After Officer Yukihiro hung up the phone, Kousuke opened the door and greeted Conan and the others: "You guys should have nothing else to do, right? If not, have your lunch first."
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"But what exactly are you planning to do?" Uncle Mori asked Hattori Heiji, somewhat puzzled, as he ate his bento. "Deliberately making these kinds of deceptive phone calls to let those three suspects know..."
"A scam call?"
After taking a sip of soup and swallowing the food in his mouth, Hattori Heiji looked at Uncle Mori with a puzzled expression.
"Isn't this just a lie?"
After putting down his chopsticks, Uncle Mori said, "We found listening devices everywhere, from the bottle in the entryway to the mat where the crystal ball was placed."
"Evidence of Mr. Genda's sleepwalking can be seen everywhere in this house."
Faced with Uncle Mori's question, Heiji Hattori played coy: "Anyway, I'll explain the reason later."
"What's there to hide?"
Glancing at Hattori Heiji, Kōyū said with a hint of disdain, "Isn't it just about luring three suspects to come and clean up their tracks?"
"..." Hattori Heiji paused slightly, biting his chopsticks, and looked at Kōyū with a slightly resentful gaze.
Are you really not going to give him any face at all?
"Speaking of which, won't our presence here increase the workload for the forensic personnel?" Xiaolan asked.
“Yes, our hair probably fell somewhere in the house,” Kazuha chimed in.
“Don’t worry about that,” Guangyou countered. “Sister Xiaolan, how do we erase all traces of our presence here?”
Following up on Guangyou's question, Xiaolan answered according to her usual way of thinking: "Of course, it's a thorough cleaning."
"Then..." Guangyou took a bite of food and asked calmly, "What if we don't have that much time for a thorough cleaning?"
"Well..."
After thinking for two seconds, a possibility suddenly flashed through Xiaolan's mind.
"Could it be..."
"Yes, it's the one you're thinking of, Ran-neechan." Guangyou confirmed Ran's guess, and then said, "Let's eat first, and we'll see tonight."
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