"Shirashi-kun, do you think Dad and Conan are arguing again?"
"Dad is really... he's such a grown-up, but he doesn't give in to kids."
"It's a good thing Conan is different from other kids; he's more emotionally stable."
"........."
The tracking and protection work was quite boring.
If Ran hadn't been there to chat with her, Baishi Hui felt she would have zoned out.
"Huh?" Just then, he suddenly saw Mouri Kogoro and Conan both move at the same time, quickly chasing in one direction.
"Why did they suddenly start running?" Ran said, a little surprised.
"They must have caught someone... Let's go and see." Baishi Hui said, running over.
A few minutes later, he arrived in front of Mouri Kogoro and Conan, who had cornered a chubby young man.
"I've been watching you for a long time! It was you, kid, who was tracking Miss Yoko, right?" Mouri Kogoro said fiercely.
"I... I didn't. I... I was just passing by!" The chubby young man quickly denied it.
"But you've been following Miss Yoko for the past eight minutes!" Conan pushed up his glasses and said, "At first, we thought you were just passing by. So we had Miss Yoko change direction at a few intersections, but you still followed... What is that if not tracking?"
"I... I... I..." The chubby young man was at a loss for words.
"You're too much! How can you do something like this to Miss Yoko?" Ran was very angry; she really disliked these guys who specifically bullied good girls like Miss Yoko!
Seeing Ran clench her fists as if she wanted to act, Baishi Hui stopped her and said, "Calm down, Ran. Miss Yoko is coming over, let's ask her how to handle it."
As soon as this was said, the chubby young man was clearly a little flustered. He wanted to run, but he was stopped by Mouri Kogoro!
Chongye Yangzi walked over and gasped when she saw the chubby young man: "You... you are... Akihito?"
The chubby young man stiffened all over, lowered his head in shame, and said, "It... it's me."
"Miss Yangzi, you know him?" Mouri Kogoro was a little surprised.
"This... well." Miss Yangzi hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "His name is Akihito Fujie, and he's my ex-boyfriend from high school!"
"What?!" The Mouri trio were greatly astonished upon hearing this explosive news!
They looked in disbelief at this chubby young man, who turned out to be Chongye Yangzi's ex-boyfriend!
Mouri Kogoro said jealously to Akihito Fujie, "If that's the case, then why are you still being sneaky!"
"Because... because I want to talk to Yangzi." Akihito Fujie clenched his fists and began to gather his courage.
"What do you want to talk to me about?" Chongye Yangzi asked softly.
"Yangzi!! I... I want... to get back together with you!" Akihito Fujie said, mustering his courage.
Chongye Yangzi shook her head and refused: "Sorry, Akihito. I just want to focus on my work right now, I don't want to be in a relationship!"
She didn't even give Akihito Fujie a chance to speak. After bowing, she turned and Ran away.
"Yangzi, Yangzi, Yangzi, how can I live without you... Yangzi!" Akihito Fujie watched Chongye Yangzi leave, shouting hysterically, and wanted to chase after her.
But he was firmly held back by Mouri Kogoro!
Baishi Hui glanced at Ran, signaling her to follow Yangzi and escort her home.
Ran nodded, looked at Akihito Fujie with some sympathy, and then turned to follow Chongye Yangzi.
"Kid, I advise you to give up the idea of getting back together!" Mouri Kogoro, out of sympathy, kindly advised, "You and she are no longer in the same world!"
"Yes, if you keep pestering her like this, it will be fruitless. It will only make Miss Yangzi feel troubled!" Conan also wanted the other party to give up this idea.
Unlike Mouri Kogoro, he wasn't acting out of sympathy but to complete the Delegation.
If Akihito Fujie didn't give up this notion, he would go bother Chongye Yangzi again another day.
This Delegation would be considered unresolved!
"What do you know? Do you understand what I've been through all these years? I will never give up!" A hint of resentment flashed in Akihito Fujie's eyes, and he said through gritted teeth, "She rejected me... I'll make her regret it!"
Baishi Hui's eyebrows furrowed when he heard this.
He knew that the other party wasn't just saying this in anger but was really planning to do it.
In the original work, after being rejected by "Chongye Yangzi", Akihito Fujie, heartbroken, committed suicide in her home.
If it was just a simple suicide, he could still be called a lovesick fool.
But the other party disguised his suicide as a murder, intending to frame Chongye Yangzi and ruin her career.
This was extremely malicious.
"Hey! Do you know what you're saying?" Mouri Kogoro immediately got angry when he heard this.
He grabbed Akihito Fujie by the collar and warned fiercely, "If I find you continuing to track Chongye Yangzi, I won't be polite to you!"
Akihito Fujie just sneered.
To someone who is determined to die, such a threat doesn't have much effect.
"Our business is none of your concern!" He broke free from Mouri Kogoro and turned to leave.
This made Mouri Kogoro's eyebrows furrow tightly, realizing that the other party didn't take his words to heart, which was very troublesome.
But he didn't have a much better solution.
"Mouri Detective, follow him and see where he lives." Baishi Hui reminded at this point, "Trying to persuade him now is useless; only when he calms down will there be a chance to convince him!"
"That's true." Mouri Kogoro felt it made sense, so he immediately signaled Conan to follow.
While tracking the other party, he was full of displeasure.
Seeing this, Conan realized that Mouri Kogoro working while emotional would cause unnecessary trouble, so he proactively asked, "Uncle Mouri, what's wrong?"
"Alas, I didn't expect Miss Yangzi to be lying when she said on TV that she hadn't been in a relationship." Mouri Kogoro sighed, feeling deceived.
"...Aren't all celebrities like that?" Conan was a little speechless.
Sometimes he really felt that Mouri Kogoro was too naive, having lived for so long in vain.
How many words spoken by celebrities can be believed?
Now, even the words spoken by Conan's Mom, he only believes half of them.
"I thought Miss Yangzi was an exception, but I didn't expect... Alas." Mouri Kogoro was full of disappointment.
"Uncle Mouri, it's all a persona, it's all packaging! All celebrities are like this." Conan tried to persuade him a couple of times but found it didn't work.
There was nothing he could do. In order to successfully complete the Delegation, he could only use his clever little head.
Soon, Conan thought of a good idea and said, "Uncle Mouri, think about it from another perspective."
"Miss Yangzi was willing to date Mr. Fujie, which shows that she is not a superficial girl."
"Miss Yangzi doesn't care about appearance, only about how others treat her!"
"If that's the case, then don't you have a chance?"
"Huh?" Mouri Kogoro's spirits lifted when he heard this!
He stroked his chin, looked at Conan, and smiled, "What you're saying makes some sense, kid!!"
Seeing Mouri Kogoro perk up, Conan struck while the iron was hot and said, "Then Uncle Mouri, you have to perform well and resolve this matter for Miss Yangzi, leaving a good impression on her. She will definitely be grateful to you!"
"You're right, then I must solve this matter!" Mouri Kogoro said spiritedly.
He looked at Akihito Fujie walking ahead and said with high fighting spirit, "Watch how I use my eloquent tongue to convince that guy to give up on getting back together with Yangzi!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a black minivan whizzed past and slammed into Akihito Fujie with a bang, sending him flying.
The latter flew seven or eight meters before hitting the ground heavily with a splat, becoming motionless.
"!!!" Mouri Kogoro and Conan were both dumbfounded.
They didn't expect the accident to happen so suddenly!
Especially Conan, he had just finished working on Mouri Kogoro's mindset, and then Akihito Fujie got into a car accident right after?
Didn't that mean he had said all that for nothing?
"Huh?" Conan saw that the black minivan wanted to turn around and flee after hitting someone.
He quickly took out his skateboard from his backpack, chased after it, and shouted, "Uncle Mouri! Go check on Mr. Fujie! I'll chase that car!"
After saying that, he didn't care about Mouri Kogoro's reaction, stepped on his skateboard, and began the pursuit.