Hattori Heiji. No matter which vixen Hattori Heiji was secretly meeting, he would never succeed!

Mao Lilan was also very pleased: Although Hattori Heiji was very unfriendly to Jiang Xia at first, it can be seen that this Osaka high school detective is actually a kind-hearted person. Jiang Xia has made new friends without realizing it, which means that he is much more cheerful than before... I am really looking forward to meeting him the day after tomorrow.

…

On the other side, Hattori Heiji, who was stabbed in the back, knew nothing about it.

He just called Conan and wanted to tell him about Ogasawara's commission, but he thought about it before speaking and felt it was not safe.

So in the end, he only told Conan that he would go to Tokyo to play the day after tomorrow - no one knew when Conan would let the cat out of the bag, and as a resourceful detective, Hattori Heiji felt that he had to consider various situations.

Of course, even if they were just going shopping together, Hattori Heiji carefully reminded Conan to remember to keep it a secret from Jiang Xia.

He really didn't want to be wandering around and suddenly come across a dead body falling from the sky, and then not be able to solve the case before it was his turn.

When Conan heard the request in the receiver, he glanced at Jiang Xia who was sitting opposite him, and hung up the phone hesitantly.

——Conan is currently eating at the professor’s house.

Coincidentally, Jiang Xia was there too.

And now, after putting down his phone, Conan found that Jiang Xia was looking at him with an inquiring look, obviously having heard the greeting "Hattori" when he answered the phone just now.

Sitting next to her, Haibara Ai, who was holding a small bowl, looked at Jiang Xia and then at Conan.

Although she didn't quite understand what happened exactly, she was very clear about Jiang Xia's current intentions.

So he casually helped to start the conversation: "What happened?"

Conan paused with his chopsticks, feeling a conflicted feeling within himself.

After a few seconds, he sighed and looked at Jiang Xia: "Hattori asked me to go out the day after tomorrow. Um...why don't you want to come along?"

...Although she felt very sorry for Hattori-san in Osaka, Jiang Xia already knew that the person on the other end of the phone was Hattori Heiji, and she could more or less guess Hattori Heiji's purpose.

Rather than waiting for Jiang Xia to "meet by chance", it would be better to invite him from the beginning...

(End of this chapter)