In the "McCroft Hotel", when Hattori Heiji listened to the organizer of the event, Hiroyuki Kanaya, finish talking about the arrangements for the trip, Hattori Heiji was not interested, turned around and walked upstairs, ready to rest.

Seeing this, the hostess who had just finished distributing the questionnaire couldn't help but step forward and reminded with a smile:

"Hello, are you going to rest? My lord has prepared a supper for tonight, everyone is tired of coming, why don't you eat a little and rest? ”

As she said this, the hostess turned around and loudly informed everyone present who had not yet left the news—

"Ahh It turns out that there is still a late night supper! In that case, I'm hungry! ”

In this regard, hearing the hostess's words, Kogoro's expression finally eased a lot, and he felt that this was something that could rarely make him feel happy after coming here.

At the same time, looking at this hostess who has always treated people with a polite smile, although there are some freckles on her face, her appearance is still delicate and cute, Kogoro couldn't help but step forward and almost said:

"May I ask this young lady, I don't know what you have prepared for supper, have you prepared any wine?"

To this, the hostess continued to reply with her polite smile:

"Don't be so polite, my name is Iwai Hitomi, just call me Hitomi. For supper, I prepared some Western-style pastries, as well as English-style black tea, and as for wine, there was none. ”

Hearing this, Kogoro couldn't help but be a little lacking in interest, but thinking that something was better than nothing, he casually found a place in the restaurant and sat down.

And in this regard, in the face of such an arrangement, the rest of the people who had also planned to leave the restaurant and go to their rooms to answer the questions also slowed down-

"That's right!"

Among them, the young man with glasses looked very arrogant and said:

"I was planning to stay up late to finish this thousand questions, but I can't do it without eating."

As he spoke, he motioned to the young woman who was with him, and sat down at a table in the dining room, and began to flip through the questions on the questionnaire he had received, but did not begin to fill it out.

Looking at his behavior, the girl sitting opposite him looked a little resentful, propped up on the table with one hand, tilted her head and slowly seemed to complain:

"I said, Yanren, do you need to do this? Just look at it and don't write it...... Are you afraid that we will copy your answers? ”

"That's not for sure, Ayako."

The man called "Yanren" stretched out his hand and pushed the glasses on his face, and said a little proudly:

"Anyway, I'm also the president of the research society, and I won't lose to anyone in terms of understanding 'Sherlock Holmes'!"

"The president of the Institute?"

After hearing what the other party said, the middle-aged man couldn't help but ask curiously.

"I'm the president of the University Reasoning Research Association."

Faced with such a question, the woman named "Ayako" replied on behalf of the other party:

"And I'm a member of that research society."

"Oh! It turned out to be the University Reasoning Research Association! ”

After hearing such an answer, the young man who was in the same car as Conan before said with some envy:

"It's nice to be able to meet friends with the same hobbies and participate in the workshop, and we can also participate in this tour together. It's different like me, I couldn't meet friends who were also obsessed with Sherlock Holmes in college. ”

"Yes, after all, there are too few people in this era who will calm down and study the masterpieces seriously. Even in the library where I work, fewer and fewer people come to read masterpieces. ”

Following the topic that arose at this time, the young woman who also came in the same car as Conan and the others said with some indifference.

And at this moment, after listening to everyone's conversation, the middle-aged man suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but propose:

"That's right! Speaking of which, everyone is a Sherlock Holmes fan who participated in the tour, but they came in two batches, and they don't know each other very well. Why don't we take advantage of this late night snack time to introduce each other together, and maybe we can get together again after this trip! ”

As soon as these words came out, several people present couldn't help but feel reasonable, but the young man with glasses said with some sarcasm:

"I said uncle...... You don't say that now because you don't think you can get the first collector's edition of "Scarlet Word Research" this time, and you want to wait until the end to see who will get it, and then find a way to get it from that person, right? ”

"You-"

Facing the young man's words, the middle-aged man's face couldn't help but become very ugly, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and his eyebrows began to tremble, as if he was very angry.

At the same time, the atmosphere at the scene, which was originally quite good, became very dignified because of the man's words.

In this regard, just as the middle-aged man was about to teach the other party a lesson, the man with glasses snorted coldly, and said proudly with some indifference:

"Forget it. Anyway, I don't think anyone who came here for this tour is the kind of person who would give away the first edition of the book that was so hard to get his hands on. And if you can get that book from the innkeeper, that's another story! ”

As she spoke, Ayako on the side saw that the scene was becoming more and more difficult to control, so she interrupted:

"I'm sorry, he is a character, don't care."

Then, smiling Ayako changed the subject and said:

"By the way, speaking of self-introduction. My name is Ayako Oki, and as I said before, I am a member of the University Reasoning Research Association, and this is our president, Kento Toba. We arrived a little earlier than you in the car of the hotel manager with the high school detective Heiji Hattori and the astrologer Maria Toda from Osaka, so we were resting upstairs. Please advise! ”

In this regard, listening to Ayako Oki's words, the atmosphere at the scene couldn't help but ease a little bit, so the rest of the people also began to introduce-

"My name is Ikuo Kawazu, and I'm a physical education teacher at a high school."

First of all, the young man who came in the same car as Conan said cheerfully.

"Nanako Shimizu, librarian."

The slightly calm, somewhat introverted and gloomy young woman said.

"So ......"

In this regard, the middle-aged man who was a little angry at the end of the day was said by Toba Kenren eased his emotions, and then introduced himself as well:

"My name is Toshiaki Fujisawa, and I am the station attendant at the station, and I am probably the oldest to participate in this event. I have to say that I always feel a lot younger when I participate in this trip with you young people! ”

In this way, in such a slightly harmonious atmosphere, after the waitress Iwai Hitomi brought the food for supper out of the kitchen, everyone ate supper in the restaurant-

"Hey, it's boring......"

However, on such an occasion, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but sigh very boringly.

Seeing that the few people present were chatting enthusiastically about Sherlock Holmes-related topics, I didn't want to communicate with them at all, and I could even say that I couldn't interject a little.

Among them, the slightly different style of painting is only the astrologer Maria Toda.

I saw her and Maori Kogoro's side, it seemed that because Kogoro was a little scornful of her profession as an astrologer, this middle-aged lady with an obviously fat figure couldn't help but show her hand, which made Kogoro a little unable to get off the stage for a while-

"From your palmistry, you are quite fond of beauty. Even if you marry a virtuous wife, it will end in separation. ”

As soon as these words came out, Kogoro's expression couldn't help but become very ugly, and his tone was a little stumbling, and he asked rhetorically:

"Is there any basis for that?"

In this regard, Maria Toda pointed to Kogoro's palm and said:

"You see, next to the palm of your hand is the marriage line. This line extends long to the line of affection, which is the phase of separation. Moreover, there are several bifurcated lines below the marriage line, which is an affair ...... Your separation was caused by an affair, right? ”

With a sharp look in her eyes, Ms. Toda asked with some seriousness.

Hearing this, Conan and Heiji Hattori on the side couldn't help but shake their heads at the same time, obviously feeling that the other party was just playing tricks.

But Kogoro, who is the party concerned, seems to be completely frightened by what the other party said at the moment, and he is stunned and speechless.

In this regard, looking at Kogoro's embarrassing scene, it seemed that Ms. Toda really had some mystery, Xiaolan stepped forward at this time and asked with some trepidation:

"That'...... Ms. Maria, can you help me take a look? ”

As she spoke, Xiaolan stretched out her palm and asked Ms. Toda to check it—

"Ahh......h

In this regard, Ms. Toda wanted to excuse herself, but after a little glance at Xiaolan's palm, she said involuntarily:

"There are two marriage lines at the beginning, but in the end they merge into one, so you can't go wrong......"