Chapter 251

"You guy..."

Conan was a bit helpless.

Forget it, sleeping with Uncle Mouri every day, and taking baths with Uncle Mouri, it seems it doesn't matter much if it's exposed.

Could it be that Uncle Mouri wouldn't want to?

He's the one taking advantage, okay.

Hattori Heiji's gaze fell back onto the door, and he said seriously: "Next, let's meet this foreign English teacher whose identity is in doubt and see if she really has any problems."

As Hattori Heiji spoke, he reached out and pressed the doorbell.

About ten seconds later, Jodie's strange Japanese accent sounded from the intercom at the door: "Hello, who is it?"

After Jodie finished speaking, Conan said with a grin: "Teacher Jodie, hello, it's Conan."

"Conan? Is it the little kid Conan from Ran's house?"

Inside the room, Jodie was slightly stunned, remembering the photo Vermouth had stuck on the bathroom mirror.

This child had deliberately made contact with her several times a while ago.

Jodie's expression became serious instantly.

"Is there something you need?"

"I heard from Ran-neechan that Teacher Jodie has been resting for several days, so I came to visit you." Conan immediately stated his reason.

"So that's how it is." Jodie said from inside the door, "But I'm a bit inconvenient right now, can you wait for me a while?"

"Okay, no problem."

Conan nodded in agreement, and Jodie's voice in the intercom disappeared.

At the same time, the door to room 2103 next door suddenly opened, and two men and one woman walked out.

Both men were drunk, but the woman was very sober.

The three of them talked as they walked into the elevator and left.

A dozen minutes later, in front of Teacher Jodie's door.

Conan had his hands behind his head, leaning against the wall, eyeing Jodie's door sideways, and muttered:

"Seriously, what is Teacher Jodie doing, she hasn't opened the door for so long."

"Yeah, yeah!"

Beside Conan, Hattori Heiji was in the exact same posture, raised his hand to check his watch, "We've been waiting for almost twenty minutes... hmm?"

Hattori Heiji suddenly pondered and said in a low voice: "Conan, do you think she might be disguising herself?"

Conan was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Hattori Heiji meant.

If Jodie is the thousand-faced witch, then she definitely isn't using her real face.

Someone coming to visit suddenly, she must have to disguise herself well.

Conan was just about to say something when he suddenly heard the door make a soft *creak*, and he quickly closed his mouth, turning his head with Hattori Heiji to look at the door.

They saw Jodie standing at the door wearing a bathrobe, her hair a bit damp.

She waved at Conan and said: "Hi! I'm so sorry, I was just taking a shower, sorry to keep you waiting."

Conan and Hattori Heiji scratched their heads and laughed dryly, "No, you're too polite, it's us who disturbed you."

"It's okay, tomorrow is the weekend, I have plenty of time today."

Jodie smiled slightly, scanned Hattori Heiji casually, and then asked with a smile, "Conan, is this your friend?"

Conan nodded hurriedly: "Yes, that's right!"

"Alright then, come in, please."

Jodie made a "please enter" gesture, walked forward on her own, and then spread her hands with a smile.

"Speaking of which, I haven't prepared anything to eat at home, and it's almost dinner time now, do you want to find a place to have dinner together?"

"Uh, okay." Conan and Hattori Heiji agreed, scanning Jodie with thoughtful looks.

Jodie smiled and said: "Then I'll go prepare, change my clothes before going out, you two wait for me in the living room for a while, okay?"

After Jodie finished speaking, Conan and Hattori Heiji looked at each other, and then Conan smiled and acted cute: "Teacher Jodie, can I borrow your bathroom?"

As soon as Conan finished speaking, Hattori Heiji also followed up: "I've been holding it for a long time too, I really want to go relieve myself."

"Hmm, of course, no problem!"

Jodie smiled slightly, waved her hand, and walked into her bedroom, "It might take me a while to change clothes, you two wait for me in the living room in a bit!"

Conan and Hattori Heiji nodded.

Seeing Jodie walk into the bedroom, the two immediately rushed into the apartment's bathroom together, checking the floor, towels, showerhead, drain, etc., in the bathroom.

Finally, they huddled together and analyzed in a low voice: "Conan, you should have noticed, right? That Teacher Jodie seems to be lying!"

"That's right." Conan nodded.

"There is no intercom extension in the bathroom, and when we rang the doorbell just now, Teacher Jodie answered the door in just over ten seconds; if she had really been taking a shower at the time, it would have been impossible for her to reach the door in such a short time!"

"Yeah!" Hattori Heiji pinched his chin and pondered.

"Although she pretended to have just taken a shower and dried her hair, there is still undried shower gel on the bathroom floor, and the towels and showerhead are still warm, which clearly shows they were used not long ago."

"In other words, she just pretended to have taken a shower!"

"And the bathroom drain."

Conan pointed to the tiny golden hairs near the drain.

"If you look closely, you'll find some golden hairs here that weren't washed away. Western women have larger pores and relatively thicker body hair, but Teacher Jodie's calves were quite clean just now; it's very likely she just shaved them."

"Under normal circumstances, no one would leisurely shave their legs while a guest is waiting, right? So, the time she took her bath must have been earlier, at least half an hour ago."

"You're right!"

Heiji Hattori nodded in agreement and also looked down at the drain.

Then, his brows furrowed slightly as he raised a question.

"However, I don't think leg hair would be this long. Could it be... she wasn't shaving leg hair just now!"

After Heiji Hattori finished speaking, the two looked at the finger-length golden hair in the drain again, couldn't help but exchange glances, and both fell silent.

At the same time, in the bedroom, Jodie was on the phone with Akaso Kaze.

"Oh? There's such a thing? That kid named Conan is actually Shinichi Kudo? He became small because he took a drug from the Black Organization?"

"That's too magical. If it weren't for you, Akaso-san, I really wouldn't dare believe it if someone else told me."

"Is that Heiji Hattori also a high school detective? He's so dark, I thought he was mixed-race."

Akaso Kaze on the other end of the phone suddenly frowned.

Conan and Heiji Hattori going to visit Jodie—this plot felt a bit familiar.

"By the way, you have to be careful. Those two are synonymous with the God of Death, especially Conan. It would be a true rarity if someone didn't die wherever he appears."

"Ah? Is that so? Then I'll be careful."

Jodie pursed her lips and lowered her voice, saying, "Are you coming over tonight? I... I have a surprise for you."

"Alright, I'll come over once they leave."

Akaso Kaze smiled slightly and hung up the phone.

A surprise, too?

That is truly something to look forward to.

Conan and Heiji Hattori returned to the living room, sat on the sofa waiting, and glanced at the door to Jodie's bedroom from time to time.

After a while, Heiji Hattori raised his hand to check his watch and pouted, "Seriously, this Teacher Jodie is really slow. It's been half an hour and she's still not done changing."

"Can't be helped. Women take a long time to change clothes before going out; it's annoying to wait." Conan rested his chin on one hand, acting like an experienced veteran.

As the two were talking, they heard the bedroom door give a soft "creak."

Jodie walked out, smiling and waving at Conan and the others, saying, "Hi! Sorry to keep you waiting."

"Not at all, it hasn't been that long."

Conan and Heiji Hattori hurriedly stood up, looking at Jodie.

Jodie was wearing a tight, dark purple jacket on her upper body, tied at the waist, revealing a slender midriff.

Conan and Heiji Hattori both let out an "uh," their gazes filled with amazement.

I mean, these Americans are just different!

Even though she's a teacher, she dresses like this.

Jodie, wearing glasses, swept a faint glance over Conan and the others, then walked to the coat rack to pick up her pink bag.

"Let's go then. There's a nice cafe across the street; how about we go there?"

"Sure, no problem!"

Conan and Heiji Hattori agreed, and the three chatted as they walked toward the elevator.

"Oh, so you know Akaso-san too," Jodie said with a smile.

"Yeah, the three of us are quite close. We've solved several cases together."

Hearing Heiji Hattori say this, Conan had black lines running down his forehead.

Are you sure you solved cases together?

Wasn't it more like your face turned black from being upstaged?

He pouted and asked curiously, "Does Teacher Jodie also know Brother Akaso?"

"Of course! He's the most handsome Onmyoji in Tokyo! How could I not know him?"

Jodie's eyes sparkled.

She turned her head and said with a smile, "But it still surprises me. I didn't expect Akaso-san to have a foreign friend like you."

"Huh? What foreign friend?" Heiji Hattori was a bit confused.

"Aren't you a foreigner?" Jodie looked at Heiji Hattori with some bewilderment.

"Your skin is much darker than the average person's, and your accent is also very strange."

So that's what she meant. Conan couldn't help but burst out laughing.

You hateful people!

Heiji Hattori was furious.

"Give me a break! My skin is just a bit dark, and what's so strange about the Osaka dialect!"

"Osaka gun?" Jodie pretended to be very confused. "Is that a type of rifle?"

"God, you've really defeated me." Heiji Hattori's face turned even darker.

Jodie chuckled inwardly. Are these two silly boys really detectives?

They are way too easy to fool.

In fact, she had already called Akaso Kaze while in the room, and Akaso Kaze had already told her about Conan and Heiji Hattori's situation.